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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] small fix in bindings directory
by Roman Kyrylych 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

-- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[pacman-dev] some differences between Arch's and Frugalware's Pacman branches
by Roman Kyrylych 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Hi! Today I did checkout of CVS and DARCS and found some differences: 1) Why there is "typedef struct __pmlist_t PMList;" in DARCS (libalpm/list.h)? What it gives? IMHO it's inconsistent with pmdb_t, pmpkg_t etc. Isn't this difference completely useless and even bad because of different API? 2) There are differences in progressbar and log implementations. Some code has been moved from libalpm/log.h and libalpm/server.h to libalpm/handle.c in Frugalware's branch. 3) _alpm_db_search, alpm_pkg_load, alpm_pkg_free call _alpm_log in Arch's branch. 4) alpm_cb_log has been moved from log.h to alpm.h in Frugalware's branch. 5) There's no _alpm_db_register callback in Frugalware's branch. 6) There is local time format support in cb_log in Arch's branch. In libalpm\alpm.c lines 1213-1214 (1256-1275 in FwPacman) are different. Does this show the usefulness of _alpm_db_register? Very little differences, some looks a bit strange for me: 1) In pacman/sync.c, lines 164 and 204 - two strange little cosmethic changes. :-/ 2) There's "extern pmhandle_t *handle;" on top of most *.c files in Frugalware's branch in libalpm. 3) alpm_conflict_getinfo abd alpm_db_update have slightly different Doxygen comments. Well, that's all. Sorry if I take your time but I want to learn more about Pacman internals, so it will be nice if someone can explain these differences. ;-) And the last - a bug in Arch's branch: 1) libalpm\alpm.c, lines 470, 724, 753, 797, 976 - "void *" should be "char *" -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[pacman-dev] wrong description of configure switches
by Roman Kyrylych 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Hi! I was trying to build pacman3 few minutes ago and noticed that some configure switches have wrong descriptions: --enable-man2html Build html docs via man2html --disable-po4a Build localized manpages via po4a --disable-doxygen Build API docs via Doxygen --disable-python Build Python bindings --disable-perl Build Perl bindings --disable-java Build Java bindings --enable-debug Enable debugging support Here --disable-* should not be described as "Build something", but "Do not build something" instead. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[pacman-dev] crash in pacman 2.9.8
by Roman Kyrylych 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Here's what I got few minutes ago. Targets: codecs-20061022-1 ghostscript-8.15.3-1 hdparm-6.8-1 tcl-8.4.14-1 tk-8.4.14-1 Total Package Size: 22.4 MB Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from current... codecs-20061022-1 [################] 100% 13944K 5.1K/s 00:02:40 warning: failed to get filesize for ghostscript-8.15.3-1.pkg.tar.gz failed downloading ghostscript-8.15.3-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.archlinux.org: 550 Failed to open file. hdparm-6.8-1 [################] 100% 34K 2.5K/s 00:00:13 tcl-8.4.14-1 [################] 100% 1644K 5.5K/s 00:00:44 tk-8.4.14-1 [################] 100% 1398K 5.4K/s 00:00:04 warning: failed to get filesize for ghostscript-8.15.3-1.pkg.tar.gz failed downloading ghostscript-8.15.3-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.nethat.com: 550 ghostscript-8.15.3-1.pkg.tar.gz: No such file or directory warning: failed to get filesize for ghostscript-8.15.3-1.pkg.tar.gz failed downloading ghostscript-8.15.3-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu: 550 Failed to open file. warning: failed to get filesize for ghostscript-8.15.3-1.pkg.tar.gz failed downloading ghostscript-8.15.3-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.ibiblio.org: 550 ghostscript-8.15.3-1.pkg.tar.gz: No such file or directory connect: Connection refused error: cannot connect to archlinux.antesis.org *** glibc detected *** pacman: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0864c448 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6[0xb7e35750] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x84)[0xb7e36da4] pacman[0x80604ee] pacman[0x805b731] pacman[0x805bdeb] pacman[0x80523c6] pacman[0x8055335] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8)[0xb7de7808] pacman[0x804a0a1] ======= Memory map: ======== 08048000-0806b000 r-xp 00000000 03:05 161895 /usr/bin/pacman 0806b000-0806c000 rw-p 00023000 03:05 161895 /usr/bin/pacman 0806c000-08669000 rw-p 0806c000 00:00 0 [heap] b7c00000-b7c21000 rw-p b7c00000 00:00 0 b7c21000-b7d00000 ---p b7c21000 00:00 0 b7d96000-b7da0000 r-xp 00000000 03:05 776177 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b7da0000-b7da1000 rw-p 00009000 03:05 776177 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b7dab000-b7db9000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 78266 /lib/libresolv-2.4.so b7db9000-b7dbb000 rw-p 0000d000 03:02 78266 /lib/libresolv-2.4.so b7dbb000-b7dbd000 rw-p b7dbb000 00:00 0 b7dbd000-b7dc5000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 78272 /lib/libnss_files-2.4.so b7dc5000-b7dc7000 rw-p 00007000 03:02 78272 /lib/libnss_files-2.4.so b7dce000-b7dd2000 rw-p b7dce000 00:00 0 b7dd2000-b7eec000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 78245 /lib/libc-2.4.so b7eec000-b7eee000 r--p 00119000 03:02 78245 /lib/libc-2.4.so b7eee000-b7ef0000 rw-p 0011b000 03:02 78245 /lib/libc-2.4.so b7ef0000-b7ef3000 rw-p b7ef0000 00:00 0 b7ef3000-b7f04000 r-xp 00000000 03:05 780101 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3 b7f04000-b7f05000 rw-p 00011000 03:05 780101 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3 b7f05000-b7f07000 rw-p b7f05000 00:00 0 b7f07000-b7f08000 rw-p b7f07000 00:00 0 b7f08000-b7f0c000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 78267 /lib/libnss_dns-2.4.so b7f0c000-b7f0e000 rw-p 00003000 03:02 78267 /lib/libnss_dns-2.4.so b7f0e000-b7f10000 rw-p b7f0e000 00:00 0 b7f10000-b7f11000 r-xp b7f10000 00:00 0 [vdso] b7f11000-b7f2b000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 78244 /lib/ld-2.4.so b7f2b000-b7f2c000 r--p 00019000 03:02 78244 /lib/ld-2.4.so b7f2c000-b7f2d000 rw-p 0001a000 03:02 78244 /lib/ld-2.4.so bfde7000-bfdfd000 rw-p bfde7000 00:00 0 [stack] Aborted -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] _alpm_downloadfiles_forreal(): fix a buffer overrun
by VMiklos 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

