On 2/4/20 4:34 AM, Peter G. wrote:
> 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
>
So I couldn't resist, there are some good patches here -- worth
integrating into CDE autotools itself. I'll see if I can find some time
this weekend to go through them (and maybe apply some :)
I like that you got a good portion of dthelp running. Of course, the
parser is going to suck, so no surpirse you avoided that :) Anyway,
nice work!
-jon
> (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.
>
--
Jon Trulson
"Entropy. It isn't what it used to be."
-- Sheldon
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