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sycamorex 10-15-2013 02:31 AM

Damn it. Just going to work!

jtsn 10-15-2013 03:05 AM

Impressive update! I didn't expect last minute support for UEFI in the setup scripts. :-)

Some notes about README_UEFI.txt: Most UEFI machines don't have an "Boot from file" option, they REQUIRE creating a boot menu entry and activating it for booting Slackware, otherwise they just reboot into Windows.

ELILO doesn't have multi-boot options, so I recommend adding http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ to the Slackware directory on the ESP to present the user with a nice menu:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/refind.png

It auto-detects boot loaders from various operating systems, so there is only minimal configuration required. It can chainload ELILO or boot Linux kernels directly.

Toutatis 10-15-2013 03:53 AM

the versions of gnutls are not the same in slackware-current and slackware64-current. is this normal ?

Stuferus 10-15-2013 04:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jtsn (Post 5045906)
Impressive update! I didn't expect last minute support for UEFI in the setup scripts. :-)

Some notes about README_UEFI.txt: Most UEFI machines don't have an "Boot from file" option, they REQUIRE creating a boot menu entry and activating it for booting Slackware, otherwise they just reboot into Windows.

ELILO doesn't have multi-boot options, so I recommend adding http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ to the Slackware directory on the ESP to present the user with a nice menu:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/refind.png

It auto-detects boot loaders from various operating systems, so there is only minimal configuration required. It can chainload ELILO or boot Linux kernels directly.

or simply dont use that efi stuff and run with legacy bios option.. :D

lems 10-15-2013 06:32 AM

Good news, though with tmux being added, do I need to fear a removal of screen? That would be an inconvenience, as I use it heavily.

ponce 10-15-2013 06:47 AM

if can be useful to people starting with tmux now that is included by default, this is the ~/.tmux.conf I'm using here to emulate screen keys ("ctrl-a a" to go at the beginning of the line included)
Code:

set -g prefix C-a
bind a send-prefix

then I have a bunch of other options in the same file
Code:

setw -g mode-keys vi

set -g status-bg black
set -g status-fg yellow
set -g status-left '#[fg=cyan]#H'

set-window-option -g window-status-current-bg red

set -g status-right '#[fg=gray90]#(uptime | cut -d "," -f 1,2,4)'

setw -g monitor-activity on
set -g visual-activity on

set -g utf8 on


Didier Spaier 10-15-2013 08:31 AM

makebootdisk is still in slackware{,64}-current/source/a/pkgtools. Maybe put it in ../obsolete-scripts alongside setup.90.modem-device?

kikinovak 10-15-2013 09:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier (Post 5046092)
makebootdisk is still in slackware{,64}-current/source/a/pkgtools. Maybe put it in ../obsolete-scripts alongside setup.90.modem-device?

Further down in today's ChangeLog:

Code:

a/pkgtools-14.1-noarch-2.tgz:  Rebuilt.
  Removed obsolete makebootdisk script.
  Added an /sbin/makebootstick symlink for making a USB boot stick.

Cheers,

Niki

lems 10-15-2013 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce (Post 5046010)
if can be useful to people starting with tmux now that is included by default, this is the ~/.tmux.conf I'm using here to emulate screen keys ("ctrl-a a" to go at the beginning of the line included)
Code:

set -g prefix C-a
bind a send-prefix

then I have a bunch of other options in the same file
Code:

setw -g mode-keys vi

set -g status-bg black
set -g status-fg yellow
set -g status-left '#[fg=cyan]#H'

set-window-option -g window-status-current-bg red

set -g status-right '#[fg=gray90]#(uptime | cut -d "," -f 1,2,4)'

setw -g monitor-activity on
set -g visual-activity on

set -g utf8 on


Thanks, that's useful. I've played with tmux on an OpenBSD system, where it's in base. By the way, for those who don't know, there is also a screen-like config file that comes with tmux, it's /usr/doc/tmux-1.8/examples/screen-keys.conf.

Edit:

Here is my .tmux.conf that is based on Han Boetes’ config from the examples/ directory, it uses ^t, ^tt switches back to the last window. (I needed to set TERM as my tcsh used dumb terminal settings with $TERM being screen.)

Code:

set -g status-bg white
set -g status-fg black
set-window-option -g window-status-current-bg black
set-window-option -g window-status-current-fg white

set -g default-terminal "xterm-color"

unbind C-b
set -g prefix C-t
bind C-t send-prefix
bind t send-prefix

bind ^T last-window


Didier Spaier 10-15-2013 09:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kikinovak (Post 5046124)
Further down in today's ChangeLog:

Code:

a/pkgtools-14.1-noarch-2.tgz:  Rebuilt.
  Removed obsolete makebootdisk script.
  Added an /sbin/makebootstick symlink for making a USB boot stick.


Yes, Nicolas, but in the SlackBuild we see
Code:

  # Add a link for makebootstick:
  ( cd $PKG/sbin ; ln -sf ../var/log/setup/setup.80.make-bootdisk makebootstick )

Despite its name, setup.80.make-bootdisk makes an USB boot stick (that can now install an elilo bootloader on x86_64), not a boot disk ;)

EDIT Maybe I was not clear enough. I meant that as makebootdisk is not installed anymore, it could be moved in ../obsolete-scripts in the source package.

chess 10-15-2013 09:47 AM

Just upgraded my server (which is also used to build MATE packages) and all is well. I am stoked to see tmux added -- I use it all the time on my OpenBSD machines and love it. Thanks, Patrick and team!

NoStressHQ 10-15-2013 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stuferus (Post 5045938)
or simply dont use that efi stuff and run with legacy bios option.. :D

Do you know about GPT ? Sometimes there's no "simply"...

TobiSGD 10-15-2013 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NoStressHQ (Post 5046217)
Do you know about GPT ? Sometimes there's no "simply"...

Linux can make use of GPT without having to use UEFI. Even Windows (in the server version) can do that .

e5150 10-15-2013 03:29 PM

Looks like iproute2 needs a recompile against the new iptables (/usr/lib64/tc/m_xt.so wants libxtables.so.9, but iptables has /usr/lib64/libxtables.so.10.0.0).

Drakeo 10-15-2013 04:40 PM

package pango-1.34.1-i486-1.txz 14.1 rc and the old link libpangox-1.0.so.0 from pkg pango-1.30.1-i486-1.txz 14.0 missing so many media programs webkit etc will crash. so I had to link libpangox-1.0.so.0 to libpangoxft-1.0.so.0.3400.1
all is well. it is also missing in multilib.
also to build the nvidia proprietary driver must use latest driver.


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