July 2010 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] WARNING: KDE 4.5 RC3 in [testing]
by Andrea Scarpino 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Hi everybody, I am about to move the first wave of KDE 4.5 RC3 packages into [testing] without l10n packages. KDE SC 4.5.0 will released next week. Please DEVs and TUs check if your packages need a rebuild (e.g. digikam) * A backup of the ~/.kde4 directory before the upgrade is really recommended * Changes from 4.4: * kwebkitpart package provides WebKit support in konqueror * kappfinder has moved to extragear * no kdebindings-ruby (does not build with ruby 1.9) * no kdepim/kdepim-runtime 4.5.0 * new packages: - kdeartwork-aurorae - kdegames-kajongg - kdemultimedia-ffmpegthumbs - kdeplasma-addons-applets-bookmarks - kdeplasma-addons-applets-community - kdeplasma-addons-applets-social-news - kdeplasma-addons-runners-characters - kdeplasma-addons-runners-datetime - kdesdk-dolphin-plugins - kdeutils-kremotecontrol http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.5-rc3.php Happy holiday! -- andreascarpino.it Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-dev-public] Problem with testing repository?
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

/bin/cp: cannot create regular file `/srv/ftp/testing/os/i686/testing.db.tar.gz': Permission denied failed to move repository testing-i686. is this normal? I just wanted to add a package to testing repository? -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] sqlite3 - 3.7.0-1
by Andreas Radke 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

New upstream release with some new features: http://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_7_0.html SQLite Release 3.7.0 On 2010 July 22 (3.7.0) Changes associated with this release include the following: * Added support for write-ahead logging. * Query planner enhancement - automatic transient indices are created when doing so reduces the estimated query time. * Query planner enhancement - the ORDER BY becomes a no-op if the query also contains a GROUP BY clause that forces the correct output order. * Add the SQLITE_DBSTATUS_CACHE_USED verb for sqlite3_db_status(). * The logical database size is now stored in the database header so that bytes can be appended to the end of the database file without corrupting it and so that SQLite will work correctly on systems that lack support for ftruncate(). A complete list of SQLite releases in a single pages is also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at http://www.sqlite.org/src/timeline. Please signoff. -Andy

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] module-init-tools-3.12-1
by Allan McRae 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Upstream update. Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dhcpcd 5.2.6
by Ronald van Haren 25 Jul '10

25 Jul '10

Hi, Just a simple upstream maintenance release. Please signoff for both architectures. Ronald +++++++++++ upstream changes: dhcpcd-5.2.6 has been released. This is a maintenance release purely to fix issues on the Debian platform: Better NTP handling for their NTP init script. Always daemonise in master mode as interfaces can go up/down a lot during system init which could trigger a timeout. Thanks Roy +++++++++++

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[arch-dev-public] [arch-mirrors] syncing ftpfull
by Roman Kyrylych 24 Jul '10

24 Jul '10

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 15:48, Olivier Thauvin <nanardon(a)nanardon.zarb.org> wrote: > Hi, distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr is syncing for a long time from > rsync://rsync.archlinux.org/ftpfull/. > > However I am unable to find a list of tier2 mirrors with the same > content of ftpfull share (at least ftp5.gwdg.de::pub/linux/archlinux/ > does not provide the "archive" subdirectory. > > Can you, please, either give me the url of any tier1 mirror with same > content (any ptr to web page would do it) or give me the permission to > sync directly from rsync.archlinux.org. > > Distrib-coffee can be used by others mirror w/o any problem. Tier1 mirrors don't sync ftpfull. The difference of ftpfull is that it includes other and archive directories. I don't think there is a need for mirrors to sync it. There is no point in syncing archive directory, it is permanently frozen. Since you already have it - you can just exclude it from rsync process. The other directory contains some sources and patches that have no other official place to be taken from. There's not much point in mirroring it if you don't mirror the sources. Besides ftp.archlinux.org both other and sources directories are available at mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/ @devs: do you agree with my points above? @Olivier: I suggest you to pick one of tier1 mirrors as the upstream. If absolutely you want to sync other and sources directories then you can use rsync://mirrors.nl.eu.kernel.org/archlinux/ (as mentioned above: to keep archive - just exclude it from sync) In any case please let me know which upstream you will use so that our db can be updated. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] no more untiered mirrors
by Roman Kyrylych 24 Jul '10

24 Jul '10

Today the rsync access on rsync.archlinux.org was disabled for all mirrors that have not moved to 2-tier scheme. There have been way too much time for any mirror to switch to tiered scheme, I wrote a personal email to every admin who has a known email address, but still more than half of all mirrors either sync directly from archlinux.org or from unknown upstream. Those who are not tier2 either don't have a known contact address, or do not respond. So it is completely reasonable to shut down access for such mirrors. pacman-mirrorlist needs to be updated to reflect the change, however I don't know how to better automate this. Possibilities: * mark all untiered mirrors as inactive (this will mess with other "really inactive" mirrors, but those "really inactive" could be removed completely IMO) * change generation of pacman-mirrorlist to skip Untiered db records What do you think, Dan? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] Vacation
by Roman Kyrylych 24 Jul '10

24 Jul '10

I'll be offline on July 2-11. After I come back and read all pending emails (if any) rsync access to rsync.archlinux.org will be blocked for all non-tier1 mirrors, which means that all mirrors that did not move to 2-tier scheme yet will not be able to sync from rsync.archlinux.org. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] archboot 2010.07 torrent file, need to be added to archlinux tracker
by Tobias Powalowski 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hi guys, just created a torrent file of latest archboot release. Can someone with enough rights please add it? filename: archlinux-2010.07-1-archboot.iso.torrent HASH: 88EEA267 4A8A6B73 72BFE004 7E52B7E3 B80BC335 Thanks in advance greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] gcc 4.5 bug - what to do?
by Firmicus 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hi guys, Yesterday I had bug report on a segfaulting binary for x86_64 that ships with texlive-bin in testing: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20199 I have reported the bug upstream: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3031498&group_id=145640&at… and as suspected it turned out to be a bug with gcc 4.5: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45008 Now this means I have no means to include a working binary of dvisvgm for x86_64 in texlive-bin until that bug is resolved, since I cannot rely on gcc 4.4.x and no patch is available... What is the procedure you guys follow is such situations? F

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