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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/