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[arch-dev-public] Devland section of newsletter
by Travis Willard 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hey everyone, Kensai, the guy who's doing kickass work for our newsletter at current, is looking for someone to fill Jason's shoes in the devland section. Is anyone interested in doing basically-monthly writeups into the happenings in development of Arch? Jason, maybe you could add what's involved for those interested? Thanks! -- Travis

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[arch-dev-public] Dead box, away until Sun
by Aaron Griffin 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hey guys, I'm flying out of town tonight, until Sunday. Recently the power supply died in the machine that I ssh into. I haven't had the time to replace it yet. As such I will be unable to do much this weekend, because I will have no access to these machines. I will get the filesystem package bumped for the new isos, as well as pushing out an experimental initscripts package if I can - this should be done before I leave for the airport (now + 7 hrs). Cheers, Aaron

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[arch-dev-public] Cleanup time for extra
by Dan McGee 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Looks like a lot of the kernel stuff when it was moved over, in addition to a bunch of other stuff. The testing2core/testing2extra script that was posted won't remove old versions, so keep that in mind (unless you modified it yourself to do so). -Dan Possible Dupes for /home/ftp/extra/os/i686 (remove old versions) Date Filename 2007-11-25 10:07 aufs-20071017-6-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:50 aufs-20080125-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-10-23 09:59 aufs-utils-20071017-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-25 06:59 aufs-utils-20080125-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 08:40 catalyst-8.01-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:52 catalyst-8.01-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-11-25 10:08 fcpci-31107-38-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:52 fcpci-31107-40-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-11-25 10:08 fcpcmcia-31107-36-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:53 fcpcmcia-31107-38-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-07 14:07 firefox-2.0.0.11-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-11 03:50 firefox-2.0.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-07 14:07 firefox-i18n-2.0.0.11-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-11 03:51 firefox-i18n-2.0.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-07 08:49 gspcav1-1.00.20-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:53 gspcav1-1.00.20-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-07 04:07 intel-536ep-2.56.76.0-52-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-25 07:05 intel-536ep-2.56.76.0-53-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-07 04:07 intel-537-2.60.80.0-52-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-25 07:07 intel-537-2.60.80.0-53-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-11-25 10:27 kqemu-1.3.0pre11-15-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:54 kqemu-1.3.0pre11-17-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-30 12:03 lirc-0.8.2-10-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-11 23:40 lirc-0.8.2-9-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-07 04:08 martian-20061203-10-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-25 07:30 martian-20061203-11-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-11-25 10:29 nvidia-100.14.19-6-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:58 nvidia-169.09-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-11-25 10:30 nvidia-71xx-71.86.01-6-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-05 10:20 nvidia-71xx-71.86.04-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-10-21 03:54 nvidia-71xx-utils-71.86.01-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-05 10:24 nvidia-71xx-utils-71.86.04-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-11-25 10:31 nvidia-96xx-96.43.01-6-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-05 10:25 nvidia-96xx-96.43.05-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-10-21 03:54 nvidia-96xx-utils-96.43.01-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-05 10:29 nvidia-96xx-utils-96.43.05-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-10-21 03:54 nvidia-utils-100.14.19-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-25 14:11 nvidia-utils-169.09-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-07 04:08 slmodem-2.9.11-37-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-25 07:34 slmodem-2.9.11-38-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2007-11-25 10:32 truecrypt-4.3a-11-i686.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 10:02 truecrypt-4.3a-12-i686.pkg.tar.gz Possible Dupes for /home/ftp/extra/os/x86_64 (remove old versions) Date Filename 2007-12-07 04:23 aufs-20071017-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:49 aufs-20080125-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-10-23 15:51 aufs-utils-20071017-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-25 12:51 aufs-utils-20080125-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 08:56 catalyst-8.01-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:49 catalyst-8.01-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-07 04:23 fcpci-31107-38-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:49 fcpci-31107-40-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-07 04:23 fcpcmcia-31107-36-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:50 fcpcmcia-31107-38-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-21 07:08 firefox-2.0.0.11-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-11 03:51 firefox-2.0.0.12-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-21 07:08 firefox-i18n-2.0.0.11-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-11 03:51 firefox-i18n-2.0.0.12-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-07 08:44 gspcav1-1.00.20-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:50 gspcav1-1.00.20-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-07 04:23 kqemu-1.3.0pre11-15-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:50 kqemu-1.3.0pre11-17-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-30 12:02 lirc-0.8.2-10-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-13 22:10 lirc-0.8.2-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-07 04:23 nvidia-100.14.19-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:54 nvidia-169.09-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-07 04:23 nvidia-71xx-71.86.01-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-05 10:05 nvidia-71xx-71.86.04-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-10-21 04:05 nvidia-71xx-utils-71.86.01-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-05 10:11 nvidia-71xx-utils-71.86.04-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-07 04:23 nvidia-96xx-96.43.01-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-05 10:13 nvidia-96xx-96.43.05-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-10-21 04:05 nvidia-96xx-utils-96.43.01-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-02-05 10:20 nvidia-96xx-utils-96.43.05-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-10-21 04:05 nvidia-utils-100.14.19-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-25 14:18 nvidia-utils-169.09-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2007-12-07 04:23 truecrypt-4.3a-11-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 2008-01-26 09:59 truecrypt-4.3a-12-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs 2.9.5
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hi please signoff 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] Fwd: Catalyst naming - looking for suggestions
by Travis Willard 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Forwarded a response from JaDa to myself: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: JaDa <jada(a)usalug.net> Date: Feb 13, 2008 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] Catalyst naming - looking for suggestions To: "travis(a)archlinux.org" <travis(a)archlinux.org> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:58:00 -0800, Travis Willard <travis(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Feb 10, 2008 3:43 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Does the decission to include Arch support in the official catalyst >> depends on our packaging scheme? > > Basically yes - the way it's set up to do distribution-specific > packaging essentially expects you to create 'fglrx' packages. > > I think we can do without the metapackage again, though. > Don't change anything. Let it like it is. If you later running in trouble then think again. By the why, I am using at the Radeon Xpress 200m, 9550, X300, X1300, X850, and I didn't see any differant's. It works! If it doesn't work I will email you ;) cheers JaDa -- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

