[arch-dev-public] Time to go

2012-06-05 Thread Paul Mattal
All, I've been inactive as a developer for a long time now, and I think it's time for me to go. It's been an exciting ride with you all. I came on to help launch the AUR in 2005, and we changed the Arch world forever. I encourage the new folks to think boldly and put your efforts and persi

Re: [arch-dev-public] Git for the repos

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Mattal
On 08/25/2011 06:08 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: I share the same sentiments bit for bit, so I am in full agreement with Dan, JGC, Allan& Ionut. I have always stressed the fact, even just very recently, to someone who was interested in Arch, that even though I use Git personally, Subversion makes the m

Re: [arch-dev-public] dnsmasq 2.58 release

2011-08-18 Thread Paul Mattal
On 08/18/2011 09:57 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: Hi Paul, It looks like dnsmasq is gearing up to release 2.58 in the near future. I'd like to add in dbus support (means dbus-core as a new dep) and distribute the upstream systemd service file along with it. Is this okay with you? If you're short on ti

Re: [arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support

2011-07-13 Thread Paul Mattal
+1

Re: [arch-dev-public] Breaking the unspoken rule: AUR helper in [community]

2010-12-29 Thread Paul Mattal
On 12/29/2010 09:46 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 30/12/10 12:16, Dan McGee wrote: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/cower/ Thoughts? I was under the impression we didn't do this, and definitely on purpose, otherwise people have *no* idea the AUR is different in a lot of ways. Making

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] subversion 1.6.15-1

2010-12-19 Thread Paul Mattal
At long last, subversion 1.6.15-1 is ready for signoff. Especially since it's been a long time since I've updated this package, try some probably-unique things you do with svn and see if they give you any trouble. Full changelist is below. No substantive changes to the PKGBUILD. - P *** Vers

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] gdbm 1.8.3-7

2010-03-22 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/22/2010 05:35 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 22/03/10 21:11, Jan de Groot wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 21:10 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 22/03/10 10:47, Allan McRae wrote: Changes: - Fix linking: run "ldd -r /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3.0.0" on old package to notice lots of undefined symbols

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.1-1

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/16/2010 07:53 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: Am Montag, 15. März 2010 20:16:30 schrieb Thomas Bächler: No idea if it is time for signoff yet, I have to check that with tpowa. However, I put 2.6.31.1 in testing with these changes: - Added a trivial patch to support my touchpad (selfish, I know,

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-3

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/16/2010 07:54 AM, Dan McGee wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: Am Dienstag, 16. März 2010 05:50:53 schrieb Dan McGee: The restart doesn't work at all now Works fine here. Don't you have the sshd.pid file? dmc...@dublin ~ $ cat /var/run/sshd.pid cat: /var/ru

Re: [arch-dev-public] improving signoffs

2010-03-13 Thread Paul Mattal
2) A pre-signoff thread for each signoff. You run this thread before you do any packaging work, so that if someone wants to discuss other things about the package and suggest other modifications, they do it without causing you a whole lot of extra work. We then agree not to hijack signoff threads

[arch-dev-public] bugs: measuring progress

2010-03-13 Thread Paul Mattal
Now many months into our regular bug squashing cycle, it occurred to me today to evaluate our progress. Summary: We're making excellent progress! Here's the number of open bugs in Arch Linux (packages) on bug day, November through March (as determined from the Bug Day TODO page in the wiki):

[arch-dev-public] improving signoffs

2010-03-13 Thread Paul Mattal
There's a confluence of circumstances that occurs regularly now that is wasting lots of time for those trying to squash bugs: 1) It's really hard to get signoffs for core packages. It usually takes at least a week, and an extra bump, and coaxing. The process isn't fire-and-forget, so I have to

Re: [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-13 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/13/2010 04:58 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: Am Samstag, 13. März 2010 01:58:02 schrieb Dan McGee: I've often wanted to add comments to closed issues in the past and have been unable to. For things like a performance bug, it is often helpful a few days down the road to post results of the fix o

