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

[arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup
by Roman Kyrylych 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

Hi all! I wanted to bring this long time ago when I discovered the problem with my old Seagate Momentus 5400.3, but then forgot since my new WD Scorpio Blue is less affected by this. But recently I noticed a couple of reports about the issue on forums and IRC, so I'm bringing this here. The problem is that on some HDDs (and/or with some BIOSes?) HDD head parking is done too often. This can be seen with Load_Cycle_Count in smartctl output being increased quickly (more than once per minute), and heard as relatively frequent clicks during low IO load. More at http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues#Drives_which_perform_freq… Basically, if Load_Cycle_Count divided by Power_On_Hours is more than 30-60 and your HDD is powered for many hours every day - your HDD may reach the limit in a couple of years. More info specifically about WD Green HDDs: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/4/10/1396844/thread https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-bugs/2008-April/035194.html (you can find wdidle3 with google, it's not accessible from WD site). I want to stress that this is _not_specific to WD Green drives. The problem is easy to fix, but that's if you _know_ about it. I think most of users are not aware of it. Now to the point of this message and why it is on this mailing list. What is the best way to handle this? There is a nice script which automatically tunes HDD options to fix this depending on HDD and/or laptop model. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/storage-fixup.git Would it be okay if we package it and put it in core & install CD? Would it be enough to put this information in Official Install Guide? Would it be better to not care that much about this, and only mention it in some wiki page plus link in (Post-)Install Guide? I am really not sure what is the best way here. I'd like to hear your feedback on this. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] openvpn 2.1_rc20-1
by Thomas Bächler 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

Upstream update, please sign off (due to the low usage of this package among developers, I also ask users to sign off).

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] iw 0.9.17-1
by Thomas Bächler 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

Upstream update, please sign off (due to the low usage of this package among developers, I also ask users to sign off).

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] sqlite3 3.6.19-1
by Andreas Radke 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

new upstream release. please signoff. -Andy SQLite Release 3.6.19 On 2009 Oct 14 (3.6.19) Changes associated with this release include the following: * Added support for foreign key constraints. Foreign key constraints are disabled by default. Use the foreign_keys pragma to turn them on. * Generalized the IS and IS NOT operators to take arbitrary expressions on their right-hand side. * The TCL Interface has been enhanced to use the Non-Recursive Engine (NRE) interface to the TCL interpreter when linked against TCL 8.6 or later. * Fix a bug introduced in 3.6.18 that can lead to a segfault when an attempt is made to write on a read-only database.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] libgpg-error 1.7-2
by Andreas Radke 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

new upstream release. (we keep the static lib for cryptsetup.static) Noteworthy changes in version 1.7 (2008-11-26) ---------------------------------------------- * Minor fixes and a few new error codes. * Interface changes relative to the 1.6 release: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GPG_ERR_NOT_OPERATIONAL NEW GPG_ERR_NO_PASSPHRASE NEW GPG_ERR_NO_PIN NEW please signoff, it's used by libgcrpt. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] Completing support for Mono
by Daniel Isenmann 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi, at the moment the mono packages are spread across our repos (extra, community and some AUR packages). I would like to complete and concentrate our support and adding some new packages to [extra]. As you can see (here: http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources-stable/ ) these are the complete official mono sources. I would like to add all (only the missing) packages of the following groups to [extra]: - Mono (only gluezilla is missing) - XSP/mod_mono (already in [extra]) - Development Tools (mostly already added) - MonoDevelop (some packages are in community (orphaned) or AUR) - Other (in AUR) I will maintain all of the packages and keep them up-to-date. Any objections or opinions? -Daniel

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[arch-dev-public] Moving a package from [community] to [extra]
by Daniel Isenmann 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi, at the moment I'm sitting and try to finalize my "Completing mono support"-"Task". I would like to move monodevelop (which is orphaned) and some of its bindings to [extra]. Is it possible to move a package from [community] to [extra], or have I do it manually? Cheers, Daniel

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] librpcsecgss-0.19-1
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi bump to latest version. Please signoff 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] dialog-1.1_20080819-3
by Allan McRae 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Added --enable-nls configure option to get translations (FS#16523). Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] Integrity Check x86_64: core, extra, community 16-10-2009
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

