Using a Lupu 511 liveCD on a Sony vgn-c140g laptop, got these issues/problems/recommendations:
1) Firewall is defaulted off. That is not a good idea, seems to me. I can just imagine people working on the internet with no firewall until it dawns on them they ought to check the firewall, or until they get recruited into a botnet... I realize this is an old problem as will be some others I report; doesn't mean they should be ignored.
2) The warning at the end, where you are doing your first shutdown, about recommending you defragment an ntfs partition if you are going to store the pupsave there - it should abort the shutdown rather than shutting down, if you elect not to continue. Otherwise any work done till that point will be thrown away, not a very friendly thing to do. People may want to just plug in another flash drive, or something of that nature. They should be able to choose whether to throw away their work or not.
3) As far as I can tell, "puppy pfix=fsck" still does not do an fsck on an encrypted pupsave. Another old problem.
4) Normally, clicking on a pupsave mounts it; however that does not work if it is encrypted. Fixing both this problem and the previous one just involves doing a modprobe of cryptoloop and aes (maybe something else for light encryption), and executing losetup-FULL. Not a big deal really; maybe we should fix these.
5) In the following, I was attempting to install gnupg, first installing its dependency gpgv, but it did not work as you can see. The first image shows before starting. Note the "Installed packages" shows UpdateLupu, Seamonkey and Galculator all installed previously.
The following image shows what the situation is
after installing gpgv (which went through properly). "Installed packages", instead of showing gpgv, now shows a second copy of Seamonkey!
The next image shows what happens when I try to install gnupg: it tells me gpgv is not there. So it's not just the display list. I don't know where that extra copy of Seamonkey went...
If I then try again to install gpgv, it does show up on the list finally. But I still have that second copy of seamonkey, at least it shows it that way.
BTW, Seamonkey has as it's description, "Seamonkey composer html editor", which is very misleading, since composer is merely a minor component of the suite.
I don't need things like Quickpet. What I do need is a working package manager.
Oh, one other thing. This is repeatable; that's how I got the screen shots, on the 2nd attempt. Presumably anyone should be able to install the same sequence of packages and get the same result.
Addendum: In the above, my lupusave file was 512MB. However much of it was taken up with .mozilla stuff (mail files) so it may be there was still not enough room for things to work properly, as the warnings on the OP imply. Thus the warning should possibly not be regarding the
size of lupusave, but the available room in it. And in any case, this is a bug! The software should determine if there is enough room to work (and if not, warn the user) - not just fail.