On Friday 17 November 2017 13:58:28 David Christensen wrote: > On 11/17/17 09:56, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 17 November 2017 10:49:20 David Christensen wrote: > >> Have you searched through the releases of Wheezy to see if any have > >> the specific version of the library you need? If found, air-wall > >> the machine, put in a new system drive, install that release, > >> install the software, get it working, and never update. > > > > That is not how my network is configured. The app is itself under > > continuous development, with an average of 2 updates a week. > > I guess air-walling really isn't necessary -- the key idea was to get > it working and then don't break it by updating anything. > > > But if you're updating with developer releases bi-weekly, then the > fallback idea would be to use and track whatever distribution the > developers are using. STFW I found http://linuxcnc.org/ , dug around > briefly, and saw mention of Ubuntu, but not the level of detail needed > to carry through this idea. I also saw the Debian-live based release, > so I dunno... > I have 2 or 3 copies of that on dvd's, and that is the install that all my x86 stuff is running.
> >> Otherwise, it's a matter of finding the software maintainer and > >> convincing them to bring the software up to date. > > > > That is beginning to sound like a worthwhile effort. But difficult > > when the names are all thats available in the README. Which I'll > > quote from here in case the publicity helps. > > > > "Many Thanks from Jacob Bogenschutz (bogie6040) to the following: > > > > Norbert Schechner (newbynobi) > > Fernand Veilleux (FernV) > > Slavko Kocjancic (eslavko) > > > > They deserve all the credit, I just tweeked on they're stuff and put > > it together." > > > > Just in case one of them is reading this list.. :) > > Have you tried these resources? > > http://linuxcnc.org/community/ I have not, might be a place to look. But the better half says feed me. :) > > https://github.com/LinuxCNC/stretch-live-build > > http://www.linuxcnc.org/testing-stretch-rtpreempt/ > > > David Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>