Discussion:
[users] A minor request
Alfred Ganz
2011-07-24 19:05:56 UTC
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Dear Rpmforge Crew (I think that is what dag suggested),

I assume I am rather old fashioned and I therefore was trying to install
gnubiff on a Centos-6 i86_64 system. Unfortunately I couldn't find it in
the el6 i86_64 rpmforge repository. I found I can use the one from the
corresponding 5.6 repository, but I'd rather not do that.

Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?

Thanks, AG
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AG Consulting, Inc. (203) 624-9667
440 Prospect Street # 11
New Haven, CT 06511
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Yury V. Zaytsev
2011-07-24 20:24:41 UTC
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Hi!
Post by Alfred Ganz
I assume I am rather old fashioned and I therefore was trying to install
gnubiff on a Centos-6 i86_64 system. Unfortunately I couldn't find it in
the el6 i86_64 rpmforge repository. I found I can use the one from the
corresponding 5.6 repository, but I'd rather not do that.
Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?
I was just about to update the spec, but for it to compile I need to
backport gdk-pixbuf, which depends upon gtk+ which Dag apparently
started backporting, but never completely finished:

https://github.com/repoforge/rpms/issues/16

Dag, could you please take care of gtk+, so that I can proceed?
--
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
Dag Wieers
2011-07-25 16:34:21 UTC
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Post by Alfred Ganz
Dear Rpmforge Crew (I think that is what dag suggested),
I assume I am rather old fashioned and I therefore was trying to install
gnubiff on a Centos-6 i86_64 system. Unfortunately I couldn't find it in
the el6 i86_64 rpmforge repository. I found I can use the one from the
corresponding 5.6 repository, but I'd rather not do that.
Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?
It needs gdk-pixbuf-devel, which in its turn needs gtk+. It's not
impossible to do it, but still a lot of work.
--
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

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Yury V. Zaytsev
2011-07-25 16:43:14 UTC
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Post by Dag Wieers
It needs gdk-pixbuf-devel, which in its turn needs gtk+. It's not
impossible to do it, but still a lot of work.
I've seen you working on gtk+ so it didn't have much sense to repeat the
exercise which someone has almost completed ;-)

Whether you are planning to finish it or not, please commit the SPEC, so
that if you are not going to persist I could give it a try some day...
--
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
Dag Wieers
2011-07-25 16:57:18 UTC
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Post by Yury V. Zaytsev
Post by Dag Wieers
It needs gdk-pixbuf-devel, which in its turn needs gtk+. It's not
impossible to do it, but still a lot of work.
I've seen you working on gtk+ so it didn't have much sense to repeat the
exercise which someone has almost completed ;-)
Well, I did initially, but stopped the effort for some reason (don't
remember why, but I am sure it'll be obvious when restarting the work
;-)) There are some old applications that also require older gnome
libraries, the question is if the effort is worth all the trouble.
Post by Yury V. Zaytsev
Whether you are planning to finish it or not, please commit the SPEC, so
that if you are not going to persist I could give it a try some day...
Ok, it's not in github because it was never committed to subversion. I
don't think I was ready to push those EL6 gtk+ packages either :-/
--
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

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Dag Wieers
2011-07-25 17:04:21 UTC
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Post by Dag Wieers
Post by Yury V. Zaytsev
Whether you are planning to finish it or not, please commit the SPEC, so
that if you are not going to persist I could give it a try some day...
Ok, it's not in github because it was never committed to subversion. I
don't think I was ready to push those EL6 gtk+ packages either :-/
That said, I do not seem to have a copy of the SPEC file, which probably
indicates there was a good reason not to continue doing gtk+ packages.

Still don't know why, anymore...
--
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Dag Wieers
2011-07-25 17:04:21 UTC
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Post by Dag Wieers
Post by Yury V. Zaytsev
Whether you are planning to finish it or not, please commit the SPEC, so
that if you are not going to persist I could give it a try some day...
Ok, it's not in github because it was never committed to subversion. I
don't think I was ready to push those EL6 gtk+ packages either :-/
That said, I do not seem to have a copy of the SPEC file, which probably
indicates there was a good reason not to continue doing gtk+ packages.

