Hey folks, a little status update here. First, huge thanks are due to
nobodino for helping to shake out packages that weren't building from source.
With all those fixes in place (plus a few more), we have tested and found that
everything in the tree compiles cleanly against glibc-2.32. So, the plan is to
have another mass rebuild soon against that. Although the ABI didn't
technically change, I've heard that libpthread may not be 100% compatible in
some corner cases, so we'll err on the side of caution. Hopefully we can get a
little testing done on the recompiled system and then go through it all again
at the beginning of next month when glibc-2.33 is released. Other than that,
how's Mesa working these days? If there are still issues that are resolved by
dropping back to the previous branch, let's try to figure those out. I'd rather
not revert Mesa unless there's no other choice. I'm hoping that the (probably
unrelated) issues with Intel video hardware will be helped by today's
xorg-server patch that uses the modesetting driver with newer chipsets. Please
report any improvement on the LQ thread.
Beta approaches. :-)
a/sysklogd-2.2.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/distcc-3.3.5-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Properly install distccmon-gnome.desktop. Thanks to marco70.
d/python-setuptools-51.3.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/imagemagick-7.0.10_58-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libodfgen-0.1.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libsigsegv-2.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/inetd-1.79s-x86_64-12.txz: Rebuilt.
Rebuilt to link with libtirpc. Thanks to nobodino.
n/nftables-0.9.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/postfix-3.5.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/tcp_wrappers-7.6-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt.
Use strerror(), not sys_errlist(). Thanks to nobodino.
x/xorg-server-1.20.10-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Only use the Intel DDX with pre-gen4 hardware. Newer hardware will use the
modesetting driver.
x/xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.10-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
x/xorg-server-xnest-1.20.10-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
x/xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.10-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
x/xorg-server-xwayland-1.20.10-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
xfce/xfce4-appfinder-4.16.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/llvm-9.0.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Shared library .so-version bump.
Thanks to orbea for getting this working and cleaning up the build script.
d/vala-0.46.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/imagemagick-6.9.10_67-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Fixed --disable-opencl configure option. Thanks to Markus Wiesner for the
bug report and to upstream for the quick fix.
n/NetworkManager-1.20.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/gnutls-3.6.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/freeglut-3.2.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/libglvnd-1.1.1-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
Reverted to this version since I'm seeing some errors linking with Mesa
libraries with the newer one. Thanks to nobodino for the bug report.
x/mesa-19.2.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against llvm-9.0.0 and libglvnd-1.1.1.
x/xf86-video-vmware-13.3.0-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against llvm-9.0.0.
a/aaa_elflibs-15.0-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Moved libsigsegv.so.2 from /usr/lib{,64} to /lib{,64}.
Upgraded: libcap.so.2.26, libelf-0.175.so, libfuse.so.2.9.8,
libexpat.so.1.6.8, libglib-2.0.so.0.5800.2, libgmodule-2.0.so.0.5800.2,
libgobject-2.0.so.0.5800.2, libgthread-2.0.so.0.5800.2, libjpeg.so.62.3.0,
liblber-2.4.so.2.10.10, libldap-2.4.so.2.10.10, libpng16.so.16.36.0,
libstdc++.so.6.0.25, libtdb.so.1.3.16, libtiff.so.5.4.0,
libtiffxx.so.5.4.0, libturbojpeg.so.0.2.0.
ap/vim-8.1.0648-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/nasm-2.14.02-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/strace-4.26-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libsigsegv-2.12-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Moved shared library into /lib{,64} to avoid problems when /usr is on a
separate partition. Thanks to TommyC7.
