On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 07:11:07AM -0800, Brendan Oakley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I recently installed Frugalware 1.3 on a G4 Mac, and I notice some > packages I need are not included. I installed them by cloning the > stable repo and adding 'ppc' to the FrugalBuilds. I post my results > here with the question: What I can do to help see these pushed to the > official release?
Just send patches, each patch should touch only one package, and then we'll accept them. See here: http://frugalware.org/docs/getting-involved/en#_downloading_and_setting_up_the_repositories > In every case, fblint fails the check for unchanged pkgrel. Unsure > what to do with that. If you want to contribute, you are encouraged to upgrade to -current, you won't have this issue there. > 1. network-extra/pptp > > Built fine. I cannot test this much at the moment, but it seems alright. > > 2. network-extra/openvpn > > I had to set NOUP2DATE=1 because, I gather, there is a newer version > out, but it built and works fine. This one made me wonder if I should > work from current rather than stable. Yes, adding a new architecture is a feature change, and we want bugfixes only in stable. There is also a tool called 'portpkg' - just run portpkg in the directory where you would run makepkg and that will try to add ppc to archs and build the package. If it's successful, then you can commit your change and send a patch, as described in the above documentation. Ah, and portpkg uses makepkg -u by default, which sets NOUP2DATE to 1 by default. :) > 3. network/netkit-telnet > > The Debian patch 32 is no longer available for download. Bumped that > to 36 and updated the sha1sum. Then it built and ran fine. Same here, we would accept that patch, just increment pkgrel in that case as well. > 4. network/mutt > > Built and installed fine, and works ok. I cannot really use it because > I need the features of the development version. Fortunately I later > noticed mutt-devel. > > 5. network-extra/mutt-devel > > This one was not up to date, so I set NOUP2DATE=1 again. Then it built > and ran fine, once I uninstalled mutt. > > 6. lib-extra/libofx > > Built and installed without issue. > > 7. kde-extra/skrooge > > Setting NOUP2DATE=1 did not help because the old version is no longer > available for download. I'd rather switch to current and get the > latest anyway. Do I need to reinstall the whole system? No, just change /etc/pacman-g2.conf to include the current repo instead of the stable one. Then run pacman -Syu. A work in progress '1.3->current' upgrade howto is here: http://frugalware.org/docs/upgrade Thanks.
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