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

[arch-dev-public] libldap 2.3.40-1
by Tom K 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi all. In testing now, for both arches. Latest upstream release. Also in testing, openldap and openldap-clients from the extra repo. T.

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[arch-dev-public] The move to SVN
by Aaron Griffin 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

For the rest of the week, I am going to be concentrating on one big thing: moving our repos to SVN. Why is this important, after all the stuff I've been griping about, you may ask? Because it's a 'blocker'. It's the most low-level building block for a lot of the other changes I'd like to see done regarding our repository management So, here's the plan. I need one day where we make the switch over. It will be rocky and annoying for that day, but it is also a break for all of you Here are the steps that this will involve: Set all the cvs repos to RO, so that we don't have any accidents Convert everything to svn Make the necessary structure changes Make devtools changes * Make abs changes * Make db-scripts changes * Make changes to community ** * Can be done before hand, without a new package release ** Paul and Simo, in need your input regarding doing this for community as well. I have not looked at the scripts in a long time, but how much effort do you think this would take? Here is the end result, repo created ages ago by Jason[1]: http://projects.xennet.org/svnarch/ It is a tad large, but SVN is nice in that it allows us to only check out subdirs we want, so you can checkout just your packages (see jason's archco tool[1]) We *will* lose history during this transition. It's something I'm willing to live with, as this is not code history. We will still archive CVS for posterity. So, what do I need from you? Nothing. I'm making this easy in that I will do all the work. I just need one thing: give me a day when it is best. When you all want to take a mini-vacation and do no packaging at all. If no one has a good day for this, I will probably do it on Thursday or Friday. Thanks, Aaron 1: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-October/002308.html

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[arch-dev-public] Imagemagick rebuild in [testing]
by Eric Belanger 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Hi, I just uploaded an imagemagick package in testing that will require a rebuilt of the apps that links to its libs because the libraries names have changed. From imagemagick ChangeLog: * New Unix/Linux refactoring (should be transparent since changes are reflected in Magick-config and ImageMagick.pc pkg-config files): /usr/local/include => /usr/local/include/ImageMagick libMagick => libMagickCore libWand => libMagickWand Magick-config (deprecated) => MagickCore-config Wand-config (deprecated) => MagickWand-config Add Magick++-config, MagickCore.pc, MagickWand.pc, Magick++.pc The package that needs to be rebuilt are: dvdauthor inkscape koffice labplot libavg libfprint psiconv (already done) pstoedit transcode vips vips-devel xine-lib To get the list above, I've installed all packages that had imagemagick as a (make)depends then ran lddd to see which ones needed to be rebuilt. It might be worth it to to that for future rebuilds. If someone with mysql access would do a todo list for the above, I'll appreciate. I could always do some of these rebuilds if some of you are overwhelmed by work. Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed
by Simo Leone 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hey everyone, I'd like to begin testing some preliminary work with the arch livecd system. You can find a livecd rigged up to work as an ftp installer at: http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/archiso_tests/arch-ftp-live-1206519468.iso This ISO consists of our current installer scripts and a functioning arch livecd containing most of the base package set. It uses the grub boot loader, which is likely to be changed to isolinux in the near future. At this point, it's an i686-only thing, but an x86_64 version will be coming soon. If you've got some time to kill, please give the iso a whirl. You'll find the installer and its documentation in its usual home at /arch/ on the livecd system. It'd be nice to have this tested on a large variety of systems if possible. **I need feedback on the following regarding ISO bootup** - Did the grub loader work as expected? - Did it pick up and load the module for your network hardware? - Did it pick up and load the modules for your disk controllers? - Any kernel panics, freezes, that sort of ugly stuff. Please keep in mind that this is not intended to be production quality at this point, and it's a very early version, so there are still a lot of sharp edges that need to be smoothed out. Thanks for your help, -Simo offtopic: archiso_tests also contains a hacky xfce4 livecd image you might want to play around with, although it's a little oldy moldy.

