[Slackbuilds-users] SBo PyPanel is bugged on Slackware64

[Peter Dambier]

On 12/11/2019 07:43 PM, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
> Il giorno mer 11 dic 2019 alle ore 19:26 flinchx via SlackBuilds-users
> <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> ha scritto:
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>> I took the liberty to skip contacting the maintainer first, because according to the ChangeLog, all changes except the very first one were made by other people.
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>> I don't know if anybody still uses this ancient software (I didn't and I won't, just tried it out of curiousity), maybe there's someone who does it on a legacy 32bit system. Point is it doesn't work properly on a 64bit system: it builds fine, but if you run it from console, you can see it fails to access the imlib2 library, because it has /usr/lib hardcoded, while Slackware64 uses /usr/lib64.
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>> Personally I would prefer to have it purged from SBo, at least in 15.0 if nobody uses it. I fully accept the responsibility for spending time trying it, but if it wasn't there (since it doesn't work on Slackware64 as explained above), I surely wouldn't go as far as trying to write my own buildscript just for that.
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>> This makes me wonder how many such obsolete things are there on SBo and do other SBo users think they can stay there or should eventually get cleaned up if they have issues / nobody uses them? Perhaps in the future it will be at least possible to tag them as archived and have an option to filter them when listing/searching?
>
> IMHO you shouldn't have skipped the "reporting to the maintainer part"
> as it's his duty to check if the SlackBuild is working correctly: I'll
> put him in cc.
>
> Matteo
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Same for me. Keep the good stuff. I have tried 64 bit several times and
I had to come back to 32 bit always because of the stuff that was not
working.

Plain 64 bit looks nice. I tried it with gentoo, but as soon as some
packet insists on multilib and some printer or other hardware only has
drivers for 32 bits - things start to brake and the mess comes down in
an avalange.

Slackware is a lot easier to repair than ... and moving things built on
one machine to the next without reemerging the world is like a free
refill of your coffee without the expense of buying a coffee in the
first place.

Slackbuilds.org is a wonderful warehouse but I do not intend to install
everything that is in the catalog. If you want a system where everything
fits together, then plain Slackware 14.2 might be the right place to try.

Kind regards
peter

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