Blacklisting zlib after multilib update?

Lysander666 · 07-13-2018, 04:20 PM

After my successful install of multilib I noticed that slackpkg wanted to update a lot of the gcc libs so I blacklisted the following:

gcc
gcc-g++
gcc-gfortran
gcc-gnat
gcc-java
gcc-objc
glibc
glibc-i18n
glibc-profile
glibc-solibs
glibc-zoneinfo

However, it wants to update zlib as well. Is this OK to do or should I blacklist that as well? I noticed in the documentation that Alien Bob said this might happen, but I'm not sure whether to blacklist it or not.

BradReed · 07-13-2018, 06:55 PM

You can install both the 64bit and compat32 version of zlib.
You can also unblacklist glibc-zoneinfo. It is noarch.

chrisretusn · 07-13-2018, 08:25 PM

You could also add:

# Multilib
[0-9]+alien
[0-9]+compat32

montagdude · 07-13-2018, 09:22 PM

Well, zlib was just upgraded in -stable on July 12. It's not multilib, so you want to upgrade it. I expect Alien Bob will be upgrading his -compat32 version of it as well soon enough.

RadicalDreamer · 07-13-2018, 09:32 PM

You could use slackpkg+ to maintain multilib.

kjhambrick · 07-14-2018, 06:24 AM

Lysander666

I still use the good-ole installpkg, upgradepkg, removepkg scripts and I've never tried slackpkg, etc for precisely this reason.

Anyhow, I use Alien Bob's massconvert32.sh with every Official Slackware update.

The script does require a local mirror of the Slackware 32-bit Repo but this way, I can stay up-to-date and never 'lose' a compat32 package due to the unavoidable lag between the Official Slackware Update and Alien Bob's release of the new compat32 packages.

Not sure how-or-if one would-or-could set up a local repo for the compat32 Packages for slackpkg ...

But if you could point slackpkg at your local repo, this method has worked for me with `upgradepkg --install-new` since the 13.37 days when I first went Multilib on Slackware64 ...

FFT, YMMV, HTH ...

-- kjh( FFT - Food For Thought )

These are my config and wrapper script files for `massconvert32.sh` and for `upgradepkg --install-new` on the compat32 Packages.

The odd .names are so I can `rm -rf *` in the TopDir and leave my scripts and config intact ...

#
# file: .do-masscvt-fun.sh
# what: sets environment varbs for .do-massconvert.sh and .do-update.sh
#

Code:

TopDir="/home/dld/multilib"                                  ### EDIT ME ### ( where you downloaded Alien Bob's MultiLib )
TarDir="$TopDir/kjh-build"                                   ### EDIT ME ### ( where to build YOUR compat32 Packages )
LogDir="$TopDir/log"                                         ### EDIT ME ### ( where the LogFiles go
SrcDir="/home/dld/slackware/slackware-14.2-32/slackware"     ### EDIT ME ### ( where is your Local Mirror of the Slackware 32 Packages )

KJHDate ()
{
   # Returns XYMMDD [ -HHMMSS ] for `now` where X is the decade after 1900
   # 
   # example:  1900-01-01 -> 010101 ; 2000-01-01 -> A00101 ; 2010-01-01 -> B00101
   # 
   DoSec=0

   if [ $# -gt 0 ]
   then
      if [ "$1" = "-s" ]
      then
         DoSec=1
         shift
      fi
   fi

   gawk '
   BEGIN {
   
      DoSec = "'"$DoSec"'" +0

      for ( i = 0 ; i <= 9 ; i ++ )
      {
         DecAry [i] = sprintf( "%01d", i )
      }
      DecAry [10] = "A"
      DecAry [11] = "B" 
      DecAry [12] = "C" 
      DecAry [13] = "D" 
      DecAry [14] = "E" 
      DecAry [15] = "F" 

      Date = strftime( "%Y%m%d%H%M%S" )

      print FixDate( Date )
      exit 0
   }
   function FixDate( InDate,     D, Y, MD, HMS )
   {
      D  = substr( InDate, 1, 3 ) - 190   # Decade
      Y  = substr( InDate, 4, 1 )         # Year
      MD = substr( InDate, 5, 4 )         # Month & Day

      if ( DoSec != 1 )
      {
         return( sprintf( "%1.1s%1.1s%4.4s", DecAry [D],Y,MD ))
      }
      HMS = substr( InDate, 9 )           # HourMinSec

      return( sprintf( "%1.1s%1.1s%4.4s-%s", DecAry [D],Y,MD,HMS ))
   }'
   return $?
}

#
# file: .do-massconvert.sh
# what: invokes massconvert.sh on my local Slackware32 mirror
#

Code:

#!/bin/sh

RetCode=0
Rebuild=0
PrgNam="`basename $0`"
DirNam="`dirname  $0`" ; [ "$DirNam" = "." ] && DirNam="`pwd`"

if [ $# -gt 0 ]
then

   [ "$1" = "r" -o "$1" = "R" ] && Rebuild=1 && shift

fi

. $DirNam/.do-masscvt-fun.sh

LogTmp="$(KJHDate -s)-do-massconvert.log"

cd "$TarDir" ; RetCode=$?

[ "$RetCode" != "0" ] && echo "cannot cd into $TarDir ( make it yourself )"  >&2 && exit 1
[ ! -d "$SrcDir" ]    && echo "cannot find the slackware32 mirror:  $SrcDir" >&2 && exit 2

if [ ! -d "$LogDir" ]
then

   mkdir "$LogDir" 
   RetCode=$?

   [ "$RetCode" != "0" ] && echo "cannot mkdir $LogDir" >&2 && exit 3
   
fi

LogNam="$LogDir/$LogTmp"

echo "$PrgNam startup  at `date`" > $LogNam

if [ "$Rebuild" = "1" ]
then

   echo "clearing all old packages" >> $LogNam

   for Dir in `find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "*-compat32"`
   do
   
      [ "$Dir" = "." -o "$Dir" = ".." ] && continue  # should not happen !
   
      if [ -d "$Dir" ]
      then
         echo "clean $Dir" >> $LogNam
         rm -rf "$Dir"
      fi

   done

fi

massconvert32.sh -i $SrcDir 2>&1 |tee -a $LogNam

grep 'Package created:' $LogNam 2>/dev/null
RetCode=$?

[ "$RetCode" != "0" ] && echo "nothing new was generated" 

echo "$PrgNam complete at `date`" >> $LogNam

#
# file: .do-update.sh
# what: invokes upgradepkg --install-new on my local compat32 repo
#

Code:

#!/bin/sh

RetCode=0
Rebuild=0
PrgNam="`basename $0`"
DirNam="`dirname  $0`" ; [ "$DirNam" = "." ] && DirNam="`pwd`"

[ "$LOGNAME" != "root" ] && echo "please log in as root"  >&2 && exit 1

. $DirNam/.do-masscvt-fun.sh

[ ! -d "$SrcDir" ]       && echo "wtPHq is \"$SrcDir\" ?" >&2 && exit 2

LogTmp="$(KJHDate -s)-do-massupdate.log"
LogNam="$LogDir/$LogTmp"

echo "$PrgNam startup  at `date`"                         > $LogNam

cd "$SrcDir" 2>&1                                   |tee -a $LogNam

upgradepkg --install-new *-compat32/*.t?z 2>&1      |tee -a $LogNam
RetCode=${PIPESTATUS[0]}

echo "$PrgNam complete at `date` ... RetCode = $RetCode" >> $LogNam
exit $RetCode