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Tiny Core Base => TCB News => Final Releases => Topic started by: Juanito on June 16, 2025, 06:10:42 AM

Title: Tiny Core v16.1
Post by: Juanito on June 16, 2025, 06:10:42 AM

Team Tiny Core is proud to announce the release of Core v16.1
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/release
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86_64/release

Changelog for 16.1
* symlink added for /lib/firmware due to problems loading a few firmware blobs
* vmlinuz recompiled with i486 patch
* tce: Add DoW)nload and load option by Sashank999

Title: Re: Tiny Core v16.1
Post by: GNUser on June 16, 2025, 07:49:26 AM

Quote from: Juanito on June 16, 2025, 06:10:42 AM

* symlink added for /lib/firmware due to problems loading a few firmware blobs

Hi Juanito. IIRC tce-load is only able to load extensions if destination directory is a real directory (not a symlink).

So the  /lib/firmware  link in 16.1 will break any extension that contains  /lib/firmware/foo  . Fortunately there are only two such extensions: firmware.mediatek.tcz and wireless-regdb.tcz.

In these two extensions, the files in  /lib/firmware  should be moved to /usr/local/lib/firmware.

Title: Re: Tiny Core v16.1
Post by: Rich on June 16, 2025, 08:33:03 AM

Hi GNUser

Quote from: GNUser on June 16, 2025, 07:49:26 AM

... IIRC tce-load is only able to load extensions if destination directory is a real directory (not a symlink). ...

Could you please confirm that.

If true, see if adding  -H  to the  cp  commands fixes it:

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BusyBox v1.29.3 (2018-12-19 15:29:37 UTC) multi-call binary.

Usage: cp [OPTIONS] SOURCE... DEST

Copy SOURCE(s) to DEST

        -a      Same as -dpR
        -R,-r   Recurse
        -d,-P   Preserve symlinks (default if -R)
        -L      Follow all symlinks
        -H      Follow symlinks on command line
        -p      Preserve file attributes if possible
        -f      Overwrite
        -i      Prompt before overwrite
        -l,-s   Create (sym)links
        -T      Treat DEST as a normal file
        -u      Copy only newer files

Title: Re: Tiny Core v16.1
Post by: GNUser on June 16, 2025, 08:41:02 AM

Hi Rich. Yes, I can confirm that. I found my prior experiments where  tce-load  could not put files in  /usr/local/etc  when  /usr/local/etc  was a symlink to /etc. See here: https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27515.msg177358.html#msg177358

I do not want to go down that path again. tce-load is too critical to be adding features or changing flags. It's much easier and safer to just adjust the two extensions I mentioned.

Title: Re: Tiny Core v16.1
Post by: Rich on June 16, 2025, 09:09:54 AM

Hi GNUser
That's OK. I just tried it and it doesn't work anyway.