[Slackbuilds-users] Minor cleanups & changes

2008-12-01 Thread David Spencer
Robby Workman wrote: > we'll go back over the > mailing list for outstanding bug reports and minor cleanups too Well, here are four *very* minor cleanups. I'm ashamed to admit the first is one of mine that sneaked through. libxmi - the .info file has a screwy HOMEPAGE value amrwb - README inco

[Slackbuilds-users] Built-in obsolescence

2009-01-09 Thread David Spencer
JMRI is an app with two dependencies. In both cases the dependent packages, which are not currently available at SBo, must be very specific versions which were obsoleted some time ago (rxtx-2.0-7pre2 and javacomm-2.0.) Upstream has indicated that there's no real prospect of rewriting against newe

[Slackbuilds-users] Zap 'jmri' from pending please

2009-03-06 Thread David Spencer
Hi, Could one of the SBo admins please delete 'jmri' from pending? Apparently it needs a bit of enhancement :-( Thanks in advance! -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/sl

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Unchecked entries for 13.0

2009-08-13 Thread David Spencer
Marco Cecchetti wrote: > *libraries/gdal/ > libraries/libgeotiff/ > *I don't use these 2 any more. I'm going to leave the maintenance I can take those on if everyone agrees. They both need LIBDIRSUFFIX for x86_64 support, tarballs attached. Some other packages I don't maintain.

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Unchecked entries for 13.0

2009-08-13 Thread David Spencer
> Just a thing, I added libz path option but probably it is not needed > and now it is not correct for x86_64 arch. So, I've been maintainer for about nine hours now, and I've just made my first embarassing mistake. Impressive :-) Apparently, when configure sees "--with-libz=/usr/lib", it just t

[Slackbuilds-users] libxmi

2009-08-28 Thread David Spencer
s.org repo simultaneously with Slackware 13.0. Wow! Thanks! -Dave Spencer #!/bin/sh # Slackware build script for libxmi # Written by David Spencer # This script is dedicated to the public domain PRGNAM=libxmi VERSION=1.2 ARCH=${ARCH:-i486} BUILD=${BUILD:-2} TAG=${TAG:-_SBo} CWD=$(pwd) TMP=${T

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] libxmi

2009-09-06 Thread David Spencer
> Can you make a complete tarball of everything (just like you would > submit to us if the submission form were open) and mail it to me? > I'll get it added in our next update. > > -RW Wow, 93 new messages on the list? Looks like this was a bad time for me to take a holiday. Very sorry for the

[Slackbuilds-users] geos -current

2010-01-31 Thread David Spencer
Hi folks, The geos slackbuild is failing on -current because of the recent upgrade of Ruby to 1.9.1. Upversioning geos doesn't solve the problem, but removing '--enable-ruby' does :-) I don't know of anything that needs Ruby support. But if you really do need geos with Ruby, you will be much ha

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Some dead link

2010-02-16 Thread David Spencer
>> I tried it on Slack64-current with Multilib and it just segfaulted on >> me. I don't know what anyone else's experience is. > > Same here. I could launch the shared version. Specifically for 2.1.0.* running on Multilib -- if you *DON'T* strip the executable, it doesn't segfault. Just comment i

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] faac 1.28 does not build against libmp4v2

2010-05-28 Thread David Spencer
> I am having a little trouble with the Slackware 13.1 build script for > faac 1.28. Although faac builds and runs well enough there seems to be > a problem with faac building against either internal or external > libmp4v2 under gcc 4.4.4 and thus under 13.1. This patch enables > support for the in

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Some necessary changes to build a newer version of gpsd

2010-06-22 Thread David Spencer
Hi Niels, Max and everybody else, Thanks for the two bug fixes, I'll incorporate them when I upversion gpsd. By the way, that needs new versions of the two SBo packages that use gpsd (kismet and viking). I know Audrius Kazukauskas was already preparing a new version of Kismet before the changeov

[Slackbuilds-users] sse2 optimisation

2010-06-26 Thread David Spencer
Greetings SlackPeople, may I ask your advice? I'm doing a SlackBuild for Luminance HDR. Its compiler flags assume that SSE2 instructions are available. That's a bad assumption, but it's easy to make it configurable with a variable SSE2=yes|no and a note in the README. So, here's my question. S

