On Saturday, Richard Crowley published an awesome looking hack called PownceFS that creates a FUSE filesystem mounting your friends’ files from Pownce as a local filesystem. Cool! Now lets try getting it working on the Mac…
# port install fuse-bindings-python ... ---> Activating fusefs 1.1_3+darwin_9 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents/Info.plist already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port fusefs. Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
Well, that sucks. MacPorts doesn’t play nice if you installed macfuse. Apparently there’s a proper way to uninstall, but I missed this, and just did a quick and dirty fix…
# rm -rf /Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/ # port install fusefs ---> Activating fusefs 1.1_3+darwin_9 ******************************************************** * fusefs is already loaded. You may need to restart. * * Alternatively, if feeling adventurous, you can run * * `sudo kextunload -b com.google.filesystems.fusefs` * ******************************************************** ---> Cleaning fusefs
Now libfuse installs properly. If you get errors, fusefs probably didn’t install properly (see Ticket #11471: fusefs misses common/fuse_param.h).
Now, if you install on 10.5, fuse-bindings-python will install python24 (Leopard ships w/ 2.5 as default), which is sort of retarded, but whatever. You may get some errors w/ fuse-bindings-python, where it gets confused about the install location – just run it again if you just installed python24 and it should work. Next, oauth:
# cd /opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages # svn co http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/python/oauth
Now, check out PownceFS – you’ll need to change the shebang to: #!/opt/local/bin/python2.4.
This is where I’d like to report great success, but well, it looks like the fuse-bindings-python broken:
>>> import fuse Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/fuse.py", line 26, in ? from fuseparts._fuse import main, FuseGetContext, FuseInvalidate ImportError: Failure linking new module: /opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/fuseparts/_fusemodule.so: Symbol not found: ___CFConstantStringClassReference Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/libfuse.0.dylib Expected in: flat namespace
Hey, looks like CoreFoundation isn’t being linked. Turns out someone submitted a patch just yesterday to fix this. You can fix this manually by editing the libfuse Portfile. In my case, it’s in /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/fuse/libfuse/Portfile – you can add the following line below the patchfiles fuse-2.7.1-macosx.patch line:
configure.ldflags-append -framework CoreFoundation
Now, reinstall (uninstall the python-bindings and the libfuse packages and reinstall) and import fuse will stop barfing at you. Sweet Jesus we’re almost there… The final step is installing json-py – just unzip this in your site-packages folder.
And… well, it sort of works. It’s mounted:
Python@fuse1 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /Users/lhl/powncefs
And while I can’t do any file operations, I can tab complete and see some friends:
lhl@octo powncefs $ ls powncefs/ ls: powncefs/: Operation not permitted lhl@octo powncefs $ ls MarcD deprimer mattb rnair TheBrad edwardho maximolly ryancarson adactio elatable me3dia samfelder agendacide elbowdonkey meandmybadself spullara akoblin fauxstor migurski sugarlime allaboutgeorge fraying mlaaker symphonicknot ask iamcal monstro t basictheory jamescronin mroth thincvox beach jmacias natekoechley uvince benvoluto jmcnally neb waxpancake botz joshuakaufman nickf whatevernevermind buzz kentgoldman paulh xeni carriewestlake kevnull peterme yahooza caterina laughingsquid photojunkie chaddickerson leia plasticbagUK dansays lhl rabble
Well, it’s getting late. Good luck and hope this helps for anyone trying to get PownceFS working on OS X.