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01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Hi folks,

New version, 20101229, handles txz better

With the advent of "Woof - The Puppy Builder" there has been a pack of different Puppy's with different lineages crossbreeding.

Prime examples are Lupu Puppy 5, the Luci development for 5.1 and Barry's Spup Slackpup betas.

One problem.. the actual Puppy repos particular to those 'wooflets' are barish, though the Luci repo is starting to look healthy.. and the tool described here is a small part of that.

alien2puppy is a command line based tool to get a main app and it's dependencies 'merged' into a puppy package, either sfs or pet.

What you do is, plonk the app and all the dependencies in a single working directory, for big apps, do this outside your pupsave. Then you invoke the script in that directory with:

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2473 Location: Ontario

Worked great for me. Instructions were clear.
I made Audacity and Abiword pet packages out of
debian packages in only couple of minutes.
Great stuff!!

To compare with old method of making pet packages see
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=55740&start=690
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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2473 Location: Ontario

I wanted to show how easy it was to use alien2puppy
so I wrote a tutorial located here

I used Audacity as the example but lots of other application packages
can be built using this procedure.

EDIT: I wrote another tutorial this time for building Abiword here

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01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Thanks don570

I'll put a link to that in the first post, near where I say that there's no "man" page.

Cheers

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2473 Location: Ontario

I have discovered one flaw in alien2puppy.
I made the mistake of using a pupsave file that was
very small, therefore there was little space in filesystem for the new
pet package to form.

My recommendation is to make sure that there is at least 20 mb of free
space to let the pet package be created. Unfortunately there
is no warning at terminal so the user can become confused.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2637 Location: Earth

dm570 hit an issue where a check in the alien2puppy tool could be improved on

On this space finding, would it be prudent to put a "test" at the beginning of the alien2puppy script to see if there is 20MB, then warn the user?

It it helps make a better user experience, it may be worth considering.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2473 Location: Ontario

Recently I have been building my pets on a partition that has lots of space.
This way I avoid the 'lack of space problem'
I originally had been building in /root which is probably a bad practice.

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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2473 Location: Ontario

I describe how to make Audacity 2.0.4 alpha from nightly build...

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=697808#697808

Just a note... I am finding when constructing SFS packages that
I must move libraries to /usr/lib/ from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

Pet packages don't have this problem.

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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2473 Location: Ontario

I made a gettext version of alien2puppy 0.2

I changed some of the wording slightly and
I put a warning if the folder name has blank spaces.

I included a pot file if that will help the translators.

Instructions: put script 'alien2puppy' in executable path.

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