[Sugar-devel] Initial Release: Sugar packages 0.116 for Arch Linux

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Thu Feb 6 15:52:33 EST 2020
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Yes, Empy is a build time dependency.  It is not used at run time.

(I don't know why Empy was chosen.  Other GNU/Linux packages have used
m4(1) as this is almost always present on a standard system.)

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 08:16:18PM +0300, Srevin Saju wrote:
> Thanks Sebastian. I will remove the empy package, yes I guess its a build time
> dependency, but it seems like the older PKGBUILD by Ballo Gyorfy used it not as
> build dependency, but I wait for Quozl or someone else to confirm. I am
> currently adding python2 support to sugar2-toolkit-gtk3, unreleased. Thanks for
> testing. Hope other activities work satisfactorily.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 7:59 PM Sebastian Silva <[1]sebastian at fuentelibre.org>
> wrote:
> 
>     Okay, I was able to run Calculate from the Git repository.
> 
>     I suggest you to remove package python3-empy from your release, as it's
>     a build-time dependency and it seems not to be needed for running Sugar
>     or activities?
> 
>     Also the .INSTALL problem with your package seems to be unrelated to
>     the issue you posted (but explains why you made the package).
> 
>     Regards,
>     Sebastian
> 
>     El jue, 06-02-2020 a las 19:47 +0300, Srevin Saju escribió:
>     > Great, thanks for the update. In this package, I have dropped support
>     > for Python2 activities, (I have forgotten to mention that), as
>     > python2 support has become deprecated, I have moved all the activity
>     > support to python3, please see if any python3 based activities work
>     > on the new system. I am currently working on Python2 support too,
>     > will update you shortly.
>     >
>     > Python3 activities:
>     > All Sugar Fructose Activities, latest sources from git
>     > All Sugar Activities on GitHub, with Port to Python3 PR merged
>     > Thanks again. Looking forward for more updates.
>     >
>     > On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 7:34 PM Sebastian Silva <
>     > [2]sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
>     > > Thanks,
>     > > I installed the remaining packages and the native python-empy
>     > > package.
>     > > While Sugar starts ok, activities fail with:
>     > >
>     > > Traceback (most recent call last):
>     > >   File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 3, in <module>
>     > >     from sugar3.activity import activityinstance
>     > > ImportError: No module named sugar3.activity
>     > >
>     > > Getting closer...
>     > > Regards,
>     > > Sebastian
>     > >
>     > > El jue, 06-02-2020 a las 19:16 +0300, Srevin Saju escribió:
>     > > > Thanks for testing, Sebastian. This is because, the python-empy
>     > > > package on Fedora Distribution and Arch Linux distribution works,
>     > > by
>     > > > only creating the module in python. After installing the native
>     > > > Fedora or Arch Linux, we would be able use empty by
>     > > > ```
>     > > > python3
>     > > > >>> import empy
>     > > > ```
>     > > > But, Ubuntu distributions have a special symlink to empy, so If a
>     > > > manual build goes on, I guess it searches in /usr/bin, for empy
>     > > or
>     > > > empy3, although it's installed as a python module, it is not
>     > > detected
>     > > > on build. this was workaround'd in the easiest way by me on
>     > > Fedora:
>     > > > * convert the working DEB (Ubuntu version) to RPM.
>     > > > on Arch Linux
>     > > > * convert the working DEB to PKG (using debtap)
>     > > > Installing the modified python-empy version derived from the Deb
>     > > > package, helps to create the symlink without changing the package
>     > > > itself.
>     > > > See [3]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/896 for information
>     > > on
>     > > > the link.
>     > > >
>     > > > Finally, about the error, the error can be temporarily ignored
>     > > until
>     > > > it's fixed on the #896 on sugar repository, the package is
>     > > installed
>     > > > successfully, you can proceed with the rest of the steps.
>     > > >
>     > > > If a solution for it is found in future on #896, it can be
>     > > removed
>     > > > the usual way, removing all of the remnants of the installation.
>     > > > Alternatively, you may also try other solution, but this method
>     > > has
>     > > > been confirmed to be working by Markismus, another Arch User for
>     > > > Sugar
>     > > >
>     > > > Please let me know if it indeed works for you and you could login
>     > > to
>     > > > your Sugar Desktop. Great Help.
>     > > >
>     > > >
>     > > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, 16:57 Sebastian Silva, <
>     > > [4]sebastian at fuentelibre.org
>     > > > > wrote:
>     > > > > Hi Srevin,
>     > > > > I downloaded the packages and tried installing them. As
>     > > instructed
>     > > > > I installed python3-empy-3.3.2-1-any.pkg.tar.xz first, but then
>     > > I
>     > > > > got this error:
>     > > > >
>     > > > > :: Processing package changes...
>     > > > > (1/1) installing python3-
>     > > > > empy                                       
>     > > [######################
>     > > > > ################] 100%
>     > > > > /tmp/alpm_oAGVZn/.INSTALL: line 21: syntax error near
>     > > unexpected
>     > > > > token `}'
>     > > > > /tmp/alpm_oAGVZn/.INSTALL: line 21: `}'
>     > > > > :: Running post-transaction hooks...
>     > > > > (1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
>     > > > >
>     > > > > Looking forward to test again.
>     > > > > Regards,
>     > > > >
>     > > > > Sebastian
>     > > > >
>     > > > > El jue, 06-02-2020 a las 16:24 +0300, Srevin Saju escribió:
>     > > > > > An Initial release for
>     > > > > > * Sugar 0.116
>     > > > > > * Sugar Artwork 0.116
>     > > > > > * Sugar Datastore 0.116
>     > > > > > * Sugar Toolkit GTK3 0.116
>     > > > > > * Sugar runner 0.110 (master)
>     > > > > > * gwebsockets 0.7
>     > > > > >
>     > > > > > has been published as prerelease to
>     > > > > > [5]https://github.com/srevinsaju/sugar-arch/releases/tag/0.116.
>     > > > > > Some developer filed a deletion request on the python3
>     > > packages
>     > > > > > on the AUR, as it was claimed to be a duplicate of the
>     > > original
>     > > > > > version (sugar 0.114 pkg by Ballo Gyorgy). If it works good
>     > > for
>     > > > > > any of the Arch Users, it can be pushed to the community
>     > > packages
>     > > > > > with the permission of Ballo Gyorgy.
>     > > > > >
>     > > > > > _______________________________________________
>     > > > > > Sugar-devel mailing list
>     > > > > > [6]Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>     > > > > >
>     > > > > > [7]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>     > > > > >
>     > >
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:sebastian at fuentelibre.org
> [2] mailto:sebastian at fuentelibre.org
> [3] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/896
> [4] mailto:sebastian at fuentelibre.org
> [5] https://github.com/srevinsaju/sugar-arch/releases/tag/0.116
> [6] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [7] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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