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kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1552 Location: florida

This is a pet package of the latest slapt-get and Gslapt for Slackware 12. Slapt-get is a Slackware package manager and Gslapt is a GUI for it.

Gslapt will download any needed dependencies, so I made a list of slack packages that seem to be in Puppy 3.00beta. When you install the pet package it will populate /var/log/packages with package files, all empty, So don't try and remove any of these packages with Gslapt. Seems to work pretty well, but Puppy's menu structure is not compatible with slack, so menu entries won't show up.

After you install the package, restart JWM, connect to the internet and go to Menu - Setup - Gslapt. Then click update to get a new list of available packages.

BarryK · Posted: Thu 20 Sep 2007, 06:50 Post subject:

I wondered who would take that one on! Smile

Okay, I will see if I can fix the menu problem, so that Slackware entries will appear in Puppy's menu.

Lobster · Posted: Thu 20 Sep 2007, 07:12 Post subject:

Good news from Barry and Kirk Smile

Making Slackware binaries available is wonderful.

I think I may have to do a new web presentation for Puppy 3

Smile

thanks guys

iscraigh · Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 276

Worked great for me

Thanks

Craig

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1552 Location: florida

Tried to install kaffeine. It downloaded the acl package which is some kind of basic file handling package. I updated the pet package so that acl is showed installed.

This is experimental software, if you have dependency which gets installed and hoses everything up, let me know. Updated the original post. I guessed about the versions (and sometimes content) of many of the fake packages. Puppy packages don't directly correspond to slacks , but I think we can get close enough.

BarryK · Posted: Thu 20 Sep 2007, 20:17 Post subject:

Yeah, as it is experimental, let's aim at getting things sorted out for v3.01. I've got too much on my plate for v3.00, especially as I've got full-time work coming up on 24th, for 13 days.

BarryK · Posted: Thu 20 Sep 2007, 20:23 Post subject:

kirk,
what would be good is if Gslapt can do the same direct-install to the pup_save file in the case of Flash memory. It's quite easy, look in /usr/sbin/petget and search for the string "v2.21". But, Gslapt is compiled code isn't it? which is a problem... the source would probably have to be hacked to get that functionality, unless some kind of wrapper can be put around the executable.

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1552 Location: florida

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1552 Location: florida

BarryK · Posted: Fri 21 Sep 2007, 09:37 Post subject:

Yes, 'acl' is already in Puppy. You can see what's already there by doing this:
# grep '" on "' /root/.packages/packages.txt | cut -f 2 -d '"'
...although, I bunched all the Xorg packages into just a few.

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1552 Location: florida

I looked at /root/.packages/packages.txt and thought that was just a list of the unleashed packages, didn't notice the on/off. Embarassed

I'll check that list against the one I'm using and update the pet package I posted above. Might be a couple days.

Also, I contacted the developer of slapt-get about changing the install path root. He said you can do that by setting the the ROOT environment variable when running slapt-get and gslapt. So I tried it with:

export ROOT=/root/spot

and everything installed to /root/spot/...... Smile

Gslapt looked for /root/spot/var/log/packages and naturally didn't find it. Then I tried :

export ROOT=/initrd/pup_rw

And all seemed to work normally when I installed a package. Everything appeared on the top layer and Unionfs didn't seem to freak-out. Though I just installed a small package.

So just need to make little wrapper scripts for gslapt and slapt-get that tests the pupmode and sets the ROOT.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 22 Sep 2007, 05:17 Post subject:

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 739

tried to install this pack but it says that some libraries needed( libcurl e.g)
i use 2.16 now

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1552 Location: florida

This is only for puppy 3.00

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1552 Location: florida

Big update to the package list. I think it's pretty good now. Also, the pinstall.sh extracts puppy's package.txt file in to /var/log/packages too. So there are some duplicate packages with slightly different package names, but I don't think it matters. Gslapt only lists the ones that match the list it downloads. Tried using puppy's package.txt only, but too many differences with slack packages.

The goal with the package list is to minimize downloads and to prevent downloading somthing that uthenizes puppy.

Made wrapper scripts for slapt-get and gslapt to support direct-install to the pup_save file when using flash memory.

My wrapper scripts look like this: (Largely lifted from petget)

#!/bin/sh

. /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE
if [ $PUPMODE -eq 3 -o $PUPMODE -eq 7 -o $PUPMODE -eq 13 ];then
export ROOT=/initrd${SAVE_LAYER}
gslapt1
mount -t unionfs -o remount,incgen unionfs /
sync
else
gslapt1
fi

And one like it for slapt-get. Hopefully that's sufficient. Seems to work. Had to change my pinstall.sh to work with flash too.

Updated the file attached to the original post.