Two packages has been changed in the latest batch of update to remove the HAL-related files which no longer shipped with Slackware-Current. The first package is ntfs-3g which is upgraded to 2013.1.13 and sane which is rebuilt to fix the build script to apply add|change rules correctly.
Sadly, VMWare Workstation still uses HAL in order to work, so i keep hal and hal-info packages in my machines so that i can still continue to work with them.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Newer gtkmm Breaks VMWare and MySQL-Workbench
On my previous posts (here and here) i mentioned that VMWare was broken due to GCC and Linux Kernel upgrade, but it seems that i was wrong. VMWare Works with Linux Kernel 3.8.x / 3.9.x and also GCC 4.7.x / GCC 4.8.x branch.
I made an update to gtkmm to 2.24.3 and it caused VMWare to be broken when recompiling VMWare modules due to kernel upgrade. It's mentioned on ArchLinux's Bug Tracker, gtkmm's Bug Tracker, and another gtkmm Bug Tracker (the previous one is marked as duplicate to this one).
gtkmm on my SlackHacks has been reverted to gtkmm-2.24.2 since it was causing some breakage to MySQL-Workbench and i noticed later it was the culprit to my VMWare issues as well. Now VMWare works again on all of my machines.
If you found similar problem with MySQL Workbench or VMWare Workstation, try to have a look if you have upgraded to gtkmm to 2.24.3 or not. If you do, try to downgrade to 2.24.2 and see if it works for you.
I made an update to gtkmm to 2.24.3 and it caused VMWare to be broken when recompiling VMWare modules due to kernel upgrade. It's mentioned on ArchLinux's Bug Tracker, gtkmm's Bug Tracker, and another gtkmm Bug Tracker (the previous one is marked as duplicate to this one).
gtkmm on my SlackHacks has been reverted to gtkmm-2.24.2 since it was causing some breakage to MySQL-Workbench and i noticed later it was the culprit to my VMWare issues as well. Now VMWare works again on all of my machines.
If you found similar problem with MySQL Workbench or VMWare Workstation, try to have a look if you have upgraded to gtkmm to 2.24.3 or not. If you do, try to downgrade to 2.24.2 and see if it works for you.
Linux Kernel 3.9.x and GCC 4.8.1 Goes to Slackware-Current
Patrick has decided to leave Linux Kernel 3.8.x branch and include Linux Kernel 3.9.x branch for the next Slackware release. Both of them are not LTS, but being LTS doesn't mean that it's really that stable as expected (take an example from the previous experience of upgrading the kernel in Slackware 14.0 from 3.2.x to 3.4.x branch which caused some regressions for Intel Graphics).
GCC is now being upgraded to the latest version, 4.8.1 and this brings quite a lot of improvements when compiling applications, including it's now C++ 11 feature complete as of 4.8.1 release.
Several other applications and libraries were upgraded and rebuilt due to changes happening on -Current:
GCC is now being upgraded to the latest version, 4.8.1 and this brings quite a lot of improvements when compiling applications, including it's now C++ 11 feature complete as of 4.8.1 release.
Several other applications and libraries were upgraded and rebuilt due to changes happening on -Current:
- glibc is rebuilt against new gcc
- gzip is upgraded to 1.6
- gphoto is upgraded to 2.5.2
- hplip is rebuilt against libgphoto2-2.5.2
- ksh93 is upgraded to 2012_08_01
- kamera is rebuilt against libgphoto2-2.5.2
- kde-runtime is rebuilt to include new cmake parameter
- gvfs is rebuilt against libgphoto2-2.5.2
- libxml2 is upgraded to 2.9.1
- libxslt is upgraded to 1.1.28
- pil is rebuilt against libgphoto2-2.5.2
- php is upgraded to 5.4.16
- tclx is rebuilt
- mesa is rebuilt with some new added parameter to enable acceleration in VMWare
- xdg- utils is rebuilt to properly support MATE Desktop
- sane is recompiled against libgphoto2-2.5.2
Sunday, June 9, 2013
7 Years of SlackBuilds Project
Four days ago, +Robby Workman pushed an update to SlackBuilds Project with an interesting commit message:
It's been seven years and there has been some member changes over the year and here's the current (and legacy) person behind SBo project:
It's been seven years since we decided to give this idea a shot, so thanks for all of your support over that time. Here's hoping for at least seven more productive years...In the past seven years, SlackBuilds Project has been maturing over time and it has become one of the trusted repository for Slackware users to install packages that are not included in the official Slackware repository. Many people refer to this project since some of the core team of Slackware are also take part on this project, namely: +Eric Hameleers and +Robby Workman.
