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01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Hi MHHP

Welcome to Woofdom!

How you ended up doing it is pretty much correct, however since there are no doc, dev, nls files uploaded for Firefox then you don't need that in the PKS_SPECS_TABLE variable, this will do:

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Hi Mick,

If not for your policy of tracking each Woof update, it looks like a RC. Frugal installation looks solid, only problem is one that I reported earlier about not being able to use ppm to download vlc from the spup repository which is probably a typo.

If you are ready for another challenge, take a look at TazOC's LHP5.0 G. In particular the code that he's used to automatically detect an ext4 partition and generate a 4fs save file. It would be great if Barry would include that capability in Woof again.

Any success on the latest Amarok?

Happy New Year,
Jim

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

MinHundHettePerro · Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 831 Location: SE

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 31 Dec 2010, 03:24 Post subject:

Hey 01micko, I compiled more goodies today. The former replaces xarchive, which is ancient, and the latter is a tool that creates the "Documents", "Music", "Videos", etc' directories all distros have. Haven't tested it, but it should refresh those once X starts, through the symlink in /root/Startup.

I'm also working on a coreutils package that replaces both the ancient coreutils (6.9 Shocked

) and deprecated mktemp all puppies have.

Then I want to write a browser installer, something similar to Quickpet's, but 100% generic and simple Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 31 Dec 2010, 04:13 Post subject:

welcome back Iguleder Smile

, Yes I like also like xarchiver better than xarchive, but lately with all the extra wrappers that it has and other features like installing deb's, tar.gz slack packages, etc its pretty fine tuned setup, other than the crappy tar.bz2 extraction for large sources. below are the current supported formats, I do like fileroller better than both, but it uses gconf and spup doesn't have that. Smile

, most the time I like having all 3 installed, it bridges the gaps Smile

ttuuxxx

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 31 Dec 2010, 04:35 Post subject:

You're right, ttuuxxx, xarchiver has some advantages too Laughing

I tried to compile the old File Roller from Debian Lenny and it failed hard because it wants half of GNOME ... so Xarchiver is a good compromise.

And here's my new Coreutils PET, it replaces both Coreutils 6.9 from Puppy 4.x (so goddamn ancient!) and mktemp ... and it's threaded. I haven't tested it yet but it should work ... some executables are emotionally attached to libpthread, multi-core machines should enjoy this Smile

And here's my brand new browser installer ... it needs my fetchpet in order to function.

Long live spup! This is so fun! Very Happy

EDIT: stupid typo.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 31 Dec 2010, 04:41 Post subject:

like your browser installer, simple yet effective.
ttuuxxx

Brown Mouse · Posted: Fri 31 Dec 2010, 07:00 Post subject:

I managed to break a couple of libs by installing Gimp 2.6.10 Lucid .pet.
Gimp 2.6.8 seems to work fine though.

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 31 Dec 2010, 13:24 Post subject:

Eek, the coreutils package broke xorgwizard and PPM. Rolling back to 6.9 ... Crying or Very sad

MinHundHettePerro · Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 831 Location: SE

Hello, all slack-woof gurus Smile

!

Yet, another noobish question:
suppose that I'd want to add Iguleder's spup repo (in addition to 01micko's) to a slack-woof build, and renaming the local db-file to Packages-puppy-spup-igu-official (Iguleder is moving so fast Wink

, so I'd like to add a spup identifier to the spup repo to distinguish it from any dpup/inpu/????-repo), would changing DISTRO_PET_REPOS like the following take care of the inclusion of his repo into my spup-builds?

MinHundHettePerro · Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 831 Location: SE

Yet, another noob question Smile

!

Background:
yesterday I was test-building a spup with openbox/obconf and found that obconf wouldn't work without some libxcb-* libs (I know I read something about it somewhen, somewhere, but cannot remember everything, can I Shocked

).

Today, I nicked the missing libs, and their symlinks, from a lupu install, made a .pet out of them and simply copied it into packages-pet and added it to Packages-puppy-spup-unofficial and included an entry for it in DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-slackware-13.1 after downloading files, but before building packages (guess I could've included the entries from the beginning and lived with the "Download-fails"-message).

Ok, it seems to work, still building the pup, though Smile

.

So, is there an easier/more proper way to include local .pets?

/wonders MHHP, the head-scratching, tinkering woof-noob Smile

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Iguleder · Posted: Fri 31 Dec 2010, 17:54 Post subject:

MinHundHettePerro · Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 831 Location: SE