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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 08 Apr '07

08 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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[arch-dev-public] Move from /opt to /usr
by Tobias Kieslich 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Hi, this is an old issue and I just talked to Jan about that. We both are all for that and will move gnome and xfce. Jan said kde needs some more investigation. It'll save us a whole lot of trouble in the long run. As far as xfce4 is concerned, 4.4.1 is expected to be there around the 9th of April. And I plan on using this to move over the whole repository. Just one more guess, when moving on to a newer repos layout, can we rename xfce4 to xfce, it's somewhat less limiting :P -T

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[arch-dev-public] coreutils 6.9 + fakeroot + makepkg serious bug
by Thomas Bächler 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

While rebuilding some packages, namcap issued some warnings: beryl-core W: File (usr/man/man1/) does not have the world readable bit set. beryl-core W: File (usr/man/man3/) does not have the world readable bit set. When I look at the $startdir/pkg, everything is fine though. I narrowed it down to the following simple test case: [01:54:30][thomas@gollum shm]$ fakeroot bash-3.2# ls -lF insgesamt 0 bash-3.2# mkdir foo bash-3.2# ls -lF insgesamt 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2. Apr 01:54 foo/ bash-3.2# chmod 700 foo/ bash-3.2# ls -lF insgesamt 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2. Apr 01:54 foo/ bash-3.2# exit [01:55:02][thomas@gollum shm]$ ls -lF insgesamt 0 drwx------ 2 thomas users 40 2. Apr 01:54 foo/ [01:55:03][thomas@gollum shm]$ As you can see, the chmod has no effect inside the fakeroot environment, which causes a 'cp -a' in makepkg to behave incorrectly and may cause other similar bugs during makepkg. Downgrading coreutils from 6.9-1 to 6.7-1 solves this problem. I have no idea where to start, but this should be adressed quickly as it may break many packages. For everyone who is going to test, I found the old package here: ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/distributions/archlinux/current/os/i686/coreutils-6.7-1.pkg.tar.gz @Romashka: If you read this, I think your exaile build bug is also related to this, please confirm.

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[arch-dev-public] New wireless and network scripts.
by James 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Hey The network profile's that i've been working on for far too long, have now been uploaded and put into a git repository on archlinux.org. To get it, git clone http://archlinux.org/~james/projects/network.git To make a package, run package.sh for the meantime. There will be a proper PKGBUILD and a custom repository for it shortly. There's a few known bugs, and not enough documentation, however I've put enough basic information to get you going on the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Scripts There's undoubtedly other bugs and hiccups, and i'm calling on you to test. If you find a bug, let me know. James -- iphitus // Arch Developer // kernel26beyond // iphitus.loudas.com

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[arch-dev-public] status of xfce-svn
by Roman Kyrylych 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

Hi! We have xfce-svn group in Unstable repo, that was maintained by Shadowhand until he resigned as a maintainer. Because packages are not maintained now users fill bugreports about non-working packages. Is there a need in xfce-svn now? If noone is interested in maintaining them then I propose to remove them. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] Bug Day
by Roman Kyrylych 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

Hi! I would like for the next Bug Day to happen on 14th of April. The reason for this is to reduce the amount of old reports and feature requests. We should clear outdated reports, fix/implement those that already have patches provided or are trivial to fix/implement, discuss the pros & cons of implementing some feature requests, look at reports assigned to inactive/resigned devs. If you cannot take part in the Bug Day, then choose any day when you'll have free time to do this work and plase notify other devs so they would know to take a closer look at your reports too. Please all users help us too. There are bugrepors that are probably already fixed but developers may not be aware of this because of lack of user feedback. Please review all bugs that were reported by you if they still are valid. If report are old enought and no further information from reporter is provided then developers will most likely close such bugs assuming they are fixed. We cannot fix bugs without your feedback. Join us at #archlinux-bugs channel on irc.freenode.net during 14th of April. As we leave in different timezones not all devs will be available at the same time, but feel free to report your issues to any dev available on-line. Also please check your mailboxes that may contain notifications about comments made by devs and other users. I would like to hear any proposals about possible improvements to the Bug Day effectiveness. P.S.: this is my first official announcement so don't beat me hard if something is wrong. :-P -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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