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

[arch-dev-public] ncurses todo list?
by Allan McRae 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

Hi all, Does anybody have a ncurses build list? I am building ncurses with only the wide-character libraries which should hopefully clear up a few of the locale issues with applications using it (e.g. FS#4418, FS#6384, FS#9872). The current situation is sort of between doing this and not (we have only the wide character include files but both libraries). After some initial problems (don't install an ncurses without a real libncurses.so before fixing readline & bash!), I have this up and working and most of the needed core rebuilds done. I'm thinking I will push it to a separate repo first so that I can get some testing of this by people with other locales before I push it to [testing]. Cheers, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 02-08-2008 03:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 02 Aug '08

02 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Scan complete for extra (x86_64) at /home/ftp/extra/os/x86_64/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup speex-1.1.12-1.pkg.tar.gz tomcat-5.5.23-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 02-08-2008 00:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 02 Aug '08

02 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Scan complete for extra (i686) at /home/ftp/extra/os/i686/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup eclipse-3.3.1.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz eclipse-cdt-4.0.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz speex-1.1.12-1.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for extra (x86_64) at /home/ftp/extra/os/x86_64/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup eclipse-3.3.1.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz eclipse-cdt-4.0.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for testing (i686) at /home/ftp/testing/os/i686/ The following files are in the repo but not the db They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup eclipse-3.4-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz eclipse-cdt-5.0.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for testing (x86_64) at /home/ftp/testing/os/x86_64/ The following files are in the repo but not the db They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup eclipse-3.4-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz eclipse-cdt-5.0.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 01-08-2008 18:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 01 Aug '08

01 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 tomcat-5.5.23-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] Absence
by Firmicus 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

I am going to be on vacation until 29 August. I will continue to do some work on the texlive packages and hope to release them in [extra] once I return. Cheers, F

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[arch-dev-public] Story time: Gerolde breakage
by Aaron Griffin 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

What follows below is a recounting of the Great Gerolde Breakage of '08. Details are provided by eyewitness accounts, and names have been changed to protect the innocent. It was a dark and gloomy night, that Thursday. I had come home late, in a bit of a dour mood, and had been drinking a bit. I sat down at my computer to check some emails and do some things before bed. When I concluded my events for the night, I decided it was time to -Syu and reboot. So I closed everything down except one terminal. The events below were all internal monologue: Hmm, Syu time. Woah, that's a lot of packages.... ah well. ENTER Huh, why do I have apache on this laptop? I'll have to remove that later. Hmm... mailman? I KNOW I didn't install that... what the? OH MY GOD THIS IS GEROLDE! I immediately Ctrl-C'd because I had a "sudo reboot" queued up for when the -Syu finished. I paused for a moment, kicking myself for doing that. I checked apache, and it was still running. ftp was working too. Ok, good. Exit SSH. Let me -Syu locally. Re-ssh to gerolde... immediate "permission denied". Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Yeah, I Ctrl-C'd before a kerberos upgrade was finished. This broke ssh, and something else goofy broke mailman. I emailed Dale, and he fixed SSH in the morning (whew, thanks a lot Dale). Mailman was a bit harder, but considering everything was down already, we switched from exim to postfix, as we'd been talking about it for ages. Hooray for silver linings! So. It's all back up now. Mailman is working, postfix is working, and everything else should be in working order. If something is broken, please let me know. Sorry for the inconvenience. Gerolde, hacked by phrak - Aaron

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