ipkg tests

Bernd Schumacher writes:
> Hi Carl,
>
> Thank You for this great ipkg stuff !!!
> I like it very much. I will definetly use it.

Thanks. Glad you like it.

Thank you very much for your comments. Probably time for us to get a
real bugtracking system in place...

> Here are some comments from my ipkg tests:
>
> Package: ipkg
> Problem: Wrong Description: "On-screen virtual keyboard for X" in
> /usr/lib/ipkg/available

Cut-and-paste gone wild. I just caught this a couple of days ago.

> Package: ipkg
> Problem: My Firewall allows only passive ftp.
> My Workaround:
> On my Desktop I did:
> wget --passive-ftp -m ftp://ftp.handhelds.org/.../v0.4/ipkg.
> and setup my own ftpd.
> On my Ipaq I changed /etc/ipkg.conf:IPKG_SOURCE="..."
> Possible Solution:
> You could add a variable WGETOPTS="" to /etc/ipkg.conf and use it
> with each wget command (wget $WGETOPTS -nd -P ...). Then I could
> change it to WGETOPTS="--passive-ftp"

Several others reported the same thing and I added the "--passive-ftp"
switch. But more recently, I switched from using wget to a new, very
small program called urlget, (available from handhelds.org CVS). It
currently only support HTTP.

> Package: xbase-clients
> Problem: If you connect with ssh to ipaq you get the message:
> sh: /usr/bin/X11/xauth: No such file or directory
> My Workaround:
> ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/bin/X11 (could be done in postinst)
> Possible Solution:
> You could use my workaround in a postinstall script.

Noted. Thanks.

> Package: ipkg
> Suggestion:
> Would it be possible to install some Packages with another
> root directory?
> I would like to install some Packages in /mnt/hda/bin and
> /mnt/hda/lib.
> It would be great if I could give ipkg-get an option to install
> it there.

You can actually change the variable IPKG_ROOT in /etc/ipkg.conf to
point to a different directory, but this will not do exactly what you
want. I designed that feature in order to install into a sub-directory
for constructing images off-line. It could probably be adapted to this
situation with a little thought. The first matter would be that ipkg
would expect to see all of its meta-data below the new
IPKG_ROOT. Perhaps a simple symlink from /mnt/hda/usr/lib/ipkg to
/usr/lib/ipkg would take care of this. Also, it would be more
convenient if ipkg responded to an environment variable in addition to
the config file option. Feel free to experiment.

> Package: iv
> This so called vi seems to be very ugly!
> Did you try elvis-tiny instead. It is not much bigger, but it seems
> to work much better.

iv has been bugging me as well. As an interim solution I have a vim
package, but it is enormous. I was planning on putting together an nvi
solution as well, (about twice as big as iv). I will look at
elvis-tiny. Also, the author of iv promised an update shortly.

> I have tried to install this package. But I did not get it to work.
> It seemed to work. But you can not write to an already existing file
> even if all permissions are ok. Did you try this before?

I'm confused here. Is this a problem you had when installing
elvis-tiny? or is this something else?

> Package: fstroke
> Problem: It crashes with the message "Couldn't read default skin.xpm
> (/root/.classifiers/skin.xpm)"
> My Workaround:
> After installing fscrib it worked.
> Possible Solution:
> Adjust Dependencies.

Oops. Looks like I missed a file or two there. fstroke is in serious
need of an overhaul anyway...

-Carl
Received on Mon May 7 03:06:23 2001