Re: [Dev] problems with replacements for blacklisted packages

2017-12-22 Thread bill-auger
On 12/22/2017 06:05 PM, Isaac David wrote: > the idea is to get rid of replacement info in blacklist.txt to this i want to add again that this single line of explanation in the blacklist.txt is in most cases the only documentation of why the package is blacklisted and what are the remedies - so

Re: [Dev] problems with replacements for blacklisted packages

2017-12-22 Thread Luke Shumaker
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:37:03 -0500, Isaac David wrote: > Luke Shumaker wrote : > > - b43-fwcutter is not replaced by, but is provided by > >libre/b43-tools. For one, I am flabbergasted that whatever freedom > >issues b43-fwcutter has aren't also issues with b43-tools. > >Secondly,

Re: [Dev] problems with replacements for blacklisted packages

2017-12-22 Thread Luke Shumaker
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:37:03 -0500, Isaac David wrote: > > Luke Shumaker wrote : > > I wrote a little pyalpm script for finding blacklist replacements (as > > in the second column in blacklist.txt). > > cool. i'm eager to compare it against the one i wrote for > libreblacklist using expac.[1][]

Re: [Dev] Repo mirror

2017-12-22 Thread fauno
Isaac David writes: > > a new high priority one that redirects only to parabola mirrors and > > the existing redirector moved down to a lower priority > > i think the whole point of going with that order was to offload > repo.parabola.nu first of all, but also our

Re: [Dev] [FYI] port 22 on servers going away

2017-12-22 Thread fauno
Luke Shumaker writes: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:46:51 -0500, > Joseph Graham wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 11:53:56AM -0500, Luke Shumaker wrote: >> > For security and administration reasons, the Parabola servers have >> > pretty much always had SSH on port 1863. >> >>

Re: [Dev] problems with replacements for blacklisted packages

2017-12-22 Thread Isaac David
Megver83 wrote : let's say we blacklist linux and linux-docs/linux-headers are automatically blacklisted. All right up to there, but where do we specify that linux-headers' replacement is linux-libre-headers? (same for -docs) in the PKGBUILD, as is currently done. the idea is to get rid of

Re: [Dev] problems with replacements for blacklisted packages

2017-12-22 Thread Isaac David
Luke Shumaker wrote : I wrote a little pyalpm script for finding blacklist replacements (as in the second column in blacklist.txt). cool. i'm eager to compare it against the one i wrote for libreblacklist using expac.[1][] i'm hoping that we will move forward with the idea sketched in [2][].

[Dev] Orphan Kernels package [linux-libre-xtreme] marked out-of-date

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