asimovc: we're not going out looking for bugs in all the software. usually it's the responsibility of the software upstream to make a new release to fix a bug, and we'll package that. otherwise, it takes someone like you to tell us there's a bug needing a patch, otherwise we won't notice
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midfavila: dilyn stopped BDFLing when dylan returned, and didn't then start again. so we've had a few lead maintainers since then
<phoebos>
what was the problem with curl?
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hi guys
<asimovc>
can someone help me to use xdg portal?
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<midfavila>
hrmmmmmmm
<midfavila>
might finally have a lead on making a real disk image now...
<midfavila>
crazy idea but
<midfavila>
to test things i might try to graft alpine onto the uconsole
<midfavila>
honestly, working on a KISS port to the uconsole feels like programming with athena for the first time all over again...
<midfavila>
not enough docs and what docs there are are scattered all over the place, out of date, and poorly written
<midfavila>
neat project to maybe bring up on a CV tho
* midfavila
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<midfavila>
man i have no idea why arch's PKGBUILD scripts are so insane
<midfavila>
or, at least, this one guy's for the r01 kernel is
<midfavila>
not like, insane because it's a complex job, just insane that it's written so verbosely. three layers of internal functions just to compose a command that boils down to make -jX CROSS_COMPILE=target ARCH=arch
<midfavila>
theres an entire function that does nothing but prepend its first arg to PATH. like
* midfavila
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<midfavila>
ngl tho if i can smash upstream and this guy's notes together and get a process that works, i might be able to refine this into a reliable way to create community images for the r01...
<midfavila>
as is, there's only the factory image, which is an ancient ubuntu 21.04
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<midfavila>
okay there, i think i have the kernel done...
<midfavila>
fwah
<midfavila>
i'm giving up for now
<midfavila>
i don't have enough experience and the state of the software and docs is too chaotic for me to figure out right now
<midfavila>
maybe once it runs a mainline kernel and uboot
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<midfavila>
it's frustrating that people only put effort into the cm4 module
<midfavila>
like yeah i get it being able to carry a cm4 in your pocket is awesome
<midfavila>
but how many debians do you need to port to it before you say 'Maybe it's time to do something else'?
<midfavila>
the worst part is that so many people i've seen with a uconsole fall into either the bing-bing-wahoo tech consoomer camp, or the what's-the-usecase camp. like just go away >:C
<midfavila>
WAIT I JUST GOT SOMETHING
<midfavila>
it didn't *finish* the boot process - i don't *THINK*
<midfavila>
but it *started* and finishing initialising the display and keyboard-