java-gnome-developer

[Java-gnome-developer] new Gentoo ebuilds for beta test

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

For those running Gentoo:

I have created new ebuilds for libgtk-java, libgnome-java, etc and
replaced java-gnome with a meta package which depends on the various
pieces.

I've tested it on two systems and I think I have the glitches knocked
out of the ebuild. As those on #gnome-java and #java-gnome who have been
listening to me bash away at this thing for the last couple days will
attest, things were massively complicated by the fact that java-gnome is
a fully autoconf'd gnome project. I've got a number of issues that I'll
fix in the various .in files during 2.9

If you're interested, I've put the ebuilds I wrote up at:

http://www.operationaldynamics.com/reference/software/gentoo/

We'll get them into Portage shortly.

If you want to try them, there's a tarball there if you want to put it
into your local overlay.

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=3D~x86 emerge =3Ddev-java/java-gnome-2.8.2

[You'll need to have your Gentoo system on GNOME 2.8 (which last I
checked is still masked, though I've been running it for a while now no
problems)]

I have various programs which I'm working on which quite handily
exercise various bits of these packages, so I'm content that everything
builds, ends up in sensible places, and works.

AfC
Sydney

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OPERATIONAL DYNAMICS
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Australia: +61 2 9977 6866  North America: +1 646 472 5054

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Re: [Java-gnome-developer] new Gentoo ebuilds for beta test

[Mark H. <mh...@ti...>]

> things were massively complicated by the fact that java-gnome is
> a fully autoconf'd gnome project. I've got a number of issues that I'll
> fix in the various .in files during 2.9

Could you possibly give more details about the problems you had. We really do
want to try to improve the build process. Also, getting those patches into cvs
would be really useful.
Hopefully we will be getting full automake support in the 2.9 cycle, which would
really help clean things up so that we are able to maintain them better.

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Re: [Java-gnome-developer] new Gentoo ebuilds for beta test

[Nicholas R. <ni...@mn...>]

I just emerged java-gnome with your ebuilds.  everything seemed to go
fine and the emerge completed without errors.  i haven't had a chance to
test what was actually installed, but i would assume that it works.

Just to note that i had to uninstall the previous 2.6 version before i
could install the 2.8.  the emerge was blocked by 2.6, but said it was
blocked by 2.8.  i had to look in you gnome-java ebuild to see that i
needed to unmerge the 2.6 first.

As an avid gentoo user, i'd just like to say thanks.  when do you think
these will make it into portage?  also, what would be nice would be to
have the 2.8 ebuilds in stable and some 2.9 ebuilds as arch masked. :-)

nick

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 01:36 +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> For those running Gentoo:
> 
> I have created new ebuilds for libgtk-java, libgnome-java, etc and
> replaced java-gnome with a meta package which depends on the various
> pieces.
> 
> I've tested it on two systems and I think I have the glitches knocked
> out of the ebuild. As those on #gnome-java and #java-gnome who have been
> listening to me bash away at this thing for the last couple days will
> attest, things were massively complicated by the fact that java-gnome is
> a fully autoconf'd gnome project. I've got a number of issues that I'll
> fix in the various .in files during 2.9
> 
> If you're interested, I've put the ebuilds I wrote up at:
> 
> http://www.operationaldynamics.com/reference/software/gentoo/
> 
> We'll get them into Portage shortly.
> 
> If you want to try them, there's a tarball there if you want to put it
> into your local overlay.
> 
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge =dev-java/java-gnome-2.8.2
> 
> [You'll need to have your Gentoo system on GNOME 2.8 (which last I
> checked is still masked, though I've been running it for a while now no
> problems)]
> 
> I have various programs which I'm working on which quite handily
> exercise various bits of these packages, so I'm content that everything
> builds, ends up in sensible places, and works.
> 
> AfC
> Sydney
> 
-- 

Re: [Java-gnome-developer] new Gentoo ebuilds for beta test

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Mon, 2004-15-11 at 12:08 +0100, Nicholas Rahn wrote:
> I just emerged java-gnome with your ebuilds.  everything seemed to go
> fine and the emerge completed without errors.

Appreciate the report, thanks.

> Just to note that i had to uninstall the previous 2.6 version before i
> could install the 2.8.  the emerge was blocked by 2.6, but said it was
> blocked by 2.8.

The way that emerge reports that is confusing, to say the least. The
presence of 2.6 was reported as blocking the possibility of 2.8 is how
that should read, which was my intention

>   i had to look in your java-gnome ebuild to see that i

(for the reasons that spit out when you merge java-gnome).

> As an avid gentoo user, i'd just like to say thanks.  when do you think
> these will make it into portage?

Soon? :) They're making me a dev, so it could be they want me to do the
import, but I'll bug karltk and see if he'll import it for me sooner.

>   also, what would be nice would be to
> have the 2.8 ebuilds in stable

Had to wait until Gnome 2.8 itself was marked stable; further, they'll
probably want to wait a brief while but the positive test reports that
I've had from several people here mean we can get on with it pretty
fast.

>  and some 2.9 ebuilds as arch masked. :-)

Would depend on 1) there being tarballs of java-gnome 2.9 somewhere and
2) there being a set of ebuilds for the gnome 2.9 libraries to
subsequently depend on.=20

[Problem with arch masked in a case like this is that there are too many
idiots out there who run entirely ~arch systems and so the presence of
any 2.9 ebuilds in their portage at this point would cause it to get
brought in - making a mess of the otherwise overall stable gnome 2.8
present.

Which is why the next set of Gnome builds tend to be hard masked while
they are being prepared, and stay that way until the whole stack is
ready]

Personally, I'm going to focus on ensuring a 2.10 ebuild is ready for
when the time comes. That won't be a problem now, as I've made the jump
over the curve to account for the multiplexed libraries.

AfC
Atlanta
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OPERATIONAL DYNAMICS
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http://www.operationaldynamics.com/

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Re: [Java-gnome-developer] new Gentoo ebuilds for beta test

[Nicholas R. <ni...@mn...>]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:49 -0800, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> >   also, what would be nice would be to
> > have the 2.8 ebuilds in stable
> 
> Had to wait until Gnome 2.8 itself was marked stable; further, they'll
> probably want to wait a brief while but the positive test reports that
> I've had from several people here mean we can get on with it pretty
> fast.
> 
gnome 2.8 is now stable (since this weekend, i think) in portage.

> [Problem with arch masked in a case like this is that there are too many
> idiots out there who run entirely ~arch systems and so the presence of
> any 2.9 ebuilds in their portage at this point would cause it to get
> brought in - making a mess of the otherwise overall stable gnome 2.8
> present.
> 
> Which is why the next set of Gnome builds tend to be hard masked while
> they are being prepared, and stay that way until the whole stack is
> ready]
> 
yeah, didn't think about that part.  since 2.9 will/does depend on
gnome-2.9/gtk-2.5/etc those would have to be brought in somehow.  not so
nice for idiots like me who run fully ~arched systems. :-)

nick