Alienbob's Multilib Files.

Mark Pettit · 03-23-2022, 01:46 AM

To be fair, Superman is also an alien, coming from the planet Krypton. So I do see an analogy here :-)

garpu · 03-29-2022, 05:35 PM

Are Alien Bob's servers down for anyone else? I tried running an update, and they timed out. (We do have network issues after rain, but no matter how many times we complain, they won't fix the flooding box up the street from us.)

bassmadrigal · 03-29-2022, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cameronnoah

What is going to happen when AlienBob dies or is called back to his home planet (thus causing his work to take x amount of light years to reach us)?

Luckily, all of his stuff is open source, and generally easy-to-run scripts. It would not be terribly difficult to get multilib up and running with his scripts without his packages (provided future multilib packages don't require much tweaking to the scripts to build -- the compat32 coverting is extremely simple with his script).

As long as someone has his scripts forked, the project can live on either individually by people building their own packages or some other kind-hearted soul who wants to contribute their time and money to the project.

For me, I don't have a need for multilib anymore since I've found conty. Steam works great in there while my system remains pure-64bit. I don't run any other 32bit programs.

cwizardone · 03-29-2022, 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garpu

Are Alien Bob's servers down for anyone else?......

No. All appears well from here.
I have had some trouble with other web sites over the last few days.

biker_rat · 03-29-2022, 06:53 PM

I had trouble with alienbob nl an hour or two ago. I switched to uk and all was well.

garpu · 03-29-2022, 09:04 PM

Yeah, it seems to be slackware.nl that's down. I'll try it in the morning, in case he's doing an upgrade.

Pithium · 03-29-2022, 10:31 PM

Note that alien bob set up some new mirrors recently.
https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/i-n...other-goodies/

The default URL in slackpkg+ was giving me grief so I switched to one of those. The defaut config in 15.0 should probably be patched to include the new mirrors since download speeds in west NA were absolutely horrifying.

If anyone is feeling clever, setting up a local compat32 is a fun project...

Trying to download compat32 packages from west NA was getting so bad that years ago I went ahead and started building the packages myself and hosted a local slackpkg+ repo. There's a 2-drive freenas box sitting in the corner of my apartment that downloads changes to slackware x86/64 every night. Every once and a while I run

Code:

$ massconvert32.sh
$ gen_repo_files.sh
$ slackpkg update

Watching slackpkg download all the files at lightning speed makes me smile

cwizardone · 04-10-2022, 05:41 PM

Quote:

+--------------------------+
Sun Apr 10 18:58:38 UTC 2022
14.2/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

+--------------------------+
Sat Apr 9 09:40:16 UTC 2022
15.0/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/

cwizardone · 04-26-2022, 07:00 PM

Alienbob has been kind enough to provided multilib packages of gcc-11.3.0 for testing.

Quote:

+--------------------------+
Tue Apr 26 17:45:15 UTC 2022
current/testing/gcc-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
current/testing/gcc-brig-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
current/testing/gcc-g++-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
current/testing/gcc-gdc-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
current/testing/gcc-gfortran-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
current/testing/gcc-gnat-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
current/testing/gcc-go-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
current/testing/gcc-objc-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ChangeLog.txt

https://us.slackware.nl/people/alien/multilib/current/

cwizardone · 04-28-2022, 09:50 AM

From Alienbob's Multilib change log,

Quote:

+--------------------------+
Thu Apr 28 06:55:05 UTC 2022
current/gcc-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-brig-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-g++-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-gdc-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-gfortran-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-gnat-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-go-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-objc-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
current/testing/gcc-*: Removed.

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ChangeLog.txt

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/

cwizardone · 05-17-2022, 08:17 AM

Alienbob has been kind enough to refresh his multilib packages.
I noticed gcc-brig is not included. Is it no longer required?

Quote:

Mon May 16 08:13:23 UTC 2022
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
testing/current/gcc-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
testing/current/gcc-g++-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
testing/current/gcc-gdc-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
testing/current/gcc-gfortran-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
testing/current/gcc-gnat-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
testing/current/gcc-go-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.
testing/current/gcc-objc-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added.

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ChangeLog.txt

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/

kgha · 05-17-2022, 08:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

Alienbob has been kind enough to refresh his multilib packages.
I noticed gcc-brig is not included. Is it no longer required?

Probably because gcc-brig was left out when Pat added gcc-12 to his /testing packages:
http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackw...ting/packages/

cwizardone · 05-17-2022, 09:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kgha

Probably because gcc-brig was left out when Pat added gcc-12 to his /testing packages:
http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackw...ting/packages/

Ah, so.....
As I use Multilib and was waiting for Alienbob's updates, I only gave the -current "testing" updates a passing glance.
Thanks.

cwizardone · 05-28-2022, 07:07 PM

Alienbob has been kind enough to refresh his multilib packages.

Quote:

+--------------------------+
Sat May 28 19:13:09 UTC 2022
15.0/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ChangeLog.txt

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/

cwizardone · 06-12-2022, 08:42 AM

Alienbob has been kind enough to refresh his multilib packages and moved gcc-12.1.0 from
/testing/current to /current.

Quote:

+--------------------------+
Sat Jun 11 09:59:46 UTC 2022
current/gcc-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-brig-11.3.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Removed.
current/gcc-g++-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-gdc-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-gfortran-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-gnat-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-go-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/gcc-objc-12.1.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded.
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ChangeLog.txt

https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?i...kware:multilib

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/