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] sse2 optimisation

2010-06-26 Thread David Spencer
> Can this software work with acceptable speed in old processors without SSE2? > (i686) Yes, it is acceptable without SSE2. In fact the -msse2 flag was only introduced one version ago (qtpfsgui-1.9.3 -- Luminance HDR is the new name for qtpfsgui.) People with Athlons, including me, could not get

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] sse2 optimisation

2010-06-26 Thread David Spencer
Wow, thanks for all the replies, reading them was great. Is that why trolls troll? :D Anyway, if in doubt, go with the guy who calls the shots: > In that case, I'd say enable it on x86_64 and leave it out of > everything else. > > -RW Thanks, -Dave S. ___

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Some necessary changes to build a newer version of gpsd

2010-07-01 Thread David Spencer
> I've just submitted kismet script after some adjustments for x86_64, so > if everything's OK, it should be accepted soon.  I'm aware that kismet > is able to use gpsd, but I have no hardware to test it.  If it doesn't > require any other steps than simply installing gpsd together with > kismet, I

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Some necessary changes to build a newer version of gpsd

2010-07-10 Thread David Spencer
> A new upstream version of gpsd, 2.95, is due to be released right now, > so I'll wait another few days before submitting the new gpsd > SlackBuild, if that's ok with everyone. FYI, upstream now seems more interested in fixing the problems that Niels noticed than in releasing a new version. This

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] I can't download gtk-nodoka-engine from sbopkg because of untrusted SSL certificate from fedorahosted.org.

2010-07-27 Thread David Spencer
> Edit /etc/sbopkg/sbopkg.conf, find WGETFLAGS, add --no-check-certificate. > > The proper solution would be to install ca-certificates, like these: > http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/13.1/i486/ca-certificates-20090814-noarch-1_rlw.txz Another possibility -- curl has a bundle of ca certificates, so you c

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Patch proposal to remove bashisms from some scripts

2010-10-30 Thread David Spencer
> Recently I have been tinkering with one of my boxes to use ash as > /bin/sh and noticed that doing so some SlackBuilds aren't working as > intended anymore. I once did something similar with ksh, so I sympathise with your intentions :-) and I'm rather shocked to be a three-strike offender :-( B

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Patch proposal to remove bashisms from some scripts

2010-11-01 Thread David Spencer
>  Don't you think its a lot easier for you to remember to exec these >  scripts with bash, than to get everybody else to change their scripts >  to work with your symlink? :) Technical measures are always better than "remembering". That's what "#!/bin/bash" is for. What follows is just a persona

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Patch proposal to remove bashisms from some scripts

2010-11-01 Thread David Spencer
> So changing the shbang lines to read #!/bin/bash would suffice, no? Yes. That's what pretty much everyone has been saying since the start of this discussion. Which is ok, really; it helps keep the mailing list ticking over. -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users

[Slackbuilds-users] Today's "please nuke from pending" request -- gdal

2010-11-05 Thread David Spencer
Could one of our admin folks please nuke gdal from pending? It contains a howling error. I'll resubmit :-/ Thanks in advance -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbui

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Today's second "please nuke from pending" request -- qgis

2010-11-05 Thread David Spencer
AAAGH! Damn! Damn! Could one of you also please remove qgis? Sorry & thanks again -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuild

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] x264 - source link seems to be dead

2010-11-23 Thread David Spencer
>  ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-snapshot-20101023-2245.tar.bz2 >           => `x264-snapshot-20101023-2245.tar.bz2' > Resolving ftp.videolan.org (ftp.videolan.org)... 88.191.250.2 > Connecting to ftp.videolan.org (ftp.videolan.org)|88.191.250.2|:21... > failed: Connection

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Web stats?

2010-12-17 Thread David Spencer
> I've never seen anyone complain that the site has too many scripts. :D But each script has two significant overheads: (1) more data to rsync (2) more for you admins to check when there's a new release of Slackware It's (2) that worries me most. Maybe for some scripts we should request a kind

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Web stats?

2010-12-17 Thread David Spencer
>> (2) more for you admins to check when there's a new release of Slackware > > Hey isn't this maintainer's responsibility? Not after submissions are closed ;-) In the past, the admins (if necessary) have done mass updates on all the scripts and done a test-build on *everything*. Of course the a

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My SlackBuilds on -current.

