[gobolinux-users] A few uneasy questions...

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 2/27/07, pp_o2 <pp_o2 at o2.pl> wrote:
> Ad 1)
> a) where is cron?

It can't remember why we took it off. I remember some talk on cron
alternatives, but I don't know why we didn't end shipping one. Users
should invoke Compile/InstallPackage to install their own for now (I
haven't checked the store to see if there is a recipe for that).

> b) why some contrib repositories from Wiki page
>     http://www.gobolinux.org/index.php?page=packages
> are empty?
>
> c) why two "official" sites have different contents:
>     http://gobo.calica.com/packages/official/
> versus
>     http://www.midgard.liu.se/~n02jonka/gobolinux/packages/official/
> example: Vorbis-Tools

It looks like we had synchronization problems. At least Jonas is
already aware of this problem with his mirror at midgard.liu.se, as he
just told me on IRC. Is there problems with other mirrors, too?
Calica.com should be fine.

> I wonder if someone could put the resource links (recipe and package) IN ONE
> PLACE (one page) and clean up the little mess with the repositories.
> Yes, from my perspective of fresh GoboLinux user _it is a mess_ however small!

We do that, and then mirrors take these changes through rsync. Again,
due to some problem that was not happening. I'm not able to check out
all mirrors right now, but I'd appreciate if someone else could take
the time to check which mirrors are broken, etc.

> d) why remarks on wiki page
>     http://gobo.kundor.org/wiki/GenRecipeStore
> lead to older version of Compile package 1.7.1 which contains GenRecipeStore
> but Compile 1.8.2 does not? I run the script and I got following statements:
> root at tytan /Files/Compile]GenRecipeStore
> mkdir: `': No such file or directory
> mkdir: `': No such file or directory
> GenRecipeStore: Unable to create

This script has been replaced by PackRecipe instead, which is
automatically called every time a new recipe is compiled. The
documentation is probably out of date because there isn't too much
people contributing to the wiki. We're really very bad on the number
of active people doing some real work. Sad but true.

> e) I've sent to recipes mailing list two simple recipes Aspell-EN and
> Aspell-PL based on Aspell-PT and I'm still waiting. BTW. I'm still wondering
> why GoboLinux wasn't distributed with Aspell-EN.

Probably because it was forgot. I've just added your recipes to the
store, thanks. I'll also ensure that these dictionaries are available
on the next release.

> f) I wonder if the thesis published on
>     http://gobo.kundor.org/wiki/BetterMarketing
> page were answered? And why not?

We try to do the best we can to publish articles and the like about
GoboLinux. But again, doing development, debugging, reviewing recipes,
taking care of the web page, answering questions in the mailing list
and still having to keep track of the daily job in the
office/university ends up taking all the time we have in a day. I'd
like to see more contributions in this sense instead of having people
asking for more tasks and just waiting for things to happen.

> I've come here to salient point - why GoboLinux has such small
> user/contribution base? Despite the very good idea which brought GoboLinux
> into day light.

I don't know. Sometimes I think people are just lazy, or aren't really
very commited on helping, or just don't have enough time/interest to
dedicate to this project.

> g) grub and lilo
> Why grub can't install itself on PC with two hard disks on board?
> My two disks:
> IDE0 hda (hda1,2,3 - Win98SE, hda5,6,7 - Win data), hdb - cdr/w
> IDE1 hdc (GoboLinux)
> I've seen error messages during installlation from LiveCD. lilo not installed,
> grub spited out error message.
> I had to run LiveCD once more, mount hdc, cp menu.lst from hdc to LiceCD, edit
> it then run grub-install (from LiveCD) to hda. ONLY on hda. I used to run
> external Boot Manager (xfdisk) and wanted to apply the grub to hdc. No way.

The configuration of the installer is usually done with the
developer's resources, being validated and fixed during the release
candidates. I can't remember of having any bug report on this subject,
though. Could you please fill a bug at bugs.gobolinux.org so that we
can test that before shipping the first 014 alphas?

> Ad 3) Aspell
> All KDE editors namely Kate, KEdit, and KWrite say they cannot find aspell:
> aspell could not be started.
> Please make sure you have aspell properly configured and in your PATH.
>
> I installed Aspell-PT for reference, then Aspell-En, and Aspell-PL. Nothing.
> Null. Black hole. Checked paths. Still cluless. But this is basic feature of
> editing. No one checked it before?

Probably not. You can try to run kwrite with strace, just like this:
$ strace -f kwrite 2>&1 | grep aspell

Then just check where it's looking for that program.

> P.S. I attached the language recipes once more.

Commited to the store, thanks.

-- 
Lucas
tired.