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September 2008

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[arch-general] Outdated Wicd
by Christian Babeux 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hi, It seems that the version of wicd in extra (version 1.4.1) is outdated and has currently no maintainer. The new version (version 1.5.x) is moved from /usr/lib/wicd to respect FHS and add interesting new features. There is also a svn version in the AUR, but I don't think it is stable enough to be in extra. So what are the plans for this package ?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Xorg-server 1.5RC6 enters testing
by Alessio Bolognino 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

On Sun 2008-08-31 20:37, Jan de Groot wrote: > Xorg-server 1.5RC6 (1.4.99.906) enters tesing. This version of > xorg-server includes input hotplugging using hal, better EXA support and > less memory usage. > Note that this version requires an upgrade of all videodrivers. > All videodrivers shipped with X.Org have been rebuilt to reflect this > change. Nvidia drivers don't seem to need a rebuild, while AMD's > catalyst drivers don't support the new X.Org version. Fglrx users should > not upgrade to this version. > > Please give this version of X.Org an extensive test run and report bugs. OK, this is not a bug report and I have not even tested it yet, but reading the PKGBUILD I found that for some reason a file ( /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so ) is created by the scriptlets; in this way pacman doesn't know which package owns it. I have to admit it's a pretty minor annoyance, since it is removed by the post_remove function, but it seems to me an useless complication. Unless I'm missing something, you can get rid of the xorg-server.install file and put: ln -sf libwfb.so.1.4 ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so at the end of the PKGBUILD. Cheers, -- Alessio (molok) Bolognino

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