Bug 97105 – net-irc/iroffer - IRC Bot to share files via DCC

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Martin Wienold 2005-06-26 04:29:43 UTC]

Copied from the homepage:

"iroffer is a software program that acts as a fileserver for IRC. It is similar
to a FTP server or WEB server, but users can download files using the DCC
protocol of IRC instead of a web browser.

Unlike similar programs, iroffer is not a script, it is a standalone executable
written entirely in c from scratch with high transfer speed and efficiency in
mind. iroffer has been found to transfer over 50MByte/sec over a gigabit
ethernet connection."

Attached is an ebuild for iroffer.
forum thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2526457.html

What makes the ebuild look 'ugly'

The configure and Makefile shipped with iroffer are bad, they don't accept any
options.
"configure" is named "Configure" and will fail if options like --prefix= are
passed to it.
The Makefile will ignore DESTDIR if invoked with make DESTDIR=${D}... and will
try to install the files outside of the sandbox.

Since i don't know how to rewrite or patch configure and/or Makefile i just let
the ebuild compile and install the files with 'dobin' and 'dodoc'.

If somebody knows a better way of handling this, feel free to submit it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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[Comment 1 Martin Wienold 2005-06-26 04:31:28 UTC]

Created attachment 61952 [details]
iroffer ebuild

Valid names for the ebuild are iroffer-1.3.10.ebuild and iroffer-1.4.02.ebuild
(1.4 beeing the unstable branch).

[Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2009-02-16 19:53:36 UTC]

(this is an automated message based on filtering criteria that matched this bug)
'EBUILD' is in the KEYWORDS which should mean that there is a ebuild attached 
to this bug.
This bug is assigned to maintainer-wanted which means that it is not in the 
main tree.

Hello, The Gentoo Team would like to firstly thank you for your ebuild 
submission. We also apologize for not being able to accommodate you in a timely
manner. There are simply too many new packages.

Allow me to use this opportunity to introduce you to Gentoo Sunrise. The 
sunrise overlay[1] is a overlay for Gentoo which we allow trusted users to 
commit to and all users can have ebuilds reviewed by Gentoo devs for entry 
into the overlay. So, the sunrise team is suggesting that you look into this 
and submit your ebuild to the overlay where even *you* can commit to. =)

Because this is a mass message, we are also asking you to be patient with us. 
We anticipate a large number of requests in a short time. 

Thanks,
On behalf of the Gentoo Sunrise Team,
Jeremy.

[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/
[2]: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki/SunriseFaq

[Comment 3 Sébastien P. 2012-07-14 17:02:57 UTC]

Will be in http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/sunrise-reviewed.git;a=tree;f=net-irc/iroffer-dinoex when reviewed.

[Comment 4 Sébastien P. 2012-07-14 17:04:28 UTC]

Oups… wrong bug id.

I publish an ebuild for iroffer-dinoex (successor of iroffer).
See: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426616

[Comment 5 Sergey Popov (RETIRED) 2013-02-08 12:09:55 UTC]

Dead project. Use net-irc/iroffer-dinoex instead