[Slackbuilds-users] configobj split and moved, scripts updated

2024-10-06 Thread B. Watson
I've split libraries/configobj in two. The new builds are python/python2-configobj and python/python3-configobj, and configobj is being removed. All scripts that depended on configobj have had their REQUIRES updated, so they will now depend on either python2-configobj or python3-configobj. The

[Slackbuilds-users] Does anyone use mfe?

2024-10-04 Thread B. Watson
I'm in the process of updating configobj, so I'm testing out everything that depends on it... mfe will compile and run with the new configobj, but fails to launch mednafen due to an unsupported "-nes.vblur" command line option. I dug into the mednafen source and changelog... this option was rem

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] tre update to 0.9.0

2024-10-01 Thread B. Watson
On Tue, 1 Oct 2024, Ruben Schuller wrote: Unfortunately, I really haven't used vis in a long while. I think if it compiles, there should be no problem. The fiddly part with vis was getting lua right IIRC :) It's a text editor, I was able to use it to edit text at least. I'm probably never g

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] What's with x265?

2024-09-28 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, Luveh Keraph wrote: In the 21st September update x265 was upgraded to version 4.0. In the 28th September update it has been downgraded to version 3.6. Is there a problem with x265 version 4.0? Was that you asking on IRC? If not... apparently mpv has problems with x265

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] my updates (crawl, kuickshow, moria, tome-ah)

2024-09-28 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, j+sbo-us...@maschinengott.de wrote: https://ntietz.com/blog/git-mailmap-for-name-changes/ That would made his commit log appear to have to new name for all his commits, on *his* computer(s)... but it would only work for everyone else if we all installed his .mailmap fil

[Slackbuilds-users] tre update to 0.9.0

2024-09-27 Thread B. Watson
I'm about to update libraries/tre to version 0.9.0. scalpel (Klaatu) and vis (Ruben Schuller) depend on tre. I've checked that these both build with the new tre, but I didn't do much runtime testing (vis at least starts up and regex searches work, no idea how to use scalpel). If you want to te

[Slackbuilds-users] kitty-bin removal

2024-09-24 Thread B. Watson
Will anyone miss kitty-bin if it goes away? I'm removing it because it's a binary repack, and it requires newer libraries than Slackware 15.0 has (though it does ship with its own set of precompiled libs, if I wanted to deal with the resulting mess). Also because the regular kitty build is a muc

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] hardinfo2

2024-09-24 Thread B. Watson
On Tue, 24 Sep 2024, Didier Spaier wrote: most distributions are now shipping hardinfo2, that supersedes hardinfo. I suggest that someone (David, who maintains hardinfo?) provide a SlackBuild for it. I went ahead and wrote/submitted a SlackBuild for hardinfo2. David Golus hasn't been activ

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Taking over viking and gpsd pkgs

2024-09-24 Thread B. Watson
On Tue, 24 Sep 2024, K. Eugene Carlson wrote: I'll take darktable, flickurl and osm-gps-map. Excellent. Go ahead & send updates with your name/email in the .info file, even if no other changes are needed. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBu

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Taking over viking and gpsd pkgs

2024-09-23 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 23 Sep 2024, Roberto Puzzanghera via SlackBuilds-users wrote: Is it safe at this point to consider those packages abandoned? Yes, you've been very patient. Go ahead and take over viking and gpsd as soon as you're ready. This means that all of David Spencer's builds are up for grabs

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Sbopkglint failure due wrong permission of a file installed by update-mime-database

2024-09-22 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 22 Sep 2024, Didier Spaier wrote: Before I convey the message on LQ I just checked in an up to date Slackware64-current, including the package shared-mime-info-2.4-x86_64-1 typing as root: /usr/bin/update-mime-database /usr/share/mime and after that found all files in /usr/share/mime/

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] add the option -c to the mandb command in man-db.cron (follow-up)

2024-09-19 Thread B. Watson
On Thu, 19 Sep 2024, Didier Spaier wrote: Patrick Volkerding has done it for Slackware-current as shown on top of http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=x86_64 Nice! but not for slackware 15.0 as requested :( Ugh, miscommunication. I didn't actually want 15.0 to get that cha

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Follow-up of https://app.matera.eu/messages?topic_id=396674

