From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Sun Dec  2 21:26:46 2012
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 21:26:46 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria Maintenance Release
In-Reply-To: <1354312781.27326.83.camel@rommel>
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:59:41 -0800
Kip Warner <kip at thevertigo.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 00:47 +0100, Cathal Mc Ginley wrote:
> > On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:31:17 -0700
> > Kip Warner <kip at thevertigo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > But I would like to make a reasonable request that you consider
> > > trying to get Alexandria's required runtime reconciled with what
> > > the Precise and later repository furnishes, or what you may have
> > > to provide yourself in the PPA. That way people aren't locked out
> > > of the functionality they grew to be dependent on while allowing
> > > you to move on to completing Palatina.
> > 
> > You're quite right. I'll upgrade my Ubuntu partition tomorrow and
> > see what the issue is, and keep you posted on my progress,
> > step-by-step.
> 
> Hey Cathal. I hope I catch you in good health. Do you have any new
> information for us? I've got a big stack of book entries I need to
> stuff in Alexandria to keep track of them.
> 

Did you miss the notification (13th Aug) for the 0.6.9 release?

http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/news/2012-08-14--0.6.9-released.html

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From kip at thevertigo.com  Mon Dec  3 00:19:49 2012
From: kip at thevertigo.com (Kip Warner)
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:19:49 -0800
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria Maintenance Release
In-Reply-To: <20121202212646.11193bbb@jadzia.dax>
References: <1344555077.32545.40.camel@kip-laptop>
	<20120810004757.5bbd1a08@jadzia.dax> <1354312781.27326.83.camel@rommel>
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On Sun, 2012-12-02 at 21:26 +0000, Cathal Mc Ginley wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:59:41 -0800
> Kip Warner <kip at thevertigo.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 00:47 +0100, Cathal Mc Ginley wrote:
> > > On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:31:17 -0700
> > > Kip Warner <kip at thevertigo.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > But I would like to make a reasonable request that you consider
> > > > trying to get Alexandria's required runtime reconciled with what
> > > > the Precise and later repository furnishes, or what you may have
> > > > to provide yourself in the PPA. That way people aren't locked out
> > > > of the functionality they grew to be dependent on while allowing
> > > > you to move on to completing Palatina.
> > > 
> > > You're quite right. I'll upgrade my Ubuntu partition tomorrow and
> > > see what the issue is, and keep you posted on my progress,
> > > step-by-step.
> > 
> > Hey Cathal. I hope I catch you in good health. Do you have any new
> > information for us? I've got a big stack of book entries I need to
> > stuff in Alexandria to keep track of them.
> > 
> 
> Did you miss the notification (13th Aug) for the 0.6.9 release?
> 
> http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/news/2012-08-14--0.6.9-released.html

Hey Cathal. Yes, I missed the notification and hadn't realized you had
published a PPA. Thank you so much for the work you are doing. I'm just
updating my library now.