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[arch-dev-public] licenses: GPL permutations
by Paul Mattal 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

What is the right way to list all the various contortions you can now have of GPL in the license array? There's: GPL - any version of GPL GPL2 - only version 2 GPL2+ - version 2 or later GPL3 - version 3 only GPL3+ - version 3 or later These are all substantively different (except the last two.. for now) so how do we express these? Should we actually create common licenses GPL2+ and GPL3+ which reference the other two, and make GPL reference them all? Do we need a GPL1 and GPL1+? - P

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[arch-dev-public] request/question: archboot isos hosting directory
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi archboot isos are now well tested and work as they should, i would like to put them in ftp/iso directory that other mirrors will sync them too. Which directory whould be fine for you? ftp/iso/archboot/2008.03 ? or something else? thanks for input. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] Dropping ipw3945 from core
by Thomas Bächler 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

After I discovered that my problems with the new Intel driver where related to dhclient and fixed the bug, I am now successfully using iwl3945 on my machine. It seems to be working perfectly, so I am considering dropping ipw3945 from core/support with the 2.6.25 release (so there will be no new package versions after ipw3945-1.2.2-8). This is intended as a warning, but also as a question: Is there anyone who cannot use iwl3945 instead of ipw3945?

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.24.4-1, support/atl2 2.0.4-1
by Thomas Bächler 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Changes to the latest kernel by tpowa: - All patches have been collapsed into a single patch-2.6.24.4-1. Patch generation is done by abuse of makepkg now and nothing is done inside a SCM, but that will be fixed. Currently, everything is in http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kernel26/linux-2.6-ARCH.tar.bz2. - removed pre-2.6.24.4 patch and updated to 2.6.24.4 - updated unionfs to 2.3.1 (according to simo this fixes some race conditions) - removed the aufs splice patch due to incompatibility with unionfs. This breaks aufs, but Simo promised to fix it (ping Simo) - removed the atl2 patch and moved it to a separate package in core/support due to the many complaints by developers. - Some PKGBUILD stupidity cleanup: Remove /boot/kconfig26, because it is the most unnecessary file in the history of unnecessary files - Removed /etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26-fallback.conf, because the default fallback image doesn't need a separate config file anymore Please sign off. We need to move some kernel to core fast, because applications built with gcc 4.3 might be broken with any other kernel. (At the time I am posting this, only x86_64 is uploaded and tested, i686 will be uploaded in a few minutes, but untested).

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] glib2 2.16.1-1
by Jan de Groot 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

For GNOME 2.22, I need glib2 updated to 2.16.1, which is in testing for a while now. Please signoff for both architectures so GNOME can get moved too this week.

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[arch-dev-public] dhclient: fixed two bugs in extra
by Thomas Bächler 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

I uploaded dhclient 3.0.6-2 which fixes two bugs: - fix-broken-resolvconf.patch dhclient-script only generates a new resolv.conf if the DHCP server transmits a domain name. However, the DHCP specifications don't require a DHCP server to do that. This was reported to ISC in 2004 IIRC and they never even looked at it. This patch fixes resolv.conf generation, such that resolv.conf is always generated if the DHCP server transmits at least one DNS server. I actually fixed this half a year ago, and didn't upload it. - fix-mac80211-wireless.patch I was trying to find this bug for over half a year and just now found out it is dhclient's fault (partially). dhclient/dhclient-script brings the interface down and up again on several occasions. This was never a problem in the past, but with a mac80211 driver, this results in an unusable interface until you reassociate (the RUNNING flag in ifconfig is missing). The interface was brought by dhclient-script down on occasions where bringing it down isn't even necessary, but it suffices to simply delete the ipv4 data (which was done anyway). This patch fixes the problem by removing the "down" keyword from all ifconfig lines in dhclient-script, as the script is never required to actually bring the interface down. One of the occasions when dhclient would bring the interface down and up again was a DHCPNAK. As a NAK is very common when you switch between several wireless networks, as you may try to REQUEST a lease which has not expired yet and get a NAK as the network you are on now is different. This essentially broke all mac80211 driver when using wireless roaming with dhclient and long lease times.

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