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I noticed that the build scripts used by Vector Linux are indeed Robby Workman's. Also I noticed that the important source directories below http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinu...ce-4.8/source/ (the "deps" and "xfce") are empty. Which is not in agreement with the statement "these guys would be eager, and more than forthcoming on the origins, and changes to packages/build scripts they've done".
Eric
Did you ask the Vector devs?
Last edited by disturbed1; 12-05-2011 at 09:09 AM.
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Why would I? Let them take their own responsibility. I only pointed out the flaw in your argument.
Eric
You should because you are making (another) unfounded assumption.
I have made no argument, you are the one attempting to provoke one.
Perhaps you should re-read, and comprehend what is posted before blasting nonsense.
You should because you are making (another) unfounded assumption.
I have made no argument, you are the one attempting to provoke one.
Perhaps you should re-read, and comprehend what is posted before blasting nonsense.
I was not negative in my comment toward you. Pity that you perceived it that way. It was not provoking, and neither was it nonsense.
It's just that you should try and traverse a Vector Linux 7 directory tree on any public mirror and and you will see where the sources are missing. That is a lot of places!
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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I noticed that the build scripts used by Vector Linux are indeed Robby Workman's. Also I noticed that the important source directories below http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinu...ce-4.8/source/ (the "deps" and "xfce") are empty. Which is not in agreement with the statement "these guys would be eager, and more than forthcoming on the origins, and changes to packages/build scripts they've done".
Eric
Well, they have to be doing something different as their package is setting a record, so to speak, for stability. Every time I boot it up everything is exactly as I left it.
Last edited by cwizardone; 12-06-2011 at 01:56 PM.
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Well without the source I can not tell you what they did, can I?
Well... I really don't know , but if you say so.
I've told myself that when I retire (if that is possible in this economy) I'll dive deeper into all of this, other than running the occasional SlackBuild script, and *IF* I can make any sense of it, try building Xfce, and other projects. Whether or not that happens depends, as I said, on the economy and age. We will see.
Thanks for everything you do for Slackware and its users.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours.
Last edited by cwizardone; 12-06-2011 at 03:03 PM.
One small question: did GConf xml format changed substanially between releases in 2010-2011? I had problems running Yelp with custom built Gnome platform libs. :/ I was switching DSL providers, so I used the sources of GNOME platform libs that I had available (no net access at the time). Well, I will update anyway.
Btw, I will soon post a couple of slackbuilds to SBo (my first batch - time to start contributing to community ).
I'm using xfce 4.8 from Robby. I have a problem when i tried to upgrade my kernel to 3.1.5 from 2.6.38.4. The kernel compilation was success, but when i tried to boot, it freeze when starting avahi daemon service. The error message "unhandled kernel version 3.1". Is it okay if i disable avahi? Or maybe one of you have another solution?
Thank you
Nevermind, i found the problem, it's not avahi, but laptop-mode-tools, already fixed it
Last edited by Uzuki; 12-21-2011 at 10:29 AM.
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