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Re: LiloSetup / os-prober
Posted: 6. Jul 2011, 21:57
by mimosa
OK, I actually uninstalled it to be sure then installed with spkg. Same behaviour, no problems. I actually took the risk of using it to change the configuration - if I can't boot back into my installation, I'll try and find a way to let you guys know!
Re: LiloSetup / os-prober
Posted: 7. Jul 2011, 09:31
by Akuna
Well, the only thing that lilosetup needed os-prober for was to detect the available booting partitions that are in the system and get some infos about them.
If the new LiloSetup shows all your available booting partitions, then that means that it does a correct job by itself. It still needs to refine its detection of the OS that are in the booting partitions, but that is a mere detail. For the rest, nothing should have changed (yet).
Re: LiloSetup / os-prober
Posted: 9. Jul 2011, 23:08
by mimosa
I have two machines with 13.1 and maybe even 13.0 - let me know if you'd like me to test the new prototype on them. As you may guess, I don't use them much, but it's no problem to do a test.
Re: LiloSetup / os-prober
Posted: 10. Jul 2011, 19:31
by mimosa
Fine on 13.1, as was os-prober.
Re: LiloSetup / os-prober
Posted: 11. Jul 2011, 05:54
by Akuna
Great! Tx for the testing
Re: LiloSetup / os-prober
Posted: 11. Jul 2011, 13:10
by franksalix
I am using Salix 13.37 XFCE on an old Dell Inspiron 6000. The provided Lilosetup used to crash my machine but Witek's version has worked fine for me.
Unfortunately the update process wants to replace Witeks version. How do I stop it doing that?
Re: LiloSetup / os-prober
Posted: 11. Jul 2011, 18:58
by witek
franksalix wrote:Unfortunately the update process wants to replace Witeks version. How do I stop it doing that?
Of course you mean Akuna`s version, not mine
In order to suppress the update edit /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc and find this:
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# Exclude package names and expressions.
# To exclude pre and beta packages, add this to the exclude:
# [0-9\_\.\-]{1}pre[0-9\-\.\-]{1}
EXCLUDE=^aaa_elflibs,^aaa_base,^devs,^glibc-.*,^kernel-.*,^udev,^rootuser-settings,^zzz-settings,.*-[0-9]+dl$,-x86_64-
then add ^lilosetup* at the end of the line of exluded files
Re: LiloSetup / os-prober
Posted: 12. Jul 2011, 06:20
by Akuna
I'd like to refine the detection of the OS's in the boot partitions a bit more and then I'll update the package on the repo.
Re: LiloSetup / os-prober
Posted: 12. Jul 2011, 13:11
by franksalix
Re: LiloSetup / os-prober
Postby witek ยป 11. Jul 2011, 18:58
franksalix wrote:Unfortunately the update process wants to replace Witeks version. How do I stop it doing that?
Of course you mean Akuna`s version, not mine
In order to suppress the update edit /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc and find this:
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# Exclude package names and expressions.
# To exclude pre and beta packages, add this to the exclude:
# [0-9\_\.\-]{1}pre[0-9\-\.\-]{1}
EXCLUDE=^aaa_elflibs,^aaa_base,^devs,^glibc-.*,^kernel-.*,^udev,^rootuser-settings,^zzz-settings,.*-[0-9]+dl$,-x86_64-
then add ^lilosetup* at the end of the line of exluded files
Thanks, Witek - that did the trick and apologies to Akuna
Re: LiloSetup / os-prober
Posted: 12. Jul 2011, 13:32
by Akuna
franksalix wrote:apologies to Akuna
No problem
I just submitted the final version for repo inclusion.
You can already grab it from here:
http://people.salixos.org/akuna/livetoo ... h-1plb.txz
http://people.salixos.org/akuna/livetoo ... h-1plb.md5
http://people.salixos.org/akuna/livetoo ... /ChangeLog
From this version on, os-prober is not a dependency of LiloSetup anymore.
The matter is solved as far as LiloSetup is concerned. If necessary a separate thread for os-prober problem could be started separately.