Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE weather plugin does not work
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:58:40 +0300, Gevisz (gev...@gmail.com) wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work (in 5442aa74.8212980a.2836.7...@mx.google.com): On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100 David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] You're welcome. The Xfce developers did the hard yakka, I simply massaged the patches so that they would apply cleanly on Gentoo systems. Thank you anyway. :) But may I ask you if applying those patches could result in disappearing an alternative keyboard layout? There is nothing in those patches that can affect keyboard configuration. The patches only handle data received over a HTTP connection to the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. No keyboard stuff at all. If you modify the ebuild then you *must* update the manifest. If you don't modify the ebuild then there is no need. Do you mean that putting the patches into /etc/portage/patches/ directory and emerging the packet does not change the corresponding ebuild? The ebuild is a small text file that scripts the build process. The patches are external files to this process. As a result, the patches do not affect the MD5 checksum for the ebuild file in the package's manifest. According to my experience, it is not the case because, reemerging the xfce4-weather-plugin with the patches deleted from /etc/portage/patches/ directory, I've still got the working plugin and, only after unmerging it and re-emerging it again without the patches, I returned to its no-data condition. If it remained working then it was probably because you remained logged in to your Xfce desktop, which has the plugin cached inside the Xfce panel's address space. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE weather plugin does not work
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:07:22 +0100 David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:58:40 +0300, Gevisz (gev...@gmail.com) wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work (in 5442aa74.8212980a.2836.7...@mx.google.com): On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100 David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] You're welcome. The Xfce developers did the hard yakka, I simply massaged the patches so that they would apply cleanly on Gentoo systems. Thank you anyway. :) But may I ask you if applying those patches could result in disappearing an alternative keyboard layout? There is nothing in those patches that can affect keyboard configuration. The patches only handle data received over a HTTP connection to the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. No keyboard stuff at all. If you modify the ebuild then you *must* update the manifest. If you don't modify the ebuild then there is no need. Do you mean that putting the patches into /etc/portage/patches/ directory and emerging the packet does not change the corresponding ebuild? The ebuild is a small text file that scripts the build process. The patches are external files to this process. As a result, the patches do not affect the MD5 checksum for the ebuild file in the package's manifest. According to my experience, it is not the case because, reemerging the xfce4-weather-plugin with the patches deleted from /etc/portage/patches/ directory, I've still got the working plugin and, only after unmerging it and re-emerging it again without the patches, I returned to its no-data condition. If it remained working then it was probably because you remained logged in to your Xfce desktop, which has the plugin cached inside the Xfce panel's address space. May be.
[gentoo-user] XFCE weather plugin does not work
Already for a a few days my XFCE weather plugin (xfce-extra/xfce4-weather-plugin-0.8.3-r1) does not work (forecast data unavailable). Its website (http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin) says that You need to apply two patches on version 0.8.3 because Met.no API has changed. May be it is the cause. If so, may I ask supporters to make the corresponding changes to the ebuild.
Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE weather plugin does not work
Hello, Same issue here... Cheers, *--* *Jacques* 2014-10-17 13:37 GMT+02:00 Gevisz gev...@gmail.com: Already for a a few days my XFCE weather plugin (xfce-extra/xfce4-weather-plugin-0.8.3-r1) does not work (forecast data unavailable). Its website ( http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin) says that You need to apply two patches on version 0.8.3 because Met.no API has changed. May be it is the cause. If so, may I ask supporters to make the corresponding changes to the ebuild.
Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE weather plugin does not work
On Fri, 17 October 2014, at 12:37 pm, Gevisz gev...@gmail.com wrote: Already for a a few days my XFCE weather plugin (xfce-extra/xfce4-weather-plugin-0.8.3-r1) does not work (forecast data unavailable). Its website (http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin) says that You need to apply two patches on version 0.8.3 because Met.no API has changed. May be it is the cause. If so, may I ask supporters to make the corresponding changes to the ebuild. There's already a bug for this on Gentoo's tracker: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524850 I think that last comment by Greg Kubaryk about the ebuild being epatch_user enabled means you can just download those two patches (google for 1ff71… and 7df30…) and put them in the right /etc/portage subdirectory to have them applied automatically. Stroller.
