Re: [orca-list] What is latest Orca/arch orca-git question

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
I'llattempt to give some answers.
- At this point no update to orca-git package in aur is required. No 
dependencies have been added removed nor any other dependent arch 
packages have changed.
- What PKGBUILD script from orca-git packages is that pulls from orca 
git master and compiles it each time from scratch. It calls
git describe --tags
for retrieving orca version.
So although orca is currently at version 3.15 it has not been tagged in 
the git repository like so it's why arch package version does not match. 
I think this is just a minor issue and as I have already suggested 
before, it would be nice to change arch package version scheme rather 
than relying on git tags being preciselly in sync with orca versioning.
E.G. by calling the following inside cloned orca git repo you will get a 
nice version string that increments by one with each new commit
echo $(git rev-list --count HEAD)+g$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
This is what other aur packages pulling from git tend to use as it it 
requires no extra steps from the software maintainers.
Orca build system touches files in order to be able to figure out which 
translations have been updated since you have performed last build. 
Since orca-git package PKGBUILD script builds everything from scratch it 
takes slightly longer to complete.

Greetings

Peter

On 05.10.2014 at 08:33 B. Henry wrote:
> I have been using the orca-git package to update from master for a while now, and have not seen an update 
> since orca-git-3.13.90.r127.g8ce18bd-1
> First question is does the maintainer need to update something when the first numbers change, e.g. 3.13.90?
> As I've not seen an update for some time I went to the downloads page and saw 3.13.92 and 3.14. Of course I'm 
> well aware that 3.14 has been around for a
> while now, but  I saw mentioned 3.15 pre mentioned on the list with in the last day or so.
> So I clone from git and see that it is indeed 3.15pre.
> What is the criteria for putting an odd numbered package in to tarballs and zip packages?
> And another arch specific question:
> It takes a good bit of forever to do all the touching and such for the various languages when installing the 
> orca-git package, but it was fast wen I
> manually built the package from the git sources. Why is this? Does something in the package managment system 
> give this a low priority? I can't say it
> mattered much whether I had a bit going on or not at the same time as I was installing the orca-git package, 
> and I generally shy away from heavy
> multitasking anyway, especially if I see my CPu's being pushed or memory's low.
> Thanks in advance for filling in any of my blanks when it comes to understanding orcaversions and arch git 
> packages.
> --
> B.H.
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp