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On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:04:21 -0800 |
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felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:44:49PM +0100, Jes?s Guerrero wrote: |
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> > Well, I made an ebuild for .23 and .24 long ago, though no one seems to care |
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> > about fvwm users for quite a long time :P |
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> > |
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> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191638 |
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> > You can also use the live-ebuild in the devnull overlay (use layman for that). |
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> > Both ebuilds are mine and have been around for a long time. In fvwm, usually, |
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> > the latest version (even cvs) is usually more stable than any previous one. |
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> > |
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> > Fancy stuff is rarely committed, so, almost all commits are bugfixes, |
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> > and that 's why it can only get more and more stable. If you have some problem |
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> > with any of these ebuilds, just ask. Though they have been tested for a long |
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> > time and should work painlessly. |
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> I've not yet used overlays or layman; can I beg for a quick summary |
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> for dummies? :-) Unfortunately, I am away from that machine for the |
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> next week or so, and won't be able to report success or not until I |
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> get access to it again. |
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The quick picture is "emerge layman". Then you just need to edit your |
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make.conf and add this at the end of the file. Be sure you put it at |
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the end so it doesn't get overwritten by accident. |
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======cut here========= |
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source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf |
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=====/cut here========= |
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Then update the list of overlays with layman -f. You can now list |
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the overlays with layman -L, the installed ones with -l, and you |
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can add a new one with layman -a <overlay>. For example, to get |
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the devnull overlay, you would do "layman -a devnull". |
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From now on, you just need to run "emerge -pv fvwm" and you should |
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see that fvwm is going to be updated to 9999, which means that is |
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a live ebuild (based on cvs, svn, git or whatever). |
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Make sure you update your layman list regularly with -f, and that you |
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sync the installed overlays with "layman -S". To delete overlays that |
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you will no longer use, you can use -d. |
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> Back when I ran slackware, there were some packages which I always |
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> updated immediately because they were always good code: fvwm and |
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> postgresql were among them. I know postgresql lags some, which is |
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> annoying, but I had no idea fvwm was so out of date. Should I add a |
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> requtes to that bug for moving it into the main ebuilds, or is there a |
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> better way of requesting that? |
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You can add another petition at the end of that thread like many |
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people already did if you want... I don't know if it is worth it, though. :( |
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Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es> |
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