Re: [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/12/2010 06:42 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: On Friday 12 March 2010 23:39:05 Allan McRae wrote: I really do not see the need. If a bug is wrongly closed -> request a reopen. If you just want to confirm a bug has been fixed, there is no need... we already closed the bug report. If there is a

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] vi-050325-3 (1 for each arch)

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/12/2010 05:17 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 07.03.2010 20:41, schrieb Paul Mattal: Please signoff 1 for each arch. This is just packaging cleanup, and should have no subtantive impact on the functioning of vi. Mostly just looking for

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] vi-050325-3 (1 for each arch)

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/07/2010 02:41 PM, Paul Mattal wrote: Please signoff 1 for each arch. This is just packaging cleanup, and should have no subtantive impact on the functioning of vi. Mostly just looking for an extra sanity check here, nothing specific to test. See FS#18215 for details. Highlights

Re: [arch-dev-public] patching

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/10/2010 06:13 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 11/03/10 09:01, Paul Mattal wrote: I wanted to ask about how others treat patching. My understanding of our patching philosophy is: 1) Don't patch if doing so makes us un-vanilla. Users familiar with the standard behavior of software shou

[arch-dev-public] patching

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Mattal
I wanted to ask about how others treat patching. My understanding of our patching philosophy is: 1) Don't patch if doing so makes us un-vanilla. Users familiar with the standard behavior of software should be able to rely on our packaged versions to behave the same way. 2) If there's some ma

Re: [arch-dev-public] i686 pkg built in chroot on x86_64 doesn't work

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/09/2010 12:19 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 09/03/10 14:40, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: On 03/08/10 at 11:32pm, Paul Mattal wrote: On 03/08/2010 07:16 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 09/03/10 08:38, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: On 03/08/10 at 05:20pm, Paul Mattal wrote: On 03

Re: [arch-dev-public] i686 pkg built in chroot on x86_64 doesn't work

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/08/2010 07:16 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 09/03/10 08:38, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: On 03/08/10 at 05:20pm, Paul Mattal wrote: On 03/07/2010 02:33 PM, Paul Mattal wrote: On 02/25/2010 11:49 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Daniel J Griffiths

[arch-dev-public] i686 pkg built in chroot on x86_64 doesn't work

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/07/2010 02:33 PM, Paul Mattal wrote: On 02/25/2010 11:49 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: I've always thought the method of modifying your local mirrorlist, running mkarchroot, then reverting the changes to be more te

[arch-dev-public] xorg-server expertise

2010-03-07 Thread Paul Mattal
I'm trying to build xorg-server from git, in order to bisect some bad behavior. It appears the tarball releases and what's in git aren't the same, though. Right out of the gate, I get: configure.ac:42: error: must install xorg-macros 1.2 or later before running autoconf/autogen configure.ac

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] groff 1.20.1-4 (1 for each arch)

2010-03-07 Thread Paul Mattal
This is a bugfix for our site.tmac file. Nothing else is changed. Previously, if you ran: $ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/groff.1.gz | groff -man -Tps > foo.ps this you'd get an initial blank page in your output, and a warning: grops::6: X command without `ps:' tag ignored This was due to errant w

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] vi-050325-3 (1 for each arch)

2010-03-07 Thread Paul Mattal
Please signoff 1 for each arch. This is just packaging cleanup, and should have no subtantive impact on the functioning of vi. Mostly just looking for an extra sanity check here, nothing specific to test. See FS#18215 for details. Highlights: * removed obsolete gcc bug workaround portion of

Re: [arch-dev-public] Automating creation of i686 chroots on x86_64 systems with mkarchroot.

