December 2005 - Arch-ports - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-ports] arch64: testing kernel26
by Gernot Pansy 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

there is an bug in PKGBUILD in line 62: asm-i386 needs to be changed to asm-x64_64 othwerwise it's immpossible to build the fglrx modul. how to i get an svn account ? i want to help building some packages. i already have made some packges, and i think the are quite useful for the community (ati-drivers, lvm2, ). gernot

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[arch-ports] Development of Arch64 / site arch64.org still down
by Dieter Rethmeyer 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Hello, I am a new arch64 user and I am interested in making Arch64 an good, perhaps the best 64-bit distribution. At the moment I am using Arch32 as some applications are not available in Arch64, so I try to compile them here (with more or less success). My base Arch64 system is running and digikam works already :) What about arch64.org? - it is still down. Do you know when the site will be up again? Another question about package updates: Will updates still be made with pacman in Arch64 or ist there another solution planned? And, at last: If I suceed in compiling some programs I use (just working on digikam and postfix - having trouble with mc, acroread, openoffice.org2) - are you interested in the results (PKGBUILDs, binaries, problems I have)? Shall compilation problems and possible solutions be discussed on this mailing list? Dieter

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[arch-ports] get svn
by Mr Green 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Hi, Talk to seshu or c14n ... ;-) Welcome to Archlinux64 MrGreen

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[arch-ports] troubles
by Drew Cousino 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

I have two problems: one with the nvidia package and the other with pacman. Nvidia problem: I cannot install the nvidia package. I always run into the error that the installer cannot find /usr/lib/libGL.so.1, and yet it exists in my filesystem. Pacman problem: Whenever I run pacman -Syu, it asks me to update libpcap to version 0.8.3-1. However, pacman -Q libpcap says that I already have that version installed. Also I have found the following packages install with unaltered abs PKGBUILDs: acroread 7.0.1-1 apcupsd 3.10.18-1 aspell-en 6.0-1 lesstif 0.94.4-3 libdvdcss 1.2.9-2 libwmf 0.2.8.4-1 vorbis-tools 1.1.1-1 xine-ui 0.99.4-1 xmms-skins 0.3-1 I should note that xpdf requires lesstif, but lesstif isn't in the 64 bit repo. Drew

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[arch-ports] testing repo
by seshu yamajala 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

we finally started a testing repo for arch64. there is now a kernel26 package in it and some other things by andytr. ganja_guru has also made a good number of updates to current. things are moving along. a little slowly but their moving. hopefully i'll have sometime during my christmas vacation to do things. - syamajala

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[arch-ports] ArchLinux PPC News
by Alexander Baldeck 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hello list, once again we have some news I thought they would be worth to be mentioned: 1) archlinuxppc.org has arrived It took a while for me to consider my options and now I have found an affordable solution that will fit our needs perfectly. The new server is more or less set and all major services are migrated. Web: http://www.archlinuxppc.org (needs some more work though) CVS: The following are available: CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.archlinuxppc.org:/home/cvs-current" / MODULE: current CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.archlinuxppc.org:/home/cvs-extra" / MODULE: extra We have implemented a similar way of doing things by tagging CURRENT or TESTING analog to what the i686 guys invented, that means "testing" became obsolete and was merged with "current" and tagged accordingly. FTP: All packages including ISO-snapshots are available via anonymous-ftp from here: ftp://ftp.archlinuxppc.org It might take a while until I have done a Pacman package with the new list, for now the few of you using ArchPPC should edit their lists manually. RSYNC: The module structure staid the same but the domain has changed so feel free to use: archlinuxppc.org::archppc-current archlinuxppc.org::archppc-extra and last but not least: archlinuxppc.org::archppc-testing 2) PowerMac kernel now implements INITRD changes I have made the effort to integrate mkinitrd and all necessary changes to the kernel26-pmac package. For now it seem more or less stable. Glad that tpowa and apeiro did such a great job, huge thanks goes out to both of them. By the way, hwdetect and network-profiles are there as well and work perfectly. 3) Welcome aboard benoitc! He was of great help setting up CVS on the new server, reporting bugs and making suggestions. Also he has been working on G4 specific issues with Firefox and Gnome. Having said that, he plans to contribute the wonderful GNOME which hopefully will attract more people to run Arch on PPC. Let's all cheer for him. ;) 4) What's next? Now that we have all services migrated to the new server, I hope we can catch up with the regular tasks and upgrade to the latest packages in order not to fall behind i686 too much. Right now Xorg 6.9RC3 and firefox 1.5 are in the making and will arrive on the repos shortly. On top of that, I have received word from cnuke today, that there finally is the much anticipated opensource driver for the Airport Xtreme (TM) widely used in iBooks and PowerBooks. I will see about how to integrate them, maybe this could be done much better by benoitc or elkrammer since both own *Books? ;) Well, that's all folks. May the force be with you and good luck with whatever you do right now. Best regards, -kth5

