Well here it is… almost.
Sat Nov 14 21:35:57 UTC 2015 Please enjoy "almost a beta." Sorry we missed Friday the 13th this time.
Yet another 200+ lines of updates in the ChangeLog.txt of slackware-current. It’s obvious that Pat has been watching the LinuxQuestions threads closely. And we are again very bleeding edge, with the Gnu Compiler Collection 5.2.0!
The update of tigervnc (in ./extra … with fltk as a new dependency) as well as the addition of the squashfs-tools are Pat’s nod to the Live version of Slackware that is in the making here at home. The Live ISO can now be created with and by Slackware-current without the need for 3rd party software.
Have fun! I had my ktown packages ready but now I need to find out if this update breaks stuff even before I released it… sorry guys.
Also, new gcc-multilib packages need to be made now. That too, may take a day or so.
Eric
Exciting time to be a slacker!
Great news! Thank you for sharing and for helping to build this great GNU/Linux distribution!
Cool!
I have a question about building the LiveCD. I remember from having fiddled with the Linux-Live scripts that the kernel had to be rebuilt to include the SquashFS module. Is it now possible to build a Slackware Live CD without rebuilding the kernel?
This line in the ChangeLog suggests that this update could break a lot of things— or am I reading it wrong?
testing/packages/eudev-3.1.5-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
Thanks to Jean-Philippe Guillemin.
Expect problems (especially with an initrd) unless everything depending upon libudev.so.0 is recompiled. Those packages include: ConsoleKit2, ModemManager, NetworkManager, aaa_elflibs, bluez, dhcpcd, gutenprint, gvfs, intel-gpu-tools, kde-workspace, kdelibs, libatasmart, libcanberra, libgphoto2, libgpod, libmbim, libmtp, libusb, libusb-compat, lvm2, network-manager-applet, qt, sane, system-config-printer, udisks, udisks2, usbmuxd, usbutils, util-linux, xf86-input-evdev, xf86-input-vmmouse, xf86-video-ati, xf86-video-intel, xf86-video-modesetting, xf86-video-nouveau, xf86-video-openchrome, and xorg-server.
eudev has been added to the *testing/* directory. Normally you don’t install stuff from there, and if you do, you get to keep the pieces if things break.
ok. got it.
I have compiled the latest kde stuff, before slack-current update , it seem all work correctly here. 😉
just the latest ‘kdesdk-kioslaves’, not compil here, it seem it’s subersion problem or other.
Interestingly many of the mirrors in Asia don’t have this update yet. I finally found a fast-enough US mirror. Everything works ok so far.
Niki, my Live ISO can be built without compiling. With squashfs-tools included and a tigervnc in /extra that works again, I do not need anything except a slackware-current package tree.
I do add one external piece of software: the binary Nvidia drivers as included as a separate module.
However that one will only get activated if you pass “nvidia” as a boot parameter.
Gérard, I have a patch for kdesdk-kioslaves, and I have already compiled a package for it.
Is it know already if we going to have Qt 5.* series in -current?
Or campat32 package for 14.1 ? (have slack64-14.1+qt5 from your repo, but need crosscompile qt dependent project into i486 arch)
FeyFre, Slackware 14.2 (the upcoming release) will not have Qt5.
You can create a qt5-compat32 package for Slackware 14.1 yourself using the “convertpkg-compat32” script which is part of the compat32-tools package.
Ok, Eric, good 😉
Great! We can expect 14.2 in less than a year or two 🙂
Good news!
Hello. I have upgraded and everything was smooth no issues at all. Thanks!
Hi – KSystemlog crashes since a while. Its not related to this update but I wanted to mention it anyway.
Cheers
Steph