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Alien's Slackware packages

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:37:11 GMT
boost-compat: updated to 1.70.0 to be in sync with -current again.
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 14:06:11 GMT
Updates to the package set for music production and creation, see also: https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/explorations-into-the-world-of-electronic-music-production Note that these packages are for slackware-current only. a2jmidid: added v20131126 - a daemon that implements automatic bridging between non-JACK aware ALSA applications and JACK MIDI via D-Bus.

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Sun, 24 Feb 2019 11:30:30 GMT
current/latest/deps/pyxdg: Removed, now that it got added to slackware-current.
Sat, 23 Feb 2019 12:10:35 GMT
current/latest/deps/PyQt: bumped the BUILD number of the 64bit package because the original 64bit PyQt-4.12.3 package was built against Python 3.6.

Alien's multilib packages

Sun, 14 Apr 2019 21:10:34 GMT
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. current/compat32-tools-3.8-noarch-7alien.tgz: added ap/lm_sensors to massconvert32.sh as a new dependency of mesa.
Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:20:28 GMT
14.2/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. current/compat32-tools-3.8-noarch-6alien.tgz: added l/mozilla-nss to massconvert32.sh

Slackware64-current

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:27:23 GMT April 17, 2019
a/kernel-generic-4.19.35-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-4.19.35-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-4.19.35-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. ap/sqlite-3.28.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/kernel-headers-4.19.35-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. d/meson-0.50.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/ruby-2.6.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-4.19.35-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. l/Mako-1.0.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/libcap-2.27-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/libpng-1.6.37-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2019-7317) in png_image_free. Fixed a memory leak in the ARM NEON implementation of png_do_expand_palette. Fixed a memory leak in pngtest.c. Fixed two vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-14048, […]

SBo

SlackBuilds.org changes for Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:09 GMT
academic/STAR: Updated for version 2.7.0f. academic/ViennaRNA: Added (C Library). academic/bowtie2: Updated for version 2.3.5. academic/gri: Added (graphics language). academic/locarna: Added (Local RNA alignment on structural basis). academic/novocraft: Updated for version 3.09.02. academic/octave: Update DEP. academic/pyCRAC: Updated for version 1.4.4. desktop/dunst: Updated for version 1.4.0. desktop/dwm: Rebuilt to show correct version in taskbar. desktop/openbox-themes: Fix DOWNLOAD […]

Archive for April 2nd, 2018

Fun and games in -current when ABIs break

Oh my. It was not an April Fools joke when the ChangeLog.txt of slackware-current mentioned the following (I left out the non-relevant package updates): +————————–+ Sun Apr 1 02:53:26 UTC 2018 … l/icu4c-61.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Shared library .so-version bump. … l/poppler-0.63.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Shared library .so-version bump. All of us who follow Slackware’s development know that […]

Posted: 2 April, 2018 in Rant, Science, Slackware.
Tags: abi, api, current
Comments: 32

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