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Updated the script, better now.

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#3 Post by RedQuine »

Interesting idea. Could it be adapted to create an .sfs of an application I've installed myself?

Thinking specifically of R, which I've installed on both BionicPup64 and DpupBuster64. It works on both, but the DpupBuster64 version is more up to date. It would save me a lot of time (and disk space!) if I could update R on BionicPup64 without having to download all the packages again.

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#4 Post by musher0 »

Hi nic007.

Kind of a stroke of genius, that! :)
Certainly a good way to "unfatten" a pup.

Could one use your script to gather say, all graphic apps or all writing apps
of a pup in a sfs?

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RedQuine wrote:Interesting idea. Could it be adapted to create an .sfs of an application I've installed myself?

Thinking specifically of R, which I've installed on both BionicPup64 and DpupBuster64. It works on both, but the DpupBuster64 version is more up to date. It would save me a lot of time (and disk space!) if I could update R on BionicPup64 without having to download all the packages again.
I'm sure it can be adapted for user installed packages. In fact, I did a quick trial-run which I thought should work but couldn't get it right. I get as far as the correct file structure (folders and sub-folders) getting copied but not the actual files itself which is strange. I may have a look at it again some time.

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musher0 wrote:Hi nic007.

Kind of a stroke of genius, that! :)
Certainly a good way to "unfatten" a pup.

Could one use your script to gather say, all graphic apps or all writing apps
of a pup in a sfs?




BFN.
The script allows you to choose one builtin package at a time from a list. I'm sure it may be possible to choose more than one package at a time but as you are aware my coding skills are rather limited. You can of course do it the hard way by doing it one by one, creating an sfs for each and then merge the contents of all into one sfs.

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nicOS-Package-Extractor-Extra added to first post. Read the important notes in that post before using this specific version.

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Thanks.
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#9 Post by nic007 »

nicOS-Package-Extractor-Final. This should be the final release. Works on all my Puppy's. This release replaces all other and users are encouraged to use this version instead. Attached to opening post.

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#10 Post by jplt3 »

Is it possible with your script (or modify one) to extract a program from a sfs that i load ?

For example i want to extract git from the the devx_bionicpup64_8.0.sfs ?
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I don't think so.

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#12 Post by jplt3 »

Ok thanks.

Great thank you for your script it works good for me.
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regards

can i extract kernel
from mx linux squashfs?

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#14 Post by nic007 »

No, this script is for builtin woof-installed packages.

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#15 Post by s243a »

zagreb999 wrote:regards

can i extract kernel
from mx linux squashfs?
Mistfire's tazpup buildkit can extract the kernal from puppy so maybe with few modifications it could do the same for MXLinux.
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