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[arch-dev-public] Away Oct 10 - 14
by Aaron Griffin 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

Hey all, I'm going to be camping and doing wilderness-y things during the time period above. This means no computer. I'm not even bringing it with me. Hopefully, nothing goes haywire while I'm gone. I'm attempting to get a few things complete before I go. If anyone would like some special tasks during this period, let me know - we have quite a lot of code that needs to be written, if you're bored. I'll give you an update before I leave. Thanks guys, Aaron

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[arch-dev-public] Moving texinfo to core/devel?
by Daniel Isenmann 14 Oct '07

14 Oct '07

Hi, I find out, that grep needs makeinfo (which is in extra/texinfo-package) as makedepends. It's a makedepends from binutils, too. So, it is necessary anyway in core/devel, what do you think? Daniel

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[arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.23 status update
by Tobias Powalowski 14 Oct '07

14 Oct '07

Hi open bugs: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8289 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8292 first one is quite bad i hope thomas can try to figure out why it crashes. second one a typical alsa hda issue, which is difficult to track down. all modules are now compiled against the latest .23 kernel, functionality needs to be tested. here is the list [core]: ipw3945 madwifi rt2x00-cvs iwlwifi ndiswrapper rt2500 wlan-ng26 here is the list [extra]: fcpci intel-536ep intel-537 martian (confirmed to work on german irc) nvidia-96xx (works for me) fcpcmcia kqemu nvidia (works for me and dan) slmodem fglrx intel-537 lirc nvidia-71xx truecrypt (confirmed to work on german irc channel) most interesting is fglrx driver. thanks for your help 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] less
by Andreas Radke 14 Oct '07

14 Oct '07

available for both archs in testing * please sign off before the big move! Andy

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] which
by Andreas Radke 13 Oct '07

13 Oct '07

available for both archs in testing * please sign off before the big move! Andy

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] tar
by Andreas Radke 13 Oct '07

13 Oct '07

available for both archs in testing * please sign off before the big move! Andy

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[arch-dev-public] [big move] db/heimdal/gtk/gnome/gcc
by Andreas Radke 13 Oct '07

13 Oct '07

What bugs or rebuilds are pending? Any move stoppers left? I only know the gtk2 package, Jan wants to fix the X crashes. If he won't be around I'll try myself later tonight. The plan: - Many packages depend on x11-libs. Jan told me it's safe to move the x11-libs expect libgl to extra. everything else from Xorg will stay in testing. - All other packages will move right after gtk2 got fixed. Andy

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssl
by Pierre Schmitz 13 Oct '07

13 Oct '07

Hi, I have updated openssl from 0.9.8e to 0.9.8f and put it into [testing]. Because this is a [core]-package please test and tell me. Pierre -- archlinux.de

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-commits] CVS update of extra/science/plotutils (PKGBUILD)
by Dan McGee 13 Oct '07

13 Oct '07

On 10/12/07, Damir Perisa <damir(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Date: Friday, October 12, 2007 @ 21:29:35 > Author: damir > Path: /home/cvs-extra/extra/science/plotutils > > Added: PKGBUILD (1.1) > > upgpkg: plotutils 2.5-1 > > > ----------+ > PKGBUILD | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) > > > Index: extra/science/plotutils/PKGBUILD > diff -u /dev/null extra/science/plotutils/PKGBUILD:1.1 > --- /dev/null Fri Oct 12 21:29:35 2007 > +++ extra/science/plotutils/PKGBUILD Fri Oct 12 21:29:35 2007 > @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ > +# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.1 2007/10/13 01:29:35 damir Exp $ > +# Maintainer: damir <damir(a)archlinux.org> > +# Packager: Maksim Sipos (maxsipos at gmail dot com) > + > +pkgname=plotutils > +pkgver=2.5 > +pkgrel=1 > +arch=('x86_64' 'i686') > +pkgdesc="Set of utilities and libraries for plotting." > +url="http://directory.fsf.org/graphics/plotutils.html" > +license=("GPL") > +depends=("libpng" "gcc-libs" "libxaw") > +makedepends=("flex") > +# _patches="" > +source=("http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/plotutils/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz" \ > + ${_patches}) > +options=('!libtool') > + > +build() { > + cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver > +# for patch in ${_patches} > +# do > +# patch -Np1 -i $startdir/src/$patch > +# done > + ./configure --prefix=/usr \ > + --with-gnu-ld \ > + --with-x \ > + --enable-libplotter \ > + --enable-libxmi > + make || return 1 > + make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install > +} > +md5sums=('0d6855cce17832afe2ff75c26a57be49') > > _______________________________________________ > arch-commits mailing list > arch-commits(a)archlinux.org > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-commits > OK, I don't want to start a flame war here, just a healthy discussion. Obviously Damir uses all these science packages and is willing to maintain them, so that is why they end up in the extra repository. But I'd like to pose a question to the developers- do these pacakges truely belong in extra? Considering we already have enough issues with orphaned packages and such, I feel like we should be a bit more strict when adding packages to our developer repositories. Even if we have a maintainer now for a package, as soon as a dev decides to depart our ranks we could be left with well over 100 packages no one wants to maintain. I feel like this is the reason there are still several packages in extra that have been orphaned and un-updated for over 2 years. The above was mostly opinion-free, so my last paragraph will be my opinion. I feel like packages like this belong in community or unsupported, not extra. We no longer look at community of less of a repo than extra- the only difference is who can place packages there. The community has always filled a great role as having some of the more niche packages, and most science stuff belongs in this category. And guess what the best part is? Even if you are a dev, you can build and upload packages to community. To Damir- this isn't directed at you as much as our general policy, which I believe we should work on setting so that all developers know what is acceptable and not acceptable. I'm sure other developers have added packages mostly for their personal use as well. -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.23 status
by Tobias Powalowski 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

Hi 2.6.23 packages built + modules issues: fglrx is not working and lirc needs probably to change to cvs again to compile. The rest was compilable, when should i checkin to testing? breaking ati cards in testing is it worth the trouble or delay it? thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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