November 2007 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] fcpci needs a C and/or gcc specialist to get it going again
by Tobias Powalowski 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8511 i did the whole research on that issue now i need someone who knows C or gcc to get it working without reverting the patch i mentioned in the bugreport. thanks for your help guys roman wanted to look at it. packages to fix are fcpci and fcpcmcia, they share a lot of code. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] Moving mozilla packages to /usr
by Alexander Baldeck 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

Hey all, I just begun rebuilding mozilla packages to reside below /usr instead of /opt/mozilla. You can find them here: [mozilla] Server = http://archlinux.org/~alexander/mozilla I'm also in the middle of finding packages that need to be rebuilt against xulrunner etc. Please send me lists of packages we need to rebuild to get a proper howto up. :) Cheers, -X

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[arch-dev-public] [draft] an announcement of Community Packages project on Flyspray
by Roman Kyrylych 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

Hi! English is not my native language and we don't want our news items to look unprofessional, so here's a draft. Bugtracker is open for Community packages Due to a high demand we created a separate project on our bugtracker named "Community Packages" [1]. All bug reports and feature requests for Community packages should now be reported there. Please do not report them to "Arch Linux" or "Arch User Repository (AUR)" projects - use the Switch button at the top left corner of Flyspray's page to choose a correct project. Also do not report bugs for packages which are in Unsupported, put a comment on a package's page on AUR instead. [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=5 P.S.: I'm not a skilled news writer so don't beat me too much. :-P Any suggestions are welcome. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] The Arch-ization of packages
by Roman Kyrylych 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

Hi! This is the latest report on the topic I like to discuss: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8384\ Other similar reports can be found on flyspray (I gave few links in comments to that report already) and forums. I honestly don't care much of having custom Arch-style splash screens, wallpapers, themes, OS identification in browsers etc. in our packages. I just want it to be *consistent*. There are few possibilities: 1) do not add customize packages to wear Arch name on them (as in Gnome packages now) 2) provide splashs/wallpapers/themes/etc. in packages but do not enable them by default (as in Xfce packages now) 3) provide splashs/wallpapers/themes/etc. in packages and hardcode or enable them by default (as in KDE packages and OOo now). Note that we already force arch-menus installed on every of those DEs. Also should decide if we want to patch Firefox, Seamonkey, Epiphany, Konqueror, Dillo (is it possible to patch Opera's default config files too?). Thoughts? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] X.org 7.3 move to extra [was: cleanup testing {i686, x86_86}]
by Alexander Baldeck 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

Hey all, I also would like to move X.org 7.3 from [testing] and put it into our stable repos asap. I don't see any fixable issues at the moment, upstream changes are coming in only very slowly and I would say, we can add them to packages in [extra] just as well. Do you see any really show stoppers still? The latest fglrx works alright afaik. Thoughts? Cheers, -O

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[arch-dev-public] netcfg2 in [testing]
by James Rayner 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Just a heads up that I've put netcfg2 into [testing]... They work for me and others, and have proven to be solid for the last few months without many bugs -- they're well overdue for wider testing. Also... I'd like to move it into svn on projects.archlinux.org as there's no scm currently, who do I speak to about that? I'll post announcements tomorrow morning when I wake if nobody has any complaints. They'll follow as below. Cheers! James ---- netcfg2 is now in [testing]. netcfg2 aims to be a refined network profile system for Arch Linux, replacing the current implementation. Through this, it has also gained various features and improvements which are listed on the development wiki page (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Scripts) Before it can replace the current profiles, netcfg2 needs testers of various wireless hardware and configuration to try the scripts and report back on the wiki page testing section (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Scripts#Testing) Bugs can be filed at the bug tracker. Documentation for netcfg2 is located in the netcfg manpage, detailed examples in /etc/network.d/examples, and the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles

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[arch-dev-public] /opt vs. /usr
by Varun Acharya 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

I remember there was a thread on the ML some time ago about packages still hanging about in /opt and not being moved to /usr. What's the final word on this? I ask because I want to move wicd into extra, and the source package contains binaries and a few scripts, defaulting to /opt. Shall I leave this as is, or move the /opt/wicd to /usr/lib/wicd ? Varun

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[arch-dev-public] In what repo eventlog should be readded?
by Eric Belanger 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Hi, >From Scott's email in the pacman-dev ML, I realized that the eventlog package, a makedepends for syslog-ng, has been moved to unsupported by mistake. So it should be readded to the repo. I wonder if it should be readded in extra or placed in core instead? Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[arch-dev-public] sudo in base-devel group?
by Jason Chu 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

If I use the mkarchroot and makechrootpkg scripts to build packages, I need to have sudo installed. Using the current mkarchroot options I have to specify "base base-devel sudo". I just need to know if we're planning on putting sudo into base-devel or if I should update the mkarchroot and makechrootpkg scripts to reflect this. Jason

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[arch-dev-public] km script missing with history in installer.git
by Tobias Powalowski 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Hi subject says it all please add the km script too to this repository, thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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