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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.76-1
by Eric Bélanger 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi, lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.76-1 are in testing. Please test and signoff. Signoffs from users are welcome. - Minor upstream update. ChangeLog below. Version 2.02.76 - 8th November 2010 =================================== Clarify error messages when activation fails due to activation filter use. Add pacemaker script VolumeGroup.ocf with configure --enable-ocf. Import make.tmpl into include/ Makefile. Fix handling of online filesystem resize (using new fsadm return code). Add DIAGNOSTICS section to fsadm man page. Modify fsadm to return different status code for check of mounted filesystem. Update VG metadata only once in vgchange when making multiple changes. Allow independent vgchange arguments to be used together. Automatically unmount invalidated snapshots in dmeventd. Suppress some superfluous messages from clang static analysis. Fix a deadlock caused by double close in clvmd. Fix NULL pointer dereference on too-large MDA error path in _vg_read_raw_area. Use static for internal _align_chunk() and _new_chunk() from pool-fast.c. Fix vgchange to process -a, --refresh, --monitor and --poll like lvchange. Add lvm2app functions to query any pv, vg, or lv property / report field. Version 1.02.57 - 8th November 2010 =================================== Fix regex optimiser not to ignore RHS of OR nodes in _find_leftmost_common. Add dmeventd -R to restart dmeventd without losing monitoring state. (1.02.56) Fix memory leak of field_id in _output_field function. Allocate buffer for reporting functions dynamically to support long outputs.

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[arch-dev-public] O'Reilly book: Making Software
by Aaron Griffin 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

My boss just brought this book over to my desk. It's one of those theory books that's all about measuring lines of code and whatnot. But the reason he brought it over, is Chapter 8: "Beyond Lines of Code: Do We Need More Complex Metrics?". Two pages in, it begins with: **Measuring the Source Code** We have selected for our case study the ArchLinux software distribution (http://archlinux.org) which contains thousands of packages, all open source. ArchLinux is a lightweight GNU/Linux distribution whose maintainers refuse to modify the source code packaged for the distribution, in order to meet the goal of drastically reducing the time that elapses between the official release of a package and its integration into the distribution. ... Because of the size of ArchLinux, using it as a case study gives us access to the original source code of thousands of open source projects, through the build scripts used by ABS (see Example 8-1) The chapter goes on with statistics and all that junk. They're not studying Arch, but using Arch as a launch pad for getting large amounts of open source source code for analysis. The numbers are interesting: The ArchLinux repositories contained 4096 packages (as of April 2010), with some of the packages being different versions of the same upstream project. After removing different versions, we obtained a sample of 4015 packages, containing 1272748 source code files. Among all those files, 576511 were written in C. However, there were repeated files. In the overall sample, only 776573 were unique files; in the C subsample, only 338831 were unique files. From these unique C files, 212167 were nonheader files and 126664 were header files.

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[arch-dev-public] boost 1.45 rebuild
by Ionuț Bîru 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi, i just pushed in staging repository boost 1.45. Note to all packagers that they need to rebuild their packages against staging directory. I've saw a trend in the past then staging was used that they didn't enabled staging when building. -- Ionuț

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[arch-dev-public] How to manually add or remove packages from the repos
by Pierre Schmitz 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi Devs and TUs. in same rare cases it is needed to manually add or remove packages from our repositories regardless what is in SVN. ATM theses cases are due to e.g. svn crashing and leaving us with an inconsitent state or when some split packages have been removed from a new version of the pkgbuild. However, using repo-add or repo-remove on the dbfiles is a bad idea as they don't lock the db files and don't set the correct permissions. In short, just don't even think about doing that. :-) I have added some simple wrapper which are /arch/db-repo-add and /arch/db-repo-remove. Usage is: * db-repo-add <pkgfile> <repo> <arch> * db-repo-remove <pkgname> <repo> <arch> with pkgname being a single package name (not pkgbase) and pkgfile the full path to a single package. arch is one of i686, x86_64 or any. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [pam/consolekit] Help needed for desktop permission handling
by Andreas Radke 21 Nov '10

21 Nov '10

While packaging Xfce 4.7 I had to find a way to allow the desktop user to shutdown/reboot(consolekit), hibernate/suspend(upower),mounte removable devices(udisks). Recent display managers (gdm, kdm and lxdm) can handle their own polkit/consolekit session through pam access. The gnome/xfce4-session packages only have basic access to consolekit and since the consolekit 0.4.2 in testing they can't deal with it anymore. As a workaround I have plans to ship files in xfce4-session as proto files where the admin can add users or groups to allow certain actions: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.upower.pkla and /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.consolekit.pkla and maybe one for udisk something like https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42669 . This could also be done each in the consolekit/upower/udisks packages. But all this is crap working around some nasty bugs in our pam pkg not allowing direct access to consolekit. Please have a look at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17188 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21391 Pam has an update pending (also fixing security related issues) and quiet a lot open bugs: https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=pam&project=1&search_name=&type… So please someone with time and knowledge may have look (Tobias P. doesn't seem to have the time for this). If we can't menage to fix this until the Xfce release I'd like to know what you think could be a good and safe workaround (recommending power/storage groups?). Note: Gentoo seems also running into this pam/consolekit issue. Not sure about Ubuntu and Fedora(that does heavy pam configurations). -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] vpnc 0.5.3-3
by Pierre Schmitz 21 Nov '10

21 Nov '10

A core cleanup/rebuild. Please sign off. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Fetch the right architecture when a repo contains dash
by Andrea Scarpino 21 Nov '10

21 Nov '10

--- archbuild | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/archbuild b/archbuild index 55c4633..925d072 100755 --- a/archbuild +++ b/archbuild @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ if [ "${cmd%-*}" == 'multilib' ]; then base_packages+=' gcc-multilib libtool-multilib' else repo=${cmd%-*} - arch=${cmd#*-} + arch=${cmd##*-} fi chroots='/var/tmp/archbuild' clean_first=false -- 1.7.3.2

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] which-2.20-4
by Stéphane Gaudreault 21 Nov '10

21 Nov '10

* Rebuild of old package * Tidy up PKGBUILD Please signoff both. Thanks Stéphane

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] gawk-3.1.8-2
by Stéphane Gaudreault 21 Nov '10

21 Nov '10

* Rebuild of old package * Tidy up PKGBUILD * Fix FS#17312 Please signoff both. Thanks Stéphane

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] automake-1.11.1-2
by Stéphane Gaudreault 21 Nov '10

21 Nov '10

* Rebuild of old package * Tidy up PKGBUILD Please signoff both. Thanks Stéphane

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