92% of my Porteus needs (as in: 64 bit Port!) solved in 2 minutes. Neat indeed.brokenman wrote:2 minute response time for my email from Panagiotis. Nice.
I've synced the 64bit repository, but the 32 bit repo is missing a ChangeLog.txt which is vital for USM to know when something was changed.
I looked into the directory of "Packages for Slackware 14.1", looking for ChangeLog.txt, PACKAGES.TXT, MD5SUM.TXT and all the rest and not even found the first one, ChangeLog.txtblue4meridian wrote:And slackpack?
http://webwarper.net/ww/~av/sotirov-bg. ... cgi?q=site
I am incredibly busy so I ask for all the help I can get. It is quite easy for you to simply say "You should add this repo". Quite the opposite for me to do it.If the maintainers find merit in a repo.. it is logical that THEY should reach out to improve their project.
Quite the opposite. This is looked at as 'Doing the leg work' and not begging. Case in point ... slackonly. Porteus users asked for it, did the leg work and it is now included.If an end user reaches out to a repo it will be seen as begging for favors... which will likely be ignored.
USM is slackware based. There is no point having packages available that will not automatically resolve dependencies. It just leads to complaints and more work.So if the maintainers like (consider?) what they are doing on pkgs.org then they need to reach out.
Yet you still made it. Good luck with Arch.In any case... the suggestion is moot because I have abandoned Slackware for Arch Linux.
Good luck with that too. I have an arch based version of Porteus sitting here on my computer. The problem is the hours and hours and hours of work I need to put in to make it function.So my new "wish" is for everyone else to do the same... if they are serious about repos.
Ok, yes I understand now. The leg work I refer to doesn't involve any begging. Just go out and find the repo that has the minimum requirements to be slackware compatible.In context... begging the repo NOT maintainer. So there is no leg work because... there will be no response because the end user has no credibility or authority.
You might also checkout gentoo if you are wanting to fully customize for your hardware. You have to compile everything which can take days to setup. The process is a little long, but quite painless and the available packages are plentiful.So Arch (unfortunately?) is the route of least resistance.
Does that mean.... that when I try out a gentoo live Linux (I presume there is one) I might find out that my issues with my 8core notebook and the sound - over - hdmi issue - no longer working with never Porteus at all - might be resolved with gentoo, and I "only" would have to find out which sound / alsa / hdmi driver I need to compile and add for my Porteus on that machine?brokenman wrote:You might also checkout gentoo if you are wanting to fully customize for your hardware. You have to compile everything which can take days to setup. The process is a little long, but quite painless and the available packages are plentiful.
