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

[arch-dev-public] base group
by Roman Kyrylych 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hi! IIRC this was mentioned some time ago, but I don't remember why it was not implemented. Why don't we have the "base" package group? IMO it would be nice if user would be able to do pacman -S base to get all base packages installed (e.g. in chroot or when installing from another distro). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] License cleanup
by Travis Willard 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

Hey guys, You may have noticed I added license information to a handful (~27ish) packages in [extra] - this email is just to keep you informed as to what I'm doing. Right now, I'm just adding license fields where I can. For many of them, I'm simply searching Gentoo's package search and adding the licenses that come up there. If the package in question isn't in Gentoo's tree, I've been looking at the website and downloading sources. For custom licenses, I'm even adding the command at the end of the build() function to install the license to the proper directory. What I'm NOT doing: . Rebuilding any of these packages - I doubt users would appreciate needing to redownload their whole systems to get updated license information only. . Updating any of these packages to newest version - I've already come across a couple that are definitively out of date, one whose sources I couldn't even download to add the proper license-installation instruction into the build() method. I'm not updating these - the point of what I'm doing is to add licenses, not make our entire repo uptodate. Maybe that'll come later. ;) In any case, I think I'm done for tonight; I'm feeling pretty tired. If anyone wants to join me in this crusade, check out my thread entitled "Useful Scripts", grab the script that checks for bad licenses, and give it a run in your cvs dir for extra or unstable or community (making sure to run cvs update first!) - that'll give you a niiiice long list of packages that need tending to. -- Travis

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[arch-dev-public] make nvram world-readable?
by Damir Perisa 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

i'd like to change the nvram device permissions rule in udev.rules we provide. at the moment the line in /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules is the following: KERNEL=="nvram", NAME="misc/%k", SYMLINK+="%k" what leads to [damir@Apollon dev]$ ls -la /dev/misc/nvram crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 144 2007-08-17 18:40 /dev/misc/nvram being not accessible otherwise than root. and i want to change it to KERNEL=="nvram", NAME="misc/%k", SYMLINK+="%k" MODE="0666" so that any app or user can read nvram. this is needed by some tools for some hardware (e.g. thinkpads and buttons). alternatively i would allow only group to read it and have a group called nvram. what do you think? i know that everybody having a thinkpad is changing permissions to nvram device on arch boxes the one or other way... lets settle this the right way at the root ;) thanx + have a nice weekend, Damir (from the new laptop - almost running as i want it *smile*)

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[arch-dev-public] new pam 0.99.x in testing
by Tobias Powalowski 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

Hi please try new pam in testing it wasn't updated since ages and i cleaned up the whole PKGBUILD. Report issues immediatly. 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] backport of symlink fix for pacman?
by Jan de Groot 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Every day we get new bugreports of perl not working because a symlink got overwritten. This is a bug in pacman that has been fixed according to git, but there's still no new release with this fix. Any drawbacks of applying http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=pacman.git;a=commit;h=7a42e24400499873c 3b9e1e2315edc808d753734 to the current version of pacman?

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[arch-dev-public] qemu-kvm updates
by Roman Kyrylych 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

Hi! We decided that we provide kvm modules that are shipped in kernel, which is good in terms of stability. But what about the userspace? Our qemu contains qemu-kvm from kvm-28 which is the same version as in .22 kernel. Will qemu-kvm version 35 work with kvm module version 28? If yes then I think it probably would be better to have more up-to-date userspace. Can anyone test this and/or say is this a good idea or not? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] testing and xf86-video-intel
by Jason Chu 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

I'm trying to update my system and it can't find xf86-video-intel. It's looking for version 2.1.0-3, but the package is 2.1.1-1. I thought the db-testing scripts were supposed to fix things like this... I sure hope that it was used in this case... I've re-added 2.1.1-1 to the testing db. Jason

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[arch-dev-public] New initscripts in testing
by Dan McGee 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

I pushed a new initscripts package to testing tonight to try to fix these two bugs: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4316 (Status messages malformed when using serial console) http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7294 (base/initscripts: Make isatty a little more useful.) I fixed the second one by doing away with isatty entirely in favor of the bash test option -t. This shouldn't affect anything but the output, but let me know if you see any issues before I push it to current. -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] Missing files on ftp: extra (i686)
by Eric Belanger 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

==> Generating Text Package List... notice: Missing luola-1.3.0-2.pkg.tar.gz in ftp site notice: Missing sdl_gfx-2.0.16-1.pkg.tar.gz in ftp site notice: Missing mplayer-plugin-3.45-1.pkg.tar.gz in ftp site Please fix. Thanks, 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] Accidental Absence
by Jeff Mickey 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

So, a couple things have happened that make being active on the internet hard. 1) I moved into a new place. It's rockin'. Let me know if you wanna stop by. 2) This new place doesn't have internet, yet. 3) My laptop's wall wart broke last night. The little led doesn't come on. My other computer doesn't have a working monitor currently. I'll try to keep you updated from work. -- . : [ + carpe diem totus tuus + ] : .

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