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[arch-ports] Sharing /home between archlinux and arch64
by Guillermo Vaya 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

I have recently set up my arch64 on an AMD64 Turion and I have previously installed archlinux. My doubt is if I can use the same partition for /home (I plan to use different users so one doesn't interfere with the other) I suppose there is no problem, but I wanted to be sure before I try. thanks Guillermo Vayá (aka Driadan) -- "I see connected people" - The seventh sense Registered Linux User #378439 <http://counter.li.org/> Willinux.net <http://www.willinux.net> - Pagina Williblog <http://blog.willinux.net> - Mi Blog personal

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[arch-ports] Who's working on Arch64 packages?
by Dusty Phillips 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hey all, Now that Arch64 site and svn are up and running again, are we ready to start packaging!? :-) I'm curious to know who's working on packages and who has accounts, etc. (If you don't have one, contact c14n for one. If you want your name on the web page, contact him or me. We're both pretty busy ATM, so please be patient). I think it might also be useful to discuss who's working on what. We don't have enough devs yet to assign specific people to specific packages like the Arch core team does, and each of us has different levels of experience (I, for example generally give up if I can't get it to compile within a few tries and a half-assed google search for 64 bit patches.....). We have two issues to address, maintaining existing packages and adding new ones. maintainig packages isn't a big deal, whoever gets to updating one first should be able to submit the svn and package before anybody else wastes too much time on it. I guess if you have trouble and are working on it it wouldn't hurt to let everybody know you're trying to solve it so they can work on other stuff. For building new packages, if there is one you are working on and having trouble with, it probably pays to let others know to reduce duplicate effort. Lets also start a list of what needs to be worked on. Perhaps this should be put in a wiki page so we can all maintain it: Packages needing updating: nontrivial: kernel26 initscripts trivial: haven't had time to look Packages needing contribution: (these are some I personally need before I consider Arch64 my primary system): OpenOffice 2 vlc jpilot I've tried the last two and got errors that I haven't had time to investigate. Is anybody working on oo? If not, I can try to do it, but I'm not sure my packaging skills are up to snuff. Any other ideas to help get rolling? Dusty

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[arch-ports] my first packages are done -what to do now?
by Andreas Radke 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

As promised I´ve finished a first testing version of a common IDE+SCSI kernel. I´ve built mkinitrd too. The kernel config is a mix of the recent one from arch32 testing kernel26 an our last IDE kernel26. Feel free to test it and maybe you can diff the config to your personal one that we can improve it. And I´ve built gpm + mc. 1. Ok. How do I get them into arch64 svn/repo? 2. What packages shell I update or fight to build next? AndyRTR

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[arch-ports] Arch64
by Mr Green 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi, Any chance of having FAQ on Arch64 ? getting many requests from 64bit'ers .... Where is me svn password ? can some one mail me one so I can get building ;-) I have given up on the idea of a mirror for Arch64, I'll just host packages/pkgbuilds I have built in case anyone wants them (let you know when & where soon!!) Ok are we going to get a new kernel ?? initrd (why!!!) etc.. Is Arch64 going to tackle issues with libs 32/64 IA_64 x86_64 & so on .. ? or can we come up with our own solution ;-) May I suggest we use a name for Arch64 release , I know we are using Wombat atm but a 0.1 release <insert name here> let me know what you think Anyway glad to see www.arch64.org up at last (thanks to c14n!) Please anyone using a 64bit machine sing out we would love to hear from you (that includes Robot5x if your out there!) Mr Green Arch64 user

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