2010-03-07 Thread Paul Mattal
On 02/25/2010 11:49 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: I've always thought the method of modifying your local mirrorlist, running mkarchroot, then reverting the changes to be more tedious than necessary for creation of i686 chroots o

Re: [arch-dev-public] Ant issue after bump

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/03/2010 07:54 AM, Paul Mattal wrote: On 03/02/2010 10:54 AM, Giovanni Scafora wrote: 2010/3/2, Andreas Radke: something different: you have bumped apache-ant - please look at this http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2010-February/008464.html Any ideas how to fix our

Re: [arch-dev-public] Ant issue after bump

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/02/2010 10:54 AM, Giovanni Scafora wrote: 2010/3/2, Andreas Radke: something different: you have bumped apache-ant - please look at this http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2010-February/008464.html Any ideas how to fix our ant pkg that I can build OpenJDK again?

Re: [arch-dev-public] Ant issue after bump

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Mattal
On 03/02/2010 10:54 AM, Giovanni Scafora wrote: 2010/3/2, Andreas Radke: something different: you have bumped apache-ant - please look at this http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2010-February/008464.html Any ideas how to fix our ant pkg that I can build OpenJDK again?

[arch-dev-public] postfix 2.7.0 in testing for both arches

2010-02-26 Thread Paul Mattal
I'll leave it in [testing] for 1 week to catch any gotchas. If no serious issues are identified by then, I will move it to [extra]. - P

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.4-2

2010-02-26 Thread Paul Mattal
On 02/23/2010 10:29 PM, Paul Mattal wrote: This release addresses a number of packaging issues: * eliminates the logrotate script (now integrated into syslog-ng) * warns to restart crond on update to 4.x from earlier major ver * adds /etc/conf.d/crond for managing commandline options * adds

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] syslog-ng 3.0.4-3

2010-02-26 Thread Paul Mattal
On 02/23/2010 10:26 PM, Paul Mattal wrote: This version adds more log files to syslog-ng's logrotate script, and should be the only difference. Log files added since released 3.0.4-1: /var/log/crond.log /var/log/lpr.log /var/log/uucp.log /var/log/news.log /var/log/ppp.log /var/log/debu

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.4-2

2010-02-23 Thread Paul Mattal
This release addresses a number of packaging issues: * eliminates the logrotate script (now integrated into syslog-ng) * warns to restart crond on update to 4.x from earlier major ver * adds /etc/conf.d/crond for managing commandline options * adds patch to declare LOGNAME env var to be same as U

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] syslog-ng 3.0.4-3

2010-02-23 Thread Paul Mattal
This version adds more log files to syslog-ng's logrotate script, and should be the only difference. Log files added since released 3.0.4-1: /var/log/crond.log /var/log/lpr.log /var/log/uucp.log /var/log/news.log /var/log/ppp.log /var/log/debug.log Eric also requested I add /var/log/acpid.log,

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] syslog-ng 3.0.4-2

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Mattal
On 02/21/2010 09:53 PM, Eric Bélanger wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Paul Mattal wrote: Please signoff, 1 for each arch. The only difference is that I've added /var/log/crond.log to the logrotate script so that its rotation is now handled when syslog-ng rotates all its logs

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] syslog-ng 3.0.4-2

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Mattal
Please signoff, 1 for each arch. The only difference is that I've added /var/log/crond.log to the logrotate script so that its rotation is now handled when syslog-ng rotates all its logs. The benefit of this is that it's coordinated properly with the HUPping of syslog-ng, which is the actual c

Re: [arch-dev-public] signoff: vi 050325-2

2010-02-14 Thread Paul Mattal
On 02/09/2010 01:32 PM, Paul Mattal wrote: This fix just adds a patch to increase the TUBECOLS and TUBESIZE such that vi will work on larger terminals with default settings/variables set. Those of use with large console widths have been excited about this fix: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task

Re: [arch-dev-public] New Developer: Dan Griffiths

2010-02-09 Thread Paul Mattal
On 02/09/2010 01:23 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: I just want to shoot a welcome message to the newest member of the team: Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227). Welcome aboard! Welcome! I quote below from Damir on my first day. - P *** Hi Paul, Welcome around! Be productive ... but only while having fun!