2024-09-18 Thread B. Watson
On Wed, 18 Sep 2024, Didier Spaier wrote: I could be this someone, however I do not see a mandb command in /etc/cron.daily/man-db and am not acquainted with man-db This is the mandb command: ionice -c3 nice -n 19 /usr/bin/mandb --quiet What changes should I request in this file (attached

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Follow-up of https://app.matera.eu/messages?topic_id=396674

2024-09-18 Thread B. Watson
On Wed, 18 Sep 2024, Didier Spaier wrote: I could be this someone, however I do not see a mandb command in /etc/cron.daily/man-db and am not acquainted with man-db What changes should I request in this file (attached)? Before you actually ask PV for that, someone's gotta verify that the "m

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Sbopkglint failure due wrong permission of a file installed by update-mime-database

2024-09-17 Thread B. Watson
On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Greg Tourte wrote: indeed it looks like on current, all files in /usr/share/mime/application are 755. The version of update-mime-database on -current is 2.4 as opposed to 2.1 on -stable, but I could not find any configuration files for it (I don't think there is any). I

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Sbopkglint failure due wrong permission of a file installed by update-mime-database

2024-09-17 Thread B. Watson
On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Giancarlo Dessì wrote: Hi trying to solve an issue reported by Willy for birdfont package, sbopkglint returns this message: Running test: 05-basic-sanity... --- usr/share/mime should not contain files with executable permission: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 362 set 17 17:02

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Maybe Taking Over Some Packages

2024-09-16 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Charadon via SlackBuilds-users wrote: Do you have a link to that sbosubmit tool? That sounds very handy! This looks like it: https://github.com/atelszewski/sbosubmit I've never actually *used* sbosubmit, I only know about this because I had written my own sbosubmit to

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Taking over maintainership of perl-Variable-Magic

2024-09-16 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Charadon via SlackBuilds-users wrote: I attempted to contact j...@jagda.eu to update it, but the e-mail bounced, so it's safe to say all his packages are orphaned. Jan F. Chadima's last activity on SBo was October 2020, so yes, I'd say the builds are orphaned. I'd sugg

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Taking over maintainership of perl-Variable-Magic

2024-09-16 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Charadon via SlackBuilds-users wrote: I attempted to contact j...@jagda.eu to update it, but the e-mail bounced, so it's safe to say all his packages are orphaned. My reasoning for wanting it updated is because perl-Variable-Magic fails to build on -current, and I need

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: Proposed mandb additions to doinst/douninst template

2024-09-16 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Duncan Roe wrote: D'oh! I only meant to touch *newly installed* files. Would need to run find at build time and append touch commands to doinst.sh. Yeah. That wouldn't really be any simpler or better than the previous idea (generated doinst.sh with 1 "mandb -f" command

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: Proposed mandb additions to doinst/douninst template

2024-09-16 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Duncan Roe wrote: [ ! -d usr/man ] || find usr/man -type f -a -name '*.gz' | xargs -r touch to install/doinst.sh. The man pages are now modified at install time so the daily mandb will process them. Or am I missing something? I meant to mention in the previous message

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Reverting system/busybox to Default Build Configurations

2024-09-16 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 15 Sep 2024, Jeremy Hansen wrote: Personally, unless you know why the previous maintainer chose static, if might be worth making the default shared, and, if you desire (since you're the maintainer), you can make an option to make a static version. I'm not the previous maintainer b

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: Proposed mandb additions to doinst/douninst template

2024-09-16 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Duncan Roe wrote: I just thought of a simpler way. Append [ ! -d usr/man ] || find usr/man -type f -a -name '*.gz' | xargs -r touch to install/doinst.sh. The man pages are now modified at install time so the daily mandb will process them. It's the timestamps of the ma

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Maybe Taking Over Some Packages

2024-09-15 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 14 Sep 2024, lumin--- via SlackBuilds-users wrote: system/busybox Maintainer mail server timing out, package behind many versions. Jan F. Chadima hasn't been active since 2020. Go ahead and take this one over. Looks like Chadima has a lot more builds that need maintainers. A

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Taking over viking and gpsd pkgs

2024-09-12 Thread B. Watson
On Thu, 12 Sep 2024, Roberto Puzzanghera via SlackBuilds-users wrote: I contacted the maintainer of viking and gpsd (viking's dep) on September 1, using two different email addresses, also I tried to contact him last year, but I've never got any responce. Did you already try to contact him

