Install and setup infocalypse on GNU/Linux (script)

Update (2015-11-27): The script works again with newer Freenet versions.

Update 2024: Infocalypse is still recovering from Python 3 breakage. Most of it works again, but there may be rough edges left. Contributions to fix these are very welcome: hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/infocalypse [1] or github.com/hyphanet/infocalypse [2].

Install and setup infocalypse [3] on GNU/Linux:

setup_infocalypse_on_linux.sh [4]

Just download and run¹ it via

wget http://draketo.de/files/setup_infocalypse_on_linux.sh_.txt
bash setup_infocalypse*

This script needs a running freenet [5] node to work! → Install Freenet [6] ←

In-Freenet-link [7]: CHK@rtJd8ThxJ~usEFOaWAvwXbHuPC6L1zOFWtKxlhUPfR8,21XedKU8YbKPGsYWu9szjY7hChX852zmFAYuvyihOd0,AAMC--8/setup_infocalypse_on_linux.sh

The script allows you to get and setup the infocalypse extension [3] with a few keystrokes to be able to instantly use the Mercurial [8] DVCS for decentral, anonymous code-sharing over freenet [9].

« Real Life Infocalypse [10] »
DVCS in the Darknet. The decentralized p2p code repository (using Infocalypse)

This gives you code hosting like a minimal version of BitBucket, Gitorious or GitHub but without the central control. Additionally the Sone plugin for freenet supplies anonymous communication and the site extension [11] allows creating static sites with information about the repo, recent commits and such without the need of a dedicated hoster.

Basic Usage

Clone a repo into freenet with a new key:

hg clone localrepo USK@/repo

(Write down the insert key and request key after the upload! Localrepo is an existing Mercurial [8] repository)

Clone a repo into or from freenet (respective key known):

hg clone localrepo freenet://USK@<insert key>/repo.R1/0
hg clone freenet://USK@<request key>/repo.R1/0 [localpath]

Push or pull new changes:

hg push freenet://USK@<insert key>/repo.R1/0
hg pull freenet://USK@<request key>/repo.R1/0

For convenient copy-pasting of freenet keys, you can omit the “freenet://” here, or use freenet:USK@… instead.

Also, as shown in the first example, you can let infocalypse generate a new key for your repo:

hg clone localrepo USK@/repo

mind the “USK@/” (slash after @ == missing key). Also see the missing .R1/0 after the repo-name and the missing freenet://. Being able to omit those on repository creation is just a convenience feature - but one which helps me a lot.

You can also add the keys to the <repo>/.hg/hgrc:

[paths]
example = freenet://USK@<request key>/repo.R1/0
example-push = freenet://USK@<insert key>/repo.R1/0
# here you need the freenet:// !

then you can simply use

hg push example-push

and

hg pull example

Contribute

This script is just a quick sketch, feel free to improve it and upload improved versions (for example with support for more GNU/Linux distros). If you experience any problems, please contact me! (i.e. write a comment [12])

If you want to contribute more efficiently to this script, get the repo via

hg clone freenet://USK@73my4fc2CLU3cSfntCYDFYt65R4RDmow3IT5~gTAWFk,Fg9EAv-Hut~9NCJKtGaGAGpsn1PjA0oQWTpWf7b1ZK4,AQACAAE/setup_infocalypse/1 

Then hack on it, commit and upload it again via

hg clone setup_infocalypse freenet://USK@/setup_infocalypse

Finally share the request URI you got.

Alternate repo: http://draketo.de/proj/setup_infocalypse [13]