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From: Rene Rebe <[email protected]>
Date: 2010/2/13
Subject: Re: [t2] broken packages fix process?
To: Makis Tsimaras <[email protected]>
Cc: T2 developers mailing list <[email protected]>



On 13.02.2010, at 11:28, Makis Tsimaras wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I tried a few times to fix broken packages by following the documentation .
>
> I did the    "cd src.packagename.uniqu-id -->  ./debug.sh --> cd
some_pkg_$ver --> eval $MAKE --> $makeopt"     as the documentation says,..
> and the result is the output of the build process of the package until it
reaches the error and stops.
>
> What can i do after that?
> What is the next step?
>
> I don't really understand the fixfile and fixfilediff also, how can i use
them?
>
>
> Any help is welcome and it will help others too.



fixfile is only a wrapper to make a backup of the file to edit, and
fixfilediff is a wrapper to diff all such editied files.

How to "fix" a package depends on the actual issue, bug, new compiler
warnings or errors as usually in the upstream package source.

Common, easy examples are:  adding a missing #include <> directive, adding
some cast for new GCC C++ nitpicking, or changing some API calls to match
new X.org, Gtk+, etc. issues.

But this really is usually regular C programming topic.

René

--
 René Rebe, ExactCODE GmbH, Jaegerstr. 67, DE-10117 Berlin
 http://exactcode.com | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name



Thanks for the reply.

Am a sysadmin but am not a programmer.
I just tried to do an embedded build with no changes at all into the
./scripts/Config script except to print the output to the screen.

An error occurred  during the building of the "gatling" package and the
building is aborted.
I disabled it from the "target/embedde/config.in" file and the build
continued......an error occurred again in the "strongswan" package build,.. .
i disabled it again and the building continued,....an error then occurred in
the "mininet" package building,... i disabled it but the building then
stopped after the "Searching for old lingering files ..." section.
Something was missing....


As a sysadmin and not a programmer is there anything i can do to survive by
continue using the T2 project to build custom linux distributions?


Thanks in advance
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