finally i got some time to upgrade our forums.frugalware.org to the latest 2.7.6 version. the upgrade went fairly simple, there is an upgrade script that managed the upgrade, then a db integrity check was needed (in fact that repaired/updated the db imho) and finally the small fonts in thm/default/tmpl/forum.css.tmpl has been increased a bit. hopefully everything still works :)

i'm currently testing firefox-2.0. here are a few issues:

• dpi is set to -1 by default
• the "default homepage" setting has changed
• the backspace button no longer works as it used to be

the first 2 will be fixed in the package, but the last one won't since this is the way the firefox developers decided. in case you want the old way (like me), you'll need the followings:

• open a new tab and type about:config
• search for browser.backspace_action
• set the value from 1 to 0

and now it'll work like before :)

so the python25 repo has been finally merged to -current

we have rebuilt ~155 packages, hopefully everything is fine now again :)

there are 2 kde packages to fix, they will be done by crazy soon

oh and there is a new test in the testsuite to avoid that big number of hardcoded python versions in the FrugalBuilds :)

i'm sorry to say, but it seems our free tools are not yet ready to build netbeans. first you need to add the gcj.jar to the classpath (patch here), but that's basically usual. then the compilation fails with the following casting error: [repeat] java.io.IOException: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentImpl cannot be cast to gnu.xml.dom.DomDocument (full log here)

that's something i can't fix.

after a few days of headache, the brand new netbeans package is ready!

at the moment it requires j2sdk, we'll see if i can get it compile using a free compiler or not

x86_64 fpms are reachable in my repo, as usual :)

glibc-2.5 has been uploaded to -current, check out the news here

as it was requested, now we have packaged documentation for the following languages: English, Arabic, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Hong Kong Cantonese), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish. you can install them by pacman -S php-docs-XX where XX is your language code, like "hu" for Hungarian and so on :)

there was a request for a long time to support installing from an usb stick, now it seems i've had time to implement this feature

you need this tarball, then you can unpack it and run ./usb_install.sh as root

if you hit a bug, then report it to us, as usual ;)

Neon-0.26.1 has been uploaded to -current and all the necessary packages (ie. openoffice.org :)) have been updated, too. it was a challenge :)