Hi,

I'm beginning to have quite a lot of Slackware package on my website.
Most of them were compiled for i586, using mostly the official script
but there is a lot of update and new package like MySQL 4.1.5,
OpenOffice.org 1.1.3, Psi 0.9.2, etc.

Check the folder: http://ngc891.blogdns.net/slackware/10.0/
News for Slackware: http://ngc891.blogdns.net/index.php?Slackware

Regards,

--
Jerome Pinot
http://ngc891.blogdns.net

J?r?me Pinot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm beginning to have quite a lot of Slackware package on my website.
> Most of them were compiled for i586, using mostly the official script
> but there is a lot of update and new package like MySQL 4.1.5,
> OpenOffice.org 1.1.3, Psi 0.9.2, etc.
>
> Check the folder: http://ngc891.blogdns.net/slackware/10.0/
> News for Slackware: http://ngc891.blogdns.net/index.php?Slackware
>
> Regards,
>

Very nice indeed, but why the effort?
We already have http://www.linuxpackages.net
for alternative slackpackages...
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Arjan Groenemeijer - Slackware user since '96
mail $(echo qnqiqmqdqrqaquqgq@qmqyqrqeqaqlqbqoqxq.qcqoqmq | sed 's/q//g')

Arjan Groenemeijer wrote:

> J?r?me Pinot wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm beginning to have quite a lot of Slackware package on my website.
>> Most of them were compiled for i586, using mostly the official script
>> but there is a lot of update and new package like MySQL 4.1.5,
>> OpenOffice.org 1.1.3, Psi 0.9.2, etc.
>>
>> Check the folder: http://ngc891.blogdns.net/slackware/10.0/
>> News for Slackware: http://ngc891.blogdns.net/index.php?Slackware
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>
> Very nice indeed, but why the effort?
> We already have http://www.linuxpackages.net
> for alternative slackpackages...

Don't get me wrong, but by and large I see more people mess up their system
with LinuxPackages.net than not. Me, I prefer to build everything from
source, and that seems to work more often than not.

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Q: What is your name?
A: Ernestine McDowell.
Q: And what is your marital status?
A: Fair.

NeoSadist wrote:


> Don't get me wrong, but by and large I see more people mess up their
> system
> with LinuxPackages.net than not. Me, I prefer to build everything from
> source, and that seems to work more often than not.
>
Yep. Recently installed k3b-0.11.17.tgz from LinuxPackages, and it was a
mess. Downloaded the sources and compiled (roughly 1 hour on my Pentium III
500), and everything went fine.

NK

Kiki Novak wrote:

> Yep.*Recently*installed*k3b-0.11.17.tgz*from*LinuxPackages,*and*it*was*a
> mess. Downloaded the sources and compiled (roughly 1 hour on my Pentium
> III 500), and everything went fine.

I just used the official packages, and was not surprised to find that
everything was fine :-)

Jeffrey

NeoSadist wrote:

> Arjan Groenemeijer wrote:
>
>> J?r?me Pinot wrote:

<snip>

>... Me, I prefer to build everything from
> source, and that seems to work more often than not.
>

Idem.

> Don't get me wrong, but by and large I see more people mess up their system
> with LinuxPackages.net than not. Me, I prefer to build everything from
> source, and that seems to work more often than not.

They have done a lot of work recently to improve the quality of the
packages submitted to linuxpackages.net. I don't think it will ever be
perfect but the checks are more stringent than they used to be. The
very few times I have installed a package that had problems it was
easily fixed with removepkg.

I too prefer to build my own packages from source but I've not had any
problems with the few packages I have downloaded from there in the recent
past. Generally I just work through creating a build script once and then
I can always create an upgrade package with just a couple of line edits
thereafter.

--
Mark
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ngc891@gmail.com (J?r?me Pinot) wrote in message news:<88ee31b7.0410110849.12ffaae9@posting.google. com>...

> I'm beginning to have quite a lot of Slackware package on my website.
> Most of them were compiled for i586, using mostly the official script
> but there is a lot of update and new package like MySQL 4.1.5,
> OpenOffice.org 1.1.3, Psi 0.9.2, etc.
>
> Check the folder: http://ngc891.blogdns.net/slackware/10.0/
> News for Slackware: http://ngc891.blogdns.net/index.php?Slackware

Thumbs up!!!

(see also the comment I left on your blog)

Cheers!!!