January 2008 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] frostwire in unstable
by Varun Acharya 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hi, Any reason why frostwire is always in 'unstable' ? Could it be moved to extra, or maybe even community? Thanks, Varun

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[arch-dev-public] Web development (was: [signoff] libdownload 1.3)
by Dan McGee 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

On Jan 3, 2008 8:58 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > For the record, the new dashboard lists packages by repository, so > this should help me in keeping track of signoffs and what needs to > move better (gmail isn't cutting it for that task). > > In the (near?) future I want to integrate signoffs into the dashboard, > which would make this far easier. The wishlist grows: * Integrate signoffs into the dashboard * Allow filtering by out of date packages * Ability to link package with its testing version (or indicate that two versions exist) * Multiple architecture support (this HAS to be someones New Year's resolution, right?) * Integrated out of date packages/pkg_diff list Someone wants to take a stab at this hopefully, the first three should not be very hard changes. We have 29 devs listed, surely someone can help out and hack at our django site. Eliott shouldn't be stuck doing everything here. -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] libdownload 1.3
by Aaron Griffin 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Simple upgrade, with a few minor backend features, and removed the DEBUG flag from the build. If you upgrade and pacman can still download things, we're in business.

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[arch-dev-public] moving stuff into extra
by Varun Acharya 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hi, I'd like to bring the following packages into extra in the near future and maintain them.. Please let me know if you have any objections - smplayer / smplayer-themes - qt4 based frontend for mplayer <will move to testing first, of course) - transmission - nice simple bittorrent client - miro - very actively developed web tv viewer - gspcav1 - webcam kernel module for many webcams out there. - dvdbackup - only tool which seems to be able to copy exact uncompressed dvd structure without hassles - showimg - very nice qt based image viewer, great for fullscreen slideshows with mouse wheel control FYI, all these packages are in community now, and have received quite a good number of votes. A question about 'pulseaudio' ... the trend seems to be some major distributions (Fedora and Ubuntu) are adopting pulseaudio as default sound server, any idea why? Its in community right now too. Is anyone using this as their sound server right now? Can you share your experiences with it ? If it is clearly superior to the alternatives, then it should be in extra too. If its still in its infancy, then let it remain in community. I'll test it too and get back More info about pulseaudio: http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/04/15/pulseaudio-in-ubuntu-feisty-… Thanks, Varun

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[arch-dev-public] sudo: need x86_64 build and signoff
by Paul Mattal 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

New sudo 1.6.9p10-3 is up for i686, but needs an x86_64 build and is otherwise ready for signoff. It's an upgrade from p9 to p10, which fixes the broken behavior of the -p flag-- it should work now where it didn't before. Additionally, this release changes the syslog facility from the default ("local2") to auth, closing #8671. Verify the meaty sudo log messages now appear in auth.log rather than ppp.log! This release does not address #7910, because if -p now works, it seems like this problem could be solved more permanently on the gksu side. This release does not address #8602, as I have not yet thought through the potential security implications of this change. Input is welcome here from any who may already have considered this. - P

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] tzdata 2007k-1
by Andreas Radke 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

in testing for both archs. just a minor update. don't ask me how to test that pkg. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] libarchive 2.4.11
by Dan McGee 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Minor version bump. Tested on i686, built for both architectures. Easiest way to test is with pacman and using bsdtar on an archive. -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man 1.6f-1
by Andreas Radke 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

just a minor update. added diffutils as a dependency to solve http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8793 it's in testing for both architectures. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] file 4.23-1
by Andreas Radke 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

in testing for both architectures. just an update. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] zsh, bash and filesystem
by Pierre Schmitz 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hello and a Happy New Year! I am just testing zsh as a replacement of bash. Our zsh does not really work out-of-the-box. It does not use /etc/profile and as a result of this you cannot type or read umlauts etc.. I have opened a bug about this: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8946 But there does not seems to be a straight-forward-solution; so we should discuss about this first. I have noticed that Aaron introduced a generic /etc/profile which will load all scripts in /etc/profile.d/ and source any specific file like /etc/profile.zsh, /etc/profile.bash etc.. At first: the filesystem package should be bumped to get the new /etc/profile due to a pacman bug (?). Then we need to add a profile.zsh to the zsh package. I have attached a working one based on the one found within the bash package. The configure-line o zsh should be changed to the following: ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \ --enable-zprofile=/etc/profile \ --with-curses-terminfo \ --enable-multibyte || return 1 After this changes zsh is quite usable (even with utf8 etc.). But: This only works when logging in into a VT. If you start xterm, Konsole etc. you will end up in a zsh without any locale support and no environment variables set. Thomas told me that xterm does not use a login shell and because of this /etc/profile is not executed. (but why does this work with bash). Does anybody know a clean solution for this? Pierre PS: zsh seems to be really cool. The menu-based completition is quite nice. See my .zshrc (based on the one from grml): http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/arch/zshrc -- http://www.archlinux.de

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