November 2010 - CRUX - lists.crux.nu

Build a new Linux distrib based Crux 2.6
by ferrety ferrety 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

Hi List, I'd like to build a new Linux disttribution based on Crux2.6. Is there a doc/tuto which will help me start on that as I'm really new? Does someoine tried that before? Thanks /F

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Re: Sourceforge URLs for ports
by Danny Rawlins 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

James Mills wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Danny Rawlins > <monster.romster(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> But now I use my own mirror://sourceforge format that I hacked in >> pkgutils, perhaps you would be keen on this patch but someone else can >> implement it it took over a year for the last patch for new files in >> footprint. >> > > Do you have a port of this that others like myself in the CRUX > Community may try out ? > > cheers > James > > I sure do, currently it's at: httpup sync http://romster.dyndns.org:8080/linux/ports/hvlinux/core/#pkgutils pkgutils You will need the *.mirror files out of http://romster.dyndns.org:8080/linux/ports/hvlinux/core/ports/ that go in /etc/ports/mirrors/ for the mirror:// metaname to work. One line per a URL. And is still compatible for CRUX. Like I did say earlier . sed -i -e "s|http://dl.sourceforge.net|http://downloads.sourceforge.net|g" /usr/ports/*/*/Pkgfile Problem solved for sourceforge. PS you emailed me directly when I am on the ML. Regards, Danny

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Polish translation.
by Piotr Bania 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

Is it also possible that I place polish translation of documentation on my website? You know, popular distros like debian, slack, arch, centos have their own polish sites...or sites which advertise and support them. Is it possible for me to do the same with Crux? Greetings, Peter :)

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crux's udev
by Michal Soltys 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hi, While peeking over how you do things in crux it, I've found some things that could potentially be adjusted. Short overview: - NAME= is ignored since v154 (excluding renaming network interfaces) - ignore_device no longer exists since v148 (and ignore_remove since v152) - additional 20090523 rules are in large part invalid in context of the above points (and looking at standard udev rules, somewhat superfluous) - trigger's default is 'change' since v152 - for coldplug, 'add' should be specified explicitly. - devtmpfs - if compiled in kernel, should likely be preferred over tmpfs for /dev - is "fixing" libudev.so placement really necessary ? It forces you to keep track of libudev version and it sometimes get out of sync - pkg-config also scans (under default configuration) /usr/share/pkgconfig, so /usr/lib/pkgconfig is potentially not necessary - udevd at one point uses /proc/kmsg, so it could be added to static nodes Also since v155, udevd automatically copies static nodes from /lib/udev/devices and creates symbolic links. I think that Pkgfile could be made a bit more simple, and start_udev a bit more universal (taking into account that some people will use kernels with devtmpfs, boot with a custom initramfs, etc.) Anyway, a few possible tirival changes for your consideration: diff --git a/udev/Pkgfile b/udev/Pkgfile index e0d8b04..e4b7014 100644 --- a/udev/Pkgfile +++ b/udev/Pkgfile @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ name=udev version=163 release=1 source=(ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/$name-$version.… \ - http://crux.nu/files/distfiles/udev-config-20090523.tar.bz2 \ start_udev) build() { @@ -21,29 +20,16 @@ build() { pkgconfigdir=/usr/lib/pkgconfig mkdir -p $PKG/lib/{firmware,udev/devices/{pts,shm}} - mkdir -p $PKG/usr/lib - - # Fix location of devel lib - rm $PKG/lib/libudev.so - ln -sf ../../lib/libudev.so.0.9.1 $PKG/usr/lib/libudev.so # Populate nodes mknod -m 600 $PKG/lib/udev/devices/console c 5 1 + mknod -m 600 $PKG/lib/udev/devices/kmsg c 1 11 mknod -m 666 $PKG/lib/udev/devices/null c 1 3 mknod -m 666 $PKG/lib/udev/devices/zero c 1 5 - ln -s /proc/self/fd $PKG/lib/udev/devices/fd - ln -s /proc/self/fd/0 $PKG/lib/udev/devices/stdin - ln -s /proc/self/fd/1 $PKG/lib/udev/devices/stdout - ln -s /proc/self/fd/2 $PKG/lib/udev/devices/stderr - ln -s /proc/kcore $PKG/lib/udev/devices/core - # Add CRUX items + LFS rules + # Add CRUX items install -m 0755 $SRC/start_udev $PKG/sbin - pushd $SRC/udev-config-20090523 - make DESTDIR=$PKG RULES_DIR=/lib/udev/rules.d install - popd - # Keep udevinfo for legacy support mkdir -p $PKG/usr/bin ln -s /sbin/udevadm $PKG/usr/bin/udevinfo diff --git a/udev/start_udev b/udev/start_udev index 1be7ce9..35cdb2b 100644 --- a/udev/start_udev +++ b/udev/start_udev @@ -1,17 +1,32 @@ #!/bin/sh -# mount /dev as a tmpfs; note: some video drivers require exec access in /dev -/bin/mount -n -t tmpfs udev /dev -o exec,nosuid,mode=0755 +# mount /dev as a devtmpfs or tmpfs, depending on current kernel capability +# mount only, if it's not already mounted (e.g. after handover from initramfs) +# note: some video drivers require exec access in /dev +if /bin/grep -Fvq ' / /dev/ ' /proc/self/mountinfo ; then + if /bin/grep -Fq devtmpfs /proc/filesystems ; then + UDEVFS=devtmpfs + else + UDEVFS=tmpfs + fi + /bin/mount -n -t $UDEVFS udev /dev -o exec,nosuid,mode=0755,size=8M +fi -# unset hotplugger +# make sure hotplugger is not set echo > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug -# populate /dev with static nodes and directories -/bin/cp -a /lib/udev/devices/* /dev/ +# since v155, udevd automatically copies /lib/udev/devices +# and creates /proc/{kcore,self/fd/{0,1,2}} symlinks # launch udev daemon /sbin/udevd --daemon # coldplug devices and wait for the queue to be processed -/sbin/udevadm trigger +/sbin/udevadm trigger --type=subsystems --action=add +/sbin/udevadm settle +/sbin/udevadm trigger --type=devices --action=add +/sbin/udevadm settle + +# retry any failures +/sbin/udevadm trigger --type=failed --action=add /sbin/udevadm settle

