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[arch-general] OOo Calc max rows
by Manne Merak 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hi, I have Calc 3.1.1 installed on two separate machines, one Arch and other openSUSE10.3 (both from their respective repos, not from openoffice.org) Both have a maximum row count of 1048576? I wasn't aware that the 65536 limit was increased; I cannot find anything at openoffice.org about this feature? Problem is that some (small) sheets now save to 100Meg files? Obviously still some bugs left. Anyone also have 1048576 rows in Calc 3.1.1? Manne

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[arch-general] Relating to missing lzma manuals.
by Frederic Bezies 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hello. I want to answer to Caleb Cushing who is talking about missing lzma manuals. lzma is now replaced by xz-utils. http://tukaani.org/xz/ Hope it helps ;) -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] lost-packages in testing/os/any/ @ FTP
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hi, There are some lost packages in testing/os/any/ in the FTP [#1] that are already moved to extra/os/any. imagemagick-doc-6.5.4.5-1-any.pkg.tar.gz kde-l10n-ar-4.3.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz ... kde-l10n-zh_tw-4.3.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz kde-meta-kdeaccessibility-4.3-3-any.pkg.tar.gz ... kde-meta-kdewebdev-4.3-3-any.pkg.tar.gz oxygen-icons-4.3.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz oxygen-icons-svg-4.3.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz [#1] ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/testing/os/any/ -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[arch-general] autogen.sh now fails building radeonhd - m4_pattern_allow -- how?
by David C. Rankin 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Listmates, I have been working with the radeonhd folks for several months testing the radeonhd driver. I have probably built the driver 50 times over that period. In the past few days, something changed so I can no longer run the autogen.sh script. The error is: 09:46 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> sh autogen-autoconf.sh --prefix=/usr autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal /usr/share/aclocal/progsreiserfs.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of AC_CHECK_LIBREISERFS /usr/share/aclocal/progsreiserfs.m4:13: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' /usr/share/aclocal/progsreiserfs.m4:13: or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree. libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. /usr/share/aclocal/progsreiserfs.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of AC_CHECK_LIBREISERFS /usr/share/aclocal/progsreiserfs.m4:13: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' /usr/share/aclocal/progsreiserfs.m4:13: or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf configure:1583: error: possibly undefined macro: _m4_text_wrap_word If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 I have searched and I can't figure out what the error is. The radeonhd source is from: git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd radeonhd/ The simple autogen.sh script is: #! /bin/sh srcdir=`dirname "$0"` test -z "$srcdir" && srcdir=. ORIGDIR=`pwd` cd "$srcdir"; rm -rf autom4te.cache autoreconf -v --install || exit 1 cd "$ORIGDIR" || exit $? "$srcdir"/configure --enable-maintainer-mode "$@" Anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong?? I have the needed macro packages installed: m4 1.4.13-1 xorg-util-macros 1.2.2-1 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Archlinux added a choice for OS selection at bugs.kde.org
by David C. Rankin 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Listmates, You should now be able to choose Archlinux as the OS when filing bugs at bugs.kde.org. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] KDE4.3 upgrade
by Manne Merak 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Just upgraded to KDE4.3 and for some reason almost all possible KDE apps were installed alongside the upgraded packages? anyone know why? Also I lost the ability to play MP3s in Amarok. Manne

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[arch-general] In defense of pacman.static
by Piyush P Kurur 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hi, This is my first posting on Arch-general. I am one of the recent converts to the Arch religion from the Debian religion. I am writing this in defense of the pacman.static package from archlinuxfr site. I have been running for Arch on a server, a laptop and an eeepc box for a while. The server and laptop were updated almost regularly may be once every 3 days where as the eeepc was not upgraded for about 2 months. So I hit pacman -Syu on eeepc and it first asked to install the new pacman version. I went ahead and then with the new pacman I had a problem. It would just not run as a shared library was missing. I was stuck. One way was to reinstall the thing again, I hate this. The other solution which I now describe might be known but still it might be interesting if you get stuck in a similar situation. Imagin that you are install Arch linux sitting in another distro. You would have started with installing the pacman.static package first and then syncing the packages into the directory which will be your new arch root. Something like $ mount /dev/sda2 /media/target $ # copy the mirror list and pacman.conf in the appropriate place $ pacman.static --root /media/target -Sy base Now that you are already in Arch all you have to do is the last line. In my case I just had to install the xz-utils package absense of which was creating the problem. $ pacman.static -S xz-utils The pacman upgrade some how did not install this package. I guess this is a bug. After that the pacman started working fine and I did the following $ pacman -Syu Note. This might be a problem with my pacman.conf. I probably had to install things in the right order. Regards ppk

