This is to work around https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/2769
which I don't know how to reproduce outside that environment, nor do I
understand the root cause of. For some time, Neurodebian has been working
around it by building its standalone debs with a patch that disables use
of the locales bundled with the standalone build, letting the system
locales be used.
Using the system locales is asking for trouble if there's
significant version skew between the system and bundled glibc, and
possibly also if the architeciture is different, or whatever. That's why
git-annex bundles and uses its own locales, because numerous users
reported real problems with using the system locales.
... However, in the specific case of the Neurodebian standalone debs,
the deb is built on a system very like the one it's targeted to be
installed on. Or well, so they assure me, although doc/install/Ubuntu.mdwn
also promotes those for use across all versions of Ubuntu, and the deb
is built avoiding xz so it will work with old versions of dpkg, so I wonder
how true it is. It does seem that, at least currently, there is no bad
version skew in the locales of the systems the deb is used on, since
it's already been using the system locales for some time.
Anyway, since the Neurodebian build already is setting
GIT_ANNEX_PACKAGE_INSTALL=1 in runshell, I made runshell use system
locales when that's set. This is a small scope creep for
GIT_ANNEX_PACKAGE_INSTALL, but it's not documented and AFAIK only used
for the Neurodebian build, so that seems ok. This will let them stop
carrying their patch for this forward.
This work is supported by the NIH-funded NICEMAN (ReproNim TR&D3) project.
The bundled uname -o says Linux in termux; have runshell on Android
delete it so the termux one is used instead.
This fixes the webapp so it will enter Android mode.
This commit was sponsored by mo on Patreon.
Running git-annex linux builds in termux seems to work well enough that the
only reason to keep the Android app would be to support Android 4-5, which
the old Android app supported, and which I don't know if the termux method
works on (although I see no reason why it would not).
According to [1], Android 4-5 remains on around 29% of devices, down from
51% one year ago.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/271774/share-of-android-platforms-on-mobile-devices-with-android-os/
This is a rather large commit, but mostly very straightfoward removal of
android ifdefs and patches and associated cruft.
Also, removed support for building with very old ghc < 8.0.1, and with
yesod < 1.4.3, and without concurrent-output, which were only being used
by the cross build.
Some documentation specific to the Android app (screenshots etc) needs
to be updated still.
This commit was sponsored by Brett Eisenberg on Patreon.
* Added arm64 Linux standalone build. (No autobuilder yet.)
* Improved termux installation process.
Added git-annex-install.sh script to avoid user needing to type as much in
termux. The scope of this script is limited; runshell handles the rest.
Runshell runs termux-fix-shebang on the shell scripts. The problem is
the bundled bin/sh script, deleting that script also works, but then the
others probably use the system Android /bin/sh, which could be old or
broken or not posix or whatever. Using termux sh to run the scripts is
better.
This commit was sponsored by Eric Drechsel on Patreon.
On android arm64, I saw the cp fail with "Bad system call", because proot
has not run yet. runshell only recently started using cp, and it's bundled
with git-annex, so this fixes a reversion.
This commit was sponsored by Nick Piper on Patreon.