hi http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=2…; udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] Frugalware changes merged.
by Aaron Griffin 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

So as of yesterday I checked in all frugalware changes I received. I also added the file-conflict progress bar (talk to ya'll on #frugalware). Now, the CVS may be a tad messy right now - and the docs still have some "frugal" instances in there, but the functionality is there. A few changes I made while testing this out: alpm_parse_config additional parameter for the current section. This allows for sections to be declared before include files (this is the way the arch configs currently work). I actually like this more, and it doesn't break anything. I moved the <repo>/<group>/<pkgname> <version> output to look like on of: <repo>/<pkgname> <version> (<group>) or <repo>/<pkgname> <version> This is because, unlike frugalware packages, not all arch packages are grouped, so there was alot of "current/(null)/foobar" output. Also, I think the fake pathing could potentially be confusing for some users. We could probably find a common solution to this here... lemme know if you guys have any suggestions that fit with both arch and frugalware. I also moved the ftplib progress info to the front of the bar, so that the progress bar aligns with the other progressbars. Other than those, I think the functionality is all there. There's some code cleanup I want to do too, but that's unimportant right now. Next on the list is doc cleanup.

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] alpm_db_update() fix up the level parameter
by VMiklos 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=2… it was an inlogical implementation from me, currently 1 means false udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] db_search() -> alpm_db_search()
by VMiklos 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

hi http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=2…; since most frontend will provde some kind of search functionality, i think this belongs to the library, too udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] perl module repo
by Charles Mauch 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

Just thought I'd drop a note in here. After quite a bit of hacking on cpan4pacman and my own perl scripts, I've finally been able to put together a repository of perl modules which solve many of the problems I mentioned earlier perl-module whine-o-rama. :) Shadowhand was gracious enough to allow me to host an external version of this repository on his box. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PerlCPAN_Repository The build process is fairly error-free at this point, though it took more than a week of hacking to get it error-free. :) The process works something like this.... 1. Every night my cpan modules list is updated via a cron job. 2. About 30 minutes later, I scrape the above url for modules to build. 3. If there is a difference between the cpan module version and the repo version, the module is built, and a build-report is generated. 4a. The next morning I commit any changes to the repo via svn. 4b. I have code ready to auto-commit changes to the repo, but I'd like let things run for a week or two before I allow the script to bypass the last vestiges of human control of the process. :) Before I make any real annoucements on the BBS, I was wondering if a few of you could subscribe to the repo and let me know that it seems to be working okay. It works fine *for me*, but that does not mean this process or the repo itself is robust enough for general use. I need beta testers! It will be great to see cpan or cpanplus integrated into pacman, but I think this works as a great near-term solution or a long-term alternative. -- Take it easy, Charles FSF Apologist, WikiNut, Concrete Analyst, etc. JABBER: cmauch(a)gmail.com GIZMO: charlesmauch AIM: cmauch5 :: C isn't that hard: void (*(*f[])())() defines f as an array of unspecified size, of pointers to functions that return pointers to functions that return void.

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[pacman-dev] Things to iron out
by Aaron Griffin 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

There are some differences of opinion on some of these things - I'd like to hear developer opinions (especially judd) on the following topics, so we can get a few of these things out of the way: ** -$ARCH package name suffix - do we want this? How should we handle backwards compatability if we do move to this scheme? ** SHA1 vs MD5 - opinions/views on this? I know frugalware seems to like sha1, but md5 is the defacto file-validation mechanism (if only for checking if the download is uncorrupted). As Juergen brought up on the arch-dev ML: md5 may be easy to collide when dealing with something like ps files that contain hidden data, but binary files, like .gz files, are very difficult to find collisions for. ** Version number - Frugalware is currently at 3.4.X, while we haven't released a single 3.0 release - how should we handle this? Jump right into 3.5 ? ** Anything else? I'd like to hear any outstanding issues the Frugalware peeps have. Thanks, Aaron

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