[aur-general] TU process

[Nathan O]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Philipp Überbacher
<hollunder at lavabit.com>wrote:

> Excerpts from Nathan O's message of 2010-08-24 22:52:57 +0200:
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Philipp Überbacher
> > <hollunder at lavabit.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Excerpts from Nathan O's message of 2010-08-24 21:51:28 +0200:
> > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Chris Brannon <
> cmbrannon79 at gmail.com
> > > >wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> writes:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I am not good at resume' like stuff LOL. I mean I don't know
> > > programming
> > > > > > which would probably be kind of looked down on. Though on the
> upside
> > > I am
> > > > > > online every night :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Shell scripting is the only language that a TU *must* know.
> > >  Familiarity
> > > > > with others can be helpful at times.  For instance, I've
> occasionally
> > > > > had to write patches for C-based packages.  If I hadn't been
> capable of
> > > > > writing those, I would have found someone who was, either upstream,
> or
> > > > > within the TU community.  Can you research a problem and find a
> > > solution
> > > > > to it?  That's a valuable skill; don't underestimate it.
> > > > >
> > > > > -- Chri
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Currently I was having a issue with algoscore. Namcap gave a insecure
> > > rpath,
> > > > so I figured out how to fix that and created a patch. At some point
> in
> > > time
> > > > today I got to figure out what is causing the actual program to not
> run
> > > or
> > > > crash.
> > > > I know a bit of shell scripting, I am not the greatest but I can do
> some
> > > > scripting. :)
> > >
> > > I'm looking forward to trying algoscore once you got it running. I may
> > > be able to help you a bit with packaging too.
> > > --
> > > Philipp
> > >
> > > --
> > > "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu
> > > und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
> > >
> > > Thanks for the offer. I am going to try and get it working on my own at
> > first :) I think I am on the right track. I just got to get the actual
> app
> > to run, because it will keeps crashing, so the packaging is fine. It is
> just
> > the app that is bad currently.
>
> Well, I had a look at the readme, which says:
> If you're using ROX-Filer, you should just be able to start the AppDir
> by double-clicking it, and AlgoScore will try to compile itself if no
> binary existed already.
>
> As it happens, ROX-Filer is my favorite file manager, and so I tried it.
> It built and ran without a hitch. I don't know how to use it yet, but it
> definitely runs.
>
> This leads me to believe that the program isn't broken as such, but
> something is wrong with the build/install.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Philipp
>
> --
> "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu
> und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
>
> That is weird, I will work on it in a bit and see if I can get it to run.
Thanks for the pointer