[CinePaint] Archlinux CinePaint package

jordan <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:19:51 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.cinepaint.user
Message-ID <CAOcfFMwPHG4=Vj+RzUmYkog_C-aUDb9foSkRvHjPRyABo838nA@mail.gmail.com>
Here is the link to the package.

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/cinepaint/   (64bit but
there is also an x86 build)

something to note - this isn't an AUR PKGBUILD (meaning it is binary).
 Archlinux is a combination of a meta (binary) distro, but also can be
used as a source-based distro, in 2 different ways - either using ABS
(Arch Build System) which is essentially like ports/portage, or using
the AUR (Arch User Repository) which typically will build packages
from source. PKGBUILDs in the AUR, as basically bash scripts. I get
the impression, that maybe you think the CinePaint package is build
from source, but it's not - which actually might not be a bad thing,
because CinePaint can be tricky to build sometimes, nothing in the
Official Repo is built from source (by the end-user).

That being said, i do use ABS, and when i am infront of my desktop
(later tonight, im at wrok right now) I'll have a look at the sources,
to see what patches are included. I could also contact the package
maintainer to see how he built the package ~ we've already been in
touch. Originally, he had built CinePaint 0.22 because he thought that
was the stable build upstream (Arch usually sticks to upstream). To
get the package upgraded to 0.25 (which i consider stable), i had to
show him links to other distro's builds, such as suse and Fedora...
and explain how unstable 0.22 was (ie: loading png in a stange
ways/popups, issues with the flipbook, etc).

let me know if i can do anything else for you k?

if you do add Arch to supported distro's, a user only needs to do
this, to install

'pacman -S cinepaint'

(it should pull all of the dependencies, which are also in the offical
Arch repo. no messing around the the end-user).

cheerz

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