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

[arch-dev-public] Drop the unstable repository
by Thomas Bächler 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

I had this thought during the above discussion about compat-wireless: Do we really need unstable? Almost nobody uses it and let's see which packages are in there: opera-devel firefox3 kernel26mm fvwm-devel gimp-devel reiser4progs + dependencies. openoffice-devel mplayer-svn Most of the rest is so out of date and old that it should be dropped anyway (including the external modules for kernel26mm). The packages that are actually being maintained can IMO be moved to extra. Everybody who installs a -svn or -devel package probably knows it is unstable (firefox3 should be renamed to firefox-devel then). So I'm asking you: What is the point of having a repository with <30 packages, half of which are neither used nor maintained? Except maybe confusion among users (wait? enable unstable? isn't that dangerous?).

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[arch-dev-public] new arch-events mailinglist (next event FrosCon)
by Pierre Schmitz 31 May '08

31 May '08

Hi, there is a new mailinglist about Arch related events: http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-events This list is meant for organisation and discussion about upcoming events such as FrosCon 2008. If you are interested in taking part of this conference and/or want to help with organisation please subscribe to this public list. Pierre -- archlinux.de

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] libtool 2.2.2-1
by Andreas Radke 18 May '08

18 May '08

regression fixes we almost all had in our last pkg. -Andy EWS - list of user-visible changes between releases of GNU Libtool New in 2.2.2: 2008-04-01: CVS version 2.2.1a, Libtool team: * New features: - In compile mode, compiler output occurs in the user locale. This feature has been present in 1.5.26 but not in 2.2. * Changes in supported systems or compilers: - Initial shared library support for AmigaOS4 on powerpc. * Bug fixes: - Fix 2.2 regression in libltdl that causes memory corruption upon repeated `lt_dlinit(); lt_dlexit()'. - Fix 2.2 regression in libltdl that skipped the dlopen loader if the system also supports other loaders (e.g., Cygwin, HP-UX). - Fix 2.2 regression in that `libtool --mode=execute CMD ARGS' does not transform ARGS that do not look like shell or C wrappers of libtool programs. - Fix 2.2 regression that kept cross-compiling to w32 from working. - Several testsuite issues have been fixed, thanks to user feedback.

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[arch-dev-public] X.org upgrades
by Alexander Baldeck 14 May '08

14 May '08

Hey All, just in case you're wondering why I'm rolling out all the upgrades to testing with just mesa 7.0.3rc3, well these I have been running for a while and am just committing my changes. The 7.0.3 Mesa releases will arrive sometime this week. I don't think I'll make it today since I still have to commit i686. (man, devtools/svn is quite a slowdown ^^) Cheers, Alex

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] file 4.24-1
by Andreas Radke 09 May '08

09 May '08

in testing for both arches. some minor changes. -Andy I am pleased to announce file 4.24. There have been numerous bug fixes and enhancements: Reuben Thomas: - There is no separate mime file; the mime entries are now integrated in the regular magic file as !:mime annotations. - Separation of text and binary magic searches - UTF-8 BOM message clarification - Compilation of magic fragments from a directory - Unit test framework Bob Byrnes: - Fix ELF core detection on solaris Gavin Atkinson: - zero out utime/utimes structs Diego "Flameeyes" Petten: - reduce writable data

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[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] SVN repo view
by Aaron Griffin 08 May '08

08 May '08

This is being sent out to the public list, as the last discussion was internal. We now have a web front end to our PKGBUILDs at the URL: http://repos.archlinux.org Yes, it's themed, and yes, it's paged. You can also use it to view the old CVS repos too. Oh, also, it uses enscript to color PKGBUILDs, and I forced it to detect PKGBUILD files as bash. If someone wants to go crazy and make an enscript file (/usr/share/enscript/hl/*) for a PKGBUILD, then this viewer could be all the more better. Cheers, Aaron

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[arch-dev-public] APNG patch in libpng
by Travis Willard 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hey guys, Recent exploit found in libpng < 1.2.27 (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10192#comment27550) is getting a lot of attention in our forums and bugtrackers, however since the APNG patch (included for firefox3's sake - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9570) isn't updated for the new libpng version yet, I'm blocked on updating this. If I drop APNG from libpng to ensure we get updates as quick as possible, this means firefox3 will need to be rebuilt without system PNG. If this happens, that means firefox3 will be using a vulnerable version of the library, but I can react quicker to vulnerabilities like this in the future. I'm not sure what is the best course of action. Wait until a new APNG patch is released? Update and force firefox3 to rebuild? >From the libpng website: "The pngtest sample application distributed with libpng, pngcrush, and certain versions of ImageMagick are known to be affected, but the bug is otherwise believed to be quite rare." - if the bug is quite rare, can we put it off? Any input?

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dialog 20080318-1
by Andreas Radke 05 May '08

05 May '08

new upstream release with minor changes. in testing for both arches. also added some minor requested features #10060 and utf8 support #8984. binary file size didn't increased too much. should be also ok with our installer. our iso builders should test it! -Andy -- $Id: CHANGES,v 1.248 2008/03/16 20:13:15 tom Exp $ -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey(a)invisible-island.net> This version of dialog was originally from a Debian snapshot. I've done this to it: 2008/03/16 + modify dlg_mouse_wgetch() to loop only on errors that it detects, rather than on errors forwarded from dlg_getc(), in case those are due to a disconnected terminal (report by Anatoli Sakhnik). + allow "default" color in dialogrc file (request by Dashing). + fix an indexing error in formbox (Debian #469190, report by Dmitry Gomerman, patch by Vladimir Mezentsev). + add bindings for CTL/N, CTL/P to checklist, fselect and menubox widgets (prompted by discussion with John Gatewood Ham). + add be(a)latin.po, th.po and update zh_TW.po from http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/ > patches by Peter Astrand: + modify dlg_auto_sizefile() to ensure the computed height and width do not extend beyond the screen size. + use unctrl() to make inputstr.c work with Solaris curses. > patches by Yura Kalinichenko: + extend pause widget to use ok/cancel buttons (the former giving the same result as a timeout), rather than an exit-button. + fix initialization parameter of inputbox for multibyte characters.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] pam 1.0.1-1
by Andreas Radke 05 May '08

05 May '08

new pam in testing for both arches. only minor changes. please signoff. -Andy Linux-PAM NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. Release 1.0.1 * Regression fixed in pam_set_item(). Release 1.0.0 * Small bug fixes * Translation updates Release 0.99.10.0 * New substack directive in config file syntax. * New module pam_tty_audit.so for enabling and disabling tty auditing. * New PAM items PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA. * Auditing login denials based by origin (pam_access), time (pam_time), and number of sessions (pam_limits) to the Linux audit subsystem. * Support sha256 and sha512 algorithms in pam_unix when they are supported by crypt(). * New pam_sepermit.so module for allowing/rejecting access based on SELinux mode. * Improved functionality of pam_namespace.so module (method flags, namespace.d configuration directory, new options). * Finaly removed deprecated pam_rhosts_auth module.

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