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

[arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officially?
by Pierre Schmitz 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hi all, some of us already commit xz compressed packages, others don't. We didn't really decide on this yet. So, is there a reason not to recommond every TU and Dev to change PKGEXT to .pkg.tar.xz? We might also want to write a little announcement to inform users about this change. While most of them wont be affected, some would have to adjust their custom scripts. And for those who use netinstall on a 2009.02 or older iso would have to run pacman -Syu once to get a version of libarchive which is able to deal with xz. If wanted I also could add a check to devtools which issues a warning if xz is not used. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [draft] Switching to xz compression for new packages
by Pierre Schmitz 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hi all, as people keep asking me about this it a news item seems still to be a good idea. -- About a month ago we updated our tools to support packages that are compressed with the xz format, also known as LZMA2. Compared to gzip this will decrease package size significantly; about 30% smaller or even more depending on the data. If you want to compress your packages with the new format change the "PKGEXT" variable in the makepkg.conf of your build environment to '.pkg.tar.xz'. Our tools like dbscripts, devtools, namcap and of course pacman are able to process these packages. If you use any custom scripts which match "*.pkg.tar.gz" files, make sure to change the pattern to "*.pkg.tar.*". To allow a smooth update for older installations pacman, pacman-mirrorlist, libarchive, libfetch and xz-utils are kept in gz format. (This is achieved by adding "PKGEXT='.pkg.tat.gz'" to their PKGBUILDs) -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-3
by Pierre Schmitz 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

So, there was some back and forth with openssh's init script. I rolled back to the previous one that we had used for a long time. We should put that one in core for now to make sure a running ssh session doesn't get killed on a restart: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18611 Once this is done I'll leave it to the maintainer to work on a method which also fixes http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17138 Please sign off, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] gdbm 1.8.3-7
by Allan McRae 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Changes: - Fix linking: run "ldd -r /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3.0.0" on old package to notice lots of undefined symbols - Put headers in more correct locations (removes need to patch e.g. python to find headers). Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] sqlite3 - 3.6.23-1
by Andreas Radke 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

New minor upstream bugfix release. Please signoff. -Andy SQLite Release 3.6.23 On 2010 March 09 (3.6.23) Changes associated with this release include the following: * Added the secure_delete pragma. * Added the sqlite3_compileoption_used() and sqlite3_compileoption_get() interfaces as well as the compile_options pragma and the sqlite_compileoption_used() and sqlite_compileoption_get() SQL functions. * Added the sqlite3_log() interface together with the SQLITE_CONFIG_LOG verb to sqlite3_config(). The ".log" command is added to the Command Line Interface. * Improvements to FTS3. * Improvements and bug-fixes in support for SQLITE_OMIT_FLOATING_POINT. * The integrity_check pragma is enhanced to detect out-of-order rowids. * The ".genfkey" operator has been removed from the Command Line Interface. * Updates to the co-hosted Lemon LALR(1) parser generator. (These updates did not affect SQLite.) * Various minor bug fixes and performance enhancements.

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[arch-dev-public] heimdal-1.3.2 rebuild
by Allan McRae 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Hi, In typical heimdal fashion, the update from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2 contains a soname bump (libkrb5). I have made a todo list for the packages in [core] and [extra]. Can someone scan [community] for me? It looks like the rebuild does not overlap the ongoing gmp5 rebuild and heimdal 1.3.2 contains security fixes so I would like to get on with soon. If there are no objection, initial rebuilds will appear in the next couple of days. Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] usbutils-0.87-1
by Tobias Powalowski 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

Hi guys, 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] glib2 2.22.5-1
by Jan de Groot 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

Upstream update: * Bugs fixed: 568760 nautilus freezes due to a bug... 609813 Renaming a file discards file notes 611696 gio uses GetAddrInfo which requires special handing... 552912 glib-2.18 /live-g-file/test_copy_move failed... 609143 *result_uncertain is never assigned in g_content_type_guess 609531 missing licence headers 610860 test_g_file_open_readwrite fails if $HOME is unwritable 612702 Fix GSocket-related crash on Windows

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] hdparm-9.28-1
by Tobias Powalowski 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

Hi guys, 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] dbus-core 1.2.22
by Jan de Groot 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

Please signoff for both architectures. Changelog: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2010-March/012395.html

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