SlackwareThis Forum is for the discussion of Slackware Linux.
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
No major update but the good version for gnome-3.28.0
dconf-0.28.0, dconf-editor-3.28.0:
If everything works fine with the existing versions, and the new ones now have a strong dep on vala, then IMHO we're better off sticking with what we've got already.
If everything works fine with the existing versions, and the new ones now have a strong dep on vala, then IMHO we're better off sticking with what we've got already.
You made me realize that I could build vte3 without vala thus I could do without it, so thanks for the heads-up
Out of curiosity I just upgraded vala to 0.40.4. It weighs 14M installed, without the deps.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 05-09-2018 at 02:44 PM.
If everything works fine with the existing versions, and the new ones now have a strong dep on vala, then IMHO we're better off sticking with what we've got already.
efivar-35 is now a (small: 360K installed) dependency of efibootmgr-16 (2I0K installed)
New homes, c/o the Red Hat Bootloader Team (Maybe other software maintained by this team are also worth including): https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr https://github.com/rhboot/efivar
Matt Domsch @ Intel is still the main developer of efibootmgr.
A new binary, efibootdump, is shipped in addition to efibootmgr: it queries the entries of the firmware's menu.
I attach the options of the versions 5.4 (currently in -current) and 16 of efibootmgr.
Code snippet of the updated build script of efibootmgr:
Code:
tar xvf $CWD/$PKGNAM-$VERSION.tar.?z* || exit 1
cd $PKGNAM-$VERSION
chown -R root:root .
# We assume that an ESP is mounted as /boot/efi
EFIDIR=/boot/efi make || exit 1
# Install:
mkdir -p $PKG/usr/sbin
cp src/{efibootmgr,efibootdump} $PKG/usr/sbin
chown -R root:root $PKG/usr/sbin
chmod -R 755 $PKG/usr/sbin
# Add a documentation directory:
mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/${PKGNAM}-$VERSION
cp -a \
AUTHORS COPYING INSTALL README TODO \
$PKG/usr/doc/${PKGNAM}-$VERSION
chmod 755 $PKG/usr/doc/${PKGNAM}-$VERSION
chmod 644 $PKG/usr/doc/${PKGNAM}-$VERSION/*
A SlackBuild for efivars is available @ SBo, thanks to Andrew Clemons.
Caveat: I have built, installed and run this stuff in a system based on Slackware-14.2. However this should work as well on Slackware-current.
PS in case someone wonders: there is already a header file /usr/include/efi/protocol/efivar.h shipped in gnu-efi, but it differs from /usr/include/efivar/efivar.h shipped in efivar and needed by efibootmgr.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 05-10-2018 at 02:58 PM.
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.
