Comments on: Gamin fixing update

By: Unison

Unison — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:18:09 +0000

I just don’t have much to say right now. Pretty much nothing seems worth doing. My mind is like an empty room. I haven’t gotten anything done these days. What can I say?

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dsd’s weblog » Blog Archive » Gamin 0.1.0 — Sat, 14 May 2005 10:44:14 +0000

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By: Giacomo

Giacomo — Thu, 12 May 2005 17:20:10 +0000

well, gentoo patches stuff, and to start using hal 0.5 and dbus 0.3 patches are needed
sometimes these patches go upstream, sometime they’re backports to fix bugs, always they are there for a reason

By: Tomasz Torcz

Tomasz Torcz — Thu, 12 May 2005 16:25:58 +0000

I’ve come by planet.freedesktop.org or planet.gnome.org…
As for other distros, Slackware doesn’t patch stuff. And yes, I’m a Slackware user.

By: lotso

lotso — Thu, 12 May 2005 11:25:11 +0000

Well, regardless of whatever distro one uses, the final objective of Project Gentopia,to me is to extend Project Utopia’s Functionality into Gentoo. I believe that gamin is the next in line for famd replacement.

As for Tomasz’s statement, I believe that all these testings are to pave way for the next vanilla release. Just like the kernel’s -mm releases which are a testbed for all the “May” be integrated into the vanilla kernel.

By: dsd

dsd — Thu, 12 May 2005 10:35:52 +0000

I’m figuring that Tomasz is a non-Gentoo reader (my weblog gets published at other places too). This whole gamin thing is largely gentoo-oriented as there is no working gamin release in Gentoo, but CVS is closer. Gentopia is also Gentoo-oriented at the moment, to help with the very awkward changeover from HAL 0.4 to 0.5 and dbus 0.2 to 0.3.

However, all the patches will go upstream. Take the two gamin patches I wrote to produce a gamin snapshot which works against inotify 0.23-7 – they have already been applied in CVS.

By: steev

steev — Thu, 12 May 2005 04:19:43 +0000

I believe the point of dsd’s posts are to get people who ARE willing to test these things so that people DO test them. Patches go upstream when applicable, as well as stay within gentoo (when upstream refuses to apply even if it does fix) – and off topic – but along the lines of your last comment – I don’t believe there is a distrobution out there that DOESN’T patch anything.

By: Tomasz Torcz

Tomasz Torcz — Wed, 11 May 2005 21:30:55 +0000

With all respect, I personally won’t stand using distribution shipping patched programs. Vanilla gnome versions do not support HAL 0.5.x and vanilla versions are only what I (and many other people) care.

By: dsd

dsd — Wed, 11 May 2005 18:24:09 +0000

Thats kind of the point of Gentopia. Have you looked in the overlay? All the software there is patched for HAL 0.5

By: Tomasz Torcz

Tomasz Torcz — Wed, 11 May 2005 16:55:21 +0000

I was confused about your inotify, sorry.
Anyway, new HAL is still unacceptable, as no gnome-vfs (including latst 2.10.1) supports it.