-- 
Kip Warner -- Software Engineer
OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred
http://www.thevertigo.com
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From ras at acm.org  Tue Dec  4 05:13:05 2012
From: ras at acm.org (Robert A. Schmied)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:13:05 -0800
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria Maintenance Release
In-Reply-To: <20121202212646.11193bbb@jadzia.dax>
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Cathal Mc Ginley wrote:
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> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:59:41 -0800
> Kip Warner <kip at thevertigo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 00:47 +0100, Cathal Mc Ginley wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:31:17 -0700
>>>Kip Warner <kip at thevertigo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>But I would like to make a reasonable request that you consider
>>>>trying to get Alexandria's required runtime reconciled with what
>>>>the Precise and later repository furnishes, or what you may have
>>>>to provide yourself in the PPA. That way people aren't locked out
>>>>of the functionality they grew to be dependent on while allowing
>>>>you to move on to completing Palatina.
>>>
>>>You're quite right. I'll upgrade my Ubuntu partition tomorrow and
>>>see what the issue is, and keep you posted on my progress,
>>>step-by-step.
>>
>>Hey Cathal. I hope I catch you in good health. Do you have any new
>>information for us? I've got a big stack of book entries I need to
>>stuff in Alexandria to keep track of them.
>>
> 
> 
> Did you miss the notification (13th Aug) for the 0.6.9 release?
> 
> http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/news/2012-08-14--0.6.9-released.html
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it seems that when i select library->add book manually my source install
version of alexandria will crash with this spew (with --debug enabled):
.
.
.
D, [2012-12-03T20:48:22.850004 #10152] DEBUG -- <Obj Alexandria::UI::UIManager>: Books are empty: true
D, [2012-12-03T20:48:22.851299 #10152] DEBUG -- <Obj Alexandria::UI::UIManager>: on_books_selection_changed Delete: false
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/gtk_thread_help.rb: line 78
   GLib-GObject-WARNING **:value "-6" of type `gint' is invalid or out of range for property `wrap-width' of type `gint'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/gtk_thread_help.rb: line 78
   GLib-GObject-WARNING **:value "-6" of type `gint' is invalid or out of range for property `width' of type `gint'
D, [2012-12-03T20:48:29.169890 #10152] DEBUG -- <Obj Alexandria::UI::UIManager>: selected_library
Exception `NoMethodError' at /usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:198 - undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
-----------------------
Alexandria just crashed
-----------------------
Timestamp: Mon Dec 03 20:48:29 -0800 2012
Message: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
Backtrace:
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:198:in `rebuild_models'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:192:in `each'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:192:in `rebuild_models'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:191:in `each'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:191:in `rebuild_models'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:142:in `models'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:76:in `complete'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:20:in `complete_titles'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/dialogs/book_properties_dialog_base.rb:39:in `initialize'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/dialogs/new_book_dialog_manual.rb:27:in `initialize'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/callbacks.rb:57:in `new'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/callbacks.rb:57:in `on_add_book_manual'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/gtk_thread_help.rb:78:in `call'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/gtk_thread_help.rb:78:in `main'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui/gtk_thread_help.rb:78:in `main_with_queue'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui.rb:45:in `start_gtk'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria/ui.rb:50:in `main'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/lib/alexandria.rb:40:in `main'
/usr/local/src/alexandria-0.6.9/bin/alexandria:62
Release: 0.6.9(0.6.9)
Uname -a: SunOS xxx 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
--
Please report this dump to 'alexandria-list at rubyforge.org' with some additional
information, such as the description of the crash and the steps to reproduce it
(if it's possible).



i've managed to determine if i comment out the line (commented out below) in
lib/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb the crash doesn't occur.

   188	      def rebuild_models
   189	        titles, authors, publishers, editions, borrowers = [],[],[],[],[]
   190	        tags = []
   191	        @libraries.each do |library|
   192	          library.each do |book|
   193	            titles << book.title
   194	            authors.concat(book.authors)
   195	            publishers << book.publisher
   196	            editions << book.edition
   197	            borrowers << book.loaned_to
   198	#            book.tags.each {|tag| tags << tag }
   199	          end
   200	        end


i'm running on old (existing) book libraries from alex versions 0.6.8, 0.6.2
and 0.6.1 which might be part of the problem !?

and probably have a very strange set of ruby, gtk2 and gnome components as well.

i've yet to determine what is causing all the GLib-GObject-WARNING **:value "-6" of type ...
but they are warnings and don't seem to have any effect i've been able to discover.


ras

From milton.stanley at gmail.com  Tue Dec  4 18:25:34 2012
From: milton.stanley at gmail.com (Milton Stanley)
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 12:25:34 -0600
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria Maintenance Release
In-Reply-To: <50BD8661.3050701@acm.org>
References: <1344555077.32545.40.camel@kip-laptop>
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	<20121202212646.11193bbb@jadzia.dax> <50BD8661.3050701@acm.org>
Message-ID: <CAKiwAMrdZUVrG5gdUeqQa-CqV0qiSq9HZBk-vk3SsCNxwLEwLg@mail.gmail.com>

Taking a stab based on error message and code; try changing the commented
out line to:

books.tags.each { |tag| tags << tag } unless book.tags.nil?

