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 :)

i've uploaded Python-2.5 to a separate repo since lots of package will have to be rebuilt. once all the necessary packages are in the repo, we can merge the update to -current

i wanted to start compiling jacman (and all the libs required by it) from source using only free tools (gcj/ecj & the gnu classpath). it seems that the first dep (glazedlists) requires XMLEncoder, but it will be featured only in gcc-4.2.x. so calm down, we should wait.. :/

Mark Angeli submitted our release notice to digg: dvd, cds

here is a small cmdline to query the temperature of a hdd using smartctl: smartctl -a /dev/hdc|grep Celsius|sed 's/.* \([0-9]*\)$/\1/'

till now the download code was in pacman's code which was meant that every frontend had to have its own downlaad code - causing a big code duplication. today i've pushed 15 patches to the pacman darcs repo which moved this functionality finally to the library :)

the patches:

1. new event: PM_TRANS_EVT_RETRIEVE_LOCAL
2. pm_dlfnm can be a simple char *
3. pre-register databases to avoid code duplication
4. pacman: use the libalpm downloader code, drop our own
5. util: link to libftp, too
6. _alpm_sync_commit(): download the packages, too
7. alpm_db_getinfo(): strip the newlines from the end of lines
8. alpm_db_getinfo(): added a PM_DB_FIRSTSERVER property
9. alpm_db_update() now handles downloading, too
10. libalpm: moved in _alpm_db_setlastupdate() and _alpm_db_getlastupdate()
11. _alpm_fetch_pkgurl(): added the usual _alpm prefix
12. _alpm_handle_set_option() more error handling for proxyhost and xfercommand
13. handle_free() memleak fixes
14. libalpm: new function: alpm_fetch_pkgurl()
15. libalpm: moved in the download code

i was hired to create a vpn between 2 frugal machines, alwas i was asked to share the results. so here they came.

NOTE: i'm not a vpn genious, nor want to write yet another "the best" howto. just the brief story of the vpn setup under Frugalware

you can reach it here, feel free to improve it :)