Requests for -current (14.2-->15.0)

upnort · 10-28-2018, 03:06 PM

Are you running Current on bare metal or virtual? I am running Current in a virtual system.

cwizardone · 10-28-2018, 03:14 PM

Bare metal.

Didier Spaier · 10-28-2018, 03:25 PM

Due to a bug, if all speakup kernel drivers are modularized, speakup_synth fails to be loaded.

As a consequence blind users relying on the speakup software synthesizer (i.e. most of people using speakup) do not have speech if they use a generic kernel.

Unfortunately, the patch submitted by Samuel Thibault won't make it before kernel 4.21, cf.:
http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/s...er/061509.html

I have rebuilt a 4.19.0 generic kernel with these drivers built in:

Code:

didier[/boot]$ grep SPEAKUP config
CONFIG_SPEAKUP=y
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_ACNTSA=y
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_APOLLO=y
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_AUDPTR=y
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_BNS=y
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DECTLK=y
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DECEXT=y
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_LTLK=y
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SOFT=y
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SPKOUT=y
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_TXPRT=y
CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DUMMY=y
didier[/boot]$

With it have speech at log in.

So please make this change in next kernel update, if possible for both -current and -stable.

Best,

PS I made this test on a system based on Slackware64-14.2, but I don't think that matters.

bormant · 10-28-2018, 03:56 PM

upnort,
VB 5.2.21 guest additions builds fine with 4.19.
You can try upcoming 5.2.21 from here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds

USUARIONUEVO · 10-28-2018, 04:39 PM

xapian-core-1.4.8
https://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.4.8...e-1.4.8.tar.xz

Linux.tar.gz · 10-29-2018, 09:26 AM

I noticed this MPlayer flaw still hasn't been patched (I guess the feature is in the packaged version):
https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/10/...-vulnerability

ponce · 10-29-2018, 09:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linux.tar.gz

I noticed this MPlayer flaw still hasn't been patched (I guess the feature is in the packaged version):
https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/10/...-vulnerability

live555 is not in Slackware and MPlayer provided in Slackware doesn't ship its own version.
besides that, also if they were linking against live555, the first url in the article you linked says:

Quote:

However, according to an email sent to by Ross Finlayson of Live Networks, Inc., to HackRead, the vulnerability does not affect VLC or MPlayer because both media players only use LIVE555 to implement an RTSP client.
“This vulnerability does not affect VLC or MPlayer, because they use LIVE555 only to implement an RTSP client,” Finlayson told HackRead “The bug affected only our implementation of a RTSP server, which these media players don’t use. (VLC does have an embedded RTSP server, but that uses a separate implementation, not LIVE555’s.)”

volkerdi · 10-29-2018, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bormant

Some time ago wget got l/libunistring dependency.
l/tagfile still says "libunistring:OPT".

Is it good idea to change "libunistring:OPT" to ADD or at least REC?
Is it good idea to add /usr/lib*/libunistring.so.* into aaa_elflibs package?

Me vote for both. :-)

I'll change the status from OPT to REC at some point soon, though I'll note that none of those tags are any guarantee that dependencies in Slackware will actually be met. Only a full install is.

Since libunistring is a rather large library I'm not inclined to add it to the aaa_elflibs package, especially since wget isn't part of the A series. And again, I'll note that these series divisions are largely legacy and shouldn't really be paid much attention.

gmgf · 10-29-2018, 02:05 PM

libssh (0.7.7 or 0.8.5)

https://www.libssh.org/files/0.7/libssh-0.7.7.tar.xz
https://www.libssh.org/files/0.8/libssh-0.8.5.tar.xz

upnort · 10-30-2018, 12:17 AM

Quote:

VB 5.2.21 guest additions builds fine with 4.19.

Hmm. Not for me.

Running VBoxLinuxAdditions.run from the GA ISO results in:

VirtualBox Guest Additions: modprobe vboxsf failed

No build errors in any logs.

vboxvideo and vboxguest are fine.

bormant · 10-30-2018, 02:12 AM

upnort,
do you

1) download upcoming 5.2.21 (not actual release 5.2.20), when writing it is:
https://www.virtualbox.org/download/....21-126141.iso

2) connect it to VM (via VM Devices - Optical Drives menu)

3) mount it inside VM
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

4) run
# /mnt/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

(1), (2), (3) may be download inside VM and loop mount

?

UPDATE: vboxsf error should gone after reboot, please test this.

gmgf · 10-30-2018, 03:21 AM

hplip-3.18.10:

https://sourceforge.net/p/hplip/news...release-notes/
https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/pr...3.18.10.tar.gz

bison-3.2:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/in.../msg00008.html
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-3.2.tar.xz

Mr.Gadgets · 10-30-2018, 05:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr.Gadgets

SW-Current is now on v1.7.5

The cryptsetup v2+ added support for Forward Error Correction (FEC) as used on almost all newer Android devices and is thus needed when working on Android images.

cryptsetup home: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup

Please just let me know if I can do something more that would help getting this upgrade in.
We've been using the v2 series for a while now (with focus on Android image files).

upnort · 10-30-2018, 11:11 AM

Quote:

upnort,
do you

Yes to all questions.

dugan · 10-30-2018, 12:24 PM

Are you sure the Guest Additions are still beneficial with an up-to-date distro?

I was strugging with Ubuntu 8.10 in VirtualBox until I realized that I wasn't actually supposed to install the Guest Additions, and it was working perfectly without them. My impression is that the newer X and kernels already provide their functionality.