If you need a dedicated host for an alternative clone of server content let me know ill be happy to set it up for the slitaz community here i got a 100Mbit fiber connection and a server up and running.
Sincerally Martin "Ztealmax" Svensson 2011/9/27 Shawn Ferris <[email protected]> > Two questions: > > 1) Anyone know when the slitaz.org sites are going to be available again? > (www,hg,cook, ... they timeout on me currently) > > 2) I posted on the forums regarding trying to get a self made package added > to a custom made flavor. (tazlito doesn't seem to wanna pick it up, and I > think I'm doing things correctly because I can add any other official > packages to my flavor and it's fine) Figuring I was being naive about not > actually needing the chroot jail just to cook my package and flavor, I'm > trying again to use the chroot instructions. The question is, which one? I > saw the heated thread regarding cookutils and tazwok, and hopefully I don't > dredge up any ill feelings about that again, but, I have to ask! > > I can't get tazwok to build a chroot jail at all.. fails dependencies. (at > one point I saw that I received an error regarding gcc not being able to > create executables.. but I don't know where logs are so I couldn't debug) > > I did get the cookutils working, fairly easily, but I'm not sure the > receipts are fully compatible? The problem is, the source I need to compile > isn't a straight forward tarball. For one, you download a zip which contains > a zip, for the sources. (double decompression) The other is that their site > requires a (different?) User-Agent so I have to sent it to 'Mozilla/5.0' > just to download it in the first place. With tazwok, all I had to do was > create a custom download() function, EG; > > download() > { > wget --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0' $@ > } > > As well, I had to set the COOK_OPTS !unpack and handle the > extraction/compilation myself, but.. with tazwok, that works perfectly. As > near as I can tell, cookutils is completely ignoring my download and unpack > routines. (I get past the download by doing it manually) > > Soo.. I don't really care which cook utility I use, just as long as I can > get one or the other to work. The question is, how? If someone can suggest a > better way to replace the download and unpack in cookutils receipts, I think > that'd be quicker to get me going. But, if it helps to get tazwok going, I'm > all for that too. In fact, I can do a lot of the leg work, I'm well versed > in shell, but I would need some guidance. I've been trying to avoid jumping > into the tools, but if I can help.. I most definitely will. > > Thanks for any advice! >
