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pidgin: solve searching for plugins #992

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kevinfish opened this issue Sep 20, 2013 · 9 comments
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pidgin: solve searching for plugins #992

kevinfish opened this issue Sep 20, 2013 · 9 comments
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installed pidgin and pidgin-otr but when I look for the otr plugin it doesn't show up in the plugin list.
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shlevy commented Apr 4, 2014

Hmm, it seems pidgin has no maintainer. @vcunat @bjornfor I see you've made some commits there, do either of you want to pick this up?

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bjornfor commented Apr 4, 2014

My only contribution to the pidgin expression was removed a trailing '.' from meta.description :-D

According to https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins, plugins should go in ~/.purple/plugins/. So "installing" the plugin with nix will not work, because the plugin would end up in e.g. ~/.nix-profile/lib/something.

A manual work-around is this (which I successfully tested):

mkdir -p ~/.purple/plugins
ln -sf $(nix-build -A pidginotr)/lib/pidgin/pidgin-otr.* ~/.purple/plugins/

Start pidgin, go to Tools -> Plugins and there you'll see the plugin.

According to http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2009-June/008380.html, pidgin also has global directory(ies) for plugins:

# For plugins that are UI-independent (i.e. libpurple plugins):
/usr/lib/purple-2/

# For Pidgin plugins:
/usr/lib/pidgin/

(I guess the global paths really are $PREFIX/lib/.....)

The only fix I can think of right now is to make upstream add support for an environment variable to look for plugins, and then possibly write a wrapper.

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pidgin: adopt the orphan, as I use it daily
4ab5824 
CC #992.
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vcunat commented Apr 4, 2014

OK, I adopted the orphan, as I use it daily. I've never used any plugins, though.

Unfortunately, for most packages the environments don't work like that (yet), especially for plugins. (Therefore, I rather classify this as an enhancement than a true bug.)

@vcunat vcunat added enhancement and removed bug labels Apr 4, 2014
@vcunat vcunat changed the title pidgin-otr not showing up pidgin: solve searching for plugins Apr 4, 2014
lucabrunox pushed a commit to lucabrunox/nixpkgs that referenced this issue Apr 6, 2014
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pidgin: adopt the orphan, as I use it daily
0b373a9 
CC NixOS#992.
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Any updates on this? This practically renders "pidginotr" unusable without a hacky workaround, so for it (not for the "pidgin" package) it would be a bug.

@vcunat vcunat self-assigned this Sep 13, 2014
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vcunat commented Sep 13, 2014

I'll look at it. I forgot this.

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user318 commented Sep 24, 2014

ln -sf $(nix-build -A pidginotr)/lib/pidgin/pidgin-otr.* ~/.purple/plugins/

I think it will be better to symlink it from ~/.nix-profile/lib/pidgin/...
In that way it should not be changed after updates.

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Maybe it would be sufficient to make a wrapper package and a patch for pidgin to read an environment variable?

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vcunat commented Oct 17, 2014

Yes, something like that. Unfortunately, I'm overwhelmed by other things these two months.

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@vcunat No problem! I think I solved this, if you can, please have a look.

@vcunat vcunat closed this as completed in 2feaa02 Oct 23, 2014
klemensn added a commit to klemensn/nixpkgs that referenced this issue Jun 3, 2022
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qdigidoc: Update to 4.2.11
3e5b838 
This release is still subject to double-free crashes in at least the
signature verification functionality, but debugging that requires an up
to date version (released two months ago), so here we go.

NB: Upstream released two source tarballs without further information,
qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110.orig.tar.xz contains sources without subdirectory,
qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110-1804.tar.xz contains a subdirectory with sources;
their difference is irrelevant for our build, so pick the one 1804 one:
```
$ diff -u -r qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110.orig/ qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110-1804/qdigidoc4/
Only in qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110.orig/cmake: .git
Only in qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110.orig/common: .git
Only in qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110.orig/common: .gitmodules
diff '--color=auto' -u -r qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110.orig/debian/changelog qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110-1804/qdigidoc4/debian/changelog
--- qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110.orig/debian/changelog	2022-01-28 13:44:35.000000000 +0200
+++ qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110-1804/qdigidoc4/debian/changelog	2022-01-28 13:44:38.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+qdigidoc4 (4.2.11.110-1804) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Release: 4.2.11.110.
+
+ -- RIA <[email protected]>  Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:44:38 +0200
+
 qdigidoc4 (0.2.0.3) stable; urgency=low

   * Initial release
Only in qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110.orig/extensions/cmake: .git
Only in qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110.orig/extensions: .git
Only in qdigidoc4_r.2.11.110.orig/extensions: .gitmodules
```

```
$ git log --oneline v4.2.9..v4.2.11
2631e24 (tag: v4.2.11) Update translation (NixOS#1025)
76c671a Support Fedora (NixOS#997)
639cebe Update Qt to 5.12.2 (NixOS#1019)
cde7fb8 Add web-eid to diagnostics (NixOS#989)
faa8276 Add default option to sign button (NixOS#1001)
cb8262a Update OpenLDAP 2.6.0 (NixOS#996)
132de43 Workaround for Yaru theme on ubuntu 21.10 (NixOS#994)
58e4278 Improve safeFilename (NixOS#986)
1710f47 Fix coverity and cppcheck warnings (NixOS#992)
60af0bb Remove autofocus (NixOS#981)
5a9ff0a Use thread monitor event state (NixOS#845)
cdd95a5 Fix LDAP certificate validation (NixOS#980)
92f81ec Workaround SID/MID proxy unicode issues (NixOS#982)
92a5aaa Update version number and OpenSSL, OpenLDAP versions (NixOS#977)
5971e54 Update Xalan-C 1.12 (NixOS#976)
1f848cf Add more specific info for OpenSSLExceptions (NixOS#970)
0497b7f Set Select folder dialog button label and fix some translation warnings (NixOS#974)
e56e814 Workaround recent Qt changes to pass mousePressEvent (NixOS#978)
44f4a7e Update translations in russian for settings (NixOS#973)
25756eb Wait for upper level operations to avoid locked screen (NixOS#979)
232784e Don't set focus to fonds image (NixOS#967)
5cf2157 Change the view of expired and expiring certificates (NixOS#965)
b001274 Resolve a yellow background, when PIN is locked (NixOS#971)
4b20375 Fix the boolean value (NixOS#975)
1a41817 Resolve Ubuntu 21.04 warnings (NixOS#946)
301178b Set read-only permission for files in signed container (NixOS#962)
e028a30 Update OpenLDAP 2.5.5 (NixOS#963)
1fb5f6a Set accessible name to pin (NixOS#966)
18e6112 Handle libdigidocpp exception (NixOS#943)
a9efe0f Update translations (NixOS#961)
06e44a0 Fix Linux dark theme (NixOS#950)
a6ff428 Fix missed border of Accordion (NixOS#960)
a14476c Update list of components in Info view (NixOS#958)
8980270 Fix normalization of filenames (NixOS#952)
e4aac44 Shorten notifications display time (NixOS#948)
14606dc Use QSysInfo for OS version (NixOS#931)
b8716e7 Resolve a yellow background, when PIN is locked (NixOS#947)
0319c6b Don't allow searching for spaces during encryption (NixOS#929)
```
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