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Are Alien Bob's servers down for anyone else? I tried running an update, and they timed out. (We do have network issues after rain, but no matter how many times we complain, they won't fix the flooding box up the street from us.)
What is going to happen when AlienBob dies or is called back to his home planet (thus causing his work to take x amount of light years to reach us)?
Luckily, all of his stuff is open source, and generally easy-to-run scripts. It would not be terribly difficult to get multilib up and running with his scripts without his packages (provided future multilib packages don't require much tweaking to the scripts to build -- the compat32 coverting is extremely simple with his script).
As long as someone has his scripts forked, the project can live on either individually by people building their own packages or some other kind-hearted soul who wants to contribute their time and money to the project.
For me, I don't have a need for multilib anymore since I've found conty. Steam works great in there while my system remains pure-64bit. I don't run any other 32bit programs.
The default URL in slackpkg+ was giving me grief so I switched to one of those. The defaut config in 15.0 should probably be patched to include the new mirrors since download speeds in west NA were absolutely horrifying.
If anyone is feeling clever, setting up a local compat32 is a fun project...
Trying to download compat32 packages from west NA was getting so bad that years ago I went ahead and started building the packages myself and hosted a local slackpkg+ repo. There's a 2-drive freenas box sitting in the corner of my apartment that downloads changes to slackware x86/64 every night. Every once and a while I run
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,134
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Sun Apr 10 18:58:38 UTC 2022
14.2/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
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Sat Apr 9 09:40:16 UTC 2022
15.0/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,134
Original Poster
Rep:
Alienbob has been kind enough to refresh his multilib packages.
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Sat May 28 19:13:09 UTC 2022
15.0/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
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