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[arch-dev-public] Install messages
by Dan McGee 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

I'm counting on Gmail to wrap these messages the same way they looked in my console- they look like junk when you don't keep them to 80 characters/line. Yes, people still use terminals that wide, as most of the time they are opened to that width by default. As a general guideline, can we try to keep them to 80 characters/line please? 85 is just silly when it would be easy to trim it down a few words or rewrap the lines correctly. -Dan ATTENTION UDEV: ---------- Support for non-devtmpfs self-compiled kernels have been moved to udev-compat. -- Blacklisting of framebuffer devices has moved from /etc/modprobe.d to /lib/modprobe.d Any customizations shoud be done to the file in /etc, as it takes precedence. -- kbd and rtc devices are no longer world readable. -- rtc is no longer in the audio group and fb devices are no longer in the video group (permissions and ownership of fb devices are controlled by X). ---------------

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] netcfg 2.6.4-1
by Rémy Oudompheng 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hello, I have just released netcfg 2.6.4. As I think the amount of outstanding bugs inside is pretty negligible, I suggest starting a signoff thread for inclusion into [core]. Then I will start working on including pending new features for 2.7 release. Highlights of netcfg 2.6.4 are a shining new netcfg-profiles(5) man page, that gathers the (previously non-existent ethernet(5) and wireless(5) man pages). - The netcfg(8) man pages has been translated back to markdown/pandoc syntx for easier updates. - The netcfg-profiles(5) man page documents many options of the various available connection types, and should complement the provided examples. It should plug the usual criticism about netcfg's documentation being very hard to find. It is expected that the 2.6.4 release is the final one in the 2.6.x series. This release works for me in standard ethernet and WPA modes, using DHCP, so I sign it off. -- Rémy.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] usbutils-003-1
by Tobias Powalowski 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hi guys, latest upstream release, usbutils 003 ============ Diego Elio Pettenò (1): build-sys: properly enable support for zlib in lsusb please signoff both arches 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] file-5.07-4
by Allan McRae 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

This fixes issues with detection of zip files with "file" and "file -i" (FS#24571). Uses an upstream patch which reverts the previous upstream patch we were applying and actually fixes the issue this time... Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support
by Dave Reisner 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

I'd like to pick up something Dan proposed about a year ago, which is dropping support for tcp_wrappers. Its last official upstream release was 1997, and we currently add 10 patches to it from 3 different distros in order to make it compile, fix bugs, and add features (ipv6). We also add in an odd default of ALL: ALL in the config file, meaning that the first thing most people do on a new arch system is add a line to /etc/hosts.allow along the lines of 'sshd: ALL' (or just delete the blanket deny. To my knowledge, there isn't anything tcp_wrappers does that iptables can't do more eloquently, and without the need to be linked against an external library. Therefore, I'd like to propose that we just dump this. The rebuild list would be small, at 20 packages: archboot dante esound exim gdm inetutils libmysqlclient mailutils net-snmp nfs-utils openldap openssh quota-tools rrdtool socat stunnel syslog-ng tftp-hpa vsftpd xinetd Is there any pressing reason to hang onto this aging library? Regards, Dave

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[arch-dev-public] Move kdelibs3 to [community]
by Andrea Scarpino 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Hi DEVs, I'd like to move kdelibs3 to [community] as it is only needed by qalculate-kde and ksensors in [extra] and, if their maintainers agree, I want to move/remove these packages too. - qalculate-kde main developer works on the calculator plugin for krunner[1], and doesn't think to port qalculate to Qt4. - ksensors can be replaced by the System Monitor Temperature plasmoid in the systray and maybe there are others I don't know of. [1] http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner#Using_as_a_calculator -- Andrea

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] syslog-ng 3.2.4-3
by Dave Reisner 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

This is just a rebuild to remove the libwrap dependency. Please test and signoff. Dave

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[arch-dev-public] rename python3-numpy to python-numpy (FS#23139)
by Stéphane Gaudreault 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Hi, I will upload python 3.2.1 tomorrow. There is no rebuild required for this python update, but I would like to "fix" FS#23139 (i.e rename python3-numpy to python-numpy in [staging] and create the usual todo list to update/rebuild dependencies). Any objections? Stéphane

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[arch-dev-public] Fwd: Server error!
by Aaron Griffin 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

I'm not sure who else gets the 'webmaster' emails, but this came through today. You can view old revisions, via: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Beginners%27_Guide&oldid=123706 But the diffing mechanism seems broken after you go back far enough... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: member graysky <graysky(a)archlinux.us> Date: Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:22 AM Subject: Server error! To: webmaster(a)archlinux.org Try to browse to an older (6+ mo or so) version of the Beginner's Guide and you'll get an Error 500. It has been doing this for a few days now. Example: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Beginners%27_Guide&diff=144861&o… "Server error! The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 500 wiki.archlinux.org Tue Jul 12 06:19:04 2011 Apache"

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-172
by Tom Gundersen 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Hi guys, A new udev version is in [testing], please test and signoff. Packaging changes: ============ Support for non-devtmpfs /dev is now moved from udev to udev-compat. This leaves only one static devices node (loop0) in the main udev package. This is needed due to broken design in the kernel, which hopefully one day should be fixed. Further deletion of arch specific rules: No more symlinks for cdroms (only a small subset of cdroms were given symlinks, this was inconsistent, so stop doing that). Framebuffer devices are no longer in the video group. Permissions and ownership of framebuffer devices are handled by X, so having udev rules which has no effect is just confusing (in case users want to change the group, the need to do it in xorg.conf). rtc and kbd devices are no longer world readable. Having kbd world readable looks like an invitation for key-loggers. rtc is no longer in the audio group. This does not make much sense, and the same change was made by other distros a long time ago. Framebuffer blacklisting: The blacklist file is moved from /etc/modprobe.d to /lib/modprobe.d, where it belongs. This means we can update the file without creating .pacsave files, and if a user wants to override the file it should be done by copying the file to /etc and editing it there (this file is no longer under the control of pacman). In other words, the modprobe .conf files work in the same way as the udev .rules files. Upstream changes: ============ Udev now enables kernel media-presence polling if available. Part of udisks optical drive tray-handling moved to cdrom_id: The tray is locked as soon as a media is detected to enable the receiving of media-eject-request events. Media-eject-request events will eject the media. Libudev enumerate is now able to enumerate a subtree of a given device. The mobile-action-modeswitch modeswitch tool was deleted. The functionality is provided by usb_modeswitch now. -- In addition two bugs were fixed upstream after being found by Arch user James Morris; and support for referencing disks by PARTUUID were added after a suggestion from Arch user Keshav P. R. (this should be useful for mkinitramfs). Well done guys! Cheers, Tom

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