Gnome-system-tools unstable upgrade

its still on /opt/gnome dir???? why is that? why not compile the 2.18 system tools?

i hope this will help
# Generated by makepkg 3.0.0
# Tue Apr 24 10:23:51 AZOST 2007
#packager = SickHate <[email protected]>
pkgname=liboobs
pkgver=2.18.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="lib for system-tools-backends"
url ="http://www.gnome.org/"
source=(http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/liboobs/2.18/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
arch = (i686)
license = GPL
depend = (system-tools-backends)
makedepends=()
provides=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
pkgname=system-tools-backends
pkgver=2.2.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Backends for Gnome System Tools"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/"
license=(GPL)
depends=('perl')
makedepends=('intltool' 'sed')
source=(http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/$pkgname/2.2/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
build() {
source /etc/profile.d/gnome.sh
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  find . -name Makefile.in -exec sed -i -e 's/-scrollkeeper-update.*//' {} \;
  if [ -f omf.make ]; then
    sed -i -e 's/-scrollkeeper-update.*//' omf.make
  fi
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  # lalala hack for always apply changes to the source, remove if it goes to extra.
  make clean
  make || return 1
  make GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL=1  DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
pkgname=gnome-system-tools
pkgver=2.18.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Gnome System Configuration Utilities"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/"
license=(GPL)
options=(NOLIBTOOL)
depends=('libgnomeui>=2.9.0' 'libglade>=2.4.0' 'gconf>=2.2.0' 'system-tools-backends>=1.1.92')
makedepends=('intltool' 'sed')
source=(http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/$pkgname/2.18/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2 )
build() {
source /etc/profile.d/gnome.sh
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  find . -name Makefile.in -exec sed -i -e 's/-scrollkeeper-update.*//' {} \;
  if [ -f omf.make ]; then
    sed -i -e 's/-scrollkeeper-update.*//' omf.make
  fi
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-network --enable-boot --disable-scrollkeeper
  make || return 1
  make GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL=1  DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
works for me
Last edited by sickhate (2007-04-24 23:04:38)

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