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Lupo

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From: Berlin / Europe

Registered: 2011-04-09

Posts: 6

[REQUEST] btrfs-gui

Hello,

found this nice little gui for btrfs: http://carfax.org.uk/btrfs-gui
Perhaps someone could make a pkgbuild?

Thank you in advance,
Lupo

laloch

Member

Registered: 2010-02-04

Posts: 186

Re: [REQUEST] btrfs-gui

It looks interesting, but doesn't work with python 3.2 (for me at least).

JHeaton

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-05-16

Posts: 158

Re: [REQUEST] btrfs-gui

It looks interesting, but doesn't work with python 3.2 (for me at least).

Could you let me know what your problem was? I've made a PKGBUILD which I think should be correct and whilst I'm not very good with Python and creating PKGBUILDs for Python apps, as far as I'm aware I've done everything I should need to here. The PKGBUILD I'm using is as follows:

# Maintainer: Joel Heaton <jheaton at archlinux dot us>

pkgname=btrfs-gui
pkgver=0.2.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="GUI tool for inspecting and managing btrfs filesystems"
arch=('any')
url="http://carfax.org.uk/btrfs-gui"
license=('GPL')
depends=('python2>=2.6' 'python>=3.1' 'tk')
source=(http://carfax.org.uk/sites/default/files/$pkgname-v$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('05971776207dac7262f3489140b21999')

build() {
	cd $srcdir/$pkgname-v$pkgver

	python setup.py install --root=$startdir/pkg --prefix=/usr
}

When I run the program the way the webpage states, I get this:

joel [btrfs-gui]
> sudo btrfs-gui
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/btrfs-gui", line 5, in <module>
    btrfsgui.main.main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/btrfsgui/main.py", line 24, in main
    subproc = init_root_process(options)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/btrfsgui/sudo.py", line 41, in init_root_process
    stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 741, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 1356, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './btrfs-gui-helper'

If I run it without sudo, the program loads, but I get an error warning me that some icons are missing (even though these have been installed to /usr/share/btrfs-gui/img as shown further below). It also doesn't appear to be looking in the correct directory (/usr/bin) judging by the output I get:

joel [btrfs-gui]
> btrfs-gui
sudo: ./btrfs-gui-helper: command not found
sudo: /sbin/btrfs-gui-helper: command not found
sudo: /bin/btrfs-gui-helper: command not found
sudo: /usr/sbin/btrfs-gui-helper: command not found
Could not find icon file img/fs_icon.gif.
Could not find icon file img/disk_icon.gif.
Could not find icon file img/directory.gif.
Could not find icon file img/subvolume.gif.
Could not find icon file img/subvolume_default.gif.

joel [~]
> ls /usr/bin | grep btrfs-gui
btrfs-gui
btrfs-gui-helper

joel [~]
> ls /usr/share/btrfs-gui/img
directory.gif  disk_icon.gif  fs_icon.gif  fs_icon_open.gif  icons.svg  subvolume_default.gif  subvolume.gif

I'm wondering if it's because part of it is written in Python 3 and part in Python 2; I'm not really sure on this, though. Like I said, I'm not great with Python (although I'm learning) or creating the PKGBUILDs for programs written in it. If someone can offer some advice on this matter, I would appreciate it as I'd like to get this software running on my system, having just started playing with btrfs filesystems.

laloch

Member

Registered: 2010-02-04

Posts: 186

Re: [REQUEST] btrfs-gui

Could you let me know what your problem was?

I don't remember what the problem was. I managed to make it work today. It needs to be patched to run from within the /usr directory. The patch is very simple, but I'm not going to publish it nor the PKGBUILD, because I strongly feel, that the application can really eat your hamster.

JHeaton

Member

From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-05-16

Posts: 158

Re: [REQUEST] btrfs-gui

Could you let me know what your problem was?

I don't remember what the problem was. I managed to make it work today. It needs to be patched to run from within the /usr directory. The patch is very simple, but I'm not going to publish it nor the PKGBUILD, because I strongly feel, that the application can really eat your hamster.

What makes you say that, exactly? I'd be interested in hearing. I could probably create a patch myself so that wouldn't be a problem anyway, but I would like to know your reasons for thinking that.

laloch

Member

Registered: 2010-02-04

Posts: 186

Re: [REQUEST] btrfs-gui

What makes you say that, exactly?

1) hardcoded paths indicate very bad coding
2) btrfs-gui-helper crashes constantly

I wouldn't let the thing fiddle with my filesystems.

JHeaton

Member

From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-05-16

Posts: 158

Re: [REQUEST] btrfs-gui

What makes you say that, exactly?

1) hardcoded paths indicate very bad coding
2) btrfs-gui-helper crashes constantly

I wouldn't let the thing fiddle with my filesystems.

Fair enough. I might have a deeper look in to the code and see if certain things can be tweaked a little, but with that in mind, I will probably end up giving it a miss. Thanks for the heads-up.