It's been seven years and there has been some member changes over the year and here's the current (and legacy) person behind SBo project:
- Founders:
- +Robby Workman (rworkman)
- +Erik Hanson (erik)
- Active:
- +Michiel van Wessem (BP{k})
- +David Somero (XGizzmo)
- +Heinz Wiesinger (pprkut)
- +Niels Horn (niels_horn)
- +Matteo Bernardini (ponce)
- Mail/DNS Admin:
- /dev/rob0
- Legacy:
- +Eric Hameleers (alienBOB)
- +Chess Griffin (chess)
- Piter PUNK
- Ezra Free
Friday, June 7, 2013
New Poll on June
I have published a new poll on this blog and this time, i would like to see how many packages have you built that comes from SlackBuilds project? I have placed options up to 100 packages and let's see how it goes.
You can check it using this command on terminal/konsole :
ls /var/log/packages/ | grep SBo | wc -l
You can check it using this command on terminal/konsole :
ls /var/log/packages/ | grep SBo | wc -l
Poll Results
It's June already and i missed the deadline about the poll results and here goes the results of the following questions : "What Do You Think About MATE Desktop on Slackware?"
I'm interested to try it 48 (38%)
I'll stick with KDE/XFCE 47 (37%)
I have another desktop environment 13 (10%)
I prefer to stay away from GNOME-based desktop environment 18 (14%)
It's a close win versus the desktop environment provided in Slackware (38% vs 37%). It's a good thing that people like MATE Desktop on their Slackware machine. We will maintain MATE Desktop for Slackware 14.0 until Slackware 14.1 gets released and by then we will move on to support the latest Stable release.
Big Update on Current: KDE 4.10.4 and Perl 5.18
Pat has indeed released a big update today by merging KDE 4.10.4 and Perl 5.18 on Slackware-Current branch. KDE 4.10.4 was already expected, but moving on to Perl 5.18.0 is something big since three months ago, Pat decided to take Perl 5.16.0 and now, Perl 5.18.0 gets included as well. This of course, requires some rebuilt on packages that relies on Perl, such as:
I wonder if Pat wanted to include Python 3.3 branch on testing/ someday? It's not backward compatible as in Perl, but it's something unevitable. Someday, all applications should be moving on to Python 3.3 and i think it's better to have it ready on testing/ early on rather than late. For now, people who wanted to test Python 3.3 would have to go to SlackBuild Project and build it manually (or use sbopkg for that).
- linuxdoc-tools
- libproxy
- pilot-links
- irssi
- net-snmp
- obexftp
- samba
- pidgin
- xchat
I wonder if Pat wanted to include Python 3.3 branch on testing/ someday? It's not backward compatible as in Perl, but it's something unevitable. Someday, all applications should be moving on to Python 3.3 and i think it's better to have it ready on testing/ early on rather than late. For now, people who wanted to test Python 3.3 would have to go to SlackBuild Project and build it manually (or use sbopkg for that).
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Bug Fixes Updates
Pat is releasing minor changes in several packages to fix several problems reported by users in LQ or directly to him. Most of them fix performance issues.
hplip is rebuilt to make the hp-config_usb_printer process runs in the background to avoid long delays until it's started completely. vim and vim-gvim are downgraded to patch 1087 to give more time for upstream to fix the regression after the regexp engine was rewritten. libffi is rebuilt to relocate ffi include files back to /usr/include, and patched the pkgconfig file to point there as well.
hplip is rebuilt to make the hp-config_usb_printer process runs in the background to avoid long delays until it's started completely. vim and vim-gvim are downgraded to patch 1087 to give more time for upstream to fix the regression after the regexp engine was rewritten. libffi is rebuilt to relocate ffi include files back to /usr/include, and patched the pkgconfig file to point there as well.
KDE 4.10.4 for Slackware 14.0 Users
Eric Hameleers has pushed his KDE 4.10.4 packages to Slackware 14.0 users on his KTown repository and as well as other mirror sites that mirrors his packages. This packages are intended for Slackware 14.0 users as -Current users will get the packages from Patrick himself as part of the future batch of update (hopefully soon).
KDE 4.10.4 brings bug fixes and translations updates only, so it's safe to upgrade to this version. This version focused on fixing Dolphin and PIM modules. Details can be seen on KDE's Bug Tracker.
KDE 4.10.4 brings bug fixes and translations updates only, so it's safe to upgrade to this version. This version focused on fixing Dolphin and PIM modules. Details can be seen on KDE's Bug Tracker.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Third Kernel Rebuilt in Stable Release
For those living in the stable release (Slackware 14.0), there has been a new rebuilt kernel package to revert more upstream commit that breaks Intel GPUs. The kernel version stays on 3.2.45, not being upgraded to 3.2.46 since that would require more testing and it's not that suitable for Stable releases.
Feel free to upgrade to 3.2.46 if you feel that that release fixed the problem you experienced
Feel free to upgrade to 3.2.46 if you feel that that release fixed the problem you experienced
ViM Update and SlackBuilds Updates
ViM and ViM-GViM are now upgraded to the latest patch set 7.3.1109. The developer is now starting to work on 7.4 since the number of patches that goes through 7.3 branch has over than 1000. The new planned minor release will have :
Meanwhile, Robby Workwan is now working full speed to approve many pending packages in SlackBuilds project. There hasn't been any update for the last two weeks, but in the last two days, Robby has approved more than 30 packages on his git branch. Check the latest update of SlackBuilds on their cgit interface.
