giFT gnutella plugin is claiming that it's too old?[SOLVED]

L3mP · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 70

The output from giftd -v:

L3mP · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 70

is there really no one who has experienced this?
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L3mP · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 70

alright.. figured it out my self.. the plugin had a nasty rutine to check the start-time of the plugin so I simply removed it in the source recompiled it and installed the new libGnutella again.. now the baby spins

an ugly hack.. but that's what open source is about sometimes
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bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

Sorry, but since I'm not that great of a hacker, what did you do to do this? All I can think of is to extract gift-gnutella*.tar.bz2, look through some of the source code, comment out/remove the said lines, then tar & bunzip the files back into the package, but in keeping with portage's normal way of emerging programs, how would I get it to extract the files to the right folder?

nm, found out how. emerge gift-gnutella, then when it start the ./configure script, control+z, edit the src/gt_gnutella.c file, then fg, and then you can safely continue using emerge

Caustiq · n00b Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 57

I encountered this problem as well. The above methods worked, but feel dirty.

Any idea why this happened in the first place?

glitch13 · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:55 pm Post subject:

Apparently the gnutella plugin had some timer code in it so that old clients wouldn't connect to the network thus crapping it up. Unfortunately, that haven't updated the plugin in the span of time the "timeout" occurs, so it's just defunct right now.

Gift's forums have quite a few posts with people complaining about it http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=108385. I would hope they're gonna remedy it soon.

^jimmy^

amoebapr · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:28 am Post subject:

Thank you very much! I never thought of halting the emerge process! Genius!

Regards,

Jordan.

xbmodder · Guru Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 404

genuis i say!
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Pluvius · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:15 am Post subject:

Mine is still not running. I even tried the shell script to update the gewebcache file of Gnutella hosts. Problem is that I am trying to set giFT up on the box as a server. When I update the hosts, I see the new node file but when I start giFT it seems to wipe them out. Still no joy for Gnutella servers.

Pluvius

nahpets · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:57 pm Post subject:

thanks for saving me a few hours.

kosh_narek · n00b Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 10 Location: Brasil

Thank you very much!

riksta · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 5:15 am Post subject:

I have to say well done on this one, for the simple fact that I have never thought about doing a CTRL+Z to stop an emerge and edit a file in the /var/tmp/portage directory

I am sure this will come in extremely handy for me plenty of times in the future, so thank you for the inspiration

Rick