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[arch-dev-public] Boost looking for new maintainer
by Bartłomiej Piotrowski 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Hi team, As I'm absolutely the worst with C++, none of my packages depend on boost and I've spent enough nights terrified of its build system quirks, I'll be orphaning it soon. Feel free to adopt it in archweb. Bartłomiej

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[arch-dev-public] RFC: Dropping -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE from packages using cmake
by Antonio Rojas 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Hi, Currently most of our packages which use the cmake build system are built with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release. This provides a reasonable (according to upstream) set of C(XX)FLAGS defaults which are appended to and override our default C(XX)FLAGS. So, for instance, our cmake packages are being built with -O3 instead of our default -O2. Besides the inconsistency that this brings to our binaries, IMO it's not a good idea to override our default C(XX)FLAGS unless there's a good reason to. This will also cause issues once we start building debug packages by default (-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release also adds DNDEBUG). Therefore I'm proposing to drop -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE from all our cmake packages, building them with our default C(XX)FLAGS as all other packages. Comments?

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[arch-dev-public] New build server in Singapore
by Bartłomiej Piotrowski 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Hi all, for those of you that are living closer to Asia than Europe, there is new build server available, located in Singapore. It is considerably less beefy than soyuz, but should be okay for regular builds. All packagers should be able to ssh into it with username and the key used on other servers. The address is sgp.pkgbuild.com. You can compare fingerprints below: SHA256:f9VrDpIpOHvgWk+OXXRG+VMvJlbs577YFZfyxPtXKqU (ED25519) SHA256:fDdeGInsD764tfnGCbNIPH69L4k7mNs98ttFpTOv01U (RSA) SHA256:MsoXUmTXowWcPb4gma3U60Po0/5sTT5Fg+oM8bWIIUE (ECDSA) It also hosts a mirror available at https://sgp.mirror.pkgbuild.com Enjoy, Bartłomiej

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[arch-dev-public] Offline for the next week or so
by Eli Schwartz 30 Mar '18

30 Mar '18

It's the Passover holiday season again... I'll be a combination of offline and difficult to reach for the next week, week and a half. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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[arch-dev-public] freecad maintainer wanted
by Florian Pritz 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

Hi, Since I no longer use freecad myself I am not very interested in continuing to maintain it. If nobody steps up, I will move it to AUR in about a week. Some notes: - The current release is over a year old, a new one should come soonish. - There is an open bug[1] that leads me to believe that freecad might use a bundeled version of coin3d which contains a bundeled version of expat that is very old and may also contain security vulnerabilities. - I haven't yet managed to build freecad from git master with qt5 support. Looks like it needs pyside2 for this, but that doesn't have a stable release and we don't pacakge random commits from a git branch. - freecad 0.16 (current version) blocks opencascade from being updated to >= 7.0. 0.17 should be compatible at least with 7.0, possibly with 7.1. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57843 Florian

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[arch-dev-public] LLVM 6.0 rebuild
by Anatol Pomozov 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 6:20 AM, Arch Website Notification <nobody(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > The todo list "LLVM 6.0" has had the following packages added to it for which you are a maintainer: > > > * community/crystal (x86_64) - https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/crystal/ > > Todo list information: > Name: LLVM 6.0 > URL: https://www.archlinux.org/todo/llvm-60/ > Creator: Evangelos Foutras > Description: > libLLVM-5.0.so -> libLLVM-6.0.so > libclang.so.5 -> libclang.so.6 > > In addition to the above soname changes, our clang package no longer ships > static libraries. Instead, those are built as individual shared libraries > (using CMake's BUILD_SHARED_LIBS flag). > > ** I'll add LLVM 5 packages once it's clear they are needed for software that > hasn't been ported to LLVM 6 yet. Feel free to ping me on IRC for this. ** Hello Evangelos I tried to rebuilt Crystal package with LLVM and hit a compilation issue ./bin/crystal build --release --no-debug -D i_know_what_im_doing -o .build/crystal src/compiler/crystal.cr -D without_openssl -D without_zlib _main.o: In function `*Crystal::Compiler#pass_manager_builder:LLVM::PassManagerBuilder': main_module:(.text+0x52dc08): undefined reference to `LLVMInitializeInstCombine' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status That described here https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5556 and it turns out to be a LLVM bug https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35947. This LLVM bug is fixed in HEAD (https://reviews.llvm.org/D44140) and should be released in 6.0.1. Or maybe we can pull it to the Arch package?