[arch-dev-public] signoff: vi 050325-2

2010-02-09 Thread Paul Mattal
This fix just adds a patch to increase the TUBECOLS and TUBESIZE such that vi will work on larger terminals with default settings/variables set. Those of use with large console widths have been excited about this fix: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15844 Please signoff both arches. I've tes

Re: [arch-dev-public] package signoffs

2010-02-09 Thread Paul Mattal
On 02/09/2010 08:57 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 09.02.2010 14:34, schrieb Dan McGee: Most importantly, the signoffs are there to verify that neither the package files nor the contained binaries are corrupted. An i686 signoff is still necessary to see that the package installs fine and the binar

Re: [arch-dev-public] package signoffs

2010-02-09 Thread Paul Mattal
On 02/09/2010 03:49 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 09/02/10 18:38, Jan de Groot wrote: These days it looks like almost nobody in our developer team uses i686 anymore. I still have a laptop running it, but I barely use it. I think both architectures are an issues, although I agree i686 is worse. The

Re: [arch-dev-public] Fwd: Perl packaging guidelines.

2010-02-06 Thread Paul Mattal
* Just to show that this actually does happen, this is from my pacman.log: The following official packages can be removed since the modules are now included in the standard perl library: perl-archive-tar perl-compress-raw-zlib perl-compress-zlib perl-extutils-cbuilder perl-io-compress-ba

Re: [arch-dev-public] Fwd: Perl packaging guidelines.

2010-02-06 Thread Paul Mattal
On 02/06/2010 10:29 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 06/02/10 09:28, Aaron Griffin wrote: Message below is trimmed, but the summary is: pacpan (CPAN wrapper for pacman packages) has been updated with gusto. There is a request to include using pacpan as part of the official guidelines for packaging perl

[arch-dev-public] replacing syslog-ng with rsyslog

2010-02-06 Thread Paul Mattal
All, There's been some compelling arguments made in the below bug request to switch from syslog-ng to rsyslog: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12314 I'm planning to start the process of migrating to rsyslog in March, if a rough show of hands here confirms it's the right thing to do. Can peo

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.1

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Mattal
On 02/02/2010 12:59 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am Sonntag 31 Januar 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Hi bump to latest version, xfsprogs-3.1.1 (29 January 2010) - Fix various blkid topology support problems in mkfs.xfs. - Fix various build warnings. - Add automatic build

[arch-dev-public] enscript 1.6.5

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Mattal
I've just put enscript 1.6.5 in testing. Normally not such a huge event, but enscript has been unmaintained for years and is now maintained again. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/enscript.git/log/ Let me know if you have any feedback. Will push to [extra] in about a week. - P

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.4

2010-01-23 Thread Paul Mattal
On 01/21/2010 09:46 AM, Paul Mattal wrote: On 01/19/2010 11:35 PM, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Paul Mattal wrote: This is the final test release before we go to [core] with the new crond. Please signoff, one for each architecture. Aside from the upstream changes, two

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.4

2010-01-21 Thread Paul Mattal
On 01/19/2010 11:35 PM, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Paul Mattal wrote: This is the final test release before we go to [core] with the new crond. Please signoff, one for each architecture. Aside from the upstream changes, two packaging items: * I've decided to leav

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.4

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Mattal
This is the final test release before we go to [core] with the new crond. Please signoff, one for each architecture. Aside from the upstream changes, two packaging items: * I've decided to leave the crond logrotate script here for now, unless/until aaron (syslog-ng maintainer) thinks we should

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.0

2010-01-14 Thread Paul Mattal
On 01/14/2010 03:37 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi bump to latest version, xfsprogs-3.1.0 (13 January 2010) - Reduce memory usage in xfs_repair by using better data structures. - Add additional checks in xfs_repair to detect freespace btree corruption instead of only r

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.3

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Mattal
On 01/12/2010 04:16 PM, Eric Bélanger wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Eric Bélanger wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Paul Mattal wrote: In testing 4.2, we've encountered some minor issues, and I have now put versio

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.3

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Mattal
In testing 4.2, we've encountered some minor issues, and I have now put version 4.3 in testing. I'd like to get 2 signoffs per arch for this large update. Here's the changelog since 4.2: v4.3 11-Jan-2010 * Internal refactoring to make buffer overflow checks clearer and portability issu

