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gyrog

@rockedge, hope you find it useful.

gyrog

mergelayers: Create a merged sfs file from a list of sfs files, and/or directories, specified on the command line. Usage: mergelayers -h mergelayers [-zstd] <sfs file> <sfs file> [<sfs file>...] <output sfs file> Notes: If the optional first parameter '-zstd' is specified, mksquashfs is called usin...

gyrog

For several months now, I have only been using ZSTD. Is it possible to change this? I prefer xz, I do some quite large merges with this, and I'm prepared to wait longer for the smaller size. So it would have to be an extra parameter of some sort. I'll have to think on the "how". Hmmm.., m...

gyrog

Clarity , Thanks for testing. Yes, the sfs does include a '/usr/share/applications/mk-savespec.desktop' file, so there can be a menu entry As to the messages in the GUI: My current approach to GUI utilities, is a "wizard" approach, each screen is dedicated to obtaining a particular bit of...

gyrog

mergelayers: Create a merged sfs file from a list of sfs files, and/or directories, specified on the command line. Usage: mergelayers -h mergelayers <sfs file> <sfs file> [<sfs file>...] <output sfs file> Notes: The list is in stack order, i.e. the first sfs is the top of the stack. <sfs file> must...

gyrog

I've uploaded 'mk-savespec-7.sfs' and 'MakeSAVESPEC_AppDir-7.tar.gz' to http://www.mediafire.com/folder/ufo1lerdg73j0/savespec.

This version is purely to add some comments to the gnerated SAVESPEC file, as suggested by @Clarity .
But my comments are not the same as @Clarity's.

gyrog

I've never commented on this in the past, but I've noticed various confusing comments related to the above in the past. Some posts seemed to suggest Puppy save persistence worked as long as their was an external file, which Puppy calls SAVESPEC, but elsewhere I've read (from gyrog himself, though I...

gyrog

The classic way: Burn the ISO file to a CD, and boot the CD or 'dd' the ISO file to a usb stick, and boot the usb stick. This uses the boot loader contained in the ISO, so you don't need to know anything about what you are booting. Puppy has always supported this. It does not activate the '/sbin/is...

gyrog

GRUB2 has matured to version 2.12. Is it time to present to WoofCE the upgrade? Yes, this has been true since 2.6 first appeared. But who is going to do it? I did not produce the signed grub2 2.03, that is still standard in Puppy. This grub2 2.06 is unsigned and "borrowed" from debian. So...

gyrog

This works great with fresh puppies but I'm having trub with legacy puppies as the system is unable to find the main sfs after loading the initrd. Still trying to work out why. something must be hard coded in the init of legacy puppies. For many years Puppies have named their main .sfs file 'puppy_...

gyrog

Jasper wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:04 am
Thanks for the detailed explanation in #1.

You are welcome.

Jasper wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:04 am
Is it possible to add a time/date string to the saved file?

Yes.
It would require changes to 'savesesion-archive' and the 'init' script.
I'll put it on my toto list.

gyrog

I suspect that this is an obsolete link, anyway.
If you accept the risk and go to the site, you end up with a:

"503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request."

gyrog

Frugal Full Install - inOnePup, including ffiPup and fsiPup This is the second release of the inOnePup project, 2 Puppy installs where all of Puppy is contained in a single file. (Inspired by "Pseudo Full Install", @amethyst's "SFS-Merger" and "Save2SFS", and @taersh's...

gyrog

rockedge , that would be a good test. Thanks for testiing. I might have forgotten to mention, how to get from an ffiPup to an fsiPup. 'ffi2fsiPup' currently generates only a 'puppy...sfs' in the ffiPup install directory. I then do a normal frugal install (I use FrugalPup->Puppy) to install the ffiP...

gyrog

I confim that no matter how you create an fsiPup, if you convert it back to an ffiPup root, the ffiPup will not boot. For the next release I propose: There will be no conversion like utilites. ffiman: will have the "Create an 'fsiPup' sfs file from root directory" item removed. fsiman: wil...

gyrog

@Clarity,
It's my understanding that the closest thing in the KL world is "pseudo full install".
"wd_multi KL frugal installs" is something different.

gyrog

Sorry, there is a problem: if you create an ffiPup from an ISO. create a normal frugal install from the same ISO, and configure it. create an fsiPup from this normal frugal install So far all is fine. But if you then convert the fsiPup sfs file to an ffiPup root directory, replacing the existing one...

gyrog

I'm starting to like "fsiPup". I have an "fsiPup" of Bookwormpup64 installed on my SSD, but the save location is on a fat32 partition with a bit of space. This means it runs in pupmode=66, but that's not a problem, because the save contains nothing of value, just the files Puppy ...

gyrog

I'll keep on trucking, I hope to have even better looking utils in the near future.
(I'm working on the underlying Python3 windows generation utils. Opps, off topic.)

gyrog

@Clarity, Thankyou for testing.
Though I am not surprised by the result.

I'll put adding your comments to any generated SAVESPEC file, on my todo list.

gyrog

The first release of the onePup project, 2 Puppy installs where all of Puppy is contained in a single file. (Inspired by "Pseudo Full Install", amethyst 's "SFS-Merger" and "Save2SFS", and taersh 's "PaDS") ffiPup or Frugal Full Install The single file is a di...

gyrog

2 observations: The existence of these Pull Request's suggests that we still have some folk who are willing to propose code changes to "improve" Puppy. The currrent system for "resolving" PR's is not working. We need to get a process working, or the limited folk that do produce ...

gyrog

I have noticed the large number of outstanding PR's, some of them from 2022. I hope to look at them and maybe merge some, if I understand their significance, and they seem to "improve" Puppy. Unfortunately there are many parts of woof, and even Puppy, that I have never had any need to even...

gyrog

Clarity Yes it should, but I've never done it. The 'init' script does not process a SAVESPEC line by line, it "includes" the whole file, i.e ". /path/to/SAVESPEC". So it is treated as extra script code, therefore scripting rules apply. The variables SS_ID, SS_DIR, and SS_MEDIA, ...

gyrog

They're built using complete configuration files ( 10k lines) under config_*, like https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/blob/testing/kernel-kit/configs_x86_64/DOTconfig-6.1.13-x86_64. Thanks for confirming this. I will look at a PR to "fix" these, starting with 6.1.13-x86_64. The...

gyrog

When the "kernel-kit" action is run, Where does it get it's DOTconfig files from? I'm trying to workout what needs to be changed to include the "battery" kernel configs. The kernels generated by the "kernel-kit" action seem to have the opposite problem to the "debi...

gyrog

JusGellin No, I have not changed any of them, these are still my list of required kernel config lines. Before I compile a kernel, I make sure that those config lines are present in the DOTconfig file. The thing about the Bookworm64 kernel, is that these have now been included in the woof-ce code th...

gyrog

@JusGellin,
Great news.
You are welcome.
Thanks for testing.

gyrog

@dimkr, and @peebee, Thankyou.
The new kernel works in my Lenovo.

gyrog

I've uploaded 'lenovo-kernel-6.1.69d.tar' to https://www.mediafire.com/folder/j73n7spw7c72f/kernels . 'lenovo-kernel-6.1.69d.tar' is compiled in woof-ce by the same mechanism used to produce the kernel for Bookworm64. So this is what we can expect if/when Bookworm64 10.0.5 is released. It should wor...

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