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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] make-3.82-2
by Allan McRae 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Upstream fixes for issues with make-3.82. This should fix all build issues reported due to make-3.82. Any remaining issues are probably not make's fault but need to be addressed in the software being built... Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] tcp_wrappers- does anyone actually use it?
by Dan McGee 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Guys, For the umpteenth time today I stared at ssh wondering why it wasn't accepting incoming connections until I remembered about tcp_wrappers junk, and put the standard "sshd : ALL : allow" line in hosts.allow. Does anyone use this for anything useful at all? 1. The package is now at version 7.6-12 (clearly it is getting a lot of upstream attention) 2. We have 11 patches applied to the package 3. It is inferior to iptables-based filtering 4. It is not very transparent Discussion welcome, but I am raising a vote to remove this dependency from packages currently using it (hopefully this is possible for all 21 of them, http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/tcp_wrappers/) and eventually remove it from core and the repositories. -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] Broadcom releases a mac80211-based GPL2 driver for the 802.11n wireless chipsets
by Thomas Bächler 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

After http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/07/20/microsoft-contributes-to… in 2009, pigs start flying again in 2010: Broadcom has released a driver for their newer 802.11n wireless chipsets that is - licensed under GPL2 - based on the linux-wireless mac80211 framework - already included into linux-staging-next, which means it will be available as a staging driver in 2.6.37 and it will be polished to be included into the usual linux-wireless tree This is great news for everyone, as this means you can soon just buy any laptop without having to worry about wireless chipset issues (Dell usually uses those chips, but they are not the only ones). For more information and the happiness of the linux wireless developers, see: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/55418

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[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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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] logrotate-3.7.9-1
by Allan McRae 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Upstream update. Signoff both, Allan.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] wpa_supplicant 0.7.3
by Thomas Bächler 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

The 0.7 branch of wpa_supplicant is now the stable branch. This is the first Arch package for the new branch, so please test this carefully and sign off. x86_64 has been successfully tested by yours truly with netcfg and wpa_actiond, on a WPA2-PSK network.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] hdparm-9.32-1
by Tobias Powalowski 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hi guys, 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] linux-firmware 20100911-1
by Thomas Bächler 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Upstream changes: David Woodhouse (2): Remove executable bit from iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode Remove executable bit from ueagle-atm/DSP4p.bin Henry Ptasinski (1): Firmware for brcm80211 driver Jon Mason (1): vxge: Add driver firmware Rajkumar Manoharan (1): ath9k_htc: Update AR7010 firmwares Sujith (1): ath9k_htc: Add firmware for AR7010 dann frazier (1): Add firmware for QLogic Intelligent Ethernet (3000 and 3100 Series) Adapters

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] flex-2.5.35-4
by Allan McRae 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Flex has not seen a release in a long time and has a couple of issues that should be fixed (e.g. FS#20908). Apply the patchset from Fedora (all also used in Debian). Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Allan McRae 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

Hi, I have pushed the new python (3.1) and python2 (2.7) packages to the new [staging] repo so rebuilds can start there. Remember the staging repo should never be used outside a build chroot... If you do, everything python related will break on your system. TUs will not be able to start uploading rebuilds yet as they do not have a staging equivalent, but we will sort something out for them once we get all the db-scripts/devtools changes tested for the main one first. The package pool is going to save us a heap of issues when this gets moved so it is worth the wait. The key things to remember with the rebuild are: - build in clean chroots. Most packages will detect "python2" or "python-2.7" once they see no "python" and use that. Some will need simple patching. - change your dependencies to python2 - check files for #!'s with "/usr/bin/python" or "/usr/bin/env python". If you have those you will need to do a sed to change them to python2. If you come across a package that you can not easily fix, add it to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List#Packages… and I will take a look at it. Have fun, Allan

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