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[arch-dev-public] Archinstall in [extra]
by Giancarlo Razzolini 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Fellow Archers, As you might have noticed, archinstall[0] has been added to the [extra] repository. Over the past months we have been discussing the potential addition of an installer to our installation medium internally with our staff. Dave mentioned archinstall in his archiso talk during Arch Conf[1], outlining why we think it might be a good fit for a non default TUI based installer for Arch. To make it easier for contributors to find and fix bugs when testing archinstall, before it is added to the installation medium as a package, we have added it to the repositories for ease of use. Please note, that only installations done using the official installation guide are supported[2]. Installations done using archinstall are *unsupported* by our support staff until further notice. Any issues with installations based on archinstall should be reported to upstream directly[3]. This might change in the future, and users will be informed accordingly. Happy testing! [0] https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall [1] https://youtu.be/prsVk9iaclM?t=1436 [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide [3] https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall/issues

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[arch-dev-public] News draft: Manual pages indexing service
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

Hey all, lahwaacz made a service for collecting and displaying manpages from our packages that we now operate at man.archlinux.org. I believe this is news-post worthy. --- Title: man.archlinux.org is live We are happy to announce our newest public service: A manual pages indexing site at [man.archlinux.org](https://man.archlinux.org) that publishes all man pages of all our packages and allows you to [search](https://man.archlinux.org/search) and [browse](https://man.archlinux.org/listing) them. Check out, for example, the [man page of tar](https://man.archlinux.org/man/core/tar/tar.1.en). You can also find a link to this service in our sidebar. Thanks to Wiki Admin [lahwaacz](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Lahwaacz) for developing [archmanweb](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archmanweb) for this purpose. While there are other man page indexing sites out there, it is our hope that publishing man pages that match the version of our released packages makes Arch more accessible and that it improves our documentation even further. --- Thoughts? Cheers, Sven

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[arch-dev-public] News draft: Archlinux mailing list id changes
by Frederik Schwan 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Hey all, below is the news item I would like to post. We had to change some mailing list ids which used to be @archlinux.org to @lists.archlinux.org to mitigate anti spam issues. Sending to @archlinux.org still works as usual though. ``` Due to issues with our anti spam measures, we had to migrate those mailing lists, that were sent from @archlinux.org before to the @lists.archlinux.org domain. Submission to the mailing list is not affected and still works with @archlinux.org. Mails get redirected automagically. The only change that may need to be considered on your side are filters and rules matching the From or List-id header which changed accordingly. ``` If you have improvement suggestions, please let me know! Best regards, Frederik

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[arch-dev-public] Apollo decommission
by Giancarlo Razzolini 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Hi All, All the services that were hosted on apollo were moved to their own VPS'es or were removed. We plan to fully decommission the server on the 31th. If anyone knows any reason not to, please, let us know. We'll keep backups of it for a couple of months, after it's gone. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[arch-dev-public] Patchwork migration
by Giancarlo Razzolini 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

Hi All, As part of the apollo deprecation effort that's ongoing, we are now migrating patchwork to its own machine. Eventually it *might* be entirely deprecated in favor of gitlab, but we should keep it running for now. The migration will happen tomorrow around 1PM UTC, if there aren't any issues. As part of this effort, patchwork has also been migrated to version 3.0.0. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[arch-dev-public] Wiki migration
by Giancarlo Razzolini 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

Hi All, We are going to migrate the wiki to a new VPS as well. The migration will happen tomorrow, 21, around 6PM UTC. If there's any issue, the migration will be pushed to 22, same time. I expect the migration to take around 1 hour, but it can be faster than that. During that time, the wiki will be under maintenance. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[arch-dev-public] Orphaned packages from arcanis
by Morten Linderud 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

Yo! As a followup from the recent TU removal, I have composed a list of orphaned packages from arcanis. Please write back if you adopt anything else I'll drop packages into the AUR after some time has passed. As of now there are no package resigning that needs to be done. $ pkgsearch -m arcanis -l 1 | cleanup-list.py - Orphans required by maintained packages: - eric: arcanis: eric-i18n-en, eric-i18n-es, eric-i18n-de - g15daemon: idevolder: lcdproc - mftrace: arcanis: lilypond dvzrv: lilypond Unneeded orphans: canorus eric-i18n julius libasl libg15 libg15render libmatio libmmtf pdfsam pychecker pymol python-biopython python-pmw scala voxforge-am-julius Cheers! -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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[arch-dev-public] Archweb migration
by Giancarlo Razzolini 18 Dec '20

18 Dec '20

Hi All, Continuing with the efforts to migrate each service to their own, separate VPS, we are now going to migrate archweb (our site). The tentative date for migration is tomorrow, 17, with a backup date this Friday, 18, around 6PM UTC. The site will be in maintenance mode and the service that updates the packages on archweb's database will be stopped on gemini. I expect the migration to last around 2 hours, but it might be faster than that. Also, we're changing the current redirection, which is to redirect anything to www.archlinux.org, to instead redirect anything to just archlinux.org. There's no rush to update any links, since we'll keep the redirections indefinitely. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[arch-dev-public] New Archive Mirrors available
by Jelle van der Waa 18 Dec '20

18 Dec '20

Hi All, I am happy to announce that thanks to Kake/PIA sponsoring us dedicated servers, we now have three new Arch Linux Archive servers available at: https://america.archive.pkgbuild.com/ https://europe.archive.pkgbuild.com/ https://asia.archive.pkgbuild.com/ The servers have 3 x 9.1 TiB disks and have similar capacity to our canonical archive. Greetings, Jelle van der Waa

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[arch-dev-public] away until next year
by David Runge 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

Hi all, from tomorrow on I'll be on holidays until early next year. While I will check my mails I won't necessarily be in places with good network connection. If anything comes up, feel free to bump my packages. I hope you all have a relaxing rest of the year. Stay healthy! Best, David -- https://sleepmap.de

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