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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] lvm2 2.02.33-1
by Thomas Bächler 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

Yet another lvm2 update. Please sign off for both architectures (signoff from my end will follow after my next reboot).

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[arch-dev-public] Lots of packages in [testing]
by Aaron Griffin 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

I know most of them are perl packages, and we're waiting on that sort of thing, but could you guys take a peek at the packages in testing? Some of them have been there over a month, and some of them are older than versions in core and extra (i.e. sudo). I just found some of mine that should have been moved, so I'm guilty of this too. The reason I bring this up: when we get the new kernel issues all resolved and fleshed out, we should be releasing a new ISO. It'd be nice to have the latest-and-greatest core packages at that point. Thanks, Aaron

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man 1.6f-2 and groff 1.19.2-4
by Aaron Griffin 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

These two come as one nice little change, as they both need to go to core at the same time. * man 1.6f-2 Build with FHS compliance. Remove the default latin1 output, let the groff decide the charset Ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-January/004177.html * groff 1.19.2-4 Fix the output in utf8 mode so characters match those we can actually type Ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-January/004223.html Please sign off

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] bash 3.2.033-2 and filesystem 2007.11-6
by Aaron Griffin 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

These two have been bumped because apparently some people still had problems due to an edge case with the generation of pacnew files I bumped both the package and the md5sum on profile in order to get around edge cases with no pacnew files bash was a version bump too mainly to move the man pages filesystem changes: Setup for FHS compliant man pages - FS#8839 Claim ownership of /etc/profile from bash - FS#4766 Remove LESSCHARSET env var from /etc/profile - FS#8877 bash changes: Update patch level to 033 Remove /etc/profile from package. Move bashisms to /etc/profile.bash - FS#4766 /etc/profile was also largely revamped. Please comment on the changes there if you'd like. I'd like to get these into core as soon as possible

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[arch-dev-public] Extra Removal: po4a
by Aaron Griffin 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Do we need this package for anything? It's a translation tool for developers, I brought it in for pacman translations back in the day, but we've since moved away from it - any qualms with removing it from extra?

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[arch-dev-public] PPC site down?
by Aaron Griffin 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hey guys, I saw a forum post about archlinuxppc.org being down, and wanted to know if anyone was aware. I fear that email may not be reaching Alex, as his email is served through there. Anyone know anything?

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[arch-dev-public] manpages broken for non-testing users
by Thomas Bächler 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

From reports I got from IRC, it sounds like manpages which are still in /usr/share/man are not found by man. The installed man and filesystem packages in these cases are: man 1.6f-1 filesystem 2007.11-3 Can we move the involved packages to core soon, so this will be fixed?

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.24-2
by Tobias Powalowski 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi kernel bump to .24 series for both arches in testing, please signoff - added the new arch logos - added efi framebuffer support - added timer stats option also for x86_64 - fixed battery status for laptops apps that still use /proc interface please also signoff the modules: madwifi ndiswrapper rt2500 wlan-ng26 ipw3945 (resurected, thanks thomas :) ) integrated upstream into .24 series: iwlwifi rt2x00-cvs no signoff needed for them anymore greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-dev-public] Kernel framebuffer logo
by Thayer Williams 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Thursday 24 January 2008, Damir Perisa wrote: > we ARE having the arch logo in the kernel replacing the linux 2.0 > pinguin (i made it). so i'm not getting the point in discussing if we > want it or not. its just that somebody has to transform the new logo > to the kernel-usable formats and rebuild the kernel. quite easy if > you have the logo in good enough quality (or svg). > My apologies Damir, I wasn't aware that a final decision had been made yet. My method for making the kernel logo: 1. Extract a png from the svg sources 2. Resize and optimize the colour depth with GIMP/Fireworks 3. Use pngtopnm (after patching our netpbm package) 4. Use pnmtoplainpnm to finish it off I didn't realize there was so much passion behind the inclusion of a framebuffer logo; it's on my screen for all of about 20 seconds. I see a number of aesthetic problems with using such a logo, and they are as follows: 1. Limited use of colour makes it less than ideal for 'fancy graphics' 2. Users must customize their fb to be widescreen and like someone else pointed out, 1680x1050 and other widescreen resolutions are not supported even when customized. 3. The icon is fairly small and limiting in its scope Bootsplashes such as splashy, suffer from the same distortion problem unless fine-tuned. This means that out-of-the-box there's a potential that it will look 'fugly' or unprofessional at best. To counter this, I created a logo-less splashy theme that used a simple progress bar--it looks fine in any resolution. I agree that having the logo appear in the fb is a good idea--in theory at least--I only wish it could be done better. For example, it might be great to have the full logo (with text) appear at the top of the screen, but at the size we're dealing with that wouldn't be practical--it'd also look silly for us dual cpu/core owners to have two logos mirrored side by side. In my opinion, there are better ways to brand the distro; whether through the use of GDM/KDM/SLiM themes, wallpapers, or even desktop icons. I'm not going to lose any sleep about it either way...I just thought I'd share my take if it was still being decided--which apparently it isn't =) If anybody wants to have a go with the white logo, you can grab the ppm version here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~thayer/art/logo_linux_clut224.ppm

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[arch-dev-public] request: move qof to Extra
by Roman Kyrylych 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hi! When updating gnotime I've noticed that it depends on qof now, which is in Community repo. qof depends only on libgda which is already in Extra. Can I get some "ok" for this move? ;-) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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