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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 139, Issue 14
by Information Technology Works 17 May '16

17 May '16

On 05/17/2016 07:00 AM, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > In the past there has been various (performance) reasons with gcc5 that > hold up stepping further, so the decision was to not backport gcc6 > patches and wait for gcc6 so arrive. Fortunately gcc6 arrived so the > topic landed again on the tables for discussion. The current state is > that we wanted to have some benchmarking with current (non-PIE) and PIE > enabled binaries to compare them and make sure it eliminated all > previous concerns. > > If you want to to really help pushing this topic in an official way then > the most useful and best step you could do is helping out to do those > benchmarks. > > cheers, > Levente ohh, ok. that makes sense. I would be glad to benchmark as many packages as needed, assuming someone doesn't mind telling me how it needs to be done. thanks, ITwrx

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[arch-general] Kernel version in hooks
by Damjan Georgievski 17 May '16

17 May '16

Can I somehow get the kernel version from a hook invoked on the kernel package update? -- damjan

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[arch-general] Fwd: Re: [arch-dev-public] Linux 4.6 enters [testing]
by Tomasz Przybył 16 May '16

16 May '16

--- Treść przekazanej wiadomości --- Temat: Re: [arch-dev-public] Linux 4.6 enters [testing] Data: Mon, 16 May 2016 21:07:38 +0200 Nadawca: Tomasz Przybył <fademind(a)gmail.com> Adresat: Public mailing list for Arch Linux development <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> W dniu 16.05.2016 o 20:58, Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public pisze: > Hi folks, > > New kernel is in [testing], > > Binary modules which are not building: > > -nvidia series (all of them) > > -tp_smapi > > Maintainers please find patches to fix them. > > Thanks. > > greetings > > tpowa > > Hi, Disable CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION config option against https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/3/437 and external modules will be build fine. NVIDIA need additional patch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/archpkgbuilds/master/AUR/linux-r… Reference: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/926824/linux/364-1-2-5-won-t-compi… Regards Tomasz

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[arch-general] PIE repo considerations
by Information Technology Works 16 May '16

16 May '16

i was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how one might setup unofficial user repos with all the offical arch packages but built with hardening-wrapper. presumed needs 1) download latest sources for all official arch packages. abs does this but i's rather not wait up to a day to get security updates. Why doesn't abs just sync however the repo mirrors do? 2) build all of them (with hardening-wrapper) automatically 3) auto-rebuild when arch official package gets upgraded. 4) make available as binary packages in unofficial user repo.(assuming arch doesn't want to have official aslr repos) For #1 i'm thinking asp would be nice as it grabs the latest sources but it doesn't currently have an "-all" option or similar. Assuming its dev would add it, do scripts or packages currently exist that would facilitate the other items(mainly 2 & 3 above)? ----------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/hardening-wrapper/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Security#PIE >From what i glean from the conversation below, i think a (totally theoretical) user vote would have resulted in an affirmative on full aslr: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014-December/026843.… I also don't understand the lack of discussion on something this important by other devs. one person had concerns about various things and another mentioned whether upstream would support it and that was it. I was hoping to at least hear why the wrapper method was so out of spec for arch as to warrant not supporting full aslr. I'm sure it seems obvious to those devs opposed, but not to me or possibly other end users. Also, i don't think i'm owed an explanation. I'm just saying more context for something this important would have been nice. thanks, ITwrx

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[arch-general] netcdf problem after arch update
by Fulcrum 11 May '16

11 May '16

Hi all, I have two tools that use libnetcdf.so.7. They were working fine earlier. I updated Arch using the 'pacman -Syy' and 'pacman -Su'. But after the update, both the tools are giving errors: Tool1 (gasflow) error: /home/foxtrot/project/gasflow-3.0/bin/xgf2: error while loading shared libraries: libnetcdf.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Toos2 (pyscan) error: ImportError: libnetcdf.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 'pacman -Ss netcdf' says: extra/netcdf 4.4.1rc1-1 [installed] network Common Data Form interface for array-oriented data access and corresponding library extra/netcdf-cxx 4.2-4 [installed] NetCDF c++ bindings extra/netcdf-fortran 4.4.3-1 [installed] NetCDF fortran bindings Quick response will be highly appreciated! Fulcrum

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[arch-general] Why did kernel packaging become slow?
by Abderrahman Najjar 08 May '16

08 May '16

The kernel package (linux) is constantly out of date, both in Testing & Core. Whenever a version is pushed in kernel.org, the previous stable will be still in testing. And then the (old) stable version gets pushed to core, and the next one in testing will be already old (because it's the latest stable). Such as the case right now (Core=4.5.1, testing=4.5.2. Stable on kernel.org=4.5.3) Is there a reason for such delay?

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[arch-general] x220 external mic
by Carsten Mattner 07 May '16

07 May '16

This is a question for those who have or still are using a Thinkpad x220. I've been trying to get an external 3.5mm headphone+mic combo to work in a way that the mic is picked up, but so far nothing fixed it and I cannot find anything relevant on the internet. I've tried enable/disabling the mic i/o port in BIOS, but I'm fairly certain that the setting is just for the built-in mic under the monitor and not anything connected via the a combo inline external device. Any hints what I can try? I've tried with ALSA and ALSA plus PulseAudio and never been able to see any device that would pick up sound.

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[arch-general] Xfce4 cut and paste problems
by pete nikolic 07 May '16

07 May '16

Evening all . Long time no post (long time no linux ) having had some health problems i am now getting back into sorting this machine out (it went bang some time ago and has been completely rebuilt Installed my favorite distro Arch Linux but found i could not get on with the new incarnation of KDE plasma 5 so installed Xfce4 which is fine quick apart from the cut & paste issues i have tried everything i have read on the Wiki and anything else i can find to no effect can someone please give me a few pointers to fix this one issue that is a big problem for me Thanks in advance a now somewhat healthier Pete .

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[arch-general] truecrypt 1:7.1a-3 is broken now for five month
by Wulf Richartz 07 May '16

07 May '16

Hello devs and list, truecrypt 1:7.1a-3 is broken now for five month since the gcc ABI change and recompilation of truecrypt. Corresponding bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47325 It would be fine, if there will be a "solution" for this package in the repository Extra, maybe going back to 1:7.1a-2? regards Wulf

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[arch-general] Why isn't RetroArch in the Arch repos?
by Diego Viola 03 May '16

03 May '16

Any reasons?

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