Arch Linux PPC

2012-01-22

kmod replaces module-init-tools

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 ...

2012-01-21

Users of unofficial kernels must enable devtmpfs support

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 in the new 3.1.9, 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 ...

2011-12-21

filesystem upgrade - manual intervention required

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 ...

2011-11-20

Big core update - manual intervention on yaboot required

Hello followers, we have updated all core packages, but there are some things you MUST know before do the update. Please, read them carefully! [b]Index[\b]: #1 initscripts update - manual intervention required #2 Changes to kernel package and filenames - yaboot manual intervention required #3 Netcfg 2.6.8 update #4 Dropping tcp_wrappers support #5 Changes to module blacklisting #6 Deprecation of ...

2011-06-16

Trouble with unbootable G5 systems

Hey everyone, apparently a broken version of powerpc-utils (1.2.9) slipped in before we found that during yaboot's installation it may break yaboot on G5 systems. So far we have no reports of 32bit systems being affected as well. So, if you are left with an unbootable install boot from the installer and downgrade powerpc-utils to 1.2.6 via a `pacman -Sy ...

2011-06-09

Texlive 2011, GNOME3 hit [testing]

After millions of CPU cycles, various build nodes, and a lot of coffee, we are happy to announce that we already have upgraded Texlive 2011, GNOME3 and XFCE4 along with their respective dependencies which means: You can now enjoy the latest, greatest features of GNOME3. Get all the bugfixes of the latest XFCE4 maintenance releases. Download hundreds of megabytes of ...

2011-05-18

[testing] 2.6.39.* Kernels

Hey everyone, Danimoth was the first to minimize the issues during the DRM transition to KMS on Linux/PPC during the 2.6.36 line of kernels. Back then the radeon and AGP (namely uninorth) modules had to be built-in to enable suspend and to minimize other stability issues. The current kernels in [testing] (2.6.36.6-2) for both pmac and pmac64 build them as ...

2011-02-28

Firefox 4 Beta builds available

Some of us have been using these for a while now and I thought we'd make them available for everyone. Simply add the following repository to your pacman.conf: [firefox-beta] Server = http://kth5.archlinuxppc.org/arch/firefox-beta/ Two versions are available, one with KDE integration from OpenSUSE (firefox-beta-kde-opensuse) and one regular vanilla build (firefox-beta). Thanks goes out to the original AUR packager csslayer who's PKGBUILDs ...

2011-02-22

Get them while they're hot! Kernel 2.6.37, OpenJDK6 1.9.6, KDE 4.6.0, LLVM 2.8...

We have been quite silent about upgrades lately but the oh so great Christmas whole made all of us pretty much busy with other things and when we did work on ArchPPC, we surely were the geeks we're meant to me. The types that would say: My source is the documentation! Either way, we have introduced quite a handful of ...

2010-10-27

Python is now Python 3

A major Python update has just been moved to the testing repositories and will be available on a mirror near you. The default "python" package is now for the 3.x series while the 2.x series has been moved to a "python2" package, with python-2.7 having been scheduled to be the last major release in the python-2.x series. Since /usr/bin/python will ...

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