Bug 208696 - [handbook] fix obsolete instructions for GQView installation
Summary: [handbook] fix obsolete instructions for GQView installation
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Books & Articles (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody)
URL:
Keywords: patch
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-04-11 10:32 UTC by fehmi noyan isi
Modified: 2016-04-17 11:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Replace GQview with Geeqie (2.40 KB, patch)
2016-04-12 15:15 UTC, Benedict Reuschling 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description fehmi noyan isi 2016-04-11 10:32:26 UTC 
Hi,

In FreeBSD Handbook, section 6.4.3 [1] the proposed method to install GQView is given as

# pkg install gqview

but installation fails, apparently, there is no package called "gqview" in the repository

root@fbsd:~ # pkg update
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
root@fbsd:~ # pkg install gqview
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gqview' have been found in the repositories
root@fbsd:~ # 

The web page should be update accordingly, or the binary should be added into the repository.

~ % freebsd-version -u
10.3-RELEASE
~ % freebsd-version -k
10.3-RELEASE
~ % uname -a
FreeBSD fbsd 10.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE #0 r297264: Fri Mar 25 02:10:02 UTC 2016     root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
~ % 


[1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-viewers.html
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-04-11 22:16:13 UTC 
The entry from ports/MOVED says:

graphics/gqview||2015-06-10|Has expired: Unmaintained upstream, preferences dialog broken, use graphics/geeqie fork

so yes, the documentation needs to be updated.
Comment 2 Benedict Reuschling freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-04-12 15:15:17 UTC 
Created attachment 169240 [details]
Replace GQview with Geeqie

I've created the attached patch to the replace GQview with Geeqie per Mark's suggestion. If it is OK with you, I'll commit it.
Comment 3 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-04-17 11:29:19 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: bcr
Date: Sun Apr 17 11:28:39 UTC 2016
New revision: 48658
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48658

Log:
  Replace GQview with geeqie fork, because the latter is more actively
  maintained.

  PR:		208696
  Submitted by:	fehmi noyan isi
  Patch by:	me

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.xml
Comment 4 Benedict Reuschling freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-04-17 11:31:18 UTC 
Patch committed (no objections received), thanks for filing the bug!