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

[arch-dev-public] ABS 2.2 release
by Allan McRae 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Hi all, I have pushed a new release of abs to testing. The main change is the added ability to specify which repos or packages to sync on the command line (e.g. "abs core extra/abs") which will be of use to those want to sync single packages. Other changes: - Removed unstable repo - Fixed order of sourcing in rc-script.proto (FS#10833) - No longer pipes all output to STDERR (FS#10686) - Added various PKGBUILD and install script prototypes (FS#10274) I'll move it to extra in a few days provided I didn't break anything... Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.26-1 and related module packages
by Thomas Bächler 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

So this is it, 2.6.26 is going to testing. I adjusted the configuration according to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10512 and changed the maximum number of CPUs to 16. I hope I didn't miss any configuration bugs, if so, please tell me. Except some driver updates, there is nothing too exciting here. Just a few remarks: Kernel stuff: - uvesafb needs the new v86d from testing now (old one segfaults) - bcm43xx has been removed, all users must switch to b43 or b43legacy and use b43-fwcutter for firmware extraction. I am removing bcm43xx-fwcutter from core, as it is obsolete. - Someone should test squashfs, unionfs and aufs and report if they work (Simo?) If there is more, please tell me :) Module packages: - I patched catalyst with a weird patch to make it work, please anyone test and report! - intel-536ep and intel-537 don't compile. I didn't look closely yet, and frankly, I doubt they have much users. Do we really want to maintain them? - lirc is broken, maybe an update to 0.8.3 will fix it. Can the maintainer take care of this? I don't know when I'll get to it. - madwifi is broken. Do we still need it? AFAIK, all chipsets should now be supported by ath5k by now. Can a madwifi user please look at this (Aaron, Dan?) - martian is broken again. A user sent me patches last time, I have to look for his email address, maybe he fixes it again (user whose name I forgot, if you are reading this, please contact me). - I didn't try openswan-klips, any updates here? (tomk?) - wlan-ng26 is broken and I'd like to drop it, as I doubt anybody uses it. - I updated nvidia-71xx and nvidia-96xx to new upstream release for 2.6.26 compatibility. i686 is untested, so I need at least two signoffs. x86_64 works fine.

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 09-08-2008 09:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Scan complete for testing (x86_64) at /home/ftp/testing/os/x86_64/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup openoffice-base-beta-3.0_ooo300_m1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] scientific packages
by Ronald van Haren 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Hi! If any of you want to drop some scientific related packages , I'll be happy to take them. Just drop me a note. @ Damir: Do you have any objections to swap octave with octave3 which I maintain in community. Octave 3 offers increased compatibility with matlab (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-3.html). We may also want to include qtoctave, which is the only frontend to octave3 that I know of (it's qt4, no kde deps). Ronald

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 09-08-2008 06:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Scan complete for extra (x86_64) at /home/ftp/extra/os/x86_64/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup lftp-3.7.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz ruby-1.8.7_p22-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz sqlite3-3.6.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 09-08-2008 03:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Scan complete for extra (x86_64) at /home/ftp/extra/os/x86_64/ The following files are missing in the repo lftp-3.7.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz ruby-1.8.7_p71-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz sqlite3-3.6.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 09-08-2008 00:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Scan complete for extra (x86_64) at /home/ftp/extra/os/x86_64/ The following files are missing in the repo lftp-3.7.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz ruby-1.8.7_p71-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz sqlite3-3.6.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 08-08-2008 21:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Scan complete for extra (i686) at /home/ftp/extra/os/i686/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup lftp-3.7.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz ruby-1.8.7_p22-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz sqlite3-3.6.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for extra (x86_64) at /home/ftp/extra/os/x86_64/ The following files are missing in the repo lftp-3.7.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz ruby-1.8.7_p71-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz sqlite3-3.6.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz The following files are in the repo but not the db They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup cmucl-19d-1.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] info pages
by Allan McRae 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Hi all, Just a heads up with something I have remembered while packaging with the new pacman release. Including docs is the default in makepkg.conf now so if there is a large amount of documentation you will want to add a !docs to the PKGBUILD options. Also, every package that needs the --mandir configure flag will probably need and --infodir one too. An annoying number of packages with info pages install a /usr/share/info/dir file so that will need removed at the end of the PKGBUILD. Cheers, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 08-08-2008 18:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Scan complete for extra (x86_64) at /home/ftp/extra/os/x86_64/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup lftp-3.7.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz ruby-1.8.7_p71-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz sqlite3-3.6.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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