I think there should really be a ebuild for seyon. Its a great "Full-featured native X11 communications program." Most Linux Distris have this in the builds. Here is the Discription from Debian: http://packages.debian.org/stable/comm/seyon.html
The most recent sources I found for this package are located at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/serialcomm/dialout/seyon-2.20c.tar.gz even though documentation provided with the package suggested ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/seyon/ as its central release location. Assuming 2.20c is the most recent source version, being it released in May 9 1999, this is a rather old package. This package would obviously need patching to work: In file included from Seyon.c:25: SeDecl.h:69: error: conflicting types for `usleep' /usr/include/unistd.h:383: error: previous declaration of `usleep' make: *** [Seyon.o] Error 1 But distributing a patch is not an option considering the package's license: "Permission is also granted to modify the source as long as the modified source is not distributed." Unless I am mistaken, I don't see how an ebuild+patch can be included without violating the copyright notice.
Thats true that its an older package, but still one of the best tools for this usage. The License: If you look in in the File 1-COPYING which is provided with the seyon-2.20c, you will see that the Author gave the ok to change the license to gpl. And I think with this, it is possible to distribute the patched sources. ---- CUT--- Seyon 2.20b and above are released under the GNU General Public License by kind permission of the author and original maintainer of seyon, Muhammad M. Saggaf. I contacted him by snail mail to ask him to open up the code and here is his response: ====================================================================== I received your letter today (yes, I know it took a long time, it took a trip half-way around the world and then back to my current address in the U.S.). I share your view about license for Seyon, I think it is too restrictive, especially that I'm not actively maintaining it. The purpose behind that restriction was to prevent incompatible versions, really, but I don't think it was the correct way of doing that. You have my permission to modify the license (e.g. the GPL is just fine) and distribute the package with the new license. --- CUT END ---
You guys want it?
Sure I want it. Thats the reason I opened that bug. I already tried to create one, but I didn succeded...
I would appreciate the new ebuild, too.
I would also like to see an ebuilt of seyon soon. It is the best terminal programm i have seen.
creating an ebuild for seyon now. gotten past some errors regarding some test caluses in the code (Just commented them out, they are not needed). Ill have an ebuild up soon. Alexander Schneider, if you could, send me a copy of the email from the author so I can include it into the package.
Created attachment 25320 [details, diff] fixes some make install problems where it tries to install some unneeded configs
Created attachment 25321 [details, diff] comments out some buggy test code
Created attachment 25322 [details] seyon-2.20c ebuild
ebuilds attached, pending approval.
src_install needs make DESTDIR=${D} install.man Otherwise man pages dont get installed :)
Created attachment 25329 [details, diff] fixed makefile issue
Just for notes sake, this compiles and installs on amd64 aswell... I dont have any means or need to test the use though.
James W. Dumay the email i talked of, is already in the package itself. just look at the file 1-COPYING, which is in the .tar.gz file of seyon. tnx for ebuild, I will also test them now.
Compiling worked very fine. But the program itself does not. This error occours after startup: *** PASTE START *** Locating Modems... >> Error: Could not create temporary lock file /usr/spool/uucp/LTMP.8658: No such file or directory. >> Error: Modem ``/dev/ttyS0'' is Locked. Modem `/dev/ttyS0' is Unavailable. >> Error: No Modems Available. *** PASTE END*** This is because the /usr/spool/uucp directory does not exists. I think in the "#define LF_PATH" in config.h should get changed to /var/lock/uucp and a dependencie for taylor-uucp should be added. ( I dont know if uucp is really needed, but it creates the /var/lock/uucp directory). I tested the ebuild on x86, so I dont know if these changes are also necessary for other platforms.
Created attachment 25395 [details] seyon-2.20c.ebuild I didnt create a patch because it was looking abit confusing (too many files to download and patch in order, etc)
Created attachment 25396 [details, diff] seyon-2.20c-compile-fix.patch changed name as suggested by devs
Created attachment 25397 [details, diff] seyon-2.20c-lock-file-fix.patch should fix lockfile problem
Created attachment 25399 [details, diff] seyon-2.20c-makefile-patch.patch changed name as suggested by devs
Created attachment 25401 [details, diff] seyon-2.20c.lockdir.patch I must be on something, I tells ya...
no problems with the new ebuild on my testmachine. works very good. But why do you do this in the new ebuild: touch /etc/lock I really see no reason for this...
I just wasnt sure. It uses this file to record locks.
Created attachment 25518 [details, diff] Seyon with even more fixed locks <seemant> i386: suggestion -- make it put the locks in /var/lock somewhere instead of /etc/loc
Created attachment 25519 [details, diff] patch for updated locks on seyon ebuild
Created attachment 25520 [details, diff] seyon-2.20c-makefile-patch.patch updated locks
This ebuild is quite mature as of now.
phew, all finished here? cyfred, feel free to commit if youd like, there seems to be a fair demand here. if not, I'll get back to sorting through all this sometime. james, have you filed any of this upstream? it looks like their packages is fairly b0rked if you have to hack around so much.
Probable category choice : x11-misc ??? Anyone have a problem with that or think something else would be better, let us know soon and we'll get this into the tree.
x11-misc WORKSFORME :)
Haha. Im cool with x11-misc.
OK peoples just went into CVS so should be out on the mirrors in an hour. I didnt change much from here except cleaned up the ebuild a bit to remove whitespaces. Marking as FIXED
