Re: pulling mariadb-lts from extra-testing

2025-05-22 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello everybody, Christian Hesse on Sat, 2025/05/10 21:12: > I have just pulled mariadb-lts (11.4.6-1) from extra-testing. > > Several upstream bug reports indicate that there is a serious performance > regression, though the exact cause it not yet known. Another release is >

Re: pulling mariadb-lts from extra-testing

2025-05-10 Thread Christian Hesse
Christian Hesse on Sat, 2025/05/10 21:12: > Hello everbody, > > I have just pulled mariadb-lts (11.4.6-1) from extra-testing. > > Several upstream bug reports indicate that there is a serious performance > regression, though the exact cause it not yet known. Another release is

pulling mariadb-lts from extra-testing

2025-05-10 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello everbody, I have just pulled mariadb-lts (11.4.6-1) from extra-testing. Several upstream bug reports indicate that there is a serious performance regression, though the exact cause it not yet known. Another release is expected really soon, possibly even in the following week. -- main(a){ch

Re: Spring cleanup '25

2025-03-24 Thread Christian Hesse
Antonio Rojas on Sat, 2025/03/22 11:50: > perl-config-simple At least this one is used in our own infrastructure... https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/blob/master/roles/postfix/files/bouncehandler.pl?ref_type=heads#L5 Actually I use it myself, but I would like to avoid goin

Re: Replacing mlocate with plocate

2024-08-28 Thread Christian Hesse
Morten Linderud on Sat, 2024/08/24 12:03: > Yo! > > I'm going to drop `mlocate` from the repositories and provide `plocate` as > the default locate in Arch Linux. > > mlocate is very much an abandoned project, while plocate is a modern > implementation with a faster database implementation alon

Re: pre-releases (for systemd & co) in core-testing

2024-06-06 Thread Christian Hesse
Christian Hesse on Wed, 2024/05/29 12:19: > Just two items are left for the milestone, so the final release should be > imminent now. > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestone/33 There had been some more intermediate milestone items, but finally it is cleared. For last veri

Re: pre-releases (for systemd & co) in core-testing

2024-05-29 Thread Christian Hesse
Christian Hesse on Thu, 2024/05/23 09:16: > Christian Hesse on Wed, 2024/05/15 11:08: > > Having said that - I have set up a custom repository for now with systemd > > 256rc2. To test that add these lines to your pacman.conf: > > > > [testing] > > Server =

Re: pre-releases (for systemd & co) in core-testing

2024-05-23 Thread Christian Hesse
Genes Lists on Thu, 2024/05/23 06:27: > On Thu, 2024-05-23 at 09:16 +0200, Christian Hesse wrote: > > Christian Hesse on Wed, 2024/05/15 11:08: > > > .. > > > Feedback welcome! > > > > Pushed systemd 256rc3-1 last night. All the same applies... >

Re: pre-releases (for systemd & co) in core-testing

2024-05-23 Thread Christian Hesse
Christian Hesse on Wed, 2024/05/15 11:08: > Having said that - I have set up a custom repository for now with systemd > 256rc2. To test that add these lines to your pacman.conf: > > [testing] > Server = https://pkgbuild.com/~eworm/$repo/$arch/ > > Feedback welcome! Pushed

Re: pre-releases (for systemd & co) in core-testing

2024-05-16 Thread Christian Hesse
Robin Candau on Wed, 2024/05/15 15:25: > Thanks for setting up a custom repo for such pre-releases. > It directly paid off as we were able to discover a breaking change for > mkinitcpio in the current systemd 256rc2 release (and thus in the future > 256 stable one) [1]! > > For people trying ou

Re: pre-releases (for systemd & co) in core-testing

2024-05-15 Thread Christian Hesse
Randy DuCharme on Wed, 2024/05/15 05:06: > Suggestion (s). This is open source real life comes first, always. > > People that volunteer to help are genuinely real but being ignored wins > ZERO even if they have 27 years of C C++ No idea what you want to tell me... Really. Please try again

pre-releases (for systemd & co) in core-testing

2024-05-15 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello everybody, I used to push later pre-releases for essential core packages (for example systemd and util-linux) to core-testing. The idea was to have some extra testing even before building the final packages. For some time this worked quite well... Lately this broke, though. Our current tool