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Re: [arch-general] xzgv, rtorrent and libtorrent have been orphaned - where can I apply for maintainership ?
by Partha Chowdhury 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:58:17PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Partha Chowdhury wrote: > >i have been using archlinux for about 3 months.I have switched from > >fedora to arch due to its simplicity. > >i had reported a bug > >http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15199?string=xzgv&project=1&type[0]=&sev[0]=… > >when i first started using arch.Recently it has been fixed and i have > >tested and reported it. > > > >However it seems that xzgv package is currently orphaned as this page > >shows > >http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/xzgv/ > >so is rtorrent and libtorrent.They have been marked out-of-date for > >a while now. > > > >is another trusted user or developer will be maintaining the packages in > >the future ? > > > >i want to help and i want to maintain the above packages if someone else > >has not decided already. so where do i apply and how do i start ? > > Note that all community packages are orphans at the moment due to > the backend transition that is ongoing. > > I notice that xzgv 0.9.1 is now released. If you tell me whether > updated version needs the patch provided in the bug report, I will > do the update. > > Allan > no , xzgv 0.9.1 does not need the patch. it is for xzgv-0.9 release.simply updating the xzgv package will solve it. About the backend transition - does that mean maintainers of the packages in the community repo cannot update their packages at the moment or is there some other problem ? Should i email the maintainers personally to make a request to update ?

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[arch-general] xzgv, rtorrent and libtorrent have been orphaned - where can I apply for maintainership ?
by Partha Chowdhury 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

i have been using archlinux for about 3 months.I have switched from fedora to arch due to its simplicity. i had reported a bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15199?string=xzgv&project=1&type[0]=&sev[0]=… when i first started using arch.Recently it has been fixed and i have tested and reported it. However it seems that xzgv package is currently orphaned as this page shows http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/xzgv/ so is rtorrent and libtorrent.They have been marked out-of-date for a while now. is another trusted user or developer will be maintaining the packages in the future ? i want to help and i want to maintain the above packages if someone else has not decided already. so where do i apply and how do i start ?

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Re: [arch-general] [*] Re: In defense of pacman.static
by Piyush P Kurur 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 07:12:55PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > ludovic coues wrote: >> It's a problem with the default pacman.conf I suppose. >> By default, pacman is configured to upgrade itself first. If he have upgrade >> itself, but forget to bring dependencies with it, it's a shame. >> >> I think this is a bug with the FirstSync option in pacman.conf >> > > Its not actually... it is a bug with pacman's deps. It requires > libarchive>=2.7.0-2 and not just 2.7.0 > > Allan Do I report this bug ? Regards ppk

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[arch-general] soundcard order is not maintained after recent updates
by kira.laucas＠gmail.com 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

i have two soundcards. one is creative soundblaster live and the other is onboard nvidia soundcard. the kernel modules are snd-emu10k1x and snd-hda-intel respectively. Before the recent updates i used to put snd-emu10k1x before snd-hda-intel in /etc/rc.conf in the MODULES array to force the soundblaster card to be soundcard 0. But after the most recent updates this setting does not work. After going through archwiki and googling i found that either i can put "options snd_emu10k1x index=0" in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf or i can create a custom asoundrc file in my home directory which will serve my purpose. so my question is that is the new udev does not load modules according to /etc/rc.conf ?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] How the use of "provides" can damage the dependency tree
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Allan McRae wrote: > Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> Am Sonntag 02 August 2009 11:26:51 schrieb Roman Kyrylych: >> >>> Okay, then how we currently check that subversion needs >>> to be rebuilt on db or heimdal soname bump? >>> >> >> That's where the link database would help a lot. >> > > Or the rebuild script I have posted which scans all the packages in > the repos in a few minutes. > Or visit this url to check the deps of the desired pkg http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/i686/core/heimdal-1.2.1-5 http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/x86_64/core/openssl-0.9.8k-4 etc, etc. http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/ That I update it regulary, 1-3 times per week, depending of amount of pkgs that are updated in repos. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[arch-general] autofs orphaned
by JM 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hello, I have been using autofs with my local and remote filesystems for some time. With an update to version 5.0 numerous bugs were introduced forcing many users, including me, to downgrade. On May 2nd, Andrea Scrapino who was the autofs maintainer at the time, orphaned the package and asked on arch-dev-public if some other dev would be interested in maintaining the package. Three months later autofs is still orphaned and autofs bugs assigned to BaSH haunt the bugtracker [1]. Will autofs be deprecated? If so, what compatible alternatives are there? Kind regards, JM [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=autofs&project=1

