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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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[pacman-dev] RC delay
by Aaron Griffin 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Just wanted to let anyone interested know that I haven't had time over the past 3 days to do anything worthwhile with pacman... I had planned on pushing an RC out, but won't be able to do it until early next week... currently everything works except the actual downloading and haven't had a chance to determine the exact issue... Side note though, _alpm_downloadfiles_forreal doesn't use the PM_ERR_* error codes, and returns 1 on error, which happens to be "Out of memory".

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[pacman-dev] What about managing optional dependencies?
by Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

I'm not (yet :) a good C programmer, so it's just a hint, and I don't know if it's easily implementable in pacman, but sometimes there is software that works even without another one, but having this installed let you perform other functions (probably this sentence is bad written, hope you all know what an "optionale dependency" is ;) . As you know there is no way in pacman to handle this kind of dependency except writing a warning message in the .install . I think would be useful to have (at least) an array where to put this type of deps. Am I just a fool? -- Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino

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