Created attachment 688509 [details] purple-facebook ebuild I'm attaching an ebuild inspired on the 2019 purple-facebook one, but that essentially takes a snapshot of 2021-02-26. In a nutshell, the 2019 purple-facebook plugin for Pidgin hasn't worked for a while for several reasons that are irrelevant to this request. The ebuild I'm attaching upgrades the plugin to a version that with those problems (so far) - essentially it allows you to continue using Pidgin for Facebook Messenger chats in its restricted way. There are several things to consider with this ebuild: - I am still not too experienced writing ebuilds, so any suggestion to improve it will be welcome indeed - Despite the fact that the previous versions appeared to be a snapshot, they are not, and they rely on a release being done by purple-facebook. Such release hasn't happened since 2019 or thereabouts, so this ebuild now pulls code from git and hg - Why git AND hg, if purple-facebook is on git? (I hear you say). purple-facebook wants to `hg clone` a revision of pidgin. It gets worse: not any pidgin, but some revision within the 3.x code (thanks sam for helping figuring this out). - Why 3.x if this plugin is for 2.x? (I also hear you say). Basically purple-facebook has relied on 3.x pidgin code since around 2017 to work with 2.x. I don't know why, I stopped looking. - With this context, the ebuild uses the mercurial eclass to do what otherwise purple-facebook would wish to do, therefore it's got a git revision and an hg revision for both resources. - It also contains a patch to update.sh to stop it from even considering running hg, but allowing to do everything else (it applies a bunch of patches - I don't know what they are, I stopped looking - see above). - I also remove the build dependency for pidgin and left it as a run dependency for correctness.
Created attachment 688512 [details, diff] patch file to prevent purple-facebook from running hg at build time
Created attachment 713973 [details, diff] purple-facebook-0.9.6-1a6711f.patch Because I don't want to install extra dependency (mercurial) and the plugin's build system is utterly broken, I made a different approach. I made a new patch which contains all upstream changes until 1a6711f, that applies over the original 0.9.6 source tarball. So just drop this file in /etc/portage/patches/x11-plugins/purple-facebook-20190113 and rebuild the original x11-plugins/purple-facebook-20190113 package.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8bc00401647630565e75ea688ef0985d09af94f8 commit 8bc00401647630565e75ea688ef0985d09af94f8 Author: Jakov Smolić <jsmolic@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-03-02 12:22:22 +0000 Commit: Jakov Smolić <jsmolic@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-03-02 12:26:11 +0000 x11-plugins/purple-facebook: treeclean Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/830331 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/769719 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/773106 Signed-off-by: Jakov Smolić <jsmolic@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 5 ---- x11-plugins/purple-facebook/Manifest | 3 --- x11-plugins/purple-facebook/metadata.xml | 8 ------- .../purple-facebook-20170608.ebuild | 27 ---------------------- .../purple-facebook-20170831.ebuild | 27 ---------------------- .../purple-facebook-20190113.ebuild | 27 ---------------------- 6 files changed, 97 deletions(-)