Re: Consolidating our mkinitcpio hooks

2023-10-03 Thread Christian Hesse
Morten Linderud on Sun, 2023/10/01 17:10: > I've opened changes that moves the relevant hooks from cryptsetup and > systemd to `mkinitcpio` proper. This also retains all the history of the > files. > > # systemd hooks > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/merge_requests

systemd: 254rc2 -> 253.7 -> 254rc3

2023-07-20 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello everybody, we already had a pre-release of systemd in out testing repositories when I was surprised with another bugfix release in stable branch. Thus pulling the pre-release (254rc2-1) for now, and pushing 253.7-1. Once that is signed-off (please do!) and moved we can continue with pre-rel

pulling grub from core-testing

2023-06-12 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello everbody, grub 2:2.06.r557.gac560966d-1 was reported to be bad... Looks like it results in stalled boot and black screen (on some systems). No idea what caused this for now. Pulling from core-testing so it can not cause more harm... -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse

Re: OpenSSL 3.1 Update

2023-05-31 Thread Christian Hesse
Pierre Schmitz on Wed, 2023/05/31 07:13: > However, packages might do runtime checks and ask for the specific > version they were built with. At least in the past we had this with freeradius... Guess it is safe to rebuild that too. -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse

Re: Dependencies from pkg-config files

2023-03-06 Thread Christian Hesse
Balló György on Mon, 2023/03/06 13:23: > 2023. 03. 3, péntek keltezéssel 15.25-kor Christian Hesse ezt írta: > > Balló György on Fri, 2023/03/03 13:46: > > > So, let's talk about your packages. :) It would be enough to move > > > the > > > following a

Re: Dependencies from pkg-config files

2023-03-03 Thread Christian Hesse
Balló György on Fri, 2023/03/03 13:46: > So, let's talk about your packages. :) It would be enough to move the > following additional stuff to the associated library packages: > > - systemd -> systemd-libs: > usr/include/* > usr/lib/pkgconfig/* > usr/share/man/man3/* Committed to svn, will be in

Re: Dependencies from pkg-config files

2023-03-03 Thread Christian Hesse
Balló György on Thu, 2023/03/02 20:27: > - Some missing dependencies (gobject-introspection, systemd, util- > linux) are caused because the pkg-config files are packaged separately > from the libraries. This shouldn't happen in our distribution, because > we don't split development packages. pkg-c

Re: RFC - thoughts about Arch and init freedom?

2022-12-19 Thread Christian Hesse
Andreas Radke on Fri, 2022/12/16 22:46: > The older Arch developers may remember vaguely how Arch has introduced > [1] and migrated to systemd [2] becoming the new and only supported init > system. [...] I remember these days, though I was a regular user back then. :) The biggest argument again

Re: Virtual package naming

2022-11-28 Thread Christian Hesse
"Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)" on Mon, 2022/11/28 23:19: > Some packages use SCREAMING-KEBAB-CASE to clearly separate "virtual" from > "normal" dependencies (e.g. WIREGUARD-MODULE), which makes their weirdness > (pacman -Si fails) less surprising. I'm not sure that's a pattern we want > to cont

Re: Dropping qtwebkit

2022-11-09 Thread Christian Hesse
Antonio Rojas on Wed, 2022/11/09 17:34: > Hi, > Qtwebkit has been unmaintained for a long time (last release from > annulen's fork was almost 3 years ago) and is plagued with security issues > by now. Most consumers are either dead upstream, of they use it to provide > optional functionality that

Re: Finding a new home for a bunch of my packages

2022-09-20 Thread Christian Hesse
> archlinux-keyring Already taking care of this, with a lot of help from others. Also adopting: grml-zsh-config xz zsh (... unless Frederik disagrees in zsh packages...) -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/*Best regards m

Re: New main key holder (replace Giancarlo)

2022-09-06 Thread Christian Hesse
Levente Polyak on Tue, 2022/09/06 22:06: > Hi all, > > I've had some chats with Giancarlo and he is currently unexpectedly very > busy and stuffed with a lot of work. Thew new MK did not proceed > currently to fill in the missing slot. Together we concluded that > it would be the best to adapt to

