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

[arch-dev-public] New NVIDIA package 100.14.19 uploaded to testing
by Thomas Bächler 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

I just added nvidia and nvidia-utils 100.14.19 to testing. As I don't have all those kernels installed, I didn't take care of nvidia-ck, nvidia-suspend2 and nvidia-mm, could the respective maintainers please do that? This release has some awesome improvements: - Improved GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap out-of-memory handling. - Improved compatibility with recent X.Org X servers. - Fixed a problem causing X to render incorrectly after VT switches with composited desktops. - Improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels. The first and third will improve beryl and compiz usage with nvidia drivers considerably, the second will hopefully allow us to run xorg-server 1.4 with nvidia.

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[arch-dev-public] newest bash and bash-completion
by Travis Willard 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Hey guys, Newest bash seems to kill bash-completion. I custom-wrote a patch and phrakture, toofishes, and I have all had a run at testing it (definitely not extensively). Basically the way it handles setting of read-only vars makes it blow up, and causes the remainder of our .bashrcs (after sourcing bash_completion) to not be executed. I've pushed a patched version of bash-completion to TESTING - if those of you using bash_completion could all make sure it's solid I'd appreciate it. :) Thanks! -- Travis

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[arch-dev-public] kernel-headers missing in packages.txt
by Tobias Powalowski 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

Hi did you change something in the last weeks, that kernel-headers is no more listed in packages.txt? this will break all ftp installs, just stumbled over it while trying to create ISO's with the ntfs bug fixed. i can recreate ISO's on sunday so would be cool if someone could look at the packages.txt issue. 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] cvslog added to core repo
by Aaron Griffin 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

The core repo should now send us emails on the arch-commits list. If someone has something legitimate to commit, please test and let me know if it worked - I don't want to artificially inflate the repo. Aaron

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[arch-dev-public] Devtools problems
by Dan McGee 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

dmcgee@dublin ~/projects/repos/core/base/pacman $ corepkg scp: staging/core/add: No such file or directory Cancelled dmcgee@dublin ~/projects/repos/core/base/pacman $ ll /usr/bin/*pkg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6K 2007-09-16 07:48 /usr/bin/checkpkg lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-05-12 01:46 /usr/bin/communitypkg -> /usr/bin/extrapkg lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2007-09-16 07:48 /usr/bin/corepkg -> extrapkg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.9K 2007-09-16 07:48 /usr/bin/extrapkg lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2007-06-18 11:02 /usr/bin/ghc-pkg -> ghc-pkg-6.6 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28K 2007-06-20 01:25 /usr/bin/makepkg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.3K 2007-05-14 23:48 /usr/bin/queuepkg lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2007-09-16 07:48 /usr/bin/testingpkg -> extrapkg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.3K 2007-09-16 17:33 /usr/bin/testpkg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.2K 2007-02-22 02:23 /usr/bin/tupkg lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2007-09-16 07:48 /usr/bin/unstablepkg -> extrapkg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.4K 2007-08-02 02:40 /usr/bin/versionpkg A few problems here: 1. Why did the behavior of corepkg/extrapkg and friends suddenly require a staging directory on my machine? This seems wrong. The old way was perfectly acceptable... 2. Why is communitypkg an absolute link and the rest are not? Right now, devtools is broken to me. Let me know if someone plans on fixing it or if I'm going to back out changes that seem wrong to me. Right now I can't upgrade a package if I wanted to (pacman 3.0.6 anyone?). -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] Important changes for all users, developers and TUs
by Thomas Bächler 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