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[arch-dev-public] Catalyst naming - looking for suggestions
by Travis Willard 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Ok guys, I've been talking to the AMD/ATI guys about getting ArchLinux packages bundled with their catalyst releases, and was told something interesting - apparently, the driver (kernel/Xorg) is independent of the catalyst release, and is still versioned the "old way" - for example, we used to have "fglrx 8.45.4" or whatever, and I changed it to "catalyst YY.MM" when AMD started releasing their linux drivers as 'catalyst'. The thing with this is, there may be special versions of the driver between catalyst releases for certain vendors, for example - so catalyst 8.01 may have driver (fglrx) version 8.45.5, but then they release a special version for laptop X that's 8.45.6, and isn't a catalyst release, as it's geared to the specific laptop's hardware. So, basically, I jumped the gun renaming fglrx to catalyst, as (in general) it makes more sense to keep versioning it the old way (which, at the time, I thought was going away, and was mistaken). So, what I'm wondering is, should I re-rename the packages back to fglrx? Leave them catalyst, and ignore any special versions that may, at some point in the future, come out? Re-rename them to something other than 'fglrx' to indicate they're the Radeon Proprietary drivers? I'm not sure how to handle this, and suggestions are more than welcome. I asked the ATI guys the same thing, and they said they'd prefer to have some 'meta-package' called catalyst that depends on the appropriate fglrx-* packages, which I don't really like, because then the 'catalyst' package is an empty package, used only for the deps it pulls in. Thoughts? Thanks, Travis

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[arch-dev-public] repo cleanup: step 2
by Eric Belanger 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hi, This post is to give a status report on the still ongoing repo cleanup. The list of the recently removed packages is posted at the end of this message. The current orphans are as follows. We still have a short list of hardware-related or more or less useful packages: apmd bluez-gnome ipvsadm isapnptools mrtg speedtouch vconfig zebra But now I would like to focus more on orphaned core packages: dash mlocate perl shadow abs heimdal bcm43xx-fwcutter bridge-utils dnsutils ifenslave netkit-telnet mailx (Aaron: adopt it if you still want it) and on orphaned depends (see https://dev.archlinux.org/wiki/Repo%20Cleanup/). The list of orphaned depends also indicates what packages depends on these orphans and, in some cases, who owns them. As mentionned previously, it would be nice if everyone would make efforts to adopt the depends of their packages because it is just logical and would surely ease the .so bump rebuilds. Of course, anyone is free to adopt any orphans that they wish. However, it is possible that some devs already have the maximum workload that they can handle so they can't really adopt any or all of their packages' orphaned depends. If it's the case for you, let us know. Perhaps someone else, who can add to their current workload, would be willing to adopt some of these orphans especially if they use the package that depends on them. I'm sure we'll be able to split the present orphans workload somehow. Eric ================== Removed packages ================== adns dmcradio efax gpgme03 gprolog hashalot hnb hypermail ippl ircd jetty libnetdude libpcapnav mod_security netdude netkit-bootparamd netkit-ntalk netpipes oidentd pam_mysql perl-email-date perl-email-abstract perl-email-simple perl-module-pluggable perl-time-piece pidentd pppconfig sendfile tmda xprobe ytalk ================== -- 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] [signoff] Openswan 2.4.11-1
by Tom K 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Now in testing for both archs - thanks for that, phrak. :) T.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] capi4k-utils-6
by Tobias Powalowski 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Hi fixes this file permission issue: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9358 please signoff 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] [signoff] devtools 0.5.1, codename 'facepalm'
by Dan McGee 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Simo and I found a rather embarassing shell script mistake that snuck into the 0.5 release that apparantly only Simo, Eric, and I used so it was no big deal. Details here: http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=devtools.git;a=commitdiff;h=e8490b3f14… Please signoff on this new fresh release. Make sure extra/core/testingpkg seems to do its job OK and you are probably safe. Bonus- the sed-magic in the PKGBUILD is no longer needed so both architectures can run devtools straight from the GIT repo now if they want. -Dan

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