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

[arch-dev-public] Correct hostname configuration
by Pierre Schmitz 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Hi all, we just figured out that the new dbscript don't work on sigurd because the use hostname -s to determine on which host they are running. On sigurd this return just "localhost". I now wonder if the /etc/hosts file on sigurd is correct. E.g. I use this config: #<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname> 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.2 server.archlinux.de server hostname -s is server and hostname is server.archlinux.de While on sigurd this is used: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost sigurd 208.92.232.29 aur.archlinux.org hostname is sigurd and hostname -s is localhost. I am not sure about this; maybe both are wrong. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] New repositories (community-staging, multilib-testing)
by Thomas Bächler 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

The TU server now has a staging repository, this has been requested due to the big python rebuild. All rebuilds that are made for the staging repository should be put into community-staging now. multilib now has a testing repository, in case we need it (especially useful when testing has a new toolchain). Last but not least, the adjust-permissions cronjob has been disabled on both servers - should you mess with the db file directly (which you really shouldn't), never forget to restore the right permissions.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1
by Pierre Schmitz 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Hi all, this will hopefully the last update of xz for some time. :-) Maybe this is a sign for the final 5.0 version to be near. I am now using the (very strange) upstream versioning scheme. Please test it, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio-busybox 1.17.2-1
by Thomas Bächler 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Upstream update: We switched to the now "stable" 1.17 branch. Please sign off.

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[arch-dev-public] CJK fonts in [extra]?
by Gaetan Bisson 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Hi all, I'd like to add truetype fonts that provide Chinese/Japanese/Korean glyphs to [extra]. Besides TTF files, the packages would include a configuration file for /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ which would be linked to from /etc/fonts/conf.d/ by the install script, so that the font is automatically used for glyphs not provided by "higher-priority" fonts such as ttf-dejavu. For instance, I've adapted the AUR package ttf-sazanami which provides a nice font supporting Japanese characters: http://arch.vesath.org/ttf-sazanami-20040629-4.src.tar.xz Any comment or reason why I shouldn't do this is welcome! :) Best. -- Gaetan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] sudo-1.7.4.p4
by Allan McRae 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Upstream security fix release: This release fixes a security issue with respect to the handling of sudo's -g command line option when -u is also specified. The flaw may allow an attacker to run commands as a user that is not authorized by the sudoers file. For more details, see: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/runas_group.html Some quick signoffs would be good... Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] mirror db died?
by Roman Kyrylych 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

What happened with our mirror db? I go to the admin interfase and don't see it anymore. There was a report from our tier1 mirror that rsync access is denied, so I guess rsync.conf is broken now due to this. Whoever has an access to the db please take a look. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Hi bump to latest version, 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] [signoff] xz 4.999.9beta-7
by Pierre Schmitz 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

So, here is another xz release. The upstream change from pkgrel=6 that actually changes relevant code among some translation fixes is "xz: Use an array instead of pointer for stdin_filename." Please sign off, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] cairo xcb backend
by Jan de Groot 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Today Cairo 1.10.0 was flagged, so it's time to update soon again. I don't know when I will introduce the new package, as I'm still working on passing the test suite included in it. Some of the tests fail here, some even crash. One thing that will definitely change is the included xcb backend. At this moment we include --enable-xcb, which is an unsupported and experimental feature. The XCB backend hasn't seen recent development, causing weird rendering bugs and sometimes even crashes. I would suggest to ship cairo 1.10.0 without the XCB backend. This means that any package that depends on the XCB backend (awesome mainly) will no longer work with our cairo package. To justify this decision, I would like to point out a comment in the Redhat bugtracker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465759#c23

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