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newsQuirky Pyro64 0.5 coming soon
Advance notice, I plan to upload Quirky Pyro64 0.5 in a couple of days. This is Quirky Linux built from packages compiled from source in OpenEmbedded.
Right now, have started a recompile from scratch in OE, then tomorrow should be able to import the binary packages to woofQ, then build Pyro64 0.5.
I intend to upload all of the binary packages, and the source packages, to ibiblio. The binary packages are about 1.2GB, and uploading this lot is not something that I want to do that often, as my only Internet access is via my mobile phone.
I don't have a landline phone, just a mobile. I am on prepaid, not a plan, and pay AU$40 for 6GB, so that's my allocation per month, which is pitiful. I can top it up within a month, AU$10 for 1GB.
These Internet expenses add up, and I am thinking of bringing
back a PayPal donate button. I had one years ago, and enough
donations trickled in to pay the Internet costs. But that was when
I was leading the Puppy Linux project.
Well, I will think about whether to put up a donate button or not. Actually, what prompted me to think about this, was recently there have been a couple of enquiries from people who wanted to donate to my work.
Samba
Note, 0.5 will have Samba, that I have compiled in a running Pyro64, not in OE, so it is a PET package. The Samba in OE wants kerberus dependency, which I did not want, so experimented with configuration options, for the smallest build, and using the inbuilt heimdal instead of kerberus.
Even so, my PET is 11MB, whereas 01micko got his samba PET down to about 8MB -- though he has an older version.
I hope that I haven't configured-out too much functionality, and that it works OK. Well, testers will be welcome when 0.5 comes out.
For the record, here are my configure options:
# ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var
--sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-fhs
--includedir=/usr/include --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin
--with-configdir=/etc/samba --with-piddir=/var/run
--with-privatedir=/etc/samba/private
--with-privatelibdir=/usr/lib --with-modulesdir=/usr/lib
--with-lockdir=/var/cache/samba
--with-logfilebase=/var/log/samba --enable-cups
--with-acl-support --with-automount --with-quotas --with-syslog
--without-winbind --with-ldap --without-pam --without-ads
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --datadir=/usr/share --without-dmapi
--without-fam --without-lttng --without-systemd --disable-avahi
--enable-gnutls --without-sendfile-support --nopyc --nopyo
--extra-python=/usr/bin/python3 --without-ad-dc
--without-ntvfs-fileserver
...if you know something about configuring Samba, what do you think? Note that Pyro64 has all 64-bit libs in /lib and /usr/lib, with /lib64 and /usr/lib64 being symlinks.
Feedback can go here. This is where 0.5 will be announced: