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[arch-dev-public] python-notify into [extra]
by Travis Willard 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Hey all, python-notify, currently in community, is a required package for the new version of sbackup, and I wanna pull it into extra. Anyone objected? Roman - since this is your package anyway, do you want to handle it and keep ownership of it in extra? -- Travis

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] pcre 7.6-3
by Jan de Groot 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

The unofficial patch we had for PCRE 7.6 to revert ABI breakage has been changed to a more official patch that maintains compatibility with both the old and the new ABI. Please signoff for both architectures. More information: http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664

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[arch-dev-public] Resignation from Dev/TU position
by Varun Acharya 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hi guys, After a lot of thought, I've realised I've reached a point where I don't have the time and energy to contribute to Arch anymore. I'm at a transitional period from an intern to a practicing dentist(2 months to go), and a lot of work needs to be done, all of which requires a good amount of my time. I also will be travelling on business/education a lot this year, and for a good amount of time will not have access to any linux box to do Arch related work. And most importantly, I have to do a huge amount of studying this year to write a couple of board exams in the latter part of the year. I've tried balancing my schedule to get more time with arch in, but it doesn't seem to be working out too well, and I clearly need to focus on my profession. I don't want to see the quality of my packages suffer or my packages being out of date for long periods of time, so I decided that the best thing for me to do would be to step down at this point. The packages I've disowned and which are up for grabs are (luckily not too many): foobillard libbtctl bladeenc dvdbackup handbrake miro showimg smplayer (-rc currently in testing) smplayer-themes d4x deluge firestarter nicotine transmisson wicd gspcav1 I do hope I can set things right in my life and rejoin you guys sometime in (hopefully not too distant) the future. I will of course continue to use Arch all the time :) and try to help out occasionally when x86_64 difflist goes out of control :). Good luck to Aaron and the rest of the dev team, and all the TU's. Its been awesome. Regards, Varun "ganja_guru" Acharya

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[arch-dev-public] Opera 9.5x snapshots moved to unstable
by Andreas Radke 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

I have removed the Opera devel snapshots from our testing repo to not mix it with future 9.2x releases. You find the latest 9.5x snapshots now in unstable for both arches. Take care - it replaces the stable Opera from extra. So backup all your stuff before you try it out. -AndyRTR

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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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