[Mageia-dev] Fwd: [Cooker] drakxtools massive update

Sat Oct 1 19:25:28 CEST 2011

Am 01.10.2011 14:44, schrieb Alexander Kazancev:
+> Hi all. I sync drakxtools 13.51 with Mageia drakxtools 13.63 (add new
+> patches) on Cooker (drakxtools-13.51-12). All changes need some test for
+> correct using this patches in Mandriva and question of needing this update in
+> 2011:
+>
+>  * any.pm <http://any.pm> patch 
+>    - add lxsession/lxlogout in any.pm <http://any.pm>
+>  * fs patch
+>    - match partitions when one of them as device_alias to the device of the
+>    other
+>    - fix spaces are not allowed between options in /etc/fstab
+>  * partitioning patch
+>    - always align partitions to start at megabyte boundaries to avoid
+> performance issues with drives with 4k physical sectors
+>  * harddrake patch
+>     - Robustify the PulseAudio configs (don't try and write files if they do
+> not exists. Doing so previously would result in blank files that then causes
+> problems when installing PulseAudio as the "config" files are not overwritten
+> properly which can result in broken PA startup)
+>     - Remove the "Enable 5.1..." option. This is now done via card profiles
+> in native GUIs for GNOME and KDE (or pavucontrol)
+>     - Add more options for CPU info
+>  * drakfont.patch
+>     - rename Ooo as LibreOffice
+>     - enable support for LibreOffice/gs/... only if available 
+>  * detect-devices.patch
+>    - merge cpufreq detection logic into detect_devices::hasCPUFreq(), which
+> is cleaner and enable us to install cpufreq on more cases
+>    - add support to detect if CPU microcode is upgradable
+>    - detect machines needing cpufreq
+>    - (getInputDevices,hasNumpad) detect (at least some (eg: Compaq USB numpad)
+>    - use EVIOCGBIT ioctl instead of trying to parse key field from
+> /proc/bus/input/devices to avoid issues on 64bit kernel with 32bit userspace
+>  * secure patch
+>    - fix default level being 'standard'
+>    - fix reading security level with new msec
+> * notification patch
+>    - fix new libnotify API and net-applet crash
+>
+> Chief of educational programs Mandriva Russia (http://edumandriva.ru)
+> Alexander Kazancev
+
+Hope our drakxtools maintainers can use something of this, at least the
+alignment fix for drives with 4k physical sectors seems interesting so far.
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