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L18L
 Joined: 19 Jun 2010 Posts: 3493 Location: www.eussenheim.de/ |
pot file contains then:
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 15041 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hello, all. How does a user replace in PPM's the old ftp or http addresses for Ubuntu or Debian distros whose depots have been moved? It would be a shame to ditch because of this the excellent work of 666philb on vividpup, or of pemasu on UpupRaring and WheezyPup. . Thanks in advance. musher0 _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) |
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mavrothal
 Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 3108 |
Got it. Thanks! We'll do. If you come other similar strings please let us know. _________________ == Here is how to solve your Linux problems fast == Last edited by mavrothal on Wed 14 Oct 2015, 23:50; edited 1 time in total |
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mavrothal
Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 3108 |
Since the original, the repo addresses of the binary compatible distro are in /root/.packages/DISTRO_COMPAT_REPOS. Are part of the WOOF puppy building process and were never changed by PPM... _________________ == Here is how to solve your Linux problems fast == |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 15041 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Thank you, Mr. Terse. If you'd kindly elaborate, we will be grateful.. _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) |
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mavrothal
Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 3108 |
I believe my answer is addressing your question. You may want to ask a better question if you are not happy with the answers you are getting. _________________ == Here is how to solve your Linux problems fast == |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 15041 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hello mavrothal. It isn't, but I thank you nevertheless for at least the time you spent typing your insult. One forum member has provided one answer, and others have offered either a pointer to it, or some help as to the focus of the question, so I won't be bothering you any further. Here's the funny thing about questions: when they first pop up in your head, they're often fuzzy. You may wish to think about that -- or not. BFN. musher0 _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) |
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darry1966
 Joined: 26 Feb 2012 Posts: 897 |
If I understand MusherO correctly he wants to know if you can edit PPM2 like apt-get sources list - pretty simple question. Especially if sources change and they do, or you want a faster mirror. |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 15041 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Thanks for the moral support, darry1966. I just put augras' solution to the test in upup-Raring-3.9.9.2. I did everything right, I think, followed augras' instructions, updated the dB's, etc. The PPM now lists the files from the http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ site, but it doesn't download any of them because it can't get the filesize on my system. Beats me. In any case... patience is a virtue!  We'll see this bug through, I'm sure.
I think it would be useful to have this feature in PPM because eventually all ubuntu- based Pups will end up in this situation, which is no fun for the user. The user who finds a Puppy distro (s)he likes will want to keep it as long as possible, so I think (s)he would appreciate having this feature. (Provided by augras' pet or otherwise, it doesn't really matter, IMO.) Other distros have a longer life-cycle, but they'll end up in that situation too. BFN. musher0 _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 15041 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hello all. I risked plucking Iguleder's edit of PPM2 for LibrePup out of librepup and grafting it in UpupRaring (after proper back-up of the original UpupRaring PPM). It worked fine. This version gave me more to go on than UpupRaring's original version. It seems the problem is with the filesize determination on the ubuntu servers, not on my system. (Please see screen capture.) Iguleder's PPM2 provided me with enough info to go to the depot and download the files I wanted. Not ideal, but better than nothing. Once there, I noted that the old.releases.ubuntu.com server was slow as hell. So maybe their speed is causing the bug. Anyway, this is not a complaint; it's intended to be a contribution, however incomplete, towards solving a bug. BFN. musher0 ~~~~~~~~~ P.S. As a result, I now have a .tar.lzo archive of Iguleder's PPM2 in librepup. If anyone's interested, leave me a note? Cheers.
_________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) |
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mavrothal
Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 3108 |
Boy, you are annoying! Now, for the rest of the puppians, so they may not get into potential trouble: Iguleder did and does many great things for puppy and among those was to rewrite recently the source of 3 binary files, debdb2pupdb, find_cat and printcols, that are used by woof during puppy building and PPM during database update, to process of downloaded database to a puppy understandable format. So, besides a considerable speed up in the processing the the already downloaded databases during database update, there is no difference what so ever in PPM UI, download handling, or other inner workings from what is in woof-CE. So unless you have a problem in your older system with the processing of the databases being slow after their download, I would suggest to save yourself the trouble. If you do have a problem with the database processing speed, I would suggest to download the new 32 bit or 64 bit binaries of the above files from woof-CE directly to your system. Better yet update to one of the upcoming puppies (libre or otherwise) with all the changes included.
_________________ == Here is how to solve your Linux problems fast == Last edited by mavrothal on Fri 16 Oct 2015, 06:50; edited 2 times in total |
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greengeek
 Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 5834 Location: Republic of Novo Zelande |
I don't pretend to understand much of what is under the hood in Puppy, but I am trying to follow this conversation and as far as i can tell the clue is in the file mavrothal referred to: /root/.packages/DISTRO_COMPAT_REPOS Doesn't this file list the download url? Is it as simple as changing that file to make the PPM look elsewhere? Or have I missed the point? My file contains the following:
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mavrothal
Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 3108 |
Yes _________________ == Here is how to solve your Linux problems fast == |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 15041 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
For ease of reading, the asterisks below correspond to asterisks I introduced in Mr. Terse's message above. * At least you're uttering real words now, and they seem to have some logic to them! Yes I said "logic" but qualified it with "some logic". Whether I condone your logic or not is an enttirely different matter. As to my being annoying with you, you can rest assured that I'm only starting! 
** Of course a "considerable speed up in the processing" is of no interest to anyone. Also, probably invisible to your eyes, Iguleder's version (have you even tried it?) produced more usable info in its error reports than the PPM's originally provided with UpupRaring-3.9.9.2 or even TahrPup. *** I suppose there are huge diffs between those repos and what's in the existing /usr/local/petget folder in LibrePup. No doubt Iguleder tele-ported the PPM he included in LibrePup-6.0.2 from Mars. **** Update to some still green and iffy Puppy that produces random errors, and lose the functionalities of a Puppy that never failed? You have to be kidding. UpupRaring should be the new Puppy benchmark. Also, to run comfortably, some new Puppies require more modern machines than some of us can afford at this time. Finally, your mentality about updates is too close to M$'s to be of any comfort in the Puppy context. Best regards. musher0 _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) |
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L18L
Joined: 19 Jun 2010 Posts: 3493 Location: www.eussenheim.de/ |
Just a friendly terse reminder. Hope that helps |
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