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[arch-dev-public] Courier-MTA packages
by Tobias Kieslich 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hi Gang, I maintained the courier* packages for a long time and I still think it is a very solid mail server suite. I was using it happyly on my own server but recently fell for a tarmail/dovecot combination. Abandoning the usage of courier makes it harder to maintain the package, which is rather complex. I understand that courier-imap is a very popular imap/pop solution and should stay in extra as it is one of the big three(dovecot,courier, cyrus) used in production environments. Courier-MTA is a complete suite consisting of courier-imap, courier-maildorp an ESMTP server (hence the name courier-mta) a webconfiguration frontend etc. I still think it is a very capable solution, technically on par with exim or postfix based deployments. But it is not as popular, probably because the learning curve, just like for every other MTA, is rather steep. However, it will need an active maintainer who stays uptodate with the development. That pretty much means you have to use it yourself. Anyone who wants to take that package? I also will put all my knowledge into the wiki where my old little setup is explained. I'll need to update it though. I will also answer any questions another potential maintainer has. If nobody wants to take it, I say let's keep courier-authlib, maildrop and imap and let courier-mta go to community. I'm also open to other solutions. Cheers, -T

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] tar 1.20-1
by Andreas Radke 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

in testing for both arches -Andy Changes: version 1.20 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-04-14 * New option --auto-compress (-a) With --create, selects compression algorithm basing on the suffix of the archive file name. * New option --lzma Selects LZMA compression algorithm * New option --hard-dereference During archive creation, dereferences hard links and stores the files they refer to, instead of creating usual hard link members (type '1'). * New option --checkpoint-action This action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hitting a checkpoint. Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the default), echo=string, ttyout=string, exec=cmdline, and sleep=value. Any number of `--checkpoint-action' options can be specified, the actions will be executed in order of their appearance in the command line. See chapter 3.8 "Checkpoints" for a complete description. * New options --no-check-device, --check-device. The `--no-check-device' option disables comparing device numbers during preparatory stage of an incremental dump. This allows to avoid creating full dumps if the device numbers change (e.g. when using an LVM snapshot). The `--check-device' option enables comparing device numbers. This is the default. This option is provided to undo the effect of the previous `--no-check-device' option, e.g. if it was set in TAR_OPTIONS environment variable. * The --transform option. Any number of `--transform' options can be given in the command line. The specified transformations will be applied in turn. The argument to `--transform' option can be a list of replace expressions, separated by a semicolon (as in `sed'). Filename transformations are applied to symbolic link targets during both creation and extraction. Tar 1.19 used them only during extraction. For a detailed description, see chapter 6.7 "Modifying File and Member Names". * Info (end-of-volume) scripts The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and checkpoint scripts via environment variable TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR. * Incremental archives Improved (sped up) extracting from incremental archives. * Bugfixes. ** Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-existing archives.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] gpm 1.20.3
by Eric Belanger 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

in testing for both arches. Changes: - minor upstream update - patches cleanup. One of them has been merged upstream, the others didn't applied anymore. However, they were mostly to prevent gpm from interfering with some terminal apps like vim and mc. They don't seem to be necessary anymore as vim and mc works correctly from the tests I did. - closes FS#9949 : The /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 symlink was present on the system but for unkonw reasons was no longer in the package. For this reason, forcing is necessary to install gpm 1.20.3. I don't know how to inform the users about this ( front page news? or just keep an eye on the forum/ML to answer user's concern) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[arch-dev-public] proftpd status
by Eric Belanger 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Hi, I'm trying to fix the rc.d script of proftpd. The deamon seems to start and work correctly as it ask for username/password but I always get a: 530 Login incorrect. Login failed. This only happens on x86_64. I get the same problem with the package currently in extra. As no one has complained and James confirmed that it worked for him at the last bug squash day, I assume it is a config/hardware issue but I simply can't put my finger on the problem. Because of this and because I don't use the package anymore, it would be better if someone else maintains it. Anyone interested? I have the updated PKGBUILD and script. If not we could: a) move it to unsupported as we already have several ftp servers in extra b) I would be willing to continue to maintain it but I'll need someone else to build/test/upload the x86_64 package as I can't test it. c) this is the more cumbersome. I could continue to maintain and build for both arches but every update will go to testing first for signoffs. Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[arch-dev-public] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]
by Thomas Bächler 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

The new 2.6.25 kernel and most of the external modules are in [testing]. Changes: - Complete configuration overhaul - Removed phc patch - Removed mactel patch The removal of these patches was because a) there are no new patches available for 2.6.25 and b) I am trying to reduce the amount of patching, especially if it only benefits a few people or can be potentially dangerous. If there are any problems due to the configuration changes or new kernel bugs, please let me know. If you want to know more about the real changes, read here: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_25 I didn't update any modules, so if there are new versions available for any, please inform their maintainers. The following modules are currently broken. I didn't do any research on those yet, so if anyone knows something, please let me know. - atl2 (Simo, could you have a look, you must probably update it) - catalyst - martian - openswan-klips - slmodem (USB symbols are now GPL only, this driver will never work again unless it's rewritten in userspace - is this only a USB driver or also a PCI driver?) I wish you all happy testing.

