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Still got a dead link in /var for X11 -> X11R6

An email I sent Pat before 13.1 was released :- (NB Part 1 has been fixed but not Part 2)

Quote:

I have detected a bug in the install script for both aaa_base and x11-skel packages for both 32 and 64 bit editions.

This is the snippet of offending code which is identical in both packages

if [ ! -L /usr/X11R6/bin ]; then
if [ -d usr/X11R6 ];

Note the absolute path in the first 'if' this will fail when executed within the installer but works correctly within a running system, obviously the leading / should be removed to fix the problem.

Now aaa_base also has an extra problem in that it attempts to create some symlinks in /var relating to X.

[snip]
if [ -d usr/X11R6/lib/X11 ]; then
( cd var ; rm -rf X11R6 )
( cd var ; ln -sf ../usr/X11R6/lib/X11 X11R6 )
elif [ -d usr/X11R6/lib64/X11 ]; then
( cd var ; rm -rf X11R6 )
( cd var ; ln -sf ../usr/X11R6/lib64/X11 X11R6 )
fi
# As long as we're producing clutter:
( cd var ; rm -rf X11 )
( cd var ; ln -sf X11R6 X11 )
[snip]

The first block will be skipped due to the lack of usr/X11R6/lib/X11 in the aaa_base directory tree, this directory (usr/lib/X11 symlinks are hell) is included within the x11-skel package however x11-skel does not have this section of code so the links never get created other then a single dead link in /var.

You could fix this by adding the directory to the aaa_base directory tree or adding the code into x11-skel as well.

My recommendation would be to move all X11 stuff into the x11-skel package and remove it from aaa_base, which by the way is what the slack-desc for x11-skel seems to imply.

You might also consider renaming x11-skel to something like aaa_x11 to ensure it is processed before any other packages within the x series, though it does not seem to create any problems at this time.

Since I had problems with two hard drives, 1 with 13.1 and another 13.1-ish with xorg 1.8.1, so I decided to upgrade to 13.37 just for the heck of it...

Anyway, I'm not sure what to make of an issue I had yesterday while upgrading and reinstalling some of the programs I use, but no matter which mirror I selected slackpkg wouldn't find the xproto package. I finally had to manually download it and run installpkg. Perhaps it was because I used the 13.1 disks and only installed a console based system and installed all the xorg parts from current, but I'm unsure how that would have affected slackpkg from finding xproto. The only thing that bugs me, "Was that the only package that "wasn't" installed/found?".

Anyway, I'm slowly setting up and copying backups to this system and yet for the time being everything's running smoothly. All in all, even though it's been only a day, I'd have to give Pat a great big thumbs up on this one.

Bug fix release of gstreamer-good plugin 0.10.28

I don't know if Pat saw this, http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/new...3-08T17:00:00Z, but on 8 March there was a bug fix release for the gstreamer-good-plugin:

The GStreamer team announces a new release of the GStreamer gst-good-plugins module for the 0.10 GStreamer stable release series.

This is an ad-hoc bug-fix release that fixes a build issue when building against newer kernels where the old video4linux interface has been removed. It is identical to the 0.10.27 release in all other respects.

Check out release notes for gst-plugins-good, http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/rel...d/0.10.28.html or download tarballs for gst-plugins-good, http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src....10.28.tar.bz2

FWIW the firefox 4.0 sources seem to have been uploaded a while ago:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozi...ox-4.0.tar.bz2

The checksum is the same as rc2.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sahko (Post 4298660)

The checksum is the same as rc2.

That would explain why rc2 doesn't call itself rc2 then.

YAY for RC3 and Firefox 4.0 final! :)

btw:

extra/google-chrome/*: Added.
Added a google-chrome.SlackBuild to convert the Google Chrome .deb
packages for Slackware. Thanks to Erik Hanson.
Also added GConf and ORBit2 packages for Google Chrome in this directory.

which is a good thing, but the latest (yet unstable) versions of Chrome have started to depend on libpam.so.0, and this makes them unusable on Slackware without adding PAM, or at least the required library copied in Chrome directory.

Well it seems inevitable that Slackware will be forced to add GConf... PAM also seems inevitable.

Shocking to see google-chrome in extra/

Does somebody know will ever Opera included in Slackware out-of-box?
I do not see any reasonable reason why Firefox and Chrome included, but not Opera.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lumak (Post 4298941)

Well it seems inevitable that Slackware will be forced to add GConf... PAM also seems inevitable.

naw.. just ignore Chrome. Firefox 4 is the way :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by FeyFre (Post 4298950)

Does somebody know will ever Opera included in Slackware out-of-box?
I do not see any reasonable reason why Firefox and Chrome included, but not Opera.

I'd prefer to see Opera in /extra before Chrome as well.. Having said that I use SM/FF for my browsing, and wouldn't question out great benevolent dictator.. :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by FeyFre (Post 4298950)

Does somebody know will ever Opera included in Slackware out-of-box?
I do not see any reasonable reason why Firefox and Chrome included, but not Opera.

We'll I'd love to see it as well but I am totally biased. ;)

I just finished this latest round of updates and boot time has decreased by more than half! Takes about 90 sec now instead of ~200. I think its great that Chrome was put in extra, however I don't use it or need it. I do use Opera, although FF is my 98% browser. Opera works really well, its just a bit ugly. I can't find a suitable skin as good as noia extreme.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mlangdn (Post 4299009)

I can't find a suitable skin as good as noia extreme.

noia extreme?? Really? Each to their own I guess.

Quote:

Tue Mar 22 06:59:13 UTC 2011
We'll call this Slackware 13.37 release candidate 3. It seems like most of the
important pieces are in place now. :-)

Woot! :)

Edit: added later. My bad, already anounced.

CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT seems up to date, but it doesn't mention new d/slacktrack package