The version currently in portage (1.0.2-r1) seems to work no longer. It fails to parse the auction's end timestamp.
2.0 beta 8 is out. Again, there's no working "stable" release available at the moment, so it's important to offer an update even though it carries "beta" in it's name.
Created attachment 170303 [details] jbidwatcher-2.0_beta8.ebuild I hacked quickly together an jbidwatcher-2.0_beta8.ebuild It still fails parsing ebay... Thu Oct 30 12:54:35 CET 2008: Loading page: http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay&CurrentPage=MyeBayBidding Thu Oct 30 12:54:36 CET 2008: Auction appears to have been removed from the site. Thu Oct 30 12:54:36 CET 2008: Failed to parse auction! Bad return result from auction server. Thu Oct 30 12:54:36 CET 2008: Not loaded (270294788003). Kind regards Bjoern
Thanks for the ebuild Bjoern, just 3 issues: 1. It doesn't emerge on my box as "files/jbidwatch64.jpg" does not exist. 2. The jar-file is installed in "/usr/share/jbidwatcher/lib/JBidwatcher-2.0beta8.jar" but the starter-script is trying to launch "jbidwatcher.jar". So in fact it will launch the old version 1.x -if still installed- or result in an error. This might explain why you are still getting that parser-error. Version 2.0_betaX works fine for me. 3. The ebuild no longer builds from source but uses the binary jar-file instead. Should it be renamed to "app-misc/jbidwatcher-bin"?
Created attachment 170346 [details] ebuild for bidwatcher-2.0_beta8 (binary) -> changed jar-filename: "/usr/share/jbidwatcher/lib/jbidwatcher.jar" -> no icon
(In reply to comment #4) > Created an attachment (id=170346) [edit] > ebuild for bidwatcher-2.0_beta8 (binary) > > -> changed jar-filename: "/usr/share/jbidwatcher/lib/jbidwatcher.jar" > -> no icon > This is a binary only ebuild and we aren't adding any new of those. I tried bumping to beta 11 but the tarball did not have the source files in it. Need to mail the author.
2.0 is final now
JBidWatcher-2.0.1 is out now, but still the the source-archive offered on the author's website does not contain any source code :( I've opened a ticket on the jbidwatcher bugtracker. Btw: Did the license change? According to the old ebuild jbidwatcher is released under LGPL. The website says it is released under a custom license based on "Creative Commons BY-NC-SA": http://www.jbidwatcher.com/by-nc-sa-amended.shtml
The license did change. In this forum thread the author explains someone changed the license and sold the software as their own, so the license had to change: http://forum.jbidwatcher.com/forums/2/topics/755 The author feels his community is mainly binary users and not developers, so the protection of not releasing source doesn't effect his community. Maybe someone will develop another app like this that is open, but in the mean time, is it application still compatible with gentoo's portage?
Uhh, too bad :( That forum thread explains a lot. Unfortunately, as a binary ebuild has no chance to be added to portage -according to Petteri Räty- and the old open source version ceased working due to some serious changes on eBay's side I guess jbidwatcher should be removed from portage at all. Is there any overlay for (java-)binaries where we could add the bin-ebuild?
(In reply to comment #9) > Is there any overlay for (java-)binaries where we could add the bin-ebuild? > Same holds for the official overlays as well.
(In reply to comment #10) > (In reply to comment #9) > > Is there any overlay for (java-)binaries where we could add the bin-ebuild? > > > Same holds for the official overlays as well. > Well actually the policy is about not adding -bin packages for Open Source projects. jbidwatcher is no longer an open source project so we could add a binary ebuild but as it keeps breaking with every ebay change I think we should move it to the java overlay.
It seems there is source code available at http://www.jbidwatcher.com/download/jbidwatcher-2.0.1.tar.bz2 It would be great to have the update in portage...
