Re: Problems: Stability: 1.4.0

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Chris Giles <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I've noticed a few problems with v1.4.0, which I thought you'd like to know
> about before it receives the 'stable' stamp.


Thanks, good to hear some feedback.


> This version seems to forget all about dependency checking and retrieval,
> by going straight from extracting to installing.  When created with v1.2.5,
> my Q7Z and Quamachi packages were successfully checking for several required
> libraries.  I haven't made any changes to the skeleton files, so I'm
> guessing this is caused by a new bug.


Hm ... There was a bug in testForLib but I believed it fixed. I will try to
reproduce the issue.


> When creating my packages, I receive the following non-fatal warnings:
> apkg-bashlib: line 595: echo: write error: Broken pipe
>

Don't know what causes this, happens quite often for me, too.


> cp: cannot stat `/usr/libexec/autopackage/autopackage-curl': No such file
> or directory
>

Strange, this shouldn't happen. Are you sure that you installed the
Autopackage Development Environment 1.4.0 and not 1.2.5?



> The Qt front-end is still lagging behind the Gtk front-end in terms of
> layout and features.  It's also unable to install the Development
> Environment package as 'root' or 'user', due to several errors.  Here are
> the first few:
> `--> sudo package install Autopackage\ Development\ Environment\
> 1.4.0.package
> /usr/share/autopackage/apkg-io: line 309: 31436 Segmentation fault
> autopackage-frontend-qt "$@"
>
> .-(/media/Exchange/Temp/Programming/AutoPackage)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(chris@localhost
> )-
> `--> tar: bin/apgcc: Cannot change ownership to uid 1000, gid 1000: No such
> file or directory
> tar: bin/apgcc: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: No such file or
> directory
> tar: bin/make-icons: Cannot open: No such file or
> directory
>

Unfortunately the maintainer of the Qt front-end is no longer active AFAIK.
I also can't help it, don't know anything about Qt3. I think we have no
choice other than to drop the Qt front-end.


> I worked as a software engineer for a few years and I'm happy to become a
> featherweight contributor.


Great news!


>   Since I now work as a secondary school teacher and private tutor, my time
> is limited during the school terms.


So is mine, as I'm still going to school ;)

-
Jan Niklas