January 2010 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed
by Thomas Bächler 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Quoted from http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17298 (which is also to be used for feedback, besides the threads on these mailing lists): So, now something can be tested. I recommend using it in conjunction with testing/udev only: [kill-klibc] Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kill-klibc/i686/ or [kill-klibc] Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kill-klibc/x86_64/ The standard hooks work, so do keymap, lvm2, encrypt. What does NOT work is raid/mdadm/dmraid and root on NFS. I would appreciate any input and patches w.r.t. those, as well as any testing. The v86d package also needs to be fixed, but that is trivial. device-mapper, lvm2 and cryptsetup have a weird "1.local" pkgrel so they won't collide with the ones from the repo, sorry if that bothers anyone. If you upgrade to this repositories, your existing mkinitcpio will be replaced and all klibc packages will be gone too. So, if you try it, please save your existing initramfs to a different filename as a fallback, and do not perform kernel upgrades until you either confirmed that it works, or downgraded to the klibc-based mkinitcpio.

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Hi bump to latest version, xfsprogs-3.1.1 (29 January 2010) - Fix various blkid topology support problems in mkfs.xfs. - Fix various build warnings. - Add automatic build dependency calculations. - Cleaner build system output. - Add missing aclocal m4 file to the package generation. - Arrange for release tags to be digitally signed. please signoff both arches, thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] LTS install ISOs (was: makechrootpkg without aufs2)
by Aaron Griffin 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de> wrote: > Am Sonntag 24 Januar 2010 schrieb Aaron Griffin: >> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de> wrote: >> > When this change happens, shall we drop the aufs patch too from kernel? >> > I don't use it at all. >> >> Not just yet, the ISOs use aufs, and there's no real good system to replace >> that >> > Ok, just an other thing, > shall i add aufs patch to the lts kernel if we bump it to .32? > Just in case to be able to provide lts install isos. Hmmm. LTS install ISOs is an interesting idea, but not sure how people feel about that. I mean, the kernel for the install ISO is just the running kernel. You can still install the LTS kernel from a non-LTS ISO. Does anyone have a strong opinion on this?

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[arch-dev-public] tcp_wrapper issues
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi guys, I have 2 tcp_wrapper bugs assigned to me. I think i have tcpwrappers adopted because of rebuilds long time ago. Could someone look at them? I would be also fine with giving the package to someone else. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16048 #ipv6 support http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17502 #compile options 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] mdadm-3.1.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi Changelog: http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=blob;f=ANNOUNCE-3.1.1;h=9e480dc0e31582… Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. Moved udev rule for md devices to mdadm package. In case of moving, both need to be moved simultaniously. Still an issue in initscripts: One thing i observed, when using a custom /etc/mdadm.conf file our rc.sysinit will run mdadm --assemble --scan, which will always give exit code 2, due to devices busy. 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] bash-4.1.002-2
by Allan McRae 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Bump the readline dependency version to 6.1 as people seem to want to update only select packages on their system and upgrading to bash-4.1 without readline-6.1 causes "fun"... (FS#18051). Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dialog-1.1_20100119-1
by Allan McRae 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Upstream update. Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] inetutils 1.7-2
by Eric Bélanger 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi, inetutils-1.7-2 is in testing. The localstatedir was fixed (FS#17981). Please test and signoff. Users signoff will be appreciated as not a lot of devs use these tools. Eric

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev 151-2
by Thomas Bächler 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

This fixes a bug in the new firmware loader: Whenever a firmware file was missing, the firmware loader did not properly report an error to the kernel, thus modprobe stalled for 60 seconds. Most notably, this happens with "microcode", as it looks for firmware files that never existed and probably never will exist. Please sign off.

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-dev] [signoff] netcfg v2.5.1
by James Rayner 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:34 +1100, "James Rayner" <james(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > new netcfg in [testing] ready for signoff. > > > Also, news item for the release follows below: > > netcfg v2.5.1 > > This release brings a completely new auto wireless/wired configuration. > The old net-auto is deprecated and no longer included. There are also > some very minor configuration changes that may affect a few people. > > Move to new auto-wireless/wired > The new automatic connection has proper roaming support and will prove > more reliable than the old setup - particularly with more complicated > wireless configurations. > To migrate to the new automatic wireless setup: > 1. pacman -S testing/wpa_actiond > 2. Set WIRELESS_INTERFACE="" to your wireless interface in /etc/rc.conf. > For example WIRELESS_INTERFACE="wlan0" > 3. Add net-auto-wireless to your DAEMONS=() array. > > Note: wpa-config profiles do not work with this, convert them to > wpa-configsection profiles. An example is included in > /etc/network.d/examples/ > > The new auto-wired uses similar configuration - follow the above > instructions except use the net-auto-wired daemon, and WIRED_INTERFACE > configuration option. > > New features: > - net-auto-wireless/wpa_actiond - Real wireless roaming/auto connection. > Based on same principle as autowifi. Requires optional dependency: > wpa_actiond > - net-auto-wired - automatic ethernet configuration. Requires optional > dependency: ifplugd > - Interface configurations - set options for all profiles using an > interface > - Output hooks > - Internal cleanup & improvement > > Internal changes: > - Uses wpa_supplicant for all wireless configuration by default, > including wep/none security. This adds improves support for most and > should improve reliability. > - Uses iproute by default for all static configuration. net_tools > which contains ifconfig is effectively obsolete and hasnt seen a > release for over 8 years. The 'ethernet-iproute' and 'ethernet' > connection types have been merged together to simply 'ethernet'. All > options are still supported and existing configurations will continue > to work for both types. A symlink has been made to ensure that > profiles using 'ethernet-iproute' will continue to function. > > Changes in configuration syntax > - net-auto and AUTO_NETWORKS is now deprecated in favour of > net-auto-wireless/net-auto-wired. > - wireless: If you were previously specifying the wpa_supplicant driver > in WPA_OPTS, you now need to specify it in WPA_DRIVER. > - wireless: iwconfig based configuration for wep/none can be used by > changing to wep-old or none-old. This should not be necessary and is > left in place only for the possibility of very old drivers that do not > support wpa_supplicant. > - ethernet-iproute: As 'ethernet' is now iproute based, those using > 'ethernet-iproute' can revert the name. There is a symlink in place, so > existing configurations of either name will continue to function > regardless. > - wireless-dbus: Unsupported. The wpa_supplicant dbus interface isn't > particularly well documented and it doesn't fit well into the netcfg > codebase. There is a symlink in place so that configurations using > wireless-dbus will continue to function using the 'wireless' connection > scripts. > > Download: > netcfg 2.5.1 is in [core]. > Source: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/netcfg/netcfg-2.5.1.tar.gz > PKGBUILD: In subversion > > Documentation: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles > > Contributors: > I had a few big contributors to this release: > Jim Pryor: Many internal changes and improvements > Thomas Bächler: wpa_actiond based auto roaming/connection > Thanks guys! > > Bugs: > On the bug tracker as always. Oops, sent to arch-dev.

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