September 2008 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 18-09-2008 03:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Scan complete for testing (i686) at /home/ftp/testing/os/i686/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup smc-1.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] handling info files
by Andreas Radke 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Now that we decided that we want to ship info documentation we should decide how to package such files: info files could be gzipped by makepkg or stay uncompressed. On my system they already take quiet a lot of space compared to much more packages shipping man-pages: [root@workstation64 andyrtr]# du -ch /usr/share/info/ 21M /usr/share/info/ [root@workstation64 andyrtr]# du -sch /usr/share/man 61M /usr/share/man Some are really big like gcc.info being 1.8mb uncompressed. I vote for auto-gzipping the info pages like man-pages. And shouldn't we check and remove the $pkgdir/usr/share/info/dir file that every pkg with info files produces? Maybe we can also print at the end of the makepkg run an array of found info files the packager should put into the *.install file. Right now we use the proto-info.install shipped with the "abs" pkg. An automated solution would be also nice for that. Opinions? -Andy

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-general] Wireless userspace tools
by Aaron Griffin 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Very interesting, in case you guys don't read arch-general: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Sujith <m.sujith(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The new tool to interface with mac80211 based wireless drivers is 'iw' [1]. > It was started because WEXT (Wireless Extionsions) will be deprecated [2] and 'iw' > will be the single tool to configure/manage wireless devices in linux. > > Currently, I see a PKGBUILD in AUR that is outdated and pointing to the wrong source > as well. Though it is currently under heavy development [3] and doesn't implement all the > commands that iwconfig supports, iw is where future development will be focused on. > I think iw should be part of the core wireless tools in arch. > > Also, the new regulatory framework for wireless devices is CRDA, initial patches have > already been merged into wireless-testing and the only way to choose a regulatory domain > from userspace is using 'iw'. Which reminds me, CRDA has to be packaged too. Briefly, > CRDA is a userspace database of regulatory domains and is invoked by the kernel as and when > needed using udev. Development of CRDA happens on wireless.kernel.org. [4] > > Just wanted to update the arch developers with all the new wireless stuff that's happening. > > [1] : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw > [2] : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/Wireless-Extensions > [3] : http://git.sipsolutions.net/?p=iw.git > [4] : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA > > Sujith > -- > http://sujith-m.blogspot.com >

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 17-09-2008 18:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Scan complete for extra (i686) at /home/ftp/extra/os/i686/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup libical-0.33-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz mkbootcd-2008.03-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz mkpxelinux-0.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz mksyslinux-0.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz mksyslinux-2008.03-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for extra (x86_64) at /home/ftp/extra/os/x86_64/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup libical-0.33-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz mkbootcd-2008.03-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz mkpxelinux-0.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz mksyslinux-0.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz mksyslinux-2008.03-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for testing (i686) at /home/ftp/testing/os/i686/ The following files are in the repo but not the db They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup mkpxelinux-2008.03-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz mksyslinux-2008.03-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for testing (x86_64) at /home/ftp/testing/os/x86_64/ The following files are in the repo but not the db They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup mkpxelinux-2008.03-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz mksyslinux-2008.03-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] pkgs with tetex dependency
by Firmicus 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Here are packages in extra that depend on tetex (which has now been replaced by texlive-core): makedepends: evince yodl depends: kile lyx latex2html texmacs I found those using find /var/abs -name PKGBUILD -exec grep -H tetex '{}' \; so I should not have missed any. There is no hurry since texlive-core provides tetex anyway. Regards, F

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 17-09-2008 09:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Scan complete for core (i686) at /home/ftp/core/os/i686/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup mlocate-0.20-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz netcfg-2.0.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for core (x86_64) at /home/ftp/core/os/x86_64/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup mlocate-0.20-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz netcfg-2.0.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for extra (i686) at /home/ftp/extra/os/i686/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup aria2-0.14.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz cdparanoia-10.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for extra (x86_64) at /home/ftp/extra/os/x86_64/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup aria2-0.14.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz cdparanoia-10.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for testing (i686) at /home/ftp/testing/os/i686/ The following files are in the repo but not the db They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup mlocate-0.21-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz netcfg-2.1.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz netcfg-2.1.0_RC1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for testing (x86_64) at /home/ftp/testing/os/x86_64/ The following files are in the repo but not the db They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup mlocate-0.21-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz netcfg-2.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz netcfg-2.1.0_RC1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 17-09-2008 06:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Scan complete for core (i686) at /home/ftp/core/os/i686/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup tzdata-2008e-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for core (x86_64) at /home/ftp/core/os/x86_64/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup tzdata-2008e-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for testing (i686) at /home/ftp/testing/os/i686/ The following files are in the repo but not the db They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup tzdata-2008f-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for testing (x86_64) at /home/ftp/testing/os/x86_64/ The following files are in the repo but not the db They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup tzdata-2008f-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] Adding 3 new (and tiny) dockapp packages to extra
by Thayer Williams 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Unless anyone has objections, I would like to add the following packages to extra soon: * bbpager -- currently in AUR * bbdock -- currently in AUR * lal -- a small dockable clock currently unavailable in any repo All together these equal about 128KB.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] tzdata 2008f-1
by Andreas Radke 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

another minor update, afair only updates in chinese timezones. please signoff both arches. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] Django 1.0 != gerolde -Syu
by Dusty Phillips 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Hey yall, Looks like Douglas is on top of things as usual and upgraded Django in our repos from 0.96 to 1.0. This is great, the new django is flipping awesome and I've been using the svn version for some other projects for quite a while now. I can't wait to throw some of the new features and code at archweb_[pub|dev] BUT I don't have time to do the upgrade right now. If you -Syu on gerolde it will break archweb pretty hard. So I suggest adding it to IgnorePkg for a bit. We're going to have to coordinate a session where I fix the code locally and we upgrade django and archweb at the same time. I'm not sure how long it will take to port the code; the last project I ported was about 20 times bigger than this and it only took an hour, but I can't promise that. How long before I have time to port the code is going to be between two weeks and 25 years. Thought I'd mention this before people start blaming me for not having a website. =) Dusty

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