1) just noted xbit's funny boogle skin, and then i figured out how to add some custom metadata without modifying the skin itself. the trick is the "Long Description:" field, so from now there's a short list of links at the right side of this blog

2) something unrelated: the irssi guys noticed our irssi pkg :)

3) ok, this is at least a bit more on-topic: 0.4pre2 released

Jan 31 01:16:33 genesis syncpkgd : PWD=/home/syncpkgd ; COMMAND=cp \
/tmp/tmp.HKjbWP /home/ftp/pub/frugalware/frugalware-current/frugalware-x86_64/smb4k-0.6.5-1-x86_64.fpm

the first package built by syncpkgd, the automatic package building daemon

we'll see how much effective it is, the expected performance is that if we push an i686 package, then (if possible) the x86_64 one are uploaded automatically within 4-5 hours :)

probably irssi users know anames.pl, a clone of /names, with away nicks grayed out. the sympthom is that new away information need to be obtained manually by executing a /who on a channel. the real problem behind that is that if you use redirection, then the away infos aren't updated. so i've made a workaround for that: at least this calls /who automatically. you can reach my patch here. (the sollution would be to

• finding a way to mute /who
• fixing this redirection stuff in irssi ;)

)

yestreday xorg7 hit -current

in most cases it should install without any problem, if not

• pacman -S xorg-fonts xorg-libs --noconfirm

  to install all the fonts and libs available
• if you're using a binary driver (for example nvidia), try

  pacman -R nvidia && pacman -S nvidia

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 ;)