On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:43:03 +0200 Evangelos Foutras wrote:

Since there's going to be a new installer release, we could also fix this issue: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12949 (patches were sent in previous emails)

Okay, looks good to me. if you can do a last change we can apply it (see ticket). Dieter

Pierre Schmitz wrote:

Am Sonntag 01 Februar 2009 00:05:42 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:

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FS#13068: we have to wait until grub-gfx package is updated for 64bit

How should this be built. I tried to set the DESTARCH in the PKGBUILD to x86_64; but the resulting package is still i686. (according to pacman -Qip). CARCH=x86_64 makepkg does not work, too.

The following worked for me on a i686 machine: cp -r /var/abs/community/system/grub-gfx . cd grub-gfx cp /var/abs/core/grub/{ext4,grub-inode-size}.patch . sed -i -e 's|DESTARCH="i686"|#DESTARCH="i686"|' -e 's|#DESTARCH="x86_64"|DESTARCH="x86_64"|' PKGBUILD makepkg

Pierre Schmitz wrote:

Am Sonntag 01 Februar 2009 01:46:21 schrieb Evangelos Foutras:

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FS#13068: we have to wait until grub-gfx package is updated for 64bit

How should this be built. I tried to set the DESTARCH in the PKGBUILD to x86_64; but the resulting package is still i686. (according to pacman -Qip). CARCH=x86_64 makepkg does not work, too.

Well, I just commmited the new package for x86:64. The problem was the -L switch of makepkg which seems to prevent it from able to chagne carch during build.

That is because the -L flag uses tee which causes any variables defined during the build() function to be lost on exit from it. This would work with the latest git makepkg if the export statement was in the package() function. Allan

Am Sonntag 01 Februar 2009 12:27:11 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:

Does this mean if we build a new x86_64 iso now (from core), that it will have the new package?

No, for some odd reason its not in the repo yet...I'll look into it. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Allan McRae wrote:

Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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Am Sonntag 01 Februar 2009 12:27:11 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:

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Does this mean if we build a new x86_64 iso now (from core), that it will have the new package?

No, for some odd reason its not in the repo yet...I'll look into it.

The script for adding packages to community only runs every hour (just after the hour from memory). Give it 20 minutes.

Allan

I have already build the x86_64 images, and uploaded the ftp iso one, Instead of uploading the others I'll wait for the package to be updated and build them again. I'll be building the i686 images in the meantime. If you want to take a look at it (and all of the images when uploaded), it is here: FTP Server: www.ftpwt.com Username: archlinux Password: arch I hope multiple accesses with the same account are allowed. -- Alexander

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Alexander De Sousa wrote:

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Alexander De Sousa wrote:

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FTP Server: www.ftpwt.com Username: archlinux Password: arch

Sorry for being so late, I didn't get it finished until now (it took me ages to get the packages from ftp.archlinux.org). I'm currently uploading "archlinux-2009.01-beta4-ftp-x86_64.iso" (the new one, with grub-gfx revision 11) and all of the other images are already queued for upload, though it'll take some hours until they are uploaded. I'll upload a file ("Checksums") containing all of the checksums of the files uploaded (and still to upload). With these images it should be possible to perform an x86_64 installation without problems. P.S.: In about half an hour the current upload should be finished. -- Alexander

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Flavio Lira wrote:

People I love to download and install ArchLinux the problem that I can not download FTP:

FTP Server: www.ftpwt.com Username: archlinux Password: arch

Is there any other ftp? I apologize but I am new in this forum.

The version there is a testing version (a public beta, which means that they're not the final images; and may contain bugs). If you're new I'd recommend downloading the last version already released, which can be found here: http://www.archlinux.org/download/ where you have several ways to get an installation CD (http, ftp and bittorrent). If you need an installation guide you can find it in the Wiki, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page . If you still want to download a testing version, the last build images are there (at www.ftpwt.com) (the previous ones are here http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/archiso/ named as beta3). If you need an http gateway to ftp you can try http://www.net2ftp.com . Regards, -- Alexander

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi < vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

Hi Alexander,

One warning: At least archlinux-2009.01-beta4-core-i686.iso and archlinux-2009.01-beta4-ftp-x86_64.iso, the /arch/setup is old (without the last patch that solves GRUB install problem)

http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=commitdiff;h=9a9136785fb052...

base/core packages is OK ;) archlinux-early is OK ;)

-- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

Yes, that's beacuse the installer package is still not updated in the core repo, although there shouldn't be any problem to get a successful installation now. As the grub-gfx package is provided with the ext4 and the big inode size patches it will install and update the MBR correctly (but the installation script will use grub-gfx instead of grub). I'm uploading a new "archlinux-2009.01-beta4-core-x86_64.iso" as the old one didn't worked (at least for me, the kernel26 package got corrupted or something) (and so the "Checksums" file is updated too). Yesterday's script could not upload "archlinux-2009.01-beta4-core-x86_64.img" because of the space quota in the ftp account, so I'll upload it somewhere else. I've tested these images: archlinux-2009.01-beta4-{core,ftp}-x86_64.iso, archlinux-2009.01-beta4-{core,ftp}-i686.iso. All worked fine, no problems. I can't test the USB images right now. Isolinux images do work too. P.S.: In about an hour the new core should be up. -- Alexander