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

[arch-dev-public] Mirror lists out of sync
by Roman Kyrylych 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

Hi all! Today I updated Mirrors page on the wiki [1] to be in sync with pacman-mirrorlist. And I found that some mirrors that are not in pacman-mirrorlist are listed on Download page [2], e.g. internode.on.net FTR I moved a couple of mirrors listed as official to the Unofficial section [3], please take a look at those mirrors in case they have asked to become official, but weren't added to pacman-mirrorlist. Also please update mirror list on Downloads page (also see FS#7006 [4]). P.S.: Is mirror.archlinux.com.ve really located in USA? [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors [2] http://www.archlinux.org/download/ [3] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors#Unofficial_mirrors [4] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7006 -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] pkgstats and repo cleanup
by Allan McRae 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

Hi devs, I have created a table of candidates for removal from the extra repo based on <1% usage in the pkgstats results. I have gone through and flagged for keeping packages which are i18n, makedepends, or otherwise needed (in pacman testsuite, using on gerolde). See the list here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Extra_Repo_and_Pkgstats There is probably other categories of packages we should keep (e.g drivers) and there are some fonts which might be considered i18n related so can you all go through the list a cross out the ones to be kept and giving the reason. In a couple of weeks time I will remove all the orphaned packages remaining on that list and contact the maintainers of the rest so they can decide what to do with their packages. Cheers, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssl and ca-certificates
by Pierre Schmitz 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

Hi devs, it has been in testing for some time now. So I guess if nobody noticed any problem so far it should be all fine. So, what's new about openssl? * removed from base group * optdepends to ca-certificates (depends would not work, because openssl has to be installed before openssl due to the install script) * depends on zlib (no more staticaly build against zlib) and perl (needed by c_rehash script) * Stack marked as not executable. This only affects x86_64 or custom kernels with pae (and NX capable CPU) or pax. See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12434 -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre(a)jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] diffutils 2.8.1-6
by Andreas Radke 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

added info files fixed man-pages path changed group, fixes part of #12391 please signoff. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] kernel/catalyst upgrade path broken
by Andreas Radke 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

[root@laptop64 andyrtr]# LANG=C pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... testing is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: bluez-libs conflicts with bluez. Remove bluez? [Y/n] :: libgl conflicts with catalyst-utils. Remove catalyst-utils? [Y/n] error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: catalyst: requires catalyst-utils>=8.12 my system is still running kernel2.6.27 and catalyst driver. no idea if the kernel bump caused it or Jan's changes in the libgl stuff from xf86-video-ati/newly introduces ati-dri. please have a look. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] Someone update davfs2
by Andrea Scarpino 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

Hi, to fix #12565[1], please someone rebuild davfs2. I attached the PKGBUILD for the last version 1.3.3 and a patch for fix symbolic link. -- Merry Christmas -- - [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12565 -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Trusted User Linux User: #430842

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-135-1
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff for 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] klibc-udev-135-1
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

Hi bump to latest version, please recreate your initrd and signoff for 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] Live better and healthier life!
by arch-dev-public＠archlinux.org 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

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[arch-dev-public] makepkg developmental version
by Allan McRae 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hi all, I have just packaged a version of makepkg from my git working branch for people to test out. This installs alongside the makepkg from pacman so won't affect your regular package building. i686: http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/makepkg-git-20081223-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz x86_64: http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/makepkg-git-20081223-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz New features of interest: Package splitting support! - multiple packages are specified in the pkgname variable - each package gets its own packaging function where package variables can be overridden - see PKGBUILD-split.proto (in /usr/share/pacman) for "documentation" Added optional package() function in PKGBUILDs - limits fakeroot usage to packaging stages - see "man PKGBUILD-git.conf" for more info Treat info pages like man pages: - automatically compress info pages - info pages are not removed with the !docs options Added purge option: - automatically removes common conflicting or removed files - specify files in PURGE_TARGETS in makepkg.conf - default PURGE_TARGETS=(usr/{,share}/info/dir .packlist *.pod) Replace getopt usage with internal function: - allows makepkg to run on systems with old getopt version (e.g. Mac OS X) Other smaller changes: - ability to pass PKGBUILD from pipe - package compression type auto-detection - add configuration option to specify man/info page directories - specify alternative configuration file using the --config option - all integrity sums provided are checked - some fixes from the pacman 3.2 maintenance branch: - detect CRLF line endings - when automatically updating an SCM package pkgver, pkgrel is reset to 1 - speed up mercurial package revision checking - improved compatibility with older bash versions Known issues: - The -p flag to specify an alternative name for a PKGBUILD is broken - Repackaging with split-packages definitely does not work - Repackaging when using package() function probably does not work... - Some minor output changes are needed for package splitting Bug reports either to the pacman-dev list or the pacman/makepkg section of the bug tracker. Enjoy, Allan

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