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.

syncpkg is a small script to sync packages on an given arch. an example: you're on x86_64 and you have foo-1.0 while there is already foo-2.0 in darcs, then it'll find this package, build it and if the build was successfull, i'll upload the package

the only parameter it requires is the max pkgs you want to build (if that number is too high then it may start to build pkgs others already built)

$ tail -f build.log Fri Dec 30 00:21:56 CET 2005 number of pkgs to build: 99 Fri Dec 30 00:21:56 CET 2005 making package: foomatic-filters-ppds Fri Dec 30 00:22:13 CET 2005 finished making package foomatic-filters-ppds with exit code 0 Fri Dec 30 00:22:13 CET 2005 making package: db Fri Dec 30 00:27:18 CET 2005 finished making package db with exit code 0 Fri Dec 30 00:29:24 CET 2005 build finished, pkgs built: 2

first of all, merry Christmas for every blog reader!

so. it seems that finally i've fixed our 'send darcs diffs' script (yay, 59 mails because of this! ;) )

also fixed a nice double free in pacman. ok, that's all today :)

i started to add package splitting support to pacman today. pacman3/libalpm is not affected, basically makepkg, updatesync and gensync have to me modified. the makepkg part is now ready. here is a sample FrugalBuild:

pkgname=cabextract
pkgver=1.1
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files"
url="http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php"
depends=('basedep1' 'basedep2')
groups=('apps')
archs=('i686' 'x86_64')
up2date="lynx -dump http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php |grep 'cabextract source code'|tr -s ' '|cut -d ' ' -f 6"
source=(http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/downloads/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
sha1sums=('359c8f4ec9c62d9dac5d572269b607b2cae4fbf7')
subpkgs=('cabextract-man' 'cabextract-bin')
subdescs=('manpage for cabextract' 'cabextract binaries')
subdepends=('man foo' 'glibc bar')
subreplaces=('' 'replacebin1 replacebin2')
build()
{
        Fbuild
        Fsplit $pkgname-man usr/man
        Fsplit $pkgname-bin usr/bin
}

to build this you'll need pacman-tools from darcs and pacman from darcs, too

krix and me are working on porting our changes to pacman3. if you're interesed, check out the darcs repo. warning, this is not a working version, it's heavily under development!

it seems that finally we figured out what causes the following weird problem on some mirrors:

io timeout after 300 seconds -- exiting
rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(181)

reading again man 5 rsyncd.conf:

timeout
(...)
A good choice for anonymous rsync daemons
may be 600 (giving a 10 minute timeout).

and yes, adding "timeout = 600" to the relevant module solved the problems :)