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[arch-general] no lzma man
by Caleb Cushing 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

man lzma doesn't come up with anything although other lz* tools refer to an lzma man page -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] What up with the mirrors? Errors using the .pacnew mirrorlist
by David C. Rankin 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Listmates, Today I'm gettign mirror failures: 16:37 alchemy:/etc/pacman.d> pms -u :: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from archlinux.unixheads.org : Not Found error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.easynews.com : Protocol error error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.easynews.com : Forbidden error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) Should this problem solve itself in a day or so? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] The vsftpd only starts at the second attempt
by Lucas Salies Brum 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

(root@abraham ~):# ps -A | grep vsftpd (root@abraham ~):# /etc/rc.d/vsftpd start :: Starting vsftpd FTP Daemon [FAIL] (root@abraham ~):# /etc/rc.d/vsftpd stop :: Stopping vsftpd FTP Daemon [DONE] (root@abraham ~):# /etc/rc.d/vsftpd start :: Starting vsftpd FTP Daemon [DONE] (root@abraham ~):# ps -A | grep vsftpd 6453 pts/3 00:00:00 vsftpd This has happened to someone? /etc/vsftpd.conf - http://paste.archlinux-br.org/1241 /etc/rc.conf - http://paste.archlinux-br.org/1242 Arch Linux i686. Thanks. --- Lucas Saliés Brum http://sistematico.org lsbrum @ irc.freenode.org

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[arch-general] kde4.3-0.1 - Many plasma-addon package conflicts
by David C. Rankin 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Listmates, Installing the new kde 4.3 release results and many plasma-addon package conflicts. Is this normal? I'm just going to remove the conflicting addons and then try the reinstall. Detailed list of conflicts attached... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] any packages on the repo are duplicated
by Angel Velásquez 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi, I've syncing my local mirror today and seems to be duplicated packages of 'any' architecture on i686 directory for example kde-l10n-de-4.3.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz is respectively on any dir and i686 dir See the log of pkgsync on [1]: db-clean should fix that iirc, can others mirrors admin checks if this still happening? I reviewed mirror.archlinux.com.ve on 'any' [2] architecture and 'i686' [3], 'x86_64' [4] and as I said 'any' packages still existing on other repos. Thanks [1] http://dpaste.com/75122/ [2] http://mirror.archlinux.com.ve/extra/os/any/ [3] http://mirror.archlinux.com.ve/extra/os/i686/ [4] http://mirror.archlinux.com.ve/extra/os/x86_64/ -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909

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[arch-general] drm no longer builds after latest kernel update on x86_64
by David C. Rankin 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Listmates, After the latest kernel update, drm no longer builds and fails with the following errors: 16:47 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core> make radeon.o drm.o make DRM_MODULES=radeon.o modules make[1]: Entering directory `/home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=`/bin/pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`/bin/pwd` modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-ARCH' CC [M] /home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.o In file included from /home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core/drmP.h:84, from /home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.c:36: /home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core/drm_os_linux.h:36: error: conflicting types for ‘irqreturn_t’ include/linux/irqreturn.h:16: note: previous declaration of ‘irqreturn_t’ was here make[3]: *** [/home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [_module_/home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-ARCH' make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core' make: *** [radeon.o] Error 2 Do I need to change a config setting somewhere to accommodate something in the new kernel? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-145-1
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi > bump to latest udev version, please test it well. > Has many new things included, which also dig in glib2 and libusb depend. > > greetings > tpowa > Sign-off both i686, x86_64. All boot OK, (custom kernel no initrd) no special setups, like raid or lvm. My usb devices are with the correct perms (4-in-1 reader, pendrive, ipod, mp3 player). The firmware for my printer is loaded OK, and kvm-88 still boot both arches (Arch Linux kernel):) One sidenote, this version support ACL, so I guess that is better now to switch /dev from ramfs to tmpfs in initscripts. (the current udev documentation talks about tmpfs not ramfs) -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[arch-general] KDE 4.3: packaged and split problem
by Alexander Kotlerman 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

