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The FOSDEM conference takes place on 4/5 February in Brussels, Belgium and our attendance this year is bigger than ever. On the list of Archers coming we find developers Roman Kyrylych, Tom Gundersen, Thomas Bächler, Jan Steffens, Pierre Schmitz and myself.
We're putting together meetups on Friday afternoon, evening and Saturday evening. Our program is not definitive yet, so to stay up to date (or make suggestions) check the wiki page or the ...
With module-init-tools being declared a dead project by its current maintainer, a new project has stepped up to take its place: kmod. This is intended to be a drop-in replacement, though deprecated functionality in module-init-tools has not been reimplemented.
If, upon upgrade, pacman moves /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf to a .pacsave, you should move it back. This file, and any other config read by module-init-tools, is still read by kmod. However, the kmod package ...
Pacman 4 has landed in [core]! Thanks to 24 contributors producing 893 commits, you'll find many new features. The one explicitly worth calling out is PGP signing. However, until the last few details regarding database signing and keyring distribution are ironed out, this is disabled in pacman's default config. If you're interested trying out package verification, please refer to the documentation on the wiki about pacman-key or Allan's blog post.
As ...
As of udev-176, the Arch Linux userspace tools will no longer be able to boot kernels without devtmpfs support.
The official Arch kernels (kernel26-lts and linux) have both had devtmpfs support for a long time, so only people who compile their own kernels are potentially affected by this change.
More information about the kernel options required by udev is available in the udev README.
When upgrading to filesystem-2011.12 there will be a conflict with /etc/mtab.
Install the package as follows:
pacman -S filesystem --force
It is strongly advised to avoid the --force or -f switch as it is not safe. However, in this particular case it is needed as deleting /etc/mtab manually would break pacman.
The reason for the conflict is that the file used to be generated at boot and hence not owned by any ...
| vlc 1.1.13-3 | i686/x86_64 |
| virtualbox-modules 4.1.8-3 | i686/x86_64 |
| perl-config-ini 0.019-1 | any |
| perl-mixin-linewise 0.003-1 | any |
| perl-text-template 1.45-1 | any |
| lib32-alsa-plugins 1.0.25-1 | x86_64 |
| e2fsprogs 1.42-1 | i686/x86_64 |
| glew 1.7.0-2 | i686/x86_64 |
| bluez 4.98-2 | i686/x86_64 |
| alsa-plugins 1.0.25-1 | i686/x86_64 |
| pulseaudio-alsa 2-1 | any |
| lib32-glibc 2.15-4 | x86_64 |
| hwloc 1.4-1 | i686/x86_64 |
| openmpi 1.5.4-3 | i686/x86_64 |
| archboot 2012.01-1 | any |
