Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE weather plugin does not work

[Gevisz]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:07:22 +0100
David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:58:40 +0300, Gevisz (gevisz@×××××.com) wrote
> about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work" (in
> <5442aa74.8212980a.2836.7866@×××××××××.com>):
>
> > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100
> > David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> >> You're welcome.  The Xfce developers did the hard yakka, I simply
> >> massaged the patches so that they would apply cleanly on Gentoo systems.
> >
> > Thank you anyway. :)
> >
> > But may I ask you if applying those patches could result
> > in disappearing an alternative keyboard layout?
>
> There is nothing in those patches that can affect keyboard
> configuration.  The patches only handle data received over a HTTP
> connection to the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.  No keyboard stuff
> at all.
>
> >> If you modify the ebuild then you *must* update the manifest.  If you
> >> don't modify the ebuild then there is no need.
> >
> > Do you mean that putting the patches into /etc/portage/patches/ directory
> > and emerging the packet does not change the corresponding ebuild?
>
> The ebuild is a small text file that scripts the build process.  The
> patches are external files to this process.  As a result, the patches do
> not affect the MD5 checksum for the ebuild file in the package's manifest.
>
> > According to my experience, it is not the case because, reemerging the
> > xfce4-weather-plugin with the patches deleted from /etc/portage/patches/
> > directory, I've still got the working plugin and, only after unmerging it
> > and re-emerging it again without the patches, I returned to its "no-data"
> > condition.
>
> If it remained working then it was probably because you remained logged
> in to your Xfce desktop, which has the plugin cached inside the Xfce
> panel's address space.

May be.