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Opened: 2004-03-06 12:35 0000

After a long 5 years, fortune-mod is once again actively maintained.

From http://www.redellipse.net/code/fortune/:

There are quite a few differences between this version of fortune, and the one which is currently available for most distributions. These changes include:

    * Some internationalisation support
    * UTF-8 support
    * Zillions of extra fortunes that have been suggested to the Debian maintainers over the last 5 years
    * Number of spelling fixes.
    * Fixes to REGEXPs searches
    * Changes in percentage allocations
    * A few bug fixes
    * A Y2K compliant version number
    * Some other stuff I've probably forgotten about ;-) 


I had a problem with the '-m' option, which is supposed to search for fortunes matching an arbitrary regexp. It would segfault sometimes without printing anything, and other times it would print out a few fortunes and then segfault.

I found the offending code in fortune.c in matches_in_list() on line 1581:

if (fp->utf8_charset)
       free (output);

I'm not exactly sure how the whole function works, but when i removed this code the '-m' option worked fine. Emailing the maintainer about this.


Oh yeah, and portage thinks that 1.99.1 is older than 9708.  Is there a way to specify version order in the ebuild?

------- Comment #2 From Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-03-08 05:56:23 0000 -------

Hrrrmn... unfortunately, there is no way that I know of to "force" an ebuild to
install over another.  I think we'll definitely need to investigate this one a
bit more before we can add it.

------- Comment #3 From Mr. Bones. 2004-03-08 10:54:37 0000 -------

No problem.  First we add the new version to portage, then mask the old version
in profiles/package.mask.  It's pretty straight forward.

------- Comment #4 From Daniel Fullmer 2004-03-08 12:19:17 0000 -------

>No problem.  First we add the new version to portage, then mask the old version
in profiles/package.mask.  It's pretty straight forward.

I know we can do that, but do you guys think specifying version order would be
a good idea for portage?  It would probably only be a good idea if there are
other packages out there that do something funky like this.

------- Comment #5 From Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-03-18 16:39:51 0000 -------

That would be useful in these few fringe cases where it happens, butit would
make for a pretty hefty maintenance nightmare to keep up with version orders,
unless it was completely optional.  SpanKY, what's the plan on this one?

------- Comment #6 From SpanKY 2004-03-18 18:04:27 0000 -------

9708 becomes 1.0.9708 and we delete 9708

then we add 1.99.1 as unstable

everyone in stable goes to 1.0.9708 (it's a small program so i dont care about the recompile hassle) while everyone in unstable goes to 1.99.1

Bug#: 43906	Product: Gentoo Linux	Version: unspecified	Platform: All
OS/Version: All	Status: RESOLVED	Severity: enhancement	Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED	Assigned To: games@gentoo.org	Reported By: lsmod@hotmail.com
Component: Ebuilds
URL: http://www.redellipse.net/code/fortune/
Summary: fortune-mod-1.99.1 (updated ebuild)
Keywords:
Status Whiteboard:
Opened: 2004-03-06 12:35 0000