Still don't know why, anymore...
--
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Dag Wieers
2011-07-25 16:57:18 UTC
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Post by Yury V. Zaytsev
Post by Dag Wieers
It needs gdk-pixbuf-devel, which in its turn needs gtk+. It's not
impossible to do it, but still a lot of work.
I've seen you working on gtk+ so it didn't have much sense to repeat the
exercise which someone has almost completed ;-)
Well, I did initially, but stopped the effort for some reason (don't
remember why, but I am sure it'll be obvious when restarting the work
;-)) There are some old applications that also require older gnome
libraries, the question is if the effort is worth all the trouble.
Post by Yury V. Zaytsev
Whether you are planning to finish it or not, please commit the SPEC, so
that if you are not going to persist I could give it a try some day...
Ok, it's not in github because it was never committed to subversion. I
don't think I was ready to push those EL6 gtk+ packages either :-/
--
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

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Alfred Ganz
2011-07-25 16:45:01 UTC
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Dag,
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:34:21 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: [users] A minor request
Post by Alfred Ganz
Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?
It needs gdk-pixbuf-devel, which in its turn needs gtk+. It's not
impossible to do it, but still a lot of work.
If it is a lot of work, and I am the only one asking, don't do it.
Question, do you happen to know of something similar, I have a system
that uses Xorg directly without gnome or KDE?

Thanks for your help, AG
--
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Alfred Ganz alfred-ganz:at:agci.com
AG Consulting, Inc. (203) 624-9667
440 Prospect Street # 11
New Haven, CT 06511
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Yury V. Zaytsev
2011-07-25 16:43:14 UTC
Permalink
Post by Dag Wieers
It needs gdk-pixbuf-devel, which in its turn needs gtk+. It's not
impossible to do it, but still a lot of work.
I've seen you working on gtk+ so it didn't have much sense to repeat the
exercise which someone has almost completed ;-)

Whether you are planning to finish it or not, please commit the SPEC, so
that if you are not going to persist I could give it a try some day...
--
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
Alfred Ganz
2011-07-25 16:45:01 UTC
Permalink
Dag,
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:34:21 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: [users] A minor request
Post by Alfred Ganz
Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?
It needs gdk-pixbuf-devel, which in its turn needs gtk+. It's not
impossible to do it, but still a lot of work.
If it is a lot of work, and I am the only one asking, don't do it.
Question, do you happen to know of something similar, I have a system
that uses Xorg directly without gnome or KDE?

Thanks for your help, AG
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Alfred Ganz alfred-ganz:at:agci.com
AG Consulting, Inc. (203) 624-9667
440 Prospect Street # 11
New Haven, CT 06511
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Alfred Ganz
2011-07-26 13:22:53 UTC
Permalink
Dag,
Post by Alfred Ganz
Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?
If it is a lot of work, and I am the only one asking, don't do it.
Question, do you happen to know of something similar, I have a system
that uses Xorg directly without gnome or KDE?
Please don't spend any effort on it, I have found that I can do what I
would like to do with xbiff.

Thanks, AG
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Alfred Ganz alfred-ganz:at:agci.com
AG Consulting, Inc. (203) 624-9667
440 Prospect Street # 11
New Haven, CT 06511
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Dag Wieers
2011-07-26 13:49:45 UTC
Permalink
Post by Alfred Ganz
Post by Alfred Ganz
Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?
If it is a lot of work, and I am the only one asking, don't do it.
Question, do you happen to know of something similar, I have a system
that uses Xorg directly without gnome or KDE?
Please don't spend any effort on it, I have found that I can do what I
would like to do with xbiff.
Thanks for the update on this on the list. It's likely other people may
find the feedback useful.

Kind regards,
--
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Nico Kadel-Garcia
2011-07-26 13:50:46 UTC
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Dag,
? ? ? ?> Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?
? ? ? ?If it is a lot of work, and I am the only one asking, don't do it.
? ? ? ?Question, do you happen to know of something similar, I have a system
? ? ? ?that uses Xorg directly without gnome or KDE?
Please don't spend any effort on it, I have found that I can do what I
would like to do with xbiff.
Thanks, AG
What a thoughtful person!

