piCore-11.0 released

[Rich]

Hi MrPorcine
According to the  .info  file:
http://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv6/tcz/inetutils-servers.tcz.info
the current maintainer is  bmarkus.

[Paul_123]

Bela has been mia for a while.   The biggest thing when building extensions is to follow the standard  build criteria.   Unfortunately, it looks like the wiki is down. To link.

You may be able to find the compile info in the package source.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/8.x/armv7/tcz/src/inetutils-servers/

[MrPorcine]

Yes, there is a build script associated with the sources, thanks for point this out. Which bring up another question . All the build scripts that I have found in the 10.x/armv7 tcz source tree have compiler flags set for a v6 build. Is this on purpose or just an historical artifact?

[Paul_123]

On purpose.  That way it runs on all boards.  I've done many side by side tests, there is not much to be gained in board specific optimizations.(And many times the maintenance headaches)

[MrPorcine]

I ran the build script run against inetutils-1.9.4.tar.xz. I compiled on a RPi Model 3 B+ using a virgin piCore 10.0 installation. The resulting files are too large to attach even after compressing with bzip2 (322K).

All I've tested is inetd and ftpd - both work.

Interestingly, when I run ldd against the list of executables, ncursors is not in the list.

[Rich]

Hi MrPorcine

... The resulting files are too large to attach even after compressing with bzip2 (322K). ...

You are not allowed to attach extensions to your posts. See the section on submitting extensions in the Wiki:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=wiki:creating_extensions#submitting

[Juanito]

Interestingly, when I run ldd against the list of executables, ncursors is not in the list.

Did you load the readline-dev and/or ncurses-dev extensions before compiling?

[furinkan]

Hi there,

This is my first time posting/replying here, but I've been using piCore 9.x for a little while to run a minimal appliance-style app on an RPi Zero W, and am delighted that there's a new piCore release.

I've had a look in the RPi boards and don't see any threads mentioning this, but it looks like some wifi packages aren't in the 11.x repo yet, which makes it tricky to get started. It wasn't clear whether I should make a new thread for this, or PM a maintainer (no idea which one, though).

To wit, I'm looking in newbielink:http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/11.x/armv6/tcz/ [nonactive] and:

* libnl is missing
* wifi is missing
* wireless_tools is missing, and the version in the 10.x repo incorrectly lists libiw as a dependency

After manually pulling those into my local tce/optional/ directory I was able to tce-load them as normal and everything is good. As best I can tell these extensions worked properly as-is, so I think it'd be fine to just copy them forwards into the 11.x repo tree, though I did have a go at building a newer version of libnl just for the exercise.

Thanks, hope this is clear and descriptive enough.

[Juanito]

Missing extensions copied to piCore-11.x armv6 repo - thanks for reporting this.

[mcody]

Hello,

I am looking for all of the packages associated with usbip and hamlib.  I have found indications that they are available in piCore 9.0, although I have not been able to find any actual archive of the tgz files.  Help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mac

[Rich]

Hi mcody
They are located here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv6/tcz/info.lst

[aus9]

I am looking for all of the packages associated with usbip and hamlib

Do you mean the dep list? Thanks to Rich they might be
http://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv6/tcz/usbip.tcz.dep
http://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv6/tcz/hamlib.tcz.dep

infos says compiled for 8 so
http://tinycorelinux.net/8.x/armv6/tcz/src/usbip/usbip.build
http://tinycorelinux.net/8.x/armv6/tcz/src/hamlib/hamlib.build

tgz .....if you mean TCZ then click these, in your web browser to download them
tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv6/tcz/usbip.tcz
tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv6/tcz/hamlib.tcz

[mcody]

Sorry if I was not sufficiently clear and also for the typos in my original message (yes, I meant tcz).

I'm looking for the .tcz packages for usbip and hamlib for piCore 11.0.  I notice that there are multiple files associated with each package (.tcz, .tcz.info, .tcz.list, .tcz.md5.txt, .tcz.zsync).

I'm confused by the links in the URL 'tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv6/tcz/'.  When the link is sourced directly, there is a webpage listing all of the available Tiny Core extensions.  If I add the name of the extension (e.g. 'tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv6/tcz/hamlib.tcz'), I can download the file.  Is that file actually the extension file?

Will the hamlib and usbip .tcz packages found in piCore 9.0 work with piCore 11.0?  If so, I will download and use them.

Thanks,

Mac

[Juanito]

You can download the extensions like this:

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$ wget http://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv6/tcz/usbip.tcz
$ wget http://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv6/tcz/hamlib.tcz..where you also need the *.dep and *.md5.txt files

Once you have the six files, copy them into /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/optional

You'll need to try them in piCore-11.x to know if they work or not

[mcody]

Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions.  I decided it would be easier to switch to piCore 9.0, given that the needed packages are already in place.  I'll take a look at piCore 11 at a later date to see if these packages become available.

Regards,

Mac