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

[arch-dev-public] poppler soname bump
by Jan de Groot 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

The poppler/poppler-glib update to 0.14 includes a soname bump for poppler and poppler-glib. Packages depending on these libraries should be rebuilt. I already did all packages in extra, some packages in community still need an update. To track the rebuild, a todo list was created: http://www.archlinux.org/todo/38/ Please rebuild these packages in community-testing and flag them as complete after that.

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-general] Mailman update
by Allan McRae 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

On 24/07/10 02:55, Dan Vratil wrote: > I tried the latest version of mailman (2.1.13) as you suggested. I used the > PKGBUILD from SVN trunk, but I modified it, so that it does not require > /home/mailman and mailman user and group to exist during build and I modified > the mailman.install file so that useradd does not create /home/mailman. > I'm not sure if this ML allows attachments, so the source tarball is on > http://pub.progdan.cz/mailman-2.1.13-1.src.tar.gz if any dev were interested. > > The mailman is working without problems, but making it work was not as simple > as I thought at the beginning :) Our recent wiki page about mailman is > absolutely useless. I would like to update it, put there a guide how to set up > mailman (with postfix), but it's pointless until the package is updated. I have looked at the PKGBUILD and quickly built it. Everything looks good as far as I can tell. The install file still has the old syntax to be removed. Can someone do the needed builds and upload this update to [testing]? Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] gcc-4.5.0-7
by Allan McRae 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

That backport fix is unlikely to land on the 4.5 branch soon unless a release manager approves it as there is a freeze for 4.5.1 which looks to be release in a week or two. Changes: Fix template code expansion (FS#20242) Fix libstdc++ man page source (FS#20249) Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] filesystem 2010.07-1, iana-etc 2.30-1
by Thomas Bächler 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

I split away /etc/{services,protocols} into the iana-etc package, which autogenerates those files from the IANA data in the PKGBUILD. The new filesystem package also removes the 'man3x->man3' symlink, nobody ever knew what it was good for. filesystem now has iana-etc as a dependency, which again has no dependencies. I hope that is fine.

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[arch-dev-public] Python-3.x transition with python-2.7 update
by Allan McRae 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

Hi all, Here comes a rebuild so large that our TODO list had trouble handling it! Hopefully all packages are now in the rebuild list.... At a total of 518 packages long, it puts the combined libpng/libjpeg rebuild to shame. Python-2.7 has been releases and will be the last 2.x official release of python. So it is time to switch to python-3.x as our /usr/bin/python and python-2.7 as our /usr/bin/python2. See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List for all the details about how to achieve this. It is actually not that hard. I had a system converted when python-3.1 was released as a test run. The main key is to build packages in a clean chroot so that they detect and point their files to /usr/bin/python2. Some packages are stupid and require a sed at the end of packaging to fix that. Because this rebuild is crazy stupid, I would like to plan when it is going to occur. We will need to clear out [testing] as much as possible over the coming week or two (what is happening with perl...). Also, a new KDE is a the beginning of next month so I would not want to conflict with that. Any other major rebuilds on the way? Should we do this in a separate repo? Allan

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[arch-dev-public] perl 5.12 status?
by Allan McRae 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

What is going on with the perl-5.12 update in [testing]? Every few days I see rebuilds for a couple of packages with "perl-5.12 rebuild" as the reason yet we have no rebuild list. How much more needs done? Is there any schedule for this making it to the main repos? Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] tzdata 2010k-1
by Andreas Radke 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Time for a new time(zone)... Another minor upstream bump. Please signoff. -Andy The files... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2010k.tar.gz ...and... ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2010k.tar.gz ...are now available; these reflect the changes circulated last week on the time zone mailing list. You can expect an update for Samoa (and possibly for Egypt if better information becomes available) shortly. Folks who want to avoid version thrash may want to wait to update. (Thanks to Abhijit Saha for being the first to catch the j/k error.) --ado

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[arch-dev-public] Update to FluxBB 1.4
by Pierre Schmitz 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hi all, as you should know I have prepared the update to the new version of FluxBB. This is now mostly done except some minor adjustments to the configurable main menu. I have put a rough plan on my user page at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Pierre I have tested this locally and it is more or less painless. The only problem I see is that the update script is quite inefficient; so the forums will be down for an hour or longer. Should we pick a special date here? I'd also need someone who is more familiar with the apache config to alter the permission for some files. Some additional notes: * I didn't get a response from the guy with the duplicate account yet * Obviously some previous migrations failed so I need to cleanup the database schema. (there are duplicate or unused keys) -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] MediaWiki updated
by Pierre Schmitz 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Hi all, I updated MediaWiki due to some security issues. I hope you don't mind that it will look a little different from the other sites for a short time...but I didn't really want to create a new branch just for this. There is a strange problem though: all links are underlined if you are logged in. I don't see this effect locally or on wiki.archlinux.de with the same wiki. Did I miss anything? Some strange caching? Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] Sorta vacation?
by Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

I'm sure that some of you have noticed that I haven't been around quite as much as normal lately. Finally decided that it was time to officially notify you all that I'm sorta inactive for the next week or two. I say 'sorta inactive' because I'm not marking myself inactive (I'll still be here and likely will still be working, and I'll definitely still be on IRC and able to support my PKGBUILD.com users), but I won't have too much time available for rebuilding packages/fixing bugs. I recently took over as CTO and head designer for a social media integration and corporate branding company and the process of settling in and interviewing for the few positions we currently have open is proving extremely time-intensive. I suspect the candidate I interviewed today will be hired on and this will decrease my workload significantly (once she gets past the training and tests). I'm estimating one to two weeks before things have settled down enough for me to consider myself 'back'. In the meantime, please feel free to screw around with my out of date packages and associated bugs.

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