July 2011 - CRUX - lists.crux.nu

[Announcement] crux-bin: binary packages for crux
by Moritz Wilhelmy 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

Hi folks, I've been putting this mail off for a long time, but I finally decided to get some initial toolchain going, and it seems to work quite well so far. So this is crux-bin, a little community project that builds binary packages for crux. My project goals so far are: - because the system on the build machine is really lightweight, it makes it easier to find out about footprint mismatches and missing dependencies. This is probably the most important for people who don't actually intend to use my packages. I will report anything that breaks, be prepared for a flood in the bugtracker ;) - The obvious: Build binary packages for crux; This is similar to BSD where ports as well as binary packages are being built. Since crux is influenced by BSD, why not? ;) If you're familiar with BSD, you might notice that the directory hierarchy is similar to the ftp trees of the major BSD distributions. - A crux-specific source mirror: Most of the source mirrors out there seem to be for gentoo, which often means they are outdated or certain files are missing. Since I have to download the source files anyway in order to build the packages, I decided to download them from the original website only (which helps finding md5 mismatches, another side-effect), sort them by ports collection and put them into rsync. The build isn't automated yet, but I'll hack something together that will notify me if something breaks and build automated once a day via cron otherwise. Packages are stripped down to a minimal set after build to eliminate implicit dependencies. If you want these implicit dependencies, you can always build from source. I'll explain the details on demand. Things that are planned for the future (volunteers? ;) - A binary package manager. We have pkg-get, but it's simply not made to play nicely on a lot of different setups, and requires custom files. crux-bin contains only ordinary crux packages, because everything else is assumed to be in the ports tree. Maybe something that integrates nicely with prt-get by changing the "addcommand" and "makecommand" to default to binary packages for some few binary packages would be nice. - There are currently no x86_64 packages. I'm building this in an lxc-jail on a 32-bit ubuntu (the host system needs to run some old, 32-bit only software) on a spare i7 at work. If anyone wants to help out, be my guest, although I might wind up with something. I personally don't use 64-bit crux at all, because I only own 32-bit machines, so this feels a little pointless.. Thanks to pitillo and sepen for prt-clean and prologic for the offer to mirror my efforts! See rsync://crux-bin.wzff.de/ for a list of what's currently there, but it might still take a while until DNS is in sync. Note: This announcement will probably be my only mail regarding crux-bin to any of the official crux mailing lists since this is an entirely unofficial community effort that's not really related to the real crux and I don't want to spam anyone's inbox with emails about a project spinoff they don't care about, however there is a mailing list at crux-bin(a)lists.barfooze.de to which anyone interested can subscribe by sending a mail to crux-bin+subscribe(a)lists.barfooze.de. Best regards, Moritz

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Re: Problem printing from Firefox to Cups
by Hazel Russman 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

The --with-pdftops=pdftops fix also works with LibreOffice and with the gimp. In other words, if you compile cups in this way, you don't need to build the gimp with gutenprint support; you can use direct printing once again. -- Hazel Russman <hazel_russman(a)yahoo.co.uk>

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Problem printing from Firefox to Cups
by Markus Heinz 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Hello, I cannot print from firefox to cups. I use cups 1.4.8-1 and firefox 5.0.1-1. The message in the cups error log is as follows: Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Print-Job (ipp://localhost:631/printers/dj5550) from localhost I use the hpijs printer driver to print to a HP Deskjet 5550 printer. Printing the test page from the cups web interface works flawlessly. Printing from the chromium web browser does not work too. The error message is the same. The only way to print a web page for me is to print it from firefox to a PDF file and then print the PDF file from epdfview. This works. The problem existed before the latest cups update with cups version 1.4.6-1 too. I cannot exactly tell when it started. I only remember that some month ago I could print from firefox without problems. Has anyone an idea how to fix this? Regards Markus

