fedora is bound to have patches that should be applied to that before compiling. Here's the src.rpm which contains all the build-time stuff: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/xloadimage/4.1/23.fc27/src/xloadimage-4.1-23.fc27.src.rpm Yeah, 27 patches in there. 19 of them are *.dpatch files...

Surely you didn't think I don't know how to list files in a package...? The list of files contained in a package is the first, most basic bit of data we can have. Can you imagine a package manager, or anything that calls itself a package manager which would be *unable* to produce a package fiile-lis...

Sorry -sort of. That's something new, I believe in newer versions of rox than the one I use and have studied the sources. Anyway, xattr (extended attributes) support is filesystem-dependent. Not all FS's support it, and not all software will use it. attr and xattr libraries may be hard requirements ...

Lets' backup two steps. Those icons with the green (or red) dot are created internally by ROX, by overlaying a normal directory icon with a separate small image of the dot. ROX does this automatically for *mount points* -using a green dot for 'mounted' and a red dot for 'unmounted' Prove it to yours...

Put a " | " between the commands, bash will execute them sequentially. This is not correct. The pipe '|' funnels the output of the program on the left side of it, to the program on the right side *as stdinput*. Not to be confused with &&, which does what you said '|' does, or '||' ...

First, the tpm stuff is still incomplete and unavailable on my site. tpkg, is fully implemented -the whole of KISS is built using it. But, the KISS stuff online is not current. Sharp fellow that you are -even with no sleep, you've found some of the sore points in the tpkg spec and usage. As to the d...

In the OP you mentioned some repo where all stuff was dumped in one dir, oppsed to another which stored everything in non-sensically-named subdirs. The Slackware scheme for storing sources or packages in subdirs named after groups of stuff, according to their use. Packages were presented to the inst...

I'm also a little skeptical about all of the ext* having the same usage figures. Real ext2 should be much smaller as it has no journal. This may have to do with later kernels using a single driver for all three variants. I'm not trying to criticize, just a healthy skepticism.

Support for many output formats in src2pkg has led to more bloat and complexity than I ever really wanted. src2pkg is ten years+ old and mission-creep set in from the beginning. What it does best that virtually no other packager does, is discover how to build something without using any human input ...

I would much sooner create and use a swap file, rather than risking a partition re-size. Using a swap file also has the advantage that you can easily re-size it any time you like without problems.

I'm still checking out a couple of items from the list which I had not heard of. But, the link to solus led to an interesting link which I want to quickly share: https://spdx.org/licenses/ A huge list of opensource licenses with their identifiers and a git archive of copies of all the licenses. This...

Scottman, your 'pkg' is based on the most faulty package specification/concept ever to hit us -the .pet -also known as .pup improved. My early work with src2pkg involved trying to 'enhance' the Slackware package format, in the same lame way that zenwalk, salix, porteus and others have. Slackware has...

I think the proposal for a universal database or freedesktop spec can only work in the context of a 'platform', like 'android' or CoreOS -the latter being quite likely since FDO is very redhat-friendly. Of course that means that Poettering & Co. (systemd) will rule the roost. Dependency chains a...

This is one of my favorite topics, but it is late here, so I'll have to promise to come back tomorrow. I've designed three or four package formats with some advanced/optional database features. Of course, my src2pkg has been taught to make them so both sides of the problem are laid out together in s...

search for 'cpan2tgz' to get a handle on what needs to be done -there is/was also a cpan2rpm out there. Here's my reference build with src2pkg: #!/bin/bash ## src2pkg script for: perl ## src2pkg Copyright 2005-2010 Gilbert Ashley <amigo@ibilio.org> # SOURCE_NAME='perl-5.14.0.tar.xz' NAME='perl' VERS...

Is there a link to sources which doesn't require membership at proboards?

'rox -x OBJECT'
You say: redraw after mount/umount,
I assume you are wanting to change an icon from mounted to unmounted by using a different image. Just after succesfully mounting or demounting add the above code pointing to the mount point referenced by the icon.

Some recent RPM's are using the 7z signature, instead of xz's. From exploderpm: # VERSION 0.3 Gilbert Ashley <amigo@ibiblio.org> # Added support for newer fedora rpm archives which use 7z instead of xz # Thanks to Jakub Szefer for finding and reporting this problem The relative decompress command is...

GN, you are such a brave fellow! I think I was probably the last guy to get that to compile before you -and probably nobody else had the idea. I wish you had done some work on the old /CGTK1 dillo browser. I have a pretty patched up version with tabs, drag-n-drop and a few other things, and a separa...

If only it didn't use busybox, so that the unwashed could learn from the beginning exactly what is needed for a minimal, but widely expandable system. A liveCD system is a software appliance by definition, so it provides a good insight into the concept of limiting the ability and definition of minim...