April 2022 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-dev-public] openssl 3.0
by Pierre Schmitz 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hi Jelle, (also forwarding to dev-public) definitely yes, OpenSSL 3.0 is on my wish list! :-) I did not want to jump on it at day one though. Even the last minor updates were quite painful and we still have packages requiring version 1.0 and are still not compatible with 1.1. While they claim that most packages should work with a recompile, it would be nice to actually know which packages are not compatible. This should help whether we need another compatibility package are would be able to just replace openssl 1.1 with version 3. I know about foutrelis' awesome rebuilder script, but I wonder if we have something similar that I just could run for half a day to get an idea which package would break and which wont? Like a dry run that wont commit anything. If no such thing exists yet, I might have a look myself. Greetings, Pierre On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 9:14 PM Jelle van der Waa <jelle(a)vdwaa.nl> wrote: > > Hi Pierre, > > Shall we start an openssl 3.0 rebuild soon? Fedora/Debian/Alpine seens > to have already started. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OpenSSL3.0 > > Greetings, > > Jelle -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

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[arch-dev-public] possible mkinitcpio-31-3 package
by Tobias Powalowski 09 May '22

09 May '22

Hi folks, I would like to bring a new mkinitcpio package to [testing], to finally cleanup my archboot initcpio workaround hacks. Adressing the following issues on FS: - Adding NEW parameter MODULES_DECOMPRESS to mkinitcpio.conf: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/72882 The old behaviour of decompressing modules stays the default - Adding full symlink support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73493 - Allow reproducable builds in case of /var/cache exists in initramfs: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73817 - Added zst firmware compression support for future kernel versions The proposed patch to add is located here: https://pkgbuild.com/~tpowa/symlink-compression.patch Thanks for your feedback. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Arch Linux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) https://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org St. Martin-Apotheke Herzog-Georg-Str. 25 89415 Lauingen https://www.st-martin-apo.de info(a)st-martin-apo.de

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[arch-dev-public] Upcoming PHP 8.1 update
by Pierre Schmitz 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Hi all, a little heads up as it takes longer than expected. I'll start the PHP 8.1 update and the required rebuilds soon. I noticed some unexpected incompatibilities and I'd like to look into these first. I'll also evaluate if we could drop the php7 packages at the same time. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

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[arch-dev-public] News draft: QEMU >= 7.0.0 may need manual intervention
by David Runge 23 Apr '22

23 Apr '22

Hi all, with qemu 7.0.0 now in [staging] we have a more extensive split package setup (see accompanying TODO [1]). Under certain circumstances this will require manual intervention (or rather a specific upgrade) to regain the previous functionality: ``` With the update to qemu 7.0.0 the package has been turned into a more fine grained split package. The `qemu` package now only carries a few common files and tracks all of its leaf packages as optional dependencies. Much of the previous summarized functionality is now available via meta packages: * The functionality of `qemu` prior to 7.0.0 is replaced by `qemu-desktop` (**the transition to this package is manual**!) * The functionality of `qemu-headless` prior to 7.0.0 is replaced by `qemu-base` (the transition to this package is automatic). * The functionality of `qemu-arch-extra` and `qemu-headless-arch-extra` prior to 7.0.0 is replaced by `qemu-emulators-full` (the transition to this package is automatic). Furthermore, the meta package `qemu-full` provides all qemu related packages (excluding `qemu-docs`). As such, users that relied on the functionality of the `qemu` package prior to 7.0.0 should update using `sudo pacman -Syu qemu-desktop`. ``` Best, David [1] https://archlinux.org/todo/qemu-700-packaging-changes/ -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-dev-public] Spring cleanup '22
by Antonio Rojas 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Hello, Spring (in the northern hemisphere) is here and with it our yearly orphans cleanup. Please head to https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ and adopt packages that you'd like to keep in the repos. This is also a good oportunity to disown any packages you no longer want to maintain, so others can adopt them or they can be dropped if nobody is interested. If any non-dev TU wants to maintain some orphan in [extra], reply here and I'll move it to [community]. I will start dropping the leftovers to AUR in about 10 days.

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Re: [arch-dev-public] Bi-weekly arch-repo-management meeting
by David Runge 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

On 2022-04-06 15:49:54 (+0200), Luna Jernberg wrote: > Hey! > Will miss the meeting today, and missed the one 2 weeks ago (if there was > one?) > But would gladly read the writeup or see a recording when i have time Hi! Yes, see the mail on archlinux-projects [1]. However, I might be a few minutes late myself. :) Best, David [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2022-March/005435.html -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-dev-public] Arch Linux in March 2022
by Levente Polyak 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

## Staff We would like to welcome sudoforge among the Trusted Users [0]. ## RFC We have ratified a RFC to store upstream signing keys alongside the packaging sources [1]. This will allow easier successive builds without the need to continuously rely on remote keyservers to retrieve the upstream signing keys. ## security-tracker After a lot of work and with the amazing help of multiple people we have finally finished the SSO integration of our security tracker [2][3]. This is one step closer to a uniform authentication and role management across our services. Furthermore several incompatibility changes have been resolved which finally allowed us to upgrade to SQLAlchemy 1.4. [0] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2022-March/036842.html [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/11 [2] https://github.com/archlinux/arch-security-tracker/pull/181 [3] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/merge_requests/545

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