fidzu : Arch Linux

Because it is what I've been spending most of my Arch free time on lately, I thought I'd make another quick post on what's happening with the Arch Linux website.

• Filelists are back! Check out a package page such as pacman. You'll see the Files header at the bottom; if you click the link inside you'll get a filelist. If you aren't crazy and using something like noscript, some nice AJAX will put the list right inside the page; otherwise you'll be sent off to the files page.
• Mirror management improvements. We manage all our (known) mirrors through a developer accessible UI, and we were missing some important fields to store things like what tier a mirror is or what rsync credentials it should be using. These are now available.
• reporead improvements. This script is the magic that takes a pacman database and shoves it into our web site database to get all the relevant information out there. It is a bit more robust and now allows for force updates if/when new fields are added.
• Speaking of new fields, you can now see the compressed size, installed size, and the build date of every package on the website.
• Courtesy of Evangelos Foutras, the developer todo list UI now has some AJAX to make package flagging slightly less painful.
• Many small touchups for efficiency, such as not fetching the full list of packages whenever a user clicks through on the Recent Updates box.
• Recent updates groups together multiple architectures in order to make more packages visible in the box.
• Feeds for package updates are a lot more granular. Check out the new feeds page for more details.

A few more things are planned down the road. These include:

• Advanced search. This will allow searching on every field we have in the database as well as finding a package with a given filename (or filename prefix).
• Remove some of the lesser used pieces of the site in favor of linking to important wiki articles. These include Arch-based Projects, Press (which has been unlinked for a long time), International Communities, and IRC Channels. Putting this stuff on the wiki will allow it to be kept much more up to date than it currently is.
• Other general cleanup. We have old CSS styles, hacks from the pre-1.0 Django days, and a lot of style embedded in our templates rather than in stylesheets.
• And of course, any contributions from you that will enhance the site for the whole Arch community. :)

10 Mar 2010 2:32pm GMT

I recently did two talks, for which the videos are now online.

• Uzbl lightningtalk @ fosdem 2010
• Open Source Monitoring tools lightning talk @ Kangaroot showcase 2009. This one is password protected. If you were a participant, you should have received the pass

If all goes well, I'll be at ArchCon this summer, where I'll be doing these talks:

• AIF: The Arch Installation Framework
• Uzbl - web interface tools which adhere to the unix philosophy. Whereas in the fosdem talk I had to focus a lot of information into a short timeslot, here I'll elaborate a bit more

We're not sure yet if those talks will get videotaped.

07 Mar 2010 11:06am GMT

This is a fork of archbang build with my build scripts. I added some pentesting packages and fixed up the instaler. The installer is under system-> Installer. Its based on the archlinux installer. Here are the features of archbang-live: * All/most of the features that are in archiso-live and slax. * findiso boot option so you can boot [...]

06 Mar 2010 9:23pm GMT

Pro Git - Smart HTTP Transport:

ooooh!

05 Mar 2010 9:22pm GMT

<object height="336" width="400"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4NGSl3CldFY&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed allowfullscreen="true" height="336" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4NGSl3CldFY&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>

TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO (via geekfeedtv)

Reminds me a bit of http://www.iiiiiiii.com/ but with video.

05 Mar 2010 8:49pm GMT

rm -R /home/user/.cache/chromium mkdir /home/user/.cache/chromium sudo nano /etc/fstab: .... cache-chromium /home/user/.cache/chromium tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 Filed under: archlinux, archlinux-en, archone, chromium

05 Mar 2010 10:20am GMT

Daniel Griffiths wrote:
Come take a walk down memory lane... * Get it!

04 Mar 2010 5:00am GMT

Come take a walk down memory lane...

http://www.archlinux.org/static/magazine

-- posted by Ghost1227

04 Mar 2010 4:04am GMT

You can now review the summaries of ArchCon talks. Not all talks have been posted yet, but you can get an overview of some of the fun things you'll be able to see and discuss at ArchCon this year.

Because I was late getting these up, I've extended the earlybird registration deadline to this Friday (March 5). Review the talks, and if you like what you see, register now to save $50 on registration!

ArchCon is going to be a blast, hope to see you all there!

Dusty

-- posted by Dusty

03 Mar 2010 3:37pm GMT

theinternetaccordingtoadrian:

kevinnuut:

Mr. Banana Without Borders!

If this post makes it on the side radar of Tumblr, I will donate $1000 toMSF/Doctors Without Borders. All you have to do is like and reblog this post so that Mr. Banana can rise to fame and save the world. If you want, you can read about my motives.

Thanks to Sheila for the reblog idea, to LikeCool for making me aware, and to Illurama for creating Mr. Banana.

UPDATE: You guys did it! THE DONATION HAS BEEN MADE!

02 Mar 2010 7:17pm GMT

This is what happens if you ignore a weed growing on your lawn for a while. It grew to over four metres and had thorns all along the stem. In an effort to convince me that I should remove it, my wife found out that it is a Giant Devil's Fig, which is classified as [...]

27 Feb 2010 2:02pm GMT

A while back, I wrote about using an x86_64 kernel on an i686 userland. After using this setup for a while, I began to discover that it is not that user friendly to have to use linux32 in front many commands. In particular, when building software the ./configure needs to be prefixed with [...]

27 Feb 2010 7:17am GMT

Paul Mattal wrote:
Since Saturday worked so well last time, we're doing it again. Thanks to all who helped last month, and in advance to those who will join us this month; it feels like we're starting to clean out some of the backlog. You can find us in the #archlinux-bugs IRC forum in the afternoon and evening EST. Come help out however you can!

27 Feb 2010 5:00am GMT

202 Star Wars T-Shirts [Lists]:

Quite a few good ones in this list.

27 Feb 2010 4:54am GMT

Unlink Your Feeds: A Manifesto.:

Listen.

You need to unlink your feeds.

I understand why you did it. I've made the same mistake myself. But it's hurting your friends, it's hurting you, and it's hurting the Internet. You need to stop.

You need to stop automatically dumping your feeds from one account into another.

Look, I know…

This is pretty awesome, and I agree.

24 Feb 2010 6:14pm GMT

For those that don't know, the first ever ArchCon will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 22 and 23. Ralvez and I are the primary organizers. We've got some great presentations lined up and are becoming more confident that we'll have enough attendees to fund conference activities. The earlybird registration deadline is fast approaching; [...]

24 Feb 2010 3:24pm GMT