But please note: that has never been a recommended configuration (it was
always a bad idea prone to corner-case bugs), and with basically everyone
else moving everything into /usr, no upstream is developing with this
scenario in mind these days. Some of the problems caused by separate /usr
are simply not possibly to fix in a straightforward fashion. Consider it a
completely unsupported configuration choice. While it's not my style to
make the installer refuse to allow it, I won't be bending over backwards
to try to fix bugs related to this in the future. If I recall properly,
the original rationale was to make it possible for /usr to reside on a
shared network partition, which might have made sense back when 40MB was
a typical hard drive size. I can think of no good rationale now (and no,
I don't think making /usr read-only helps security in any tangible way).
n/wget-1.20.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xf86-video-chips-1.3.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xf86-video-neomagic-1.3.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xterm-341-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/audacious-3.10.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/audacious-plugins-3.10.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/vim-gvim-8.1.0648-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/mutt-1.11.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Put info file in /usr/info and compress it.
Don't include /usr/info/dir.
Thanks to Edward Trumbo.
After upgrading this package, you'll need to reinstall the texinfo package
to restore the missing /usr/info/dir file.
n/wget-1.20-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/eudev-3.2.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/glibc-solibs-2.28-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
a/grub-2.02-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched to fix compatibility with recent xfsprogs. Thanks to Markus Wiesner.
a/kernel-generic-4.14.71-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.14.71-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.14.71-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/opus-tools-0.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/sqlite-3.25.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/icecream-20180905_cdc6ff8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.14.71-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/llvm-7.0.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Shared library .so-version bump.
k/kernel-source-4.14.71-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/ffmpeg-3.4.4-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Don't try to link with Samba since the latest version is not compatible.
l/glibc-2.28-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
All packages have been patched where needed for glibc-2.28 and compile
tested here. Thanks to nobodino for the help.
l/glibc-i18n-2.28-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
l/glibc-profile-2.28-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
l/gst-plugins-base-1.14.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/gst-plugins-good-1.14.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/gst-plugins-libav-1.14.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/gstreamer-1.14.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/imagemagick-6.9.10_11-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libopusenc-0.2-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
l/librsvg-2.44.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/opus-1.3_rc2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/opusfile-0.11-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/soprano-2.9.4-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled to drop virtuoso dependency.
l/virtuoso-ose-6.1.8-x86_64-9.txz: Removed.
Even KDE4 has migrated away from actually using this for anything. The last
thing in Slackware that was dependent on it was Soprano, which has been
recompiled to no longer use it.
n/postfix-3.3.1-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled so that it quits whining about OpenSSL. Thanks to shastah.
x/mesa-18.2.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Compiled against llvm-7.0.0.
x/xf86-video-vmware-13.3.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against llvm-7.0.0.
x/xterm-336-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
extra/pure-alsa-system/ffmpeg-3.4.4-x86_64-2_alsa.txz: Rebuilt.
Don't try to link with Samba since the latest version is not compatible.
extra/pure-alsa-system/gst-plugins-good-1.14.3-x86_64-1_alsa.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
a/pkgtools-15.0-noarch-13.txz: Rebuilt.
installpkg: default line length for --terselength is the number of columns.
removepkg: added --terse mode.
upgradepkg: default line length for --terselength is the number of columns.
upgradepkg: accept -option in addition to --option.
ap/vim-8.1.0026-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/bison-3.0.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
e/emacs-26.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
kde/kopete-4.14.3-x86_64-8.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against libidn-1.35.
n/conntrack-tools-1.4.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/libnetfilter_conntrack-1.0.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/libnftnl-1.1.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/links-2.16-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Rebuilt to enable X driver for -g mode.
n/lynx-2.8.9dev.19-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/nftables-0.8.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/p11-kit-0.23.11-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/ulogd-2.0.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/whois-5.3.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/network-manager-applet-1.8.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/vim-gvim-8.1.0026-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Thu Jun 30 20:26:57 UTC 2016
Slackware 14.2 x86_64 stable is released!
The long development cycle (the Linux community has lately been living in
"interesting times", as they say) is finally behind us, and we're proud to
announce the release of Slackware 14.2. The new release brings many updates
and modern tools, has switched from udev to eudev (no systemd), and adds
well over a hundred new packages to the system. Thanks to the team, the
upstream developers, the dedicated Slackware community, and everyone else
who pitched in to help make this release a reality.
The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.
Have fun! :-)
