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

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] b43-fwcutter-012-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 May '10

02 May '10

Hi bumped to latest version, please 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] [Patch] devtools: Fixed Makefile to install/uninstall communityco, commitpkg2any and rebuildpkgs
by Eric Bélanger 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hi, Title says all. We should fix the devtools package as the missing communityco is a problem. I don't know why nobody noticed it before. In my case, I had installed communityco manually. The devtools package is currently orphaned. Allan: did you forget to adopt it when switching to the any arch? Eric

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[arch-dev-public] network-plasmoid-svn on extra? (WAS: KDE, Bluetooth and Wifi)
by Andrea Scarpino 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

On 27/05/2009, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > How about adding this to extra? It seems NM is very popular, and until > it is part of kdenetwork we should not force a high percentage of our > users to build it from AUR. we could, I was waiting a stable version. what others DEV think about this? -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup
by Roman Kyrylych 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

Hi all! I wanted to bring this long time ago when I discovered the problem with my old Seagate Momentus 5400.3, but then forgot since my new WD Scorpio Blue is less affected by this. But recently I noticed a couple of reports about the issue on forums and IRC, so I'm bringing this here. The problem is that on some HDDs (and/or with some BIOSes?) HDD head parking is done too often. This can be seen with Load_Cycle_Count in smartctl output being increased quickly (more than once per minute), and heard as relatively frequent clicks during low IO load. More at http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues#Drives_which_perform_freq… Basically, if Load_Cycle_Count divided by Power_On_Hours is more than 30-60 and your HDD is powered for many hours every day - your HDD may reach the limit in a couple of years. More info specifically about WD Green HDDs: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/4/10/1396844/thread https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-bugs/2008-April/035194.html (you can find wdidle3 with google, it's not accessible from WD site). I want to stress that this is _not_specific to WD Green drives. The problem is easy to fix, but that's if you _know_ about it. I think most of users are not aware of it. Now to the point of this message and why it is on this mailing list. What is the best way to handle this? There is a nice script which automatically tunes HDD options to fix this depending on HDD and/or laptop model. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/storage-fixup.git Would it be okay if we package it and put it in core & install CD? Would it be enough to put this information in Official Install Guide? Would it be better to not care that much about this, and only mention it in some wiki page plus link in (Post-)Install Guide? I am really not sure what is the best way here. I'd like to hear your feedback on this. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] librpcsecgss-0.19-1
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi bump to latest version. Please 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] [signoff] iptables 1.4.5
by Ronald van Haren 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

new upstream release, please signoff for both architectures. Ronald

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.0.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.1-1
by Thomas Bächler 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

Damjan Georgievski schrieb: > Just be aware of this problem > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=627145 > > This Arch user lost /dev/tty0,1,2,3 device nodes on boot with 2.6.31 > from the Arch testing repositry. > > A friend of mine also had the same issue with a self compiled 2.6.31. > On my laptop the same config works just fine - the only difference is > he uses highmem=4G, while I don't - I only have 1G ram.. Even our > hardware is allmost the same (thinkpad X60s his is an USA model mine > is a EU model). > > The problem is mentioned here too http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/24/444 > but there hasn't been any response. I was unaware of this, as there is no bug report assigned to me about it. Does this also happen with 2.6.31.1?

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.1-1
by Thomas Bächler 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Kernel is in testing for both architectures, please sign off (at least one for x86_64, two for i686). I think tpowa had the kernel all ready to move to core, except he was waiting for the .1 release, which is there now. The only thing bugging me is http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16149, opinions?

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[arch-dev-public] New core package: wpa_actiond
by Thomas Bächler 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

This is a small daemon that was originally part of autowifi. It will be a depend or optdepend on the next netcfg's auto-wireless mode. This will be a reliable wireless roaming mode. The daemon is somewhat similar to wpa_cli -a $script, but adds logging and avoids race conditions by adding a timeout on disconnection, an idea stolen from ifplugd. Is it okay to bring this to core? Dependencies are only glibc and wpa_supplicant, makedepends just gcc. Package is in testing for review.

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