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

[arch-dev-public] new vi/vim/gvim
by Tobias Kieslich 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Hi guys, just thought I'll let you know that the vi/vim/gvim layout will change again. After some slightly heated discussion and some thinking, I came to the conclusion that we could benefit from some different layout. I'll spare you all the reasons, here is some reading if you are really into it: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13109 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13239 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13240 The new layout is pretty much settled: nvi/core, provides vi,ex and view binary, really tiny vim/extra, only perl support, provides runtime, no X, no whistles gvim/extra, perl,python+ruby and gtk2, depends on vim, replaces the vim binary(as symlink) on install so your terminal vim is more powerful Benefits: - changes of (n)vi in core don't stall vim updates in extra - no vi runtime in core cuts down the install size (about 8MB compressed, 28 deflated) - we have a truely lightweight vim, it's something people really seem to want things left to figure out: I really, really hope the gvim package provides a binary that can be started as vim and runs in a terminal on a computer with no X/gtk2 installed ... I doubt it though. The reason is that I like to provide a fully scriptable vim for sysadmins that requires no X/GTK. Otherwise I could build the vim package with perl AND python support. It's not a big deal but it bumps the binary size from 1.5 MB to 4.5 ... that pretty big. Thoughts, opinions, complaints? -T

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] pam-1.0.4-1
by Tobias Powalowski 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi update 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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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dbus 1.2.4.4permissive-1
by Jan de Groot 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Please signoff dbus-core and dbus 1.2.4.4permissive-1 for both architectures. This will be the last permissive release, when this moves to core, the non-permissive release will move to testing afterwards.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] syslog-ng-3.0.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi guys while looking at those 2 bugs, i just bumped to new syslog-ng 3.x series. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6980 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10776 Changes: - adopted new syntax to config file - disable stats logging by default, it just floods everything with useless stats. - added install message, which mentions syntax change 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] -any arch support
by James Rayner 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

I was wondering, what still needs to implemented to support a -any architecture repo, or if there was any intention to do this. Pacman seems happy to use -any packages. James

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] wpa_supplicant 0.6.8-1
by Thomas Bächler 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

wpa_supplicant declared the 0.6 branch as stable, changes compared to the old version are: - Disabled prism54, hostap, madwifi and IPW drivers, these should all be obsolete and work with the "wext" driver. If any problems occur, I can enable them again, but I think having only wext is enough. - Enabled the new nl80211 driver. This has additional features over the wext driver, like setting the country code (this driver currently only works with compat-wireless or maybe 2.6.29 release candidates) - Enabled readline support for wpa_cli - Enabled WPS (WiFi protected setup), I don't know if anyone really wants that, but it is there now. wpa_supplicant_gui has also been considerably improved. Please sign off.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] coreutils 7.1-1
by Andreas Radke 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

This is the new release declared "stable" by upstream devs after "beta" 7.0 release we left out. I've added info file handling taking care of a possible missing texinfo not sure if it is needed. All patches have been updated to the latest Fedora/Gentoo versions. The formerly preset POSIX behavior should be obsolete now. "tail -x" works well here. Maybe you know for what case it was added in the past. Please do some tests and give me signoffs. -Andy * Noteworthy changes in release 7.1 (2009-02-21) [stable] ** New features Add extended attribute support available on certain filesystems like ext2 and XFS. cp: Tries to copy xattrs when --preserve=xattr or --preserve=all specified mv: Always tries to copy xattrs install: Never copies xattrs cp and mv accept a new option, --no-clobber (-n): silently refrain from overwriting any existing destination file dd accepts iflag=cio and oflag=cio to open the file in CIO (concurrent I/O) mode where this feature is available. install accepts a new option, --compare (-C): compare each pair of source and destination files, and if the destination has identical content and any specified owner, group, permissions, and possibly SELinux context, then do not modify the destination at all. ls --color now highlights hard linked files, too stat -f recognizes the Lustre file system type ** Bug fixes chgrp, chmod, chown --silent (--quiet, -f) no longer print some diagnostics [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1] cp uses much less memory in some situations cp -a now correctly tries to preserve SELinux context (announced in 6.9.90), doesn't inform about failure, unlike with --preserve=all du --files0-from=FILE no longer reads all of FILE into RAM before processing the first file name seq 9223372036854775807 9223372036854775808 now prints only two numbers on systems with extended long double support and good library support. Even with this patch, on some systems, it still produces invalid output, from 3 to at least 1026 lines long. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.11] seq -w now accounts for a decimal point added to the last number to correctly print all numbers to the same width. wc --files0-from=FILE no longer reads all of FILE into RAM, before processing the first file name, unless the list of names is known to be small enough. ** Changes in behavior cp and mv: the --reply={yes,no,query} option has been removed. Using it has elicited a warning for the last three years. dd: user specified offsets that are too big are handled better. Previously, erroneous parameters to skip and seek could result in redundant reading of the file with no warnings or errors. du: -H (initially equivalent to --si) is now equivalent to --dereference-args, and thus works as POSIX requires shred: now does 3 overwrite passes by default rather than 25. ls -l now marks SELinux-only files with the less obtrusive '.', rather than '+'. A file with any other combination of MAC and ACL is still marked with a '+'. * Noteworthy changes in release 7.0 (2008-10-05) [beta] ** New programs timeout: Run a command with bounded time. truncate: Set the size of a file to a specified size. ** New features chgrp, chmod, chown, chcon, du, rm: now all display linear performance, even when operating on million-entry directories on ext3 and ext4 file systems. Before, they would exhibit O(N^2) performance, due to linear per-entry seek time cost when operating on entries in readdir order. Rm was improved directly, while the others inherit the improvement from the newer version of fts in gnulib. comm now verifies that the inputs are in sorted order. This check can be turned off with the --nocheck-order option. comm accepts new option, --output-delimiter=STR, that allows specification of an output delimiter other than the default single TAB. cp and mv: the deprecated --reply=X option is now also undocumented. dd accepts iflag=fullblock to make it accumulate full input blocks. With this new option, after a short read, dd repeatedly calls read, until it fills the incomplete block, reaches EOF, or encounters an error. df accepts a new option --total, which produces a grand total of all arguments after all arguments have been processed. If the GNU MP library is available at configure time, factor and expr support arbitrarily large numbers. Pollard's rho algorithm is used to factor large numbers. install accepts a new option --strip-program to specify the program used to strip binaries. ls now colorizes files with capabilities if libcap is available ls -v now uses filevercmp function as sort predicate (instead of strverscmp) md5sum now accepts the new option, --quiet, to suppress the printing of 'OK' messages. sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum accept it, too. sort accepts a new option, --files0-from=F, that specifies a file containing a null-separated list of files to sort. This list is used instead of filenames passed on the command-line to avoid problems with maximum command-line (argv) length. sort accepts a new option --batch-size=NMERGE, where NMERGE represents the maximum number of inputs that will be merged at once. When processing more than NMERGE inputs, sort uses temporary files. sort accepts a new option --version-sort (-V, --sort=version), specifying that ordering is to be based on filevercmp. ** Bug fixes chcon --verbose now prints a newline after each message od no longer suffers from platform bugs in printf(3). This is probably most noticeable when using 'od -tfL' to print long doubles. seq -0.1 0.1 2 now prints 2,0 when locale's decimal point is ",". Before, it would mistakenly omit the final number in that example. shuf honors the --zero-terminated (-z) option, even with --input-range=LO-HI shuf --head-count is now correctly documented. The documentation previously claimed it was called --head-lines. ** Improvements Improved support for access control lists (ACLs): On MacOS X, Solaris 7..10, HP-UX 11, Tru64, AIX, IRIX 6.5, and Cygwin, "ls -l" now displays the presence of an ACL on a file via a '+' sign after the mode, and "cp -p" copies ACLs. join has significantly better performance due to better memory management ls now uses constant memory when not sorting and using one_per_line format, no matter how many files are in a given directory od now aligns fields across lines when printing multiple -t specifiers, and no longer prints fields that resulted entirely from padding the input out to the least common multiple width. ** Changes in behavior stat's --context (-Z) option has always been a no-op. Now it evokes a warning that it is obsolete and will be removed.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] fakeroot 1.12.2-1
by Andreas Radke 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

