net-im/psi::rion will not build, fails at unpacking source

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kaizushi · Post by **kaizushi** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 7:10 pm

I am trying to build net-im/psi::rion with the 'extras' useflag and it looks for diffs that do not exist.

It fails at the unpacking source step and not when compiling, this error is the issue:

/var/tmp/portage/net-im/psi-9999/temp/environment: line 584: /var/tmp/portage/net-im/psi-9999/work/psi-plus/patches/*.diff: No such file or directory

After that it fails.

Anyone know of or can think of a workaround?

Post by **Ionen** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 7:31 pm

Looks like the patches were slowly moved/removed in recent commits because they were merged upstream, and now there's not a single one left in the top patches/ directory

Last version to still have a patch was on commit 73b0fcbe82391596f576a167fcbf6bfbb56bca00

The ebuild needs to be updated by either removing the *.diff line or at least test if there's patches first (in case new patches show up later), or could use the above commit which may work, haven't tried.

Edit: By the way, I did not check the ::rion ebuild, I checked the gentoo's psi-9999 ebuild which seems to do the same thing and thus would most likely fail as well (didn't try).

kaizushi · Post by **kaizushi** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 7:51 pm

It now works after I commented out line 128 of the ebuild, the line...

In the method src_prepare():

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eapply "${WORKDIR}/psi-plus/patches"/*.diff

Post by **pjp** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:36 pm

Moved from Portage & Programming to Unsupported Software as this is from a repo not supported by Gentoo.

Post by Hu » Tue Mar 10, 2020 1:36 am

As Ionen says, this is a problem in the ebuild. Please notify the maintainer to modify the ebuild.

Hund · Post by **Hund** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:18 am

May I ask why you want Psi? It feels rather obsolete compared to more modern instant messaging clients.

Ant P. · Post by **Ant P.** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:42 am

Hund wrote:May I ask why you want Psi? It feels rather obsolete compared to more modern instant messaging clients.

Psi is still more feature-complete than a lot of XMPP clients released a decade later. It's the only one in portage that supports long-form messaging with subject lines and service browsing, for one thing.

Hund · Post by **Hund** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:25 am

Ant P. wrote:
Hund wrote:May I ask why you want Psi? It feels rather obsolete compared to more modern instant messaging clients.
Psi is still more feature-complete than a lot of XMPP clients released a decade later. It's the only one in portage that supports long-form messaging with subject lines and service browsing, for one thing.

I tried looking them up, but I couldn't find the extensions. Do you mind sharing them?

Ant P. · Post by **Ant P.** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:26 pm

Those aren't extensions. They're part of XMPP.

Rion · Post by **Rion** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:31 pm

oh sorry for delay with fixes. I fixed it but forgot to commit.
committed now.

Rion · Post by **Rion** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:36 pm

Regarding "obsoleted". Our web site is obsoleted definitely. But I keep working on Psi. I'm kind of principal developer/project owner for both Psi and Psi+. But Psi+ is 99% merged to Psi, so "extras" flag is mostly useless.

The only major missing thing in Psi is MAM (server-side history).