Re: [Sks-devel] SKS Gentoo package

[Mike Doty]

On 04/20/12 10:06, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> On 20.04.2012 18:47, Mike Doty wrote:
>> On 04/20/12 08:44, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>>> Hi Sebastian (and other folks interested in sks in debian)--
>>>
>>> On 04/20/2012 04:32 AM, Sebastian Urbach wrote:
>>>> Just for everyone who depends on a debian sks package. I
>>>> complained to the the debian project about Christoph Martin
>>>> (Main Debian SKS developer) and im also trying to get him
>>>> removed from that position as well.
>>>
>>> It sounds to me like you're frustrated with the lag in sks
>>> packaging for debian.  That's understandable, i'm frustrated
>>> too!
>>>
> 
>> As the Gentoo sks "maintainer", I look at this thread and laugh...
>> I've seen it so many times from users before.  What dkg has said in
>> this email is spot on.  The power of open source is that each and
>> every person has the power to build their systems as they please.
>> Anyone is free to make a .deb for sks, and my experience with
>> debian and derived distros is that people are often searching
>> outside of the distros repository for .deb packages, so why not
>> build a .deb yourself...
> 
>> If you're running into issues compiling on modern linux, you should
>> take a look at the work I did for Gentoo [1] that fixed the bdb
>> stubs.
> 
>> [1] -
>> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-misc/sks/
> 
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> FYI, on my gentoo machine - sks 1.1.2 failed due to  failed build for
>  dependency cryptokit;
>  ESC[31;01m*ESC[0m The ebuild environment file is located at
> '/var/tmp/portage/dev-ml/cryptokit-1.4/temp/environment'.
>  ESC[31;01m*ESC[0m S:
> '/var/tmp/portage/dev-ml/cryptokit-1.4/work/cryptokit-1.4'
> (END)
> File "/home/gildor/programmation/oasis/src/oasis/OASISMessage.ml",
> line 30, characters 8-23:
> Unbound value Printf.kfprintf
>  ESC[31;01m*ESC[0m ERROR: dev-ml/cryptokit-1.4 failed (configure phase):
>  ESC[31;01m*ESC[0m   (no error message)
>  ESC[31;01m*ESC[0m
>  ESC[31;01m*ESC[0m Call stack:
>  ESC[31;01m*ESC[0m     ebuild.sh, line  75:  Called src_configure
>  ESC[31;01m*ESC[0m   environment, line 1670:  Called die
>  ESC[31;01m*ESC[0m The specific snippet of code:
>  ESC[31;01m*ESC[0m       ./configure --prefix usr --libdir
> /usr/$(get_libdir) --destdir "${D}" $(use_enable zlib)
> $(oasis_use_enable debug debug) $(oasis_use_enable ocamlopt is_native)
> || die
> 
> 
> Feel free to contact me off-list if you need additional debug info.
> 
> Regards,

Yes, I recall cryptokit being a major PITA as I was writing the ebuild
and I think it came down to the version of ocaml used.  Could you file a
bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org and we'll get it sorted?

Thanks,

--Mike



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