Dag, I took the liberty of grabbing the gdk-pixbuf and gtk+
dependencies for gnubiff from EPEL, rebuilding them in a clean
Scientific Linux 6 "mock" environment, then built the gnubiff SRPM's
from RPMforge. It all worked well. I'm not sure if that means you want
to yourself support gtk+ and gdk-pixbuf for other packages, but it's a
hint that they could be brought into RPMforge for RHEL 6 based systems
without too many surprises.
Yury V. Zaytsev
2011-07-26 14:14:52 UTC
Permalink
Post by Nico Kadel-Garcia
Dag, I took the liberty of grabbing the gdk-pixbuf and gtk+
dependencies for gnubiff from EPEL, rebuilding them in a clean
Scientific Linux 6 "mock" environment, then built the gnubiff SRPM's
from RPMforge. It all worked well. I'm not sure if that means you want
to yourself support gtk+ and gdk-pixbuf for other packages, but it's a
hint that they could be brought into RPMforge for RHEL 6 based systems
without too many surprises.
Could you please make a pull request?

Dag started to work on gtk+, but something has prevented him from
finishing (he doesn't remember anymore what exactly that was):

http://pkgs.repoforge.org/gtk+/

the SPEC is available in the buildlogs.

I believe that having, gtk+ stuff would still be useful for one last
RHEL generation...
--
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
Dag Wieers
2011-07-26 14:21:45 UTC
Permalink
Post by Yury V. Zaytsev
Post by Nico Kadel-Garcia
Dag, I took the liberty of grabbing the gdk-pixbuf and gtk+
dependencies for gnubiff from EPEL, rebuilding them in a clean
Scientific Linux 6 "mock" environment, then built the gnubiff SRPM's
from RPMforge. It all worked well. I'm not sure if that means you want
to yourself support gtk+ and gdk-pixbuf for other packages, but it's a
hint that they could be brought into RPMforge for RHEL 6 based systems
without too many surprises.
Could you please make a pull request?
Dag started to work on gtk+, but something has prevented him from
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/gtk+/
the SPEC is available in the buildlogs.
I believe that having, gtk+ stuff would still be useful for one last
RHEL generation...
Yes please. It's not because I fail to progress on something, this should
block someone else. If anything it should be encouraged to beat me at it
;-)
--
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Dag Wieers
2011-07-26 14:21:45 UTC
Permalink
Post by Yury V. Zaytsev
Post by Nico Kadel-Garcia
Dag, I took the liberty of grabbing the gdk-pixbuf and gtk+
dependencies for gnubiff from EPEL, rebuilding them in a clean
Scientific Linux 6 "mock" environment, then built the gnubiff SRPM's
from RPMforge. It all worked well. I'm not sure if that means you want
to yourself support gtk+ and gdk-pixbuf for other packages, but it's a
hint that they could be brought into RPMforge for RHEL 6 based systems
without too many surprises.
Could you please make a pull request?
Dag started to work on gtk+, but something has prevented him from
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/gtk+/
the SPEC is available in the buildlogs.
I believe that having, gtk+ stuff would still be useful for one last
RHEL generation...
Yes please. It's not because I fail to progress on something, this should
block someone else. If anything it should be encouraged to beat me at it
;-)
--
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Yury V. Zaytsev
2011-07-26 14:14:52 UTC
Permalink
Post by Nico Kadel-Garcia
Dag, I took the liberty of grabbing the gdk-pixbuf and gtk+
dependencies for gnubiff from EPEL, rebuilding them in a clean
Scientific Linux 6 "mock" environment, then built the gnubiff SRPM's
from RPMforge. It all worked well. I'm not sure if that means you want
to yourself support gtk+ and gdk-pixbuf for other packages, but it's a
hint that they could be brought into RPMforge for RHEL 6 based systems
without too many surprises.
Could you please make a pull request?

Dag started to work on gtk+, but something has prevented him from
finishing (he doesn't remember anymore what exactly that was):

http://pkgs.repoforge.org/gtk+/

the SPEC is available in the buildlogs.

