Solus Packaging

Brucehankins

h3o Thanks for the kind words! I'm always up for a challenge, so if there's something you'd like to packaged that isn't available via repos, snap, or Flatpak like Sakura, Featherpad, or KBackup, let me know and I'll give it a shot. Contact info is on my github and in my forum bio.

algent

Brucehankins KBackup is in the repos now as kbackup.

WetGeek

Brucehankins it's not in the Solus repos

Sorry ... I misunderstood your post. No worries at all, I was just curious about trying a new terminal emulator. I'm actually very satisfied with bash.

Brucehankins

WetGeek I added the .eopkg file to my github and some disclaimers go along with using unofficial software.

It's a new project for me, so feel free to check it out and make any comments you wish. I always like feedback on how I can improve.

synth-ruiner

WetGeek I was just curious about trying a new terminal emulator. I'm actually very satisfied with bash.

bash is a shell i.e. the language you use to write commands in the terminal. terminal emulators are programs like gnome-terminal, kitty, alacritty, etc. that provide the interface to type in 🙂

brent

Brucehankins leaps and bounds for you----very cool.

edit: so what do I do after I download the .eopkg? Manually move it to all the other .eopkgs? Or change directory and install it via (ironically) with my gnome-terminal (sudo eopkg it etc)? I did the readme!🙂

Brucehankins

brent Instructions Here on setting up a local repo and installing. And more information here on setting priority, etc. A note on priority: "eopkg will always prefer packages from the topmost repository listed with eopkg lr" I left the shannon repos as my topmost, to prefer that over my local. How you set it up is up to you and what you think best practice is.

Once you've set up the local repo/directory and indexed it, you can either install through gnome terminal with sudo eopkg it sakura or it will show up when you search for it in the Software Center.

brent

Brucehankins thank you. I'm stuck at giving my local repo an equally Irish boy name (opposite Shannon). Seamus, maybe. Or Ikey😉
If I run into permission problems I will get back to you. When I test drive it, I will also get back to you!

Brucehankins

brent mine is really boring...../home/bruce/Solus-LR

WetGeek

synth-ruiner terminal emulators are programs like gnome-terminal,

Yeah, sometimes I conflate the container with its contents. Thanks for the reminder.

Brucehankins

So I've got a new question about packaging. How do I update a package I've built using solbuild? I read the Updating an Existing Package, but that doesn't help.
For example, I've packaged Sakura 3.8.1, but I want to update it to 3.8.2, how would that be done? Packaging 3.8.2 is no problem, but I'd like to learn additional steps in the process.

algent

Brucehankins From the docs it is recommended to use this alias:
alias updatePackage='/usr/share/ypkg/yupdate.py', personally I use it as updateYml.
I also use this alias to generate a Makefile in the package build folder:
alias makefile='echo "include ../Makefile.common" > Makefile'

In this case the update should be like this:
updatePackage 3.8.2 https://launchpad.net/sakura/trunk/3.8.2/+download/sakura-3.8.2.tar.gz
The release number will be automatically updated to +1.

Brucehankins

Sakura 3.8.2 is up on my github and currently works with Budgie* DE and Shannon repos. There are some bugs, opacity doesn't seem to work properly. I think this is most likely an issue with the source code rather than the packaging, but I'm looking into it.

*I only test it on Budgie because that's what I use and I'm too lazy to set up a VM for Gnome. Also don't want to install all the GTK dependencies on my Plasma environment.

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