November 2005 - Pacman-dev - lists.archlinux.org

[pacman-dev] release roadmap?
by VMiklos 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

hi all just wanted to suggest let's make a list of bugs that blocks us to release a public rc (and then the first stable) release of pacman3 we have several ideas, for example replacing the ugly chroot system() call, adding gettext support, etc, but these features were not in pacman2, and i think they're not "musthave" so what are the points from TODO that must be solved before a release? i think the only one is the lack of handling of package conflicts during packages replacement, and maybe the manpages of public funtions (via doxygen) udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] file descriptor leak
by Aurelien Foret 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi, For information, I've found and fixed a file descriptor leak in pacman-lib CVS. Here is the patch backported against pacman 2.9.7. I'm not sure of that, but it may be the root cause of the bug #3259 (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3259). -- Aurelien

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] pacman-lib /usr/sbin/chroot replace diff to chroot() (was in TODO)
by Christian Hamar 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Hello there. So i completed other entry which was in TODO. I hacked pacman-lib to use chroot() system calls and not the binary one. Entry was in TODO. The attached patch is for latest checked pacman-lib, which is: 2005-10-29 09:18 aurelien * src/pacman/: conf.c, conf.h: fixed parseconfig usage Patch description: ------------------ Removed: -------- * Removed old chroot binary detection part * Removed global declaration for chrootbin. Added: ------ * Added a complete new way to chroot and do things. Modified: --------- * Modified cmdline snprintf's to right way. Eliminated | (pipe) and echo things, which looked terrible ugly :) As you need to know, this patch using a fork() and chroot() and execl() instead of system() call. execl() looks better and safer. fork() is required for chrooting in child process, if i do not do a fork() then whole process stays in chrooted env. So fork is neccessary as i think. Please test it and see it, if it is ok, then commit it. (I tested it, worked for me) Regards Christian Hamar alias krix Hungary Frugalware Development Team

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