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

[arch-dev-public] Cronjob for regular git garbage collection
by Thomas Bächler 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

When I broke our projects.archlinux.org vhost, I noticed that cloning git via http:// takes ages. This could be vastly improved by running a regular cronjob to 'git gc' all /srv/projects/git repositories. It would also speed up cloning/pulling via git://, as the "remote: compressing objects" stage will be much less work on the server. Are there any objections against setting this up?

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] pam-1.1.0-1
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Hi new major latest version, please test it well and signoff. I have one open feature request on pam: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13591 I don't know if we should change the default provided upstream here. Changelog: Release 1.1.0 * Update translations * Documentation updates and fixes Release 1.0.92 * Update translations * pam_succeed_if: Use provided username * pam_mkhomedir: Fix handling of options Release 1.0.91 * Fixed CVE-2009-0579 (minimum days limit on password change is ignored). * Fix libpam internal config/argument parser * Add optional file locking to pam_tally2 * Update translations * pam_access improvements * Changes in the behavior of the password stack. Results of PRELIM_CHECK are not used for the final run. Release 1.0.90 * Supply hostname of the machine to netgroup match call in pam_access * Make pam_namespace to work safe on child directories of parent directories owned by users * Redefine LOCAL keyword of pam_access configuration file * Add support for try_first_pass and use_first_pass to pam_cracklib * Print informative messages for rejected login and add silent and no_log_info options to pam_tally * Add support for passing PAM_AUTHTOK to stdin of helpers from pam_exec * New password quality tests in pam_cracklib * New options for pam_lastlog to show last failed login attempt and to disable lastlog update * New pam_pwhistory module to store last used passwords * New pam_tally2 module similar to pam_tally with wordsize independent tally data format * Make libpam not log missing module if its type is prepended with '-' * New pam_timestamp module for authentication based on recent successful login. * Add blowfish support to pam_unix. * Add support for user specific environment file to pam_env. * Add pam_get_authtok to libpam as Linux-PAM extension. * Rename type option of pam_cracklib to authtok_type. Changes to initcpio pcmcia hook were needed and added in git tree, on next mkinitcpio bump they will be included. - udev rules and helper programs are now installed to /lib/udev/ 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] mdadm-3.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff. Due to lack of hardware also users can signoff. Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. One thing i observed, when using a custom /etc/mdadm.conf file our rc.sysinit will run mdadm --assemble --scan, which will always give exit code 2, due to devices busy. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] zipman in pacman.conf
by Allan McRae 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi, Looking at the list of packages with uncompressed man pages [1], there are quire a few recently built packages... So this is just a reminder that we should all have zipman set in our makepkg.conf (including in our build chroots). [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Unimportant_Rebuild_List#… Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] tzdata 2009q-1
by Andreas Radke 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

New upstream release. Please signoff. -Andy The file... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2009p.tar.gz ...is now available; this reflects the Argentina (including San Luis) changes circulated on the time zone mailing list last week (with the correction from Mariano Absatz). Now that 2009p has all the changes affecting current stamps, I'll be moving on to stuff affecting past and future time stamps. Expect a 2009q next week, but if you're only interested in current stuff, 2009p should do the job. --ado The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2009q.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2009q.tar.gz ...are now available; these reflect the changes circulated last week on the time zone mailing list (with two corrections as reported by Eric Muller and Philip Newton). --ado

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] pcmciautils-016-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff. Changes to initcpio pcmcia hook were needed and added in git tree, on next mkinitcpio bump they will be included. - udev rules and helper programs are now installed to /lib/udev/ greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] moving slimserver to AUR
by Andrea Scarpino 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I want to remove slimserver from [extra]. It is orphaned and depends on perl-compress-zlib that is in AUR. Any objection? -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] device-mapper & lvm2 2.02.54
by Eric Bélanger 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi, device-mapper & lvm2 2.02.54 are now in testing. Changes: * Upstream update * Enabled the device-mapper event daemon * Moved the udev rule from /etc to /lib Please test and signoff. Signoffs from users would be appreciated. Eric

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dmraid-1.0.0.rc16-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff. Due to lack of hardware also users can signoff. Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] WARNING: openntpd upgrade breaks openssh on next restart
by Vesa Kaihlavirta 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hey, I made a screwup on the openntpd package which nastily reveals a weakness in openssh and filesystems. I moved away from using /var/empty/ as a privsep directory, and removed the directory from the package. But since it's empty, it got removed from the system as well in the upgrade. So if you're using openntpd and openssh, BE EXTRA CAREFUL with your next upgrade. openssh does not start if /var/empty/ is not there. Quick fix: after doing pacman -Suy, do mkdir /var/empty as root. Longer fix: openssh, or perhaps the filesystems package should create /var/empty/ and put a hidden file in it so idiots like me won't cause accidents in the future. --vk

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