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[arch-dev-public] games group
by Jan de Groot 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hi all, I'm currently busy with the movement of gnome from /opt/gnome to /usr. One of the last packages I need to do is gnome-games, which is everything but fun. Current situation: - gnome-games package, many games, different ones for every major release - several score files per game, created by postinstall/postupgrade with root:user permissions, writable by user, created as 660 files. - score files can change in any release Now a games group would come in handy: - forget about the post_install and score files - install game binaries setgid games - users can't cheat anymore because they can only write score files by executing the game I would propose to add a games group and a directory called /var/games or /var/lib/games with root:games ownership and 775 rights.

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[arch-dev-public] Absence from Duties
by Jeff 'codemac' Mickey 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

As many of you may have heard, 32 members of the Virginia Tech community, and 1 asshole of a human have left this world. I will not be able to tend to my duties as a developer for an unspecified period of time for intensley personal reasons. I hope that none of you ever have to experience this. // codemac -- .: [ + carpe diem totus tuus + ] :.

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[arch-dev-public] Oh Em Gee, I'm back
by Aaron Griffin 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

"Wait, you were gone?" Yeah yeah, I've been kinda AWOL for around a week. Some times real-life hits you like a ton of bricks... I'd go into it, but it's not real interesting, and nothing major happened. It's just the fact that I've been working quite a lot recently, and have suffered from computer burn-out. But I realized something. If I let this get me down, I'll pretty much never get anything done. It's kinda like lifting weights. When you start off, you do a small amount, and get sore, then repeat, and eventually the original weight is easy. That's what I need to force myself into. The more you do, the more you *can* do. But I'm digressing. Anyway, I have a huge amount of emails to go through (~30 or so, not counting flyspray emails) tonight, so if there's anything important that I should be looking at, feel free to ping me so I can get it first and get up to speed. -- Aaron

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[arch-dev-public] x86_64: improving default CFLAGS
by Andreas Radke 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=27139 after some discussions in this thread we want to change our default compiler flags. we want to make use of the SSE3 extensions most x86_64 cpus have. to not break backward compatibility for those few early cpus that lack SSE3 extensions we want to do it with -mtune. this is how we want to set it for the future: CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=nocona -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=nocona -O2 -pipe" some testing is still required. i would like to put a modified version of pacman to testing right after it has moved to current. when everything is ok we would ask the pacman devs to change it to the default makepkg.conf. please discuss. Andy (for i686 are also some speedups possible but that's not my task)

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [tur-users] Community repo cleanup completed
by Travis Willard 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:42:15 +0800 "Callan Barrett" <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/15/07, Eric Belanger <belanger(a)astro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > The community repo cleanup is completed. > > > > The current orphans will remain in community and have been > > fixed/updated. I've added myself to the notification list so I'll > > be aware of any comments. There are still orphans which are > > dependency to other TU's packages. I haven't touch these as I > > assume the corresponding TU will eventually adopt them and maintain > > them. Here's the updated list: ..snip.. > > wizzomafizzo: you just uploaded a bunch of xfce-svn packages. I > > guess that xfce-svn is moving from unstable to community, right? > > Don't forget to adopt them. > > Yep, all xfce-svn packages have been uploaded to community and I'm > quite sure I've adopted them all now. Please tell me if I missed any, > though. > > Thanks. > Does this mean the xfce-svn packages in unstable should be removed? Shadowhand is definitely no longer doing this? -- Travis

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[arch-dev-public] CD cover for Voodoo
by Judd Vinet 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Hi guys, OSDisc emailed me -- they need a CD cover for the new release. Something snazzy like our old ones that are still up on the art[1] page. Anyone have some graphics chops? - J [1] http://www.archlinux.org/art/

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[arch-dev-public] missing packages [extra]
by Tobias Powalowski 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

notice: Missing koffice-l10n-bg-1.5.2-1.pkg.tar.gz in ftp site notice: Missing ipw3945-beyond-1.1.3-3.pkg.tar.gz in ftp site notice: Missing devtools-0.3.4-1.1.pkg.tar.gz in ftp site notice: Missing waimea-0.5.1-3.pkg.tar.gz in ftp site -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] missing packages [current]
by Tobias Powalowski 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

==> Generating Text Package List... notice: Missing esd-0.2.37-3.pkg.tar.gz in ftp site notice: Missing libgnomecanvas-2.14.0-2.pkg.tar.gz in ftp site notice: Missing gtk-engines-2.10.1-1.pkg.tar.gz in ftp site -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [pacman-dev] Adding new users/groups
by Dan McGee 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

On 4/7/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 2007/4/7, Andrew Fyfe <andrew(a)neptune-one.net>: > > What's the procedure for adding new system users/groups to the system. > > There's a lot of install scripts that add users/groups with specific > > ids, is there a list somewhere of all the names/ids used to stop 2 > > different packages from trying to use the same id? > > Developers have such list. > Why do you need this and why ask on pacman-dev? ;) The better question- why is this not a public list? -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] Problems in 0.8
by James 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Just posting this here, seeing if anyone has any other big problems noticed in 0.8 I caught this one on the forums, http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31244 For a particular modern chipset, 2.6.20.4 doesnt even boot, making the 0.8 install CD useless for many. Given that 2.6.21 is at rc6, are we going to make a release at 2.6.21 as planned? Otherwise... it might be nice to just rebuild 0.8 as 0.8.1 with the newer kernel for these users. -- iphitus // Arch Developer // kernel26beyond // iphitus.loudas.com

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