December 2021 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] outdated mediainfo and libmediainfo packages
by TG Servers 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Hello, is there any particular reason why these 2 packages are outdated since several months, or were they just not maintained? I am asking because I would need some of the newer functionality and would compile them from source otherwise. But only if there are no known problems with them. The compiles from upstream 21.09 work without any issues and I can't see of any problems, but always better to just confirm Thanks

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[arch-general] Mesa is splitting off legacy drivers from main
by Lone_Wolf 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Hi, Mesa main has started dropping support for classic drivers[1] . This will affect users of Amd cards using r100 & r200 chipsets, (old) Nvidia cards using nouveau-vieux and Intel i915c & i965c . The plan is to support those older drivers through a new mesa LTS version that can be installed alongside normal mesa. Archlinux team will have to decide whether to add a mesa-lts package to keep supporting that hardware or just drop official support for them and hope some users will support them through aur. Atm it looks like mesa 22.0 will be the first stable version without support for this hardware, so there is still time to prepare for this. Lone_Wolf [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/10153

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[arch-general] Replicating a package set on a new machine
by Paul M. Foster 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

Folks: Assume I've installed a bunch of packages manually on machine A. Now I want to install those same packages-- not manually-- on machine B. I can have pacman tell me what packages are installed on machine A. Now, can I take the package list from machine A and, in an automated way, have pacman then install those packages on machine B? If so, how? Paul

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[arch-general] Comment on dovecot 2.3.17 in testing
by Genes Lists 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Just sharing my experience with this update. I'm aware that there have been quite a few folks with troubles as reported on the dovecot mailing list. My own experience was a) dovecot itself worked with no problems at all. b) I did however have pigeonhole failing which was perplexing - however restarting dovecot a second time got the sieve working and over the last half day or so everything is working well. I have noticed for users with no sieve script there remained some fails running the default sieve script. I am recompiling that script (sievec) manually to see if that helps. gene

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