Neofetch: Packaging Fetch for other Distros

[dylanaraps]

I'd love to see fetch packaged for other distros and operating systems.

Fetch is currently packaged for these distros:

| Distro | Type | Maintainer | URL |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arch Linux | aur | @dylanaraps | neofetch, neofetch-git |
| Gentoo/Funtoo | ebuild | @z1lt0id | |
| Crux | port | @ix | |
| Debian/Ubuntu | repo | @dawidd6 | |
| Fedora | repo | @konimex | |
| RHEL/CentOS | repo | @konimex | |
| Void Linux | repo | @konimex | |
| Mac OS X | homebrew | @iandrewt | |

I don't have any experience in creating packages for other distros so any help
is appreciated.

[15bitgames]

I'll install some docker instances and see what I can come up with :)

On 8 February 2016 12:06:03 pm AEDT, Dylan Araps [email protected] wrote:

I'd love to see fetch packaged for other distros and operating systems

Fetch is currently packaged for:

• [X] Arch Linux (aur)
• [X] Gentoo/Funtoo (ebuild)

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[dylanaraps]

Sounds good! :+1:

[dylanaraps]

I'm working on creating a Fedora rpm, I'm just waiting for Fedora to finish downloading
so I can run it in a vm.

[15bitgames]

I'd recommend the docker route over vm. Much faster and less hassle

On 8 February 2016 1:14:18 pm AEDT, Dylan Araps [email protected] wrote:

I'm working on creating a Fedora rpm, I'm just waiting for Fedora to
finish downloading so I can run it in a vm.

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[dylanaraps]

I haven't played around with docker before, I'll take a look.

[tudurom]

Why not use The OpenSUSE Build Service?

[dylanaraps]

That looks neat!

[tudurom]

I played around with it and it seems the most easy way to package fetch for a couple of distros is feeding a rpm to the OBS. Make a RPM and we will see.

[dylanaraps]

I'm also messing around with it but I can't seem to get it working. I'll try adding an rpm file as the source to see if that works.

[tudurom]

Does it work?

[dylanaraps]

I spent hours yesterday trying to get Fedora to build an rpm and eventually gave up.

If anyone else wants to have a go, be my guest.

[dylanaraps]

You can now install fetch through homebrew with this command:

# Install 1.1
brew install dylanaraps/tools/fetch

# Install latest git master
brew install dylanaraps/tools/fetch --HEAD

I haven't tested the formula, it should work in theory but I don't have any
OS X devices to test it on. Once someone has tested this and confimed
that it works I'll add this to the readme.

[ralsei]

i packaged it for crux, but it currently fetches from git rather than from releases (as 1.3 doesn't have a release tag yet).

[tudurom]

I think both the ebuild and the PKGBUILD are fetching from git so that's
not a problem.
On 17 Feb 2016 15:56, "ix" [email protected] wrote:

i packaged it for crux, but it currently fetches from git rather than from
releases (as 1.3 doesn't have a release tag yet).

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[ralsei]

okay then!

[dylanaraps]

Thanks @ix!

[tudurom]

There are threads for updates on the ebuild and the CRUX port. Shouldn't the news be posted here?

[ralsei]

this is the issue for packages for new distros

other packages for existing distros should be kept in their own threads

[tudurom]

Then let's make a thread for already made packages.
On 18 Feb 2016 17:46, "ix" [email protected] wrote:

this is the issue for packages for new distros

other packages for existing distros should be kept in their own threads

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[dawidd6]

I can make a .deb package

[danielwaltz]

I attempted to install fetch using the brew formula and it failed. Here is the error:

Error: /usr/local/Library/Taps/dylanaraps/homebrew-tools/fetch.rb:1: class/module name must be CONSTANT
class fetch < Formula

It's so easy to build that I don't see this as important, I just wanted to let you know.

[dylanaraps]

@dawidd6 :+1:

@danielwaltz, Thanks for testing the formula, I think I'll wait for someone else to create one.

[dawidd6]

So here it is, a .deb package (must be in zip, because github doesn't like .deb):
fetch.zip

Tested on Debian 8 Jessie and Ubuntu 15.10

If you find this package in the state you don't like it, please let me know

[dylanaraps]

Nice!

How do we go about getting this into Debian and Ubuntu's repos?

[tudurom]

Let's begin with a ppa.
On 27 Feb 2016 12:48, "Dylan Araps" [email protected] wrote:

Nice!

How do we go about getting this into Debian and Ubuntu's repos?

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[dylanaraps]

Oh yeah, forgot all about ppas. I'll look into creating one!

[dylanaraps]

I've decided that I'm only going to maintain the aur package, if you want
neofetch packaged for your distro then you or someone else will need to
create a package, ppa or whatever and maintain it.

I'll gladly accept PRs with install instructions for X distro as I've done for
Gentoo/Funtoo and Crux.

I'd also prefer it if every package used the same issue for updates instead
of having multiple seperate issues for them.

See https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/issues/115.

[konimex]

I'm going to try to make an rpm (and installing it, of course) for Fedora, I'll report back here if I am succeeded.

[konimex]

The packaging has been successful and a repo has been made. Tested on Fedora 23 but it should work in Fedora 22, 24 and Rawhide.

[tudurom]

If we have a RPM, we can use the OpenSUSE build service to package fetch
for many more distros!
On 11 Mar 2016 10:13, "Herdiansyah" [email protected] wrote:

The packaging has been successful. Tested on Fedora 23 but it should work
in Fedora 22, 24 and Rawhide.

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[dylanaraps]

I don't want to maintain anymore packages but for anyone out there who wants to take a crack at setting up the build service, be my guest. :)

[konimex]

On 03/11/2016 03:17 PM, Tudor Roman wrote:

If we have a RPM, we can use the OpenSUSE build service to package fetch
for many more distros!

Hmm, I think the advantage of using OBS will be limited
to openSUSE, since we've already covered Debian, Ubuntu,
Arch, and Fedora. What does OBS cover, besides the four
I mentioned earlier?

[konimex]

We're now live on Void Linux's official repository. I'll maintain the package build template. Installation instructions coming in later.

[dylanaraps]

Post new package news in #115