Hi,
I've done a couple of upgrades to major packages locally (and rebuilt
everything) to see if something might be relevant for 2.3, namely:
coreutils 6.3: chgrp & friends seem to break in a fakeroot environment,
causing any usage of them in ports to have no effect. This is likely a
fakeroot issue, but IMO big enough to hold back the upgrade until a
fix/workaround is available.
db 4.5.20: caused python to fail compiling its bsddb module because some
functions that have been marked as deprecated for a long time are
actually gone now - I added a couple of #ifdef's to fix this, seems to
work fine.
glibc 2.5: I've tested it with both our current kernel headers (whatever
their origin is is only known to danm, I guess...) and the 2.6.18
headers from kernel.org. strace seems to not build any longer (with both
header sets), but that's pretty much it!
gnutls 1.4.4 (as well as all other gcrypt projects): nothing except
seahorse (gnome gpg front-end) doesn't crash as much anymore, probably
because we're about the only distro shipping 1.0.x (well, together with
debian stable :P)
python 2.5: everything compiles, all small apps work, but some of the
big ones (e.g. quodlibet, a media player that uses the gstreamer and
gnome python bindings - 'nuff said) don't. I think we're better off
waiting a month or two for wider adoption.
util-linux 2.13-pre7: older versions abuse the kernel headers, which the
kernel.org-provided ones don't allow - so this upgrade is needed. Also,
they switched to autoconf, so the config patching isn't needed any
longer. However the build breaks with --disable-nls - haven't looked
into fixing that yet.
Hi all,
I'm about URL and Description Pkgfile's fields removal.
Reason: bloat.
Rationale:
wrong: prt-get dsearch "an app for the X"
right: google "an app for the X"
right: www.freshmeat.net
URL -- no used at all.
right: google app's X homepage
right: www.freshmeat.net
What do you think?
-- Anton (irc: bd2)
