From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-04-14T23:28:14+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: FreeRIDE 0.5.0 Release Candidate 2

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 05:16:40PM +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> FreeRIDE 0.5.0 Release Candidate 2 is available for download. Go to
> http://www.rubyide.org/ for details. If there are no major bugs reported in
> the next couple weeks, then we will relabel this 0.5.0 final release.

If you use Debian, you might want to test my packages.

Add 
# freeride
deb http://lsed.sourceforge.net/ruby/ debs/
deb-src http://lsed.sourceforge.net/ruby/ deb-src/

to /etc/apt/sources.list and then
	apt-get update
	apt-get install freeride
This should automatically determine and fetch all dependencies.

If you are running Debian on something other than i386, you'll have to
compile some packages; this should however be easily accomplished by
doing the former steps and then
    apt-get install apt-build
    apt-build update
    apt-build install freeride

Note that the procedure with apt-build has not been tested so I cannot
guarantee it will work 100% right. You can otherwise "apt-get -b source"
all the dependencies by hand and then install with "dpkg -i".

Summary of modifications
========================
Things I had to do to make it run flawlessly on Debian:
--- freeride-0.5.0rc2.orig/config/default.yaml
+++ freeride-0.5.0rc2/config/default.yaml
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
 "|":
   - config: ''
     "|":
-      - log_file: "./config/freeride.log"
+      - log_file: "/usr/share/freeride/log/freeride.log"
       - log_level: 2
       - log_name: FreeRIDE
-      - plugin_path: "./plugins"
+      - plugin_path: "/usr/share/freeride/plugins"
       - product_name: FreeRIDE
-      - setup_file: "./config/setup.rb"
+      - setup_file: "/usr/share/freeride/config/setup.rb"
   - version: ''
     "|":
       - major: 0
       - minor: 5
-      - release: "0rc2"
\ No newline at end of file
+      - release: "0rc2"
--- freeride-0.5.0rc2.orig/freebase/logger.rb
+++ freeride-0.5.0rc2/freebase/logger.rb
@@ -24,7 +24,11 @@
           @logName = logName
           @logFile = logFile
           self.logLevel = logLevel
-          @file = File.new(logFile, "a")
+                 unless File.exist?(logFile)
+                         require 'ftools'
+                         File.makedirs(File.dirname(logFile))
+                 end
+                 @file = File.new(logFile, "a")
          @file.sync = true
         end

--- freeride-0.5.0rc2.orig/freebase/readers.rb
+++ freeride-0.5.0rc2/freebase/readers.rb
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     # or absolute path name given.
     #
     def self.user_filename(filespec)
-      return nil if @@userdir.nil? || filespec[0..0]==File::SEPARATOR
+      return nil if @@userdir.nil? #|| filespec[0..0]==File::SEPARATOR
       dir = File.dirname(filespec).split(File::SEPARATOR).last
       basename = File.basename(filespec)
       return File.expand_path(File.join(@@userdir,dir,basename))



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