-Milton

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Robert A. Schmied <ras at acm.org> wrote:

> titles, authors, publishers, editions, borrowers = [],[],[],[],[]
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From cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org  Tue Dec  4 19:31:15 2012
From: cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org (Cathal Mc Ginley)
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 19:31:15 +0000
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria Maintenance Release
In-Reply-To: <CAKiwAMrdZUVrG5gdUeqQa-CqV0qiSq9HZBk-vk3SsCNxwLEwLg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 12:25:34 -0600
Milton Stanley <milton.stanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Taking a stab based on error message and code; try changing the
> commented out line to:
> 
> books.tags.each { |tag| tags << tag } unless book.tags.nil?
> 
> -Milton


Yep, quite right. That fix works, I've added the patch.

I wish I knew how these YAML files are being created with those various
fields set to nil. When a Book is created, tags is set to an empty
list. Perhaps some provider is setting it to nil by mistake.

Another way around these problems is to manually edit the broken YAML
files, changing lines like:

tags:

to

tags: []


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From ras at acm.org  Tue Dec  4 23:04:09 2012
From: ras at acm.org (Robert A. Schmied)
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:04:09 -0800
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria Maintenance Release
In-Reply-To: <20121204193115.3326b434@jadzia.dax>
References: <1344555077.32545.40.camel@kip-laptop>	<20120810004757.5bbd1a08@jadzia.dax>	<1354312781.27326.83.camel@rommel>	<20121202212646.11193bbb@jadzia.dax>	<50BD8661.3050701@acm.org>	<CAKiwAMrdZUVrG5gdUeqQa-CqV0qiSq9HZBk-vk3SsCNxwLEwLg@mail.gmail.com>
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Cathal Mc Ginley wrote:
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> Milton Stanley <milton.stanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Taking a stab based on error message and code; try changing the
>>commented out line to:
>>
>>books.tags.each { |tag| tags << tag } unless book.tags.nil?
>>
>>-Milton
> 
> 
> 
> Yep, quite right. That fix works, I've added the patch.
> 
> I wish I knew how these YAML files are being created with those various
> fields set to nil. When a Book is created, tags is set to an empty
> list. Perhaps some provider is setting it to nil by mistake.

well -- the libraries and files (YAML files?) are legacies from previous
alexandria versions -- in particular 0.6.8 and a hack based on 0.6.6-beta2.
plus the sample libraries versioned 0.6.2 and 0.6.1 from 0.6.6-beta2
(e.g ../alexandria-0.6.6-beta2/spec/data/libraries/<version_no>/My Library/)
so i may be causing the trouble to start with ;-)

ras

> 
> Another way around these problems is to manually edit the broken YAML
> files, changing lines like:
> 
> tags:
> 
> to
> 
> tags: []
> 
> 
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From milton.stanley at gmail.com  Tue Dec  4 23:17:29 2012
From: milton.stanley at gmail.com (Milton Stanley)
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 17:17:29 -0600
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria Maintenance Release
In-Reply-To: <50BE8169.1030005@acm.org>
References: <1344555077.32545.40.camel@kip-laptop>
	<20120810004757.5bbd1a08@jadzia.dax>
	<1354312781.27326.83.camel@rommel>
	<20121202212646.11193bbb@jadzia.dax> <50BD8661.3050701@acm.org>
	<CAKiwAMrdZUVrG5gdUeqQa-CqV0qiSq9HZBk-vk3SsCNxwLEwLg@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <CAKiwAMrFm6K=QQXvR+Cjk4aRJr6fsb+UC-10Kr=6ENsQMQK7BQ@mail.gmail.com>

One could add a utility to run through the YAML files and convert the blank
references to empty lists (or do a check on loading the YAML file in the
object). Once I get my Ubuntu dist running again I'll look at it; a few
years back I had YAML figured out but I can't remember all the tricks I
used then.

