December 2008 - Arch-announce - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-announce] Pacman update and mirrorlist
by Recent News Updates 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

With the update to pacman-3.2.1-2, we have split the mirrorlist into the pacman-mirrorlist package. This will allow us to push more frequent updates to the mirrorlist, instead of only updating it with pacman releases. As part of this update, your current /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file will be saved as mirrorlist.pacorig and the default mirrorlist put in its place. Remember to merge these files in order to keep using your mirror(s) of choice. URL: http://archlinux.org/news/427/

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[arch-announce] Pacman update and mirrorlist
by Recent News Updates 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

With the update to pacman-3.2.1-2, we have split the mirrorlist into the pacman-mirrorlist package. This will allow us to push more frequent updates to the mirrorlist, instead of only updating it with pacman releases. As part of this update, your current /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file will be saved as mirrorlist.pacorig and the default mirrorlist put in its place. Remember to merge these files in order to keep using your mirror(s) of choice. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/427/

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[arch-announce] Arch Schwag Storefront
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

Most of you are probably aware of the <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/archlinux*">Arch Schwag Shop</a> for custom merchandise hosted by Zazzle. Many of you also know of my attempts to supplement this with other custom merchandise including case badges, USB keys, and jewellery. Now I would like to officially announce a new <a href="http://schwag.archlinux.ca/">storefront</a> for these Arch products making it easier for you to purchase these items and for Simo and I to process the orders. All profits go to supporting Arch Linux development. Thank you for your support! URL: http://archlinux.org:80/news/417/

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[arch-announce] JRE and JDK Moved to Community
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

As some of you may have noticed, the sun Java Runtime Environment and the Java Development Kit have spent too much time waiting in the extra repository waiting for some love. However, no developer was excited to maintain these packages. Since we already have the OPENJDK6 package, an open source implementation of the JRE and JDK, we have decided to move the JRE and JDK packages to community, where Geoffroy Carrier will be taking good care of them. He has already updated the packages and fixed their pending bugs. Thanks Geoffroy for your good deed. No package in the official Arch Linux repositories depends on these packages, as they have already been recompiled against OPENJDK6. However, I want to thank the community for its understanding, and we're sorry for any inconvenience. Why move them, other than the reason given above? Well, we wanted to favor the open source implementation against the closed source implementation. No, really, why did you move them? Because Aaron Griffin said so. :-D (just joking) URL: http://archlinux.org:80/news/418/

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[arch-announce] pkgstats: contribution was never that easy
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

Annoying bug you filed not fixed? Waiting on a package to be updated? If only there was some way you could help out and improve everybody's favourite Linux distribution... (in case you are wondering, I mean Arch). Wait! There is! Just install the pkgstats package (pacman -Sy pkgstats), run the /usr/bin/pkgstats script as a user and help the Arch developers prioritize their efforts. Come on, all the cool kids are doing it. You can be like them! For more information read our forum at http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=445710 URL: http://archlinux.org:80/news/419/

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[arch-announce] Newsletter for November, 2008
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to announce the <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2008-nov.html">Newsletter for November 2008</a>. To discuss this newsletter, <a href="http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=58704">click here</a>. To read past issues of the Arch Linux Newsletter, <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/">here they are</a>. URL: http://archlinux.org:80/news/420/

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[arch-announce] ZSH Force Upgrade
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

To ZSH Users: The 4.3.9 zsh upgrade must be forced, as the package now properly handles the unzipped man pages. Before they were unzipped in the .install file, meaning the files weren't tracked in the pacman db, now they are never zipped with the '!zipman' options flag. Thanks to Xavier/shining for being a patient, bug and patch submitting awesome dude. Sorry for the inconvenience. (Remember to only -Sf zsh , not -Syfu. Unless you want that.) URL: http://archlinux.org:80/news/421/

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[arch-announce] Planned Downtime
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

The main archlinux.org server will be going down for a planned hardware upgrade for some of tomorrow (Nov 20th). We are adding RAM, disk space, and switching to x86_64. Thanks to everyone who has donated, you're the ones making this happen. See you all in about a day. URL: http://archlinux.org:80/news/422/

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[arch-announce] We're back
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

We're back from our world domination planning. Our server is up and we will slowly be turning on services as we get them configured and ready for public consumption. If you notice something not working. please hold off for a day before reporting it as we may still be trying to get it up. Thanks for your patience! URL: http://archlinux.org:80/news/423/

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[arch-announce] X.Org 7.4 moves to extra
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

X.Org 7.4 has been moved to extra. After sitting in testing for quite some months, it's time to move this package. This version fixes quite some issues present in the old version we had in extra. This version contains some important changes: - Input hotplugging is enabled by default now. See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging for more information. - nvidia-71xx is no longer supported and has been removed from the repositories. Affected users should install xf86-video-nv or xf86-video-vesa, complaints can be sent to nvidia for not providing compatible drivers. URL: http://archlinux.org:80/news/424/

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