Staying GPL compliant

[agreimann]

@Hamza: Yep. I think we're honestly getting there.

[agreimann]

Remember, we need to get our sources out once 1.0 is released, so that Porteus will stay trouble-free with the GPL world! Thanks, all and go Porteus!

[Ahau]

@agreimann
Porteus code is still evolving as we are in rc stage. just added a function to linuxrc which discovers if booting media is removable, if not then in case of doing 'copy2ram' hard drive partition is not unmounted (no point for this).
When 1.0 is out we can gather all scripts in one tarball and post on the main site.

Thanks for suggestion.

Just a reminder (due to a request on mchat) about this task, now that V1.0 is out (of course, we may want to wait until some more bugs/fixes shake out!).

[fanthom]

give me some extra time as brokenman was out last few days before 1.0 and we need to sync our 32/64 trees.
then we can prepare a tarball and upload it on the site.

[Sitwon]

give me some extra time as brokenman was out last few days before 1.0 and we need to sync our 32/64 trees.
then we can prepare a tarball and upload it on the site.

I'm very eager to see how your build tree is setup. It should help me figure out how to layout my own build environment.

Most of your modules seem to be composed of Slackware packages, and in those cases I can just look in /var/log/packages to see what is necessary to re-build them, but in some cases you didn't use Slackware-style packages leaving me more or less guessing at what was done.

I know that squashfs-tools didn't come from a Slackware package because there isn't one. I just submitted a SlackBuild to SBo this morning.
https://github.com/Sitwon/SlackBuilds/t ... shfs-tools

That still leaves a bunch of assorted files/scripts like /opt/porteus-scripts and liblinuxlive which are untracked by pkgtools. I'm going to try writing a script tonight to see if I can find any more untracked files.

Aside from the base modules (which are over 1GB when unpacked) I have checked the rest of my build environment into a git repo.
https://github.com/Sitwon/Porteus

[brokenman]

Sitwon,

This is a little off topic and not related to GPL.

Essentially we acquire slackware packages (e.g 001-core.xzm base module packages) and unpack somewhere. There are some custom modules that are compiled locally on Porteus that are added. A cleanup script is run to remove unneeded files, the Porteus tree is added and the folder is packed to a module.

I statred a svn project a while ago, and found it too much trouble. Eventually i will restart it with only the Porteus tree, custom files, and a script to build Porteus, but this is a way down the track.

If you want any more info PM me.

[fanthom]

Here is full Porteus 64bit tree:
http://ponce.cc/porteus/x86_64/current/ ... 11.tar.bz2

The tree contains all loose files which are not listed in /var/log/packages/* files (slackware/custom packages).
Tarball includes all updates and fixes merged till today.

BTW: Cleanup scripts are little messy (brokenman's one are well commented).

Hope someone find it useful.

If you have any queries/doubts (eg about GPL compatibility) - feel free to ask.

Regards,
fanthom

[Sitwon]

Here is full Porteus 64bit tree:
http://ponce.cc/porteus/x86_64/current/ ... 11.tar.bz2

The tree contains all loose files which are not listed in /var/log/packages/* files (slackware/custom packages).
Tarball includes all updates and fixes merged till today.

BTW: Cleanup scripts are little messy (brokenman's one are well commented).

Hope someone find it useful.

If you have any queries/doubts (eg about GPL compatibility) - feel free to ask.

Regards,
fanthom

Perfect, this looks like exactly what I was looking for. It might take me a couple days to integrate this into my tree but it'll be much easier now than trying to reverse your xzm packages.

Thanks.

[brokenman]

Here is the full 32bit tree. I've included a list of all custom compiled modules, but have not included the modules themselves.

http://ponce.cc/porteus/i486/current/ex ... 01.tar.bz2