Curious about your experience with 13.37 and Sourcery

[Dennola4]

Ok,

so since this is a miscellaneous talk area I will ask the two questions I am dying to know the answer to. Assuming that, like me, you have spent a lot of time fine-tuning your system and don't want to stir things up unless there's a really good reason to:

1) Is there any other notable reason to migrate to 13.37 other than Sourcery?.....

2) Do you find Sourcery itself worth the migration, from your experience?

Thanks.

Dennis in New Orleans

[thenktor]

1) Is there any other notable reason to migrate to 13.37 other than Sourcery?.....

2) Do you find Sourcery itself worth the migration, from your experience?

1. A lot of software has been updated to new versions. Also the kernel. But it totally depends on you if you want to have this.
Sometimes it's mandatory for pre-compiled third party software to have recent versions, e.g.latest Google Chrome (version 13) needs at least glibc 2.11. This is no problem for Salix 13.1, but perhaps Chrome 14 depends on glibc 2.12. You never know

2. In 13.1 you can use slapt-src, too.

[Dennola4]

I see. So it's a game of trying to K.I.S.S. and yet still keep the perpetually developing "third party" current.

It was just yesterday that I realized (as in, actually read the words on my monitor) that Sourcery is a graphical front-end for slapt-src. So today when you mentioned it I decided to see what it is. Pretty cool! And here I've been building my SlackBuilds the old fashioned way. This is great.

My first attempt was xplanets (chosen randomly) and while it built fine it ultimately didn't work. I used Gslapt to uninstall it, but the uninstall still left files behind which I then had to hunt down with "sudo slocate" and remove manually. So that sucked for a first experience.

I thought ok, maybe a planet-rendering program is a bit of a high expectation for your old laptop, and decided to try simsu (a simple sudoku engine) which built and installed in seconds.

Sweet!

Too bad I don't play Sudoku, but I'm sure my gf will enjoy it. Anyway, thanks for the response.

[thenktor]

My first attempt was xplanets (chosen randomly) and while it built fine it ultimately didn't work. I used Gslapt to uninstall it, but the uninstall still left files behind which I then had to hunt down with "sudo slocate" and remove manually. So that sucked for a first experience.

Sounds like a bad Slackbuild then. If this happens you can report bugs: http://slackbuilds.org/bugs/

Note: There are few SLKBUILDs available via slapt-src, too. If you find a bug in on of these you have to report it to our own mailing list.

[Dennola4]

Good to know. Thanks as always....

....you guys are doing an awesome job with the OS.

EDIT: by the way, the other awesome linux people seem to have encountered the xfce/xplanets issue as well. Here's their solution: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=9788

[thenktor]

I used Gslapt to uninstall it, but the uninstall still left files behind which I then had to hunt down with "sudo slocate" and remove manually.

BTW: After package removal there are always the build/source files left in /usr/src/slapt-get. That's normal. What files did you have to remove by hand?

[Dennola4]

Now that you mention it yes, they were the build files in /usr/src/slapt-get and it is a relief to learn that it is normal for them to be there after an uninstall. Usually after I use removepkg I use slocate to see if anything is lingering, and normally the only thing left behind are the trashed files themselves -- which I then promptly remove. (What can I say, I like things orderly)

Also there were files in /var/lib/sbopkg/SBO/13.1/desktop but I did NOT remove them, since I noticed there were also folders for all of the other packages available from the repo that listed when I typed slapt-src --list and I got the feeling that they were there for a reason.

Anyway, the happy ending to the story is that I downloaded the World Of Goo Demo using my new slapt-src, played it, loved it, actually bought the full game version from 2D Boys, downloaded the (paid-for) .deb file, used src2pkg to make it a .txz file, installed it with installpkg....

.....and everything works with no problems. So yay for SalixOS, yay for slapt-src, yay for World Of Goo, and a reverent bow to good old Slackware.