October 2009 - Arch-announce - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-announce] TeXLive update issue
by Recent News Updates: François Charette 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

François Charette wrote: Some symlinks were moved from texlive-bin to texlive-htmlxml, -langgreek, -langextra, -pictures, -pstricks, and -science, where they actually belong (see FS#16037). One of them was unfortunately omitted, due to a typo in the PKGBUILD, so there is a conflicting file in texlive-bin and texlive-langgreek. The solution is to force overwriting /usr/bin/mkgrkindex. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/463/

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[arch-announce] PHP 5.3 enters [extra]
by Recent News Updates: Pierre Schmitz 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Pierre Schmitz wrote: The new major PHP 5.3 release is finally available in the [extra] repository. This update will require manual adjustments: * update your php.ini; see php.ini.pacnew as reference * module path is now /usr/lib/php/modules * session, mbstring and zlib are now built in * the fileinfo module is now built in and no longer a separate package * mysqlnd is anabled; so libmysqlclient is no longer needed * Setting default-character-set in my.cnf may cause encoding problems * Set date.timezone in php.ini * third party extensions need to be updated * There are also new versions of the suhosin and apc extension make sure to review their configuration as well PHP was split into the following packages: * php * php- apache * php-cgi * php-curl * php-enchant * php-gd * php-gmp * php-intl * php- ldap * php-mcrypt * php-odbc * php-pear * php-pgsql * php-pspell * php-snmp * php-sqlite * php-tidy * php-xsl If you are using php on a webserver you either need the cgi or apache sapi. The sqlite package includes the sqlite3 drivers; the legacy sqlite2 drive is included in the php package itself. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/465/

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[arch-announce] Bug Squashing Day: This Sat 10/3 1pm EDT
by Recent News Updates: Paul Mattal 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Paul Mattal wrote: All, Andrea and I are organizing a bug squashing day this Saturday 10/3, starting at 1pm EDT and going until we run out of steam (or bugs). Join us if you can! We'll be around in the #archlinux-bugs IRC forum. If you can't make this one, there'll always be another. We're hoping to get onto a monthly schedule. Squashing bugs is one of the highest-impact and lowest-commitment ways you can help improve Arch. Software that works builds momentum. Everyone can contribute-- finding the issue, talking through the possible solutions, and creating the patch are all critical parts of the process. We hope to see you all on Saturday! Paul and Andrea URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/466/

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[arch-announce] vi,vim, gvim move to core and extra
by Recent News Updates: Tobias Kieslich 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Tobias Kieslich wrote: I repost that, because now it will affect all users. In order to get the new vim layout installed you will have to remove some symlinks from the system: Finally, the new vi* packages are up. There will be a little migration pain. For optimal results, I recommend to "sudo rm /usr/bin/{view,rview}" before you run "sudo pacman -Syu" URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/464/

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[arch-announce] Udev Minimum Kernel Version
by Recent News Updates: Aaron Griffin 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Aaron Griffin wrote: The release of udev 145-1 requires a minimum kernel version of 2.6.24.5 (due to the signalfd function) to work. It is highly recommended that you are running the latest kernel, but if that is not an option, it is suggested to put udev in a IgnorePkg line until your kernel can be upgraded. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/457/

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