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Mattal
et. If others feel strongly, I'll remove it from backup, but don't see much harm in having it there. - P On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:36:55AM -0500, Eric Bélanger wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Paul Mattal wrote: > On 01/06/2010 01:09 AM, Paul Mattal wrote: > I've

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Mattal
On 01/06/2010 01:09 AM, Paul Mattal wrote: Proposal: We stay with dcron into the 4.0 series, with a longer-than-usual testing window so the transition is smooth, and see if it meets our collective needs. Jim may be willing to add functionality we find lacking. Please get your votes and comments

Re: [arch-dev-public] [announcement] qemu/qemu-kvm announcement draft

2010-01-09 Thread Paul Mattal
On 01/09/2010 12:49 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am Samstag 09 Januar 2010 schrieb Dan McGee: On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi, since qemu/qemu-kvm 0.12.x kqemu is no longer supported. kqemu package is removed from the repositories, if you still need kqemu support

Re: [arch-dev-public] Cron Plan

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Mattal
On 01/06/2010 12:59 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 06.01.2010 07:09, schrieb Paul Mattal: * supports anacron-type behaviors Can you elaborate on that? All I want is that a "missed" daily/weekly/monthly cron job is executed after boot on a machine that's not always-on. That&#x

[arch-dev-public] Cron Plan

2010-01-05 Thread Paul Mattal
Having now learned more about cron and its many flavors than I probably ever wanted to know, I am prepared to suggest a course of action. I've picked up maintenance of dcron from tpowa, and am prepared to move forward. If we can reach agreement, I'll do the work. I understand there was a previ

Re: [arch-dev-public] Cron

2010-01-05 Thread Paul Mattal
On 01/04/2010 02:43 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am Montag 04 Januar 2010 schrieb Paul Mattal: On 01/03/2010 08:52 PM, Paul Mattal wrote: Do others have specific experiences with bcron to relate? I know some folks like Dan and Thomas have chosen fcron, and maybe for good reason other than just

Re: [arch-dev-public] PostgreSQL rebuild/bump

2010-01-03 Thread Paul Mattal
On 01/04/2010 12:48 AM, Dan McGee wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Allan McRae wrote: Dan McGee wrote: Is there anyone willing to bump PostgreSQL to 8.4.2? It is a security update that we should probably look at sooner rather than later, and right now almost all of the postgres package

Re: [arch-dev-public] Cron

2010-01-03 Thread Paul Mattal
On 01/03/2010 08:52 PM, Paul Mattal wrote: Do others have specific experiences with bcron to relate? I know some folks like Dan and Thomas have chosen fcron, and maybe for good reason other than just features; if you have war stories, please share. Several other relevant items have come to my

Re: [arch-dev-public] Cron

2010-01-03 Thread Paul Mattal
On 01/03/2010 10:28 PM, Allan McRae wrote: Paul Mattal wrote: We've got several bugs relating to choosing a new default cron daemon, and/or supporting other alternatives. I thought we decided on fcron with the small adjustment/script needed to support /etc/cron.d in the last rou

[arch-dev-public] Cron

2010-01-03 Thread Paul Mattal
We've got several bugs relating to choosing a new default cron daemon, and/or supporting other alternatives. The contenders seem to be: dcron, bcron, fcron, vixie-cron. I have collected facts about these alternatives below, in the hopes we can make a decision and move forward. Some of these ar

Re: [arch-dev-public] chroots config question

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Mattal
Allan McRae wrote: Paul Mattal wrote: Regarding the below: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot It reads: "The -C and -M flags are optional, but it is recommended to provide these with clean pacman.conf and makepkg.conf files (directly fro

[arch-dev-public] chroots config question

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Mattal
Regarding the below: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot It reads: "The -C and -M flags are optional, but it is recommended to provide these with clean pacman.conf and makepkg.conf files (directly from the pacman package) during first creation of clean

