This will actually work (as oppoed to kcheckgmail which doesn't), see below: Gmail Notifier is a Linux alternative for the notifier program released by Google, it is written in Python and provides an attractive and simple way to check for new mail messages. Latest News: Gmail Notifier 1.6.1 released Notifier version 1.6 is not working any more due to a change in Gmail's authentication system. The latest release solves this by implementing it's own connection library, instead of using libgmail. Going to try committing to sunrise now.
Please assign to maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
Draft here: http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/k3o9sO54.html for review at #gentoo-sunrise
Created attachment 91390 [details] screenshot of it working
latest: http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/d7G9kp19.html
This is now in the sunrise overlay. You can find it at: http://gentoo-sunrise.org/svn/reviewed/net-mail/gmail-notify/
Few things: - http://gmail-notify.sourceforge.net/ would be better for HOMEPAGE - >=dev-python/pygtk-2.0* and >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.4* should not have an asterisk - you should not be deleting files from S in src_install - look at make_wrapper() from eutils.eclass - where do you use bzip2 in the ebuild?
I don't know why I was thinking bzip2 when it is a .tar.gz. Do I need to explicitly depend on gzip? make_wrapper is being used now I installed like this: doins *.py *.jpg *.png langs.xml pytrayicon.so notifier.conf.sample instead of deleted the readme and doing "doins *" fixed URL and removed asterisks Only problem left is this: QA Notice: pre-stripped files found: /var/tmp/portage/gmail-notify-1.6.1/image/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gmail-notify/pytrayicon.so
(In reply to comment #7) > Do I need to explicitly depend on gzip? no > Only problem left is this: > QA Notice: pre-stripped files found: Yes, that is a problem.
Ubuntu has a patch to use gnome-python-extras instead.
can you provide a link?
Here is ubuntu's diff: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gmail-notify/gmail-notify_1.6.1-0ubuntu2.diff.gz I'm going to try first to get this in to upstream rather than have 2 distros using these patches... I've already been in touch with the developer today.
Created attachment 93955 [details] gmail-notify-1.6.1.ebuild updated ebuild (add RESTRICT="strip")
This is going to require a patch because there is this: LANGSXML_PATH=sys.path[0]+"/langs.xml" in GmailConfig.py which fails when sys.path[0] is not the path where gmail-notifier is installed too. There is lot of crap like this in the code, which I notice the ubuntu fixes a lot of. Not sure if I'll get around to taking care of these issues since I don't use it right now (although I would like too).
Ok, that is fixed now, I updated the ebuild sunrise.
*** Bug 223571 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
New version released: simply rename to 1.6.1.1. Adds more localizations.
I found a bug in the 1.6.1 ebuild, where even though there's a patch that makes it compile against egg.TrayIcon, src_install still installs the now-unused pytrayicon.so and as such revdep-rebuild will continuously try and rebuild it to resolve missing dependencies. I'm fixing this in sunrise while I version-bump the ebuild to 1.6.1.1
