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[arch-dev-public] Archlinux on Froscon conference?
by Jan de Groot 30 Jun '07

30 Jun '07

Hi all, Yesterday we got a leaflet from Froscon for their conference in end August ( http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/129392/ (their own website is down ATM)) We could opt for a developer room during that conference to hack on archlinux. There's more projects over there, so it's also a chance to meet upstream development hackers to solve things we can't solve, or to have a talk to them about your favourite program they're hacking on. The conference takes place on saturday and sunday 25/26 august 2007. If we would make a reservation for a developer/hacker room, at least Me, Andy and Alexander will go. I would like to know who else would be able to get to Bonn that weekend to see if it's useful to have a reservation.

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[arch-dev-public] Fw: Linux+ DVD magazine/ offer of cooperation
by Judd Vinet 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

Does anyone want to do this? I don't think I have the time or the best knowledge of Arch current events to write it. - Judd Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:21:58 +0200 From: Karolina Rybak <karolina.rybak(a)software.com.pl> To: jvinet(a)zeroflux.org Subject: Linux+ DVD magazine/ offer of cooperation Hello, I'm Karolina and I'm the product manager for Linux+ DVD magazine. I'm preparing the upcoming issue of Linux+, that will be in sale in October. Would you like to contribute to the news section for this issue? I would be greatful if you could write about 2300 characters+one screenshot for this section about what is new in Arch Linux. Please let me know whether you would like to contribute and give the latest news on release or upcoming projects (for October). I look forward your reply best regards Karolina Rybak -- Linux+ DVD Karolina Rybak Product Manager /////////////////////////////////////////////// Software Media LLC 1461 A First Avenue, # 360 New York, NY 10021-2209 USA phone number: 1-917-338 - 3631/ +48 22 427 35 34 fax: +48 22 887 10 11 www.lpmagazine.org/en http://www.buyitpress.com/en/

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[arch-dev-public] 2.6.22-rc4-git3 please test!
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Hi just to inform all developers, the new kernel can be downloaded from this adress: http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/rc-kernel/ or as repo [kernel] http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/rc-kernel/ All developers that have modules and hardware are invited to test the already provided ones. Broken: wlan-ng26 tomkx please try to find a fix ;) I need your feedback on this task, to avoid broken modules in the future. Known to work: fcpci,fcpcmcia,intel-536ep, nvidia-9x and nvidia-71x thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] nfs-utils 1.1.0
by Tom K 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

This has been around for a few weeks, and is described as a "fairly significant new release". So standard practice would be to put it in testing, wait for bug reports, fix them , move to current - right? Except for one thing - who runs testing on a NFS server? I know I don't. I've built it (against current) and installed it here, and all's fine so far, but mine is a very straightforward setup. Would I just put out a call for testers, who can then pacman -U it from somewhere? Or are there better ways to handle this? T.

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[arch-dev-public] Package database consistency check
by Thomas Bächler 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

I rewrote my package database consistency check script. It now reads all data directly from the db.tar.gz files (it doesn't read the filename attribute name yet, and still assumes pkgname-pkgver-pkgrel.pkg.tar.gz). It checks whether all packages in the db are present and have correct md5sums. The script is now in arch/scripts/check-package-db-consistency.sh in CVS. Here is the result: Checking current i686 ... Checking current x86_64 ... Checking extra i686 ... Package "/home/ftp/extra/os/i686/ion-3rc_20070506-1.pkg.tar.gz" missing. Package "/home/ftp/extra/os/i686/tmda-1.1.11-1.pkg.tar.gz" missing. Checking extra x86_64 ... Checking unstable i686 ... Checking unstable x86_64 ... Checking community i686 ... Checking community x86_64 ... Checking testing i686 ... Checking testing x86_64 ... Package "/home/ftp/testing/os/x86_64/xf86-video-unichrome-0.2.6-4.1.pkg.tar.gz" has wrong md5sum (file: "23d1a54367e3340dc7d89cfb48230a6b", database: "04d77dff29205c19c89245deb3a7fb6a")