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: Proposed mandb additions to doinst/douninst template

2024-09-11 Thread B. Watson
On Wed, 11 Sep 2024, Nick Smallbone wrote: I just learned that find has a -printf flag which can be used to format the output, avoiding the need for sed/awk altogether: find usr/man -type f -a -name '*.gz' \ -printf "chroot . /usr/bin/mandb -f '/%p' &> /dev/null\n" \ >> install/doins

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: Proposed mandb additions to doinst/douninst template

2024-09-10 Thread B. Watson
On Wed, 11 Sep 2024, K. Eugene Carlson wrote: >   find usr/man -type f -a -name '*.gz' | \ >     sed -e 's,^,chroot . /usr/bin/mandb -f "/,' \ >         -e 's,$," \&>/dev/null,' \ >     >> install/doinst.sh My only suggestion would be to use "-type f,l". Almost 20% of all man pages are symli

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: Proposed mandb additions to doinst/douninst template

2024-09-10 Thread B. Watson
On Wed, 11 Sep 2024, KB_SBo wrote: After lurking around this idea a bit, I'm still having trouble understanding why this is needed. Speed? Convenience? Purity of Spirit? To Fix That Which Is Broken. For "man -k", "whatis", "apropos" commands to work. Not just "right after package install",

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: Proposed mandb additions to doinst/douninst template

2024-09-09 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 8 Sep 2024, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: Yeah I get the same behavior on -current and on Debian, this must be the intended behavior of mandb. Anyway, sounds good but why should we hide errors from the user? And it's a bit worrying that mandb manpage says that -f 'is not for general use',

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: Proposed mandb additions to doinst/douninst template

2024-09-07 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 7 Sep 2024, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: Out of curiosity I checked how Debian is managing manpages because I remember "Processing triggers for man-db" being printed every time a package is installed and I verified that man -k works immediately after the package is installed: This is g

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] oidentd

2024-09-07 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 7 Sep 2024, dchme...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/7/24 1:37 AM, B. Watson wrote: On Sat, 7 Sep 2024, dchme...@gmail.com wrote:     If anyone uses oidentd on servers, please consider taking it over. oidentd is maintained by Mario Preksavec... who appears to be an active maintainer (last

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] oidentd

2024-09-07 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 7 Sep 2024, dchme...@gmail.com wrote:     If anyone uses oidentd on servers, please consider taking it over.  oidentd is maintained by Mario Preksavec... who appears to be an active maintainer (last activity was July 2, 2024, taking over as maintainer of rtl-sdr). Have you contacted

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Can I take over maintainership of perl-local-lib?

2024-09-06 Thread B. Watson
On Fri, 6 Sep 2024, Charadon via SlackBuilds-users wrote: Sounds good, i'll probably get it updated sometime next week =) Since we have a weekly update tonight, I'm going to go ahead and change the .info file for perl-local-lib, put your name and email there. After that, you can take as muc

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Can I take over maintainership of perl-local-lib?

2024-09-06 Thread B. Watson
On Fri, 6 Sep 2024, Charadon via SlackBuilds-users wrote: I haven't been able to get in contact with the maintainer, and it looks like he hasn't contributed since 2017. Right now it's extremely out of date, fails to build on -current, and is considered x86_64 even though it should be noarch

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Please Remove pigz.tar.gz from Pending

2024-09-05 Thread B. Watson
On Thu, 5 Sep 2024, Brandon Pribula wrote: I recently took over maintenance of pigz and submitted a new package with updated maintainer info earlier this week. I was able to do a version bump to 2.8 today. I was wondering if I could have pigz removed from pending so I can submit the new one

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Upgrade Request for graphics/optipng, Maintainer Email Bounce

2024-09-04 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 2 Sep 2024, Red Rozenglass via SlackBuilds-users wrote: I sent such an Email today to the maintainer of graphics/optipng, but the Email bounced undeliverable. Perhaps they are subscribed to the list here with a new address. So, here's the request again: Looking at the git

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Orphaning my SlackBuilds

2024-09-02 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 1 Sep 2024, Dominik Drobek wrote: graphics/gcolor2: obsolete, but I'm not aware of an equivalent GTK+3 version. network/macchanger: at latest version. Mature, hasn't been updated in years. I'll take these two. There actually is a gcolor3: https://github.com/Hjdskes/gcolor3 ...but

