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

[arch-dev-public] Torrent tracker
by Aaron Griffin 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

So I setup (with the help of Pierre) a torrent tracker on sigurd, located at tracker.archlinux.org Pierre has pointed his tracker DNS to ours, so it should be our single tracker now. It is setup with a whitelist, so an admin needs to add the torrent hash if new additions are necessary. The torrent hash can be sniffed from a torrent file using `transmissioncli -i FILENAME` As of right now it's tracking whatever the archlinux.de tracker had (archboot ISOs mostly) and the official RC1 ISOs. Let me know if you have any questions or issues. - Aaron PS I'm seeding the RC1 ISOs from home

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[arch-dev-public] pkgstats pruned
by Pierre Schmitz 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hi, FYI: I truncated the pkgstats table (made a backup before). As we had no history of the data the stats were getting more and more useless. Maybe we can add this feature some day. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [draft] KDE 4.3: packaged and split
by Pierre Schmitz 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hi, This is a draft for a little announcement about the KDE 4.3 packaging changes. If nobody complains I'd like to put this online quite soon. -- The new major release of KDE does not only include exciting upstream improvements and new features but also introduce a new set of packages that makes it possible to only install those applications you like. All important changes in short: * split packages; for more Information see http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE_Packages and http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Splitting_KDE * Qt uses the Gstreamer backend for Phonon by default. Other backends like phonon-xine can be installed optionally. * Meta packages ensure a smooth upgrade and emulate the old monolith packages for those who prefer them. Important hints for upgraders: * Check if your mirror is up to date. * pacman will ask you to replace all kde packages with kde-meta packages. * Don't force an update. 'If pacman complains about conflicts please file a bug report. * You can remove the meta packages and the sub packages you don't need after the update. * If you don't like split packages just keep using the kde-meta packages. Information about upstream changes will be available at http://kde.org/announcements/4.3/ -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 3.3.0
by Dan McGee 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Signoff for pacman/makepkg 3.3.0. Notable things: * once this goes in, we can officially start doing split packaging and build()/package() usage in our PKGBUILDs. * this is basically a signoff for libfetch too, and you can remove libdownload from your system. Allan (and others)- I added a carbon copy version of makepkg.conf to SVN. Do we want to establish (1) Arch LDFLAGS or (2) Arch integrity check policy? -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] New DB scripts are live
by Aaron Griffin 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Both gerolde (archlinux.org) and sigurd (aur.archlinux.org) now have the new DB scripts Important changes include support for "any" architecture packages (yay) and split packages. Please report any issues in the bug tracker

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[arch-dev-public] KDE 4.3: update notice for testing and kde-unstable users
by Pierre Schmitz 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi all, if you did have the previous non-really-split kdeplasma-addons installed from kde-unstable and testing you need to remove it before updating to KDE 4.3 from extra: pacman -R kdeplasma-addons You can reinstall the group afterwards. This is because I removed the replaces from kde-meta and as a result you'll end up with file conflicts. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] ViewVC URLs for splitted packages
by Roman Kyrylych 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi! The View SVN Entries link for splitted packages is broken. For example: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/kde-meta-kdeplasma-addons/ The link on that page points to http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/kde-meta-kdeplasma-addons/repos/extra… but because it is a splitted package the SVN tree can be viewed at http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/kde-meta/ Any ideas how this can be solved? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-announce] KDE 4.3: packaged and split
by Roman Kyrylych 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 04:02, Recent News Updates<announce(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Pierre Schmitz wrote: > The new major release of KDE does not only include exciting upstream improvements and new features but also introduces a new set of packages that makes it possible to only install those applications you like. All important changes in short: * split packages; for more Information see http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE_Packages and http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Splitting_KDE * Qt uses the Gstreamer backend for Phonon by default. Other backends like phonon-xine can be installed optionally. * Meta packages ensure a smooth upgrade and emulate the old monolith packages for those who prefer them. Important hints for upgraders: * Check if your mirror is up to date. * pacman will ask you to replace all kde packages with kde-meta packages. * Don't force an update. 'If pacman complains about conflicts please file a bug report. * You can remove the meta packages and the sub packages you don't need after the update. * If you don't like split packages just keep usi > ng the kde-meta packages. Information about upstream changes will be available at http://kde.org/announcements/4.3/ > > URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/455/ Is it possible to fix formatting in these autosent messages? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] The KDE 4.3 update for packagers
by Pierre Schmitz 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi Devs and TUs, with the recent KDE update the packages were split up. All packages in extra should be updated but if you maintain a KDE related package please check. Try to reduce the deps (use namcap) and replace a dep to kdegraphics with the needed sub packages. At least a KDE pacakges which has some standalone app should depend on kdebase-runtime (namcap wont tell you) In addition to this phonon is included into Qt now. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] licenses 2.5
by Dan McGee 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Fixes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14027 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14827 Also adds FDL 1.3. -Dan

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