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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] file-5.03-1
by Allan McRae 07 May '09

07 May '09

Signoff for file-5.03-1. Upstream minor bug fix release. Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [sigoff] coreutils-7.3
by Allan McRae 07 May '09

07 May '09

Upstream changelog: * Noteworthy changes in release 7.3 (2009-05-01) [stable] ** Bug fixes cp now diagnoses failure to preserve selinux/xattr attributes when --preserve=context,xattr is specified in combination with -a. Also, cp no longer suppresses attribute-preservation diagnostics when preserving SELinux context was explicitly requested. ls now aligns output correctly in the presence of abbreviated month names from the locale database that have differing widths. ls -v and sort -V now order names like "#.b#" properly mv: do not print diagnostics when failing to preserve xattr's on file systems without xattr support. sort -m no longer segfaults when its output file is also an input file. E.g., with this, touch 1; sort -m -o 1 1, sort would segfault. [introduced in coreutils-7.2] ** Changes in behavior shred, sort, shuf: now use an internal pseudorandom generator by default. This is mainly noticable in shred where the 3 random passes it does by default should proceed at the speed of the disk. Previously /dev/urandom was used if available, which is relatively slow on GNU/Linux systems. ** Improved robustness cp would exit successfully after copying less than the full contents of a file larger than ~4000 bytes from a linux-/proc file system to a destination file system with a fundamental block size of 4KiB or greater. Reading into a 4KiB-or-larger buffer, cp's "read" syscall would return a value smaller than 4096, and cp would interpret that as EOF (POSIX allows this). This optimization, now removed, saved 50% of cp's read syscalls when copying small files. Affected linux kernels: at least 2.6.9 through 2.6.29. [the optimization was introduced in coreutils-6.0] ** Portability df now pre-mounts automountable directories even with automounters for which stat-like syscalls no longer provoke mounting. Now, df uses open. `id -G $USER` now works correctly even on Darwin and NetBSD. Previously it would either truncate the group list to 10, or go into an infinite loop, due to their non-standard getgrouplist implementations. [truncation introduced in coreutils-6.11] [infinite loop introduced in coreutils-7.1]

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[arch-dev-public] libldap and openswan maintainer
by Allan McRae 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi, Do we have a dev who will take over maintenance of these [core] packages? They are both orphans and quite out out date. Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] mlocate-0.22-1
by James Rayner 07 May '09

07 May '09

Only minor fixes: https://fedorahosted.org/mlocate/browser/NEWS?rev=mlocate-0.22 Signoff x86_64 and i686

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] ipw2100-fw 1.3-3
by Eric Bélanger 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi, ipw2100-fw 1.3-3 is in testing. Changes: -Licence rebuild -Fixed license path in install scriptlet message I don't use this so 2 signoffs are needed.

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[arch-dev-public] Status of arch=any ?
by Firmicus 06 May '09

06 May '09

IIRC Abishek and Aaron have been recently working to implement "arch=any" in devtools etc. May I kindly ask about the current status of that? If there's any work you would like to me to do, I might be able to give a hand. I'm asking because I am about to do a mass update of the texlive packages, and that feature would be very convenient as all texlive packages save one are arch-independent. Some of them can also be very large (e.g. texlive-fontsextra with 136MB). So my question is: if the implementation of the arch=any feature is more or less imminent, I might wait before uploading the new texlive packages... Cheers F

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[arch-dev-public] Removing termcap-compat
by Allan McRae 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi all, A bug report from Eric reminded me about termcap-compat sitting in the repos. Everything (apart from the community package in that bug report) appears to have been rebuilt as to not depend on it now, so I will remove it from the repo. I take it that there are no objections? Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] psmisc-22.6-2.1 (x86_64 only)
by Eric Bélanger 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi, psmisc-22.6-2.1 is in testing for x86_64 only. The psmisc in core for x86_64 is missing peekfd (FS#14514). This package fix this. Please test and signoff.

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[arch-dev-public] (partially) Inactive
by Andrea Scarpino 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi all, I will be inactive because I switched to a new ISP, so I will be without an internet connection for a $time (one or two weeks). I am an university student so I can use from 08AM to 07PM (GMT+1) the wireless connection at my university but it is over HTTP proxy: I will cannot use ssh/cvs/git/ftp/irc/jabber protocols. I hope to be totally active soon. Cheers -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] findutils 4.4.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi update to latest version, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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