Post something that you do not like about slackware

linus72 · 07-14-2010, 05:55 AM

I wish pkgtool could also display what category packages were from when doing removepkg
like if you chose remove packages, it would display them like (a), (ap), etc
so if I wanted to remove the whole D section, it would just be picking D section
and then unmarking/removing them all or one or whatever.

igadoter · 07-14-2010, 06:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linus72

I wish pkgtool could also display what category packages were from when doing removepkg
like if you chose remove packages, it would display them like (a), (ap), etc
so if I wanted to remove the whole D section, it would just be picking D section
and then unmarking/removing them all or one or whatever.

The best package management is made via ls, less, cat and grep and piping
of the /var/log/packages directory. For this particular task pkgtool is
rather poorly featured. Do you want to remove all d/*.txz packages?

Code:

# ls ./slackware/d/*.txz > foo
# for i in $(cat foo ) ; do removepkg "$i"; done

You should also have to remove suffix ".txz".

Petri Kaukasoina · 07-14-2010, 07:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by igadoter

Do you want to remove all d/*.txz packages?

Code:

# ls ./slackware/d/*.txz > foo
# for i in $(cat foo ) ; do removepkg "$i"; done

Or just:

Code:

cd slackware/d
removepkg *.txz

onebuck · 07-14-2010, 07:06 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

Thanks BrianL.

Onebuck, you seem to be confusing verse versus prose.

And there is no need to remind us twice a rule we are aware of. I knowingly didn't satisfy it, so what ?

As a side note, Charles Baudelaire was not only one of the greatest French poets of nineteenth century, he was also the best French translator ever of Edgar Allan Poe.

Of course he could write English better than I do -- not a big challenge, alas -- and may be even better than you, who knows ?

Take care,

Yes, there is apparently as you did choose to violate flagrantly. I don't claim to be a literary scholar.

As I have every right to post my opinion as you do the same.

onebuck · 07-14-2010, 07:10 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianL

Yes, he doesn't know his derriere from his coude (as we say in Oldham).

Here we use 'ass' compared to a hole in the ground!

linus72 · 07-14-2010, 07:24 AM

I was thinking of actually changing the interface so it would display
pkgs by category; and then you could go into that category and remove stuff seperately too

I'm gonna try to modify it...

igadoter · 07-14-2010, 07:32 AM

@Petri Kaukasoina

So simple, so beautiful

brianL · 07-14-2010, 08:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onebuck

Hi,

Here we use 'ass' compared to a hole in the ground!

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's ass.

henkees · 07-14-2010, 11:02 AM

Onebuck and T3slider: Thanks for the clarification about the bootsplash, now I understand more about the vulnerabilities and risks. I always check 'unofficial' patches before applying them, but not everyone will do that...

try-alls · 07-14-2010, 05:23 PM

slow-boot and 2 minute timer on lilo (as standard) i understand its a huge kernel .smp do hicky and that you need to edit the lilo config, but everything else rocks

brianL · 07-15-2010, 07:36 AM

Change to the generic kernel.

try-alls · 07-15-2010, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianL

Change to the generic kernel.

i'm looking into that, but to be honest i'm a little scared lol, but my real reason for this post is the ubuntu and fedora with their huge generic kernel still boot a heck of a lot faster.

jkirchner · 07-15-2010, 12:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by try-alls

i'm looking into that, but to be honest i'm a little scared lol, but my real reason for this post is the ubuntu and fedora with their huge generic kernel still boot a heck of a lot faster.

I was nervous when I first did the mkinitrd and changed the kernels, but it was all for naught. If you follow the directions step by step it is easy and fast.

hitest · 07-15-2010, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by try-alls

i'm looking into that, but to be honest i'm a little scared lol, but my real reason for this post is the ubuntu and fedora with their huge generic kernel still boot a heck of a lot faster.

The documentation is very clear on how to set-up an initrd and the generic kernel should you choose to do so:

http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar.../README.initrd

SCerovec · 07-19-2010, 04:04 PM

Since we speak of removal of packages,
I missed a tool to find out the larges amongst the packages installed and get rid of them;
So if crafted wg (stands short for what goes?

)

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#
# (GPL) cest73@gmail.com
#
echo "wg stands for Which Goes ?"
echo "list (20?) largesst installed packages"
echo "usage : "
echo -ne "  wg [how many] [regep filter]\n\n"

N=${1:-20}
shift
G=${@:-.}

grep "UNCOMPRESSED " /var/log/packages/* \
        | grep $G \
        | sed -e s/"\/.*\/"/":"/g \
        | awk -F: '{print $4 " / " $2}' \
        | sort -b -g -r \
        | head -n $N

I doubt there is any need for commenting the code?
It's GPL so enjoy (if found usefull)
It's in my /usr/local/bin/