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[arch-dev-public] 2009.08 snapshot RC/Final and core/testing
by Gerhard Brauer 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi, as planned we want to build today our RC. Do you plan to move today some affected packages from testing to core? So we should wait some hours... We like to have the initscripts/udev/mkinitcpio/... package block and also pacman 3.3 on the Final images. Final (according to our plan) is latest on 09.August. Do you think that affected packages are in core before this day? Gerhard

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[arch-dev-public] Warning: [kde-unstable] will be merged with [testing]
by Pierre Schmitz 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi all, thanks to Dan, Allan and all other Contributors we now have pacman 3.3 in [testing]. This also means we can move the split KDE packages to our official repos. I'll move everything from kde-unstable to testing; let's hope the new and never tested db-move scripts are working. :-) If there are no lockers KDE will be updated to 4.3 final tomorrow and move on to extra after a short period in testing. Greetings, Pierre PS: Looks like we should compile a news item for the final move... -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dnsutils 9.6.1
by K. Piche 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Updated to version 9.6.1. May have forgotten to reset pkgrel. Please try a few dig's and then signoff, Thanks. -- K. Piche <kpiche(a)rogers.com>

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[arch-dev-public] Arch minimum kernel version (was: [signoff] udev-145-1)
by Dan McGee 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

2009/8/3 Angel Velásquez <angvp(a)archlinux.com.ve>: >> >> I'll shoot an email to Slicehost on my behalf to see what kernels they >> have available. What other VPS providers offer Arch? It isn't a tough >> thing to find out how much we can get away with here. >> >> -Dan >> > > I think SevenL networks (who provide services to us) offers Arch... > > Doing a search on google "archlinux hosting" [1] I found some > companies that I didn't notice of their existence in fact. Got a response from Slice: The following kernels are available for your slice to upgrade. Please let us know and we can take care of that for you. 2.6.24 - 23.48 2.6.24 - 24.55 I believe these should be Ubuntu kernel versions; I'm seeing right now what they actually include as it might include a fully working signalfd(). If anyone wants to contact some other providers (especially if you are already using their services) and post the response here, that would be cool. -Dan

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03 Aug '09

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[arch-dev-public] info pages with makepkg/pacman-3.3
by Allan McRae 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi, Thought I would point out some changes to how makepkg handles info pages. 1) /usr/share/info/dir will automatically be removed 2) info pages will be compressed (gzip). 3) !docs by default will not remove info pages (they are treated like man pages). If you were not compressing info pages, you will need to make sure your install file has ".gz"'s added as appropriate. Remember to merge your makepkg.conf... Allan

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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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