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Alien's Slackware packages

Sat, 15 Sep 2018 20:27:35 GMT
chromium-pepperflash-plugin: updated to 31.0.0.108. Needs chromium. flashplayer-plugin: updated to 31.0.0.108. See https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb18-31.html squashfs-tools: removed the package for -current since Slackware adopted zstd support in -current. zstd: removed the package for -current since Slackware adopted zstd.
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 22:26:50 GMT
vlc: also updated to 3.0.4, for Slackware 14.2. Depends on libinput, libwacom, libxkbcommon, qt5, qt5-webkit packages.

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Sat, 15 Sep 2018 10:49:05 GMT
current/deps/lmdb: Removed. It has been added to Slackware-current. The lmdb package is a requirement for baloo and now also for samba.
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:29:23 GMT
current/deps/cryfs: Rebuilt against new cryptopp. current/deps/cryptopp: Updated (Clementine needs this).

Alien's multilib packages

Sun, 9 Sep 2018 13:08:19 GMT
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 14:18:39 GMT
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

Slackware64-current

Sat, 15 Sep 2018 21:19:23 GMT September 15, 2018
a/kernel-firmware-20180913_44d4fca-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-generic-4.14.70-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-4.14.70-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-4.14.70-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. ap/hplip-3.18.7-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt. Applied fixed patch - this has a better chance of working now. I've checked and hpcups no longer links to libImageProcessor. Which, by the way, the previous build dumped onto my main system (not even in "make install"), but not into the package itself. I […]

SBo

SlackBuilds.org changes for Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:33:13 GMT
academic/cryptominisat: Added (SAT solver). academic/sage-bin: Added (python based mathematics software). academic/wmcalc: Updated for version 0.7. audio/museeks: Updated for version 0.10.1. audio/sayonara-player: Updated for version 1.1.1_git3_20180905. desktop/Buku: Updated for version 3.9. desktop/ctwm: Updated for version 4.0.2. desktop/cwm: Actually use SLKCFLAGS. desktop/oranchelo-icon-theme: Updated for version 0.7.7.2. desktop/razercfg: Switch homepage and download to https. desktop/vertex-theme: Added (GTK3 & […]

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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