| Summary: | app-pda/plptools removal request (was: 0.13 fails to build) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Evil Compile Person <bugs> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo TreeCleaner Project <treecleaner> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | confabulate, esigra, flameeyes, laci99, mlspamcb, pda |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | 251363 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 198121 | ||
| Attachments: |
plptools ebuild.
conf.d/plptools file plptools start script |
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Description
Evil Compile Person
2008-06-16 18:52:45 UTC
*** Bug 240101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** @pda team: it seems we are very very far behind on versions for this package. Could we bump up to 1.0.5? That seems to compile just fine (I just got rid of the src_unpack part of our ebuild). I leave the rest to you guys to determine if its still necessary. *** Bug 249912 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** pda herd is abandoned. possible candidate for removal. upstream is active, last release Dec 2008. package last bumped 2005 tools for speciality hardware - Psion 3 PDAs produced in the 90's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPOC_(computing) (In reply to comment #5) > possible candidate for removal. > > upstream is active, last release Dec 2008. > package last bumped 2005 > tools for speciality hardware - Psion 3 PDAs produced in the 90's > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_3 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPOC_(computing) > Thanks for your analysis. In this case, I vote +1 for removal because I doubt any dev even has hardware to test. Please punt :) # Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org> (30 May 2009) # Masked for removal in 60 days. Doesn't build, version bump pending. Designed # for really old PDA hardware (circa '90s) - will need a maintainer that has # hardware. bug 227601 app-pda/plptools Hi All, I'm no maintainer, but have the hardware. Happy to test if that will help to not remove it from portage - I guess the fact that a bug was raised for it was because people are still using these pdas? (In reply to comment #9) > Hi All, > > I'm no maintainer, but have the hardware. Happy to test if that will help to > not remove it from portage - I guess the fact that a bug was raised for it was > because people are still using these pdas? > Hey, the bug was raised because it fails to build ;) So, that will need to be fixed, then we need to find people that use this software. Even if you have hardware, it doesn't make sense to keep this package around if no one uses it. (In reply to comment #10) > Hey, > the bug was raised because it fails to build ;) Sure, but that means someone wanted to build it - unless this is some audit of what builds and what not with the latest toolchain? > So, that will need to be fixed, > then we need to find people that use this software. Even if you have hardware, > it doesn't make sense to keep this package around if no one uses it. Yes, fair enough. -- Regards, Mick > > the bug was raised because it fails to build ;)
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> Sure, but that means someone wanted to build it - unless this is some audit of
> what builds and what not with the latest toolchain?
Given it was Patrick reporting it, I guess it was his tinderbox; there are two duplicates, the first I can't speak about, but the second is mine and it also came out of a tinderbox. So yeah should just wither away.
Created attachment 194299 [details]
plptools ebuild.
"working" ebuild.
Created attachment 194300 [details]
conf.d/plptools file
Created attachment 194301 [details]
plptools start script
Here is an ebuild that at least builds a tool v.1.0.8 It can probably be improved. I still do have the hardware and I guess i'm one of the last of the mohicans. It can auto-attach if some udev rules are added (they are in the kit). (In reply to comment #16) > Here is an ebuild that at least builds a tool v.1.0.8 > It can probably be improved. If this is v.1.0.8 should its header look like this? ==================================================== # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-pda/plptools/plptools-0.16.ebuild,v 1.1 2006/11/13 12:52:57 nbaggus Exp $ ==================================================== I gave it a spin but it failed like so when I tried to generate a Manifest: ==================================================== # ebuild plptools-1.0.8.ebuild manifest /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1818: /usr/local/portage/app-pda/plptools/plptools-1.0.8.ebuild: Permission denied * * ERROR: app-pda/plptools-1.0.8 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 1879: Called _source_ebuild * ebuild.sh, line 1818: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * source "${EBUILD}" || die "error sourcing ebuild" * The die message: * error sourcing ebuild ==================================================== -- Regards, Mick (In reply to comment #17) > (In reply to comment #16) > > Here is an ebuild that at least builds a tool v.1.0.8 > > It can probably be improved. > > If this is v.1.0.8 should its header look like this? > ==================================================== > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-pda/plptools/plptools-0.16.ebuild,v 1.1 > 2006/11/13 12:52:57 nbaggus Exp $ > ==================================================== > It is not needed to touch the ebuild header to make a manifest > I gave it a spin but it failed like so when I tried to generate a Manifest: > ==================================================== > # ebuild plptools-1.0.8.ebuild manifest > /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1818: > /usr/local/portage/app-pda/plptools/plptools-1.0.8.ebuild: Permission denied Check the permissions of the user you are trying to do the manifest. Hint: do it as root (In reply to comment #18) > > /usr/local/portage/app-pda/plptools/plptools-1.0.8.ebuild: Permission denied > > Check the permissions of the user you are trying to do the manifest. > Hint: do it as root Thanks, but the hash on my ebuild command line indicates that I did exactly that. This is the ebuild file and its permissions: # ls -la /usr/local/portage/app-pda/plptools/ total 4 drwx------ 3 root root 112 Jul 12 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 May 11 2005 .. drwx------ 2 root root 192 Jul 12 17:05 files -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1145 Jul 12 17:14 plptools-1.0.8.ebuild Removed from tree. |
