Re: problem using pkgutils :solved

[Rudge]

"mkrepo -a -d PCLinuxOS -v PCLinuxOS -s pclos -p <your PCLOS user name>"

This script just asks me to (Continue or Not) with a "Y" or a "n" and does nothing except ask me again no matter what I give it.

[travisN000]

You have to upgrade to kde4 and install pkgutils-kde4  ..or follow the instruction I posted for fixing mkrepo, addpkg, etc on kde3:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,62579.msg507113.html#msg507113

[Rudge]

You have to upgrade to kde4 and install pkgutils-kde4  ..or follow the instruction I posted for fixing mkrepo, addpkg, etc on kde3:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,62579.msg507113.html#msg507113

I have a minime install and have successfully upgraded to KDE4,  Installed pkgutils-kde4 
I have not done the  "instruction I posted for fixing mkrepo, addpkg, etc on kde3:"

 I have a fully functional minime KDE4 box that I intend to use  and did not see the need to do this part.
Should I still consider doing it?

[travisN000]

You should not have to..  if you are fully updated, try a different repo and update again.

If you still are not getting the fix, install using the following command:

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apt-get install http://74.92.170.25/packaging/RPMS/pkgutils-kde4-0.1.3-1pclos2010.noarch.rpm

[Rudge]

Thanks Travis. It's working.

 apt-get install http://74.92.170.25/packaging/RPMS/pkgutils-kde4-0.1.3-1pclos2010.noarch.rpm

This did the trick.

[MBantz]

Having this problem now,

Phoenix 2010 Beta 2,

have installed pkgutil-kde4 and pkgutil-thunar

Script won't continue, pressing Y, y, n, N, no, yes, Yes, yEs, yeS, YES..... :-)

Code in mkrepo is:

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yorn () {
local s
while ! [[ "\$s" =~ "[ynYN]" ]]; do
read -p"\$2" s
s=\${s:-\$1}
[ \${#s} -gt 1 ] && s=
done
echo -n \$s|tr yn YN
}

will dissect it tomorrow ....

[Neal ManBear]

You need to remove the quotation marks:

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while ! [[ "\$s" =~ "[ynYN]" ]]; doShould be:

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while ! [[ \$s =~ [ynYN] ]]; do

[Texstar]

You need to remove the quotation marks:

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while ! [[ "\$s" =~ "[ynYN]" ]]; doShould be:

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while ! [[ \$s =~ [ynYN] ]]; do

Can you please send an updated package if you fix it.

[Neal ManBear]

You need to remove the quotation marks:

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while ! [[ "\$s" =~ "[ynYN]" ]]; doShould be:

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while ! [[ \$s =~ [ynYN] ]]; do

Can you please send an updated package if you fix it.

Sending updated pkg.....

[MBantz]

Thanks :-) That fixed it,

still some issues, now I get to a screen that says:

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%vendor PClinuxOS

Build packages will be downloaded and installed

Continue? [Y/n]
Please enter root Password:

PCLinuxOS official repositories:
  \141) http://ftp.heanet.ie
  \142) ftp://ftp.belnet.be
  \143) http://cesium.di.uminho.pt
  \144) ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org
  \145) http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz
  \146) http://ftp.nl.freebsd.org
  \147) ftp://ftp.pbone.net
  \150) ftp://rm.mirror.garr.it
  \151) http://mirrors.lastdot.org:1280
  \152) http://pclosusers.com
  \153) http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za
  \154) http://mirror.pacific.net.au
  \155) ftp://mirror.internode.on.net
Choose a repo to make active [a-\155]

and I've tried 'a' and \141 but can't get past this.

[slax]

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,62579.0.html

[MBantz]

Thanks Slax,

the link is related to the problem, but does not solve it here.

I am using a non-US keyboard, danish, trying to descipher the code...


/usr/bin/mkrepo

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--snip-snip-snip-
repos=( \\
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/pclinuxos/apt/ \\
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/pub/mirror/pclinuxonline.com/apt/ \\
http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2007/ \\
ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org/mirror/pclinuxos/apt/ \\
http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/pclinuxos/apt/ \\
http://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/os/Linux/distr/texstar/pclinuxos/apt/ \\
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/pub/pclinuxos/apt/ \\
ftp://rm.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/pclinuxos/apt/ \\
http://mirrors.lastdot.org:1280/pclos/apt/ \\
http://pclosusers.com/pclosusers/pclosfiles/ \\
http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/pclinuxos/apt/ \\
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/pub1/linux/texstar/pclinuxos/apt/ \\
ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/pclinuxos/apt/ \\
)

a=96 ; echo
echo "PCLinuxOS official repositories: "
for r in \${repos[@]}
do (( a++ )) ; echo -e "  \$(printf '\\\\%o' \$a)) \$(echo "\$r"|cut -d/ -f1-3)"
done
a=\$(echo -e \$(printf '\\\\%o' \$a))
while [[ "\$n" < "a" || "\$n" > "\$a" ]]
do read -p "Choose a repo to make active [a-\$a] " n
done
n=\${n:0:1} ; n=\$(echo -n "\$n"|od -An -tuC) ; (( n-=97 ))
active_repo="\${repos[\$n]}"
echo -e "\\n  Activating \$(echo "\${repos[\$n]}"|cut -d/ -f1-3)"
echo -e "  Creating \$aptsl\\n"


[MBantz]

Fixing mkrepo, line 273 with this (replaced echo with printf statement) - will print correct letters:

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a=96 ; echo
echo "PCLinuxOS official repositories: "
for r in \${repos[@]}
do (( a++ )) ; printf \\\\"\$(printf '%o' \$a)) \$(echo "\$r\n")"
done
a=\$(printf \\\\"\$(printf '%o' \$a)")

However - this line does not look right to me (line 251 in mkrepo):

dsx="pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde gnome"


should/can 2007 just be replaced by 2010 everywhere?

edit: 2007 is written several places

[Neal ManBear]

I'll have a go at fixing mkrepo.

[MBantz]

Thanks a bunch Neal :-)

Let me know if you need anything packaged :-)