MacOS / Brew users ? - Error: gocryptfs has been disabled because it requires closed-source macFUSE!

[omueller]

Hello,

As a replacement for encfs, it seems as gocryptfs would be a perfect match for me (using a shared drive via dropbox under linux and mac os). But installing as documented under https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/quickstart/ is not working (anymore) :

m1 [~]$ brew install gocryptfs
Error: gocryptfs has been disabled because it requires closed-source macFUSE!

As we have this in the corresponding brew formula under /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/gocryptfs.rb:

  on_macos do
    disable! date: "2021-04-08", because: "requires closed-source macFUSE"
  end

It seems there is a kind of "political" conflict between brew and macfuse/osxfuse and I saw some debates in tickets.

So I was just wondering how are the gocryptfs Mac users handling this. Just update the formula manually and remove the "disable" line, or is there a cleaner way ?

Thanks & best regards.

[Dave-Driesen]

Indeed, just removing that section.

Not very happy with the way this is implemented to say the least.

Note there's an additional complication in that ./build.bash uses linux "date" command which chokes on MacOS. Often this can be worked around by "brew install coreutils" and then adding "alias date=gdate" to ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc, however in this case that doesn't seem to suffice so an additional hash update is needed to the formula if you modify the downloaded cache file.

[rfjakob]

The date problem should be fixed for some time now ( 5406284 )

[Dave-Driesen]

Hmm not sure if that's the same.. But this is the output:

┌────═╡ 20:10 [⭐] chemizt [⭐] Renegades-Mac-pro:/Users/chemizt ╞═───
└─🍔 brew install --build-from-source gocryptfs 
==> Downloading https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/releases/download/v2.0.1/gocryptfs_v2.0.1_src-deps.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/chemizt/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/990decb9bdb98e2ed1a91a4f4a67cfa63e76f180970179f63cf2737fa4b58764--gocryptfs_v2.0.1_src-deps.tar.gz
==> ./build.bash
Last 15 lines from /Users/chemizt/Library/Logs/Homebrew/gocryptfs/01.build.bash:
2022-01-06 19:10:56 +0000

./build.bash

date: illegal option -- -
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... 
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]

READ THIS: https://docs.brew.sh/Troubleshooting

┌────═╡ 20:10 [⭐] chemizt [⭐] Renegades-Mac-pro:/Users/chemizt ╞═───
└─🍔 cat /Users/chemizt/Library/Logs/Homebrew/gocryptfs/01.build.bash
2022-01-06 19:10:56 +0000

./build.bash

date: illegal option -- -
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... 
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 3.3.9-142-gf7990db
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: f7990dbaf1234c498ca22dddc5cefc622c7403a9
Last commit: 3 hours ago
Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
Core tap HEAD: 62b6b918f65436f51162cdc9462a6e2e5e095b24
Core tap last commit: 5 minutes ago
Core tap branch: master
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_CORE_GIT_REMOTE: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 8
HOMEBREW_NO_BOOTSNAP: set
Homebrew Ruby: 2.6.8 => /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/2.6.8/bin/ruby
CPU: octa-core 64-bit arm_firestorm_icestorm
Clang: 13.0.0 build 1300
Git: 2.32.0 => /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git
Curl: 7.77.0 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 12.1-arm64
CLT: 13.2.0.0.1.1638488800
Xcode: 13.1
Rosetta 2: false

HOMEBREW_CC: clang
HOMEBREW_CXX: clang++
MAKEFLAGS: -j8
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH: /opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]:/opt/homebrew
CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX12.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/Current/Headers
CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX12.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/Current/Libraries
PKG_CONFIG_PATH: /opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/lib/pkgconfig
PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR: /usr/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac/pkgconfig/12
HOMEBREW_GIT: git
HOMEBREW_SDKROOT: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX12.sdk
ACLOCAL_PATH: /opt/homebrew/share/aclocal
PATH: /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/mac/super:/opt/homebrew/opt/go/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/pkg-config/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

[rfjakob]

The fix is in gocryptfs v2.2.1, brew seems to use v2.0.1

[charles-dyfis-net]

Often this can be worked around by `brew install coreutils` and then adding `alias date=gdate` to `~/.bash_profile` or `~/.bashrc`

Aliases aren't honored by noninteractive shells, so I don't see how that would ever work for content in a script or makefile.

[Dave-Driesen]

It doesn't, hence the hash update.

I suppose you could symlink it, but not gonna try.