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URL: http://archlinux.info/news/420/ From announce at archlinux.org Tue Jan 13 20:02:25 2009 From: announce at archlinux.org (Recent News Updates) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:02:25 -0000 Subject: [arch-announce] ZSH Force Upgrade Message-ID: <20090114010225.645FA2A163@gerolde.archlinux.org> To ZSH Users: The 4.3.9 zsh upgrade must be forced, as the package now properly handles the unzipped man pages. Before they were unzipped in the .install file, meaning the files weren't tracked in the pacman db, now they are never zipped with the '!zipman' options flag. Thanks to Xavier/shining for being a patient, bug and patch submitting awesome dude. Sorry for the inconvenience. (Remember to only -Sf zsh , not -Syfu. Unless you want that.) URL: http://archlinux.info/news/421/ From announce at archlinux.org Tue Jan 13 20:02:25 2009 From: announce at archlinux.org (Recent News Updates) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:02:25 -0000 Subject: [arch-announce] Planned Downtime Message-ID: <20090114010225.6A2882A166@gerolde.archlinux.org> The main archlinux.org server will be going down for a planned hardware upgrade for some of tomorrow (Nov 20th). We are adding RAM, disk space, and switching to x86_64. Thanks to everyone who has donated, you're the ones making this happen. See you all in about a day. URL: http://archlinux.info/news/422/ From announce at archlinux.org Tue Jan 13 20:02:25 2009 From: announce at archlinux.org (Recent News Updates) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:02:25 -0000 Subject: [arch-announce] We're back Message-ID: <20090114010225.6CAF62A168@gerolde.archlinux.org> We're back from our world domination planning. Our server is up and we will slowly be turning on services as we get them configured and ready for public consumption. If you notice something not working. please hold off for a day before reporting it as we may still be trying to get it up. Thanks for your patience! URL: http://archlinux.info/news/423/ From announce at archlinux.org Tue Jan 13 20:02:25 2009 From: announce at archlinux.org (Recent News Updates) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:02:25 -0000 Subject: [arch-announce] X.Org 7.4 moves to extra Message-ID: <20090114010225.6FE4A2A16A@gerolde.archlinux.org> X.Org 7.4 has been moved to extra. After sitting in testing for quite some months, it's time to move this package. This version fixes quite some issues present in the old version we had in extra. This version contains some important changes: - Input hotplugging is enabled by default now. See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging for more information. - nvidia-71xx is no longer supported and has been removed from the repositories. Affected users should install xf86-video-nv or xf86-video-vesa, complaints can be sent to nvidia for not providing compatible drivers. URL: http://archlinux.info/news/424/ From announce at archlinux.org Tue Jan 13 20:02:25 2009 From: announce at archlinux.org (Recent News Updates) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:02:25 -0000 Subject: [arch-announce] Welcome Geoffroy Carrier Message-ID: <20090114010225.76A452A16D@gerolde.archlinux.org> I want to wish a warm welcome to our new developer and bluetooth maintainer, Geoffroy Carrier (gcarrier) For those who don't know Geoffroy, he's been with us for some time, helped out with pacman development (in particular, with code in the signed-packages arena), and has been a TU for since May of this year. He plans on primarily helping us out with Bluetooth packages (which we've been slacking on these days), among other things. Hip-hip-hooray! URL: http://archlinux.info/news/426/ From announce at archlinux.org Tue Jan 13 20:02:25 2009 From: announce at archlinux.org (Recent News Updates) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:02:25 -0000 Subject: [arch-announce] Note on fresh TeXLive installs Message-ID: <20090114010225.734332A16C@gerolde.archlinux.org> With the latest update of texlive-core, some new hyphenation patterns cause TeX capacity to be exceeded when some formats are created. In the file /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, change the line trie_size = 600000 to trie_size = 700000 Then run sudo fmtutil-sys --missing and everything will be fine. URL: http://archlinux.info/news/425/ From announce at archlinux.org Tue Jan 13 20:02:25 2009 From: announce at archlinux.org (Recent News Updates) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:02:25 -0000 Subject: [arch-announce] Pacman update and mirrorlist Message-ID: <20090114010225.7A6E12A16E@gerolde.archlinux.org> With the update to pacman-3.2.1-2, we have split the mirrorlist into the pacman-mirrorlist package. This will allow us to push more frequent updates to the mirrorlist, instead of only updating it with pacman releases. As part of this update, your current /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file will be saved as mirrorlist.pacorig and the default mirrorlist put in its place. Remember to merge these files in order to keep using your mirror(s) of choice. URL: http://archlinux.info/news/427/ From announce at archlinux.org Tue Jan 13 20:02:25 2009 From: announce at archlinux.org (Recent News Updates) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:02:25 -0000 Subject: [arch-announce] Welcome Andrea Scarpino Message-ID: <20090114010225.7DA982A16F@gerolde.archlinux.org> I'd like to welcome Andrea into the fold here. If you don't know him, he goes by BaSh, and has been a TU for some time. Recently, he began helping us out as a Bug Wrangler on flyspray, which is greatly appreciated. Pierre has been asking for help with KDE maintenance, and Andrea has stepped up to the plate. So please welcome Andrea on board as a new packager / KDE maintainer. Yay! URL: http://archlinux.info/news/428/ From announce at archlinux.org Mon Jan 19 21:03:26 2009 From: announce at archlinux.org (Recent News Updates) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:03:26 -0000 Subject: [arch-announce] inetutils-1.6-2 in [core] Message-ID: <20090120020327.057C22A103@gerolde.archlinux.org> To replace several orphaned netkit packages that were unmaintained upstream, we just added inetutils-1.6-2 in the [core] repo. This new package will provide the following network clients/daemons: ftp/ftpd rexec/rexecd rlogin/rlogind rsh/rshd talk/talkd telnet/telnetd rcp. It will be replacing the following packages: core/netkit-telnet extra/netkit-ftp extra/netkit-rsh On a related note, netkit-tftp will be remove from the repo in favor of tftp-hpa. The inetutils tools can also profide a tftp client/server. It's currently not included in the inetutils package but we could provide them in a separate package if there is sufficient demand for it. Please update your settings/configs accordingly. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/429/ From announce at archlinux.org Thu Jan 22 13:02:59 2009 From: announce at archlinux.org (Recent News Updates) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:02:59 -0000 Subject: [arch-announce] Release Engineering Team Message-ID: <20090122180259.8AD062A119@gerolde.archlinux.org> I'd like to announce a newly formed team made to manage our ISO releases. The intent here is to provide you with up to date installation tools and release ISOs based on the kernel's release schedule. Current Team Members: Aaron Griffin (that's me!) Gerhard Brauer (GerBra - ISO and installer) Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter at be - installer/AIF) If you're interested in ISO and installer related happenings, feel free to join the ML below. Mailing List Bug Tracker Project URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/430/ From announce at archlinux.org Mon Jan 26 19:02:52 2009 From: announce at archlinux.org (Recent News Updates) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:02:52 -0000 Subject: [arch-announce] KDE 4.2 is out and we are ready! Message-ID: <20090127000252.2E60D2A294@gerolde.archlinux.org> Today, on January 27th, the KDE team announces the stable version of KDE 4.2.0, so we have moved all kde-packages from [testing] to [extra]. We suggest that you exit from KDE before you update, backup your ~/.kde4 configuration dir and start with a clean config. Take a look at old plasmoids, they might not work with the new Plasma. You can find the ChangeLog on: http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.2/ For problems (we hope there aren't) please use the bugtracker or the arch-general mailing list as usual. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/431/