Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr
On Friday 20 Mar 2015 19:59:12 Matti Nykyri wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 08:49:18AM +0200, Matti Nykyri wrote:
On Mar 16, 2015, at 8:28, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
I've looked at zugaina too and didn't find anything, hence I asked
here. I'll file a bug at some point, unless anyone beats me to it.
Writing an ebuild to do the install is like 5 min job :) I'm now in a
train only with a phone, but when i get home i can write you one.
Just my opinion... I would never ever trust non open source encryption
software. Everyting published isn't true :)
Ok... No I'm happily back home after circling around the World ;)
Doing the ebuild was a bit more tricky... The program has bad bugs :(
The wickr executable is linked against icu-52, but in the archive the
libraries are libicui18n-53 - had to make symbolic link Also the
symboltable in wickr had to be altered.
And the ebuild:
- Clip ---
EAPI=5
inherit eutils
DESCRIPTION=Wickr Top-Secret Messenger
HOMEPAGE=https://www.wickr.com/downloads/;
SRC_URI=x86? ( http://mywickr.info/download.php?p=332 - ${P}_i386.deb )
amd64? ( http://mywickr.info/download.php?p=364 - ${P}_amd64.deb )
LICENCE=
SLOT=0
KEYWORDS=~amd64 ~x86
IUSE=x86 amd64
RDEPEND=sys-libs/glibc
sys-devel/gcc
sys-apps/util-linux
media-sound/pulseaudio
src_unpack() {
mkdir ${S}
cd ${S}
ar x ${DISTDIR}/${A}
}
src_install() {
cd ${D}
tar --same-owner --preserve-permissions -xof ${S}/data.tar.xz
if use x86 ; then
MY_OFFSET=332312
elif use amd64 ; then
MY_OFFSET=393763
fi
echo 3 | dd of=usr/bin/wickr bs=1 count=1 seek=${MY_OFFSET}
conv=notrunc
cd usr/lib/wickr
ln -s libicui18n.so.53 libicui18n.so.52
}
- Clip ---
After correcting those the software segfaults in libQt5core.so that is
provided in the archive... So you probably need Qt5 installed.
Thanks! I will try it when I install qt5.
--
Regards,
Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 08:49:18AM +0200, Matti Nykyri wrote:
On Mar 16, 2015, at 8:28, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
I've looked at zugaina too and didn't find anything, hence I asked here.
I'll
file a bug at some point, unless anyone beats me to it.
Writing an ebuild to do the install is like 5 min job :) I'm now in a train
only with a phone, but when i get home i can write you one.
Just my opinion... I would never ever trust non open source encryption
software. Everyting published isn't true :)
Ok... No I'm happily back home after circling around the World ;)
Doing the ebuild was a bit more tricky... The program has bad bugs :(
The wickr executable is linked against icu-52, but in the archive the libraries
are libicui18n-53 - had to make symbolic link
Also the symboltable in wickr had to be altered.
And the ebuild:
- Clip ---
EAPI=5
inherit eutils
DESCRIPTION=Wickr Top-Secret Messenger
HOMEPAGE=https://www.wickr.com/downloads/;
SRC_URI=x86? ( http://mywickr.info/download.php?p=332 - ${P}_i386.deb )
amd64? ( http://mywickr.info/download.php?p=364 - ${P}_amd64.deb )
LICENCE=
SLOT=0
KEYWORDS=~amd64 ~x86
IUSE=x86 amd64
RDEPEND=sys-libs/glibc
sys-devel/gcc
sys-apps/util-linux
media-sound/pulseaudio
src_unpack() {
mkdir ${S}
cd ${S}
ar x ${DISTDIR}/${A}
}
src_install() {
cd ${D}
tar --same-owner --preserve-permissions -xof ${S}/data.tar.xz
if use x86 ; then
MY_OFFSET=332312
elif use amd64 ; then
MY_OFFSET=393763
fi
echo 3 | dd of=usr/bin/wickr bs=1 count=1 seek=${MY_OFFSET}
conv=notrunc
cd usr/lib/wickr
ln -s libicui18n.so.53 libicui18n.so.52
}
- Clip ---
After correcting those the software segfaults in libQt5core.so that is provided
in the archive... So you probably need Qt5 installed.
