slowly but xorg7 is being packaged and if everything works well, it'll hit -current before 0.4pre2. currently you can get the buildscripts, and there are two binary repo:

[xorg7]
http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/vmiklos/other/xorg7/frugalware-i686

and

[xorg7]
http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/vmiklos/other/xorg7/frugalware-x86_64

the buildscripts are available in krix's repo

warning: these pkgs are more unstable than the pkgs usually in -current!

but besiedes some upgrade bugs, it works:

$ X -version
X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.15-fw1 i686Frugalware
Current Operating System: Linux vmobile 2.6.15-fw1 #1 SMP Tue Jan 3 20:46:58 CET 2006 i686
Build Date: 25 January 2006
        Before reporting problems, check http://www.frugalware.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present

:)

finally the new netconfig is ready. this is a complete rewrite in C - incuding profiling support, unlimited number of network cards, support for interface names != ethn, multiple ips on a single interface and much more. ah and now the config tool has a manpage: just type

man netconfig

after the usual -Syu. huch, it was about 3 days of work :)

it seems that the darcs gateway for cia is now successfully set up. you can reach the project stats here, my personal stat is here :)

finally i got time to review pete's documentation rework in texinfo. so now it hit -current, and you can reach it at the usual place

i've finished updating all the firefox langpacks, so the system should now work again as in the good old 1.0.x times - like gettext. a list of langpacks available here (ok, mostly langpacks ;) )

as of hal-0.5.5-3, automounting usb sticks finally works perfectly (big thanks to crazy :) ). note, that this will require the new udev & kernel, but as usual pacman will solve such problems for you ;)

as gimb already pointed out, mod_ruby was broken with apache 2.2, but don't worry, we already fixed that. if you're interesed, then you can reach the fix here

update: now posted to upstream

you may notice that pacman-2.9.99.9 is here, within a day after 2.9.99.8. there was a typo in the code which caused -S/-A/-U (almost everything) segfault. hopefully almost nobody upgraded yet, but if you're upgraded to 2.9.99.8, and you now can't upgrade, then download the 2.9.99.9 static binary from here, copy it to /usr/bin/pacman.static, and then pacman.static -Syu should do everything for you

today finally i passed one of my exams so i had time to update our udev package. why is this so important? as of kernel-2.6.15 the hardware detection is now really simple. this allows us to wipe out the whole (very slow) hotplug script, and use only udev as a hotplug multiplexer (almost) without any workarounds. on my machine this causes the hardware detection to be about 10 times faster than before. as usual, a simple pacman -Syu should do everything for you, if you use -current.

syncpkg is a small script to sync packages on an given arch. an example: you're on x86_64 and you have foo-1.0 while there is already foo-2.0 in darcs, then it'll find this package, build it and if the build was successfull, i'll upload the package

the only parameter it requires is the max pkgs you want to build (if that number is too high then it may start to build pkgs others already built)

$ tail -f build.log Fri Dec 30 00:21:56 CET 2005 number of pkgs to build: 99 Fri Dec 30 00:21:56 CET 2005 making package: foomatic-filters-ppds Fri Dec 30 00:22:13 CET 2005 finished making package foomatic-filters-ppds with exit code 0 Fri Dec 30 00:22:13 CET 2005 making package: db Fri Dec 30 00:27:18 CET 2005 finished making package db with exit code 0 Fri Dec 30 00:29:24 CET 2005 build finished, pkgs built: 2