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Ralphred
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 Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 4:11 pm Post subject: Discord - A Rant |
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Don't get me wrong, I like the software, - drag and drop images/files/video
- works on android, can insta-send camera pictures w/o hassle
- can screen share
- have live a/v comms
it's all good.
But this incessantly short update interval? Now I know for a fact I can't be the only one who thinks "Oh FFS, again, already, really?" because this must be exactly what the portage ebuild maintainer thinks every 10 days.
A lot of the time I end up version bumping in my local overlay, but even then it shows "Installing update X of 6" on startup.
Well enough, today I "wrote" meta-ebuilds for version 0.73 - 0.99. Every night at midnight a cron job makes the "next" version ebuild in /var/db/repos/local... and tries to digest it, if it fails to digest it deletes the ebuild, if it passes it installs it.
The question is, if this pinnacle of applied laziness works, what should the "dynamic discord overlay" be called?
I was thinking of TheDiscordantReleaseCycle overlay, but not I'm sure about case sensitivity and it's true meaning being lost... |
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arran4
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Joined: 19 Sep 2003
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 12:45 am Post subject: |
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Short release windows enabled by CI/CD / TDD by the looks of it. Usually for "web" things it isn't that noticeable because people effectively download a new version of the "webapp" each visit. But being bundled in to electron you do..
Try using it in the browser only, or using it via a matrix bridge. |
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Geneslaf
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| Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 11:48 am Post subject: |
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I to got frustrated so went the live ebuild direction using the same method as dev-lang/julia-bin.
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--- /var/db/repos/gentoo/net-im/discord/discord-0.0.72.ebuild 2024-10-22 12:41:26.000000000 +0100
+++ /var/db/repos/local/net-im/discord/discord-9999.ebuild 2024-10-10 17:58:28.266000000 +0100
@@ -16,12 +16,13 @@
DESCRIPTION="All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers"
HOMEPAGE="https://discord.com/"
-SRC_URI="https://dl.discordapp.net/apps/linux/${MY_PV}/${MY_PN}-${MY_PV}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI=""
+PROPERTIES="live"
S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN^}"
LICENSE="all-rights-reserved"
SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64"
+KEYWORDS=""
IUSE="appindicator +seccomp wayland"
RESTRICT="bindist mirror strip test"
@@ -64,7 +65,11 @@
CONFIG_CHECK="~USER_NS"
src_unpack() {
- unpack ${MY_PN}-${MY_PV}.tar.gz
+ if ! use amd64; then
+ die "only amd64 arch supported"
+ fi
+ wget -O "${T}/discord.tar.gz" "https://discord.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=tar.gz"
+ unpack "${T}/discord.tar.gz"
}
src_configure() {
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BTW you can find out what the latest version available is by seeing what above download redirects to
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$ wget -S --spider "https://discord.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=tar.gz" 2>&1 | grep Location:
Location: https://stable.dl2.discordapp.net/apps/linux/0.0.72/discord-0.0.72.tar.gz [following]
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I was going to do something similar to you using that info, check for version change, generate new ebuild, generate manifest but decided to be lazy and did a live ebuild instead. Just have to emerge again when discord demands an update. |
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Max Steel
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Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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Location: My own world! I and Gentoo!
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| Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 11:55 am Post subject: |
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Oh yeah, i do that too... Not with the meta-live-autoupdate ebuild but in local overlay bumping versions every week.
And i dont get why... That ebuild only installs like an chromium engine for their webapp anyway. It's not like they publish new features any now and then. It's just an chromium engine installed and a little starter which downloads the app anyway to local home storage.
I like the "discordrantoverlay" name for that. Please do that if it's working.
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