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

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] attr 2.4.43-1
by Thomas Bächler 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Upstream update, please sign off.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] iw 0.9.9-1, crda 1.0.1-1
by Thomas Bächler 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Upstream updates to iw, crda and the wireless-regdb, please sign off (tested by me on x86_64).

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[arch-dev-public] Changing raid/raid-partitions initcpio hooks
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi guys, while experimenting with different raid setups in kvm, i found out our raid support is not really ideal. The status now: - raid hook(inlcuded in mkinitcpio package) does assemble normal raid: but if a drive fails it will fail to boot after it. i'm not 100% sure if it can handle all types of raid levels, partitionable mdp raid doesn't work at all with this hook for sure. - raid-partitions(included in mdadm package) can only assemble 1 raid partition array, which is imho bad you should be able to assemble more than one raid partition device from commandline, if you wish to do so. - UUID is not supported in any of both. Suggestion: Shouldn't we replace all this with 1 hook which can handle all these cases? Now comes the point, to achive this, mdadm will be needed in initramfs which means having a 900k static binary in early boot sequence. (raid-partitions hook already uses this binary) The trick i thought of, would be to generate dynamically a mdadm.conf file from boot commandline, which will use the old syntax of assembling + adding a new syntax for UUID support. Sample code is uploaded here: http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/mdadm.hook (not yet tested to boot a system, it's sample code!) Problems: Should this replace an existing hook or a be brand new hook? What should happen to the other hooks, in order to not break a user setup. Doing it with a NEWS Item and a installation message should be fine imho. What do you guys think of this? Thanks for your input. 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] ncurses-5.7-2.1
by Allan McRae 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Signoff for ncurses-5.7-2.1 on x86_64 only. It seems most major distros use --chtype=long for their x86_64 ncurses builds due to binary compatibility with old versions of ncurses. So, some binary blobs may need this (see FS#13351). The wide character library (that all our packages are linked against), is not changed. I would like a signoff from someone using a binary blob that links to ncurses. Allan

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[arch-dev-public] away
by Ronald van Haren 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hey guys, I'll be away for a small ski-ing trip starting tomorrow night (February 24th). I'll return next Sunday, March 1st. Although I bring my laptop, I probably won't have internet access during that time. Ronald

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-db 2.5.4-2
by Andreas Radke 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

- add "base" group - fix typo in install msg solves http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13590 Please signoff. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-pages 3.19-1
by Andreas Radke 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

minor upstream update. please signoff. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] faad2/ffmpeg/x264 update/rebuild
by Eric Bélanger 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Hi, There will be an upcoming update to faad2, ffmpeg and x264. Both faad2 and x264 will have an soname bump so a rebuild will be neccessary. I'll do the rebuilds. I'll also check for updates and trivial bug reports to do at the same time.. The packages that will be rebuilt are: ==faad2 rebuild avidemux cmus faad2 ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins mpd muine mythmusic streamripper vlc xine-lib ==x264 rebuild avidemux ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins motion mplayer opal transcode vlc x264

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[arch-dev-public] Integrity Check x86_64 27-02-2009
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

======================================== = Integrity Check x86_64 of core,extra = ======================================== Performing integrity checks... ==> parsing pkgbuilds ==> checking mismatches ==> checking archs ==> checking dependencies ==> checking makedepends ==> checking for circular dependencies Missing Dependencies ---------------------- archboot --> 'netkit-telnet>=0.17-8' archboot --> 'wlan-ng26>=0.2.9-2' archboot --> 'atl2>=2.0.5-2' Missing Makedepends --------------------- crda --> 'python-m2crypto' wpa_supplicant --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' gnome-speech --> 'espeak' Repo Hierarchy for Makedepends -------------------------------- core/sqlite3 depends on extra/tcl core/iputils depends on extra/opensp core/iputils depends on extra/libxslt core/iputils depends on extra/docbook-xsl core/madwifi-utils depends on extra/sharutils core/e2fsprogs depends on extra/bc core/ca-certificates depends on extra/ruby core/madwifi depends on extra/sharutils Circular Dependencies ----------------------- gcc-gcj>eclipse-ecj>gcc-gcj Summary --------- Missing PKGBUILDs: 0 Invalid PKGBUILDs: 0 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 0 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 0 Invalid archs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 6 Repo hierarchy problems: 8 Circular dependencies: 1

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[arch-dev-public] Integrity Check i686 27-02-2009
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

====================================== = Integrity Check i686 of core,extra = ====================================== Performing integrity checks... ==> parsing pkgbuilds ==> checking mismatches ==> checking archs ==> checking dependencies ==> checking makedepends ==> checking for circular dependencies Missing Dependencies ---------------------- archboot --> 'netkit-telnet>=0.17-8' archboot --> 'wlan-ng26>=0.2.9-2' archboot --> 'atl2>=2.0.5-2' Missing Makedepends --------------------- crda --> 'python-m2crypto' wpa_supplicant --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' gnome-speech --> 'espeak' Repo Hierarchy for Makedepends -------------------------------- core/sqlite3 depends on extra/tcl core/iputils depends on extra/opensp core/iputils depends on extra/libxslt core/iputils depends on extra/docbook-xsl core/madwifi-utils depends on extra/sharutils core/e2fsprogs depends on extra/bc core/ca-certificates depends on extra/ruby core/madwifi depends on extra/sharutils Circular Dependencies ----------------------- gcc-gcj>eclipse-ecj>gcc-gcj Summary --------- Missing PKGBUILDs: 0 Invalid PKGBUILDs: 0 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 0 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 0 Invalid archs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 6 Repo hierarchy problems: 8 Circular dependencies: 1

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