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[arch-dev-public] news item draft: /dev layout cleanup
by Allan McRae 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi all, Getting around to this again.... [draft] /dev layour cleanup The /dev layout has been cleaned up to comply to the device names specified in the Linux kernel documentation. We had some legacy left from our devfs days, which has now been removed. The most obvious change from a users perspective is the vc/*->tty* transition. The initscripts-2007.08 update requires adjusting the /etc/inittab file to refer to tty* instead of vc/*. Due to severe system breakages if this file is not updated, this change will be automatically handled by pacman. The original /etc/inittab file is saved as /etc/inittab.pacsave. To be clear: package /etc/inittab -> inittab.pacnew (if needed) system /etc/inittab -> inittab.pacsave system /etc/inittab --sed--> inittab Make sure to check these files after the update and do any merging that is required. [/draft] Finally, are we going to do a quick update to initscripts and filesystem before this is moved? There have been a few patches push to get for these. I can do that tomorrow if people agree? Allan

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[arch-dev-public] ruby-1.9 rebuilds
by Allan McRae 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi, I have done some of the rebuilds required for ruby. Could the maintainers of the following packages look into rebuilding them against ruby-1.9. rrdtool - I did the rebuild but no idea how to test... weechat - seems not compatible. Disable plugin? subversion - I get this error when building in a chroot: You don't seem to have Berkeley DB version 4.0.14 or newer installed and linked to APR-UTIL. We have created Makefiles which will build without the Berkeley DB back-end; ...<snip> db is a dep so I have no idea what is going on. Maybe needs another makedep? I have not looked into this further. Thanks, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] Moving libtar to unsupported?
by Eric Bélanger 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hi, Is there anyone interested in maintaining libtar? The man pages needs to be fixed, BTW. If not, I'll move it to unsupported as no packages in the repos use it. Eric

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[arch-dev-public] How the use of "provides" can damage the dependency tree
by Pierre Schmitz 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hi devs, I just had an interesting case where a missing dependency cam be unnoticed for a long time. I was told that KDE from kde-unstable could not start due to a missing lib: libxdamage. Neither namcap or anyone else did found this missing dep. And here was the solution: libxdamage is needed by libgl which in turn is needed by mesa ->qt->kdelibs etc.. But if you have nvidia-utils installed which provides libgl but does not depend on libxdamage or libxxf86vm you'll end up with a broken dependency tree. What do we learn by this? The use of provides can be dangerous when the providers have different deps. I wonder if we have more such problems. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] mlocate-0.22-2
by Allan McRae 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

mlocate-0.22-2 - add some more exclusions by default to /etc/updatedb.conf - add /etc/cron.daily/updatedb to backup array ("fix" for FS#15613 and FS#14484) - add sh dep for cron job Signoff both Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] bash-4.0.028-1
by Allan McRae 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Bump patch level. Signoff both. Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] hdparm-9.21-1
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hi bump to latest version. 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] cpio-2.10-1
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hi bump to latest version. 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] sudo-1.7.2p1-1
by Allan McRae 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Upstream update. Used 'force' due to upstream versioning using letters... Signoff both. Allan

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] autoconf-2.64-1
by Jan de Groot 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 18:03 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Dan McGee wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Allan McRae<allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > > >> Upstream update, compressed info pages. > >> > > > > pacman still builds after autoclean/autogen, signoff x86_64. > > > > -Dan > > > > Anyone for i686? Works fine here, signoff for both architectures.

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