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 ;)

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.