Follow up on 'Wrapping vala for cross with xbps-src'

Preface

This is a small post making some corrections about the previous. It is heavily recommended you read that one before coming to this one.

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Wrapping vala for cross with xbps-src

Preface

This is a continuation of crossing the gir, it is highly recommended you read it before.

Introduction

Today we are going to make vala work with cross compilation, it currently already compiles with it, but there are a few problems with projects that generate vala bindings.

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Second followup on 'How its done'

Introduction

Some time back i asked Cogitri to start writing about his exploits with his projects like gxi and tmplgen, he got around to it and started by looking at my setup.

Needless to say we exchanged quite a few things and it got me into finishing the restructuring of my blog. So let's start with the changes i have done before.

This can be considered the third follow up with the second one being weighting the pages

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mk-changelog: small changelog script

Introduction

Cogitri approached me with a problem, he is writing amazing projects such as gxi and tmplgen and he is a big fan of the AngularJS git commit guidelines.

So he adopted those guidelines for his projects and so far it has been working out fine for him, but he now wants to create release notes using those commits, but sadly all generators he found were heavyweight and feature-packed, he wanted something simple he could stick in his new release script and be done with it.

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Updating packages with tmplgen

Introduction

This is a follow up tutorial on my first tutorial, Reading that is highly recommended and it is assumed you already know the basics covered in that.

Today i saw a package needed updating, ruby-faraday_middleware. A great opportunity to write this article in how tmplgen can help you keep your language specific packages updated.

./xbps-src update-check srcpkgs/ruby-faraday_middleware
ruby-faraday_middleware-0.13.0 -> ruby-faraday_middleware-0.13.1
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