3.10.14 New release candidate

[Jason W]

I have added a -k option to importsce to allow the keeping of doc and man pages.  Helpful for offline documentation and use of the "man" command provided by the man-db package.

New cut uploaded to x86 release candidates.

http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release_candidates/

[Jason W]

Made some cosmetic bugfixes, some that apply to the current release.  But rather than potentially cause structural bugs in the current offering look for the fixes here.

Also, since most folks use the same importsce flags each time, a config file is being introduced that will allow simple calling of importsce and your favorite flags being used without specifying them each time.  /etc/sysconfig/sceconfig is the file, below is the structure.  Change "FALSE" to "TRUE" to enact your preferred behavior.  Flags used during importsce of course override config file settings.

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# Use KEEPDOC=TRUE to keep /usr/share/doc and /usr/share/man
# directories in sce's. Useful for the man command form the
# man-db package.
KEEPDOC=FALSE

# Use RAM=TRUE to use RAM to unpack the contents of packages used
# when making an SCE.  Particularly useful for flash devices.
RAM=FALSE

# Use DEPS=TRUE to make use of existing SCEs as dependencies
# of the imported one.
DEPS=FALSE

# Use SIZE=TRUE for the displaying of the sizes of needed RAM, HD
# space and download when importing.
SIZE=FALSE


[netnomad]

hi jason w,

works as expected!

do you plan the option to override the config-file on the command line?

thank you for your help.

[Jason W]

Hi,
As of now, config file overrides command line.  Meaning there is no --without-deps, just if you specifty DEPS=TRUE in he config file and don't use the -d option it is the same as using the -d option.

But specifying an option via the command line works regardless of what is in the config file.

[Jason W]

Added a check in importsce for tce directory being on a Windows filesystem in absence of the -r option to unpack files in RAM.  If so, importsce exits and advises the user to try again with the -r RAM option.

[Jason W]

Now exiting when importing a package using a dependency sce that already contains the imported package which would result in a zero size final sce.  Uploaded to release candidates.

[Jason W]

Added ondemand and onboot as options in the config file.  Uploaded to release candidates.

[Jason W]

Made the echoed config file use messages clearer.  Uploaded to release candidates.

[netnomad]

hi jason w,

...works as expected.

good work, keep on hacking.

[Jason W]

Great.  I think around 4.10.14 we should be ready for a release with these and maybe some other minor changes.

[Jason W]

Fixed a whitespace bug in sce names in loadsce when using the select menu.  Uploaded new cut to release_candidates.  If no more bugs, this will be the 4-1.14 release.

[roberts]

Awesome. Worked, as expected, without any issues!
First tried something trivial, importsce sl  choo choo
Then used our standard xsetup script. Worked beautifully. Tiny Core desktop via Ubuntu repos.
Then importsce firefox. This post is via firefox running from an Ubuntu Saucy imports!

[Jason W]

I am glad to hear it is working!  From the PPA repo I installed truecrypt, BOINC, as well as the nightly build of firefox.  Ubuntu has arm in the works it seems, x86 or x86_64 for now.  It would be doable to have an x86_64 dCore,  my laptop is 64 bit so maybe one day.   Minor adjustments would fit Ubuntu into the existing dCore scripts, I think that would make a good theme for the next release. 

For those who may not understand, drawing from Ubuntu is not about eye candy, in fact the smaller desktops look the same and Icewm has "Debian" on the start button.  Ubuntu-desktop package does not fully work likely missing startup script actions, but Gnome in Wheezy does for the most part and bare Gnome in Ubuntu should as well.   The significance of Ubuntu is an even wider set of up to date packages from Ubuntu's standard repos as well as the PPA.  The 6 month release cycle versus Debian's at about a year and a half offers another choice for those who like a more current system.  One is not better than the other in that sense, but it provides options. 

[Jason W]

dCore Wheezy now contains main, contrib, and non-free by default.  Other repos can be specified.