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Well, I gave it a shot at creating a package. I pointed it to dvdauthor as a test package, and it created the package in root's home. While it did work this time, its not something that gives me any control over where it goes or any extra parameters I may wish to add.
That said, overall it can be a useful app, and I think congratulations are in order for your work on this project.
after qmake && make the slackpack executable is created at the 'bin' folder.
it does not installs itself into the system, however, you can just copy "Slackpack" executable from the /bin directory of the source into '/usr/bin', and run it from everywhere
into slackpack-1.1.7-i686-1.tgz I see many other files as slackpack.desktop, icons and other.
I must to copy all manually? There are not a script (as a SlackBuild or other) to create a slackpack tgz?
I think that may be useful to add an install directive in Makefile, even if I need to copy slackpack executable only
all these files are included and distributed in the .tgz slackpack package,
i just included them in the source, there's no installation script to fully install slackpack with the icons and stuff yet.
* added preferences dialog (options for create package and convert package features
- now you can use src2pkg to convert packages as well
* you can now run slackpack as a normal user but root-only features are disabled.
* console output at list packages tab fixes
* code cleaned, removed old unused part of the code plus some unused includes
* added install section on generated Makefile (qmake)
then, in version 1.1.8, the tgz have files that are not in source (all files outside /usr/share/slackpack as slackpack.desktop and others).
These file are presents in 1.1.4 source package, so I must to do:
# cd 1.1.4-source
# make install-data prefix=/
# cd 1.1.8-source
# make install
well you actually have a complete 1.1.8 installation without copying any data from previous versions, the only that's missing from the source is the candy part of .desktop files and such which they're not necessary in the source side of things.
Hi MysticalGroovy, thanks for sharing your tool. Slackpack v1.1.8 compiled without errors and really improved a lot. Any plan to add support for translations? I played a little with 1.1.5 files and it was almost 85% translated =]
hmm a translation, not a bad idea,
I remember at ver1.1.5 i was trying to include a greek translation with Slackpack but i didnt give it alot of attention at that time.
the next ver of Slackpack will come with a greek translation and a template for translating slackpack to other languages too
Hey all,
i have a question, recently ive been using Slax as my pocket OS for my usbpen-drive, ive also created a slackpack Slax module..
do you think its a good idea to add slax related features to Slackpack? like slackware linux packages convertion to SLax modules and such.. or to leave Slackpack a slackware-only package manager?
Hello!
I use an usbpen-drive too. I find it very useful.
I tried Slax and NimbleX. Both use LZM modules.
In my opinion (if the proposal is still valid) I think its a very good idea. Do it!
Anyway Slackpack it's very helpful for me.
Good luck!
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