QV version 240425 pre-alpha released

See 240423 announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202404/qv-version-20240423-pre-alpha-released.html

I was hoping to get onto implementing an update mechanism, but we keep finding bugs.

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/void/

One change made, and I have my fingers crossed that it is ok, is have now included the Void 'shadow' package. I had previously told XBPS to ignore 'shadow' if it is a dependency of any package, as it requires 'pam'.

'pam' causes trouble, but I think now have managed to disable it. We want the 'shadow' pkg, as any package that wants to create entries in /etc/passwd (etc.) needs it.

Forum discussion welcome here:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=117896#p117896

...first post in that thread explains about 'qv-installer', for direct install to internal drive.

I did some basic testing of 240425, very basic. Installed the 'devx' PET via PKGget, and it worked ok, took awhile. At the end PKGget reported a lot of missing dependencies still not installed. I don't know what to make of that, as XBPS did the installing, and it would have installed all required deps. So probably PKGget has got it wrong.     

Tags: quirky