[SOLVED] Requests for -current (20151216)

kjhambrick · 05-11-2016, 04:52 PM

55020 --

Yes, I personally prefer doing my own separate downloads because I like to install everything manually.

In addition, I can easily build and test various versions of a package simply by downloading the source into some 'convenient place'/ then I symlink the source into a copy of the SBo.org slackbuild directory.

Example ... I was playing around with ffmpeg this morning. This is the some 'convenient place'/ directory:

Code:

# ls -la
total 52840
drwxr-xr-x  3 konrad users     4096 May 11 10:25 ./
drwxr-xr-x 65 konrad users     4096 May 11 08:05 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root      4096 May 11 10:18 ffmpeg/
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root  10177400 May 11 08:24 ffmpeg-2.8.6-x86_64_custom-2_SBo.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   7205300 Jan 31 19:06 ffmpeg-2.8.6.tar.xz
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root  10178640 May 11 08:32 ffmpeg-2.8.7-x86_64_custom-2_SBo.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   7205628 May 11 08:25 ffmpeg-2.8.7.tar.xz
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root  11852923 May 11 10:24 ffmpeg-3.0.2-x86_64_custom-2_SBo.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   7461808 May 11 08:25 ffmpeg-3.0.2.tar.xz

Note the ffmpeg/ directory inside the 'convenient place'/ directory ... This is a copy of the original SBo.org ffmpeg directory

And these are the files in the copy the ffmpeg/ directory that I copied in the 'convenient place'/ Directory:

Code:

# ls -lad ffmpeg/*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2185 May 11 08:02 ffmpeg/README
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 May 11 08:18 ffmpeg/ffmpeg-2.8.6.tar.xz -> ../ffmpeg-2.8.6.tar.xz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 May 11 08:26 ffmpeg/ffmpeg-2.8.7.tar.xz -> ../ffmpeg-2.8.7.tar.xz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 May 11 10:18 ffmpeg/ffmpeg-3.0.2.tar.xz -> ../ffmpeg-3.0.2.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8177 May 11 08:02 ffmpeg/ffmpeg.SlackBuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  281 May 11 08:02 ffmpeg/ffmpeg.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  918 May 11 08:02 ffmpeg/slack-desc

Note the symlinks for the source code.

Making a different version is simple. Here's what I did to try out ffmpeg 3.0.2:

Code:

1. cd  'someplace convenient'/
2. download ffmpeg-3.0.2.tar.xz  ./
3. cd ffmpeg 
4. ln -s ../ffmpeg-3.0.2.tar.xz ffmpeg-3.0.2.tar.xz
5. VERSION=3.0.2 sh ffmpeg.SlackBuild
6. cd ..
7. mv /tmp/fmpeg-3.0.2-x86_64_custom-2_SBo.tgz

Once the package is built, I can update or install it as needed and I've got all the parts in one 'convenient' place.

If something breaks when I bump a version, it's simple enough to remove the borken package and re-install a working package.

Anyhow ... my $0.02 ...

-- kjh

ttk · 05-11-2016, 08:25 PM

For what it's worth, Slackware ships with perl, which includes the JSON::PP json-parsing module in-core, so you can parse JSON with just a stock Slackware install, like so:

Code:

ttk@wip:~> curl -s https://api.github.com/users/octocat | perl -MJSON::PP -e '$js = join("",<STDIN>); $hr = decode_json($js); print "$hr->{html_url}\n"'
https://github.com/octocat

dugan · 05-12-2016, 12:32 AM

ttk: that's more or less exactly what I want to do. I'm more of a Python person though, so this is what I ended up doing for my Wine SlackBuild:

https://github.com/duganchen/my_slac...ine.SlackBuild

The relevant part (the part that downloads and extracts the wine-staging tarball) is:

Code:

read -r -d '' PARSER <<EOF
import json
import sys

releases = json.load(sys.stdin)
print releases[0]["name"]
EOF

LATEST=$(curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw+json" https://api.github.com/repos/wine-compholio/wine-staging/tags | python -c $PARSER)
VERSION=${LATEST:1}

wget --content-disposition https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/archive/${LATEST}.tar.gz
tar xvf wine-staging-${VERSION}.tar.gz

A bit less concise than the Perl version.

MarcT · 05-13-2016, 11:17 AM

Could I request OpenSSL is built with:

1) FIPS canister:
- I look after an application which uses FIPS certified cryptography. It would be great if the OpenSSL shared libraries in Slackware could have the FIPS canister included.
- FIPS is not used unless explicitly enabled (either by calling FIPS_mode_set(1), or by environment variable OPENSSL_FIPS=1) , so it does not affect operation of non-FIPS applications.

