src2pkg has a new home!
 

src2pkg has a new home. After a recent crash on my hosts'(ibiblio.org) server all my files(over 15GB) were gone.
So, while repopulating the site I decided to reorganize it as well. This means that old links to my site are broken including the ones to src2pkg.

There is a new release available with several new features and improvements.

You can always get the latest version here:
src2pkg Home

Thanks gnashley.

I use your src2pkg a fair amount.

I'm not enough time on computers lately though. (given more time, I would configure up more stuff for myself.

I DL the new src2pkg. I perused but didn't see your gnome-compat

I have your gnome-compat and Abiword works very nicely on Slack 11. Played with Abiword a little (again, need more time).

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Alan.

Everything on my site was destroyed about 2 months ago and I am still working on getting everything ready to re-populate it. There were more than 500 packages there so getting it all back is a bit of a chore, especially because I'm updating the scripts and rebuilding the packages.

Src2pkg looks good, but it uses installwatch like you pointed out. Perhaps the idea of making this is laughable to many of you, but this is a really frustrating problem. I want absolute control over where the install program writes files. I will look further into this. Thanks.

Oops, wrong thread

I haven't tried your tool, gnashley, but, I will tonight:-) Thanks for your support with the Slackware community.

Sorry about your site gnashley. :(

I think I used one of your OO builds or maybe that was AlienBob. Anyway thanks to you both for supporting the Slacking community :)

Just used src2pkg to make a Guifications Pidgin plugin package. It worked beautifully :)

Found a mirror...
 

Hey Gilbert,

I just came across a mirror of your old site as it was last year :-).......It might have enough stuff to recover most of what you lost....

It's a Virginia Tech mirror, and here's the link to the amigolinux directory:
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/linux/distributions/amigolinux/

The only directory it has under amigolinux is the download directory, which contains the sources, docs and packages subdirectories......

HTH
---thegeekster

Thanks for the tip, but the problem is not that all the material is lost. I mean I have everything here on hard drive -I just need to re-upload everything. I was waiting to finally get flat-rate service this month and to make some decisions about how to layout the new site.
The site you mention has a pretty old copy of the site which may be useful to someone. Actually I'm glad in a way that all the content was lost on most mirrors since quite a few of them had very old material which I had retracted from the main site for various reasons.

There's a new release of src2pkg available(1.4) which works with Slack-12 and has several improvements which make it more robust when building packages which are part of a basic installation.

Just uploaded src2pkg-1.5 which fixes a bug reported by James Mueller where archive decompression failed in verbose mode. More POSIX fixes also.

I've just spent the afternoon trying to write a slackbuild script, unsuccessfully. I gave src2pkg a go, and it worked first time. I was trying to build a very simple program called ee (easyedit), but I couldn't set the DESTDIR variable in the build script. So how does src2pkg do it? Whenever I ran my slackbuild script some things such as the man page would get installed before I'd actually installed the package.

The 'Makefile' specifies this.

cp ee /usr/local/bin/ee
cp ee.1 /usr/local/man/man1/ee.1

There is no DESTDIR that I could set. What's the way around this?

Generate a src2pkg script using the -N option (src2pkg -N tarball-name)
Then open it and comment the install routine out like this:

# fake_install

Then add these lines to the src2pkg script just after that:

mkdir -p $PKG_DIR/usr/bin
cp -a $SRC_DIR/ee $PKG_DIR/usr/bin

mkdir -p $PKG_DIR/usr/man/man1
cp -a $SRC_DIR/ee.1 $PKG_DIR/usr/man/man1


You could also create a patch for the Makefile. I usually use 'gendiff' which is part of the rpm package to make them.
Make a copy of the Makefile named Makefile.00, then modify it like this:
cp ee /usr/bin/ee
cp ee.1 /usr/man/man1/ee.1
Then, run 'gendiff . .00 > ee-version-fix-paths.diff' and copy the resulting patch into the same directory as the src2pkg script.

I did actually patch the Makefile to install the executeable and the man page to /usr instead of of /usr/local. The problem is they get installed by running the ee.SlackBuild script, which obviously they shouldn't. There must be something wrong with my script. The example scripts I've seen use a DESTDIR $PKG variable when running 'make install'. So I'm assuming that's what isn't working. src2pkg didn't have any trouble with it.