Hi All,This is the first of hopefully a monthly mail on the first day of the month on the progress of important parts of our distribution. If have something which should be included, please pm / mail me. Or add it to the pad.
https://md.archlinux.org/ejoz5fgLTzaSxlBBZcgphA Now for the news: ## Devtools A new devtools release is being prepared with it's most notable changes: [0] * Now licensed to GPLv3* devtools now records the used BUILDTOOL / BUILDTOOLVER in BUILDINFO, this is required for when we need to reproduce an old package which was build with a different devtools version then the current. (And devtools changed the CFLAGS, etc.) * makerepropkg now supports reading BUILDTOOL / BUILDTOOLVER from a BUILDINFO file and use the makepkg.conf from the correct devtools version. * pacman's makepkg.conf is synced with new hardening CFLAGS such as `-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection` * More missing man pages have been added for archbuild, makechrootpkg, arch-nspawn.
## DBScriptsThere has been great progress on debug support for dbscripts , review and testing is very much appreciated. [1]
Dbscripts was moved to Gitlab with Gitlab CI coverage integration. ## KeyringThe archlinux-keyring project gained new tooling called keyringctl to more easily handle the distribution's chain of trust, identify problems with packager keys and allow for a git-based workflow around addition, signing and revocation of packager and main signing keys. The keyring will become a curated source of truth and removes dependency on remote keyservers. [2]
archlinux-keyring is now also moved to Gitlab with Gitlab CI coverage integration.
## aurwebAurweb is being rewritten in Python using FastAPI, an announcement has been posted that the new port can be tested on https://aur-dev.archlinux.org [3]
The AUR now provides metadata archives of all AUR packages, to offload requests from the AUR RPC interface.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages-meta-v1.json.gz https://aur.archlinux.org/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz For more information see the post on aur-general. [4] ## Arch Linux websiteA MR has been made to make our navbar responsive and in the future archweb (archlinux.org) responsive in this PR. Moving to SASS also makes it easier to get a working dark mode. [5] [6]
Additionally a new archweb release should have a feature to add a note to a package to show why it's outdated. [7]
## relengThe monthly release artifacts (i.e. installation medium, bootstrap image, iPXE images) can now be built in GitLab CI and are released automatically on a monthly basis in the releng project. [8]
To further automate the release process on the main repository server, arch-release-promotion is about to be tested for the promotion and synchronization of release artifacts in the relevant projects (i.e. releng or arch-boxes). This will enable for a streamlined and automated update of the Arch Linux website with new release information. [9]
A related ticket tracks the work on restructuring the output directory to offer a unified approach to non-package releases on the main repository server in the future. [10]
[0] https://github.com/archlinux/devtools/compare/20210202...master [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/dbscripts/-/merge_requests/21[2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-keyring/-/merge_requests/24 [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2021-October/036614.html [4] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2021-November/036659.html [5] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-common-style/-/merge_requests/3
[6] https://github.com/archlinux/archweb/pull/382 [7] https://github.com/archlinux/archweb/issues/269 [8] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/releng [9] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-release-promotion [10] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/releng/-/issues/11
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