2) "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" compile time option for amd64:
- Can result in significant performance improvement (roughly 3x on my test ageing Phenom 9850 workstation) for the NIST P curves.
- You can benchmark by running "openssl speed ecdsa", some example performance figures in the link below:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/fo...er/118085.html
- More info below taken from the OpenSSL CHANGES file:

Quote:

*) Add optional 64-bit optimized implementations of elliptic curves NIST-P224,
NIST-P256, NIST-P521, with constant-time single point multiplication on
typical inputs. Compiler support for the nonstandard type __uint128_t is
required to use this (present in gcc 4.4 and later, for 64-bit builds).
Code made available under Apache License version 2.0.

Specify "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" on the Configure (or config) command
line to include this in your build of OpenSSL, and run "make depend" (or
"make update"). This enables the following EC_METHODs:

EC_GFp_nistp224_method()
EC_GFp_nistp256_method()
EC_GFp_nistp521_method()

EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name() will automatically use these (while
EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp() currently prefers the more flexible
implementations).
[Emilia Käsper, Adam Langley, Bodo Moeller (Google)]

mats_b_tegner · 05-15-2016, 06:02 AM

How about upgrading the following:
file 5.27
ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-5.27.tar.gz

lvm2 2.02.154
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/LVM2.2.02.154.tgz
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/WHATS_NEW
Upgraded 2016-05-17
lftp 4.7.1
http://lftp.yar.ru/ftp/lftp-4.7.1.tar.xz
https://lftp.yar.ru/news.html
Upgraded 2016-05-17
python-setuptools 21.0.0
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
Upgraded 2016-05-17

cwizardone · 05-15-2016, 07:49 PM

The 4.6 kernel was released about two hours ago. Will this be a LTS kernel?

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...5.1/05030.html

kjhambrick · 05-15-2016, 08:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

The 4.6 kernel was released about two hours ago. Will this be a LTS kernel?

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...5.1/05030.html

Good Q, but I'll bet that Pat won't risk 14.2 on a fresh 'mainline' kernel which could either go longterm or EOL:

https://www.kernel.org/category/faq.html

Maybe there is something here: http://phb-crystal-ball.org/

-- kjh

cwizardone · 05-15-2016, 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kjhambrick

Good Q, but I'll bet that Pat won't risk 14.2 on a fresh 'mainline' kernel which could either go longterm or EOL...

Yes, you are probably right.

cwizardone · 05-16-2016, 09:37 AM

Just a couple of innocent questions.

Apparently the 4.6 kernel has support for USB 3.1 SSP. So, I'm guessing this means USB 3.1 has not been supported is more recent versions of the kernel? Isn't this something owners of new computer hardware would expect to be supported?

http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux...t-504088.shtml

ponce · 05-16-2016, 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

Just a couple of innocent questions.

Apparently the 4.6 kernel has support for USB 3.1 SSP.

looks like, I won't bet it's totally complete
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/ke...SuperSpeedPlus

Quote:

So, I'm guessing this means USB 3.1 has not been supported is more recent versions of the kernel?

no, partial support was already there, seems it's the SSP feature (that also was partially there) that got more love with 4.6.

Quote:

Isn't this something owners of new computer hardware would expect to be supported?

I suppose they won't have any issues building, like I personally do, one 4.6.x kernel from the config files in testing.

cwizardone · 05-16-2016, 09:59 AM

@ ponce,
Many thanks for the information!

BrZ · 05-16-2016, 10:18 AM

I hope they backport this commit to 4.4.x:

Quote:

Mikko Rapeli (1):
uapi glibc compat: fix compile errors when glibc net/if.h
included before linux/if.h

More information...

Nille_kungen · 05-16-2016, 04:57 PM

There's updated amd firmware so it might be a good idea to update firmware once again.

ivandi · 05-16-2016, 09:03 PM

On a fresh install the imagemagick package leaves all the .new files in /etc/ImageMagick-6.

The doinst.sh script uses absolute path instead of relative one:

Code:

# Process all .new config files:
for file in /etc/ImageMagick*/*.new ; do
  config $file
done

slackpkg reinstall fixes it.

Cheers

Nille_kungen · 05-17-2016, 04:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alex14641

Also, libmtp 1.1.11 has been released: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libmtp/

Is there any reason not to upgrade libmtp?
It adds support for more android devices.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lib...libmtp/1.1.11/