Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released!

2012-02-02 Thread Kate Stewart 
Welcome to Precise Pangolin Alpha 2, which will in time become 
Ubuntu 12.04.

Pre-releases of Precise Pangolin are *not* encouraged for anyone 
needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running 
into occasional, even frequent breakage.  They are, however, 
recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help 
in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

Alpha 2 is the second in a series of milestone images that 
will be released throughout the Precise development cycle.  

This is the first Ubuntu milestone release to include
images for the armhf architecture,  for the ARM CPUs using
the hard-float ABI. 

New packages showing up for the first time include:
   * Linux Kernel 3.2.2 (3.2.0-12.21)
   * Upstart 1.4  
   * Unity 5.0
   * LibreOffice 3.5 beta 2

You can download Alpha 2 images here:

   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/alpha-2/ 
   (Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server)

Additional images are also available at:

   http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/alpha-2/ 
   (Ubuntu Cloud Server) 
   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/releases/precise/alpha-2/
   (Ubuntu Core) 
   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/precise/ 
   (Ubuntu Netboot) 
   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/precise/alpha-2/
   (Edubuntu DVD) 
   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/precise/alpha-2/
   (Kubuntu) 
   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/precise/alpha-2/
   (Lubuntu) 
   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/precise/alpha-2/
   (Mythbuntu) 
   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/precise/alpha-2/ 
   (Xubuntu)

Alpha 2 includes a number of software updates that are 
ready for wider testing.  This is quite an early set of images, 
so you should expect some bugs.  For a more detailed description 
of the changes in the Alpha 2 release and the known bugs (which 
can save you the effort of reporting a duplicate bug, or help 
you find proven workarounds), please see:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/

If you're interested in following the changes as we further 
develop 12.04, we suggest that you subscribe initially to the
ubuntu-devel-announce list. This is a low-traffic list (a few 
posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, 
policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events.

  http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce


Enjoy,

Kate Stewart, 
on behalf of the Ubuntu release team.


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second test rebuild of precise pangolin

2012-02-02 Thread Matthias Klose 
Another test rebuild for precise pangolin is currently running on amd64, armhf 
and i386.  The results will show up at [1].  Half of main is rebuilt, and the 
universe packages will start to build around this weekend.


The rebuild is running on the distro buildds, so please be a bit conservative 
with uploading packages (e.g. really do a successful local build before upload).


Common issues in build failures are:

 - default CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS include -Werror=format-security.
   Fixes are easy; don't stop fixing the first occurrence, but
   complete a local build.

 - Gnome pkgconfig files dropping -lm from Libs, and other
   packages not explicitly linking with -lm (resulting in symbols
   like "sqrt" and "pow" not found).

 - Some obsolete symbols in newer glib/gtk libraries.

 - Some kernel header issues.

The rebuild is already using the eglibc-2.15 packages from the 
ubuntu-toolchain-r PPA, planned for an upload on Tue, Feb 07.  The packages can 
be found at [2].


  Matthias

[1] 
http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20120201-precise.html

[2] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/glibc/



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