-Milton

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Robert A. Schmied <ras at acm.org> wrote:

> Cathal Mc Ginley wrote:
>
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>> On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 12:25:34 -0600
>> Milton Stanley <milton.stanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  Taking a stab based on error message and code; try changing the
>>> commented out line to:
>>>
>>> books.tags.each { |tag| tags << tag } unless book.tags.nil?
>>>
>>> -Milton
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Yep, quite right. That fix works, I've added the patch.
>>
>> I wish I knew how these YAML files are being created with those various
>> fields set to nil. When a Book is created, tags is set to an empty
>> list. Perhaps some provider is setting it to nil by mistake.
>>
>
> well -- the libraries and files (YAML files?) are legacies from previous
> alexandria versions -- in particular 0.6.8 and a hack based on 0.6.6-beta2.
> plus the sample libraries versioned 0.6.2 and 0.6.1 from 0.6.6-beta2
> (e.g ../alexandria-0.6.6-beta2/**spec/data/libraries/<version_**no>/My
> Library/)
> so i may be causing the trouble to start with ;-)
>
> ras
>
>
>
>> Another way around these problems is to manually edit the broken YAML
>> files, changing lines like:
>>
>> tags:
>>
>> to
>>
>> tags: []
>>
>>
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From ras at acm.org  Sun Dec 16 00:10:51 2012
From: ras at acm.org (Robert A. Schmied)
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:10:51 -0800
Subject: [Alexandria-list] hacks to ease odd-ball platform portability
Message-ID: <50CD118B.5090200@acm.org>

cathal, other interested readers

this is mostly informational, but possibly useful too.

ras


some, most, but not all embedded os dependent commands (e.g. launched
via backticks, exec or system) are hardcoded directly without being
stored in a variable or with any provision for tweaking the environment
for the command.

normally such commands would be fully compatible with the environment
being used for alexandria, but that isn't necessarily always the case
as my odd-ball solaris platform demonstrates. for example, i need to
run ruby and alexandria with /usr/local/lib early on the loader path,
but the sun gnome stuff wants no part of the libs in that subdir
(gnome-help (aka yelp) as an example).

as for the utilities themselves, tar being the worst offender; sun's
standard (/usr/bin) makes no provision for 'internal' compression of
any sort, but the gnu version (/usr/sfw/bin/gtar) does.

so in order to isolate these os portability issues into a central place
for easy user alteration i've made a couple of hacks to the
alexandria-0.6.9 source files that place such utility commands into
ruby variables and define a couple of needed run-time related variables
(that i at least need) to make alexandria portable to my os/platform.

i decided the way to initialize these variables was to extend file
lib/alexandria/config.rb; that may not be the best solution, but it
seemed to be the most direct and least impactful ... likely there are
other, better ways to accomplish this ...

unfortunately, changing the contents of ./lib/alexandria/config.rb also
requires changing the contents of both ./.config and Rakefile. that part
of the problem/solution i did not investigate ...

since i don't recall ever running Rakefile as is indicated in the INSTALL
file, my solution was to just hack in the things i need directly into
the distribution lib/alexandria/config.rb file and go.

so now my hacked lib/alexandria/config.rb contains these additional
(now alexandria global) ruby variables:

       OS_UTIL_LD_PATH  = "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=''"
       OS_UTIL_RUN_PATH = "LD_RUN_PATH=''"
       OS_UTIL_PATHS    = "#{OS_UTIL_LD_PATH} #{OS_UTIL_RUN_PATH}"

       GCONFTOOL        = "#{OS_UTIL_PATHS} gconftool-2"
       TAR              = "#{OS_UTIL_PATHS} gtar"
       UNAME            = "#{OS_UTIL_PATHS} uname"
       ZIP              = "#{OS_UTIL_PATHS} zip"