Re: Blockers for release of archlinux-keyring

2022-07-12 Thread Christian Hesse
David Runge on Sun, 2022/07/10 12:10: > # Rebuilding packages of "old" marginal trust keys > > For some packager keys the process of rebuilding > their packages has already been started more than four months ago [2], > some of which are completed, but there are still some left [3][4][5]. > I have

Re: [arch-dev-public] openssl 3.0

2022-03-15 Thread Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public
Pierre Schmitz via arch-dev-public on Sun, 2022/01/23 12:50: > Next steps: > 1) Let's agree on a time window where no other rebuild can take place > within our staging repos. How about at least the first two weeks in > February? The todo list has been around for too long already. Any news on this

[arch-dev-public] removed mariadb from testing

2022-02-10 Thread Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public
Hello everybody, a problem has been found in MariaDB 10.6.6 and upstream decided to withdraw the release. We do the same, just removed mariadb (and galera) packages from testing. https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-27789 -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;M

Re: [arch-dev-public] openssl 3.0

2022-01-27 Thread Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public
Pierre Schmitz via arch-dev-public on Sun, 2022/01/23 12:50: > Next steps: > 1) Let's agree on a time window where no other rebuild can take place > within our staging repos. How about at least the first two weeks in > February? I guess the ffmpeg 5.0 will be blocking for some time... -- main(a)

Re: [arch-dev-public] Fun with LTO and stripping

2021-12-25 Thread Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public
"Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)" on Sat, 2021/12/25 22:07: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2021, 22:01 Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public < > arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > > Allan McRae via arch-dev-public on > > Fri, > > 2021/12/24 18:01:

Re: [arch-dev-public] Fun with LTO and stripping

2021-12-25 Thread Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public
Allan McRae via arch-dev-public on Fri, 2021/12/24 18:01: > This fix for the strip issue is for people to add CFLAGS+=" > -ffat-lto-objects" to their PKGBUILDs if they use LTO and contain a .a > or .o archive. This affects ~300 packages in our repos (~2.5%). I will > create a TODO list. Do y

Re: [arch-dev-public] News draft: sorting old password hashes

2021-06-06 Thread Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public
Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-dev-public on Sun, 2021/06/06 21:49: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 9:38 PM Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public < > arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > old password hashes like MD5 are no longer acc

Re: [arch-dev-public] retracting libxcrypt 4.4.22-1 from [testing]

2021-06-06 Thread Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public
Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public on Fri, 2021/05/28 17:48: > Hello everybody, > > the testing package libxcrypt 4.4.22-1 was reported to be bad... Andreas was > forced to change his password on login, which resulted in him being locked > out of his system. We are trying to cla

[arch-dev-public] News draft: sorting old password hashes

2021-06-06 Thread Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public
Hello everybody, old password hashes like MD5 are no longer accepted by recent libxcrypt. On next login user may be enforced to update password. To make sure nobody is worried I would like to add install message and news post: --- >8 --- Starting with libxcrypt 4.4.21 weak password hashes are no

[arch-dev-public] retracting libxcrypt 4.4.22-1 from [testing]

2021-05-28 Thread Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public
Hello everybody, the testing package libxcrypt 4.4.22-1 was reported to be bad... Andreas was forced to change his password on login, which resulted in him being locked out of his system. We are trying to clarify... So I removed libxcrypt from [testing] for the time being. -- main(a){char*c=/*

Re: [arch-dev-public] News draft: Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio

2021-02-17 Thread Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public
Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public on Wed, 2021/02/17 10:51: > All official kernels of Arch Linux now support zstd compressed initramfs > images, so mkinitcpio is switching to zstd compressed images by default on > the version that is currently on [testing]. You should name the version numbe

[arch-dev-public] hardlink in util-linux

2021-02-17 Thread Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public
Hello everybody, upstream util-linux replaced the current implementation of hardlink (which we do not ship) with Debian's [0]. For util-linux 2.37 I plan to package the hardlink executable and set provides, conflicts and replaces on hardlink package. Any objections? [0] https://github.com/karelza

Re: [arch-dev-public] Goodbye

2021-01-21 Thread Christian Hesse via arch-dev-public
Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public on Thu, 2021/01/21 14:08: > Hi everyone, > > I'm stepping down as a developer. It's been mostly fantastic ride for > the last 10 years but it's clear to me now that for better or worse it's > far from the project I initially joined. > > Thank you and goo