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[arch-announce] AUR Cleanup
by Recent News Updates 05 May '08

05 May '08

>From the TUs: The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Examples of packages that may be cleaned up are: - packages that have been renamed or replaced - old and unmaintained developmental (cvs/svn/etc) packages This is where you can help. Post suggestions of packages in the AUR Cleanup wiki page (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day) TUs will get together and go though the list in a couple of weeks and confirm which packages should be removed. Please do not remove suggestions from the wiki page but add a comment on why it should be kept instead. TUs will take great care not to delete any useful package. URL: http://archlinux.org/news/393/

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[arch-announce] Newsletter for May 5, 2008
by Recent News Updates 05 May '08

05 May '08

Current: [http://archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2008-May-05.html][1] Archive: [http://archlinux.org/static/newsletters/][2] [1]: http://archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2008-May-05.html [2]: http://archlinux.org/static/newsletters/ URL: http://archlinux.org/news/392/

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[arch-announce] gpm 1.20.3-1 in Core
by Recent News Updates 01 May '08

01 May '08

When attempting to update to gpm 1.20.3-1, you will most likely get the following error message: error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. This error arises because the /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 symlink became disassociated from the package (FS#9949). This is fixed in gpm 1.20.3-1 but its upgrade needs to be forced: # pacman -Syf gpm # pacman -Syu URL: http://archlinux.org/news/391/

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[arch-announce] ABS 2.0 In Core
by Recent News Updates 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

With version 2, ABS has moved to an rsync method for pulling the ABS tree, as part of the changes that needed to be made for our internal move from CVS to SVN as our source control mechanism. This means a few things: 1) cvsup/csup are no longer required, rsync is used instead 2) Configuration moved from /etc/abs/abs.conf to /etc/abs.conf - /etc/abs/* are no longer required Also, since category information (ie. base, devel, editors) is no longer stored in the repo, makeworld has been updated - check makeworld -h for more info. URL: http://archlinux.org/news/390/

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[arch-announce] Archlinux 2008.04-RC
by Recent News Updates 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

A new batch of install images is currently syncing to mirrors. FTP images have been made available tonight, while CORE images will be pushed tomorrow night in order to distribute the load. This marks the first release (well ok... release candidate) based on a true live Arch system. That is, what's on the images is just a plain old base installation which just happens to boot off of a CD or USB stick. Whoah... did you just say USB stick? Why yes I did! That's right, from here on out we'll be offering bootable USB disk images that can act as a live system or installer. The installer script itself is roughly the same as it's always been. The most noticable change is the use of UUIDs instead of sdX/hdX entries by default. A more detailed changelog should be visible on [projects.archlinux.org][1] soon-ish. If you get the chance, please give the images a spin. You can find them on our [mirrors][2], in the iso directory. Please file [bugs][3] if you encounter any problems. By the way, the "RC" status of these images should not be a turn-off if you're looking to install Arch, there's a very good chance they'll work just fine for you. [1]: http://projects.archlinux.org/git/ [2]: https://dev.archlinux.org/download/ [3]: http://bugs.archlinux.org URL: http://archlinux.org/news/389/

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[arch-announce] Newsletter for April 3, 2008
by Recent News Updates 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Current: [http://archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2008-Apr-03.html][1] Archive: [http://archlinux.org/static/newsletters/][2] [1]: http://archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2008-Apr-03.html [2]: http://archlinux.org/static/newsletters/ URL: http://archlinux.org/news/388/

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[arch-announce] netcfg v2 has replaced netcfg from initscripts
by Recent News Updates 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

netcfg v2 is a complete rewrite of the netcfg that was previously included within 'initscripts'. netcfg v2 has been moved into a different package 'netcfg'. netcfg v2 is feature compatible, but not configuration compatible. Configurations need to be rewritten for netcfg v2, and examples are included in /etc/network.d/examples. For more information on transitioning to netcfg v2, please check the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles URL: http://archlinux.org/news/387/

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[arch-announce] Perl 5.10.0 moved to core
by Recent News Updates 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

The latest release of perl 5.10.0 has been moved to core. This package is built following the Perl Policy document found on the wiki. Pay attention to the upgrade notes because some things have changed and may require some action. URL: http://archlinux.org/news/386/

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[arch-announce] Kernel 2.6.24.1 in Core
by Roman Kyrylych 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

After a testing phase kernel 2.6.24.1 has been moved to Core where it replaces version 2.6.23.14. Some of the most visible changes for users include: * more mac80211-based wireless drivers added * tickless support for x86_64 * uvesafb; support for ATI Xpress 200M and Mac framebuffers * ACPI usage in libata * SATA port multipliers support * NCQ support on MCP51/MCP55/MCP61 chipsets (add 'swncq=1' to the kernel boot commandline) * SDIO support * ability to use any kernel version to resume a hibernated system * read-only --bind mounts * tons of bugfixes and improvements A detailed human-readable changelog is available at KernelNewbies Wiki: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_24 Attention! The kernel26-2.6.24.1-2 package includes an important security fix (local user privilege escalation). Everyone is encouraged to upgrade, especially on a system with ssh accounts. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-announce] [draft] QT-4 and QT3 moved to [extra]
by Pierre Schmitz 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

As announced last year* and after a longer period of testing, QT versions 3 and 4 have now been moved to [extra]. At least until the final release of KDE4 there are plenty of packages which still use version 3 of QT. Therefore a new package called qt3 was introduced. The dependencies of all packages are updated according to this change. The update should be quite smooth. Pacman only notifies about replacing qt by qt3 and qt4 by qt. If you don't want to have QT version 4 installed just remove it with "pacman -Rc qt" after the update. If you are using any third party repositories like KDEmod please wait until they have updated their packages, too. Do not force any updates! If there are still any issues, please report them at http://bugs.archlinux.org. Community packages may not be updated with the new versioning scheme of QT, so give your TUs some time to make the required changes. *) http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-November/002910.html -- http://www.archlinux.de

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