- improve Python support
- include a faster regexp engine
- include pending patches and fix bugs
Meanwhile, Robby Workwan is now working full speed to approve many pending packages in SlackBuilds project. There hasn't been any update for the last two weeks, but in the last two days, Robby has approved more than 30 packages on his git branch. Check the latest update of SlackBuilds on their cgit interface.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Requested Packages Rolled Out
Pat has started to rolled out several packages that were requested on LQ, such as MariaDB-5.5.31, MC-4.8.8, Python-2.7.5 (to fix the false negative from several antivirus), and Samba-4.0.6.
There are no libraries update at this moment, but i do believe they will get a lot of updates in the next batch (or several next batches) and that would require quite a lot of recompiling packages, so just be patient with it.
There are no libraries update at this moment, but i do believe they will get a lot of updates in the next batch (or several next batches) and that would require quite a lot of recompiling packages, so just be patient with it.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Changes in Slackpkg Default Option
There were two batch of updates that i didn't talk about on this blog because they were too small, but i will highlight them now.
Pat is changing the default option in slackpkg to enable DOWNLOAD_ALL parameter so that slackpkg will download all of the packages before upgrading them. This should fix problems where some applications are upgraded, while their new requirements hasn't been installed. This has happened before with wget package which requires new requirements. In the normal operations, slackpkg will download the packages one by one and install/upgrade them sequentially.
Update to fontconfig should fixed some problem reported on LQ and so does rebuilding xfce4-session with a new parameter to disable systemd since Slackware doesn't use them. Slacktrack is also upgraded to the latest update.
There were also some update on more packages in the previous batch of update consisting of gawk, gdb, gmp, and nettle.
Pat is changing the default option in slackpkg to enable DOWNLOAD_ALL parameter so that slackpkg will download all of the packages before upgrading them. This should fix problems where some applications are upgraded, while their new requirements hasn't been installed. This has happened before with wget package which requires new requirements. In the normal operations, slackpkg will download the packages one by one and install/upgrade them sequentially.
Update to fontconfig should fixed some problem reported on LQ and so does rebuilding xfce4-session with a new parameter to disable systemd since Slackware doesn't use them. Slacktrack is also upgraded to the latest update.
There were also some update on more packages in the previous batch of update consisting of gawk, gdb, gmp, and nettle.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
More glibc crypt() fixes
Ever since glibc has introduced a new crypt() functions, some applications were broken and this batch of update should fix more packages, thanks to Mancha who has been helping out by testing and adding patches to work on this issues.
At long last, file is now upgraded to 5.14. This is the second attempt on upgrading file package as previous attempt broke other packages as well. Hopefully this time works as intended.
wqy-zenhei-font-ttf font is downgraded due to problems found and no exact solution for this. Let's just hope for upstream heard about this and fixed this problem. For now, downgrading is the best solution so far.
At long last, file is now upgraded to 5.14. This is the second attempt on upgrading file package as previous attempt broke other packages as well. Hopefully this time works as intended.
wqy-zenhei-font-ttf font is downgraded due to problems found and no exact solution for this. Let's just hope for upstream heard about this and fixed this problem. For now, downgrading is the best solution so far.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Security Updates: kernel
It's been a long time since Slackware released a security update for kernel packages, but since this update is critical (CVE-2013-2094, a bug that can allow local users to gain a root shell), Pat decided to take actions against it. He has released a new kernel packages available for both Slackware 13.37 and 14.0. Please note that Slackware-Current users are not vulnerable as this patches has been included in Linux Kernel 3.8.11 and we are using Linux Kernel 3.8.13.
Interesting updates comes in -Current as this batch upgraded a lot of things. Here are the highlights:
As for MATE users, as there has been a change in dconf package, it's better to recompile all packages that are mentioned on CURRENT.TXT on our github repository. Thanks to Patrick for including this on Slackware-Current to ease our work in MATE SlackBuild project.
Interesting updates comes in -Current as this batch upgraded a lot of things. Here are the highlights:
- Upgraded GTK+ and all related libraries to the latest version
- Upgraded GNOME related libraries to 3.8.x
- aaa_elflibs is upgraded to 14.1 (confirms our next release is 14.1)
- hplip is upgraded to 3.13.5
- Removed kajong as it requires some new dependencies
- Upgraded pcre to 8.32 (this requires a lot of rebuilt of packages)
- Slacktrack is upgraded to 2.14
- Upgraded XFCE related applications to 4.10.1
- Upgraded more X related packages and libraries
- Added several new packages
- itstool (for gucharmap)
- open-cobol
- gnome-themes-standard (for GTK+3)
- harfbuzz (for pango)
- Handle IPv6 forwarding in network-scripts
As for MATE users, as there has been a change in dconf package, it's better to recompile all packages that are mentioned on CURRENT.TXT on our github repository. Thanks to Patrick for including this on Slackware-Current to ease our work in MATE SlackBuild project.
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