ANN: Gentoo Bazaar Overlay at Launchpad

After a suggestion by a commenter, I've registered a project on Launchpad for my Gentoo overlay of Bazaar-related ebuilds. If you have any patches or bundles, don't hesitate to submit a bug there.

(As an aside, I made the logo by combining the SVG logos of Gentoo and Bazaar in Inkscape; it's much easier than you'd think.)

AWN bzr branch, bazaar overlay

Two announcements tonight: the creation of a bazaar branch for Avant Window Navigator (Awn), and the creation of a bazaar-related gentoo overlay.

First, I really like what njpatel has done with Awn. I've always wanted a bar that looked and functioned like the OSX bar, but the closest I could find was the gDesklets starterbar, and it didn't handle currently running programs. Awn is just plain awesome. Unfortunately, I don't use Gnome on my desktop at home, I use Xfce. So I svn co'd the source and created a patch that uses libxfce4util and thunar-vfs instead of gnome-desktop and gnome-vfs. I submitted that patch to the tracker, where, as of the time of this writing, I haven't gotten a response. We'll see. Next up on my list of modifications, is to use Glib's GKeyFile (read: ini-like file parser) as an alternative to GConf. Because bzr-svn finally doesn't die when I try to checkout a remote repository (as of bzr-svn 0.3.2 and bzr 0.15rc2), I now have a bzr-svn branch that contains all of my changes to Awn.

Speaking of bzr-svn, at the request of the developer of bzr-svn, I have published my modified subversion ebuild that contains the patch listed in the parent post to that comment, in a bzr branch, of all things. This branch also contains the latest releases of paramiko, bzr (0.15rc2), bzrtools, bzr-gtk, and bzr-svn.

[Edit: forgot paramiko]

[Edit: forgot to finish a thought]

[Edit (2007/05/16): Update here]

HOWTO compile subversion-1.3.2 so that it works with bzr-svn-0.3

This was written because simply using the patch at the bzr-svn web page is not sufficient for getting it to work with subversion-1.3.2, which I'm using because that's what's stable for Gentoo's x86 ebuilds.

Note 1: I have a Gentoo ebuild that corresponds to these directions. Add a comment if you want it.

Note 2: Where there are instances of lynx -source [url], it can be substituted for wget -O - [url] when lynx is not available.

1. Unpack the subversion-1.3.2 tarball: tar -xjf subversion-1.3.2.tar.bz2
2. Change directory to the subversion source directory: cd subversion-1.3.2
3. Apply this patch to the source (this patch came from the Ubuntu Edgy source diffs, but slightly modified): lynx -source 'http://www.lazymalevolence.com/patches/subversion-1.3.2-debian-x-python-bindings.patch' | patch -p0
4. Remove some of the generated .swg files, or else the compile will fail: rm subversion/bindings/swig/proxy/*.swg
5. (This step is for people who have swig 1.3.31 installed; I haven't tested with any other version.) Convert the language typemaps to #ifdefs, to get rid of a bunch of warnings: (cd subversion/bindings/swig && lynx -source 'http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/*checkout*/svn/trunk/subversion/bindings/swig/convert-typemaps-to-ifdef.py?revision=19926&pathrev=19927' | python -)
6. Regenerate all of the configure files, Makefile.in and the .swg files, among others: ./gen-make.py build.conf; make -f autogen-standalone.mk autogen-swig; (p=`pwd`;for d in . apr{,-util}; do cd $p/$d && autoconf; done)
7. Proceed normally in the build cycle: ./configure && make all install