Hello esteemed Common Desktop community,
this is just to let you know that I have spent a couple of days writing
a Gentoo ebuild (and some additional things) for the autotools-conversion
branch.
If you want to check it out, the git repo is here:
https://github.com/nephros/gentoo/tree/cde-devel/cde-base
(That repo is actually a fork of the official Gentoo portage repo, not
an overlay. The CDE stuff is in the cde-devel branch.
I might convert this into a proper overlay at some point if there is
enough interest in this.)
What's included:
- based on current autotools-conversion branch
- builds and installs cleanly into /usr/dt and /etc/dt
- fixes some prefix/CDE_*_TOP issues
- some programs would install into /usr/dt/{foo,bar}, but
compile-in search paths for /usr/{foo,bar}
- includes patches which enable building and installing dthelpview
- includes option to install man and help documentation
- downloads a tarball of prebuilt files from master, as it can't
be built in autotools yet.
- man pages are installed into their BSD-convention categories.
The content is not touched though, apart from renaming.
- provides some scripts to start, and an Xsession for non-dtlogin
- provides a wrapper script around desktop2dt to convert freedesktop
.desktop files
- adds Gentoo logo background images ;)
- adds larger SunLogo background ;)
- there are optional ebuilds to install Antonis' work with icons and
application links
- there's also some optional meta packages which pull in a couple of
oldish applications to get the ancient UNIX experience on a modern
Linux system.
@Jon, if you're interested, kindly review the patches at:
https://github.com/nephros/gentoo/tree/cde-devel/cde-base/cde/files
I realize they are a bit messy at the moment, but I can clean up if
that is useful.
I would be happy for any feedback, suggestions, improvements and general
shouting.
All the Best,
Peter G.
PS: if you are not a Gentoo user, there is the possibility of installing
a Gentoo-like environment on your OS of choice OS using the Gentoo
Prefix method.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix
I have however not tested running CDE from such an installation.
PPS: There's also Gentoo VM images available from here, for a quicker
start:
https://www.osboxes.org/gentoo/
PPPS: There's this thing called Docker now, I hear that running
docker pull gentoo/stage3-x86
will also get you a base install you can use.
--
"I do not think the way you think I think."
-- Kai, last of the Brunnen G
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