[Frugalware-devel] I need help fixing Frugalbuilds

[Miklos Vajna]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 03:27:17PM +1000, Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> UNRAR
> This looked to be quite an easy one but I am confused after doing a
> little research.  The version packaged in "current" is 3.8.5 but the
> home page reports that the latest stable version is 3.8.0, and the
> very latest - beta - version is 3.9.3.  I believe FW's policy is to
> package only stable versions, unless there's no other choice - e.g.
> there's a critical bug with the beta version.  I have no idea what
> version to which unrar should be upgraded.  If we stick only to stable
> versions, in fact this should be downgraded.

Yep, that's pretty confusing. http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm just
lists 3.9.3 as "UnRAR source", so I considered it a safe operation to
just update.

> JAM
> This is one that perhaps I should avoid, but when I go looking for the
> Frugalbuild via the "git" link on the Frugalware package's details
> page, git's web interface says that it doesn't exist.

It has been moved to devel-extra from devel without incrementing the
pkgrel, that's why the website still refers to devel. If you edit the
link, you'll get it.

And yes, its up2date is broken, you could use something like:

lynx -dump http://public.perforce.com/wiki/Jam|grep stable|sed 's/.* rev \([^ ]*\) .*/\1/'

No, I did not pushed it, feel free to do so. :)

> LINPOPUP
> As a starting point with updating or correcting packages which fail
> the 'chkworld' test, I went looking for LINPOPUP's up2date line but it
> seems that it doesn't have one.  Is it that this package was created
> before anyone had the idea for the up2date line?

You just need this:

diff --git a/source/network-extra/linpopup/FrugalBuild b/source/network-extra/linpopup/FrugalBuild
index 447408b..5523fda 100644
--- a/source/network-extra/linpopup/FrugalBuild
+++ b/source/network-extra/linpopup/FrugalBuild
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ rodepends=('samba-client')
 groups=('network-extra')
 archs=('i686' 'x86_64')
 _F_sourceforge_dirname="linpopup2"
+_F_sourceforge_realname="LinPopUp-2"
 Finclude sourceforge
 url="http://linpopup2.sourceforge.net/"

Again, I did not push this, I'll leave it to you for practicing. :)

In general, if you can fix an up2date where the current result is
obviously wrong, feel free to push it without asking, just make sure do
not break the source() or $url variables. :)

(Edit the FB, run chkworld, if it has a reasonable output, then run
makepkg -dgu, and if it can still download the source, you can
commit&push it.)
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