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glib2 removed from core-testing
by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

glib2 2.86.0-1 was removed from core-testing as it prevented gnome-shell from launching. Please downgrade any updated installs back to core/glib2 2.84.4-2. lib32-glib2 was removed as well.

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systemd v258 pre-releases
by Christian Hesse 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

Hello everybody, the systemd development team has pushed the first pre-release for the upcoming v258 release. It is a massive feature release, with a huge amount of new functionality and goodies. Please see the NEWS [0] for details. As announced in the PKGBUILD [1] I have prepared packages and pushed them to my personal testing repository. Have a look at this if you ware brave and want to have a first look. The comes with an updated mkinitcpio package, cherry-picking systemd-related changes. We should merge these before v258 release. Happy testing! [0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v258-rc1/NEWS [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/systemd/-/blob/ma… [2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/merge_reques… -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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New way to support Arch Linux: GitHub Sponsors
by Levente Polyak 04 Sep '25

04 Sep '25

Hey everyone, We've got a new way for you to support Arch Linux and help us pay our bills: GitHub Sponsors! https://github.com/sponsors/archlinux/ All funds go to our existing fiscal host at SPI, just like with PayPal or credit card donations: https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/archlinux/ Your support means the world to us, not just financially but also by being an active part of our community. We're super grateful and send love to our community 🫶. Let's keep this distro rolling together. 🚀

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Standardize on running autoreconf in prepare()
by Jelle van der Waa 01 Sep '25

01 Sep '25

Hi All, After all the recent RISC-V news I went ahead and checked out the existing effort to get Arch Linux supported on RISC-V. Felix maintains an overlay of PKGBUILDs which require customization to be be able to build on RISC-V. A lot of these PKGBUILD's patch autotools projects to run `autoreconf -fiv` in prepare(), this re-generates `configure` to understand RISC-V. Since these patches are simple enough and I don't see them harming Arch Linux, I would argue that we want these patches applied in our packages. Re-generating configure should not break, and if it does we should not accept the patch and get a bug filled upstream. Re-creating configure and thus not using the provided `configure` could arguably also be a good thing regarding supply chain security. And this also should help with other architecture ports. As a follow up we can discuss providing our own "/usr/share/config.site" and then ./configure --prefix=/usr would automatically configure localstatedir, libexecdir, etc. [1] https://github.com/felixonmars/archriscv-packages [2] https://github.com/felixonmars/archriscv-packages/blob/master/libafterimage…

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