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

[arch-dev-public] wireless modules up for grabs
by James 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

I've got a pile of different wireless modules, and they're probably better maintained by someone who has the hardware, or is keeping better track of the kernel scene then I am now. I'll keep maintaining them, but if anyone wants them or thinks they can do a better job, lemme know, and I'll orphan them for you. * ipw3945 - only needs to be maintained until iwl3945 is stable (not yet). * madwifi - as it's never going to be merged, yet it's common hardware, maybe move this to [current]? * at76c503a-cvs * tiacx - there's kernel patches in -mm, these are probably better as the external module is infrequently updated. * rt2500 - had hardware for this, but it's bust now. * rt2x00-* - will be in 2.6.22 from wireless-git? Cheers, James -- iphitus // Arch Developer // iphitus.loudas.com

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[arch-dev-public] New toolchain stuff in testing
by Jan de Groot 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Hi all, Andy and I uploaded a new toolchain to testing. This includes a new binutils, a new gcc and a new glibc. On AMD64, the old stable 2.17 binutils doesn't function correctly in all cases with gcc 4.2 and glibc 2.6 (I was waiting for a binutils 2.18 release, but it's not coming within the next month I'm afraid). One big new feature in the new binutils is the support for GNU hashing, which is, according to Redhat, 50% faster in symbol lookups when doing dynamic linking. The GNU hashing is incompatible with the older hashing. There's a way inbetween: supporting both hash styles. The gcc in testing enforces both hash styles in the resulting linked binary. This means the size increases (I've seen libstdc++.so.6 and libc.so.6 getting increased by 10-20KB on a 1-2MB sized binary), but we maintain compatibility with other distributions and with our current "old style" glibc whenever something gets built with this toolchain. this is also the road taken by Debian. As long as binutils 2.17.50.xx isn't a so called stable release, we will keep this duplicate hashing style around, we have to decide what to do after the 2.18 release of binutils. (gcc-fortran will follow later tomorrow btw). Have fun testing this new toolchain, please report any bugs you find in flyspray.

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[arch-dev-public] rc-kernels for x86_64
by Thomas Bächler 04 Jul '07

04 Jul '07

Hi, I built 2.6.22-rc5 and modules for x86_64. I used the same PKGBUILDs that tpowa used and built all modules that he has in his repos (except the ones that are not available in arch64 repos, like fcpci and ltmodem those won't build anyway). Because of some header changes in 2.6.22, fglrx is also missing, it doesn't build on x86_64 right now. If anyone is interested, please send me a fix. Get the packages here: [kernel] Server = http://www.archlinux.org/~thomas/rc-kernel-x86_64 This repository also contains iwlwifi packages for intel 3945 and 4965 wireless. It is quite unstable as far as I can tell, but it is the only driver for the 4965 (for the 3945, you should use the ipw3945 package for now). @tpowa: If you want to add iwlwifi to yours too, here are the PKGBUILDs: http://www.archlinux.org/~thomas/iwlwifi/

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[arch-dev-public] Inactivity
by Varun Acharya 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

I need to write my SOP and get my papers organized, so I won't be active for the next 3 or 4 days. Varun

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[arch-dev-public] Archlinux on Froscon conference?
by Jan de Groot 30 Jun '07

30 Jun '07

Hi all, Yesterday we got a leaflet from Froscon for their conference in end August ( http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/129392/ (their own website is down ATM)) We could opt for a developer room during that conference to hack on archlinux. There's more projects over there, so it's also a chance to meet upstream development hackers to solve things we can't solve, or to have a talk to them about your favourite program they're hacking on. The conference takes place on saturday and sunday 25/26 august 2007. If we would make a reservation for a developer/hacker room, at least Me, Andy and Alexander will go. I would like to know who else would be able to get to Bonn that weekend to see if it's useful to have a reservation.

