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Wine has a bad upgrade history in Arch.. last package in extra is 0.9.44
Release history
August 24, 2007: Wine 0.9.44 Released
September 14, 2007: Wine 0.9.45 Released
September 28, 2007: Wine 0.9.46 Released
I tried to build my own package, but noway i could do it.
I studied the wiki and the forum but didnt help me at all...
Is it possible to upgrade it more often. So I can play WoW without to much fuzz.
Arch is a greate distro
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It's really not that hard to compile it yourself. This is what I do on every wine release (I think) (code below is not tried, but you get the drift):
tar xfz wine-0.9.46.tar.gz
rm !$
cd wine-0.9.46
./configure --prefix=$HOME/util/wine46
make depend && make && make install
#update the PATH variable
echo -e ",s/PATH=/PATH=$HOME\/util\/wine46\/bin:/\nwq\n" | ed $HOME/.bashrc
#unless you don't have one. Then do
echo PATH=$HOME/util/wine46/bin >> $HOME/.bashrc
#maybe re-read it
source $HOME/.bashrc
#and do that thing where it updates the wine registry
wineprefixcreate
Last edited by Gilneas (2007-10-06 23:11:01)
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I know, this also bugs me a bit, but if you come to think about it, the developers do the best they can. It must be a waste of time for them having to upgrade wine that much in so little time frames. 3 releases in 1 month and a half? thats a lot I think. Also the developers have enough with packages like, kernel, which upgrade often and sometimes firefox.
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It's really not that hard to compile it yourself. This is what I do on every wine release (I think) (code below is not tried, but you get the drift):
tar xfz wine-0.9.46.tar.gz rm !$ cd wine-0.9.46 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/util/wine46 make depend && make && make install #update the PATH variable echo -e ",s/PATH=/PATH=$HOME\/util\/wine46\/bin:/\nwq\n" | ed $HOME/.bashrc #unless you don't have one. Then do echo PATH=$HOME/util/wine46/bin >> $HOME/.bashrc #maybe re-read it source $HOME/.bashrc #and do that thing where it updates the wine registry wineprefixcreate
Even easier, and probably better would be to use ABS to get the PKGBUILD and install files, change the version number and just makepkg.
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Even easier, and probably better would be to use ABS to get the PKGBUILD and install files, change the version number and just makepkg
Don't know what i tried to do earlier.. but this worked.
I copied PKGBUILD and wine.install to /var/abs/local/wine-0.9.46 and
edited PKGBUILD to right version number and did makepkg -i
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I understand that you can compile your own code when there's an update. But, if I have to do that, then why even bother with pacman at all? The whole reason I use a package manager is to get the latest and greatest packages (and their dependencies). I also understand that devs get busy at times, but how hard could it be to upgrade wine once in a while? Arch still wants to install wine-0.9.44-1 (which doesn't play nice with WOW btw) and wine 0.9.47 was just released today. If you need help, what can I do to help?
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but how hard could it be to upgrade wine once in a while? Arch still wants to install wine-0.9.44-1 (which doesn't play nice with WOW btw) and wine 0.9.47 was just released today. If you need help, what can I do to help?
Have you ever compiled wine? it takes like an hour on my machine and I have 1GB RAM and 2.2Ghz CPU, so I think this is time consuming for the maintainer, even tough I would like the upgrade to be made, I just understand their situation.
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Hydraulix wrote:but how hard could it be to upgrade wine once in a while? Arch still wants to install wine-0.9.44-1 (which doesn't play nice with WOW btw) and wine 0.9.47 was just released today. If you need help, what can I do to help?
Have you ever compiled wine? it takes like an hour on my machine and I have 1GB RAM and 2.2Ghz CPU, so I think this is time consuming for the maintainer, even tough I would like the upgrade to be made, I just understand their situation.
Trust me, I know all about compiling programs (former Gentoo user). Nothing beats installing KDE on a G3 500mhz iBook using Gentoo. Took about three days of non stop compiling. Anyway, you just proved my point. It takes about an hour on your machine. Not days, or even weeks. You mean to tell me the maintainer can't script something out to upgrade in an hours time?
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Well, if you know then, thats good if you know how much it takes, but is he only maintaining wine? he isn't involved in any other project? He has a life? Family? Social Life? I know we want to have the latest, but it makes no sense when you just seat and whine in the forums, which by the way aren't much frequented by developers. So maybe you should try contacting the developer personally.
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Now that i know how to build the package .I don't mind doing it myself.
With my pc it does not take to long. My problem is linux knowledge. but slowly i learn more and more.
But where do I find md5sums for wine
Last edited by thorro (2007-10-13 13:24:22)
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Running makepkg -g would generate the md5sum field for you, but since you're just doing a local build of wine you might as well just remove the field and ignore the warning from makepkg. It'll still build fine, the md5sum is just to verify the sources was downloaded without any problems.
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If developers are short on time or cpu power so ok: then let some people from comunity to compile it and share with everyone.
And so many wine vesions means that ppl from wine work hard. Or not?
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And so many wine vesions means that ppl from wine work hard. Or not?
As wine is a rather complex software, there are often regressions in newer versions, so you don't always want to upgrade ASAP to the latest one.
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So good then we keep on .44 because it is better than latest.
But I want to expand this topic:
And why we still keep gtk 2.10 when latest is 2.12?
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Because 2.12 is in testing, is the same, applications need testing so they can be assured to be of quality when released and upgraded to a stable system. Don't be such "latest is greatest" type of person. Applications do need to be tested, if not, and all this applications were upgraded at the upstream release moment, then all you would be whining: "<fillintheblank> breaks my system after upgrade, cause <fillintheblank> doesn't play with this <fillintheblank> I have installed, yet."
So please calm down people, latest is not greatest, repeat with me.
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kensai you talk like ppl from Debian with their two years old "stable".
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Think this tread is way of now.
I got the help i needed and pleased with it.
Wine is not always up to date in Arch and thats it.
If people wants talk about Arch and the updating frequency ,start a new thread please.
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Please lock this thread Admins, some people want to remain at a mental ignorance state forever. There's no logic that can convince them that what they say is completely illogical and what they will do in life is, always whine.
Last edited by kensai (2007-10-13 17:11:53)
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Logic?? I like logic
So how much time is enough for testing? Sometimes 0 sometimes 5 months?
There is no logic. Then there will be some logic explanation about actions and not just 2 usless stupid posts from same memb about person types I will be convinced.
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If people wants talk about Arch and the updating frequency ,start a new thread please.
Or search for an old thread, its all been said before. As far as I can tell, the original thread here has been answered.
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