2011-03-29 Thread David Spencer
Am I allowed to recycle this thread for some more packages? (1) I see from git that R is being removed (unmaintained). Well, qgis (one of my packages) incorrectly lists R as a dependency in the README. In fact qgis does not depend on R these days, so it would be great to just edit the README to

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My SlackBuilds on -current.

2011-03-29 Thread David Spencer
>  So, for future versions of R I build from source without a SlackBuild > script? You could be the new maintainer :D It was offered on the list last year but nobody volunteered :O -- Damn, I knew there was something else. Could the Admins please remove multimedia/jmf? It h

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] postgresql-9.0.3

2011-05-29 Thread David Spencer
> Postgresql-9.0.3 does not build on 13.37 x86_64 with the following error: You seem to be using -current, not 13.37. The problem is the recent upgrade to perl-5.14.0 in -current. See http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-04/msg01283.php for a fix. -D. __

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] GoogleEarth Won't Start

2011-06-16 Thread David Spencer
> /usr/bin/googleearth: line 18: /opt/GoogleEarth/googleearth-bin: no such > file or directory > /usr/bin/googleearth: line 18: /opt/GoogleEarth/googleearth-bin: success That's what happens if you haven't done what's in the SlackBuild's README, note 2: 2) Google Earth 6 is "LSB compliant" meaning

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] viking version mismatch

2011-07-05 Thread David Spencer
> viking.info VERSION is 0.9.94, while download URL points to 1.1 (build > script VERSION is set to that, too). Also, please be warned that viking won't build with gpsd-2.96 (because of a change within gpsd). gpsd-2.95 works and I'm going to resubmit it to SBo soon. Sorry for the bad surprise :-

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] tangogps slackbuild doesn't work

2011-07-31 Thread David Spencer
> There is a newer / older version of gpsd in the pending queue (not > approved yet). > I'm copying the maintainer to see if he has any idea... The gpsd maintainer is lying in bed feeling very very ill and reading email with the brightness set to minimum :-( gpsd-2.96 has an API change (the funct

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] nonstandard build scripts

2011-08-09 Thread David Spencer
> The issue here (if there is one at all) is that the entire > hydrogen-drumkits.SlackBuild looks like this: > > ---begin-script--- > #!/bin/sh > > # Slackware build script for hydrogen-drumkits > > # Written by B. Watson (yalh...@gmail.com) > > PRGNAM=hydrogen-drumkits > VERSION=${VERSION:-2009120

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] nonstandard build scripts

2011-08-09 Thread David Spencer
> I don't really see a problem with it, as long as it produces one > package. Looking at the command line, I bet it *does* produce one package. Clearly that's what -b/-p/-t/-v/-d are for. Oops! Sorry I mentioned it! -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing l

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] scons and ccache

2011-08-10 Thread David Spencer
On 10 August 2011 15:03, B Watson wrote: > For any package that's built with scons, it'd be really polite for the > maintainer to make a note in the README saying "You must disable ccache > before building this package". I don't know exactly what the issue is, > but scons seems to be fundamentally

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] xtrkcad

2011-08-30 Thread David Spencer
On 30 August 2011 16:59, Roland Waggoner wrote: > I am using Slackware13.37. The installation of xtrkcad fails with the > message > -- checking for module 'libgtkhtml-2.0' > --   package 'libgtkhtml-2.0' not found. Hi Roland, As you have found, xtrkcad was removed from SBo because an important d

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Season's Greetings

2011-12-30 Thread David Spencer
A certain page at SBo now reads: "It makes the beer more enjoyable". Best laugh I've had in weeks! Huge thanks to everyone on the SBo team, and may all next year's beer be equally enjoyable! -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slack

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] perl-gtk2 fails at make test

2012-03-22 Thread David Spencer
Well I have built perl-gtk2 on multiple systems with 13.37, 13.1 and various current, both i486 and x86_64 -- and I try very hard not to have a dirty build system, and would rather pluck out my eyes than use the closed source nvidia driver ;-) -- and there are usually some tests that fail. Well, a

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] requirements in README files

