Cacko Feeds

[stupkid]

Thanks!  I'm adding all these to my todo list.  I will upload these as soon as I can compile/package/test them.

[ralfk]

One question regarding the packages in the feed:
What is the difference to the original packages ?
Do you re-compile them ?
Do they fit better to the Cacko ROM ?

I am just wondering since some package names have an additional "-1".

Cheers
Ralf

[stupkid]

That depends.  On most packages I just repackage them to work properly with the ROM on others I recompile.  The easiest way to tell look at the "Maintainer:" field of the package info (example: 'ipkg info quake-engine').  If it is me (Bryan) or Anton we built it.  On many packages source is not available, we cannot get the source to recompile, or have not had the time to recompile.  The Sharp based ROMs are not a completely open so we can only do so much.  

The -x at the end of the package version is the number of times it was packaged.  So, on some packages like quake-engine_1.00-4_arm.ipk I repacked it several times before I was satisfied.

[DaveAnderson]

I'd like to put a request in for a samba client.  I guess smbclient would be best, so I could have an easy way to browse files on my Windows computer from my Z.

[nilch]

allright, is the Cacko feed on ?

I dont seem to be able to get to the feed today ? It redirects to the site
http://bryandeluca.com/cacko/feed/
which shows nothing at all.

Where is the final feed then ?

[maslovsky]

allright, is the Cacko feed on ?

I dont seem to be able to get to the feed today ? It redirects to the site
http://bryandeluca.com/cacko/feed/
which shows nothing at all.

Where is the final feed then ?

everything is there, you just don't see it with the browser

But I sugest to still use official feed name anyway:

http://cacko.biz/cacko/feed

[flens]

Hi,
I am interested in an C-SDK, which works with less problems on the zaurus. I think installing it with cramfs etc. is not stable enough.
Thanks flens

[stupkid]

allright, is the Cacko feed on ?

I dont seem to be able to get to the feed today ? It redirects to the site
http://bryandeluca.com/cacko/feed/
which shows nothing at all.

Where is the final feed then ?

I have directory browsing disabled.  If you want a current list of packages look at:

http://www.cacko.biz/cacko/feed/Packages

I'm trying to tighten things up a bit around the site.

[jerrybme]

Have you prevented wget from downloading the feed as well? I like to keep a copy of the feed on my CF so I can install when I don't have an internet connection. Or am I doing something incorrect with wget?
Thanks,
Jerry

Code: [Select]

wget -l 1 -r http://bryandeluca.com/cacko/feed/
--20:25:26--  http://bryandeluca.com/cacko/feed/
           => `bryandeluca.com/cacko/feed/index.html'
Resolving bryandeluca.com... 66.152.98.201
Connecting to bryandeluca.com[66.152.98.201]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 0 [text/html]

    [ <=>                                 ] 0             --.--K/s

20:25:26 (0.00 B/s) - `bryandeluca.com/cacko/feed/index.html' saved [0/0]


FINISHED --20:25:26--
Downloaded: 0 bytes in 1 files

[ScottYelich]

If it's a Package dir... you can be cheap and parse the Package file and wget off that :->

Scott

[stupkid]

Wow, imagine if everyone copied the entire package feed every day to their hard drive.  I would have to shut the feed down.  Please try to keep this in mind.  Here is a crude example of a script that uses the Packages file to replicate the feed and then only copies the new files.

#!/bin/bash
FEEDBASE="http://bryandeluca.com/cacko/feed/"
# Remove old Packages file
rm Packages

wget $FEEDBASE/Packages
for pkg in `grep ^Filename: Packages| awk '{print $2}'`; do
  if [ ! -e $pkg ]; then
    wget $FEEDBASE/$pkg
  fi
done

Enjoy!

[waalkman]

Wow, imagine if everyone copied the entire package feed every day to their hard drive.  I would have to shut the feed down.  Please try to keep this in mind.  Here is a crude example of a script that uses the Packages file to replicate the feed and then only copies the new files.

#!/bin/bash
FEEDBASE="http://bryandeluca.com/cacko/feed/"
# Remove old Packages file
rm Packages

wget $FEEDBASE/Packages
for pkg in `grep ^Filename: Packages| awk '{print $2}'`; do
  if [ ! -e $pkg ]; then
    wget $FEEDBASE/$pkg
  fi
done

Enjoy!

I try not to do this, but I have been guilty of it in the past  

As for your script, it works very nice. Thanks!


John

[tovarish]

on the first days of the cacko release i had installed microsoft true type fonts (verdana, georgia etc..). they arent there now . were they removed for copyright reasons.

If so cvould you share how the conversion was done so that i could privately make the fonts myself from ttfs

thanks
tovarish

[jerrybme]

Wow, imagine if everyone copied the entire package feed every day to their hard drive. 

Thanks for the script. I promise not to do it more than once a week. But as I've been going back & forth between pdaXrom & Cacko it's very handy to have a copy of the feeds locally.

Of course, now that you've published the script you may have enabled the very thing I assume you're trying to avoid -> extreme bandwidth usage

Cheers,
Jerry

[stupkid]

on the first days of the cacko release i had installed microsoft true type fonts (verdana, georgia etc..). they arent there now . were they removed for copyright reasons.

If so cvould you share how the conversion was done so that i could privately make the fonts myself from ttfs

thanks
tovarish

I grabbed those fonts from this guys site:

http://only.mawhrin.net/~geometer/zaurus/

Apparently the MS license for the "Web fonts" states that they can be freely distributed unmodified.  So, they had to go.  Sorry.  You could ask him how he did it.