--
-Matti
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr
On Monday 16 Mar 2015 06:49:18 Matti Nykyri wrote: On Mar 16, 2015, at 8:28, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I've looked at zugaina too and didn't find anything, hence I asked here. I'll file a bug at some point, unless anyone beats me to it. Writing an ebuild to do the install is like 5 min job :) I'm now in a train only with a phone, but when i get home i can write you one. Just my opinion... I would never ever trust non open source encryption software. Everyting published isn't true :) Right, I don't trust it either, but I was looking for an alternative to G- Talk, I'm told it is no longer working on MSWindows with its native G-Talk client, unless the user has installed Chrome and enabled Google's Hangouts. I was also looking for an alternative to WhatsApp for IOS. Please shout if there's a better IM cross-platform application. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr
On Mar 16, 2015, at 8:28, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I've looked at zugaina too and didn't find anything, hence I asked here. I'll file a bug at some point, unless anyone beats me to it. Writing an ebuild to do the install is like 5 min job :) I'm now in a train only with a phone, but when i get home i can write you one. Just my opinion... I would never ever trust non open source encryption software. Everyting published isn't true :) -- -Matti
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr
On Monday 16 Mar 2015 01:48:31 Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com wrote: I understand the convenience of having an ebuild to distribute commonly used software like flash, especially from a distribution POV, but the question still goes unanswered: why does HE want an ebuild to install a .deb package? Obviously I can't speak for him, but some obvious benefits include: 1. Convenience - emerge foo and you're done. 2. Package-managed files. So, you can uninstall it too. 3. Automatic hash checking/etc - if the deb is tampered with then portage will refuse to install it unless they also hack into the Gentoo repo and change the hashes there as well. 4. openrc init.d scripts and systemd units following Gentoo conventions/etc. 5. Automated updates, possibly including a stable branch. 6. If in the main tree, then you benefit from Gentoo's security policies. Rich covered it very well on my behalf (thank you Rich). I find it more convenient to use a repo's package manager to avoid proliferation of files that could cause clashes on my system. In this case, I would rather use portage. I've looked at zugaina too and didn't find anything, hence I asked here. I'll file a bug at some point, unless anyone beats me to it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr
Hi All, Would anyone know which overlay has wickr[1], or if there is an ebuild for it? I can't find it in portage. Also, do you use it and what do you think of it? Is it as secure as claimed? [1] https://www.wickr.com/downloads/ -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com wrote: It's not open source, is it? Why do you want an ebuild to install a binary .deb file? There aren't many of them, but there are ebuilds that install proprietary binary files even in the main repository. One of the advantages of Gentoo is that we actually can distribute ebuilds like these without distributing the copyrighted binaries they are used to install. Most other packaging systems put the files to be installed in the same file as the metadata required to install them, which ends up meaning that you can't distribute either. That said, I have no idea if this particular program has been packaged by anybody. -- Rich
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr
On 15 March 2015 at 23:15, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com wrote: It's not open source, is it? Why do you want an ebuild to install a binary .deb file? There aren't many of them, but there are ebuilds that install proprietary binary files even in the main repository. One of the advantages of Gentoo is that we actually can distribute ebuilds like these without distributing the copyrighted binaries they are used to install. Most other packaging systems put the files to be installed in the same file as the metadata required to install them, which ends up meaning that you can't distribute either. That said, I have no idea if this particular program has been packaged by anybody. -- Rich I understand the convenience of having an ebuild to distribute commonly used software like flash, especially from a distribution POV, but the question still goes unanswered: why does HE want an ebuild to install a .deb package? Anyway, http://gpo.zugaina.org/ shows no results, and I'm not aware of any better resource to find ebuilds. Also, I never used or heard of that software, so I'm afraid I have no answers, only questions.
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr
On 15 March 2015 at 20:20, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Would anyone know which overlay has wickr[1], or if there is an ebuild for it? I can't find it in portage. Also, do you use it and what do you think of it? Is it as secure as claimed? [1] https://www.wickr.com/downloads/ -- Regards, Mick It's not open source, is it? Why do you want an ebuild to install a binary .deb file? -- Emanuele Rusconi
Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com wrote: I understand the convenience of having an ebuild to distribute commonly used software like flash, especially from a distribution POV, but the question still goes unanswered: why does HE want an ebuild to install a .deb package? Obviously I can't speak for him, but some obvious benefits include: 1. Convenience - emerge foo and you're done. 2. Package-managed files. So, you can uninstall it too. 3. Automatic hash checking/etc - if the deb is tampered with then portage will refuse to install it unless they also hack into the Gentoo repo and change the hashes there as well. 4. openrc init.d scripts and systemd units following Gentoo conventions/etc. 5. Automated updates, possibly including a stable branch. 6. If in the main tree, then you benefit from Gentoo's security policies. -- Rich
