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[arch-dev-public] [away] 19/06 - 30/06
by Ronald van Haren 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi all, I'll be in Italy for a work related trip between 19/06 (tomorrow) and 30/06. If someone is in Turin tomorrow let me know, I have quite some hours to kill before I get picked up at the airport to travel further to my destination. Either way, I'm not sure if and how much I'll be connected to the internet as I don't know in what hotel I'll be in and if it has wifi. So I may be inactive or not, I don't know. Cheers, Ronald

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[arch-dev-public] The need for /lib64 - testing please
by Allan McRae 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi all, I was looking at the /lib64 folder and wondering what it is really needed for... It just seems clutter to me on a pure x86_64 system (or even with a multilib in lib32 folders like we have). As far as I can tell, most things are perfectly fine without that folder and its two symlinks. I would like some help testing removing this so I can get an idea of what issues people run into. There is bound to be some software that makes assumptions about /lib64 in its installation and I would like to know (a) how widespread that issue is and (b) how hard it is to work around. If you want to try it out, just remove the /lib64 folder (after making sure it only has symlinks to ld-2.13.so and ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 in it. Run your system as usual for a while and report any issues you come across. Thanks, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7-1, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.85-3, dmraid 1.0.0.rc16.3-2, mdadm 3.2.2-2, v86d 0.1.10-2
by Thomas Bächler 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

This is a huge release and should stay in testing for a while. I want to point out two significant changes: 1) We now have a build() function instead of an install() function - the latter was an unfortunate conflict with the install utility. The hooks in the repository have been adjusted, but backward-compatibility code is in place (a deprecation warning will be printed). All these packages have conflicts=(mkinitcpio<0.7). 2) We now use bsdcpio instead of gen_init_cpio. This obsoletes the gen_init_cpio package and adds a dependency on libarchive. This also speeds up the image generation considerably. Other changes include massive cleanups and fixes, code refactoring, and changes that should finally make the -b (basedir) option useful. Please test and sign off. Here comes the full shortlog: Dave Reisner (52): init: don't attempt modprobe if $MODULES is empty mkinitcpio.conf: s/raid/mdadm/ mkinitcpio: deprecate install() in install hooks dmesg: remove install/hook functions: cleanup and refactor add_binary functions: refactor add_module functions: remove add_device functions: remove add_symlink2 use bsdcpio to create images functions: refactor add_file functions: document hook API mkinitcpio.conf: note implicit support for lzop mkinitcpio: use simple PEs instead of externals mkinitcpio: allow specifying kernel ver as path to image lsinitcpio: new utility to dump contents of images Makefile: refactor and simplify mkinitcpio: bashify preset build loop use consistent vim modelines declare all variables in mkinitcpio mkinitcpio: refactor and bashify early path calculations declare SAVELIST, QUIET, SHOW_AUTOMODS as faux booleans mkinitcpio: remove cruft in getopts loop overhaul output, introducing color functions: refactor add_symlink functions: simplify parse_hook mkinitcpio: bashification, part 1/2 mkinitcpio: bashification, part 2/2 add -t option to specify alternate build directory install/keymap: refactor and bashify mkinitcpio: declare usage as a heredoc remove support for -m to add a startup message install/base: cleanup and simplify functions: remove get_module_name init: declare PATH, remove absolute paths init: remove unnecessary variable declarations mkinitcpio: allow overriding the compression method mkinitcpio: only show usage on request mkinitcpio.5: alphabetize options for easier nav README: update copyright year, add self as author mkinitcpio: catch errors in parse_hook add a PKGBUILD for easier testing from the repo mkinitcpio: allow absolute paths to preset files install/{sata,pata,scsi}: cleanup and simplify properly support $BASEDIR install/autodetect: refactor and simplify hook functions: support $BASEDIR in modprobe Makefile: the Makefile itself is a dep for the manpage functions: add missing 'command' before install functions: s/basedir/BASEDIR/ functions: fix pathing issue with $BASEDIR install/base: use private API call to add config mkinitcpio: fix resolution issues with RTLD Eric Bélanger (1): Added usbinput to default hooks (implements FS#19328) Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (3): Fix some install hooks due recent change in all_modules() Add missing /etc/bash_completion.d in Makefile Add asciidoc as makedepends in private PKGBUILD. Sebastien Luttringer (6): Add bash completion to mkinitcpio Fix printing of bash usage when asking for a bad hook Print pretty message if no help is defined in hook Use error function instead of echo Add lsinitcpio bash completion Use _get_comp_words_by_ref in bash completion Thomas Bächler (7): Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/seblu/arch-mkinitcpio into working Remove old '-m' option from bash completion. emove old '-a' option from bash completion and fix '-s' option. Merge branch 'working' Add .gitignore file install/keymap: fix installation ($buildroot -> $BUILDROOT) Release version 0.7

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[arch-dev-public] raptor/rasqal/redland .so rebuilds moved to testing
by Andreas Radke 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

We had to add ugly compat packages because liblrdf and soprano can't be ported to the latest releases. Please test if anything went broken. The packages shouldn't stay long in testing. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] syslog-ng 3.2.4-2
by Dave Reisner 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

syslog-ng 3.2.4-2 is in [testing]. It's a rebuild with the following changes: * add --enable-systemd flag to ./configure * add upstream patch to fix socket acitvation for systemd * package upstream syslog-ng.service There should be zero impact for users still on sysvinit. Signoff both, Dave

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] shadow-4.1.4.3-2
by Eric Bélanger 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Hi, shadow-4.1.4.3-2 is in testing. I've updated the package to use a svn snapshot. The shadow version (4.1.4.3) currently in the repo is just the 4.1.4.2 version that was released 2 years ago with a security fix. Using a more recent svn snapshot will fix several issues like FS#21951. Debian use the same snapshot for their stable release plus the shadow package maintainer for Debian is also the upstream developper. So it should be pretty stable. :) Other fixes I did: - Removed the obsolete GETPASS_ASTERISKS option from /etc/login.defs (close FS#19207) - Fixed strncpy usage (close FS#23216) - Updated license - Added acl depends Please test and signoff.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] binutils-2.21.1-1
by Allan McRae 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

Upstream bug fix release. Only a few commits ahead of our current 2.21 package given the last CVS snapshot was taken from the 2.21 branch only a couple of weeks ago. So a very minor update for us. Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.39.2-1
by Thomas Bächler 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

Upstream update, please sign off.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] gcc-4.6.1-1, libtool-2.4-4
by Allan McRae 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

gcc-4.6.1-1 - upstream update. libtool-2.4-4 - rebuild for gcc update. Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] readline-6.2.001-2
by Allan McRae 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

Reinstate an .install file for dealing with info pages. This was removed completely back when it was noticed that we needed bash installed to run the install script. And of course, readline is installed before bash, so that lead to issues. However, only post_install() needed removed. post_upgrade() is fine. Signoff both, Allan

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