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

[arch-dev-public] Long Absence
by Varun Acharya 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Hi everyone, We're organizing a fifteen day event at the University, which will only get over first week of October. Lots of preparation needs to be done, and so getting online is going to be difficult if not impossible. I'll help out when I can. Thanks, Varun

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[arch-dev-public] Amarok 1.4.7 compiled fine
by Damir Perisa 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Monday 13 August 2007, Harald Sitter wrote: | The tarball for 1.4.7 is now available for packaging. Please | report any issues, so that we can delay the release and prepare a | fixed tarball in case it is necessary. Estimated release day is | Thursday. amarok-base and amarok-engine-xine 1.4.7 built successfully for arch - running fine. i'm just listening music with it right now ;-) | IMPORTANT: don't publish anything in public download locations | (e.g. repositories) until Thursday morning UTC (around 6, I'd | say). Also it would be quite cool to give us download | locations/information so that we can provide them at release time. why is waiting till thursday so important? its 4 days and i already got 10 emails of people reporting that amarok 1.4.7 is out... somehow users get such infos faster than even packagers *smile* may i commit the pkgs to the repository in arch already? if you say no, i will wait till thursday. greetings, Damir ArchLinux -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><

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[arch-dev-public] libgpod soname bump
by Aaron Griffin 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

so.1 -> so.2 I'm pretty sure I got all the packages. If I screwed up your packages, let me know. The following were touched: kipi-plugins gtkpod rhythmbox amarok-base did not appear to need recompilation, but I actually have no idea how to use an ipod with it, as all I have is a broken ipod shuffle. But it didn't crash - if anything needs to be done with amarok, let me know. Thanks

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[arch-dev-public] Internal bug tracker
by Aaron Griffin 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

Eliott added an "Internal dev" bugtracker category for bugs related to our internal tools / processes. It's private, so feel free to log "zomg security hole in XYZ" stuff there 8) Thanks Aaron

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[arch-dev-public] Repository rebuilding
by Jan de Groot 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

As some of us have noticed, there's a new toolchain in current now. One of the new features is GNU hashing for library symbols. This should speed up linking libraries together. To get full advantage of this hashing, the ideal thing would be to have everything built using GNU hashing on your system. I would suggest a full repo rebuild for this. Another reason for a full repo rebuild would be the bugs we get regarding old packages. Last week we had such a package which had been imported in the repositories 3 years ago and needs libstdc++5 to function now. I looked at it and it doesn't even build with the current compiler we have. This would be the ideal opportunity to get rid of packages that don't compile anymore, or to get them fixed. Compared to operation libtool-slay we had over a year ago, this operation is much more work, but we won't have to pass through testing: the rebuilds don't break anything and the packages remain compatible with eachother. What do we think of this idea?

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[arch-dev-public] nvidia for 2.6.23-rc*
by Tom K 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi all. In the course of building the current -mm release, I came across a Gentoo patch for nvidia with 2.6.23-rc kernels. I don't have nvidia myself, but a user has now confirmed that it's working as expected. The patch is in CVS for the unstable/nvidia-mm package. T.

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[arch-dev-public] CD covers for ISO releases
by Roman Kyrylych 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

When Voodoo was released we have this thread: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-April/000423.html And official CD cover was http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=242736#p242736 made by Elasticdog. Then PJ updated his Voodoo covers and made a nice collection for Duke: http://www.geocities.com/kinortkele/archlinux-duke.tar.gz http://www.geocities.com/kinortkele/archlinux-duke-cdlabel.tar.gz AFAIR we didn't have official CD cover for Duke, and we don't have it for Don't Panic yet. It would be very nice if we had CD covers released at the time of ISO release. Both Elasticdog's and PJ's designs look nice. We should pick one of them and update it (let authors do this if they won't mind) few days before official ISO release. So CD distribution sites and magazines will have what to print on CDs. ;-) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] mirror list on download page
by Roman Kyrylych 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Well, the mirror list on our download page is outdated. prdownloads.sourceforge.net still has 0.7.1! I think many package mirrors also provide isos, so I suggest to take a mirror list from pacman and strip those mirrors that provide packages only. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos release
by Tobias Powalowski 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Hi Arch community, 5th August, 23:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time) Arch Linux Don't-Panic 2007.08 ISO release Get Archlinux ISOs in /iso/2007.08/{i686,x86_64} on your favorite mirror. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors or http://www.archlinux.org/download/ Please don't forget to check md5sums. It's mostly a 2.6.22.x Iso with some fixes to last Linuxtag Isos. Changelog to last Duke-Linuxtag2007 installation ISO: - kernel 2.6.22.1 usage - fixed: update mkinitcpio for new .22 firewire layout - fixed: update hwdetect for new rtc_sys and firewire stuff - Memory requirements bumped to 128MB! - Serial console support in install environment - USB Keyboard issues fixed Setup changes: - fixed: "" around CONSOLEFONT and CONSOLEMAP - fixed: dhcp rc.conf entry - fixed: not generated glibc locales for fixed bugs reference: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7410 I would like to thank you all, who assisted in testing and of course finding/fixing bugs, you users/devs simply rock. Happy installing and have fun. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] Announce 2007.08
by Tobias Powalowski 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

Hi i would like to announce 2007.08 this evening, would be cool if someone could create some torrents/metalinks and update the homepage to fit to new 2007.08 isos. thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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