Xfce 4.2.beta 1 released (graphical installer patch)

[Sami Samhuri]

* On Sun Oct-03-2004 at 03:40:11 PM +0200, Benedikt Meurer said:
> 
> A graphical installer for 4.2BETA1 is also ready and available for 
> download here:
> 
> ftp://os-cillation.com/installers/xfce4-4.2beta1-installer.bin

I just installed from CVS last night, so this was a nice surprise since
I didn't feel like doing the conf/make/inst thing again.

I ran into a problem trying to run the installer scripts, but it turned
out to be quite trivial. I'm running coreutils-5.2.1 on Gentoo, and it
looks like it doesn't like 'tail +53...' (I recall messages about it's
use being deprecated, guess it's no longer supported!)

Adding '-n' does the trick, and it only needs to be done for the first
call to tail in gtk-xfce-engines-20040930-installer.bin and
xfce4-4.2beta1-installer.bin. I did not try the other scripts so I can't
say if they work or not. Though it may be easier to hand edit them, I
included a patch anyways.

Great work with 4.2, I've only had one problem so far and I'm going to
search bugzilla to see if it's been reported yet, but maybe not tonight
since it's 1.30am. :|

I guess this is a good time to say thanks for Xfce, it really is a joy
to use AND look at. :)

-- 
Sami Samhuri
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diff -aur xfce4.bunk/gtk-xfce-engines-20040930-installer.bin xfce4/gtk-xfce-engines-20040930-installer.bin
--- xfce4.bunk/gtk-xfce-engines-20040930-installer.bin	2004-10-04 01:16:53.753519000 -0700
+++ xfce4/gtk-xfce-engines-20040930-installer.bin	2004-10-04 01:26:21.272243832 -0700
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
 echo "Extracting the installer..."
 
-if ! tail +53 $0 | bzcat | tar xf - -C ${INSTDIR} 2>/dev/null; then
+if ! tail -n +53 $0 | bzcat | tar xf - -C ${INSTDIR} 2>/dev/null; then
 	if ! tail -n +53 $0 | bzcat | tar xf - -C ${INSTDIR} 2> /dev/null; then
 		echo "Extraction failed, the installation file is corrupted." >&2
 		rm -rf ${INSTDIR}
diff -aur xfce4.bunk/xfce4-4.2beta1-installer.bin xfce4/xfce4-4.2beta1-installer.bin
--- xfce4.bunk/xfce4-4.2beta1-installer.bin	2004-10-04 01:13:39.439060000 -0700
+++ xfce4/xfce4-4.2beta1-installer.bin	2004-10-04 01:25:05.072827904 -0700
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
 echo "Extracting the installer..."
 
-if ! tail +53 $0 | bzcat | tar xf - -C ${INSTDIR} 2>/dev/null; then
+if ! tail -n +53 $0 | bzcat | tar xf - -C ${INSTDIR} 2>/dev/null; then
 	if ! tail -n +53 $0 | bzcat | tar xf - -C ${INSTDIR} 2> /dev/null; then
 		echo "Extraction failed, the installation file is corrupted." >&2
 		rm -rf ${INSTDIR}
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