Unfortunately it does not, see #8 and here: https://jbidwatcher.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8037/tickets/750-jbidwatcher-201tarbz2-does-not-contain-source-code Perhaps the binary ebuild will be added to portage or some overlay sometime by some developer... Until that happens you may of course add the ebuild from this thread to your local overlay: # wget "http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=170346" -O /usr/local/portage/app-misc/jbidwatcher/jbidwatcher-2.0.1.ebuild # ebuild /usr/local/portage/app-misc/jbidwatcher/jbidwatcher-2.0.1.ebuild digest # emerge -av jbidwatcher
http://github.com/cyberfox/jbidwatcher/tree/master well, I've just yanked something from here and appears to compile... (hit turbulance with an ebuild so far, but sleep deprived today...)
Hi, by now stable is 2.0.1 (23-Feb-2009) and 03-Jan-2010 official release of 2.1pre5.
Created attachment 238241 [details] Updated binary ebuild I just corrected this to fetch correctly.
There is a new version available: Stable Version August 8, 2010 JBidwatcher 2.1.1 When changing the version in the latest ebuild in this thread, the new version emerges and seems to work for me. The icon in the menu is currently missing. Given the large interest in jbidwatcher, it would be nice if it could be built from source rather than using the binary only.
Created attachment 257613 [details, diff] patch for jbidwatcher-2.1.3 JBidwatcher is at version 2.1.3 now, and it still installs and runs perfectly using the old ebuilds. The patch against the latest ebuild in this thread changes the SRC_URI to accomodate future version bumps, and the LICENSE to one that's actually listed in /usr/portage/licenses. This last bit may not be entirely accurate since JBidwatcher's author Morgan Schweers explicitly allows usage in commercial enterprises on top of the rights granted by the standard BY-NC-SA. If this still doesn't look fit for recommitting JBidwatcher to the tree, maybe the java overlay maintainers could pick it up?
(In reply to comment #18) > Created attachment 257613 [details, diff] > patch for jbidwatcher-2.1.3 > > JBidwatcher is at version 2.1.3 now, and it still installs and runs perfectly > using the old ebuilds. The patch against the latest ebuild in this thread > changes the SRC_URI to accomodate future version bumps, and the LICENSE to one > that's actually listed in /usr/portage/licenses. This last bit may not be > entirely accurate since JBidwatcher's author Morgan Schweers explicitly allows > usage in commercial enterprises on top of the rights granted by the standard > BY-NC-SA. > > If this still doesn't look fit for recommitting JBidwatcher to the tree, maybe > the java overlay maintainers could pick it up? The provided ebuild still works for jbidwatcher-2.1.5 (released 2011-04-10) - just had to rename the ebuild.
Confirming that Dewald Pieterse's ebuild with Ulrich Plate's patch works on the current version, 2.1.5. Could somebody with the necessary rights update the summary for this bug to reflect the current version?
Created attachment 293851 [details] jbidwatcher-2.1.6 (version bump) Another release has been announced at http://www.jbidwatcher.com/ and seems to work right with a renamed ebuild (see attachment). Please confirm (and update status).
I've added app-misc/JBidwatcher to my overlay (layman -a xmw). Feel free to /pm me on irc or send me an mail to keep it up to date. I'll suggest a removal of the useless old package from portage. Michael
Will this ever make it into the main portage database?
Installed today jbidwatcher-2.5 based on the posted ebuild. Works fine so far.
(In reply to comment #22) > I've added app-misc/JBidwatcher to my overlay (layman -a xmw). > Feel free to /pm me on irc or send me an mail to keep it up to date. > > I'll suggest a removal of the useless old package from portage. > > Michael Thanks for picking this up. Masking jbidwatcher for removal. # Ralph Sennhauser <sera@gentoo.org> (13 Jul 2012) # Mask for removal in 30 days. Fails to build with java 7 #421917. # QA issues #298701. Ceased to be useful long ago. #235124. Thanks # to Michael Weber <xmw@gentoo.org> #235124 for maintaining a # binary package in his overlay. (layman -a xmw) =app-misc/jbidwatcher-1*
Just a question: I did "layman -a xmw" but couldn't find anything named "jbidwatcher" in it. Am I missing something?
(In reply to comment #26) > Just a question: I did "layman -a xmw" but couldn't find anything named > "jbidwatcher" in it. Am I missing something? Sorry, should have mentioned it, it's named app-misc/JBidwatcher in the xmw overlay. The latest available version is 2.5.
Great, thank you! I missed it because of the difference in uppercase/lowercase :-)
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