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[arch-dev-public] Arch Linux Docker / Vagrant: Current situation
by Christian Rebischke 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

Hello Everybody, It's now over a half year ago that I've started working together with sangy and pierre on our vagrant and docker images. I would like to give you a short update on this topic. The Arch Linux Vagrant images are currently be build for libvirt and virtualbox. We have over 3800 downloads at the moment and slowly catching up to the community based arch linux vagrant images.[1] My first goal has been to add some hypervisors, but due to the fact that we have only libvirt and virtualbox in our repositories I have dismissed this plan. The automated build process works fine so far (except some issues with qemu[2] and the dependency on punctual iso releases on soyuz. The latter should we definitly fix. Currently the iso images are build manually. Can we automate this somehow? I really rely on punctual releases otherwise the automated build will fail and somebody needs to trigger the build again manually. Happened about 1-2 times..) The other topic is the docker image. Has anybody of you contact to pierre? He doesn't answer my mails and he is the only one with access to the repository on github. Sangy/Santiago[3] was so nice to speak with the docker guys. They said they would approve our docker image and we could move it to the other official images[4]. But for this we need to do some changes on our docker repository on github. (As long I understood sangy correct it would be just some new branches). best regards, chris / shibumi [1] https://app.vagrantup.com/archlinux/boxes/archlinux [2] https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/5769 [3] https://www.archlinux.org/people/support-staff/#sangy [4] https://hub.docker.com/explore/

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[arch-dev-public] LLVM 6 and splitting up {clang, lld, lldb, compiler-rt} into separate PKGBUILDs
by Evangelos Foutras 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

I pushed llvm 6.0.0-1 to [staging] without the rest of the packages mentioned in the subject. I am planning to add them back as individual packages in the following days. This separation will bring faster builds when one of these components needs patching. It also allows building clang with shared libraries and merging the extra-tools package into it (thus fixing https://bugs.archlinux.org/tas k/50865). Once everything is in [staging], I'll create a TODO list for rebuilds as usual.

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[arch-dev-public] Moving extra/radvd to [community] (to adopt it)
by Thore Bödecker 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Hey, currently the radvd package sits in extra with an open issue that is really annoying: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57310 With this mail I'm offering to adopt and maintain this package if there are no objections. In order for me to do so it would need to moved from extra to community as I'm only a TU. Cheers, Thore --

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[arch-dev-public] Windows Subsystem Linux - Arch Linux as official container?
by Christian Rebischke 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

Hello everybody, I would like to start a discussion about Windows Subsystem Linux and Arch linux. You all might know that Microsoft has increased their participation in open source software a lot since Satya Nadella is CEO of Microsoft. They even implemented a subsystem on Windows 10 for executing natively ELF binaries on Windows. This system is based on docker images and some nice guys from Microsoft have asked Allan and me if Arch Linux would be interested to participate in this project. The steps for getting into the project are: * Signup in the Microsoft Appstore (we would get a free voucher if we want to participate) as Organization (we need the ok from one of our trademark holders for this step) * modifying our docker container a little bit * pushing it into the microsoft appstore So what do you think? Should we participate in that project? Here are some pros and contras: pro: - CentOS and Ubuntu are there too - Would be a nice chance to increase the awareness about Arch Linux - might get people to change from Windows to Arch Linux (or linux in general) - Nice way to test our docker image in production - People who are forced to work on windows at work can use Arch Linux at work as well - More bugreports / feedback / forum activity? contras: - Microsoft is Microsoft (I think I don't need to explain) - More Newbies? - Somebody would need to maintain it (I would do it) - If Arch Linux partnerships with Microsoft could lead into bad image? I would like to hear as much feedback as possible. So don't be shy :) I want to give feedback to the microsoft guys in round about 1 week. I guess that should be enough to dicuss this topic. So deadline is 2018-02-7 -- Chris

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