       INTLTOOL_MERGE   = "#{OS_UTIL_PATHS} intltool-merge"
       GNOME_HELP       = "#{OS_UTIL_PATHS} gnome-help"



alexandria-0.6.9 files that use one of exec, system or backticks (``)
to invoke some os/platform utility:
 + ./bin/alexandria =-= `uname`
 + ./lib/alexandria/config.rb =-= initialize newly added variables
 + ./lib/alexandria/export_library.rb =-= `tar` and `zip` -- see note 1)
 + ./lib/alexandria/preferences.rb =-= gconftool-2 (via #{GCONFTOOL} -- note 2)
 + ./lib/alexandria/ui/init.rb =-= `gnome-help`
 + ./lib/alexandria/ui/dialogs/book_properties_dialog_base.rb =-= `uname`
 + ./lib/alexandria/ui/dialogs/export_dialog.rb =-= `uname`
 + ./util/rake/gettextgenerate.rb =-= `intltool-merge` *** untested ***
 - ./lib/alexandria/ui/ui_manager.rb =-= the gconf command selection --- no change
 - ./Rakefile --- not studied for changes to implement these changes programmatically

notes 1) with ruby-1.8.7 rexml/formatters/pretty.rb needed patch to 'wrap' method
         to avoid the following problem:
            Exception `TypeError' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/formatters/pretty.rb:131 - no implicit conversion from nil to integer
         see http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/128842 at very bottom for the two lines
         that need to be added to 'wrap' method
         -=- newer rubies (more standard platforms) will likely not exhibit this issue
      2) all reference to gconftool-2 are now via variable #{GCONFTOOL} which
         is initialized from #{Alexandria::GCONFTOOL}


below are the diffs for these changes based on the alexandria-0.6.9
source distribution:
##
## note -- this file will have a large offset in line numbers between
##         the original version and the patched version due to changes
##         i've made that are not generally applicable ...
##
--- ./bin/alexandria.orig       2009-12-12 12:58:08.000000000 -0800
+++ ./bin/alexandria    2012-12-14 14:38:24.154228000 -0800
@@ -42,7 +70,7 @@
 Backtrace:
 #{e.backtrace.join("\n")}
 Release: #{Alexandria::VERSION}(#{Alexandria::DISPLAY_VERSION})
-Uname -a: #{`uname -a`.chomp}
+Uname -a: #{`Alexandria::UNAME -a`.chomp}
 --
 Please report this dump to '#{Alexandria::LIST}' with some additional
 information, such as the description of the crash and the steps to reproduce it


--- ./lib/alexandria/config.rb.orig     2012-08-13 18:36:24.000000000 -0700
+++ ./lib/alexandria/config.rb  2012-12-14 08:22:45.144408000 -0800
@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@
 # Do not edit it directly.
 
 module Alexandria
+
+  OS_UTIL_LD_PATH  = "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=``"
+  OS_UTIL_RUN_PATH = "LD_RUN_PATH=``"
+  OS_UTIL_PATHS    = "#{OS_UTIL_LD_PATH} #{OS_UTIL_RUN_PATH}"
+
+  GCONFTOOL        = "#{OS_UTIL_PATHS} gconftool-2"
+  TAR              = "#{OS_UTIL_PATHS} gtar"
+  UNAME            = "#{OS_UTIL_PATHS} uname"
+  ZIP              = "#{OS_UTIL_PATHS} zip"
+
+  INTLTOOL_MERGE   = "#{OS_UTIL_PATHS} intltool-merge"
+  GNOME_HELP       = "#{OS_UTIL_PATHS} gnome-help"
+
   module Config
     SHARE_DIR = '/usr/share'
     SOUNDS_DIR = "#{SHARE_DIR}/sounds/alexandria"


