when we build in chroot, we use fakeroot to prevent build() screw up our chroot, so that if we need to install deps, we use sudo to call pacman. also pacman notices that we're in a fakeroot env and will refuse to install pkgs even we're using sudo. so that we should work around this by temporarily unsetting the FAKEROOTKEY env var. also when we restore it, we should export it. that's what i've forgot, and that's why currently iputils and samba is broken. it took some time while i've figured out that's why they're broken :) but now pacman is fixed and only the broken pkgs should be rebuilt

here is one of boobaa's promotion pictures about his child using Frugalware :)

mingw packages arrived! namely:

mingw-binutils
mingw-gcc
mingw-runtime
mingw-runtime-headers
mingw-w32api
mingw-w32api-headers

arrived to devel-extra. a sample use of it:

$ cat Makefile
CC = i386-mingw32msvc-gcc -O2 -Wall -mms-bitfields -mwindows
foo.exe: foo.c
                $(CC) -o $@ $gt;

$ cat foo.c
#include 
int main(void)
{
        printf("hey!\n");
        return(0);
}

$ make
i386-mingw32msvc-gcc -O2 -Wall -mms-bitfields -mwindows -o foo.exe foo.c
$ wine foo.exe
hey!

:)

update: a related article

finally i've got enough time to implement using fakeroot when building in chroot. a simple example about why this is good for us: select a pkg and put the

touch /etc

command to the end of build(). in chroot, this will run without any warning, and your chroot will be messed up. with the current fakeroot method:

touch: cannot touch `/etc/foo': Permission denied
==> ERROR: Build Failed.  Aborting...

yes, that's what we wanted! :)

3 simple commands for vnc'ing in an ssh tunnel (on the server) vncserver (i assume the server is running on :1) (on the client) sudo ssh -2 -l vmiklos -L5901:localhost:5901 server.domain.org and then vncviewer localhost:1

crazy produced the longest gcc4 error i've ever seen :)

just finished generating all the images for the 0.3 release if everything works fine, then those will be the final images

ads @ wiki.fw.org. let's try out this, hopefully we can buy more hardware to the project if this thing will be successfull

as ironiq mentioned above, the spannish translation has been merged :)

the x86_64 build server is on the way. the fixed specs currently are: ASUS A8N-E nForce4 ULTRA Socket 939 Athlon64 AMD ATHLON 64 3000 S939 OEM Venice 512Mb 533MHz DDR2 Brand Dual channel :)