2012-07-09 Thread David Spencer
For simple cases, I've noticed over the past year, or maybe more, that some of the admins do impose a consistent form of words on new submissions and updates, so the situation is probably getting better (statistically). And now that I have seen the form of words that the admins seem to like, I try

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] requirements in README files

2012-07-09 Thread David Spencer
> My suggestion would be for a > PREREQS="..." line in the .info file Maybe that could be X-PREREQS, in an homage to Usenet headers :-) -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] requirements in README files

2012-07-10 Thread David Spencer
For the record I'm personally not 100% hostile to the idea. I could live with a formal mechanism for declaring mandatory direct dependencies, but I wouldn't stay up late myself to make it happen. If it ever did happen, I'd hope that both build-time and run-time dependencies should be included with

[Slackbuilds-users] Slackware 14 Etiquette

2012-08-05 Thread David Spencer
Hi folks, Apologies if this is pushing things faster than the SBo Admins wish to go, you are welcome to leave this hanging in the air for as long as it takes. (1) How are we handling Java? Maybe 'This requires the Oracle JRE or JDK or OpenJDK' in the README (as appropriate), on the assumption th

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My SlackBuilds on Slackware 14.0beta1

2012-08-06 Thread David Spencer
> # libraries/libxmi Same fix as mine, but I bumped BUILD too like Eric said :-) Tito, would you like to maintain libxmi and tclap from now on? Then you would have the whole stack for Hugin. Here's a report on my other stuff. libraries/gdal - needs a patch to build with poppler-0.2

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] perl-* slackbuild updates

2013-09-10 Thread David Spencer
Heinz wrote: > perl has CPAN > python has easy_install > php has pear/pecl > ruby has gem > ... ... Firefox, Chrome, Libreoffice, Gimp, qgis, dokuwiki ... every one a different plugin mechanism, every one a configuration management nightmare. And now, O Joy!! we have the Lennart Crapplet to look

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Wireshark installation error

2013-09-26 Thread David Spencer
It's a Perl 5.18 thing. To fix it, insert a line '=encoding utf8' at the front of doc/wireshark.pod.template. Stick this bit of code in the SlackBuild, eg. after extracting the tarball: patch -p1 << --- a/doc/wireshark.pod.template +++ b/doc/wireshark.pod.template @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +=encoding

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] TeX Live 2013

2013-11-10 Thread David Spencer
Well I just rebuilt "The Book That Ruined My Health". It's a 138 page archaeology text, prepared in LyX, with complex tables and tricky figure layout, biblatex bibliography and index, and ERT that kept several coffee plantations in good business. The pdf (Luatex generated) is 501.8Mb. I never ne

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] my SlackBuild scripts on 14.1

2013-11-11 Thread David Spencer
On 8 November 2013 19:10, Aleksandar Samardžić wrote: > libraries/gsl > If anyone is willing to pick up these scripts for further maintenance > - feel free to do so; I probably won't update them in the future. Hi Aleksandar, Unless somebody else is ready to pick up gsl, I'm happy to adopt it

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Want to help with work toward 14.1 repo?

2013-11-11 Thread David Spencer
Ok here's yet another checklist of checked checks to check off from the CHECKLIST that I checked just now. academic/grass/ audio/amrnb/ audio/lmms/ desktop/thunar-archive-plugin/ development/check/ development/meld/ development/psycopg2/ graphics/GraphicsMagick/ graphics/darktable/ graphics/enblen

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] SlackBuilds up for grabs.

2013-11-14 Thread David Spencer
Well sorry to hear you can't keep going Pierre (I know that feeling too). I've used lots of your builds over the years and still use quite a few, so thanks very much from me! I feel confident enough to do these two, unless someone else has lots of enthusiasm for them -- > libraries/netcdf > misc

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] CHECKLIST/freerdp and remmina

2013-11-19 Thread David Spencer
On 19 November 2013 08:30, King Beowulf wrote: > looks like depending where you go (github), source file names are > mangled (capitalization or just missing "freerdp"). This location seems > stable: http://pub.freerdp.com/releases/ Your Royal Highness, ladies and gentlemen: Me too, I had the git

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Are we there yet?

