this post is mainly the result of the cleanup of my firefox tabs :)

predefined macros in gcc

string manipulation using bash

string functions in make

finally, we have a proper US mirror :)

many thanks to Eddie Torres and mirrors.tds.net!

xwmconfig has been ported to frugalwareutils, for example if you just install base&x11&xlibs in a netinstall then you're asked what wm do you want to start from xdm till you can't edit your own ~/.xinitrc

new setup isos: i686 | x86_64

after the recent freenx/knx update resume should now work in nx. a cheap trick: if you use kde the window titles may be weird after a resume, a workaround is to run

dcop kwin default reconfigure

after resume. (more info here)

the x.org foundation pulblished and then we pushed a few patches for the "setuid()return value check problem". packages affected: libX11, xdm, xf86dga, xinit, xload, xorg-server and xtrans. do a pacman -Syu ;)

www2.frugalware.org is now equal to {www.,}frugalware.org, hopefully we broke nothing, if yes then just file the usual bugreports. probably IroNiQ or Alex will post a news entry about this soon :)

• grubconfig now uses os-prober to detect other operating systems, this means for example the boot parameters of an other existing installation are detected, or the proper title is set if you have a Microsoft installation
• kernel bumped to 2.6.17
• parted is now available - you can resize your fat/ext3 partitions on the fly from the setup
• ssh is available on the setupcd
• on tty5 there is a small nice tetris in case the installation would be boring - thanks slin for this :)

atm i've tested the 20060619 images with a simple base-only installation

ah, and if we're at it (just because it's a frequently asked question):

• i've installed base to a 500mb-sized partition (no, not bigger!)
• booting up the system took 20 secs

has been uploaded, all the external modules are updates (or where it's broken, the m8rs are working on it). unfortunatelly swsusp has been disabled, but don't worry, it's already fixed in darcs, so if you really need it now and can't wait till 2.6.17.1, then use the usual repoman merge kernel

when you send a mail from genesis, sometimes you get the following reply: mail@addr.ess Delay reason: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:: host mail.addr.ess [1.2.3.4]: 450 : Sender address rejected: unverified address: connect to genesis.frugalware.org[157.181.177.34]: Connection refused

the solution is simple, but not trivial. it depends on the user-agent you use, in mutt, you should put the following magic line to your muttrc: set use_envelope_from then i'll be ok again :)

i've worked again a bit on mkiso:

• now you can (optionally) define a tag, so that after the frugalware repo, not all the locale-extra pkgs will have higher priority than the other extra pkgs, just a selected language's locale pkgs
• it generates a small stat next to the iso, for example the current ones are available for a while here

have fun! :)