October 2008 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dmraid 1.0.rc15-1
by Tobias Powalowski 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hi guys, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] atl2-2.0.5
by Tobias Powalowski 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hi guys, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Plan for python upgrade [was in arch-dev-public]
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Eric Belanger wrote > IMO, Plan 1 is the way to go as this is how we managed the qt3/qt upgrade. there was a qt package and a qt4 during a certain amount of time before the switch to qt3/qt > Does anyone has an idea on how many packages in the repo currently works > with or need python3.0? If that number is zero or very small, i don't know but as python 3 is not yet out it should be pretty close to zero. > we could update python to 2.6 and wait until that number increases before proceeding with > Plan 1. That will reduce the number of rebuilds because we will be > replacing rebuilds by package update that eventually would need to > be done anyway. yes and no. because the number will grow very slowly and there is no such big beast like kde to force the switch. (is there ?) why not wait until python 3.1 ? i really fear that a great number of software will break because they will try to use /usr/bin/python and except a python 2 to be there. What about the package in unsupported that will not be upgraded asap as the others in extra or core or community.

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[arch-general] initscripts-splash and fbsplash
by Gregory T Helton 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hello all, I've reworked the initscripts-splash patch by hand into the latest version of initscripts. I've also updated the fbsplash package to the latest version of splashutils. So far, I've been using it for about a week now with my laptop, and have encounted no problems at all. Splash even works on hibernate with uswsusp-splash from the AUR. (Haven't tried tuxonice because I don't use it) Here's links to the updated PKGBUILD tarballs. http://www.fallendusk.org/arch/initscripts-splash.tar.gz http://www.fallendusk.org/arch/fbsplash.tar.gz I'm using my own custom kernel with the fbcondecor patch (makes splash load as soon as kernel does) but from what I understand fbsplash should work without, just not until after init loads. I would be more than glad to maintain either of these packages if the current maintainers would like to hand them off. :) --Greg

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[arch-general] About Turkish Mirrors
by Alper KANAT 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hey There All Arch'ers, I'm one of the Arch Linux Turkish Community members and want to remind all of you that we have 2 (and counting) official mirrors in Turkey. I write this e-mail to kindly request an update for pacman mirrorlist and wiki pages like this one [1].. ftp.linux.org.tr belongs to LKD (Turkish Linux Community Foundation) and you can reach the team from: ftp at linux.org.tr Thanks for all your great software and support! Cheers! [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirror -- Alper KANAT http://raptiye.org

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