Need help with upgrading workrave

Alex de Kruijff akruijff at dds.nl
Sat Aug 13 17:29:32 GMT 2005


On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 06:59:52PM +0200, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 05:17:26PM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I like to upgrade the port workrave from 1.6 to 1.8. (This solves the
> > freezing problem with kde) This will be my first port upgrade and things
> > are a bit unfamiliar for my.
> > 
> > I have problems with two tings.
> > 
> > 1. The port doesn't compile properly. I've spoken with the developer and
> > we have a solution. He will add this to the CVS, but i am betting this
> > doesn't help the port in the sort term. I need to insert one line to one
> > file to make it work. How should i go about this?

I've tried paching. I've added files/patch-path
--- workrave-1.8.1/frontend/common/src/System.cc       Sat Aug 13
19:16:05 2005
+++ workrave-1.8.1/frontend/common/src/System.cc       Sat Aug 13
19:16:16 2005
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <glib.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <strings.h>

 #include "System.hh"
 #include "debug.hh"

but it keeps giving errors afther make patch. I've tried a number of
variants. Its seems oke for me.

> > 
> > 2. I'm trying to upgrade the plist and this is all strange for me. I've
> > created an auto plist and don't know how to continue. I don't think
> > there are any man pages or info files. That leaves me with the shared
> > libraries section. What should I look for?
> > 
> > I've read:
> > http://freebsd.m.flirble.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-desc.html
> > 
> > and executed the command on:
> > http://freebsd.m.flirble.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-autoplist.html
> > 
> > Just a couple strange lines out my plist to keep it short:
> > - lines in the file section looks oke (they all have the port name)
> > - dir section looks as it it would like to remove much more.
> > @dirrm share/gnome/sounds
> > @dirrm share/gnome/apps/Utilities
> > @dirrm libdata/bonobo
> > @dirrm lib/vfs
> > @dirrm lib/bonobo
> > @dirrm include/gconf
> > @dirrm etc/X11
> 
> Do you use /etc/mtree/BSD.x11-4.dist to generate plist ?

Yes

-- 
Alex


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