[CentOS] Gnome weather applet stranded

Thu Aug 25 13:45:30 UTC 2016
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 08:33:46AM +0100, Nux! wrote:
> I've rebuilt libmateweather for EL7 with the aforementioned patch and it seems to have fixed the issue.
> Feel free to use it until EPEL package the fix.
> 
> http://li.nux.ro/download/nux//tmp/libmateweather7/

thanks Nux! 

I installed it and it now gets current conditions just fine.

but I tried several different locations and all of them say that there
is no forecast available. Possible coincidence??

Fred
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nux!" <nux at li.nux.ro>
> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, 25 August, 2016 08:13:00
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Gnome weather applet stranded
> 
> > Fred,
> > 
> > Check here
> > https://git.gnome.org/browse/libgweather/tree/libgweather/weather-metar.c?h=gnome-2-30
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Fred Smith" <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
> >> To: centos at centos.org
> >> Sent: Thursday, 25 August, 2016 02:17:27
> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Gnome weather applet stranded
> > 
> >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:22:58PM +0100, Nux! wrote:
> >>> It looks like it was quickly fixed in MATE, hope EPEL moves fast... :)
> >>> 
> >>> https://github.com/mate-desktop/libmateweather/issues/30#issuecomment-242190096
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> >> 
> >> Just for grins, I've been looking through the sources for the version
> >> I'm running that does not contain the fix. Either I"m blind, or there's
> >> a whole lot of obscurity built in there. I cannot, for the life of me,
> >> find where it hides the URL it goes to to get the weather data. Since
> >> there ought to be a fix coming down the pipe Real Soon Now, I won't
> >> sorry about it, but it woulda been nice if I coulda figured it out. :(
> >> 
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