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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kbd and klibc-kbd
by Roman Kyrylych 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Hi! After days of extreme hacking and scratching my head I'm happy to present them: * kbd-1.14.1.20080309-1 * klibc-kbd-1.15.20080312-1 Don't scare those pkgrels. There are many good reasons that I've used the latest git versions. (Actually, klibc support was added by current maintainer on my request, and 2 patches I've made today are still not in git.) What has changed: * replaced statically built binaries with klibcified ones (saves almost 2Megabytes!) * heavily modified keymap hooks, fixed some bugs * at least 2 bugs in our bugtracker closed by the latest mainstream changes * in *euro.maps 'currency' was changed to 'euro' (by mainstream) * many nice things for Cyrillic alphabet users * splitted hooks and klibcified binaries into a separate package (this will allow to update them separately, and was required in this case). Both i686 and x86_64 packages available (thanks Thomas!). Please signoff. ;-) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2008.03-3
by Roman Kyrylych 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

This build removes the double creation of /dev/pts and /dev/shm. i686 and x86_64 packages available. Rebooted without any error messages here. People with hwclock errors - please confirm they've gone. Signoffs are welcome ;) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] Tedious: Moving packages from testing to the real repo
by Aaron Griffin 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

I've noticed this process is real tedious. cvs update tag -d TESTING or TESTING-64 tag -F CURRENT or CURRENT-64 ssh archlinux.org mv files from testing to staging/testing(64)/del cp staging/testing(64)/del to staging/$REPO(64)/add run /arch/db-testing(64) run /arch/db-$REPO It gets even more tedious when you have to do it for both architectures. So, I want to improve this, but I want to know what _you_ all would like as a usecase here? Should there be a script on gerolde to do it, or should it be part of devtools with the db-scripts still run on gerolde. Opinions?

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] e2fsprogs 1.40.8
by Tobias Powalowski 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hi bump to new version: E2fsprogs 1.40.8 (March 13, 2008) ================================= Fixed e2image -I so it works on image files which are larger than 2GB. Fixed e2fsck's handling of directory inodes with a corrupt size field. If the size is larger than the number of blocks found in the inode, don't try to allocate extra empty blocks at the end of the directory to make up the difference; there's no point to doing that. In addition, if the size is not a multiple of a blocksize, always fix it. E2fsck handled a pass 2 "should never happen error" by not giving enough information and then core dumping. Unfortunately, it was all too easy to trigger the "should never happen" situation if a directory's inode size was not correct. This has been fixed, but e2fsck has also been taught how to handle this situation more gracefully, by simply removing the inode hash tree information, so that it can be rebuilt again after e2fsck's pass 3. (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #129395) Resize2fs had a bug resizing large inodes with extended attributes that was fixed in 1.40.6; unfortunately, it turned out it wasn't fixed completely on big-endian systems such as PowerPC. The bug should be completely fixed now. Yay for regression test suites. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #434893) Updated German, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese translations. Many thanks to Philipp Thomas from Novell for stepping up to become the new German translation maintainer! (Addresses Debian Bugs: #302512, #370247, #401092, #412882). When e2fsck is clearing a corrupt inode's HTREE directory information, make it clear that it is just clearing the HTREE information, not the entire inode. Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. please signoff 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] ntfs-3g 1.2310-1
by Thomas Bächler 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Minor update and fixed #9748. Please sign off.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-118-6
by Tobias Powalowski 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hi - fixed load-modules.sh sed call http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9857 please signoff for both archs 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] grub-0.97-12
by Tobias Powalowski 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hi - fixed gpt support http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9864 please signoff for both archs greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] ISO 2008.03-4 release status update
by Tobias Powalowski 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hey guys, following packages i would like to see in core: pending signoffs and move to base: initscripts (showstopper!)? Bump to 2008.03-3 with the last fix for correct udev startup. /dev/pts and /dev/shm are created earlier in rc.sysinit which causes double creating it and causes errors thrown to console. udev-118-7 (showstopper!)? waiting for signoff, load-modules.sh needed a small fix. e2fsprogs? waiting for signoff on x86_64 ntfs-3g? waiting for signoff on x86_64 grub? it would add gpt support http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9864 which adds macbook support and greater sizes as 2TB support waiting for signoff cryptsetup? waiting for signoff, Thomas is the only one using it! klibc-module-init-tools? signed off, waiting for new mkinitcpio or can this move in without mkinitcpio? klibc-extras? signed off, waiting for new mkinitcpio or can this move in without mkinitcpio? kbd/klibc-kbd/mkinitcpio? mkinitcpio needs a small fix in resume hook. kbd and klibc-kbd waiting for signoff and depend on new mkinitcpio. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9862 Roman wants to fix this in the evening. perl? Any progress? When do you want to move it to core? Any date planned? delayed package moves due to rebuilds and issues: gcc build-toolchain libtool any other comments? greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] Processor Generation++
by Simo Leone 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Let's start off by saying that this is just me floating an idea out there, it's not so serious (yet...). I've been toying around with the idea of starting to build our packages with --march=pentium2 instead of i686. This would mean that our binaries would make use of the MMX instruction set, and that our packages would no longer run on PentiumPro or older processors. My logic here is that we are comitted to being a bleeding edge distro, so I think it very much fits our philosophy to phase out older processor families when they are hardly used anymore. Intel hasn't manufactured PentiumPro's since roughly 1998. The number of users running Arch on 10-year-old boxes must be something very close to zero, so I don't think we'd be disappointing anyone. Also making use of the MMX instruction set would give our multimedia apps a boost, and might make some other software inperceptibly snappier (gogo placebo effect!). What do you guys think? -S

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts 2008.03-1
by Aaron Griffin 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Needs i686 build. Please signoff, changes from the last version are below. This one needs to get done before we can push the ISO out, so please make it a priority if you can. Thanks Changes: Aaron Griffin (3): Add my name to the copyright output Additional /dev/ setup that udev doesn't do Variable expansion quoting Roman Kyrylych (13): Remove trailing whitespaces and do some little reformatting Make non-UTF-8 consoles work correctly in .24+ kernels Do not mount /proc/bus/usb if commented in fstab Set up vc/0 as well Always load defkeymap Revert back to not loading defkeymap Fix indentation in rc.d/functions Create /dev/rtc before running hwclock (FS#9636) Use full path to binaries everywhere Add basic support for dependencies in rc.d scripts More full-path fixes Fix a typo in /dev/rtc creation steps Remove the 'makedevs' script

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