2014-10-18 11:34 GMT+03:00 gevisz gev...@gmail.com:
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XFCE weather plugin does not work
2014-10-18 10:03 GMT+03:00 Gevisz gev...@gmail.com:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:37:16 +0100
David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote:
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:33:45 +0100, Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk)
wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:13:52 + (UTC), James wrote:
And last, can any patch that ends in .patch be applied to the
intended ebuild or does the gentoo ebuild auther have to put some
special code into an (EAPI-5) ebuild to facilitate user patches?
AFAIR the ebuild simply has to call epatch_user() in src_unpack()
and any matching patches in /etc/portage/patches are applied.
The usual place is src_prepare().
I have prepared some patches from the Xfce repository with line
addressing to match the Gentoo sources tarball. I attach a tarball of
theses patches that can be untarred in /etc/portage/patches/.
I have unpacked your patches to /etc/portage/patches as described here:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches
and then run # emerge xfce4-weather-plugin
After restarting xfce4, the weather-plugin started to work. Thank you.
Nevertheless, just
# emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask world
instead of # emerge xfce4-weather-plugin
did not worked.
The ebuild should have the following lines added:
src_prepare() {
epatch_user
}
I have not done this relying on the promise by Greg Kubaryk
that the ebuild is epatch_user enabled.
Don't forget to redo the manifest for the ebuild.
I never dealt with ebuilds on a maintaner level.
So, may I ask if it is really necessary and for which purpose.
Just after emerging xfce4-weather-plugin with the patches
provided by David W Noon, I have noticed that I lost all my
alternative keyboard layouts.
I tried to set them anew via xfce4 Keyboard Layouts Plugin
version 0.5.6 but there is no keyboard layout that suits my
keyboard.
Unfortunately, unmerging xfce4-weather-plugin did not help.
Another thing I did just before re-emerging xfce4-weather-plugin
was a routine system update. This time only net-dns/libidn package
was updated from version 1.28 to version 1.29, and before that
update my alternative keyboard layouts were still present, as
I remember using them just after the update but before rebooting
the system.
So, it also may be that updating libidn package caused the damage.
I remember that, while installing Gentoo about 15 months ago,
I set my keyboard layout not via an xfce4 plugin but somewhere
in the X11 settings. (At that time I had gnome2 instead of xfce4 anyway).
So, may be now, re-emerging xfce4-weather-plugin, or trying
to set the alternative keyboard layout anew, I have created some
xfce4 configuration file that shadows X11 (or old gnome2) settings
that xfce4 used for keyboard layout previously.
Any thoughts?
I have found out that my problem with xfce4 keyboard plugin
reduces to the fact that now I cannot choose Russian Winkeys
alternative keyboard: there is no such option in the corresponding
keyboard layout settings. So, I have to choose Osetinian Winkeys
alternative keyboard as it is appears to be the next best choice:
only one extra unnecessary letter ӕ in place of э and the letter
э is set in another easy to remember position.
But everything worked perfect before emerging xfce4-weather-plugin
with patches and libidn!
