Moving this to the releng list On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Gerhard Brauer <gerbra@archlinux.de> wrote:

Am Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:02:59 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:

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I don't know what the fix is. I don't think I saw a clear definition of the problem. What's the issue?

I've made a error in installer changes. You should revert this commit: http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=commit;h=d8510783cac2fd8b18...

Don't know exactly what i have drunken, as i checked the patch it worked.... And it doesn't work without the patch....

Here is a script which demonstrates that the original code in installer was ok: --------- #!/bin/sh #

cp /tmp/x/rc.conf.org /tmp/x/rc.conf

BROADCAST="10.0.0.255" IPADDR="10.0.0.20" SUBNET="255.255.255.0" INTERFACE="eth1"

sed -i "s#eth0=\"eth0#$INTERFACE=\"$INTERFACE#g" /tmp/x/rc.conf sed -i "s# 192.168.0.2 # $IPADDR #g" /tmp/x/rc.conf sed -i "s# 255.255.255.0 # $SUBNET #g" /tmp/x/rc.conf sed -i "s# 192.168.0.255\"# $BROADCAST\"#g" /tmp/x/rc.conf sed -i "s#eth0)#$INTERFACE)#g" /tmp/x/rc.conf cp /tmp/x/rc.conf /tmp/x/rc.conf.good

cp /tmp/x/rc.conf.org /tmp/x/rc.conf sed -i "s#eth0=\"eth0#$INTERFACE=\"$INTERFACE#g" /tmp/x/rc.conf sed -i "s#192.168.0.2# $IPADDR#g" /tmp/x/rc.conf sed -i "s#255.255.255.0# $SUBNET#g" /tmp/x/rc.conf sed -i "s#192.168.0.255\"#$BROADCAST\"#g" /tmp/x/rc.conf sed -i "s#eth0)#$INTERFACE)#g" /tmp/x/rc.conf cp /tmp/x/rc.conf /tmp/x/rc.conf.bad --------

Output for network settings from rc.conf.good (the original code): eth1="eth1 10.0.0.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255" INTERFACES=(eth1)

Output for network settings from rc.conf.bad (my patch): eth1="eth1 10.0.0.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.2055" INTERFACES=(eth1)

The additional spaces are not the point, but the patched code generates a bad broadcast.

OK so, the original code works fine and that commit should be reverted completely? Or does it still need fixing?

BTW: I've posted already on arch-releng. Do you think we could do the release/finish on/around friday?

Yes. I just asked the developers to have core frozen and stable on Friday so we can build the release. Notes: * My build-and-upload script failed last night. Whoops. Rebuilding now. * Thomas recommended we remove madwifi completely. Done * We need to write a small README explaining each image and recommending people do ftp installs unless they need the core packages for offline installation