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Orphaning my SlackBuilds

2024-09-01 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 1 Sep 2024, Jeremy Hansen wrote: I would love to see a change like this on SBo for known unmaintained scripts. It would be immediately obvious what scripts are considered unmaintained. They can remain that way until they no longer build and are removed or they are taken over by someon

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Orphaning my SlackBuilds

2024-09-01 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 2 Sep 2024, Dominik Drobek wrote: Thank you Brandon and Diniz, I'm sure these SlackBuilds are in good hands now. :) As for the remaining ones - could we mark them as orphaned by changing their .info files? For example, Gentoo people use "maintainer-nee...@gentoo.org" as email addr

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] nginx maintenance

2024-09-01 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 1 Sep 2024, David Chmelik wrote: Please do so!  Once a friend took over one of my SlackBuilds but wanted to leave my name & information as the maintainer, and not add his, due to SlackBuilds being copyrighted, and did so for at least one update.  We'd rather people not do that. Aft

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] nginx maintenance

2024-09-01 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 1 Sep 2024, Roberto Puzzanghera via SlackBuilds-users wrote: I would estimate that about 25% of our repo is effectively unmaintained. We really need folks to step up and take over anything they need or are interested in. I would be happy to be a new entry. But something is not clea

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] nginx maintenance

2024-08-31 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 31 Aug 2024, Eugen Wissner wrote: Larry Hajali (the maintainer) doesn't seem to be active anymore. I've found a commit message from 2022 about his other script, multimedia/kodi (commit bce52521d6): Larry has not responded to several email messages and it seems no others have been ab

[Slackbuilds-users] Bill Kirkpatrick's builds

2024-08-26 Thread B. Watson
I emailed Bill Kirkpatrick about one of his builds... he's no longer maintaining anything. This may have been posted to the list before, but I'll post it again. These builds need maintainers, if anyone's interested: desktop/wally games/xye libraries/libdca libraries/libshout libraries/live555

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: Proposed mandb additions to doinst/douninst template

2024-08-25 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 25 Aug 2024, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: ### in doinst.sh: # DESCRIPTION: Updates the man database (for "man -k"). # Use one "man -f" command for each man page in the package. if [ -x usr/bin/mandb ]; then usr/bin/mandb -f usr/man/man1/program.1.gz fi so there is no easier way than

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: Proposed mandb additions to doinst/douninst template

2024-08-24 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 24 Aug 2024, B. Watson wrote: Thinking of adding this to the doinst template: ### in doinst.sh: # DESCRIPTION: Updates the man database (for "man -k"). # Use one "man -f" command for each man page in the package. if [ -x usr/bin/mandb ]; then usr/bin/mandb -f

[Slackbuilds-users] RFC: Proposed mandb additions to doinst/douninst template

2024-08-23 Thread B. Watson
Thinking of adding this to the doinst template: ### in doinst.sh: # DESCRIPTION: Updates the man database (for "man -k"). # Use one "man -f" command for each man page in the package. if [ -x usr/bin/mandb ]; then usr/bin/mandb -f usr/man/man1/program.1.gz fi ### in douninst.sh: # DESCRIPTION

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] my slackbuilds, including treesheets

2024-08-23 Thread B. Watson
On Fri, 23 Aug 2024, glenn_e_becker via SlackBuilds-users wrote: lbreakout2 Possibly lbreakout2 could just disappear. Its developer replaced it with an SDL2 remake called lbreakouthd, which has an active maintainer on SBo. The lbreakout2 web site says "(!!!)This game is no longer maintained

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] python/xopen

2024-08-19 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 19 Aug 2024, Brandon Pribula wrote: IIRC new builds have to be submitted through the main site but for future reference is it still acceptable to submit updates to the list or do we have to submit through gitlab or github? You can submit updates through the website, just like new

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Issues with tkimg

2024-08-18 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 18 Aug 2024, M Wedin wrote: I aim to install mcu8051ide These are the packages to be installed. Dependencies are indented mcu8051ide bwidget itcl ! tkimg tcllib tDOM gumbo-parser There is no libtiff on SBo. I searched and installed all of *jbig* I could find. No success.

