Re: Starting over, install packages

[Nathan Owens <pianocomp81 yahoo com>]

--- "aka.bugle" <aka bugle gmail com> wrote:

> Hello, fellow pilotists,
>   I'm new to the list and I REALLY want to finally rid myself of
> needing to sync with MS based palm desktop.
> If not Evolution, what would gnome-pilot sync with?

Evolution would be the way to go.

>   I having a bit of a time deciding which versions to install, and
> with which patches, from where ( I read about the Evolution patch(s),
> but its a little cryptic. googling gets different versions of even
> this patch, and even less clear as to where to apply it)  I'd be happy
> to help organize some of this info on the gnome-pilot page (wiki?)
> once I get up above the pavement
> 
> I would like to sync w/ Evolution.

It depends on what version of pilot-link you're using. If you use pilot-link 0.11.8, then you can
compile gnome-pilot and Evolution without any additional patches.

The patch required for pilot-link 0.12.x has been added to the bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389664. If you take that patch and apply it directly to
any recent version of Evolution (2.8.2 should work), and then recompile Evolution it should work.
I'm hoping the patch will be applied in the near future (soon after the New Year is my guess).

> Using gnome-pilot 2.0.13 I was able to sync memo,calendar,contacts and
> time...fairly error free, (but it was cross my fingers if I would be
> able to sync again, without a whole system reboot) the backup always
> chokes about halfway thru then locks up gnome desktop.

Hopefully this is fixed in gnome-pilot 2.0.15 - a lot of stability and usability changes were
added between 2.0.13 and 2.0.15.

> I use (fairly inexperianced at linux) Gentoo x86 with gnome desktop
> Evolution 2.8.2.1
> palmOne Handheld Lifedrive ( rom lightened via modrom.git) (drive mode
> works...hooray!) The Lifedrive has the SAME vendor and product ID as
> the palmZire31  0830:0061 (devices.xml) weird.
> pilot-link 11.8
> digest-pilot-link-0.11.8
> digest-pilot-link-0.11.8-r1
> pilot-link-0.11.8-java_compile_amd64.patch
> pilot-link-0.11.8-java_fPIC_fix.patch
> pilot-link-0.11.8-java_install_all.patch
> pilot-link-0.11.8-java_install_amd64.patch
> pilot-link-0.11.8-java_install_ppc.patch
> pilot-link-0.11.8-m4.patch
> pilot-link-0.11.8-netsync.patch
> 
> I intend on installing gnome-pilot 2.0.15 and the 2.0.15 conduits thru
> an ebuild overlay (still weeding my way thru the docs on this)

It looks like you'll be OK since you're using pilot-link 0.11.8 (i.e. no patches necessary). The
configure scripts in gnome-pilot will automatically detect that pilot-link 0.11.8 is being used.
Since Evolution currently only supports pilot-link 0.11.8, you'll be OK there too.

All in all, sounds like you need no patches, so just install gnome-pilot 2.0.15 (against the
pilot-link 0.11.8 you already have installed) and then rebuild the Evolution conduits against
gnome-pilot 2.0.15 (conduit source is located in addressbook/conduits and calendar/conduits).
You're definitely headed in the right direction.

Nathan Owens



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