January 2009 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] bash-3.2.048-2
by Allan McRae 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

This only compresses the info file to fix the post_install failure (FS#12800). I need someone to build x86_64. Thanks, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] inetutils-1.6-3
by Eric Bélanger 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

inetutils-1.6-3 is in testing for both arches. I've added a provides/conflicts/replaces for netkit-ntalk (close FS#12865). Please signoff.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] db 4-7-25-2
by Andreas Radke 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

the new release contains 3 upstream fixes: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.7.25/patc… and removes the coreutils dependency cycle as requested in http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12844 please signoff -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] Fwd: [signoff] syslog-ng 2.1.3-2
by Aaron Griffin 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Version bump. > Switch from the 2.0 series to the 2.1 series > > Nothing super fancy here, changes, as far as I can grok, from 2.0 to 2.1: > > * use stat instead of seek to determine file size > * added support for logrotation in file sources > * fixed expansion of utf-8 characters in templates > * fixed numeric localport/destport specification > * grammar fixes for localport/port/destport parsing options > > Please signoff, both arches -2 is now in testing. Fixed FS#10776 Please signoff

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[arch-dev-public] mailman hiccup
by Aaron Griffin 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Broke and fixed and broke and fixed mailman tonight. Ignore the goofed commits emails you may have gotten. For documentation purposes, here's what happend: * A few days ago we added a redirect from archlinux.org to www.archlinux.org to address some silly caching issues.\ * This broke mailman's web interface as it was using "archlinux.org" and the redirect was blowing things up (silently) * Used bin/withlist -r fix_url to modify the url for all the lists. This also changed the list's host_name to the same URL. Whoops * Readjusted all the host_name properties to archlinux.org so that the mails work again. Mailman hater for life, Aaron

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[arch-dev-public] xmms in extra
by Aaron Griffin 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de> wrote: >> Am Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:42:24 -0500 >> schrieb "Eric Bélanger" <snowmaniscool(a)gmail.com>: >> >>> > And the extra -> community makedependencies appear as missing since >>> > community was not considered : >>> > >>> > xosd --> 'xmms' >>> > flac --> 'xmms' >>> >>> The makedepends is to build plugins. It was brought up on the ML >>> before and no-one objected. I maintain xmms in community so I could >>> easily bring it back in extra. With a usage of 16.34 %, I would say it >>> has a place in extra. >> >> xmms would pull gtk that we wanted to drop from extra. > > Well, there is already several packages in extra that depends on gtk. > Unless we want to remove them all, we have no choice but to keep gtk > in extra. So putting back xmms in extra won't really affect the gtk > situation as it will just be another package depending on gtk. I > don't see any problems in keeping gtk/glib in extra. FTR, I am > maintaining them and they are low-maintenance as you would expect. Considering xmms has such high usage (I still have no idea why), we would just be pushing around our personal biases to keep it out of extra. I understand that gtk is crap and we want to get rid of it, but it seems there's a decent amount of stuff that still depends on it. I think we have two options here: * We completely get rid of gtk and all packages which depend on it. * We allow xmms back into extra I'm fine with either one, but I do think it'd be silly not to move xmms to extra based on the usage stats

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[arch-dev-public] Building in chroots
by Allan McRae 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hi, It has come to my attention that some people are not building packages in a clean chroot and others are managing the chroots themselves so I wrote a brief wiki entry on the scripts provided in devtools to do this [1]. Any comments on how to improve it would be appreciated. I have not added a section on using these tools to build i686 packages on x86_64 as I have not attempted that, so if someone could try that out and add it to the page, that would be appreciated. [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot Cheers, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] inetutils-1.5-1
by Eric Bélanger 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hi all, As previously discussed (http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-December/009353.html) I've just added inetutils-1.5-1in testing to implement FS#12281. This new package will provide the following network clients/daemons: ftp/ftpd rexec/rexecd rlogin/rlogind rsh/rshd talk/talkd telnet/telnetd rcp. It will replace the following packages: core/netkit-telnet extra/netkit-ftp extra/netkit-rsh On a related note, netkit-tftp will be remove from the repo in favor of tftp-hpa. The inetutils tools can also profide a tftp client/server. It's currently not included in the inetutils package. We could provide them in a separate package if there is sufficient demand. As inetutils will go to core as it will replace a core package, it will require the usual 2 signoffs. Signoff from users will be appreciated as well as these network tools have a low usage these days. Please indicate what specific client/daemon you tested. Because it's a totally new package, I'll keep it in testing for at least a week to give more time to test. Eric

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version - fixed bugs: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12821 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12816 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12820 please signoff for both arches 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] libarchive 2.6.1
by Dan McGee 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

In testing for both architectures. Upstream announcement: http://groups.google.com/group/libarchive-announce/browse_thread/thread/8c9… -Dan

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