November 2011 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] bin86-0.16.18-2
by Dave Reisner 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Rebuild in testing. I don't use this at all, but the binaries "do stuff". I made minimal changes to the PKGBUILD. As an aside: does this really need to be in [core]? We appear to have exactly 1 package in core which makes use of it -- LILO, as a makedep. Nothing in extra uses it and only 2 packages in community use it. Please signoff both arches. dave

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[arch-dev-public] Signing the remaining [core] packages
by Pierre Schmitz 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi, I have created a todo list for all packages in [core] that have not been signed yet. This is especially useful for packages that barely receive upstream updates. This is also a good chance to clean up older PKGBUILDs: https://www.archlinux.org/todo/107/ see for a short checklist. And due to recent incidents: if you like to rebuild a package of an (active) developer please contact him first if it's not an obvious trivial rebuild. And whatever you do please don't change the layout of the PKGBUILD but use what ever is there. E.g. don't exchange tabs to spaces for indention etc. There is no need to hurry though. So let's start with old packages and or those with no or an inactive devs. For those who are interested here are the current repo stats: packages percentage total 10247 pooled 9208 89.8600% xz 9907 96.6800% gzip 340 3.3100% signed 4609 44.9700% Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] iptables-1.4.12.1-2
by Gaetan Bisson 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi, A rebuild of iptables lies in [testing]. Please test and signoff. -- Gaetan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] jfsutils-1.1.15-3
by Gaetan Bisson 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi, A rebuild of jfsutils lies in [testing]. Please test and signoff. -- Gaetan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] btrfs-progs-unstable-0.19.20101006-2
by Tom Gundersen 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi guys, Bumped release to sign package. This is marked as out of date, but there has not been a new release, and rumor has it that there will be 0.20 in a few weeks, so I didn't make a new snapshot. Please signoff both arches. Cheers, Tom

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] wireless_tools-29-5
by Tom Gundersen 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi guys, Rebuilt and signed, no other changes. Please signoff both arches. Cheers, Tom

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] idnkit-1.0-2
by Gaetan Bisson 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi, A rebuild of idnkit lies in [testing]. Please test and signoff. -- Gaetan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] ed 1.5-4
by Dave Reisner 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

I've dropped a rebuild of ed into testing to provide a sig. PKGBUILD changes: - remove the info page - remove the install scriptlet (which only serviced the info page) - add a check function And the test suite passes! Please signoff both arches. Dave

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] rebuilt of ipw2100-fw, ipw2200-fw and zd1211-firmware
by Pierre Schmitz 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi all, I have rebuild these old firmware packages. The only difference is that they are signed now. I don't expect that a lot of you use these hardware so it's probably fine to just check that the package's content is identical to those in core. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com

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[arch-dev-public] Note: deprecated udev rules
by Tom Gundersen 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hi guys, As you may remember, some keys (BUS, SYSFS) that have been deprecated from udev for some years, were finally removed in the last udev release. For those who still had rules with the deprecated keys this caused more trouble than first anticipated (there should be none in our repos, but there could be leftover pacakges/rules). Essentially, permissions were seemingly randomly assigned to nodes unrelated to the broken rules (you could have rules that used to match on only certain nodes now matching on everything). The situation should be somewhat better in the next udev release, but I believe it can never be fixed completely. To sum up: if you are noticing weird permissions on your nodes, or if a user is asking advice with such a problem, first check that no deprecated keys are being used in any of the udev rules. Cheers, Tom

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