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BarryK · Posted: Mon 01 Feb 2010, 01:55 Post subject: Updated dir2pet, petspcs scripts

This is in Woof, but all Puppy developers using 4.3.1 or later can use these scripts. That is, anyone who uses dir2pet to create a PET package.

I have made small improvements to make more appropriate selections of some of the fields in the package database entry.

Two scripts are affected, dir2pet and petspecs, that reside at /usr/bin.

BarryK · From Woof, March 4, 2010

A couple of bugs fixed. These scripts are in Woof, March 4, 2010, and they live in /usr/bin. Attached...

ttuuxxx

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4279

I have a patch for dir2pet (dir2pxt via symlink) that will allow either xz or gz compression (xz is about 10-30% better and just as fast to decompress) I have also previously patched petget as well, and added tar.xz support while I was at it (for new arch and slack packages) If you are interested, I need to resync with woof anyways if it would be better to get the patch using bones.

I had also made a fully gui version as part of Pcompile that combined the two, but it was missing a couple of features that are in dir2pet and I plan to eventually rewrite it using amigo's src2pkg. It actually stripped bin and .so including removing gcc notes and comments (the gui was called adoptpet, but was basically broken out into the gui adoptdir which was incorporated in adoptpet and adoptpxt)

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2219

Why not try using src2pkg itself? It already has loads of features just up Puppy's alley, including strip, compress, culling of files, supports both old and new *.specs files. Plus, it knows how to build all sorts of sources -mostly with out any help. It uses a forked version of installwatch which tracks many more system calls and more reliably. src2pkg scripts provide a perfect concise, yet extendable API for scripting the creation of any package. Already built-in support for extensions for anything you find missing or for proposed additions to main code. 5 years and going strong...
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/amigolinux/download/src2pkg/

src2pkg pet here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/amigolinux/download/src2pkg/src2pkg-2.1/src2pkg-2.1-noarch-7.pet

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4279

I like it just as it is - and it will probably be in the devx of 4.4. I just want to setup a basic gui frontend to it (probably after 4.4), unless you have already added one yourself.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 06 Mar 2010, 00:07 Post subject:

toomuchcomputertime · Posted: Fri 16 Apr 2010, 13:08 Post subject:

How do I use new2dir? I have been trying

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 16 Apr 2010, 20:00 Post subject:

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 3220

GUI error:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58615