--- ./lib/alexandria/export_library.rb.orig     2009-03-25 16:09:32.000000000 -0700
+++ ./lib/alexandria/export_library.rb  2012-12-14 15:32:50.745614000 -0800
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
       end
       copy_covers(File.join(Dir.tmpdir, "images"))
       Dir.chdir(Dir.tmpdir) do
-        output = `tar -cjf \"#{filename}\" onix.xml images 2>&1`
+        output = `#{Alexandria::TAR} -cjf \"#{filename}\" onix.xml images 2>&1`
         raise output unless $?.success?
       end
       FileUtils.rm_rf(File.join(Dir.tmpdir, "images"))
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
       end
       copy_covers(File.join(Dir.tmpdir, "images"))
       Dir.chdir(Dir.tmpdir) do
-        output = `zip -q -r \"#{filename}\" tellico.xml images 2>&1`
+        output = `#{Alexandria::ZIP} -q -r \"#{filename}\" tellico.xml images 2>&1`
         raise output unless $?.success?
       end
       FileUtils.rm_rf(File.join(Dir.tmpdir, "images"))


--- ./lib/alexandria/preferences.rb.orig        2011-11-19 06:48:14.000000000 -0800
+++ ./lib/alexandria/preferences.rb     2012-12-14 15:24:10.717142000 -0800
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     HTTP_PROXY_MODE = "/system/proxy/mode"
     URL_HANDLERS_DIR = "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers"
 
-    GCONFTOOL = "gconftool-2"
+    GCONFTOOL = "#{Alexandria::GCONFTOOL}"
 
     def initialize()
       @alexandria_settings = {}
@@ -205,10 +205,10 @@
         a = new_list[0]
         b = new_list[1]
         pair = "(#{a},#{b})"
-        `gconftool-2 --type pair --car-type int --cdr-type int --set #{var_path} "#{pair}"`
+        `#{GCONFTOOL} --type pair --car-type int --cdr-type int --set #{var_path} "#{pair}"`
       else
         list = make_list_string(new_list)
-        `gconftool-2 --type list --list-type #{list_type} --set #{var_path} "#{list}"`
+        `#{GCONFTOOL} --type list --list-type #{list_type} --set #{var_path} "#{list}"`
       end
     end
 
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
       if /cols_width/ =~ var_path
         puts value_str
       end
-      ret = `gconftool-2 --type #{type} --set #{var_path} #{value_str}`
+      ret = `#{GCONFTOOL} --type #{type} --set #{var_path} #{value_str}`
     end
 
     


--- ./lib/alexandria/ui/init.rb.orig    2011-11-19 06:44:48.000000000 -0800
+++ ./lib/alexandria/ui/init.rb 2012-12-10 11:39:11.945572000 -0800
@@ -83,7 +83,14 @@
         if section
           section_index = "##{section}"
         end
-        exec("gnome-help ghelp:alexandria#{section_index}") if fork.nil?
+
+        log.info {
+         "about to launch gnome-help:\n"\
+         " \"#{Alexandria::GNOME_HELP} ghelp:alexandria#{section_index}\""
+        } if $DEBUG
+
+        exec("#{Alexandria::GNOME_HELP} ghelp:alexandria#{section_index}") if fork.nil?
+
       rescue Exception => e
         log.error(self) { "Unable to load help browser" }
         ErrorDialog.new(parent, _("Unable to launch the help browser"),



--- ./lib/alexandria/ui/dialogs/book_properties_dialog_base.rb.orig     2011-11-19 06:45:26.000000000 -0800
+++ ./lib/alexandria/ui/dialogs/book_properties_dialog_base.rb  2012-12-14 15:39:46.692396000 -0800
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@
 
       @@latest_filechooser_directory = ENV['HOME']
       def on_change_cover
-        backend = `uname`.chomp == "FreeBSD" ? "neant" : "gnome-vfs"
+        backend = `#{Alexandria::UNAME}`.chomp == "FreeBSD" ? "neant" : "gnome-vfs"
         dialog = Gtk::FileChooserDialog.new(_("Select a cover image"),
                                             @book_properties_dialog,
                                             Gtk::FileChooser::ACTION_OPEN,