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[arch-dev-public] Fw: Archlinux Mirror
by Judd Vinet 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

We have a new mirror for use. Scott says he has plenty of bandwidth, so North American Archers can use it. - J Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:02:39 -0600 From: Scott <scott(a)unixheads.com> To: Judd Vinet <jvinet(a)zeroflux.org> Subject: Re: Archlinux Mirror Judd- The primary node is pulling from your server now. Either the mirror I pulled from was out of date, or something strange happened. It seems to be pulling a lot of packages all over again. So I would not consider my mirror fully up to date yet, perhaps in 6-12 hours. I am currently only getting 100k or so from your master server, so if it ends up getting everything again I suppose it could take a few days. It took 8-9 hours or so at 7 times the speed, so if it does it all over again it could be about 70 hours :-) Once the primary node is done, I will sync my backup node up with it before hitting yours with the backup node. But the URLS are: http://mirrors.unixheads.org/archlinux ftp://mirrors.unixheads.org/archlinux rsync://mirrors.unixheads.org/archlinux Scott..

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[arch-dev-public] ABS cleanup, round 2
by Dan McGee 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

I just made another script today to do some more cleanup- this untags all files that have been removed from CVS but did not drop their CURRENT or CURRENT-64 tag. I went ahead and ran it on both the [current] and [extra] repos for both i686 and x86_64. If anyone notices any problems building certain packages from ABS now, it may be due to this, in which case I'll put the blame squarely on the person who originally deleted the file. :) With the script below, it was as easy as running this command in the top level directory of the CVS checkout (that has not had directories pruned): ./cleantags.sh > cleanlist.txt cat cleanlist.txt | xargs cvs tag -d CURRENT (or CURRENT-64, of course) If anyone wants to run this on community, or thinks I should, let me know. I felt a little more worried about messing something up there I can't fix. I would recommend it get done however- this single cleanup dropped 336 files from ABS, which is rather significant. -Dan #!/bin/bash # find files in CVS that have been deleted but not untagged # tag to search for tag="CURRENT" #tag="CURRENT-64" #tag="TESTING" #tag="TESTING-64" # path to CVSROOT ,v files path="/home/cvs-arch/arch/build" #path="/home/cvs-extra/extra" #path="/home/cvs-community/community" #path="/home/cvs-unstable/unstable" atticdirs="$(find $path -type d -name Attic)" for dir in $atticdirs; do for file in $(ls $dir); do grep -Pq "\t$tag:" $dir/$file if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "$dir/$file" | sed -e 's|,v||' -e "s|$path|.|" -e 's|Attic/||' fi done done

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[arch-dev-public] kvm, qemu-kvm maintainer searched
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

Hi i tried this kvm crap now to get it running with kernel 22rc5 kvm-modules do compile, no problem here. to get this stuff running we need a gcc3.4 version kvm-qemu is bugged and doesn't compile with gcc 3.3 i have no hardware to test it and no need for it, it would be great if someone who has the hardware and the fun to do this stuff. thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] Inactive
by Phil Dillon-Thiselton 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

Hello all, Not sure you can really be inactive before you even are active but I've had some bad news today, which is going to keep me occupied for a little while. Ironically the good news and the bad news came within about 30 mins of each other. It's probably traditional to do a proper "hello" sort of thing but I think I better postpone that until I'm ready to do it properly and get started. I'm sure you were all really looking forward to it and that comes as a crushing disappointment but I'm sure you can all cope in the meantime ;-) Looking forward to getting started eventually though :-) Thanks and best, Phil

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[arch-dev-public] "Don't-Panic" kernel-2.6.22 rc5git8 686 Isos available
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

Hi now also available latest kernel install isos. http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/rc-iso/ everything mentioned here is fixed: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7410 INFORMATION: kernel 22rc5git8 snapshot Iso called beta1 :) - ftp install will not work with any iso image, because it will grep the wrong kernel from ftp! use ftp iso only for checking if 22rc5 runs on your system! have fun and enjoy the new "Don't-Panic" beta1 release try to break it! greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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