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

[arch-dev-public] Versioned Provisions
by Aaron Griffin 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

This is a little "heads up" email to all the package maintainers out there. Pacman 3.1 has support for versioned provisions. But what this also means is that there's going to be some breakages in packages. Let me explain by way of example: package foo depends=(bar>=1.2) package omg provides=(bar) In the past, you could install both foo and omg at the same time and everything would be satisfied. Not now. Now, the provision of "omg" will fail, because it's not providing the right version. What does this mean? Well, a few things. First and foremost, versioned provisions are a little broken in 3.1.0, but 3.1.1 will fix all this py allowing you to say: provides=(bar=1.2) Did I get this right? Dan, Xavier?

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Re: [arch-dev-public] reimplementation of the new design (Pierre Schmitz)
by thayer 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

On Jan 17, 2008 9:00 AM PST, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > the last few days I have been working on implementation of the new design for > archlinux.de. This might be interesting for some of you; especially for those > who maintain other arch sites. > > I have simplified the css and html code. There were some strange and useless > parts (like the background image to draw those two bars at the top) Good job, I know it needs it. I am not going to worry about this for now, because there are "changes in the works" that may make this irrelevant. > I have modified the logo: I removed the hard to read TM (isn't this useless > anyway) and change the font from liberation to dejavu because of hinting > errors. Furthermore I used Gimp instead of Inkscape to create the png which > results in a much sharper output. Finally I used optipng to make all pngs > smaller. :-) I will stay clear of the trademark debate, but with respect to the sub-text under the logo, this is simply a matter of preference. The old logo did not use antialiasing, while the new one does. Some may argue that means the new logo is broken--I disagree. Most professional logos use antialiased fonts for text. I agree that Inkscape's font rendering isn't the best, but personally I don't care for the ultra-crisp version at the DE site either, but to each their own. > I created the MediaWiki theme from scratch. Its based on the monobook theme > but I left the original css files untouched. Instead I wrote a new > archlinux.css which just overrides some box positions and colours to our > needs. This should make upstream updates much easier. In the past some > updates were a lot of work because of many changes to the css code. And of > course: Its much easier to maintain only the changes in a separate file. The work you did on the wiki looks great...if I could offer one suggestion it would be to make sure the links are not the same colour as the headings. > I have changed some colours compared to the theme from archlinux.org (grey > boxes on the start page and using grey and blue for the wiki) Overall, I think you have some great ideas about separating the styles from the upstream content/themes--we plan to do the same for the official site. The current state of the official site is definitely in transition--we mainly want to get the new logo into circulation at this point. The 'refinement' is coming... I think a LOT of css (and even some semantic markup) can be removed from the official Arch sites, but I just came on board and until we have a clear vision as to what we're going to accomplish, I don't want waste what precious the other web devs have. Kudos for doing such a good job on the DE site!

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[arch-dev-public] subversion package
by Roman Kyrylych 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi! I looked at this thread: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2008-January/016549.html (it looks like subversion needs update against the latest Perl) and then searched for subversion package in our webinterface. And found 2 issues: 1) subversion-1.4.5-2 is in both Extra and Testing. 2) there are no TESTING or TESTING-64 tags in CVS. Any ideas what's happening here? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] reimplementation of the new design
by Pierre Schmitz 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi all, the last few days I have been working on implementation of the new design for archlinux.de. This might be interesting for some of you; especially for those who maintain other arch sites. I have simplified the css and html code. There were some strange and useless parts (like the background image to draw those two bars at the top) I have modified the logo: I removed the hard to read TM (isn't this useless anyway) and change the font from liberation to dejavu because of hinting errors. Furthermore I used Gimp instead of Inkscape to create the png which results in a much sharper output. Finally I used optipng to make all pngs smaller. :-) I created the MediaWiki theme from scratch. Its based on the monobook theme but I left the original css files untouched. Instead I wrote a new archlinux.css which just overrides some box positions and colours to our needs. This should make upstream updates much easier. In the past some updates were a lot of work because of many changes to the css code. And of course: Its much easier to maintain only the changes in a separate file. I have changed some colours compared to the theme from archlinux.org (grey boxes on the start page and using grey and blue for the wiki) You can download the source code and svgs with git: git clone http://git.archlinux.de/~pierre/www.archlinux.de.git git clone http://git.archlinux.de/~pierre/wiki.archlinux.de.git Hint: If you want to use the wiki you just need to modify ArchLinux.php to your needs. And you might want to replace archlinux/logo.png by something matching you language. Its a vanilla version of the latest mediawiki code with three additions: archlinux theme, FunnyDot spam protection and a module to authenticate at our forum. Greetings, Pierre -- archlinux.de

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[arch-dev-public] Question for ganja_guru
by Jason Chu 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

I notice you updated gtkam for x86_64. I'm trying to build the i686 version but it complains about not finding libexif-gtk. How did you get it to build? Jason

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dhcpcd 3.1.9
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi please signoff both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.23.14-1
by Tobias Powalowski 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi kernel bump for both arches in testing, please signoff nothing real special greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] Arch Schwag
by Aaron Griffin 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Regarding this bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9205 While I need to figure out the credentials for this, do we want to re-evaluate the vendor for this stuff? I remember cafepress having... some problem? Maybe they don't ship to Europe or something? Anyone have strong opinions either way?

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[arch-dev-public] tcl/tk 8.5.0 into testing
by Andreas Radke 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

I put tcl/tk 8.5.0 into testing for i686 and x86_64. This will require several rebuilds. I'll try to build them over the next few days. If someone has a better list than that one please tell me: [andyrtr@workstation64 extra]$ sh /home/daten/arch64/cvs/arch/scripts/finddeps tcl perl-newt tk expectk expect tuxracer xchat-gnome xchat [andyrtr@workstation64 extra]$ sh /home/daten/arch64/cvs/arch/scripts/finddeps tk pil python-opengl python-vpython xbindkeys ruby ocaml expectk python python24 xconq r timidity++ pidgin ding i8kmon perl-tk -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] Mozilla move from testing?
by Jan de Groot 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

I see the todo list for mozilla -> /usr move is completed. Do we have any issues left here? I'd like to have it moved so I can update some extra applications.

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