Salix Xfce 14.0alpha1

[tnmarktx]

Confirmed that installing udisks package fixes auto mounting disks. Thanks for the info.

[gapan]

A new salix-codecs-installer package is in the repos. That should fix the not-removing-itself bug.

[Polesz]

Homepage first topic link bad, not a 14.0alpha1 (only 13.2alpha1).

[Akuna]

Homepage first topic link bad, not a 14.0alpha1 (only 13.2alpha1).

Tx, it's fixed.

[nosaku]

Great news...

Can I upgrade my existing 13.37 64-bit installation to 14.0alpha1?

Regards,
Satish.

[laprjns]

Can I upgrade my existing 13.37 64-bit installation to 14.0alpha1?

Not recommended. Wait until release candidates, at the earliest, are available

[Tim CowChip]

I am running Salix Xfce 14.0alpha1 for package building purposes and was wondering if will eventually become a rolling release (current) or a fixed realease (14.0). I was also wondering whether or not, I should be excluding kernel upgrades for the purposes of package building.

[JRD]

Hum, not sure if it's still topic-related, but you must not exclude the kernel packages when building packages for current.
And -current is not a rolling release. It's a bit like "sid" in Debian. It's the name of the developping branch for the next version. When Slackware/Salix 14.0 will be out, current ⇒ 14 and there will not be any -current branch anymore. Then this 14.0 version will only receive updates for security reason or bugfixes, as usual with stable releases.

[Tim CowChip]

Hum, not sure if it's still topic-related, but you must not exclude the kernel packages when building packages for current.

These installation images are in alpha state and are mainly targeted at developers/packagers.

Thanks JRD for informing those of us who were targeted by this alpha release, of the need to update kernels for package building.

[mimosa]

So should we remove the kernel exclude? I'm not running current as I write, but i seem to remember kernel packages are excluded as normal.

The one I can imagine changing is kernel-firmware.