Minor problems I found installing bootgpe2-pb10-h3600.jffs2

[I started to send this to Philip directly, but most of these are either
bugs, missing dependencies, or version mismatches in the packages in
bootgpe2 and familiar-unstable, so I thought posting it here would
be more likely to come to the attention of the various maintainers of
those packages. Thanks much to Philip and all the GPE deveopers! -j.]

Hi. I found the following minor problems when installing
bootgpe2-pb10-h3600.jffs2 , and I thought I'd share them in case
it was helpful.

/etc/ipkg.conf as shipped doesn't list a timezones feed
  (or is there a GUI that handles that?)

SOMETHING I installed broke TrueType fonts, so I had to...
  
  ipkg remove -force-depends libfontconfig
  ipkg install libfontconfig
  
  (I think I could have just re-run /usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache instead)
  [The only thing that seems remotely relevant is that I did run
  postinst to install the Microsoft fonts, and I installed xfonts-75dpi]

had to install the following for xstroke
  
  ipkg install libxft1-compat

gpe-nmf is in the base image, but it depends on libpopt0, which isn't,
  so I had to
  
  ipkg install libpopt0
  
  (And then on the first run it tells me to run gst-register - which
  is fine if I'm running it by hand from a terminal, but won't get
  noticed if somebody runs it from the menu. After I do that, it segfaults
  when I try to play an MP3, and does nothing - no sound, no error message,
  no progress indicated - when I try to play an ogg. Since gpe-nmf
  is the major reason I wanted to upgrade from 0.6.1, I'd love to get
  it working.)

qiv (installed from familiar-unstable) segfaults
gpe-ownerinfo will no longer display a png image
  (I tried installing gdk-pixbuf-loader-png, but that didn't seem
  to make a difference)
  [The actual image is in a file named .face.png, in case the leading
  dot is relevant; it worked under 0.6.1]
When it first starts, minitime appears white-on-white, and eventually
  (after ~15sec) dies. Adding a new one to the dock via the
  menu works fine.
Received on Thu Feb 27 2003 - 06:33:12 EST