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

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] groff 1.20.1-2
by Aaron Griffin 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Minor change to the local site-tmac files related to the recent man-db inclusion. I shut off groff's "SGR" color codes by default, as nothing seems to use them right. Instead of defining GROFF_NO_SGR to shut off SGR, define GROFF_SGR to turn it on if you need it. Debian and Mandriva also seem to do the same - you get much more valid results searching for GROFF_SGR than GROFF_NO_SGR

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-db 2.5.4-1
by Andreas Radke 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

- this is a new upstream release promising to improve groff 1.20.1 support. should also fix paging russian man pages http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7477 - fixed a typo in the install msg We should now be ready to push it to core replacing former "man". If russian encoding is still not perfect we can improve it later (it's currently broken as well). -Andy https://launchpad.net/man-db/main/2.5.4 man-db 2.5.4 This release adds support for regular expression and wildcard searches in man, and for disabling hyphenation; it fixes a few bugs in manual page ordering and fixes lexgrog's parsing to stop on any unrecognised request; and it improves support for the recently-released Groff 1.20. Fixes: ------ o Build fixes for systems without GNU Make, and for systems without gettext; this successfully covers at least FreeBSD. o The distclean target now works if po4a isn't installed. o Exit as soon as possible if database writes return ENOSPC. o lexgrog now stops on any unrecognised roff request, rather than continuing and often littering the database with garbage. o man no longer requires both standard input and standard output to be terminals in order to use the terminal line length. The line length from standard output is preferred if available. o The manpath was built completely wrongly when multiple entries were present in LANGUAGE: duplicates were handled strangely, and languages were effectively iterated in reverse order. It should be rather more sensible now. Improvements: ------------- o The MAN_KEEP_STDERR environment variable can now be used to override man's default of discarding stderr when stdout is a terminal. o Handling of terminal widths for cat pages is now configurable, using the MINCATWIDTH, MAXCATWIDTH, and CATWIDTH configuration file directives. o 'man -a' now detects duplicate manual page candidates more reliably, and sorts them better. o Belarusian, Estonian, Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Romanian, Slovenian, and Ukrainian pages are now supported. o man can now search for pages using regular expressions (with --regex) or shell wildcards (with --wildcard). By default this searches both page names and descriptions, like apropos, but if the --names-only option is used then it searches page names only, like whatis. o man can now tell nroff to disable hyphenation if the --no-hyphenation option is used. o man-db already searched for manual pages in ../man and man directories relative to each $PATH component; it now searches in ../share/man and share/man directories too. o Groff 1.20 was recently released, including the 'preconv' preprocessor. Although man-db has supported preconv to some extent since 2.4.4, man-db's configure now detects its presence and infers that groff supports Unicode input using it; man also now takes slightly better advantage of preconv than before. o Per-locale groff macros are now loaded if possible, allowing us to take advantage of such things as localised versions of predefined strings and language-aware hyphenation. This only works with Groff 1.20.2 or better (not yet released), since earlier versions did not allow us to suppress warnings in the event that the appropriate macro file is not available.

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[arch-dev-public] Moving libofx to extra
by Aaron Griffin 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hey guys, Just wanted to see if anyone has a problem with me pulling libofx from community to extra for gnucash. It will allow gnucash to read/import/whatever OFX files and seems fairly useful for the people using gnucash. Any issues with this?

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[arch-dev-public] ifconfig/route to iproute2
by James Rayner 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10160 Attached is a patch for initscripts git, updated from the bug report. netcfg has support in git. Remaining notes: - ip is presently located in /usr/sbin. This may be an issue. - ip appears to not need any special arguments for ipv6, so ipv6 checks have been removed. Anyone using ipv6 that can confirm? - As with original patch, bonding and bridging not tested. James ps: rc.d/network is much cleaner than last time I saw it. Good work to whoever tidied it up.

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[arch-dev-public] catalyst-beta removed/take care of illegal stuff!
by Andreas Radke 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Today I asked Allan to remove 2 packages from AUR: catalyst-beta and catalyst-utils-beta. I know the situation of the catalyst driver packages isn't in the best state. But breaking laws and license agreements can't solve this in a proper way and we cannot allow to host this on our servers. All members of the AMD/Ati beta project have to sign briefly an agreement to not publish any online location where to get the source, not publish any issues and errors that come up and they even aren't allowed to publish anything about performance changes. Of cause you aren't allowed to give any 3rd person the beta installer directly. The packages in AUR had links to leaked sources directly included. All I know this is also breaking their licenses. That's why we removed these packages. TUs: Please have a look at what comes up in AUR and ask if you find something you are not sure if it allowed to be there. @all: don't blame me for taking you that possibility from you. Go and send a nice thanks to AMD for not doing public beta tests. We - the dev team will soon have to decide about future handling of the stable but almost always broken situation of AMD drivers. -AndyRTR

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] sqlite3 3.6.11-1
by Andreas Radke 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

upstream bump + 2 new options for threading issues for http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12887 please do some tests, especially on smp systems. -Andy SQLite Release 3.6.11 On 2009 Feb 18 (3.6.11) Changes associated with this release include the following: * Added the hot-backup interface. * Added new commands ".backup" and ".restore" to the CLI. * Added new methods backup and restore to the TCL interface. * Improvements to the syntax bubble diagrams * Various minor bug fixes A complete list of SQLite releases in a single pages is also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/timeline.

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[arch-dev-public] Scripting large rebuilds
by Aaron Griffin 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hey guys, Does anyone have any scripts that they use for mass-rebuilds (such as the readline rebuild)? I would like to get more tools of the sort into devtools, so want to see if anyone has anything existing that I could import / use for this purpose. If not, I will write one to do this with makechrootpkg (yay, chroots) to make this easier. Cheers, Aaron

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[arch-dev-public] xorg status (upcoming in testing)
by Jan de Groot 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

I would like to inform people about the current status of X.Org on archlinux. At this moment, we have some client libraries and protocol definitions in extra targeted at xorg-server 1.6 already. I've been busy with xorg-server 1.5.99.903 today, which is supposed to be the last release candidate before 1.6 comes out. So far, the packaging looks good, but there's some nasty side-effects on this upgrade: - all input drivers need a rebuild - all video drivers need a rebuild Besides these rebuilds, I think we're going to have problems with binary drivers again. X will refuse to load them, unless you tell it to ignore ABI mismatches. I will be pushing xorg-server 1.5.99.903 or 1.6 to testing this week together with libdrm 2.4.4, mesa 7.3 and a rebuild+update of all free drivers in our repositories.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] grep 2.5.4-1
by Andreas Radke 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

new upstream release. please signoff. I only added the info file and fixed license. -Andy Version 2.5.4 - This is a bugfix release. No new features.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.7-1
by Tobias Powalowski 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version 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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