2013-11-22 Thread David Spencer
>> perl/perl-OpenGL-Image: Removed (missing dep) >> perl/perl-OpenGL-Shader: Removed (missing dep) >> perl/perl-OpenGL: Removed (build failure) > > > perl-OpenGL wouldn't even consider building here, but if > somebody can tell me why and how to fix it, I'll be more > than happy to keep these three.

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Are we there yet?

2013-11-22 Thread David Spencer
>> graphics/shotwell: Removed (build failure) The root cause (at least, before its deps were upgraded) is the latest version of LibRaw (which I maintain). We need an older version of shotwell because of gnome deps yadda yadda yadda. But the older versions of Shotwell don't build with newer versi

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Are we there yet?

2013-11-22 Thread David Spencer
> graphics/resynthesizer: Removed (no SBo maintainer) I do actually care about this one and would hate to see it removed - can I adopt it please, if nobody else is motivated? (It is great for "airbrushing out" stuff from photographs.) Thanks -D. ___ Sl

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Name/Email Inconsistencies

2013-11-24 Thread David Spencer
> David Spencer - nobb...@yahoo.co.uk The only one like that is javacomm, which I believed was no longer in the repo until someone last week reported it builds ok :O Just remove javacomm please, nobody will complain :D Thanks -D. ___ SlackBuilds-us

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Name/Email Inconsistencies

2013-11-24 Thread David Spencer
> Unfortunately, javacomm is still needed by misc/jmri :) *Damn* -- I thought that dep was gone, but the safe thing to do just to fix that email until submissions reopen. Thanks and sorry -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbui

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Ekiga 4.0.1 for Slack 14.1 - compiling but not working

2013-11-25 Thread David Spencer
> seb@e130:~$ ldd /usr/bin/ekiga | grep libpt > libpt.so.2.10.10 => /usr/lib64/libpt.so.2.10.10 (0x7faf42539000) > libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7faf4136b000) > libpt.so.2.10.9 => not found > > How can it be looking for both versions of ptlib at the same time? Am I Well, ldd

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Will there be gnucash for 14.1?

2013-12-02 Thread David Spencer
> see Robby's commit message here > http://slackbuilds.org/cgit/slackbuilds/commit/?id=2c2d8a1c5847635c19856070daa952423fb6e309 Impressive, but he cheated on the Signed-off-by :P -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org h

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] md5sum mismatch on netcdf

2014-01-12 Thread David Spencer
On 12 January 2014 18:25, Nathan Becker wrote: > Hi, > > I observe a discrepancy between the md5sum of the downloaded file > netcdf-4.3.0.tar.gz and the checksum listed on slackbuilds. > > Slackbuild reports: 39fc507bf2966980fa92defecd9d2167 > downloaded file: 40c0e53433fc5dc59296ee257ff4a813

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] md5sum mismatch on netcdf

2014-01-12 Thread David Spencer
> But surely the correct md5sum to a download is a remote test, therefore the > slackbuild needs to be updated (no matter when the download changes, so does > the md5sum) - not trying to match the md5sum to what is the download is > wrong: if it changes, it's an update and slackbuild needs changes

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Darktable reports that it can't find rawspeed

2014-02-02 Thread David Spencer
Hi Paul, > I'm trying to get darktable or digikam to work with Fuji's raw (RAF) files. At a wild guess, are they Fuji X-Pro1 files? Due to the sensor pattern, rawspeed (and hence darktable) does not support X-Pro1 .RAF files. See, for example, this mailing list thread: http://sourceforge.net/ma

[Slackbuilds-users] New GIS category

2014-02-04 Thread David Spencer
Yeah, about that new category :-) Can I nominate some of my apps and libraries to be moved to GIS please? (if asking here is the best way of having it done -- and hoping that other maintainers might care to add more) academic/grass libraries/gdal libraries/libgeotiff misc/foxtrotgps misc/viking

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] New GIS category

2014-02-04 Thread David Spencer
On 4 February 2014 21:07, Benjamin Trigona-Harany wrote: > Here are the remaining SlackBuilds that I would recommend as candidates for > the GIS category (some are debatable): > libraries/CGAL/ Hm, ok! (It's also used by openscad. CGAL is due an update, but from an abundance of caution I've bee

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] opencv and stevedore missing dependency