I believe that having, gtk+ stuff would still be useful for one last
RHEL generation...
--
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
Dag Wieers
2011-07-26 13:49:45 UTC
Permalink
Post by Alfred Ganz
Post by Alfred Ganz
Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?
If it is a lot of work, and I am the only one asking, don't do it.
Question, do you happen to know of something similar, I have a system
that uses Xorg directly without gnome or KDE?
Please don't spend any effort on it, I have found that I can do what I
would like to do with xbiff.
Thanks for the update on this on the list. It's likely other people may
find the feedback useful.

Kind regards,
--
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Nico Kadel-Garcia
2011-07-26 13:50:46 UTC
Permalink
Dag,
? ? ? ?> Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?
? ? ? ?If it is a lot of work, and I am the only one asking, don't do it.
? ? ? ?Question, do you happen to know of something similar, I have a system
? ? ? ?that uses Xorg directly without gnome or KDE?
Please don't spend any effort on it, I have found that I can do what I
would like to do with xbiff.
Thanks, AG
What a thoughtful person!

Dag, I took the liberty of grabbing the gdk-pixbuf and gtk+
dependencies for gnubiff from EPEL, rebuilding them in a clean
Scientific Linux 6 "mock" environment, then built the gnubiff SRPM's
from RPMforge. It all worked well. I'm not sure if that means you want
to yourself support gtk+ and gdk-pixbuf for other packages, but it's a
hint that they could be brought into RPMforge for RHEL 6 based systems
without too many surprises.
Alfred Ganz
2011-07-24 19:05:56 UTC
Permalink
Dear Rpmforge Crew (I think that is what dag suggested),

I assume I am rather old fashioned and I therefore was trying to install
gnubiff on a Centos-6 i86_64 system. Unfortunately I couldn't find it in
the el6 i86_64 rpmforge repository. I found I can use the one from the
corresponding 5.6 repository, but I'd rather not do that.

Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?

Thanks, AG
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Alfred Ganz alfred-ganz:at:agci.com
AG Consulting, Inc. (203) 624-9667
440 Prospect Street # 11
New Haven, CT 06511
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yury V. Zaytsev
2011-07-24 20:24:41 UTC
Permalink
Hi!
Post by Alfred Ganz
I assume I am rather old fashioned and I therefore was trying to install
gnubiff on a Centos-6 i86_64 system. Unfortunately I couldn't find it in
the el6 i86_64 rpmforge repository. I found I can use the one from the
corresponding 5.6 repository, but I'd rather not do that.
Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?
I was just about to update the spec, but for it to compile I need to
backport gdk-pixbuf, which depends upon gtk+ which Dag apparently
started backporting, but never completely finished:

https://github.com/repoforge/rpms/issues/16

Dag, could you please take care of gtk+, so that I can proceed?
--
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
Dag Wieers
2011-07-25 16:34:21 UTC
Permalink
Post by Alfred Ganz
Dear Rpmforge Crew (I think that is what dag suggested),
I assume I am rather old fashioned and I therefore was trying to install
gnubiff on a Centos-6 i86_64 system. Unfortunately I couldn't find it in
the el6 i86_64 rpmforge repository. I found I can use the one from the
corresponding 5.6 repository, but I'd rather not do that.
Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?
It needs gdk-pixbuf-devel, which in its turn needs gtk+. It's not
impossible to do it, but still a lot of work.
--
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Alfred Ganz
2011-07-26 13:22:53 UTC
Permalink
Dag,
Post by Alfred Ganz
Question, is there a chance for gnubiff in the el6 i86_64 repository?
If it is a lot of work, and I am the only one asking, don't do it.
Question, do you happen to know of something similar, I have a system
that uses Xorg directly without gnome or KDE?
Please don't spend any effort on it, I have found that I can do what I
would like to do with xbiff.

Thanks, AG
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Alfred Ganz alfred-ganz:at:agci.com
AG Consulting, Inc. (203) 624-9667
440 Prospect Street # 11
New Haven, CT 06511
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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