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] SlackBuilds up for grabs

2024-08-17 Thread B. Watson
On Fri, 16 Aug 2024, Petar Petrov wrote: dear All, I am not using Slackware at the moment and I am not sure if I will be coming back to it any time soon. Therefore, please consider all my SlackBuilds as being up for grabs. If, at some point, I do return to Slackware, I will do updates, but i

[Slackbuilds-users] About to update libtommath on SBo

2024-08-13 Thread B. Watson
Heads up to maintainers. I'm about to update libtommath from 1.2.1 to 1.3.0. I did some testing with it, but anyone whose build depends on it might want to do their own testing. If your build is on this list: https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?stype=revdep&q=libtommath ...you should check

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Phillip Warner's builds

2024-08-12 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 12 Aug 2024, B. Watson wrote: I'd recommend Bob Funk as the new maintainer of gnome-mplayer and its dependency gmtk, since he maintains the GNOME stack... how about it, Bob? Addendum: devilspie looks gnomish, too (depends on gnome-c

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Phillip Warner's builds

2024-08-12 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 12 Aug 2024, r1w1s1 via SlackBuilds-users wrote: Hi can grab dmenu since I use dwm a lot. Already taken, you missed this part: I went ahead and took cmatrix, dmenu, docx2txt, and solfege, because I actually use them. I don't use dwm, but I do use dmenu with clipmenu, and couldn'

[Slackbuilds-users] Phillip Warner's builds

2024-08-12 Thread B. Watson
I emailed Phillip Warner to ask if he'd update his dmenu build, and he responded that he's no longer maintaining any SlackBuilds, and that anyone was welcome to take them over. Here's the list: CEGUI cmatrix devilspie dmenu docx2txt gmtk gnome-mplayer herrie solfege xorgxrdp xrdp I went ahead

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] always run `mandb -c` after installing/removing manpages?

2024-08-12 Thread B. Watson
On Tue, 13 Aug 2024, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: I think I know what's going on here. mandb checks if there are new files in the directory by comparing mtime of the database and the directory https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/blob/1e5462f3fd9bfd8cf496e32e23842018b67f9b91/src/check_mandirs.c#L

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] polib needs a new maintainer

2024-08-12 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 12 Aug 2024, B. Watson wrote: The only thing in the SBo repo that depends on polib is your endgame-singularity build. It would make sense for you to take over maintenance of polib. Are you interested? Apologies, that email wasn't intended for the whole list, it was directed to

[Slackbuilds-users] polib needs a new maintainer

2024-08-12 Thread B. Watson
I've heard from the polib maintainer (Ken Roberts) via IRC... Ken hasn't used Slackware in 8 years or so, and is unable to maintain polib. The only thing in the SBo repo that depends on polib is your endgame-singularity build. It would make sense for you to take over maintenance of polib. Are

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] always run `mandb -c` after installing/removing manpages?

2024-08-12 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 12 Aug 2024, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: It must be due to https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/blob/1e5462f3fd9bfd8cf496e32e23842018b67f9b91/NEWS.md#L233. It takes 10 seconds on -current with mandb 2.12.1 but it indeed took 6 minutes on -stable in the VirtulBox with mandb 2.9.4. After I

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] always run `mandb -c` after installing/removing manpages?

2024-08-12 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 12 Aug 2024, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: I ran it as root of course, it wouldn't work on /usr/man/man1 if I didn't since it is writable only by root. I meant, are you sure when you timed it and got 10 seconds, that you were actually using the -c option? I get pretty close to 10 second

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] always run `mandb -c` after installing/removing manpages?

2024-08-11 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 11 Aug 2024, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: In most packages manual page index caches are not updated which leads to the following situation: $ man -k zathura zathura: nothing appropriate. man -k can find the manpages only when caches are updated: $ sudo mandb -c $ man -k zathura zathur

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Discrepancy between SLACKBUILDS.TXT MD5SUMs and .info file MD5SUMs in a couple slackbuilds.

2024-08-06 Thread B. Watson
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024, Bob Funk wrote: Really the only problem is how the SLACKBUILDS.TXT presents the md5sums for those cases, which is inconsistent with the rest of the md5sums in SLACKBUILDS.TXT. OK, take a look now: https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/15.0/SLACKBUILDS.TXT There were som

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Discrepancy between SLACKBUILDS.TXT MD5SUMs and .info file MD5SUMs in a couple slackbuilds.