2014-02-06 Thread David Spencer
> today I compiled opencv from the 14.1 repository and the build stopped, > complaining about missing "orc" files. So I guess that "orc" should be > listed as opencv dependency. opencv-2.4.7 with no optional deps builds ok here without orc. Is it maybe a weird side effect of building opencv with

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Darktable reports that it can't find rawspeed

2014-02-09 Thread David Spencer
> It's an X-E1. :( > This is a truly beautiful camera with astonishing > output. It's your lucky week :) Coincidentally there's been a new thread about it on the dt developers' mailing list. Support *is* now being worked on for both darktable and rawspeed (yay!) although obviously will take a whil

[Slackbuilds-users] REQUIRES="%README%"

2014-03-01 Thread David Spencer
Hi folks, Is this worth tightening up? I'm not going to name specific SlackBuilds, because that would be impolite and ungrateful. But maybe it would be nice if we all tried a bit harder to be consistent. Thoughts? The rule is: "Listing '%README%' as part of REQUIRES indicates more information a

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] REQUIRES="%README%"

2014-03-03 Thread David Spencer
I must say thank you to everyone who is contributing to this discussion. To be honest, my aim in asking was not really to get a clear answer about what we should be doing, but to encourage maintainers to think more deeply about their own scripts and to refresh the community's knowledge, and to fin

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Texlive-20130530 Build Errors

2014-03-21 Thread David Spencer
> Someone who actually knows texlive: Is it really supposed to be that big? Yes. It should take two or three minutes to install on relatively modest hardware. If the root fs is approaching fullness, ext4 performance can deteriorate quite dramatically -- and if installing on the same host it's ju

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Texlive-20130530 Build Errors

2014-03-21 Thread David Spencer
> There's plenty of room in each partition (ext3): that's cool, thanks for checking > I've watch top and installpkg is never the topmost running application; in > fact, there are usually two processes running and both are sleeping (S+) > which I did not think was appropriate. > > If anyone

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Texlive-20130530 Build Errors

2014-03-21 Thread David Spencer
> [root@salmo ~]# ps -efl | grep installpkg > 0 S root 6063 3690 0 80 0 - 1167 wait 08:16 pts/400:00:00 > /bin/sh /sbin/installpkg texlive-20130530-i486-2_SBo.tgz > 1 S root 9585 6063 0 80 0 - 1167 wait 08:18 pts/400:00:00 > /bin/sh /sbin/installpkg texlive-2013053

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Texlive-20130530 Build Errors

2014-03-21 Thread David Spencer
Fantastic, thank you. Here's the bunny: 0 S root 13449 13448 0 80 0 - 724 wait 11:08 pts/3 00:00:00 sh install/doinst.sh -install 4 S root 14387 13449 0 80 0 - 3313 n_tty_ 11:08 pts/3 00:00:00 perl /usr/bin/updmap --nohash --syncwithtrees So it's the second of the three comm

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Texlive-20130530 Build Errors

2014-03-21 Thread David Spencer
Sounds like you have some pre-existing config under /root/.texlive2012 or 2011, or /root/.texmf-var -- easiest thing to do is just blow it away. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/list

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Texlive-20130530 Build Errors

2014-03-21 Thread David Spencer
> After removing the two dot-files in /root I let installpkg run for 9 > minutes; it did not finish. Here's the process list from this attempt: Well that's just the same. Something non-vanilla on your box is causing updmap to whine and whinge. For example, my vanilla texlive has no directory '

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] TexLive2013 Install Issue: Different Host

2014-03-24 Thread David Spencer
> Fourth, I tried installing the build package, but the process hangs. I ran > 'ps -efl' and directed output to a text file, but I don't know how to > interpret the output. Manually running updmap showed some missing map files; > I let the tool build replacements. Thinking this solved the install

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] TexLive2013 Install Issue: Different Host

2014-03-24 Thread David Spencer
> Doesn't 'pstree' show this more clearly? It shows bugger-all of anything useful. Especially it doesn't show process state, wchan, start time or cpu used, all of which figured in the diagnostics we were doing. However, pstree would be the dogs bollocks for debugging systemd :P -D. _

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Patch for giblib.SlackBuild

2014-06-26 Thread David Spencer
> This is a great patch! It should be applied to any SlackBuild that uses a > "https://github.com/"; download link, as the file name is changed when using > a browser, but not changed when using wget. It's not only github :-( By the way, to download with the right filename from the command line,

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Needing requirements built with options

2014-07-14 Thread David Spencer
> IMO, you should also list libmodplug as a dep in inform7's info file. List > it first (or at least, before gst-plugins-bad). If people are installing > the deps in the order listed in REQUIRES, it'll take care of itself > (because gst-plugins-bad will auto-detect that libmodplug is installed, > d

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] A question about maintaining perl/* slackbuilds.

