[Slackbuilds-users] Fix for iotop issue with 4.4.144 kernel

2018-08-18 Thread Jason Graham
Hi, iotop is broken with the latest Slackware kernel. I've included the maintainer here, but also posting the note and a patch for the iotop SlackBuild to the list for further review. A few comments regarding the issue and patch: Recent kernels, including Slackware's 4.4.144 kernel, have introduc

[Slackbuilds-users] compiling mlt-6.10 with qt5-5.7.1 SBo version

2018-08-18 Thread King Beowulf
Hello! The details are here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/can%27t-compile-mlt-6-10-0-on-stable-4175636167/#post5890571 If you need to compile mlt with QT5 support, QT5 must be compile with C++11, and mlt needs added flag to tell configure about c++11. Otherwise compile/in

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Serious regression on Github archive URLs

2018-08-18 Thread Benjamin Trigona-Harany
On August 18, 2018 7:27:50 PM UTC, David Spencer wrote: >Sorry, Eric and Dugan, but no. > >The whole point of using the URLs we have standardised on, and not the >above pattern of URL (which has always been around), is to eliminate >the >difference between having content disposition and not ha

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Serious regression on Github archive URLs

2018-08-18 Thread David Spencer
> Yeah, the changed URL clearly seen in the user-facing "Releases" page. > I can confirm that this works: > > wget --content-disposition > https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib/archive/0.16.0.tar.gz > > That downloads the following file: > > OWSLib-0.16.0.tar.gz Sorry, Eric and Dugan, but no. Th

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Serious regression on Github archive URLs

2018-08-18 Thread Eric Pratt
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 11:56 AM Doogster wrote: > > Yeah, the changed URL clearly seen in the user-facing "Releases" page. > I can confirm that this works: > > wget --content-disposition > https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib/archive/0.16.0.tar.gz > > That downloads the following file: > > OWSLib-

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Serious regression on Github archive URLs

2018-08-18 Thread Doogster
Yeah, the changed URL clearly seen in the user-facing "Releases" page. I can confirm that this works: wget --content-disposition https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib/archive/0.16.0.tar.gz That downloads the following file: OWSLib-0.16.0.tar.gz Honestly, all 1000 SlackBuilds can probably be fixed

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Serious regression on Github archive URLs

2018-08-18 Thread Eric Pratt
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 10:37 AM Benjamin Trigona-Harany wrote: > > Hopefully my last email on this topic. Here's my recommended solution that > should be fully safe even if it does still requires a GitHub account: > > 1. Get your token as in my previous email > 2. Add a .netrc for root with the f

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Serious regression on Github archive URLs

2018-08-18 Thread Benjamin Trigona-Harany
Hopefully my last email on this topic. Here's my recommended solution that should be fully safe even if it does still requires a GitHub account: 1. Get your token as in my previous email 2. Add a .netrc for root with the following line: machine github.com login TOKEN password slack 3. Make sure w

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Serious regression on Github archive URLs

2018-08-18 Thread Greg' Ar Tourter
Thanks for the heads up David and nice find Benjamin. Not ideal as it requires users to actually have a github account but still gets people back and running until github stop being idiots. I have added the token to sbopkg.conf instead as at least it will only be used when using sbopkg rather tha

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Serious regression on Github archive URLs

2018-08-18 Thread Benjamin Trigona-Harany
Here is what I believe to be a reasonably safe way of getting wget to work again as long as you have a GitHub account: 1. In GitHub's settings, find "Developer Settings" 2. Click "Personal access tokens" 3. Click "Generate new token" 4. Select "public_repo" (nothing else!) 5. Click "Generate toke

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Serious regression on Github archive URLs

2018-08-18 Thread Benjamin Trigona-Harany
On Saturday, 18 August 2018 02:36:49 PDT David Spencer wrote: > Hey folks, > > Github has just broken the download of about 1000 of our SlackBuilds. > > If you get problems downloading with wget, or curl, or sbopkg, there are > 2 things you can do: > > (1) Download manually with a browser -- thi

[Slackbuilds-users] Serious regression on Github archive URLs

2018-08-18 Thread David Spencer
Hey folks, Github has just broken the download of about 1000 of our SlackBuilds. If you get problems downloading with wget, or curl, or sbopkg, there are 2 things you can do: (1) Download manually with a browser -- this still seems to work; or (2) Visit sbosrcarch at http://slackware.uk/sbosrcar