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h2-1 · Joined: 14 Mar 2018 Posts: 7

Hi Puppy users. I figure that you are more likely to have old, or otherwise currently untested hardware, so you might find some issues others have missed so far.

I'm working on the new 3.0.0 release of inxi. The development branch is called pinxi, so you can run pinxi and inxi together to compare etc. Once all the bugs and issues that are going to be found are found, the pinxi branch will move to inxi master and become inxi 3.0.0. Pinxi is a full rewrite, in Perl5, of inxi.

Git branch: https://github.com/smxi/inxi/tree/inxi-perl

To test, install/download:

Flash · Posted: Wed 14 Mar 2018, 20:33 Post subject:

What is inxi? What does it do for me? Why do I have to have it?

drunkjedi · Joined: 24 May 2015 Posts: 897

inxi is command line tool for hardware info.
I remember using it in some pup. But don't remember which.
Do pups have perl5 or have to load dev sfs?

matchpoint · Joined: 26 Jan 2018 Posts: 169

Doesn't need much methinks. Here's an example.

h2-1 · Joined: 14 Mar 2018 Posts: 7

Just to be clear, the new inxi is Perl, not Bash/Gawk.

As a result, the entire set of dependencies inxi had, bash, gawk, sed, tr, grep, all those things, are removed, and replaced with one single dependency, Perl 5.x 5.08 or newer.

So there's a major difference there. However, you can see if there are any issues by simply installing pinxi, and then running it. If it runs, it's all good. If not, it needs Perl.

I've made a real point of avoiding any modules not in Perl core modules, so all that's required is the barebones Perl install, Perl + core modules, that is, which in most distros is just Perl.

Terry H · Posted: Wed 14 Mar 2018, 22:23 Post subject:

Normally I wouldn't touch a request like this from a users first post, but seems above board. So I hope this helps. I changed the command, adding z to mask some information.

h2-1 · Joined: 14 Mar 2018 Posts: 7

Terry H, thanks for testing. If you compare inxi bash/gawk and inxi perl (aka beta name pinix), re time, you'll see one of the differences using perl makes:

time inxi -v7
time pinxi -v7

My systems usually give me around 2x faster or more for pinxi than inxi, which considering pinxi is doing quite a bit more than inxi does, is saying a something re the benefits of using Perl instead of the mutant bash/gawk i've used for almost 10 years now.

This is a big difference on old hardware, on my old pentium mmx 200 mghz laptop, inxi -v7 takes about 23 seconds to run, and pinxi -v7 only about 12 seconds. Obviously on newer hardware it's much less.

The repos require the data to add them, if it's a file, the path and file name of the file, and a sample file. Once I get that data, it doesn't take me too long to add a distro repo handler.

I'm pretty close to release, so far I'm only seeing missing repo data from the distros I'm asking to test it. I forgot the -z, I'll update my initial post, thanks.

I've just gotten the last bits of RAID working so pinxi is now just waiting for final beta testers, and any last minute thing, like adding repos for distros that don't show up, fixing last minute issues, etc.

peebee · Posted: Thu 15 Mar 2018, 03:35 Post subject:

On LxPupSc-18.03

drunkjedi · Joined: 24 May 2015 Posts: 897

On Fatdog64 -721 I had to make the perl script executable.
I ran it with time command, I don't have inxi to compare it with though.
My PC is not old either. Hope this helps.

fredx181 · Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Posts: 4204 Location: holland

Works nicely on my Stretch-live, thanks !

perdido · Posted: Thu 15 Mar 2018, 10:10 Post subject:

Puppy Precise 5.7.1
Dell laptop e6400
laptop built 2011

perdido · Posted: Thu 15 Mar 2018, 11:27 Post subject:

Old Compaq laptop that originally had Win Vista
Puppy Precise 5.7.1 devx loaded

h2-1 · Joined: 14 Mar 2018 Posts: 7

perdido · Posted: Thu 15 Mar 2018, 15:50 Post subject:

h2-1 · Joined: 14 Mar 2018 Posts: 7

It looks like maybe stock Puppy ships without core features for Perl, that's not something I can fix. glob is a required tool, it can't work without it. I can work around individual core modules missing like Sys::Hostname but I can't work around actual core features not being present. Perl without core features/modules isn't very useful, so I'll leave this up to Puppy packagers, and make a note about the issue. Glob isn't a module, it's a function in Perl, it's part of perl itself, so if that is missing, there's nothing I can do beyond suggest the required devx package is added as a dependency of inxi in Puppy.

perdido, your example shows two possible bugs, first, a failure to show a charge of 0, that's an easy mistake to make in Perl, that should be corrected in 2.9.00-424-p

Second is something I've seen in two sets of output, and I can probably fix if someone whose pinxi optical drives show:

/dev/scd0 /dev/scd1 and so on. Those are links to the real /dev locations, and I can tell from the following what is happening there if you paste and run the following code in a terminal, and then show me the output: