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

[arch-dev-public] GPL Compliance: A beginning
by Aaron Griffin 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

So, yeah people are blowing smoke about this hosting the sources thing. That's fine, it's a legit violation... I made a little script which should generate some of these things... I'm testing it now, as it's not fully "live" just yet: http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/sources/ Here's something neat which is an added bonus: any one of these things can be used to build the entire package when offline. Download the src.tar.gz, extract, and makepkg. One big lingering issue: do we need different source tarballs for each arch? My instincts tell me yes, for a few reasons: * I recall some PKGBUILDs having CARCH based 'if's around the sources * Some packages are only in one arch or another Does anyone know of a way to solve this... I don't want to bloat the disk usage for a few special cases? mayeb md5sum and symlink?

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[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 openoffice-devel mplayer-svn Most of the rest is so out of date and old that it should be dropped anyway (including the external modules for kernel26mm).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] Rebuilds against x264 needed
by Paul Mattal 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

The following rebuilds against x264 are needed for the soname bump for new x264 snapshot in testing. I've already done mplayer and ffmpeg. ./extra/avidemux (depends) ./extra/vlc (depends) ./extra/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins (depends) ./community/lib/libquicktime (depends) https://dev.archlinux.org/todo/1/ Cheers, - P

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel-headers 2.6.25.8-1
by Jan de Groot 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

Please signoff for both architectures. Changelog: - update patchlevel to 2.6.25.8 - add upstream patch to fix netfilter includes Rebuilds of glibc shouldn't be needed, AFAIK there's no noticable header change between this and previous release, just a buildfix for anything that includes netfilter headers.

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[arch-dev-public] signoff: xfsprogs 2.9.8-1 for i686
by Paul Mattal 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Please signoff xfsprogs 2.9.8-1 for i686. xfsprogs-2.9.8 (21 April 2008) - Add support for sb_features2 in wrong location in mkfs.xfs, xfs_repair and xfs_db. - Improve memory limits for libxfs cache in xfs_repair and added a -m option to manually limit usage of xfs_repair. - Add -c option to xfs_admin to turn lazy-counters on/off. - Added support for mdp in libdisk/mkfs.xfs, thanks to Hubert Verstraete. - Add -p option to fsck.xfs, thanks to Markus Rothe. - Cleanup sys v3 bzero/bcopy calls, thanks to Nigel Kukard. - P

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[arch-dev-public] preparing db+heimdal bump
by Andreas Radke 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

i'm just preparing the db and heimdal .so bumps. please don't update related packages anymore. i hope to finish base rebuilds within one or two more days for x86_64. then i'll update the testing repo db and will cry for help rebuilding i686 and finding missing rebuild. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] Send my laptop for repairs
by Aaron Griffin 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Hey guys, Just a heads-up. My thinkpad's keyboard is acting up, so I'm sending it in for repairs. I haven't been able to use it properly for some time (I can't even properly login because some keys output multiple letters 80% of the time, like the ones used in my password). Sooo, no Arch laptop for me. I will try and see if my 64bit hardware will behave again, but I think that's busted too.

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[arch-dev-public] Compiler issue with kernel and ext3
by Dan McGee 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

This is going to get us when we rebuild a kernel with gcc 4.3.1, so we should probably be aware: http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Compiler_Oops https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451068 Looks like 2.6.25.6 is built with gcc 4.3.0 so we are safe now. Should we patch gcc with the upstream fix? -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] signoff: flex 2.5.35-1 for i686
by Paul Mattal 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Some may recall verison 2.5.34 was broken in a way that broke some builds. Jan, do you recall exactly what wouldn't build? If so, I can try to build it with the new version. Request signoff from one other for i686. Full log since 2.5.33 is below. - P *** * version 2.5.35 released 2008-02-26 ** fixed bug that prevented flex from accepting certain comments in the scanner file (resolves bugs #1849809 and #1849805) ** fix bug that prevented headers for all functions from being generated (resolves bug #1628314) ** change yy_size_t to be size_t (resolves bug #1849812) ** new de, nl, pl, pt_br, vi translations from the translation project * version 2.5.34 released 2007-12-12 ** introduce yylex_init_extra; see the manual for details ** introduce %option extra-type="your_type *" (resolves bug #1744505) ** The flex program now parses multiple short concatenated options (resolves bug #1619820). Thanks to Petr Machata of Red Hat on this issue. ** better checking after yyalloc/yyrealloc (resolves bug #1595967) ** flex now provides for a libfl_pic.a compiled with position independent code. Particularly useful when including a flex scanner in a shared library and with more recent versions of gcc. Thanks to the Debia n project for the idea. ** SourceForge feature request #1658379: Expose YY_BUF_SIZE in the header file. ** flex better escapes filenames with special characters in them (resolves bug #1623600) ** a memory leak was plugged(resolves bug #1601111) ** pattern language expanded; see the manual for details on the below highlights *** pattern options added to specify patterns as case-insensitive or case-sensitive *** pattern options to specify whether the "." character should match the newline character *** pattern options added to allow ignoring of whitespace in patterns *** POSIX character classes may be negated in patterns *** patterns may now use set difference, union operators ** the manual now contains an appendix listing various common patterns which may be useful when writing scanners ** some memory leaks were removed from the C++ scanner (but the C++ scanner is still experimental and may change radically without notice) ** c++ scanners can now use yywrap ** added new unit test for c++ and yywrap ** portability fixes to some unit tests ** flex man page and flex manual in pdf now distributed in the flex distribution ** new ca, vi, ga, nl translations from the translation project ** flex no longer comes with an rpm spec file ** flex development now happens with automake 1.9.6

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[arch-dev-public] Resurrecting old todolists
by Aaron Griffin 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hey guys, If you all remember, after the last archweb release, we had to offload the todolists (package IDs no longer matched, and it was all complex to convert, so we deferred it). Well, I'm going to re-add the ones that we still need (i.e. DB rebuilds) I dumped all the old lists here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/todolists.txt Please take a look at the top section, and let me know which lists can be deleted and which are still useful if you can. Cheers, Aaron

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