making a stable release of Frugalware is getting more and more complex, so i've started to documente it. you can find the first draft here

it took a few (2-3 days?) but i've now finished the Upgrade: 0.3->0.4 howto. DNAku was so kind that he has written a script to automate the procedure. you can find it at the bottom of the wiki page :)

maybe others are interested in #240, too, now we have a Firefox search plugin for packages, you can install it from the packages page.

we were requested to provide a freenx package. in fact, this was not too easy. after ~3 days of work, now nx-x11, nxproxy and freenx has been uploaded. finding a working opensource client was a bit difficult and 90% of the howtos recommend the binary crap, but finally knx has been uploaded. thanks crazy for the hint about the knx package

ps: yes, i plan to write a howto on this topic, hopefully i'll have time to do so on the next week. till now here is a screenshot :)

since we include ada/gnat in our gcc package, it's a bit tricky to build it for the first time, so i've written a wiki page about this. also the x86_64 packages for gcc-4.1 are ready, too.

today's task is to build gcc using ccache. it is not done automatically as gcc uses xgcc for most of the time, but there is a moslty usable howto available. ok, the log is nice, ccache is used, but the compiler cache is empty... so still need to figure out what's happening :/

update: dunno what was wrong, but on the buildserver it works fine! :) update2: now the i686 packages are available

ok, rc1 is out so let's do something earth-breaking ;)

bumped lua to 5.1. 3 patches were needed: 1, 2 (ok, one is Frugalware-specific)

as a first step the elinks patch has been submitted.

ffmpeg devs recommend everyone to use cvs, not the "formal" releases. ok, let's do it, but then we have to the apps for the recent changes. for now, vlc has been fixed

this was yesterday, but probably still a news

so in the (not so good) old times we used some up2date.foo scripts to have a common $up2date variable for several FrugalBuilds. these are ugly and are broken in chroot. the "new" trend is to use Finclude for these scripts. yesterday the last up2date.thunderbird-i18n file was removed, so this big merge ended. so far we have already 20 scheme :)

probably the next will be to get rid of the old 'x' dependency in all packages (mostly done already)

i just wanted to search with google from C, and found that there is no out-of-the box sollution for this, so i've made one. available here