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[arch-dev-public] grub2 image support
by Ronald van Haren 10 May '09

10 May '09

Hi, For those of you who are using grub2 and are interested in making your boot selection menu a bit nicer, the newly uploaded grub2 supports backgrounds and stuff. Config syntax in your grub.cfg is similar to: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then set gfxmode="1024x768x32" insmod gfxterm insmod vbe terminal_output gfxterm if terminal_output gfxterm; then true ; else terminal gfxterm fi fi insmod tga background_image /boot/grub/archlinux.tga +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ though obviously a background image is not included. Other image types should work as well if you load the correct modules (see the .mod files in /boot/grub) Ronald ps. I had to add a bdf-unifont package to the repo in order to make it work a bit easier. It is now a makedepend of grub2.

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[arch-dev-public] glibc and minimum kernel version
by Allan McRae 10 May '09

10 May '09

Now glibc-2.10 is out, I will be preparing another toolchain rebuild. One question that has been discussed previously is bumping the minimum kernel required by glibc. Bumping it too recent is full of stupid, but bumping it some would cut down on some unnecessary glibc workaround code. I am thinking that the minimal kernel version should be 2.6.22 which was released two years ago. It is the lowest kernel version that udev works with so people using kernels older than that need to do some workarounds anyway. Any comments/objections? Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] klibc 1.5.15-2
by Tobias Powalowski 10 May '09

10 May '09

Hi fixed manpath: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13764 along with this all depends rebuilt against new klibc package: klibc-udev, klibc-kbd, klibc-extras, v86d greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] libraw1394 rebuilds
by Jan de Groot 10 May '09

10 May '09

I'm pusing libraw1394 to testing. This release has a sobump and requires rebuild of some packages. I've done most packages, but vlc and kdebase are also on this list. Both packages are in testing at this moment, without versioned dependencies, so I don't plan to rebuild these myself. Please rebuild vlc and kdebase when libraw1394 is in testing.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] gzip 1.3.12-5
by Tobias Powalowski 10 May '09

10 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] file-5.03-2
by Allan McRae 10 May '09

10 May '09

Puts the magic file in a more sensible location. Signoff both arches. Allan

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Re: [arch-dev-public] glibc and minimum kernel version
by Jan de Groot 10 May '09

10 May '09

On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 12:45 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Now glibc-2.10 is out, I will be preparing another toolchain rebuild. > One question that has been discussed previously is bumping the minimum > kernel required by glibc. Bumping it too recent is full of stupid, but > bumping it some would cut down on some unnecessary glibc workaround code. > > I am thinking that the minimal kernel version should be 2.6.22 which was > released two years ago. It is the lowest kernel version that udev works > with so people using kernels older than that need to do some workarounds > anyway. > > Any comments/objections? > > Allan > -1, keep it at 2.6.18 as minimum, which is the kernel supported by quite some others: - Xen - CentOS/RHEL - Debian Etch Bumping it to anything higher will cause chroots or xen installations on these setups to fail. Especially Xen is something you want to keep compatibility with. As for udev that doesn't work with older kernels: there's always something called static /dev that people can use as a workaround, and chroots don't need udev anyways.

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[arch-dev-public] Someone can do me the favor of building wine?
by Eduardo Romero 10 May '09

10 May '09

Hi, I am having problems sending wine to extra, something about the ssh key on my 32bit box, and don't have the time to check it, it would be better, faster for any of the other developers to build it and send to extra. You only need to adjust the number to .21 in the PKGBUILD and change md5sum, no other PKGBUILD changes are needed. I would appreciate the help guys, Thanks, Eduardo "kensai" Romero

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] usbutils 0.82-1
by Tobias Powalowski 09 May '09

09 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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[arch-dev-public] graphviz on x86_64 has a wrong file location
by Daniel Isenmann 09 May '09

09 May '09

Hi, the latest graphviz package places a file to /usr/lib64/ which is wrong. $ pacman -Qo /usr/lib64/php/modules/gv.so /usr/lib64/php/modules/gv.so is owned by graphviz 2.22.2-1 Giovanni built the x86_64, so can you please fix this? Cheers, Daniel

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