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[arch-announce] Bug Day: Saturday, May 1
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Paul Mattal 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Paul Mattal wrote: April Bug Day was a little slow; we're hoping to make up some ground this month. Come join us in the #archlinux-bugs IRC channel! URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/498/

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[arch-announce] Sad news from Chakra
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Allan McRae 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Allan McRae wrote: It is with great sadness that we must report a tremendous [loss to the the Linux community][1]. On the morning of the 23rd, Jan Mette (funkyou) passed away of as-yet unknown causes. Jan was a major contributor to the Arch Linux community, the creator of KDEmod and a founding member of the Chakra team. Our sincerest condolences go to his family, friends and the Chakra team. [1]: http://chakra-project.org/news/index.php?/archives/54-Sad-news-we-lost- one-of-our-own.html URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/497/

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[arch-announce] Junior Developer Mentor Scheme
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Allan McRae 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Allan McRae wrote: In order to help reduce the workload and expand the Arch Linux development team, we are considering bringing on some "Junior Developers". The new recruits would be mentored in the maintenance of a group of packages by a current developer, with the objective of eventually becoming a co-maintainer or the primary maintainer of those packages. Interested people should be prepared to read upstream mailing lists for the packages they are maintaining, investigate and (if necessary) follow-up with upstream any bug reports that are made on their packages. They should also have been using Arch Linux for a while and be familiar with the packaging system. To apply, send an email to Allan (@archlinux.org) detailing your experience with Arch, the packaging system and general ability to track down bugs in software. Importantly, provide what group of packages you are interested in and any evidence of following the upstream development of those packages. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/496/

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[arch-announce] Vim/GVim 7.2.411 Update
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Daniel Griffiths 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Daniel Griffiths wrote: Users of vim/gvim should take note! The recently released update of vim/gvim (7.2.411) introduces a few important changes. * We have moved vim/gvim to a single PKGBUILD following the splitpkg format. * If you have gvim installed, the update will inform you that vim conflicts with gvim. This is the expected behavior. Installation of vim and gvim separately is no longer required, the gvim package now installs vim as well. * Installation of either vim or gvim will pull in a new dependency, vim-runtime. The files included in vim-runtime were pre-existing in both the gvim and vim packages. This update allows a cleaner update path for future vim/gvim updates. Enjoy! URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/495/

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[arch-announce] Bug Day: Saturday, April 10
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Paul Mattal 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Paul Mattal wrote: We're at it again-- some of us all day, some of us all weekend. All contributions, large and small, are important. Join us in the #archlinux-bugs IRC forum! URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/494/

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[arch-announce] Arch Linux Magazine, April 2010
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Daniel Griffiths 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Daniel Griffiths wrote: The Joke's on You: * [Get it!][1] * [Discuss it!][2] Enjoy! [1]: http://www.archlinux.org/static/magazine [2]: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=735002 URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/493/

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[arch-announce] April Fools Challenge
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Allan McRae 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Allan McRae wrote: It is that time of year again, but this year we are being super subtle. In fact so subtle, many of you will not notice the good day at all. But there is definitely one there. Post your guesses in [this][1] dedicated forum thread. We have a donated netbook to give away as a prize for the first person who fully uncovers the joke. [1]: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94255 URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/492/

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[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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