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[arch-dev-public] Fw: Linux+ DVD magazine/ offer of cooperation
by Judd Vinet 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

Does anyone want to do this? I don't think I have the time or the best knowledge of Arch current events to write it. - Judd Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:21:58 +0200 From: Karolina Rybak <karolina.rybak(a)software.com.pl> To: jvinet(a)zeroflux.org Subject: Linux+ DVD magazine/ offer of cooperation Hello, I'm Karolina and I'm the product manager for Linux+ DVD magazine. I'm preparing the upcoming issue of Linux+, that will be in sale in October. Would you like to contribute to the news section for this issue? I would be greatful if you could write about 2300 characters+one screenshot for this section about what is new in Arch Linux. Please let me know whether you would like to contribute and give the latest news on release or upcoming projects (for October). I look forward your reply best regards Karolina Rybak -- Linux+ DVD Karolina Rybak Product Manager /////////////////////////////////////////////// Software Media LLC 1461 A First Avenue, # 360 New York, NY 10021-2209 USA phone number: 1-917-338 - 3631/ +48 22 427 35 34 fax: +48 22 887 10 11 www.lpmagazine.org/en http://www.buyitpress.com/en/

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[arch-dev-public] 2.6.22-rc4-git3 please test!
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Hi just to inform all developers, the new kernel can be downloaded from this adress: http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/rc-kernel/ or as repo [kernel] http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/rc-kernel/ All developers that have modules and hardware are invited to test the already provided ones. Broken: wlan-ng26 tomkx please try to find a fix ;) I need your feedback on this task, to avoid broken modules in the future. Known to work: fcpci,fcpcmcia,intel-536ep, nvidia-9x and nvidia-71x thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] nfs-utils 1.1.0
by Tom K 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

This has been around for a few weeks, and is described as a "fairly significant new release". So standard practice would be to put it in testing, wait for bug reports, fix them , move to current - right? Except for one thing - who runs testing on a NFS server? I know I don't. I've built it (against current) and installed it here, and all's fine so far, but mine is a very straightforward setup. Would I just put out a call for testers, who can then pacman -U it from somewhere? Or are there better ways to handle this? T.

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[arch-dev-public] Package database consistency check
by Thomas Bächler 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

I rewrote my package database consistency check script. It now reads all data directly from the db.tar.gz files (it doesn't read the filename attribute name yet, and still assumes pkgname-pkgver-pkgrel.pkg.tar.gz). It checks whether all packages in the db are present and have correct md5sums. The script is now in arch/scripts/check-package-db-consistency.sh in CVS. Here is the result: Checking current i686 ... Checking current x86_64 ... Checking extra i686 ... Package "/home/ftp/extra/os/i686/ion-3rc_20070506-1.pkg.tar.gz" missing. Package "/home/ftp/extra/os/i686/tmda-1.1.11-1.pkg.tar.gz" missing. Checking extra x86_64 ... Checking unstable i686 ... Checking unstable x86_64 ... Checking community i686 ... Checking community x86_64 ... Checking testing i686 ... Checking testing x86_64 ... Package "/home/ftp/testing/os/x86_64/xf86-video-unichrome-0.2.6-4.1.pkg.tar.gz" has wrong md5sum (file: "23d1a54367e3340dc7d89cfb48230a6b", database: "04d77dff29205c19c89245deb3a7fb6a")

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[arch-dev-public] Fw: Archlinux Mirror
by Judd Vinet 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

We have a new mirror for use. Scott says he has plenty of bandwidth, so North American Archers can use it. - J Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:02:39 -0600 From: Scott <scott(a)unixheads.com> To: Judd Vinet <jvinet(a)zeroflux.org> Subject: Re: Archlinux Mirror Judd- The primary node is pulling from your server now. Either the mirror I pulled from was out of date, or something strange happened. It seems to be pulling a lot of packages all over again. So I would not consider my mirror fully up to date yet, perhaps in 6-12 hours. I am currently only getting 100k or so from your master server, so if it ends up getting everything again I suppose it could take a few days. It took 8-9 hours or so at 7 times the speed, so if it does it all over again it could be about 70 hours :-) Once the primary node is done, I will sync my backup node up with it before hitting yours with the backup node. But the URLS are: http://mirrors.unixheads.org/archlinux ftp://mirrors.unixheads.org/archlinux rsync://mirrors.unixheads.org/archlinux Scott..

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