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

Sat Oct 1 19:35:56 CEST 2011

Am 01.10.2011 19:25, schrieb Florian Hubold:
+> 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.
+>
+>
+/note to self: Read the important part of the mail,
+not only the subject and all the fixes ...
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+*facepalm*
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