August 2010 - Arch-releng - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-releng] does anyone ever use the font selection dialog in "km"?
by Dieter Plaetinck 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

On the release media, with 'km' you can change your keyboard layout and font. I personally always skip the font selection. What's the point? Does anyone really use/need this? Dieter

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[arch-releng] [PATCH] [syslinux-iso] Remove redundant package from list
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

linux-firmware is already installed as dep of kernel26 Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386(a)yahoo.com.ar> --- configs/syslinux-iso/packages.i686 | 1 - configs/syslinux-iso/packages.x86_64 | 1 - 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/configs/syslinux-iso/packages.i686 b/configs/syslinux-iso/packages.i686 index dbeff71..70722e9 100644 --- a/configs/syslinux-iso/packages.i686 +++ b/configs/syslinux-iso/packages.i686 @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ ipw2200-fw joe lftp lilo -linux-firmware memtest86+ ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-utils diff --git a/configs/syslinux-iso/packages.x86_64 b/configs/syslinux-iso/packages.x86_64 index dbeff71..70722e9 100644 --- a/configs/syslinux-iso/packages.x86_64 +++ b/configs/syslinux-iso/packages.x86_64 @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ ipw2200-fw joe lftp lilo -linux-firmware memtest86+ ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-utils -- 1.7.2.2

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[arch-releng] [PATCH] [aif] Add Architecture = auto in lib-pacman
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386(a)yahoo.com.ar> --- src/core/libs/lib-pacman.sh | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/core/libs/lib-pacman.sh b/src/core/libs/lib-pacman.sh index 91a54ad..2eb1264 100644 --- a/src/core/libs/lib-pacman.sh +++ b/src/core/libs/lib-pacman.sh @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ target_prepare_pacman() { [options] CacheDir = ${var_TARGET_DIR}/var/cache/pacman/pkg CacheDir = /src/core/pkg +Architecture = auto EOF for repo in $repos -- 1.7.1.1

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Re: [arch-releng] Status report about building archiso images today
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

--- El mié 14-jul-10, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> escribió: > De: Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> > Am 14.07.2010 03:11, schrieb Gerardo > Exequiel Pozzi: > > Since new initscripts and mkinitcpio are in [core] new > images can be > > build without doing "git/overlay hacks". > > What kind of hacks are you talking about exactly? > * build packages from git and adding a custom repo * or install directly from git * or write modified files to overlay (ex: rc.sysinit) > > {*} There is a bug in qemu-kvm that ide-cdrom (default > used) does not > > work propertly, use instead and scsi-cdrom. [#1] > > Are you sure that this only affects the qemu cdrom? > Shouldn't we provide > a simple workaround that catches all CD drives, no matter > what kind of > weird bugs there might be? > This is a bug in qemu-kvm ide cdrom drive implementation, does not implement or does not work the command "READ DISC INFORMATION". As workaround just boot on qemu as scsi cd-rom that works better than ide implementation. (I guess that adding a workaround in archiso should be in case of real machine where there is no choice) > > {****} -T basic is how official dual media (2010.05) > is build. Now this > > image size is 705MB, a bit larger for CD-ROMs. I guess > for next official > > media -T split should be used (currently 637MB). > > Can you summarize what exactly -T split does? Sure -T basic: join both .iso keeping .sqfs intact. -T split: join both .iso modifiying .sqfs with the follow rules: * usrshare.sqfs (any) is build from i686 root-image.sqfs [this can be done since /usr/share for both archs is the same] * libmodules.sqfs (for each arch) is build from root-image.sqfs (respectively) [useful for boot 64Krnl/32User] * /usr/share and /lib/modudes are removed from both root-images.sqfs * core-any-pkg.sqfs (any) is build from i686 core-pkgs.sqfs. * *any* packages are removed from both core-pkgs.sqfs -T full: join both .iso doing all work in "split", but also removes specified files (listed on a file) from root-image.sqfs. > > Also, there is the overlay: We used to have a separate > overlay for each > architecture, is that still necessary? If we add > "Architecture = auto" > to pacman.conf and use $arch in mirrorlist (is that already > done?), it > seems we can use the same overlay for both architectures. > > Yes, anyway overlay.sqfs is 8192 bytes :P PS: sorry for email format I am out from my home. Sent via webmail, running under custom archiso with KDE with all "chiches" (toys) :P

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[arch-releng] Initial AIF localization support (patch)
by jesse jaara 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

For the past few days I have been working on adding support for localization in AIF. I think I have marked every string that contains text that can be translated, but it is possible that i have missed some. Also there is some work to be done in the makefile, as I couln't figure out how to make for loops in it. Also the code to the language selection screen sint working, yet. I will try to get that to work. I hope some one familiar whit the AIFs codebase would check this out and corret if something is wrong. If this isint turned down as waste of ?something? or something else, I will translate this into Finnish, also Im alredy translating the offical installation guide to finnish 1/3 redy I think. :D

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