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[arch-dev-public] CVS links in AUR?
by Thomas Bächler 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

So, is there a reason we had to break CVS links in the AUR interface? I guess one could get the community tree from here: http://www.archlinux.org/cvs/, but the information is wrong as well (cvs.archlinux.org does not exist). The only way is abs now, which is quite inconvenient if one only wants to check out a single package. The links in the AUR interface should work.

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[arch-dev-public] Issue on kernel 2.6.25 upgrade
by Dan McGee 27 Apr '08

27 Apr '08

I've pasted the full output below, but what I wanted to point out is the "missing ide-cd module" part. Some of us unfortunately still have to use IDE. In addition, the kernel26.preset.pacnew file was installed with 600 permissions...any reason why it is so restrictive? -Dan (18/27) upgrading kernel26 [---------------------] 100% warning: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26.preset installed as /etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26.preset.pacnew >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ... >>> MKINITCPIO SETUP >>> ---------------- >>> If you use LVM2, Encrypted root or software RAID, >>> Ensure you enable support in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf . >>> More information about mkinitcpio setup can be found here: >>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait... ==> Building image "default" ==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.25-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26.img :: Begin build :: Parsing hook [base] :: Parsing hook [udev] :: Parsing hook [autodetect] :: Parsing hook [ide] ERROR: module 'ide[-_]cd' not found :: Parsing hook [filesystems] :: Generating module dependencies :: Generating image '/boot/kernel26.img'...SUCCESS ==> SUCCESS ==> Building image "fallback" ==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.25-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26-fallback.conf -g /boot/kernel26-fallback.img config file '/etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26-fallback.conf' cannot be found, aborting... ==> FAIL ==> Building image "pata" ==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.25-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26-pata.conf -g /boot/kernel26-pata.img :: Begin build :: Parsing hook [base] :: Parsing hook [udev] :: Parsing hook [autodetect] :: Parsing hook [pata] :: Parsing hook [filesystems] :: Generating module dependencies :: Generating image '/boot/kernel26-pata.img'...SUCCESS ==> SUCCESS

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] wget 1.11.1-1
by Andreas Radke 27 Apr '08

27 Apr '08

in testing for both arches -Arch * Changes in Wget 1.11.1. ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2). ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a related assertion failure was fixed). ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2). ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be useful for some limited cases. ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future. ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.

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[arch-dev-public] neon 0.28.2 to testing
by Andreas Radke 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

update from 0.27.2-1 to 0.28.2-1 shouldn't break anything as they call it "API and ABI backwards-compatible with 0.27.x" I'm not sure how to test neon functionality. So please someone can give me a GO to move it to extra? x86_64 is already online, i686 will follow tomorrow. -Andy see http://www.webdav.org/neon/ Changes in release neon 0.28.2, 3 April 2008 (PGP signature) Support "Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive" for compatibility with HTTP/1.0 proxies which require persistent connections for NTLM authentication Fix an fd leak in ne_ssl_{,cli}cert_read (GnuTLS only) Enable fast initialization in GnuTLS. Changes in release neon 0.28.1, 10 March 2008 (PGP signature) Fix Win32 build Fix build on SCO OpenServer 5.0.x (thanks to Nico Kadel-Garcia) Fix handling of Digest domain parameter values without a trailing slash Fix build against apr-util's bundled libexpat.la in Subversion Add --without-pakchois to configure (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis) zh message catalog renamed to zh_CN, translation updated (Dongsheng Song) Changes in release neon 0.28.0, 8 February 2008 (PGP signature) Interface changes: none, API and ABI backwards-compatible with 0.27.x New interfaces: ne_pkcs11.h: added basic PKCS#11 support (requires GnuTLS and pakchois) ne_auth.h: added NE_AUTH_ALL and NE_AUTH_DEFAULT constants ne_socket.h: added ne_sock_peer(), ne_sock_prebind(), ne_sock_cipher() ne_session.h: NE_SESSFLAG_TLSSNI flag added; TLS SNI support is enabled by default, where supported; ne_set_localaddr() added ne_request.h: added close_conn hooks (Robert J. van der Boon) ne_basic.h: added ne_options2() Other changes: add Polish (pl) translation (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis) add support for the 'domain' parameter in Digest authentication fix fd leak in ne_sock_connect() error path (Andrew Teirney) the FD_CLOEXEC flag is set on socket fds fix timezone handling in ne_dates for more platforms (Alessandro Vesely) fix ne_simple_propfind() to print XML namespaces in flat property values fix ne_get_range() for unspecified end-range case (Henrik Holst) fix ne_strclean() to be locale-independent and avoid possible Win32 crash fix ne_get_error() to not "clean" localized error strings fix ne_ssl_clicert_read() to fail for client certs missing cert or key Win32: fix build with VS 2008 (Stefan Kueng) Win32: fix neon.mak to not double-quote $(MAKE) (Henrik Holst) improve strength of Digest cnonces in GnuTLS builds

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[arch-dev-public] testing ->core/extra movement instructions?
by Jan de Groot 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Can someone give clear instructions on how to move things from testing to core and/or extra? I've done some packages a while ago, which were graphviz and glib2. Looking again, I see glib2 isn't moved at all and graphviz has been fixed up by some other dev last week. What's going on here?

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