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zpxing

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Registered: 2008-08-15

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where is pidgin 2.50?

I heard that one of advantages of Archlinux is up-to-date softwares. But it seems not true when I was looking for pidgin 2.5.0 in the source and aur. Because it has been one week since 2.5.0 released but only 2.4.3 available for archlinux. Does there anyone know why?

FALK

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 95

Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

Maintainer is probably on vacation, just change the version number in the pkgbuild, worked for me.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

Hardly deserves a response, but anyway....

You may have already noticed that the package is flagged out-of-date. This means that the maintainer is aware that 2.5.0 was released a whole week ago, and that he will update the package as soon as he can fit it in to the varied Arch duties that he performs in his spare time i.e. the time that is left over after work, sleep, and.. well, life in general.

If you cannot live without the 2.5.0 release, use ABS (Arch Build System) to update the package for yourself, as suggested by FALK.

VuDu

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Registered: 2007-05-11

Posts: 95

Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

How about some enabling comments on the packages page (like on AUR) so that this kind of discussions don't pollute the forums?

kensai

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From: Puerto Rico

Registered: 2005-06-03

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Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

How about some enabling comments on the packages page (like on AUR) so that this kind of discussions don't pollute the forums?

And do you think some users will not fall in the hands of "ZOMG, package-x 2.5 has been released we have 2.4 why is Arch so outdated, it has been a week. What do they pay you for developers? Go and upgrade your packages" ???

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xd-0

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-11-02

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Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

In order to get pidgin 2.50 before the maintainer updated the pkg you need to do the following.
* Read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS … l_Packages and install abs.
* Copy the folder /var/abs/pidgin to /var/abs/local/pidgin
* Open the PKGBUILD and change the versionnumber.
* Open a terminal in the current dit and run <code>makepkg -g</code> to get the correct md5 sum. Replace the md5sum in the PKGBUILD with this one.
* Then from the same directory run <code>makepkg -csi</code>

Now your done and should have the desired version of pidgin.

ps. Arch is based on the community, and therefore you also have a responsibility to contribute if no one else does. Now I don't think you ment to be impolite, but it's always better to ask how you self can solve the problem, instead of asking others to do it.

Last edited by xd-0 (2008-08-25 08:53:28)

bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

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Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

i'm getting abnormal blood pressure reading this. thread deserves nuke.

finferflu

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

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Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

I think we should keep it cool: the OP is obviously new to Arch.

Here is some initial reading for zpxing: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux

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moljac024

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Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

* Then from the same directory run <code>makepkg -csi</code>

And Horatio will make sure you get the newest version!

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VuDu

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Registered: 2007-05-11

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Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

In order to get pidgin 2.50 before the maintainer updated the pkg you need to do the following.
* Read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS … l_Packages and install abs.
* Copy the folder /var/abs/pidgin to /var/abs/local/pidgin
* Open the PKGBUILD and change the versionnumber.
* Open a terminal in the current dit and run <code>makepkg -g</code> to get the correct md5 sum. Replace the md5sum in the PKGBUILD with this one.
* Then from the same directory run <code>makepkg -csi</code>

Now your done and should have the desired version of pidgin.

ps. Arch is based on the community, and therefore you also have a responsibility to contribute if no one else does. Now I don't think you ment to be impolite, but it's always better to ask how you self can solve the problem, instead of asking others to do it.

Hello, since I like yaourt, all I did was yaourt -Sb pidgin and edited the pidgin's PKGBUILD to the new version and the new source's md5sum

pkgver=2.4.3   ~-~->   2.5.0
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md5sums=('9e4a5f4ebda16a51fe91ec610286810a'   ~-~->   '71df6633794de30e57827848cfb61996'

Better for the lazy people, since it automates the ABS process, no?

Note: I left pkgrel=2 so that it still warns me after 2.5.0 gets on extra:

warning: pidgin: local (2.5.0-2) is newer than extra (2.5.0-1)

Last edited by VuDu (2008-08-25 09:55:58)

foutrelis

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2008-07-28

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Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

Ignore my comment about the patch, see shining's response below for a better solution.

I believe that certificate-location.patch needs to be updated as well, since it fails to apply to the new source tree.

This should do the trick (its md5sum is a0b52a2a9795b4af94df40d53edb618b).

Note: I left pkgrel=2 so that it still warns me after 2.5.0 gets on extra

I put pkgrel=0, so when 2.5.0 gets in extra, it'll replace my custom package. As least that's what I had in mind.

Last edited by foutrelis (2008-08-25 10:49:29)

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

I believe that certificate-location.patch needs to be updated as well, since it fails to apply to the new source tree.

This should do the trick (its md5sum is a0b52a2a9795b4af94df40d53edb618b).

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

Add a configure option, --with-system-ssl-certs to allow packagers to
specify a system-wide SSL CA certificates directory. When set, we
don't install our SSL CA certs, so it's important that the libpurple
package depend on the CA certificates.

That should allow to get rid of the certificate-location.patch patch

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VuDu

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Registered: 2007-05-11

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Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

I put pkgrel=0, so when 2.5.0 gets in extra, it'll replace my custom package. As least that's what I had in mind.

/me is overwhelmed 

Venator85

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-10-18

Posts: 62

Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

I put pkgrel=0, so when 2.5.0 gets in extra, it'll replace my custom package. As least that's what I had in mind.

Cool man!

alessandro_ufms

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From: Campo Grande, MS - Brazil

Registered: 2008-06-25

Posts: 153

Re: where is pidgin 2.50?

Pidgin 2.5 is on extra repository now...