2014-07-19 Thread David Spencer
On 19 July 2014 21:19, Heinz Wiesinger wrote: > Mass updates are an exception, not a rule. And we haven't yet established that > what is required to do at this point qualifies as a mass update at all. Before > talking about bending rules, first focus on creating an actual overview of the > fixes t

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] A request to pull from my metacpan branch.

2014-07-20 Thread David Spencer
Hi folks, Can we include these in the mass update please? games/Chatbot-Eliza libraries/Crypt-SSLeay libraries/exiftool Thanks! -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slack

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] webkitgtk compile time

2014-07-29 Thread David Spencer
> It is currently 3.5 hours since I started compiling the webkitgtk > slackbuild. This is on a quad core 2.6GHz machine (not the fastest I admit > but still). The webkitgtk build process fails if run with multiple parallel jobs, so it will only use one of your cores. On a 3.2GHz box I expect ab

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] webkitgtk compile time

2014-07-29 Thread David Spencer
> That's the reason why whenever I compile it, I put it up on: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mefiles/files/Slackware/ Actually, it's worth mentioning that Erik pushed an update for webkitgtk-2.4.4 to git last week, so we are all going to have to build it again soon... or wait for Aaditya ;-)

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Version choice for Libre Office

2014-08-23 Thread David Spencer
> Alternatively, SBo could host a "fresh" and a "still" version for the > respective newest branch and just prior branch. This is how the LibreOffice > site separates their downloads. It wouldn't be the first piece of software > with two SlackBuilds for different versions. In a weak sense, this

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Slackware package linter

2014-09-25 Thread David Spencer
> TL;DR: Slackware package linter available at https://github.com/pprkut/lintpkg What, you mean like slackrepo --test ? :P http://idlemoor.github.io/slackrepo/tests.html (out of date, I wrote some more on a delayed train this afternoon) > Comments, patches, pull requests are very welcome :) Thi

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Slackware package linter

2014-09-25 Thread David Spencer
One observation -- some checks are easier, and much quicker, using awk to read a verbose tar listing of the package instead of extracting a full exploded package tree in the filestore. Very few checks will need to examine file contents (just slack-desc really). Are there reasons I've missed for wor

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Typo in tclap slack-desc

2014-10-17 Thread David Spencer
252ea2cbc403d4f946eb3fcc7aa1aa9f9a6cc874 ;-) (typo was copied & pasted from upstream...) Thanks! -D. On 17 October 2014 14:54, Ryan P.C. McQuen wrote: > How embarassing! > > - > -- > --- > > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: >> intially ==> initially >> >> Cheers, >> >>

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Typo in tclap slack-desc

2014-10-17 Thread David Spencer
p.s. if you're building what I think you're building, the recent upgrade of lensfun broke hugin :-( I would suggest dropping back to lensfun-0.2.8 for now. -D. On 17 October 2014 16:36, David Spencer wrote: > 252ea2cbc403d4f946eb3fcc7aa1aa9f9a6cc874 ;-) > > (typo was c

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Typo in tclap slack-desc

2014-10-17 Thread David Spencer
> I just submitted updates for libpano13 and hugin (2014.0.0, published > only some days ago). *awesome*, I didn't even know that 2014.0.0 existed! Thanks for finding the patch! -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org htt

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Numpy upgrade

2014-10-28 Thread David Spencer
> if you are maintainer of one or more packages above, please test your > packages against numpy-1.9.0 which is now available on my branch > academic/pyfits > academic/scipy > development/Bottleneck > development/pandas > gis/grass > gis/qgis > gis/rasterio > graphics/inkscape > graphics/mypaint >