--- ./lib/alexandria/ui/dialogs/export_dialog.rb.orig   2009-03-25 16:09:32.000000000 -0700
+++ ./lib/alexandria/ui/dialogs/export_dialog.rb        2012-12-14 15:40:51.316104000 -0800
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
       THEMES = Alexandria::WebTheme.all
 
       def initialize(parent, library, sort_order)
-        backend = `uname`.chomp == "FreeBSD" ? "neant" : "gnome-vfs"
+        backend = `#{Alexandria::UNAME}`.chomp == "FreeBSD" ? "neant" : "gnome-vfs"
         super(_("Export '%s'") % library.name,
               nil,
               Gtk::FileChooser::ACTION_SAVE,


--- ./util/rake/gettextgenerate.rb.orig 2009-12-15 14:55:35.000000000 -0800
+++ ./util/rake/gettextgenerate.rb      2012-12-14 15:46:36.139199000 -0800
@@ -72,10 +72,11 @@
   def generate_desktop(infile, outfile)
     @generated_files << outfile
     file outfile => [infile, *po_files] do |f|
-      unless `intltool-merge --version`
+      unless `#{Alexandria::INTLTOOL_MERGE} --version`
         raise Exception, "Need to install intltool"
       end
-      system("intltool-merge -d #{@po_dir} #{infile} #{outfile}")
+      system("#{Alexandria::INTLTOOL_MERGE} "\
+       "-d #{@po_dir} #{infile} #{outfile}")
     end
   end
 



From waldner at waldner.priv.at  Sat Dec 29 00:27:44 2012
From: waldner at waldner.priv.at (Robert Waldner)
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:27:44 +0100
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria 0.6.9 AVAILABLE for Ubuntu 12.04
	(precise)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:46:55 +0100."
	<20120813024655.62d6947e@jadzia.dax>
References: <20120812145417.7a6a1187@jadzia.dax>
	<20120813024655.62d6947e@jadzia.dax>
Message-ID: <20121229002749.061FB1FEEEF@fsck.waldner.priv.at>


On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:46:55 +0100, Cathal Mc Ginley writes:
>I'll push an official release onto Rubyforge later on Monday, just to
>be consistent. Please let me know if you get it working, or if you
>encounter any problems.

Well, you wanted to know: on Debian (testing), i386, with
 alexandria_0.6.9-2_all.deb from rubyforge, it reliably segfaults when
 double-clicking/"view properties" on a book entry:

---------------------------------------------
waldner at fsck->~ $ alexandria 
-----------------------         
Alexandria just crashed         
-----------------------         
Timestamp: Sat Dec 29 01:21:11 +0100 2012
Message: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
Backtrace:                      
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:198:in `rebuild_models'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:192:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:192:in `rebuild_models'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:191:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:191:in `rebuild_models'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:142:in `models'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:76:in `complete'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb:20:in `complete_titles'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/dialogs/book_properties_dialog_base.rb:39:in `initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/dialogs/book_properties_dialog.rb:27:in `initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/callbacks.rb:158:in `new'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/callbacks.rb:158:in `on_properties'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/gtk_thread_help.rb:78:in `call'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/gtk_thread_help.rb:78:in `main'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/gtk_thread_help.rb:78:in `main_with_queue'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:45:in `start_gtk'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:50:in `main'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:40:in `main'
/usr/bin/alexandria:34          
Release: 0.6.9(0.6.9)           
Uname -a: Linux fsck 3.6.2rw1 #1 SMP Sun Oct 21 18:30:45 CEST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
--                              
Please report this dump to 'alexandria-list at rubyforge.org' with some additional
information, such as the description of the crash and the steps to reproduce it
(if it's possible).             
/usr/bin/alexandria:51: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [i486-linux]
                                
Aborted                         
---------------------------------------------

(With a freshly-built-from-ISBN-list library)

Missing a newer ruby or somesuch?

cheers,
&rw
-- 
-- To emphasize the highly professional nature of Nmap, all instances
-- of "fucked up" in error message text has been changed to "b0rked".
--                                     - Fyodor announces nmap 3.50


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