Re: [arch-dev-public] Punishment needed for not building in a chroot

2009-12-06 Thread Paul Mattal
Allan McRae wrote: Paul Mattal wrote: Giovanni Scafora wrote: 2009/12/6, Allan McRae : It is as simple as mkarchroot to make the chroot and makechrootpkg to build the package (providing the path to the chroot as an arguement). Making a chroot for the opposite architecture is slightly more

Re: [arch-dev-public] Punishment needed for not building in a chroot

2009-12-06 Thread Paul Mattal
Giovanni Scafora wrote: 2009/12/6, Allan McRae : It is as simple as mkarchroot to make the chroot and makechrootpkg to build the package (providing the path to the chroot as an arguement). Making a chroot for the opposite architecture is slightly more difficult, but I can provide patches if n

Re: [arch-dev-public] Punishment needed for not building in a chroot

2009-12-06 Thread Paul Mattal
Allan McRae wrote: The tools are very simple to use and are described in the wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot). There is _no_ excuse not to use them. The are minor changes needed for doing i686 builds on x86_64 and vise versa, but there are pl

Re: [arch-dev-public] Upstream bug closures

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Mattal
James Rayner wrote: Jan de Groot wrote: I see a lot of bugs getting closed with "Upstream" lately because they're not packaging bugs. This is not the way to solve bugs. The only bugs that should be closed upstream are the ones in binary modules like flashplugin or nvidia binary drivers. Opensour

Re: [arch-dev-public] Upstream bug closures

2009-11-09 Thread Paul Mattal
Andreas Radke wrote: Am Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:27:44 +0100 schrieb Andrea Scarpino : On 09/11/2009, Jan de Groot wrote: I see a lot of bugs getting closed with "Upstream" lately because they're not packaging bugs. This is not the way to solve bugs. The only bugs that should be closed upstream are

Re: [arch-dev-public] Status of slimserver

2009-11-04 Thread Paul Mattal
Eric Bélanger wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Paul Mattal wrote: Dan McGee wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Eric Bélanger wrote: Hi, Is there anyone interested in maintaining slimserver? It's currently orphaned, out-of-date and doesn't even install (missing per

Re: [arch-dev-public] Status of slimserver

2009-10-31 Thread Paul Mattal
Dan McGee wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Eric Bélanger wrote: Hi, Is there anyone interested in maintaining slimserver? It's currently orphaned, out-of-date and doesn't even install (missing perl-compress-zlib depends FS#16490). If no one wants it, we could solve all these problems

Re: [arch-dev-public] mailman

2009-10-27 Thread Paul Mattal
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Allan McRae wrote: Hi, I just committed an update to mailman on SVN trunk. It updates the package and puts the files in more reasonable places. However, I have no idea if the changes I made actually work... Can someone who uses this, bui

[arch-dev-public] signoff xfsprogs 3.0.5-1 both arches

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Mattal
Upstream update to xfsprogs 3.0.5. Please signoff both arches. I have tested basic functionality, just need another sanity signoff. Because this is a limited-use package, if nobody signs off within a week (by end of day 11/2) I will push this to core. Changes are document here in git: http:/

Re: [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-18 Thread Paul Mattal
Roman Kyrylych wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:09, Xavier wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Roman Kyrylych wrote: Hi all! I wanted to bring this long time ago when I discovered the problem with my old Seagate Momentus 5400.3, but then forgot since my new WD Scorpio Blue is less affe

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] perl 5.10.1-4 both arches

2009-10-04 Thread Paul Mattal
Roman Kyrylych wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 23:56, Paul Mattal wrote: Please signoff both arches. Minor change to install scriptlet to avoid error message, closing bug #16436. Signed off x86_64. Anyone for i686? All you need to do is: pacman -Rd perl pacman -S perl (the testing package

Re: [arch-dev-public] groff-1.20.1-3 for i686

2009-10-04 Thread Paul Mattal
Giovanni Scafora wrote: 2009/10/4, Andreas Radke : what about http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15311 ? I only rebuilt it for i686. The previous signoff was for x86_64 only. This was actually my fault. I modified the x86_64 package to fix the no-pdf-documentation bug, and forgot to make it a 2

