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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-118-6
by Tobias Powalowski 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hi - fixed load-modules.sh sed call http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9857 please signoff for both archs 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] grub-0.97-12
by Tobias Powalowski 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hi - fixed gpt support http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9864 please signoff for both archs greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] ISO 2008.03-4 release status update
by Tobias Powalowski 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hey guys, following packages i would like to see in core: pending signoffs and move to base: initscripts (showstopper!)? Bump to 2008.03-3 with the last fix for correct udev startup. /dev/pts and /dev/shm are created earlier in rc.sysinit which causes double creating it and causes errors thrown to console. udev-118-7 (showstopper!)? waiting for signoff, load-modules.sh needed a small fix. e2fsprogs? waiting for signoff on x86_64 ntfs-3g? waiting for signoff on x86_64 grub? it would add gpt support http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9864 which adds macbook support and greater sizes as 2TB support waiting for signoff cryptsetup? waiting for signoff, Thomas is the only one using it! klibc-module-init-tools? signed off, waiting for new mkinitcpio or can this move in without mkinitcpio? klibc-extras? signed off, waiting for new mkinitcpio or can this move in without mkinitcpio? kbd/klibc-kbd/mkinitcpio? mkinitcpio needs a small fix in resume hook. kbd and klibc-kbd waiting for signoff and depend on new mkinitcpio. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9862 Roman wants to fix this in the evening. perl? Any progress? When do you want to move it to core? Any date planned? delayed package moves due to rebuilds and issues: gcc build-toolchain libtool any other comments? greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] Processor Generation++
by Simo Leone 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Let's start off by saying that this is just me floating an idea out there, it's not so serious (yet...). I've been toying around with the idea of starting to build our packages with --march=pentium2 instead of i686. This would mean that our binaries would make use of the MMX instruction set, and that our packages would no longer run on PentiumPro or older processors. My logic here is that we are comitted to being a bleeding edge distro, so I think it very much fits our philosophy to phase out older processor families when they are hardly used anymore. Intel hasn't manufactured PentiumPro's since roughly 1998. The number of users running Arch on 10-year-old boxes must be something very close to zero, so I don't think we'd be disappointing anyone. Also making use of the MMX instruction set would give our multimedia apps a boost, and might make some other software inperceptibly snappier (gogo placebo effect!). What do you guys think? -S

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts 2008.03-1
by Aaron Griffin 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Needs i686 build. Please signoff, changes from the last version are below. This one needs to get done before we can push the ISO out, so please make it a priority if you can. Thanks Changes: Aaron Griffin (3): Add my name to the copyright output Additional /dev/ setup that udev doesn't do Variable expansion quoting Roman Kyrylych (13): Remove trailing whitespaces and do some little reformatting Make non-UTF-8 consoles work correctly in .24+ kernels Do not mount /proc/bus/usb if commented in fstab Set up vc/0 as well Always load defkeymap Revert back to not loading defkeymap Fix indentation in rc.d/functions Create /dev/rtc before running hwclock (FS#9636) Use full path to binaries everywhere Add basic support for dependencies in rc.d scripts More full-path fixes Fix a typo in /dev/rtc creation steps Remove the 'makedevs' script

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] nfs-utils-1.1.0-4
by Tobias Powalowski 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

signoff x86_64 executable rpc.idmap and nfs still runs -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grub-0.97-12
by Jan de Groot 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 09:25 -0700, JaDa wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:09:19 -0700, Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> > wrote: > > > Macbooks are i686 and x86_64 too. Do we want those people to install > > lilo because our old ancient version of grub that hasn't seen any > > development for years, doesn't support the partition table used on their > > machine? > > Or worse: do we want to push them to other distributions that do have a > > patched grub? > > > > For some projects you can't go vanilla. Some examples: > > - xorg > > - kernel > > - openoffice.org > > > > > > why not Grub2 (1.96) ? Grub2 is alpha quality software which isn't finished yet. There's no support for reiserfs for example.

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[arch-dev-public] Old udev install/upgrade message
by Dan McGee 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

ATTENTION UDEV: ---------- udev >=098 rules syntax has changed, please update your own rules. udev >=099 Added persistent network and CD/DVD Symlink generator rules. Please read the instructions carefully before reboot. They are located in /etc/udev/readme-udev-arch.txt ---------- warning: /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules saved as /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules.pacsave (33/37) upgrading udev [---------------------] 100% Can't we kill this super old message from udev install? Or at the very least, make it conditional? When useless messages are shown, people tend to ignore all messages. -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] [review] netcfg install message for initscripts 2008.03
by Aaron Griffin 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Please review and make sure I have enough information ref: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9836 ------------------------------------------------------------ Attention netcfg users. We have revamped the network profiles handling. It is no longer included as part of the initscripts package. To install: pacman -S netcfg Please be aware that the "NETWORK_PROFILES" rc.conf variable changes to "NETWORKS" as a part of this change. ------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [arch-dev-public] ISO 2008.03-3 release status update
by Tobias Powalowski 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Hey guys, following packages i would like to see in core: pending signoffs and move to base: initscripts (showstopper!)? Bump to 2008.03 with the last changes from git Aaron and Roman will add the final changes and then release a new version. Is there any progress on it? I would like to help here if someone has not the time to do it. nfs-utils (showstopper!)? This is important, it has a broken libevent support in core at the moment! e2fsprogs? waiting for signoff cryptsetup? waiting for signoff, Thomas is the only one using it! klibc-module-init-tools? signed off, waiting for new mkinitcpio? klibc-extras? signed off, waiting for new mkinitcpio? kbd/klibc-kbd/mkinitcpio? mkinitcpio needs a small fix in resume hook. kbd and klibc-kbd waiting for signoff and depend on new mkinitcpio. perl? Any progress? When do you want to move it to core? pending signoffs and move to support: fuse? waiting for signoff madwifi/madwifi-utils? switched back to trunk version, waiting for new responses, signoff delayed package moves due to rebuilds and issues: gcc build-toolchain libtool any other comments? greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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