Hi lists, we made some changes to repositories and packages which I'd like to summarize here. 1) (everyone, including users): The current repository is gone. Instead, we have a slimmer core repository and the rest of the packages went to the extra repository. I won't discuss the reasons for that change here, but if necessary, I'd be happy to explain it in a later post. If any packages are missing, don't hesitate to post bug reports. A pacman update will add a /etc/pacman.d/core file and users should change all references in pacman.conf from current to core. We added symlinks for compatibility, so the name current should still work for a while. 2) (everyone, including users): The repository scripts on our server now support the pacman3 style package naming. Our repositories are now partially incompatible with pacman2, as it will fail to find some files. If you haven't updated to pacman3 yet, you can still manually download the libarchive, libdownload and pacman packages from the ftp and install them with pacman2. 3) (users) FTP installations are broken for now, maybe we will have time to fix them soon. Until then, use a base CD to install. 4) (developers and TUs) Related to 1) and 2), a new devtools package has been uploaded. Packages are not renamed any more when uploading. An exception to this is communitypkg, as the community scripts on the server haven't been updated to the pacman3 naming style yet. All devs are encouraged to use the new style names from now on. The currentpkg script is gone, instead there is a corepkg script now, as well as /arch/db-core{,64} on the server. 5) (developers and TUs) The gcc package has been split in gcc and gcc-libs. Packages must not depend on gcc anymore, all those packages should be changed to depend on gcc-libs. This allows us to use C++ applications without forcing users to have gcc installled. Please update your packages as soon as possible. 6) (developers) All former current packages are now in extra or core. We lost the mantainer data for those, so please adopt all packages that were previously yours. This also affects packages which were moved from extra to core. If I forgot anything, tell me. Keep having fun with Arch. Thomas

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[arch-dev-public] moving OOo/neon stuff from testing to extra
by Andreas Radke 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

Daniel and me are preparing to move neon and new OpenOffice incl. i18n later tonight. these are big uploads. it will take a while until we can run the db scripts. btw: i've changed the OOo splash - but it's still showing our nice non Abiword logo! :D Andy

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[arch-dev-public] New fglrx drivers - no official package.
by Travis Willard 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

Hey guys. AMD's released their new radeon drivers, which are a complete rewrite. Exciting times, however AMD warns that these might not be production ready. After a bit of thought, I've decided to keep the 8.40.4 drivers in the repos for now (especially since this new release doesn't add kernel 2.6.23 or xorg 7.3 support) but make a custom repo for the new drivers for those who want to experiment. In the spirit of not doing things unilaterally, I'm notifying you all here. If there's no objection, I'll be posting an advisory to the forums later (maybe tonight or tomorrow) that will say essentially the following: -8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<-- Hi everyone, Today, AMD's 8.41.7 fglrx drivers, which are a complete rewrite of their codebase which they have spent more than a year of work on, were released today. On their release notes page, they offer the following recommendation: [quote]Caution: AMD recommends that this release of the AMD Proprietary Linux software driver not be used for distribution packages. Distributors should continue to use the AMD Proprietary Linux driver version 8.40.4[/quote] After some thought, I've decided to take this warning to heart, and will not be packaging this version of the drivers 'officially'. HOWEVER, tonight or possibly tomorrow I will be making packages for these drivers and a custom repo to obtain them from if you wish to test them out - these will not be 'official' archlinux packages, however, and the 8.40.4 release will remain in the repos until AMD releases a new version which they feel is suitable for general use. I will update this advisory once the new packages are available, and hope you all understand my reasoning on this. -8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<-- Any thoughts or suggestions, just reply to this thread. :) Thanks, Travis

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[arch-dev-public] Arch mirrors
by Roman Kyrylych 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

Hi! The mirrorlist on http://archlinux.org/download/ page is outdated. I suggest we just write something like 'You can also download ISOs via FTP/HTTP/rsync from /iso/ directory on <a href="http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors">mirrors</a>' instead of incomplete and outdated mirrorlist. Also, installer's mirrors.txt file should be updated as well (minus those that don't sync isos from main server). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] [core] progress
by Tobias Powalowski 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hi ok guys sum up what already done: [core] cvs partially setup ok base is moved in and divided into the categories according to this: https://www.archlinux.org/wiki/Core-Repository/ - packages from extra is still missing though - gcc splitup is pending - syslogng needs to be reviewed - the move to of the rest of current to cvs-extra2 is not done im tired now and going to bed, i'll continue on it tomorrow morning. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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