Compile

Compile.conf is the file where you can configure the various paths and URLs used by Compile.

It is stored at /Programs/Compile/Settings/Compile/Compile.conf – which, once installed, has a link at /System/Settings/Compile/Compile.conf (if you’re used to the GoboLinux tree, you should know by now that this is the same as /etc/Compile/Compile.conf).

These are the usual contents of the file:

Your name here so that credit is added to recipes.

compileRecipeAuthor="Paul McCartney"
# example only! change the name (unless of course, you're Paul ;) )

The standard locations for your local Compile files.

compileDir="${goboPrefix}/Files/Compile"
compileArchivesDir="$compileDir/Archives"
compileSourcesDir="$compileDir/Sources"
compileRecipeDirs="$compileDir/Recipes"

Some of the main free software repositories are treated especially: recipes use these variables in their url declarations, so that you can pick your favorite mirror without having to edit recipes one by one:

ftpGnu=ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/
ftpAlphaGnu=ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/
httpSourceforge=http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/

The Compile recipe tree is managed by Git. The git repository and the upstream branch are both configurable through the following variables:

compileRecipesRepository=https://github.com/gobolinux/Recipes.git
compileUpstreamBranch=master

A variable to set the “make” command called by Compile. ColorMake provides the highlighting that GoboLinux has by default:

compileMakeCommand="ColorMake"

Options to use with the make command. This can be used to run multiple threads in parallel on different CPUs or for other customisation:

compileMakeOptions="-j2"

GetAvailable

GetAvailable.conf is the file where you can configure paths and URLs used to locate binary packages.

It is stored at /Programs/Scripts/Settings/Scripts/GetAvailable.conf – which, once installed, has a link at /System/Settings/Scripts/GetAvailable.conf (if you’re used to the GoboLinux tree, you should know by now that this is the same as /etc/Scripts/GetAvailable.conf).

These are the usual contents of the file:

The timeout (in seconds) when trying to fetch the packages list from a sever.

timeout=15

The paths from which local packages will be automatically be found. Notice that both compressed (e.g. /Depot/Packages/Qt--4.0.0--i686.tar.bz2) and uncompressed (e.g. /Mount/SquashFS/Programs/Qt/4.0.0) packages can be matched.

defaultLocalPackagesPaths=(
"/Depot/Packages"
"/Mount/SquashFS/Programs"
"/Mount/CD-ROM/Depot/Packages/"
"."
)

The URLS from which lists of official binary packages (packed by some core developer) will be retrieved.

officialPackagesLists=(
'http://kundor.org/gobo/packages/official/MANIFEST.bz2'
'http://gobo.calica.com/packages/official/MANIFEST.bz2'
)

The URLS from which lists of contributed binary packages (contributed by some user, and placed, without garanties, at our servers) will be retrieved.

contribPackagesLists=(
'http://kundor.org/gobo/packages/contrib/MANIFEST.bz2'
'http://gobo.calica.com/packages/contrib/MANIFEST.bz2'
)

The URLS from which lists of tracked versions will be retrieved. A tracked version is a program version that actually may not have a correspondent Recipe or binary package, but that is already made available by the program developers

trackedVersionsLists=(
'http://gobolinux.org/version-tracker/TrackedVersions.bz2'
)