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mkinitcpio v34 released
by Morten Linderud 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

A new release of mkinitcpio has been tagged. The release can be downloaded from GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v34 Changes since the previous release: Announcement of future breaking changes: * Preset variables *_efi_image are deprecated in favor of *_uki and option --uefi is deprecated in favor with --uki. The old variables and options still work, but emit a deprecation warning. Changes in mkinitcpio: * Preserve relativity of symbolic links that reside in the same directory as their targets. * Fix symbolic link creation and create target files with correct permissions. * Document add_udev_rule that has been available since v31. * Instead of using stat to get the file permissions and install to copy it, use cp unless custom permissions are specified. This improves overall speed of file additions. * Existing test suite is migrated to bats (Bash Automated Testing System) and more tests are now available. * Ensure /proc/cmdline is read as text and make sure to append a newline and NUL to the .cmdline embedded in unified kernel images. This works around an issue where /proc/cmdline contains garbage. * The kernel-install plugin now supports generating unified kernel images. * Warn if the interpreter (from the shebang) is missing when adding "binaries" that are actually scripts. Changes in hooks: * hooks/shutdown once again works when /run/initramfs/ already exists in the initramfs. * install/autodetect looks up modules in the target kernel version instead of the currently running one. * install/consolefont, install/keymap and install/sd-vconsole now declare vconsole.conf supported variables as local to prevent conflicts with misconstructed hooks may set these variables globally. * install/memdisk uses the add_udev_rule function available since v31. Contributions from: Adam Maroti, Christian Hesse, Geert Hendrickx, Hector Martin, Morten Linderud, Tcc, Tobias Powalowski, nl6720, rogueai – 2022-12-07

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[repod] 2022-12-07 meeting minutes
by Brett Cornwall 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

Rendered markdown at https://md.archlinux.org/s/edXOVFGbE Unrendered/raw markdown: # 2022-12-07 repod meeting Date: 2022-12-07T19:30:00Z Location: Jitsi Scribe: brett ## Attendees * alad * artafinde * brett * dvzrv * isaac * lobachevsky * wCPO ## Agenda ### Git and PGP * Evaluating which Git/PGP integration for signing and signature checking to use ([#155](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/repod/-/issues/155)). Current ecosystem is not ideal, so finding the "best" solution is difficult. * Ideally a separate service would run alongside repod that would be able to sign * Shelling out to gpg/git commands not ideal since repod integration would be awkward due to output parsing (gpg is particularly awful). * Getting Git integration is more important than GPG integration right now. ### Updating dependencies * Still no integration for renovatebot; It does not parse pyproject.toml (it only integrates into poetry). * Update of mypy was difficult. ### Grouping of repositories Can now add a group number to repositories! Groups must have unique packages in that group and will reject package uploads if that is violated. ### Manpage improvements * Readability of manpages have been improved. ([#153](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/repod/-/issues/153)). * Lots of options are exposed and more are coming! Considering grouping the options for better navigation. * Usage of equals sign after the options confused an attendee; It's not a very common pattern but adopted by other projects like systemd. ### Module refactoring Some models are now being used across modules, so work was done to combine them into `common/models.py` Regex verification of package values (`common/regex.py`) not compiled into a regex object: This is a possible improvement if it's do-able. ### Funding Still no funding. Prototype fund didn't pan out. Still waiting for reply from Internet Fund. Valve still hasn't replied. ### Talk at Hacking in Parallel (HIP) https://hip-berlin.de/ December 27-30 2022 in Berlin. Tickets are sold out but dvzrv will be giving a talk: "Pacman can have the cookies and eat the ghosts too" Schedule to be released shortly. All talks on the stages can be recorded and streamed via media.ccc.

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[repod] Next meeting: 2022-12-07 19:30 UTC
by David Runge 03 Dec '22

03 Dec '22

Hi all, the next meeting for repod will take place on 2022-12-07 19:30 UTC. https://meet.jit.si/20221207-repod Best, David -- https://sleepmap.de

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