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] perl 5.10.1-4 both arches

2009-10-03 Thread Paul Mattal
Please signoff both arches. Minor change to install scriptlet to avoid error message, closing bug #16436. - P

Re: [arch-dev-public] groff-1.20.1-3 for i686

2009-10-03 Thread Paul Mattal
Giovanni Scafora wrote: 2009/10/3, Giovanni Scafora : please signoff. I know, the previous signoff was for x86_64 only but now it's too later. Plese signoff anyway, so I move it to core. I signoff i686. - P

[arch-dev-public] [signoff] groff-1.20.1-3 for x86_64

2009-10-03 Thread Paul Mattal
Please signoff x86_64 only (it's the only one affected/rebuilt). This version resolves the missing PDF documentation issue from FS#14517. Fix was to add: makedepends=('netpbm' 'psutils' 'ghostscript') This is the only change. - P

Re: [arch-dev-public] Bug Squashing Day: This Sat 10/3 1pm EDT

2009-10-01 Thread Paul Mattal
Allan McRae wrote: Paul Mattal wrote: All, Andrea and I are organizing a bug squashing day this Saturday 10/3, starting at 1pm EDT and going until we run out of steam (or bugs). Join us if you can! We'll be around in the main IRC forum. If you can't make this one, there&#x

[arch-dev-public] Bug Squashing Day: This Sat 10/3 1pm EDT

2009-10-01 Thread Paul Mattal
All, Andrea and I are organizing a bug squashing day this Saturday 10/3, starting at 1pm EDT and going until we run out of steam (or bugs). Join us if you can! We'll be around in the main IRC forum. If you can't make this one, there'll always be another. We're hoping to get onto a monthly sc

Re: [arch-dev-public] db 4.8 rebuild

2009-09-22 Thread Paul Mattal
Allan McRae wrote: Paul Mattal wrote: Allan McRae wrote: Paul Mattal wrote: I've been holding back on the libldap and postgresql rebuilds of postfix, because there's also a list up for db-4.8. Since I have to rebuild, I'd like to get all 3 at the same time so that testing will

Re: [arch-dev-public] db 4.8 rebuild

2009-09-22 Thread Paul Mattal
Allan McRae wrote: Paul Mattal wrote: I've been holding back on the libldap and postgresql rebuilds of postfix, because there's also a list up for db-4.8. Since I have to rebuild, I'd like to get all 3 at the same time so that testing will be consistent. However, I haven&#x

[arch-dev-public] db 4.8 rebuild

2009-09-22 Thread Paul Mattal
I've been holding back on the libldap and postgresql rebuilds of postfix, because there's also a list up for db-4.8. Since I have to rebuild, I'd like to get all 3 at the same time so that testing will be consistent. However, I haven't seen any db-4.8 packages in testing. What's the status of

[arch-dev-public] thunderbird 2.0.0.23

2009-09-06 Thread Paul Mattal
Because of the security vulnerabilities fixed in thunderbird 2.0.0.23, I decided to build it for myself ahead of schedule. In so doing, I discovered it wouldn't build for me, and located a patch to fix it. I attach the modified PKGBUILD and the patch here, perhaps to save some others some effo

Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-dev] arch: Orphan package [openvpn] marked out-of-date

2009-07-15 Thread Paul Mattal
Dan McGee wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Arch Website Notification schrieb: Package Name: openvpn Architecture: x86_64 Repository: Testing (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/x86_64/openvpn/) The user provided the following additional text:

Re: [arch-dev-public] signoff xfsprogs 3.0.1-1 i686

2009-05-20 Thread Paul Mattal
Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am Freitag 15 Mai 2009 schrieb Paul Mattal: Sorry for the delay. Works fine for me here on i686. - P can i move in dmapi xfsprogs? seems not many use this filesystem. I signoff xfsprogs for i686. As far as I'm concerned, you can move xfsprogs for x86_64 as