2024-08-06 Thread B. Watson
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024, Bob Funk wrote: Really the only problem is how the SLACKBUILDS.TXT presents the md5sums for those cases, which is inconsistent with the rest of the md5sums in SLACKBUILDS.TXT. Whatever you're writing that's going to read SLACKBUILDS.TXT, you could pick apart the md5sum

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Discrepancy between SLACKBUILDS.TXT MD5SUMs and .info file MD5SUMs in a couple slackbuilds.

2024-08-06 Thread B. Watson
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024, Bob Funk wrote: Perhaps enforcing spaces before backslash/escape characters in .info files should be done so the files are consistent? Could even be added to sbolint I suppose. I'm not sure what is generating that SLACKBUILDS.TXT but perhaps its parsing code could also

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] libhandy about to update to 1.8.3

2024-08-05 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 5 Aug 2024, Bob Funk wrote: I've built libhandy-1.8.3 and all the gnome software that depends on it and everything is building and running as expected here. Feel free to push that update for this week's round of upgrades. Thanks for checking it. Pushed to my branch, it'll be in th

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] libhandy about to update to 1.8.3

2024-07-29 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 29 Jul 2024, Bob Funk wrote: If the gnome stack of software is building then it'll probably be fine at runtime too. I am traveling currently and won't be back home till next Sunday so I won't be able to do much until after then. I'll be happy to build and test it all when I get b

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] libhandy about to update to 1.8.3

2024-07-29 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 29 Jul 2024, B. Watson wrote: I've test-built everything on the list except nwg-shell (because it has 106 dependencies) and epiphany (waiting for webkit2gtk-4.1 to finish building, as I write this). Update: epiphany builds and runs

[Slackbuilds-users] libhandy about to update to 1.8.3

2024-07-29 Thread B. Watson
Someone requested an update to libhandy, so I'm updating it to the latest stable, version 1.8.3. A lot of GNOME builds depend on libhandy. If your build appears on this list: https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?stype=revdep&q=libhandy ...then you should test it with libhandy-1.8.3. To do this

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] system/dstat slackbuild cannot extract tarball

2024-07-28 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 28 Jul 2024, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: Some slackbuilds try multiple tarball names and dstat does it too but it uses incorrect name, it should be: tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz || tar xvf $CWD/v$VERSION.tar.gz There is a similar problem in network/ngrep but this script

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] system/dstat slackbuild cannot extract tarball

2024-07-28 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 28 Jul 2024, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: OTOH this project is terminated so the package can be completely removed https://github.com/dstat-real/dstat/issues/170. I now found that tarballs have a different name when they are downloaded using Firefox but still the package can be removed

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] openzfs warning during compilation

2024-07-22 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024, Alessandro Baggi wrote: libtool: warning: 'libnvpair.la' has not been installed in '/lib64' libtool: warning: 'libuutil.la' has not been installed in '/lib64' Those should be considered critical or this is something expected? Expected. And correct: the libraries haven

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] missing sources

2024-07-20 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 20 Jul 2024, Charadon via SlackBuilds-users wrote: As a sidenote/fun fact, linkrot is why NetBSD's pkgsrc has the `distfiles` directory. Yah, and it's why this exists: https://slackware.uk/sbosrcarch/ ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list S

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] missing sources

2024-07-20 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 20 Jul 2024, Charadon via SlackBuilds-users wrote: How about switching their sources to archive.org links? Like ffmpeg2theora's source can be changed to: https://web.archive.org/web/20161010020734/http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/downloads/ffmpeg2theora-0.30.tar.bz2 That works, and

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] replacement of backtick in slackbuild scripts

2024-07-20 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 20 Jul 2024, Tim Dickson via SlackBuilds-users wrote: hi all, I noticed a bunch of scripts had backtick cmdsub changed. is there any technical reason?. Well, we already had a bunch of scripts that were still using "chown -R user.group" syntax, which (as of the latest coreutils update

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Slackbuilds: doinst.sh and douninst.sh

2024-07-19 Thread B. Watson
On Fri, 19 Jul 2024, Alessandro Baggi wrote: 3. A clean process during package uninstall that clean created user/group, start/stop system configuration in rc.local/rc.local_shutdown Again I will say it: Packages get *removed* when they get upgraded. Anything a douninst.sh script does, hap