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Circular dependencies

2014-11-24 Thread David Spencer
> Does SBo allow SlackBuilds to have circular dependencies? There are none in the set of REQUIRES= at the moment. If your new queue tool raises an error when it finds one, people may be grateful one day :-) Optional deps may be a different matter. The gdal slackbuild has two (!) that can be ena

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Clarification of REQUIRES and dependencies

2014-11-27 Thread David Spencer
> The disagreement occurs when package 1 depends on packages 2 and 3, > and package 2 depends on 3. Should 3 be listed in 1's REQUIRES? My amateur opinion: yes, because if 2 eventually drops the dependency on 3, 1 will still need 3. But this is unlikely. Also, if 1's documentation lists 3, some

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Clarification of REQUIRES and dependencies

2014-11-27 Thread David Spencer
>> The disagreement occurs when package 1 depends on packages 2 and >> 3, and package 2 depends on 3. Should 3 be listed in 1's >> REQUIRES? > > for me, it's a no > When you want install 2, you will need to install 3 and by then you > will have 2 and 3 installed. > Adding all deps may not be a pro

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Clarification of REQUIRES and dependencies

2014-11-28 Thread David Spencer
> Here's what I do when I'm installing something with a lot of > dependencies. I used to do exactly what you do, Ryan; it's a good methodology, but life's too short to do that for hundreds of packages. So I wrote something better. Inkscape is for wimps: here's what I do to install thunar-sendto-cl

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] scons 2.3.4

2014-11-28 Thread David Spencer
Everything that depends on scons builds ok here using Willy's branch: audio/ardour audio/clam audio/klick audio/hydrogen libraries/libffado audio/mixxx games/d1x-rebirth games/d2x-rebirth games/fceux games/fifengine games/glob2 games/jezzball-kazzmir games/pingus libraries/tolua++ multimedia/ffmpe

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Fontconfig warning with package culmus (was: Error while installing package culmus)

2014-12-27 Thread David Spencer
> Thanks to Ghengis Khan. Best. Commit. Message. Ever. -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbu

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Catfish not working

2015-01-06 Thread David Spencer
> I replaced wxGTK by wxPython, but I still get the exact same error. It looks like this: http://bugs.python.org/issue17998 which affects python-2.7.5. You could try SBo's python3? That would probably be neater than building your own python-2.7.6+ to replace Slackware's. Best regards -D. __

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] screenfetch could not build

2015-01-30 Thread David Spencer
Hey people, Look carefully. Qun-Ying is getting screenFetch-3.6.5.tar.gz with an upper case F ... not screenfetch with a lower case F. And so am I. So the PRGNAM 'screenfetch' is not matched. So Qun-Ying is getting an error. And so am I. I don't know why it worked for you, Willy. Maybe the n

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My packages

2015-02-03 Thread David Spencer
A Ferengi Funeral for Neils? ;-( Well this is the good stuff for me: libraries/eigen3 libraries/libdaemon libraries/libsigsegv libraries/rrdtool network/GeoIP network/ntop network/snort network/transmission system/lbench system/nbench system/slim If there's some graphics/ or libraries/ stuff lef

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My packages

2015-02-03 Thread David Spencer
> system/slim > > I'm not sure what you are running find on, but I've been maintaining slim > for a while. Might want to double check you are up to date. oops. I grepped that list on my bedroom lappie... right here in bed :O So this particular git clone hasn't been updated in a while, sorry. Mayb

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My packages (David Spencer)

2015-02-03 Thread David Spencer
> I can also take up transmission if David does not mind But of course, you're very welcome to have it... sounds like you will do a better job than me, and I'll have more time to finish fixing the slackrepo install problems you found :) Goodnight folks -D.

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My packages

2015-02-04 Thread David Spencer
Hey Mario! rrdtool is a logical fit with nagios so you are welcome to have it :D This is getting complicated! -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archive

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] My packages

2015-04-03 Thread David Spencer
Once again on Niels' scripts, I should really have picked up daq (to go with snort), if that's ok with everybody? Best regards to all -D. ___ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/s

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] src-vcs

2015-04-07 Thread David Spencer
> Did you use sbopkg or wget to download the source? > If so, try downloading them via browser. Fascinating! You get 403 Forbidden if your user-agent is wget! (Checked with "curl -A wget") Is that true of all gitorious URLs? *boggle* Also the md5sum has changed (should apparently be (should now b

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