July 2009 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] b43-fwcutter-012-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 May '10

02 May '10

Hi bumped to latest version, please signoff both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] network-plasmoid-svn on extra? (WAS: KDE, Bluetooth and Wifi)
by Andrea Scarpino 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

On 27/05/2009, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > How about adding this to extra? It seems NM is very popular, and until > it is part of kdenetwork we should not force a high percentage of our > users to build it from AUR. we could, I was waiting a stable version. what others DEV think about this? -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-dev-public] [announcement] portmap replaced by rpcbind & big nfs-utils upgrade
by Tobias Powalowski 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

--Announce start Hi community, portmap is replaced by rpcbind in [core] repository. It has more features, like ipv6 support and nfs4 support. Please change your /etc/rc.conf file accordingly. Big nfs-utils upgrade: - NFS4 support is now implemented This is a rather big upgrade, you are going to have to change config files. /etc/rc.conf daemons changes: 1) Change portmap to rpcbind 2) Change nfslock to nfs-common 3) Change nfsd to nfs-sever Extended configuration options for NFS (clients & server) are available in: /etc/conf.d/nfs-common /etc/conf.d/nfs-server Please change them to your needs. -- Announce end greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] Moving DB scripts live
by Aaron Griffin 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

So, we have "any" support and split package support sitting in the DB scripts in /arch-new I'd like to move this live soon. What do you all think? Can you test normal packaging with these to confirm there's no major regressions?

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils-1.55-1
by Tobias Powalowski 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

Hi bump to latest version. Please signoff both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] Ohloh
by Roman Kyrylych 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hello! This is not really related to a 'real job' (sorry!) but it's quite interesting since it represents Arch on a quite large FOSS-related site, and it is actually an interesting source of statistics. As someone of you may know - there are Arch Linux related projects registered on Ohloh: * Arch Linux - most git repositories from projects.archlinux.org * Arch Linux Packages - our SVN and community CVS (we should add community SVN when it's ready, but make sure old CVS history is retained) * AUR - aur.git * Arch Linux Installer - installer.git (but not aif.git) * Pacman - pacman.git Is this structure OK or does someone have a suggestions for changes? For example, would it be better to move aif.git to Arch Linux Installer or merge installer.git into Arch Linux? (IMO 2nd way i's better). They also have Managers feature now, so it would be nice if Aaron (they suggest that it should be "Someone who works on the project. Ideally the owner, founder, lead developer, or release manager.") took management of all our projects and modified permissions to protect from vandalism. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] licenses 2.5
by Dan McGee 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Fixes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14027 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14827 Also adds FDL 1.3. -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dnsutils 9.6.1
by K. Piche 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Updated to version 9.6.1. May have forgotten to reset pkgrel. Please try a few dig's and then signoff, Thanks. -- K. Piche <kpiche(a)rogers.com>

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[arch-dev-public] How the use of "provides" can damage the dependency tree
by Pierre Schmitz 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hi devs, I just had an interesting case where a missing dependency cam be unnoticed for a long time. I was told that KDE from kde-unstable could not start due to a missing lib: libxdamage. Neither namcap or anyone else did found this missing dep. And here was the solution: libxdamage is needed by libgl which in turn is needed by mesa ->qt->kdelibs etc.. But if you have nvidia-utils installed which provides libgl but does not depend on libxdamage or libxxf86vm you'll end up with a broken dependency tree. What do we learn by this? The use of provides can be dangerous when the providers have different deps. I wonder if we have more such problems. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] hdparm-9.21-1
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hi bump to latest version. Please signoff both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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