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

[arch-dev-public] repo reorg
by Paul Mattal 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

I support reorganizing, but like the fact that a single full CD can give me a pretty useful system if I'm a disconnected install. I also support using more repos rather than fewer, since with repoman the repos will become less of a hassle to manage. I support wide driver support, but don't think wireless drivers need to be installed on every box! So let me take a shot at a scheme: [core]: installed whenever Arch is installed draws from existing base category minimize size free/unencumbered only stringent review/discussion for changing [support]: drivers/utilities needed for installs included on core install cd [lite]: fits on cd with installer free/unencumbered as much function as we can pack into 1 cd stringent review/discussion for changing [full]: everything else this should continue to fit on 1 of some medium (now DVD) Nice aspects of this include that people who want a totally free system can rely on lite providing that, core can be really small, and people can have all the drivers they need at install time. - P

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-dev] newsletter?
by Jason Chu 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:41:20AM -0700, Jason Chu wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:17:24AM -0700, eliott wrote: > > Anything happening with the newsletter lately? > > Looks like there hasn't been one in a month or two.. > > Good point. I don't write it, I just write the devland section. The other > Jason writes it. I'll send him an email. > > Jason I heard back from Jason a little while ago. He hasn't had time during the summer to write the newsletter. He said he probably will have enough time at the beginning of August. I'm sending this to the public list too. If anyone reading this wants to help with the newsletter (writing all the sections except Devland), send me an email. Let's see if we can find more support so that one person can take some time off! Jason

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[arch-dev-public] Absence
by Roman Kyrylych 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

Hi! As you all know I wasn't very active recently due to technical issues. Now it's time for personal issues.... I'll be totally absent starting from today and up to approximately 10th of July. I may have access to Internet on 7th and/or 8th, so I'll try to watch for bugtracker then, and if devmeeting will be on 8th - will try to attend to it (small chance though). Bye. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] Kernel 2.6.22 in testing
by Thomas Bächler 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

This is a copy of my mail to the [arch] mailing list: Good morning, just a few minutes ago, the 2.6.22 kernel has been submitted to the testing repository. Please test it and report any bugs that might occur, so we hopefully can move it to current within a week. This kernel will also be the basis of the "Archlinux 2007.07 Don't panic" snapshot. For any changes in 2.6.22, see this site: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_22 I'd like to emphasize two changes: We re-added the rt2x00 drivers which (thanks to the mac80211 stack being merged in 2.6.22) now compile again and seem to work for me (rt2500pci). The mac80211 stack also allows us to ship the iwlwifi driver for intel 3945 and 4965 users. The driver for the 3945 is not as stable as ipw3945 yet, so people should not switch to it yet. However, it is the only driver for the 4965 wireless chipset. Both i686 and x86_64 now include the option for Intel Microcode updates which has been requested several times. I am going to add microcode_ctl to the repos, until then it is available from the AUR. Happy testing and good night Thomas

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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] Moving eclipse-ecj from testing to extra
by Jan de Groot 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

Hi all devs, Last night I committed a new gcj package to extra, but forgot to move the eclipse-ecj package from testing to extra. Could someone do this one, as I'm at my job currently and have no time to move it now. Thanks.

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [tur-users] tightvnc-1.3.9-1 prob
by Paul Mattal 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

Jason R Begley wrote: > There is a problem with tightvnc-1.3.9-1 with the font path and path to > x11, rgb. Here is output of problems: I apparently bolloxed this one up by uploading a stale package file from my development. There's a tightvnc-1.3.9-2 up now which should be better. - P

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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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