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Re: Problem printing from Firefox to Cups
by Hazel Russman 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:24:15 +0200 > From: Markus Heinz <markus.heinz(a)uni-dortmund.de> > Subject: Problem printing from Firefox to Cups > To: crux(a)lists.crux.nu > I cannot print from firefox to cups. I use cups 1.4.8-1 and firefox > 5.0.1-1. The message in the cups error log is as follows: > > Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Print-Job > (ipp://localhost:631/printers/dj5550) from localhost > This looks very much like the problem that I noticed in the Gimp some time ago. I have recently found it in LibreOffice too. The last time I tried to print something from LO, I had to export it to a pdf and then use xpdf. -- Hazel Russman <hazel_russman(a)yahoo.co.uk>

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Asterisk update
by Alan Mizrahi 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

I have updated asterisk from 1.4 to 1.8. The configuration and dialplan is not 100% backward compatible with 1.4, so don't just run prt-get update on your production servers and expect everything to work. The 1.4 series port was renamed to asterisk14, and I intend to maintain it for some time. So now we have: asterisk: 1.8.x asterisk14: asterisk 1.4.x asterisk14-addons: addons for 1.4 asterisk-core-sounds-core-sounds-en-*: english sound files for 1.4 and 1.8 asterisk-moh-opsound-*: music on hold for 1.4 and 1.6 Best regards, Alan

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Impossible to install Xorg. xmlsoft.org not reachable
by tom.meyer＠internet.lu 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

Thank you Fredrik. Finally I was able to continue my compilation with the gentoo mirrors. Regards

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Re: Impossible to install Xorg. xmlsoft.org not reachable
by Shin Sterneck 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

Hi Tom, try this mirror in Austria: ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/libxml/ regards, Shin On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:35 AM, <tom.meyer(a)internet.lu> wrote: > Thank you very much for your reply Shin, > > but now it is the file libxslt-1.1.26.tar.gz that is missing. > Still from the same source --> fttp://xmlsoft.org. > > Did you know another port-tree for xml*-files > > Regards Tom > _______________________________________________ > CRUX mailing list > CRUX(a)lists.crux.nu > http://lists.crux.nu/mailman/listinfo/crux >

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Re: Impossible to install Xorg. xmlsoft.org not reachable
by Fredrik Rinnestam 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 05:35:06PM +0200, tom.meyer(a)internet.lu wrote: > Thank you very much for your reply Shin, > > but now it is the file libxslt-1.1.26.tar.gz that is missing. > Still from the same source --> fttp://xmlsoft.org. > > Did you know another port-tree for xml*-files Find your nearest gentoo ftp-mirror and download the tarballs from there. You can add something like: PKGMK_SOURCE_MIRRORS=(ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/) in your pkgmk.conf -- Fredrik Rinnestam

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Impossible to install Xorg. xmlsoft.org not reachable
by tom.meyer＠internet.lu 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

Thank you very much for your reply Shin, but now it is the file libxslt-1.1.26.tar.gz that is missing. Still from the same source --> fttp://xmlsoft.org. Did you know another port-tree for xml*-files Regards Tom

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Re: Impossible to install Xorg. xmlsoft.org not reachable
by Shin Sterneck 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

Hi Tom, I still had a copy of the tarball within my source directory and uploaded it for you to http://ports.sterneck.asia/libxml2-2.7.8.tar.gz . Just download it to your src directory so that the prt-get or pkgmk will detect it and not try to download it from those unavailable sites. security wise it should match the MD5 checksum. regards, Shin On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:46 PM, <tom.meyer(a)internet.lu> wrote: > Hi folks, > I am installing Crux for the first time and I have a problem > with the installation of Xorg. > Compilation is interrupted with the message: > ===>Error: Downloading ´ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.8.tar.gz´ failed. > prt-get: error while install > > I have tried with additional ports: > collection=ports/crux-2.7/xorg/ > collection=ports/crux-2.7/opt/libxml2/ > collection=ports/crux-2.7/opt/libxml2-python/libxml2-python > > All ports are directing to www.xmlsoft.org which is not reachable. > Any ideas how I could solve the problem ? > How could I set up a local repository ? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > CRUX mailing list > CRUX(a)lists.crux.nu > http://lists.crux.nu/mailman/listinfo/crux >

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