This is a minor update to 1.12.2 - the major change I've done is the switch to --with-ipc=tcp communication way that should solve some issues that have come up with recent kde builds. please test if you can still build all your other stuff with it. Attention: Please also take care off all packages that install files with setuid bit set. Take a look at http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13444 ! I could not track down where the issue is and the upstream Debian developer can't reproduce it while Tpowa and some other could. Only x86_64 is affected and sometimes files with setuid set don't get that permission when the pkg gets installed. -Andy upstream changelog: fakeroot (1.12.2) unstable; urgency=low * Replace and (hopefully) fix broken alpha stat version hack in fts_read. -- Clint Adams <schizo(a)debian.org> Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:17:31 -0500

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts 2009.03-1
by Thomas Bächler 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

New initscripts released, here you get the git shortlog: Aaron Griffin (1): Remove the kernel 'quiet' handling for fsck Petar Bogdanovic (1): Allow the user to cancel an fsck Thomas Bächler (2): Fix bug #13205: better random-seed entropy - For the random-seed file location to be more "FHS compliant" is better to put in /var/lib/misc/random-seed (Variable state information, that persists after reboot) than the /var/run/random-seed (Run-time variable data, that not necessarily persists after reboot) for example with /var/run mounted as TMPFS. - The random-seed file permision should be "0600" not "0644" - The size of random-seed acording to random(4) manpage should be the size specified in "/proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize" in other case 512 bytes. Use the device nodes from /lib/udev/devices/* instead of hardcoding them in initscripts. This requires a new udev package (at least 139-1) Tested on x86_64, please sign off.

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[arch-dev-public] Qt 4.5 and its problems
by Pierre Schmitz 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hi all, I just have put Qt 4.5 into testing. It should be compatible to 4.4 in most aspects. But we should have a look at the qt apps and see if anything broke. For example Psi crashes on typing a message when spell cheking was enabled. This could be easily fixed by recompiling it. QtCurve has some problems with the rendering of tabs. But I expect an updated version soon. KDE itself seems to work fine. But there might be some rendering problems especially with plasma. The main problem was phonon: * Qt has its own version of phonon included ** it is slightly different to the one provided by KDE ** KDE cannot compiled against this version (can be fixed by a symlink to the right include dir) * The Qt version only supports the gstreamer backend ** gstreamer seems borken. It is able to play ogg etc. but fails on mpeg/mp3 (I have every plugin installed) * one could enable phonon in qt but remove the relevant files after install. With some symlinking magic and moving files arround this might even work. ** But this would introduce a circual dependency; phonon and qt depend on each other * So, for now phonon is disabled within Qt. The downside is that video support in webkit is disabled, too. But webkit seems to only work with gstreamer anyway. Well, that's the current status. If anyone has a good idea about this let me know. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre(a)jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de

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