USM Unified Slackware Package Manager

[Ed_P]

gee, the "cat /proc/cmdline" command in RazorQT shows me the directory where my extramods option is pointing to. Don't know if would work in other DEs.

[brokenman]

gee, the "cat /proc/cmdline" command in RazorQT shows me the directory where my extramods option is pointing to.

That's nice for you. You added the cheat code. Mine doesn't show me any extramods folder. I have to think 'in general' where 95% of users don't use this cheat, and the folder where they like to store extra stuff may be unknown. One folder is known ... $STORAGE. It can act like an extramod folder and you can more easily point your cheat code there than I can add code for all situations. Thanks.

[Ed_P]

I have to think 'in general' where 95% of users don't use this cheat, and the folder where they like to store extra stuff may be unknown.

You're probably right. Better to use fanthom's suggestion and put the downloaded packages and modules in /usr/share/usm or even /opt/usm. Then a user's storage options doesn't matter and coding should be simpler.

[brokenman]

What about $HOME/usm ??

[Slaxmax]

database was updated, but yet show message to update.

Code: Select all

root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -v
 You are using USM version:  3.1.6

root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -u all
alien was updated 776 seconds ago. Skipping.
salix was updated 48 seconds ago. Skipping.
slacky was updated 742 seconds ago. Skipping.
ponce was updated 723 seconds ago. Skipping.
slackware was updated 314 seconds ago. Skipping.
slackwarepatches was updated 234 seconds ago. Skipping.
sbo was updated 54 seconds ago. Skipping.

extra-deps.txt was updated 48 seconds ago. Skipping.
ignore-deps.txt was updated 48 seconds ago. Skipping.

You can change the time limit for skipping in: /etc/usm/usm.conf
The default is 3 hours

root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -g gnutls

 The following items were found.
 Choose an number to confirm. 
 ctrl+c to quit

1) gnutls-3.1.16-i486-1.txz
2) gnutls-3.1.25-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
#? 2

Processing:   gnutls-3.1.25-i486-1_slack14.1.txz 
Ignored libraries: 

Libraries required:  15
Libraries found in system: 14
Libraries to resolve: 1

Processing library: libgnutls.so.28


 The following packages are required. 
gnutls-3.1.25-i486-1_slack14.1.txz [1984K]

Total size: 1 MB

 Press [r] to remove packages, [q] to quit, or enter to start downloading.

 Updates are available. 
 Program update:   not required 
 Database update:  available 
 Please run:  usm -u all  and/or  usm -u usm 
 This message can be disabled in /etc/usm/usm.conf
 ############################### 
gnutls-3.1.25-i486-1_slack14.1.txz already exists

root@porteus:/home/guest# 

and gnutls downloaded 0B

[Slaxmax]

@Brokenman

An interesting option would automatically choose the dependencies without warnings.
For example always choose the smaller package.
And in the end show the option to choose the package you want to download, or remove some.

thx

[brokenman]

Thanks Slaxmax. I will take a look at this option. Progress was frozen until the release of Porteus v3.1rc1 which will be available very soon (probably tomorrow).

I have just now updated USM to v3.1.7 but you may want to wait for the new Porteus version instead.

[brokenman]

Updated USM database.

[brokenman]

Updated database

[brokenman]

Updated database

# 141213

latest flashplugin is now available with minor version 425.

[Bogomips]

Enhancement Request

If there are missing dependencies which USM has been unable to find, could we at the end have something like:

Warning: Unresolved dependencies

Package abc.txz requires libx, liby Not found.

Proceed?

Thanks.

[brokenman]

Can you give an example of a package that doesn't fully resolve dependencies so I can use it for testing?

[Bogomips]

Can you give an example of a package that doesn't fully resolve dependencies so I can use it for testing?

Can't remember offhand. Will have to do a grep. Would help if you could provide message format for when a library cannot be resolved.

[brokenman]

I am sure in CLI there is a colorful message that a library couldn't be resolved, but I can't remember about the GUI. Will hunt until I find one that can't be resolved.

[francois]

There is a recurring problem in trying to update usm database slacky will not update. Could there be a specific problem tied to usm?

As a correlate, trying to download slackyd from pkgs.org there is no response. Would this be a cue to the problem?