[arch-dev-public] signoff xfsprogs 3.0.1-1 i686

2009-05-14 Thread Paul Mattal
Sorry for the delay. Works fine for me here on i686. - P

Re: [arch-dev-public] testing clean up

2009-04-12 Thread Paul Mattal
Allan McRae wrote: Hi all, With most stuff moved out of [testing], it is a good time to clean up what is left. Here goes a slightly annotated list: Just pkgrel bumps - rebuilds for something? ccrtp cdrkit cracklib libzrtpcpp proftpd squid archboot aspell-es, aspell-it, aspell-pt - move? B

[arch-dev-public] request signoff: xfsprogs 3.0.0-1

2009-02-10 Thread Paul Mattal
Requesting signoff for xfsprogs 3.0.0-1, both architectures. It's in testing for both architectures. Because xfs is not widely used, if I don't get a second signoff in a week, I'll move it to core (and xfsdump 3.0.0 to extra). - P

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs 2.10.2-1

2009-01-15 Thread Paul Mattal
Dan McGee wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am Donnerstag 25 Dezember 2008 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Am Montag 22 Dezember 2008 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Hi update to latest version, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa bump save to move in? noon

Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs 2.10.2-1

2009-01-14 Thread Paul Mattal
Dan McGee wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am Donnerstag 25 Dezember 2008 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Am Montag 22 Dezember 2008 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Hi update to latest version, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa bump save to move in? noon

[arch-dev-public] squirrelmail 1.4.17

2008-12-06 Thread Paul Mattal
I have updated squirrelmail to 1.4.17 for i686. Can someone build the x86_64 package? It's an easy one, but I won't be near my x86_64 box until Monday. - P

Re: [arch-dev-public] Arch Mailing Lists

2008-12-02 Thread Paul Mattal
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Paul Mattal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aaron Griffin wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Eric Bélanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jud wrote: Just a quick note to ask if all the Arch Mailing List

Re: [arch-dev-public] Arch Mailing Lists

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Mattal
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Eric Bélanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jud wrote: Just a quick note to ask if all the Arch Mailing List Archives are working properly? The last archive was Nov 21. They are not. It's a known issue: http://bugs.arch

Re: [arch-dev-public] chmod, ugh

2008-11-22 Thread Paul Mattal
On Nov 21, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: Ok, so in an attempt to get around our reliance on the adjust-permssions script, I added some chmod stuff into the dbscripts, to automatically g+w all files a given person moves out. Turns out I didn't know everything. Looks like this only works

Re: [arch-dev-public] ffmpeg and an x264 upgrade

2008-11-13 Thread Paul Mattal
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Jason Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Eric Bélanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote: Hey guys, I w

Re: [arch-dev-public] ffmpeg and an x264 upgrade

2008-11-09 Thread Paul Mattal
On Nov 8, 2008, at 7:42 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: Hey guys, I wanted to upgrade ffmpeg to the latest snapshot. Two things came up: a) Is there a reason we use date stamps for ffmpeg's version? It seems more straightforward to use the revision number. Any problems with me switching to that? See

Re: [arch-dev-public] What to do with JRE and JDK?

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Mattal
On Oct 31, 2008, at 8:37 PM, Dan McGee wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Eduardo Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 19:39 -0300, Hugo Doria wrote: tomcat is using openjdk6 now, so i think jre is ready to be moved. -- Hugo Still waiting on eclipse, it needs to be

Re: [arch-dev-public] What to do with JRE and JDK?

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Mattal
Eduardo Romero wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:10 -0400, Paul Mattal wrote: Looks like no developers are really expressing interest in this. Java seems like a pretty important package to have in the official repos, but if no one is willing to maintain it we have ourselves a problem. Is there a

Re: [arch-dev-public] What to do with JRE and JDK?

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Mattal
Dan McGee wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Eduardo Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I have been in discussion with Andreas Radke about the JRE and JDK packages. Here is the thing, they are both greatly outdated, they are at u7 when the latest is u10, both have a pending bug and a

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