In early August 2016, the National Weather service changed the URLs for getting observation data. The GrabWeather component of the gkrellweather plugin (a perl script) needs to be updated to use the correct URL. old: http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/<StationID>.TXT new: http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/<StationID>.TXT Updating this fixes problems displaying the weather for GKrellm. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use the gkrellweather plugin 2. enter a valid <StationID> value (e.g. KRDU - Raleigh Durham International) 3. wait forever for no weather display Actual Results: gkrellweather never updates (silently) Expected Results: should display desired weather observations in the krell The NOAA actually warned of this change a while ago, but no one noticed until the change happened. Since the GrabWeather component is a perl script, changing the URL at the top of the script is a trivial fix: s;http://weather.noaa.gov/pub;http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov;
Not a problem with Gentoo. emerge --info not required
Similar to bug 590740.
It is "sort of" the same bug, but in an entirely different package and ebuild. The change should probably be pushed upstream, I think that such a minor change only deserves and additional patch revbump (e.g. a move to -r2.)
(In reply to G.Wolfe Woodbury from comment #3) > It is "sort of" the same bug, but in an entirely different package and > ebuild. > The change should probably be pushed upstream, I think that such a minor > change only deserves and additional patch revbump (e.g. a move to -r2.) Would you like to maintain this package yourself as a proxy maintainer: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers?
I have thought about this for a few packages lately, however. . . I have been writing and debugging programs and systems for nearly 58 years now (generation 0 computer kid) and still enjoy doing so at 63 years. My health, unfortunately, sometimes has other things to say about what I do each day; this leaves me to say that I cannot have the regular time and attention needed to be an effective maintainer, even by proxy. This may be TMI, but I'd like folks to know why I'm not a developer or maintainer anymore (I used to do some of this before I switched to Gentoo as my primary OS for systems). I can still work with anyone else who is more reliable to sometimes do the necessary work.
Created attachment 444356 [details, diff] patch for NWS URL change in GrabWeather script This patch fixes the URL used to fetch the weather observation data from the National Weather Service, which changed at the end of July 2016.
Submitting attached patch for ebuild 2.0.8-r1 that fixes the URL for the National Weather Service website re-organization.
Created attachment 455816 [details] gkrellweather-2.0.8-r1.ebuild for new METARS location New ebuild that adds a patch for the change in METARS data location on the WWW
Created attachment 455818 [details, diff] most recent patch for METARS data location renamed patch for x11-plugins/gkrellweather-2.0.8-r1 for changed location of US NOAA/NWS METARS data
I have made an updated ebuild and patch for x11-plugins/gkrellweather-2.0.8-r1 someone who is able, please commit these.
[master 9713920e479] x11-plugins/gkrellweather: Fix dependency on gkrellm[X] and make it work again (#592190 by G.Wolfe Woodbury). 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+) create mode 100644 x11-plugins/gkrellweather/files/gkrellweather-2.0.8-update-locations.patch create mode 100644 x11-plugins/gkrellweather/gkrellweather-2.0.8-r1.ebuild
Thank You !