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NFS default version
by Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hi, I've been working on my new CRUX box from some time (how you probably have noticed) and I hit another interesting problem. This time NFS and autofs/automount using NIS. For some reason my box didn't like following command (called by autofs): mount -t nfs filer01:/vol/homedirs/wawrzekn /home/wawrzekn After some investigation I defined in /etc/autofs NFS default protocol to 3 it didn't help. Later found that adding option vers=3 resolved my issue. So following command works fine: mount -t nfs -o vers=3 filer01:/vol/homedirs/wawrzekn /home/wawrzekn I wonder if by any chance CRUX assumes nfs should mount nfs as version 4? Wawrzek -- Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański vel Wawrzek Larry or LarryN Linux User #177124 E-MAIL: wawrzek(a)gmail.com PhD in Quantum Chemistry WWW: http://wawrzek.name MSc in Molecular Engineering JID: wawrzek(a)jabber.wroc.pl

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[PATCH] typo fix: change listofphans to listorphans
by Emmanuel Benisty 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

--- misc/prt-get_complete | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/misc/prt-get_complete b/misc/prt-get_complete index 57dfc01..a06dfcd 100644 --- a/misc/prt-get_complete +++ b/misc/prt-get_complete @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ _prt-get() dependent sysup current lock unlock \ listlocked diff quickdiff depends quickdep \ dup isinst cat ls edit deptree \ - remove listinst dumpconfig listofphans' $cur )) + remove listinst dumpconfig listorphans' $cur )) fi -- 1.7.3.1

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new repo location
by Jose V Beneyto 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi all, Just to report that I have changed my repository to a new address (sepen.mine.nu), and sorry for the inconvenience if you were using my repo. If all goes well, the portdb page should be updated within 24 hours, anyways I attached my new .rsync file. Best regards, -- Jose V Beneyto | http://sepen.mine.nu/

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ports/opt (2.7): [notify] flash-player-plugin: updated to 10.1.102.65
by crux＠crux.nu 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

commit a8413ca77d8d05c0cf6bfef318f600a19248c907 Author: Jose V Beneyto <sepen(a)crux.nu> Date: Mon Nov 22 09:52:00 2010 +0100 [notify] flash-player-plugin: updated to 10.1.102.65 Security update: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-28.html diff --git a/flash-player-plugin/.md5sum b/flash-player-plugin/.md5sum index a51a7bd..70843a2 100644 --- a/flash-player-plugin/.md5sum +++ b/flash-player-plugin/.md5sum @@ -1 +1 @@ -046dc8503ac1827063de63a5b5874dd1 flash-plugin-10.1.102.64-release.i386.rpm +535ee2d1c92314ddabf39a2e168a630f flash-plugin-10.1.102.65-release.i386.rpm diff --git a/flash-player-plugin/Pkgfile b/flash-player-plugin/Pkgfile index 038ec8a..e173e20 100644 --- a/flash-player-plugin/Pkgfile +++ b/flash-player-plugin/Pkgfile @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ # Depends on: name=flash-player-plugin -version=10.1.102.64 +version=10.1.102.65 release=1 source=(http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plug…

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re: /sbin/start_udev issue
by Hazel Russman 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

I tried Johnny's suggestion (moving certain lines from /sbin/start_udev to /etc/rc) and couldn't boot into normal multi-user mode until I'd changed them back again! -- Hazel Russman <hazel_russman(a)yahoo.co.uk>

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xz outdated
by Tobias Richter 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi *, the xz port is outdated, current stable version is xz-5.0.0. See http://tukaani.org/xz/. Can you please update this port? Thank you. Tobi

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