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Slackbuilds: doinst.sh and douninst.sh

2024-07-18 Thread B. Watson
On Thu, 18 Jul 2024, Jude DaShiell wrote: I've had a question about slackware removal process ever since I first installed slackware so figure I best ask it here. Slackware removes each file one by one. It's possible with several package files in one directory so long as that's all in that d

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Slackbuilds: doinst.sh and douninst.sh

2024-07-18 Thread B. Watson
On Thu, 18 Jul 2024, Alessandro Baggi wrote: I noticed that sometime a slackbuild requires to create user and group. In my case, postgresql.SlackBuild requires user and group creation before builing the software. Why don't put the user creation inside doinst.sh? The user/group creation seems

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] I am no longer maintaining ds4drv

2024-07-13 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 14 Jul 2024, K. Eugene Carlson wrote: I can take GentiumPlus. Excellent. Go ahead and submit an update, with your name and email in the .info file, so this doesn't get forgotten about. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@s

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] I am no longer maintaining ds4drv

2024-07-13 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 13 Jul 2024, Doogster wrote: I'd intended to give up maintenance of my SlackBuilds ages ago, but it looks like we missed this one: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/ds4drv/ I am no longer maintaining this SlackBuild. You're listed as maintainer for more than just that

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Questions with packaging a rust program.

2024-07-11 Thread B. Watson
On Thu, 11 Jul 2024, Charadon via SlackBuilds-users wrote: Well i'm glad to know my idea for using a vendored tarball was already used in practice! Though, my vendor tarball won't have as prestigious of a mirror as slackware.uk, haha It can, if you ask nicely :) That said, it's better to

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Using a Git repo as the source

2024-06-08 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 8 Jun 2024, Shahab Vahedi via SlackBuilds-users wrote: https://github.com/csmith-project/creduce/archive/refs/heads/llvm-13.0.zip I didn't know about this. Thanks! That will solve the problem. In general, any push to this branch, will require an update of the MD5. I guess it is wha

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Using something other than bash for rc scripts?

2024-05-11 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 11 May 2024, Didier Spaier wrote: Also, taking the risk of beating a dead horse, I suggest using only the features specified by POSIX, and not bash specific ones, for the sake of portability. That, or, put #!/bin/bash at the top of the script instead of #!/bin/sh. I don't think bash

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] What is the better way to have the linker look into additional paths to find shared objects and why?

2024-05-05 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 5 May 2024, Didier Spaier wrote: Hello, a very few SlackBuilds @ Sbo write config files including additional paths in /etc/ld.so.conf.d but a lot more export LD_LIBRARY_PATH with the additional path appended in as script stored in /etc/profile.d Which way is better and why? /etc/l

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] All-writable directory under /opt

2024-05-04 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 4 May 2024, Daniel Prosser wrote: Thanks for the ideas. I like the idea of using the setgid bit, but I'm having trouble getting it to work. First, the main executable is a wrapper script, which may be a problem, but even applying the setguid bit to the binary file and foregoing the

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] All-writable directory under /opt

2024-05-03 Thread B. Watson
On Fri, 3 May 2024, Daniel Prosser wrote: The copy it makes is called stockfish-16.1-64. On my machine, it seems to have copied the bmi2 version, but maybe the plain -x86-64 version would be more universal. (For that matter, if I take this approach, I'll probably just make a symbolic link i

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] All-writable directory under /opt

2024-05-03 Thread B. Watson
On Fri, 3 May 2024, Daniel Prosser wrote: An alternative potential solution that I think would work would be to have the SlackBuild script copy the file, selecting a build that would work for everyone. I can think of three approaches that avoid a world-writable directory in /opt. 1. Dupli

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] malloc runtime error, any suggestions?

2024-04-15 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024, phala...@komputermatrix.com wrote: It's version 3.5.1 -- it's pushed but not distributed yet. OK, I just built 3.5.1 with the existing script (VERSION=3.5.1 in the environment) and it starts up and seems to work OK. It does say this: spectrwm: Welcome to spectrwm V3.5

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] malloc runtime error, any suggestions?

