Re: Stable GARNOME via arch

[Stef van der Made <svdmade planet nl>]

Dear Jeff,

I've found some updated packages for the unstable tree that I needed to 
solve a bug with GCC-3.4.0 and some packages that where just a higher 
version number which is just kewl :-) I'v been able to compile 
successfully with these packages when running pachlevel 4 of the TLA branch.

Some updates for bootstrap

libtool is currently on version 1.5.6
freetype is version 2.1.8
fontconfig 2.2.95

and desktop to solve my issues with compiling on gcc-3.4.0

gnome-terminal-2.7.2

Cheers,

Stef

Nick Moffitt wrote:

> begin  Stef van der Made  quotation:
>  
>
> > Nick Moffitt wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > $ tla register-archive jdub perkypants org--projects http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/arch
> > > $ tla get jdub perkypants org--projects/garnome--kenny--2.5.2
> > >      
> > That was a usefull tutorial. 30 seconds and I was off compiling the 
> > garnome release.
> >    
>
> 	Happy to be of service.
>
> 	Arch has a bit of a PR problem regarding its interface.  A lot
> of outdated docs are still up on the net from the days when it was
> just a bunch of shell glue around Tom Lord's hackerlabs libraries.
> Many steps that people moaned about in the arch and larch days are no
> longer necessary in these days of tla.  
>
> 	As a matter of fact, you can actually shorten that first line
> up there to just "tla register-archive http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/arch"; 
> and tla will figure out the archive name automatically.  In addition,
> modern versions of tla will grab the most recent version of a package,
> so you can just "tla get jdub perkypants org--projects/garnome--kenny"
> without needing the --2.5.2 if you just want to get the latest
> revision of the latest version.
>
> 	Combine this with the fact that Tom's "Tutorial" is really
> more of a reference for advanced developers, and you end up with
> the perception that arch is really obscure and difficult.  I highly
> recommend that you look at the Wiki at http://wiki.gnuarch.org before
> using the official documentation.
>
> 	Also, people are writing wrappers around tla to provide more
> features at a higher level than that at which tla operates.  Check out
> aba for more:
>
> $ tla register-archive http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net/jblack inframix com--2004/
> $ tla get jblack inframix com--2004/tlacontrib--devo
>
>  
>
> > > $ mkdir -p ~/.arch-params/signing
> > > $ echo '/usr/bin/tla-gpg-check gpg_command="gpg --keyserver pgp.dtype.org --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve --verify-files -"' > ~/.arch-params/signing/\=default.check
> > >      
> > btw tla signatures won't work because I can't compile gnupg stable 
> > branch on slackware only the development realease seems to work.
> >    
>
> 	Well, I'm using gnupg 1.2 for this.  The big trick is to
> figure out where gpg-check.awk is installed on your system.  I used
> /usr/bin/tla-gpg-check in the above example because that's where the
> Debian tla package installs it.  You may need to copy the awk script
> to /usr/local/bin and adjust the =default.check file to match.  It's
> part of the official tla source distribution.
>
> 	Anyway, this is an optional feature that wasn't even
> *possible* with CVS (except in the sense that everything was
> scriptable if you enforced a lot of horrible constraints on users and
> servers everywhere).
>
>
> 	I just moved the LNX-BBC (the original project for which I
> wrote GAR) from CVS over to arch, and wrote up a tutorial for LNX-BBC
> developers. It's up at:
>
> 	http://lnx-bbc.org/arch.html 
>
> Check it out if you're curious as to what developers typically need to
> do to setup.  It's a few extra steps, but it never reaches 13.  It's
> also got a handy bibliography at the front listing the best bits of
> the arch wiki.
>
>