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[arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Remove a useless check at the end of /etc/rc.sysinit file
by Hugo Doria 27 May '09

27 May '09

Here goes a patch to remove a useless check at the end of the /etc/rc.sysinit file. This fixes FS#12063 The operator >| overrides the noclobber option (if set). -- Hugo

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[arch-dev-public] remove k3b-i18n from [extra]?
by Andrea Scarpino 27 May '09

27 May '09

Hi all, k3b-i18n in [extra] is incompatible with k3b-1.65, so it should be removed until a k3b1.65 compatible version will be released (if there will be). btw, I do not think is a good idea to keep an alpha version of k3b in [extra], IMHO we should downgrade the version in extra and move this one on [testing]. Regards -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-dev-public] License rebuild: last step
by Eric Bélanger 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi The license rebuild for core/extra is almost done. Only a few problematic packages remains. I'll post the list here with potential solutions. Read along and comment/discuss as apropriate. ccaudio: - doesn't build. no package depends on it. Remove? codecs: emovix-codecs: - There is no license information in the tarball or on mplayer's site. Other distros use the following licenses: mandriva & PCLinuxOS : Commercial. I haven't looked what this license is about. NetBSD: === There is no license to copy granted for these codecs, and the copyright ownership is unclear. === Gentoo use their 'as-is' license : === This is a generic place holder for a class of licenses that boil down to do no guarantees and all you get is what you have. The language is usually similar to: Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the same name not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. We make no representations about the suitability this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. You will need to check the license that came with the software for the exact specifics. Generally you are free to do most anything you want with "as is" software but you should not take this license as legal advice. Note: Most all license have an "as is" clause. For our purposes this does not make all software in this category. This category is for software with very little restrictions. The information in this license about licenses is presented "as is". :-P === If we assume that we are allowed to package these codecs, my favorite license is the NetBSD one. Only avifile in community has a specific depends on codecs. If it's not a true dependency like in mplayer (not tested), we could just remove them from the repo. Any comments? dgen-sdl: FS#12564 and license issue. x86_64 package will probably be removed because of this. I guess I could go ahead and add the license to the i686 package. docbook-xml: Flagged out-of-date. As the PKGBUILD is non-trivial, I'll let Jan handle this one. ;) guile-gtk: - No package depends on it, 3% usage. Will need to add a gtkglarea2 in the repo to update it. Move to unsupported? hwd: lshwd: - I mentionned moving them to usupported earlier. Several devs agreed. Any objections? ksymoops: - Seems that it doesn't work with kernel 2.6 (http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2008-11/msg03316.html) I'm not famiiliar with this stuff though. Remove? mkpxelinux: - Tobias P. custom script. License is unspecified. Tobias: can you give it a license? randline: Source has disappeared. Remove? termcap-compat: - need to rebuild ssh2 (community) without it: FS#14570. Then remove? unionfs-utils: - Stock kernel no longer has unionfs. Move to unsupported? user-mode-linux: - Orphaned, out-of-date, 3% usage. Move to unsupported? xmame-sdl: - FS#11927 - Dead project. We have sdlmame in community which is actively maintained upstream. Remove? xsmbrowser: - Doesn't work: 'Application initialization failed: version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.5.6, need exactly 8.5'. Move to unsupported? License rebuilds currently in testing. I'll move them in a few days (even if ipw2100-fw doesn't have the required signoffs): ipw2100-fw rbldnsd ypbind-mt ypserv BTW, a couple of vim plugins didn't had any license information (and also ttmkfdir2 part of xorg-font-utils). For these, I used: "license=('unknown')". I hope everyone is fine with that. Eric

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[arch-dev-public] building in (clean) chroots
by Jan de Groot 25 May '09

25 May '09

I still see packages appearing that haven't been built in (clean) chroots. One example is mplayer on x86_64, which has VDPAU support. For this, nvidia drivers are needed, which doesn't belong in a chroot where packages for the repositories are built. Please build in chroots, and if it's not clean, please namcap your packages before uploading. I see too many differences in packages for i686 and x86_64 because of this.

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[arch-dev-public] [draft] New item for kernel version requirement increase
by Allan McRae 25 May '09

25 May '09

Very simple news announcement. Any comments? --Start Draft-- Minimum required kernel version increased With the glibc-2.10 toolchain update, the minimum kernel version requirement for glibc has been increased from 2.6.16 to 2.6.18. For help fixing issues porting software to build with glibc-2.10 and gcc-4.4, see [1] and [2] respectively. [1] http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20948.html [2] http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/porting_to.html --End Draft--

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] capi4k-utils-050718-7
by Tobias Powalowski 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hi fixed manpath: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13764 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] openvpn 2.0.9-5
by Tobias Powalowski 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hi fixed manpath: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13764 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] mkinitcpio-0.5.24-1
by Tobias Powalowski 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hi a small update which fixes small issues, more to come later when thomas has more time. - fixed symlinks problem: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7999 - fixed file depend: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14625 - added versioned depends: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12932 - fixed typo in net hook: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14781 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] man-pages 3.21-1
by Andreas Radke 24 May '09

24 May '09

minor upstream update. see below. please signoff. (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14467 seems to be not man-pages related probably bug in man-db) -Andy ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.21 ==================== Released: 2009-04-15, Los Gatos Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Frank Dana <ferdnyc(a)gmail.com> Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages(a)gmail.com> Roman Byshko <rbyshko(a)gmail.com> Apologies if I missed anyone! New and rewritten pages ----------------------- pthread_setconcurrency.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting pthread_setconcurrency(3) and pthread_getconcurrency(3) pthread_yield.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting pthread_yield(3) New and changed links --------------------- pthread_getconcurrency.3 Michael Kerrisk New link to new pthread_setconcurrency(3) Changes to individual pages --------------------------- initrd.4 Michael Kerrisk Various minor wording improvements initrd.4 Frank Dana Add missing word in description feature_test_macros.7 Michael Kerrisk Update for glibc 2.10 changes to <features.h> From glibc 2.10, <features.h> understands the values 200809 for _POSIX_C_SOURCE and 700 for _XOPEN_SOURCE, and makes corresponding changes to defaults for other feature test macros. Michael Kerrisk Add an example program This example program makes it possible to explore what feature test macros are set depending on the glibc version and the macros that are explicitly set. ldconfig.8 Michael Kerrisk /etc/ld.so.conf also include libraries found in /lib and /usr/lib

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] glib2 2.20.2
by Jan de Groot 24 May '09

24 May '09

Please signoff for both architectures. This release fixes two bugs and updates some translations: * Bug fixes: 579862 requesting xattr::foo ends up calling getxattr(... 573246 g_desktop_app_info_dup() can access NULL pointer * Updated translations: Catalan Czech Pashto

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