2024-04-15 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024, phala...@komputermatrix.com wrote: Hi all, I'm getting a malloc() runtime error startx-ing a window manager called spectrwm. Any suggestions on how to get more details on this? It seems this version of spectrwm runs on other distros, like Alpine for example. I'd like

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] rpi-imager

2024-04-14 Thread B. Watson
On Sun, 14 Apr 2024, Jay Lanagan via SlackBuilds-users wrote: Rpi-imager does work just fine. I made a slackbuild for it recently before I realized it was already on sbo. You should be the maintainer of rpi-imager. I don't think suncon is going to maintain it... I base this on the fact tha

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] rpi-imager

2024-04-13 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 13 Apr 2024, Jude DaShiell wrote: Wasn't that package taken over by the raspberry foundation itself? That may be where to find the source code now. Github has the sources for both 1.7.5 and the new 1.8.5. The problem here isn't that the source is missing, the problem is that the SB

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] rpi-imager

2024-04-13 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 13 Apr 2024, Jim wrote: The 15.0 version of rpi-imager is at 1.7.5, and rpi-imager is up to (at least) 1.8.5. I emailed the maintainer (sun...@posteo.net), and got a bounce from a mail server saying that recipient doesn't exist. Does anyone know whether this person has a new email a

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] oidentd very outdated and won't be updated?

2024-04-01 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 1 Apr 2024, dchme...@gmail.com wrote: I use oidentd but don't make network utility SlackBuilds (I'm far from a network expert) so if anyone else does, one might consider asking him you can takeover oidentd? Yet you maintain network/icyque... which uses the network in more complex wa

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Running rxvt-unicode

2024-03-27 Thread B. Watson
On Wed, 27 Mar 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: I find the file rxvt-unicode in /usr/share/terminfo/r/ but it's not executable. How do I tell xfce4 to use rxvt-unicode as the terminal emulator? Again, wrong list for this question. Absolutely nothing to do with SBo. It's not even a Slackware-specif

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] skypeforlinux cannot be fetched

2024-03-24 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 23 Mar 2024, Shahab Vahedi via SlackBuilds-users wrote: Hi Jay, March 22, 2024, Jay via SlackBuilds-users wrote: People using 'sbopkg' to manage their SBo packages get an option to get sources from this archive automatically if a normal download fails. How can I trigger this fall

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] suggestion for a new category for fonts

2024-03-20 Thread B. Watson
On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote: Since we have search form in our website, i wonder how many people would go through each categories when looking for some scripts instead of just using the search form? OK, so in that case, why do we have categories at all? Would it bother

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] jq fails to build

2024-03-20 Thread B. Watson
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024, nnb via SlackBuilds-users wrote: Some tests fail because of locale setting. I did run sbopkg like this and the build worked fine 'LANG=C sbopkg'. Hopefully the maintainer can add 'export LANG=C' somewhere near the top of the script. _

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Linphone maintenance

2024-03-19 Thread B. Watson
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I have copied Euan into the email I sent to the list on 07 Feb 2024 asking if the Linphone scripts could be updated - but there hasn't been any reply. I already accepted to look after BcToolbox, which he used to maintain - as he hasn't been active

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] suggestion for a new category for fonts

2024-03-19 Thread B. Watson
On Tue, 19 Mar 2024, Qun-Ying wrote: Currently fonts are put under category system, they mix with other system tools. Would it be better to have a separate category (fonts) for them? If we're voting, I vote for this. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] eclipse-platform slackbuild

2024-03-09 Thread B. Watson
On Sat, 9 Mar 2024, Tim Dickson via SlackBuilds-users wrote: the download link for the source?/binary for this package appears not be be available any more. newer versions are available, but they require java 17 or higher. regards, Tim If you just want to build the existing version, there'

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] tracking down missing sbo dependencies

2024-03-04 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 4 Mar 2024, Didier Spaier wrote: To sum it up, gkterm, glktemrw and glulxe are all stand-alone software. Close. Actually, on further research, I've found that glulxe isn't standalone: it depends on having a glk implementation. Which can be either glkterm or glktermw. So Jude got the

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] tracking down missing sbo dependencies

2024-03-04 Thread B. Watson
On Mon, 4 Mar 2024, Jude DaShiell wrote: It turns out glktermw is for unicode wide character support but didn't make glulxe so far as I can tell. The out of slackbuilds made that for me and installed it in /usr/local/bin. glulxe isn't included in glktermw at all, the only mention of it is

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