Trying to update Wicd to its latest version(Solved, I think...)

[Agent Smith]

Dear colleagues,

I got the latest sources of Wicd, the srpm from our repositories, and I am trying to update the package.
Making all the necessary changes, when I run rpmbuild -ba, it works for a little while, and gives me the following error messages: (the last 2 lines)
creating /home/alessandro/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/wicd-1.7.2.4-1pclos2012.i386/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES
error: can't copy 'translations/el/LC_MESSAGES/wicd.mo': doesn't exist or not a regular file


And stops there.

What can I do to fix the whole thing ?

Thanks in advance,

Best regards,

[ghostbunny]

Hi Agent Smith,

try to add

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python setup.py compile_translations
after the build command

regards
ghostbunny

[Agent Smith]

Oh, boy, how I wished your tip would fix it, GB, but no. No success, still the same error message.

I'm stuck on this...


Sincerely,

EDIT: Hey, I did have some improvement here. Got a spec from Mandriva, there's another dependency, Python-Babel, to create the translations.
I altered the spec, included that dependency and the process went forward a little more.
Now, it stops (after some compiling action) in this error message: creating /home/alessandro/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/wicd-1.7.2.4-1pclos2012.i386/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES
error: can't copy 'translations/ast/LC_MESSAGES/wicd.mo': doesn't exist or not a regular file

[Agent Smith]

Oh, well, I removed the AST (asturian language), and then, it completed the process.
But, the new version of WICD seems to be prepared to work under systemD.
It creates files that are placed on systemD folders, at the machine initialization.
So, when the process ends, it ends with errors and the package is not built.
If I knew Python better, perhaps I could adapt it to work with PCLinuxOS, but I know zilch about Python.
If any of our friends, more experienced on Python could help, we could make the latest Wicd work on PCLinuxOS...

Ok folks

Best regards,

 

[JohnW_57]

Info about systemd:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd

JohnW

[Agent Smith]

Dear JohnW,

I know a little about systemD, that it will replace sysinit system V, but our PCLOS is in the classic sysinit.
So, my hunch is: unless the source in Python is changed, to do not work with systemD, we're stuck (I am, at least).

That is what I was trying to say. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.

Best regards,

[gseaman]

If you talk to the developers of wicd, you may get some insight into what changes they made for systemd, so that you can change them back.

Galen

[Agent Smith]

If you talk to the developers of wicd, you may get some insight into what changes they made for systemd, so that you can change them back.

Galen

Great idea, going to do it asap.

Nice one Galen!

Regards,

[Agent Smith]

Hi folks,

just an update: I'm in contact with Mr. David Paleino, the dev, and he's giving me directions on how to compile and package this new version of Wicd.

Sincerely,

[gseaman]

Excellent!

Galen

[Agent Smith]

Hummm, a colleague of ours, Ken (lxgator@gmail.com) updated Wicd successfully.
No more problems then.

Thanks to all who helped with tips and hints.

Sincerely,