March 2010 - Arch-announce - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-announce] Cups update requires user interaction
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Andreas Radke wrote: The cups-1.4.2-4 update is shipped with additional configuration files compared to earlier versions. These files may already exist on your system. If pacman shows you conflicting files, backup the affected files, then use "pacman -Sf cups" and check if you need to restore your old configuration files. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/491/

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[arch-announce] Switching to xz compression for new packages
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Pierre Schmitz 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Pierre Schmitz wrote: About a month ago we updated our tools to support packages that are compressed with the xz format, also known as LZMA2. Compared to gzip this will decrease package size significantly; about 30% smaller or even more depending on the data. If you want to compress your packages with the new format change the "PKGEXT" variable in the makepkg.conf of your build environment to '.pkg.tar.xz'. Our tools like dbscripts, devtools, namcap and of course pacman are able to process these packages. If you use any custom scripts which match "*.pkg.tar.gz" files, make sure to change the pattern to "*.pkg.tar.*". To allow a smooth update for older installations, for the time being the packages pacman, pacman-mirrorlist, libarchive, libfetch and xz-utils are kept with gz compression. (This is achieved by adding "PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.gz'" to their PKGBUILDs) At this time, all Developers and Trusted Users are strongly encouraged to switch to xz format. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/490/

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[arch-announce] Arch Linux Magazine, March 2010
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Daniel Griffiths 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Daniel Griffiths wrote: Come take a walk down memory lane... * [Get it!][1] [1]: http://www.archlinux.org/static/magazine URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/489/

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[arch-announce] Bug Day: Saturday, March 6
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Paul Mattal 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Paul Mattal wrote: Since Saturday worked so well last time, we're doing it again. Thanks to all who helped last month, and in advance to those who will join us this month; it feels like we're starting to clean out some of the backlog. You can find us in the #archlinux-bugs IRC forum in the afternoon and evening EST. Come help out however you can! URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/488/

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[arch-announce] KDE SC 4.4.0 released
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Pierre Schmitz 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Pierre Schmitz wrote: KDE announced the availability of its Software Compilation 4.4, "Caikaku". You will find all upstream changes and new features on their website: http://kde.org/announcements/4.4/. As usual we provide the latest packages for Arch. Unfortunately this update will need some user intervention due to a pacman limitation. Therefore you have to update in two steps: % pacman -Sy --asdeps qt % pacman -Su Be aware of the following problems that might occur: * The usage of bitmap fonts like terminus will be broken when using the proprietary nvidia driver. * If you update from virtuoso 5 as nepomuk backend as it was provided in the kde-unstable or testing repository you will have to convert your database (http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=119661) or simply remove ~/.kde4/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend. The latter is of course only recommend if you had not used nepumuk's tagging and comment features. * In case of any error, try using a new user account or (re)moving KDE's configuration which can be found at ~/.kde4 /tmp/kde-* /var/tmp/kdecache-*. Akonadi saves its data at ~/.config/akonadi and ~/.local/share/akonadi * If you have problems updating kde-meta-kdepim, run "pacman -S --asdeps kdepim-runtime" URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/483/

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[arch-announce] xf86-video-intel only supports KMS now
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Jan de Groot 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Jan de Groot wrote: With the move of xf86-video-intel 2.10.0 to extra, support for UMS has been removed from the intel driver. This means that KMS is a requirement now. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/484/

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[arch-announce] Arch Linux Magazine, February 2010
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Daniel Griffiths 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Daniel Griffiths wrote: Down And Dirty: * [Get it!][1] * [Discuss it!][2] Enjoy! [1]: http://www.archlinux.org/static/magazine [2]: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=706396 URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/485/

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[arch-announce] mkinitcpio 0.6 uses busybox instead of klibc
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Thomas Bächler 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Thomas Bächler wrote: The new mkinitcpio 0.6 brings lots of changes, most importantly the removal of klibc in favor of glibc and busybox. This update should be flawless and completely invisible to the end user, but if you are paranoid you can still backup your old initramfs image and regenerate it directly after the update to be sure. If you use a root filesystem on NFS, you need to install the new package mkinitcpio-nfs-utils. If you are interested, you can find more details about the changes on [my blog][1]. [1]: http://archlinux.me/brain0/2010/02/13/early-userspace-in-arch-linux/ URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/486/

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[arch-announce] netcfg v2.5.2 - note: change in auto wireless config
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: James Rayner 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

James Rayner wrote: This release brings a completely new auto wireless/wired configuration. The old net-auto is deprecated and no longer included. There are also some very minor configuration changes that may affect a few people. Move to new auto- wireless/wired The new automatic connection has proper roaming support and will prove more reliable than the old setup - particularly with more complicated wireless configurations. To migrate to the new automatic wireless setup: 1. pacman -S core/wpa_actiond 2. Set WIRELESS_INTERFACE="" to your wireless interface in /etc/rc.conf. For example WIRELESS_INTERFACE="wlan0" 3. Add net- auto-wireless to your DAEMONS=() array. Note: wpa-config profiles do not work with this, convert them to wpa-configsection profiles. An example is included in /etc/network.d/examples/ The new auto-wired uses similar configuration - follow the above instructions except use the net-auto-wired daemon, and WIRED_INTERFACE configuration option. New features: - net-auto-wireless/wpa_actiond - Real wireless roaming/auto connection. Based on same principle as autowifi. Requires optional dependency: wpa_actiond - net-auto-wired - automatic ethernet configuration. Requires optional dependency: ifplugd - Interface configurations - set options for all profiles using an interface - Output hooks - Internal cleanup & improvement Internal changes: - Uses wpa_supplicant for all wireless configuration by default, including wep/none security. This adds improves support for most and should improve reliability. - Uses iproute by default for all static configuration. net_tools which contains ifconfig is effectively obsolete and hasnt seen a release for over 8 years. The 'ethernet-iproute' and 'ethernet' connection types have been merged together to simply 'ethernet'. All options are still supported and existing configurations will continue to work for both types. A symlink has been made to ensure that profiles using 'ethernet- iproute' will continue to function. Changes in configuration syntax - net-auto and AUTO_NETWORKS is now deprecated in favour of net-auto-wireless/net-auto- wired. - wireless: If you were previously specifying the wpa_supplicant driver in WPA_OPTS, you now need to specify it in WPA_DRIVER. - wireless: iwconfig based configuration for wep/none can be used by changing to wep-old or none-old. This should not be necessary and is left in place only for the possibility of very old drivers that do not support wpa_supplicant. - ethernet-iproute: As 'ethernet' is now iproute based, those using 'ethernet-iproute' can revert the name. There is a symlink in place, so existing configurations of either name will continue to function regardless. - wireless-dbus: Unsupported. The wpa_supplicant dbus interface isn't particularly well documented and it doesn't fit well into the netcfg codebase. There is a symlink in place so that configurations using wireless-dbus will continue to function using the 'wireless' connection scripts. Download: netcfg 2.5.2 is in [core]. Source: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/netcfg/netcfg-2.5.2.tar.gz PKGBUILD: In subversion Documentation: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles Contributors: I had a few big contributors to this release: Jim Pryor: Many internal changes and improvements Thomas Bächler: wpa_actiond based auto roaming/connection Thanks guys! Bugs: On the bug tracker as always. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/487/

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[arch-announce] Arch Linux Magazine, March 2010
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Daniel Griffiths 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Daniel Griffiths wrote: Come take a walk down memory lane... * [Get it!][1] [1]: http://www.archlinux.org/static/magazine URL: http://archlinux.org/news/489/

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