Hi all,
At least temporarily I am going to take over the maintenance of slackpkg+, the extension to slackpkg which allows you to manage the installation and upgrade of Slackware packages from 3rd-party repositories.
Slackpkg+ is developed by Matteo Rossini (zerouno) but zerouno has not been able to contribute for the past couple of years. As a consequence, slackpkg+ has some issues when used in Slackware-current.
It’s impossible to communicate with him directly so I had some conversations with his family in the past which resulted in my maintenance-takeover of his other product, slakfinder.
And now I am welcoming pull requests and patches for my fork of slackpkg+. I want to have a release as quickly as possible, taking care of open issues.
Note: zerouno was working on an enhanced version of slackpkg+ which could communicate with slakfinder. The code for that slakfinder API has never been published even though you can find a ‘dev’ version of a slackpkg+ package which contains the calls to that API.
Therefore I am going to ignore the ‘devel’ or ‘test’ version of slackpkg+ which can be found in zerouno’s repository. I will accept patches and pull requests only for the ‘master’ branch.
When zerouno is able to resume his work again, I will gladly hand maintenance back over to him. I am not a software developer but I appreciate properly working tools.
Hope to see some suggestions soon.
Eric
This is geat news! I was a bit concerned about the future of slackpkg+ as You told us about zerouno was not able to work on it. I hope this will help to develop the tool 🙂
I got one thing that is not exactly problem of slackpkg+ – but I noticed lastly that it does not work propebly with SBO pointing to cgit of ponce sbo repo. As far as I could figure it out – the problem is that ponce has no longer cgit interface running (page loads empty) – switching to SBO 15.0 repo works as expected, but this clouds a bit the picture if one is on -current – just a report – I don’t have a patch for this as propably there need to be a change on ponce side.
Ponce’s cgit is now back online
It was temporarily turned off due to being attacked by DDoS
That’s great to read – I was worring that it will be permanently off as the error was s
appearing for quite some time. Thnak You.
Hello,
one thing to consider is that slackpkg+ makes use of the variable VERBOSE internally, but now the same variable is used in slackpkg and with a different format of the content.
Personally I’ve edited the slackpkg+ to use VERBOSEPLUS, but most likely a more elegant solution can be found
Hey thanks for that. Any chance of doing a blog post(s) on these two tools and how you use them? Thanks
brian-in-ohio
Read this article and follow the links it contains: https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/mirror-for-slackpkg-and-slakfinder/
great!
Very good. No doubt your work will bring great improvements to the code. Thanks
Thanks for taking this on, and all the best to zerouno.