On kde 4.3 packaging and splitting: I am trying to file a bug report, but the e-mail is taking forever for my registration (does that sound right?) so if anyone else has this problem, please post a bug report, i'm going to sleep. I would like to share my install experience so far: I have not been able to upgrade. It complains about "kde-meta-kdeplasma-addons requires kdeplasma-addons-applets-bball" which doesn't exist. Second, doing a fresh install by doing a `sudo pacman -Rd kde kde-meta && sudo pacman -Syy && sudo pacman -S kde` downloads a bunch of the packages, and also does not download a bunch of packages (mostly from kdeedu, kdemultimedia, and i think another that I forget. I tried a few different mirrors (especially those that updated recently) with no luck. When searching for said packages, pacman looks through mirrorlist. No avail.

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[arch-general] Bind 9.6.1-1 patched against dynamic update ddos?
by Fredrik Eriksson 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi, I've seen that there's a dynamic update ddos attack that is widely available on the net and after looking for the solution it seems that bind's latest patch (9.6.1-P1) solves this problem. So my question is more like this, is extra/bind 9.6.1-1 in the repository the same as bind 9.6.1-P1? The build date of the current package in extra/ says the 18 July but the homepage of BIND says the latest patch was published the 28 July. Best regards Fredrik Eriksson

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[arch-general] [arch-releng] 2009.08-RC1 snapshot images for public testing
by Gerhard Brauer 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi, We're close to releasing new official Arch installation media. The release date is planned latest on 09. August 2009, but we like to have pacman 3.3 on the snapshots if possible. These media will bring *a lot* of new things, so we would like some broader testing. The most important changes since 2009.02: - usage of new AIF installer - better disk editor with support for dm_crypt and lvm setups - support for automated installations (deprecates quickinst) - aufs instead of unionfs - smarter, faster, better boot device detection (esp. for usb users) - better date/time setting - refactored grub installation routines - and more... To test this, you can try many things: - the interactive and automatic procedures. - net & cd-based installations - usb vs cd-rom images, isolinux vs grub. We would like to have the following tested: - time/timezone setting with UTC and localtime - If the boot device gets detected properly during archiso boot hook - grub bootloader installation - If USB images detect the USB controller properly Our bugtracker: http://bugs.archlinux.org/proj6 Mailing list: http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-releng New installation guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Official_Arch_Linux_Insta… You can get the RC's from: http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ We currently set up also a torrent tracker. If ready we will also post the torrent file-links here to relieve build.archlinux.org. Happy testing! Archlinux Release Team

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-145-1
by Angel Velásquez 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

> > I'll shoot an email to Slicehost on my behalf to see what kernels they > have available. What other VPS providers offer Arch? It isn't a tough > thing to find out how much we can get away with here. > > -Dan > I think SevenL networks (who provide services to us) offers Arch... Doing a search on google "archlinux hosting" [1] I found some companies that I didn't notice of their existence in fact. Cheers [1] http://www.google.co.ve/search?hl=es&q=archlinux+hosting&btnG=Buscar+con+Go… -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-145-1
by Jan de Groot 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 13:42 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Is there a way to build udev without requiring this call? The > discussions with the minimal kernel version for our glibc did not > even > venture beyond the .24 version... Udev is replaceable with static dev or even older version without breaking too many things (though this new libudev and libgudev will change that a bit), for glibc, it means binaries compiled on arch can't ever run on older kernels, so we're talking about different things here.

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