August 2021 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] packager key revokation
by Andrzej Giniewicz 27 Jan '22

27 Jan '22

Hi all, my away time got longer than I expected (announced October 2020). Due to pandemic I still have no access to my Arch machine. I will get back access to it mid July, so this is not a resignation from my TU role! This notice is due to revocation of Bartłomiej Piotrowski's main key. Together with David Runge we decided, that best approach would be to remove my current key, and add a new one when I have access to my Arch machine. We will transfer the trust to a new key then. Hope to get back to packaging stuff soon, I have a lot of ideas I want to try and being stuck with Windows laptop from work is getting on my nerves. See you soon! Cheers, Andrzej Giniewicz (giniu).

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[arch-dev-public] community.files pacman database corrupt
by Pierre Schmitz 21 Dec '21

21 Dec '21

Hi all, Since Aug 30 07:17:11 CEST the "community.files" database (repos.archlinux.org/community/os/x86_64/community.files) seems to be corrupted. The package "ipguard-1.04-6" has an empty "desc" file. The "files" file has content though. Also the regular "community.db" file does seem fine. I also do not see that package being updated or moved. I did not try to regenerate the file yet to not make it harder to find the issue. Greetings, Pierre

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[arch-dev-public] Go 1.17 released - to rebuild or not to rebuild
by Morten Linderud 15 Sep '21

15 Sep '21

Yo, I packaged up the new Go release yesterday and moved it over to stable earlier today. Usually new Go minor releases frequently include new compiler improvements and some assorted runtime changes. Previous releases I have done complete rebuilds of Go packages in our repositories but the reception for these rebuilds have been a bit mixed. People do not really see the need to rebuild $goWorld when packages a compiled and nothing inherently breaks unless there is a rebuild. We don't do this for GCC, Rust and so on. However I do think it's nice to group up these ecosystem changes in one swoop as it spares me from having to repeat myself for the next few months as people occasionally update their Go packages. But on the other hand I'm not super eager to be alone rebuilding all of this either. So what are peoples thoughts on the subject? Go 1.1 release notes: https://golang.org/doc/go1.17 Previous rebuild: https://archlinux.org/todo/go-116-rebuild/ -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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[arch-dev-public] namcap maintainership
by Jelle van der Waa 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Hi All, I find a bit unfortunate to write this email, but I've emailed keenerd one month ago about git.archlinux.org being deprecated and namcap which he maintains being moved to Gitlab. So far I have not received a reply from keenerd. It also seems that namcap has not seen commits in a year and there are patches on the mailing list (arch-projects) for it. [2] [3] I would love to see someone from our team pick up namcap maintainership, take a look at all the pending patches, bugs on the tracker and keep it in shape. Is anyone interested in potentially picking up this task? [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/namcap [2] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2021-January/005411.html [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2020-December/005403.ht… Kind regards, Jelle van der Waa

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[arch-dev-public] 2FA credentials backup
by Kristian Klausen 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Hi all In the past week two staff members have lost their phone and thereby their 2FA credential for accounts.archlinux.org. The DevOps team can remove 2FA if they are provided with a GPG signed mail, but we would prefer not spending time on that. So please consider backing up your 2FA credentials. On Android the following apps support backup: * https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP * https://getaegis.app/ Authy is also worth mentioning although it is proprietary: * https://authy.com/ Best regards Kristian Klausen - DevOps

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[arch-dev-public] Regarding Elasticsearch/Kibana and OpenSearch/OS Dashboards
by Justin Kromlinger 25 Aug '21

25 Aug '21

Hello everyone, I've recently taken a look at Elasticsearch and the Amazon OpenSearch fork. Since the ES and kibana packages has been orphaned on 7.10.1 for a while I've adopted and bumped them to 7.10.2, which is the last version before the license change. Doing so required switching to jdk11 and the included gradle wrapper for builds (if someone wants to maintain gradle6 in community, feel free to contact me about it). I'm going to keep it on <7.11.0 for now so we can provide a FOSS version, which means the beats package should stay on 7.10.2 as well for compatibility reasons. That will change when we push OpenSearch (including it's plugins and OpenSearch Dashboards) to community, since this gives users a FOSS alternative. The reasons for why I don't package OpenSearch right now is that OpenSearch plugins currently can't be installed using the plugin manager and are a PITA to build [0] until the build-tools and other dependencies are published to Maven Central [1]. [0] https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-plugins/blob/main/BUILDING… [1] https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-build/issues/20 Best Regards hashworks -- hashworks Web https://hashworks.net Public Key 0x4FE7F4FEAC8EBE67

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[arch-dev-public] Away for two weeks
by David Runge 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

Hi all, I'll be away for about two weeks and likely not be super active packaging. There are a few TODOs for rebuilds [1][2][3] that I have started, which I may be able to move, but probably not be able to further help rebuild at the moment. Feel free to rebuild out-of-date packages. Note, that juce is still out of date because I wanted to look into applying a few useful things for lv2 compatibility from the distrho fork [4][5] but never really had the time to spend on it. In case anyone is interested in looking into that, it would be much appreciated, too! :) Best, David [1] https://archlinux.org/todo/libiio-022/ [2] https://archlinux.org/todo/capnproto-090/ [3] https://archlinux.org/todo/libnsl-200/ [4] https://github.com/DISTRHO/juce [5] https://github.com/DISTRHO/DISTRHO-Ports/tree/master/libs/juce-current/patc… -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-dev-public] RFC: Move distribution guidelines to a Git repo
by Filipe Laíns 13 Aug '21

13 Aug '21

A new RFC (request for comment) has been opened here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/5 Please visit the above link for discussion. Summary: Put distribution guidlelines in a Git repository and enforce a review process.

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