Re: Is geda-gaf in debian?
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:18:14 +0100
Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-09-20 at 05:09 +0000, Frank Miles wrote:
> > [...] It's simply odd that the packages derived from geda-gaf do
> > not contain the gaf utility {none of the derived binary packages
> > seem to have it, not even geda-utils}.
>
> Is 'gaf' meant to be a separate program? I'm running Debian Jessie and
> seem to have all the utilities listed on
> http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:gaf
>
> I have these geda packages installed
> geda
> geda-doc
> geda-examples
> geda-gattrib
> geda-gnetlist
> geda-gschem
> geda-gsymcheck
> geda-symbols
> geda-utils
> geda-xgsch2pcb
>
> and "dpkg-query -L geda-utils" gives these
>
> /usr/bin/sw2asc
> /usr/bin/sarlacc_schem
> /usr/bin/schdiff
> /usr/bin/tragesym
> /usr/bin/pads_backannotate
> /usr/bin/olib
> /usr/bin/convert_sym
> /usr/bin/garchive
> /usr/bin/gmk_sym
> /usr/bin/grenum
> /usr/bin/gsch2pcb
> /usr/bin/sarlacc_sym
> /usr/bin/gschlas
> /usr/bin/gsymfix
> /usr/bin/smash_megafile
> /usr/bin/refdes_renum
> /usr/bin/gxyrs
> /usr/bin/pcb_backannotate
>
> Which utilities specifically where you looking for?
>
>
This rings a bell. I needed gaf (a separate utility with some new
graphic rendering features) for a project over a year ago [1], and it
only existed in geda-gaf 1.9.0 and later. This never seems to have got
near Debian, which has nothing later than 1.8.2, but I must have found
it somewhere.
It's quite odd, I really don't recall compiling it, but my binary files
seem to have no identification, are all dated 25th May 2013, and I can
find no trace of a downloaded .deb or similar. I have to conclude that I
did compile it, presumably from source straight from the geda site. The
binaries include gschem and gattrib, as well as gaf and the utilities
you list above and the complete symbol library.
There seems to be a few references to 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 packages, but
it all seems experimental so far. I think if gaf is needed, building
1.9.0 or 1.9.1 from source is still the only practical option.
[1] http://www.jre-systems.co.uk/geda/
--
Joe
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