================================================== = Integrity Check x86_64 of core,extra,community = ================================================== Performing integrity checks... ==> parsing pkgbuilds ==> parsing db files ==> checking mismatches ==> checking archs ==> checking dependencies ==> checking makedepends ==> checking hierarchy ==> checking for circular dependencies ==> checking for differences between db files and pkgbuilds Duplicate PKGBUILDs --------------------- /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/pitivi vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/pitivi /srv/abs/rsync/any/extra/i8kmon vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/extra/i8kmon /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/extra/foomatic-db vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/extra/foomatic /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/extra/foomatic-db-engine vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/extra/foomatic /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/extra/foomatic-db-nonfree vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/extra/foomatic /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/extra/foomatic-filters vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/extra/foomatic /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/extra/libcups vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/extra/cups Missing Dependencies ---------------------- community/eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' extra/archboot --> 'libdownload>=1.3-3' extra/bmpx --> 'gstreamer0.10-alsa' extra/bmpx --> 'gstreamer0.10-cdparanoia' extra/bmpx --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' extra/slimserver --> 'perl-compress-zlib' Missing Makedepends --------------------- extra/kdelibs3 --> 'autoconf<2.64' extra/v86d --> 'kernel26<2.6.30' Repo Hierarchy for Dependencies --------------------------------- extra/haskell-hashed-storage depends on community/haskell-zlib (0 extra (make)deps to pull) extra/munin-node depends on community/perl-net-server (0 extra (make)deps to pull) extra/neverball depends on community/physfs (1 extra (make)deps to pull : docutils) Repo Hierarchy for Makedepends -------------------------------- core/ca-certificates depends on extra/ruby (25 extra (make)deps to pull) core/crda depends on extra/python-m2crypto (26 extra (make)deps to pull) core/e2fsprogs depends on extra/bc (0 extra (make)deps to pull) core/groff depends on extra/ghostscript (143 extra (make)deps to pull) core/groff depends on extra/netpbm (45 extra (make)deps to pull) core/groff depends on extra/psutils (144 extra (make)deps to pull) core/iputils depends on extra/docbook-xsl (27 extra (make)deps to pull) core/iputils depends on extra/libxslt (25 extra (make)deps to pull) core/iputils depends on extra/opensp (29 extra (make)deps to pull) core/sqlite3 depends on extra/tcl (0 extra (make)deps to pull) core/udev depends on extra/gperf (0 extra (make)deps to pull) core/udev depends on extra/libxslt (25 extra (make)deps to pull) extra/dbus-python depends on community/docutils (0 extra (make)deps to pull) extra/gnome-speech depends on community/espeak (2 extra (make)deps to pull : portaudio docutils) Packages found in db, but not in tree --------------------------------------- extra/thunderbird-af extra/thunderbird-be extra/thunderbird-bg extra/thunderbird-ca extra/thunderbird-cs extra/thunderbird-da extra/thunderbird-de extra/thunderbird-el extra/thunderbird-en-gb extra/thunderbird-es extra/thunderbird-es-ar extra/thunderbird-eu extra/thunderbird-fi extra/thunderbird-fr extra/thunderbird-ga extra/thunderbird-he extra/thunderbird-hu extra/thunderbird-it extra/thunderbird-ja extra/thunderbird-ko extra/thunderbird-lt extra/thunderbird-mk extra/thunderbird-nb extra/thunderbird-nl extra/thunderbird-nn extra/thunderbird-pa extra/thunderbird-pl extra/thunderbird-pt extra/thunderbird-pt-br extra/thunderbird-ru extra/thunderbird-sk extra/thunderbird-sl extra/thunderbird-sv extra/thunderbird-tr extra/thunderbird-uk extra/thunderbird-zh-cn extra/thunderbird-zh-tw Packages found in tree, but not in db --------------------------------------- extra/openoffice-en-US Summary --------- Missing PKGBUILDs: 0 Invalid PKGBUILDs: 0 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 0 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 7 Invalid archs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 8 Repo hierarchy problems: 17 Circular dependencies: 0 In db, but not in tree: 37 In tree, but not in db: 1

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