The what should be updated in -current thread

Originally Posted by rworkman gptfdisk just hit the tree. git and the alsa stuff are in my pending queue already. I'll try to look at python soon.

That is a thing of beauty! Thanks Robby!

Originally Posted by rworkman I've got udev from system-215 queued up, but it's unclear as to whether there's any real benefit to using 215 versus 208 or even some other version. It might be worth getting 218 when it releases, as that will be the first version to support the mouse database for libinput.

Yes, according to this commit:

* The udev hwdb now containes DPI information for mice. For
  details see:

  http://who-t.blogspot.de/2014/12/building-a-dpi-database-for-mice.html

PS The typo is on the original file. But English being no more LP's native language that mine, we can excuse him I presume

FWIW, there was a stable release of xfdesktop (xfdesktop-4.10.3) a couple of weeks ago, with just some boring bug fixes.

Originally Posted by ReaperX7 I didn't know about version 3.x being more compatible with BusyBox.

When I was debugging it, I don't recall feeling that it had anything to do with busybox -- more to do with some peculiarities of the installer and the more complex bunch of scripts that dhcpcd v6 had -- which I think are entirely unnecessary for the installer. Version 3 compiles still and it obtains an IP address, so it's fine.

busybox gets updated on ARM more often since for some reason it refuses to compile more readily than x86.

Originally Posted by ReaperX7 Very true. Speaking of which, isn't the installation disk software created in a similar style to how you create something similar to a base LFS system like CLFS-embedded with a specialized user or chroot jail, or created in the standard system? I don't think this has ever been really discussed much.

It's a mega updated version of this which is from 2006:
ftp://ftp.arm.slackware.com/slackwar...ks/initrd.brew

alienBOB updated it significantly for Slackware64 and the same script is used for all archs, with some wrap up scripts for the couple of ARM installer images.

I would like to see the gcc got update to 4.9.2, for its better support of Ada 2012.

Originally Posted by 55020 FWIW, there was a stable release of xfdesktop (xfdesktop-4.10.3) a couple of weeks ago, with just some boring bug fixes.

Yep, I've got that one, along with a few other xfce thingies. :-)

I propose a build material for brltty-5.2.

Here is a tarball, including the source:
http://slint.fr/misc/brltty.txz
http://slint.fr/misc/brltty.txz.md5

Here are the changes in packaging against that of brltty-4.5 shipped in Slackware in /extra, beyond the version:

• autogen is not run (not needed)
• The script bp2cf that comes handy to customize the config file is installed in /usr/sbin. It comes from git because the one in the tarball doesn't work with the new config file format.
• A file to manage the daemon is provided: /etc/rc.d/rc.brltty
• A file doinst.sh is shipped that configure /etc/rc.d/rc.brltty in addition to /etc/brltty.conf and also inserts this in /etc/rc.S after udev has been initialized:

  # Start brltty ASAP so that the user gather all further messages on the
  # braille terminal
  if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.brltty ];then
    sleep 3
    /etc/rc.d/rc.brltty start
  fi

  Rationale: this allows the blind user to get all further messages during startup, useful in case of failing file system check for instance.
• udev rules are shipped in /lib/udev/rules.d/40-usb-brltty.rules. They allow to automatically start brltty with a proper driver as soon as a terminal connected via USB is plugged-in.

Here is the tree:

.
|-- bp2cf
|-- brltty-5.2.tar.xz
|-- brltty.SlackBuild
|-- brltty.brlapi.pyx.diff.gz
|-- doinst.sh.gz
|-- rc.brltty
`-- slack-desc

Window Maker has a minor version bump to 0.95.6, but it does contain some nice additions.

Window Maker 0.95.6 was released on August 30th 2014.

• Window Maker can now load WebP images and support ImageMagick library to support even more formats like SVG, BMP, TGA, ... (David Maciejak)
• Add mini-window apercu , a small preview of window contents (David Maciejak)
• Support for up to 9-buttons mouse added (David Maciejak)
• Many configuration options added to WPrefs.app (Doug Torrance)
• Add wmiv, an image viewer application (David Maciejak)
• Bug fixes and code cleanups by various people.

The two current diff patches work on 0.95.6 and I did make a couple changes when building it:

1. --enable-xrandr is now --enable-randr
2. Disabled MAGICK support - libMagickWand (--disable-magick), it appears to be a memory hog

Originally Posted by speck Window Maker has a minor version bump to 0.95.6, but it does contain some nice additions. Window Maker 0.95.6 was released on August 30th 2014. ... The two current diff patches work on 0.95.6 and I did make a couple changes when building it: --enable-xrandr is now --enable-randr Disabled MAGICK support - libMagickWand (--disable-magick), it appears to be a memory hog

Done with those changes; the --disable-magick part will have to be vetted by Pat though.

Many thanks Robby.

NetworkManager 1.0.0, and, as mentioned in a previous post,

KDE 4.14.x (which will require evix2-0.24).

Originally Posted by cwizardone NetworkManager 1.0.0, and, as mentioned in a previous post, KDE 4.14.x (which will require evix2-0.24).

NM-1.0 is already in place here :-) and I'm sure alienBOB has his usual serving of KDE awesomeness :-)

Originally Posted by rworkman NM-1.0 is already in place here :-) and I'm sure alienBOB has his usual serving of KDE awesomeness :-)

Pat needs to upgrade exiv2 first, before he grabs my KDE 4.14.3 sources.

Eric

Originally Posted by Alien Bob Pat needs to upgrade exiv2 first, before he grabs my KDE 4.14.3 sources. Eric

That would be very helpful, as digiKam can't be built on -current (it does built, but segfault), since it will require exiv2-0.2.4 and KDE libkexiv2 rebuilt against it