[gpodder-devel] Building gpodder-0.10.1
- From: bmcnally at gmail.com (Brian McNally)
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:58:56 -0700
Thomas Perl wrote:
> Hello, Brian!
>
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 23:00 -0700, Brian McNally wrote:
>> I'm trying to fix a bug I've encountered in gpodder 0.9.4 by building
>> and using gpodder 0.10.1, but I'm having some problems testing the new
>> build before I actually install it. Before I describe the build
>> problem, I'll explain the bug I'm trying to avoid.
>>
>> When I try and change the download location for podcasts, I'm told:
>>
>> Error moving downloads
>>
>> There has been an error moving your downloads to the specified
>> location. The old download directory will be used instead.
>>
>> This only seems to happen when I try and move the downloads to a
>> different physical drive. I can change the download path just fine so
>> long as it's on the same filesystem. Making a symlink on the local
>> filesystem that points to another filesystem does work, but it's a
>> hack. This sounds like a bug to me.
>>
>> So, I've tried building gpodder 0.10.1 to see if that fixes the
>> problem. After downloading the source I run:
>>
>> python setup.py build
>> cd ./build/scripts-2.5
>> ./gpodder
>>
>> And I get:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "./gpodder", line 148, in <module>
>> sys.exit( main())
>> File "./gpodder", line 122, in main
>> from gpodder import gui
>> ImportError: cannot import name gui
>>
>> Obviously I'm missing module gui but I'm not sure how I can test
>> 0.10.1 without first installing it with python setup.py install. I did
>> try python setup.py install --prefix=/tmp/dir, but that resulted in
>> the same missing module. Your thoughts?
>
> Run "make test" in the source directory. That runs gPodder without
> installing or building anything. Be aware that upgrading directly from
> 0.9.4 to 0.10.1 has not been tested (there is some migration that
> happens between the versions leading up to 0.10.1), so you might have to
> manually re-create the channels list. Be aware of that before running
> gPodder 0.10.1 (making a backup tarball of ~/.config/gpodder/ is a good
> idea).
>
> Run "make" in the source directory of additional commands you can use to
> test/build/install gPodder on your system.
>
> Thomas
Thanks Thomas, make test launched gpodder 0.10.1 without problems.
However, the original problem I described is still there with 0.10.1.
This really seems like a bug to me. Are you able to replicate the
behavior if you change your download directory to a different filesystem?
--
Brian McNally
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