Slackware-12.1 ChangeLog (2008-03-20)

Wed Mar 19 19:34:38 CDT 2008

Is this Slackware 12.1 RC 1 yet? It has to be close.
  • a/e2fsprogs-1.40.8-i486-1.tgz
    a/gpm-1.20.1-i486-5.tgz: Default item to imps2, which works well with KVM
    boxes. If you use a Synaptics pad with the third party driver, you may have
    to change this setting.
  • a/inotify-tools-3.13-i486-1.tgz
    a/kernel-generic-2.6.24.3-i486-2.tgz: After much debate, the kernels have been
    recompiled with the CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN option enabled. This was tried once
    and caused problems for real SCSI systems, but that really was many years ago
    and it's so handy to have this feature for multi-LUN card readers that we're
    going to try enabling this again. Please report any problems.
    Upgraded to Linux 2.6.24.3 uniprocessor generic.s (requires initrd) kernel.
    a/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.24.3_smp-i686-2.tgz:
    Recompiled with CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN.
    a/kernel-huge-2.6.24.3-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled with CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN.
    a/kernel-huge-smp-2.6.24.3_smp-i686-2.tgz:
    Recompiled with CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN.
    a/kernel-modules-2.6.24.3-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled.
    a/kernel-modules-smp-2.6.24.3_smp-i686-2.tgz: Recompiled.
    a/ntfs-3g-1.2310-i486-1.tgz: After getting a lot of feedback on it, we're
    changing from ntfsprogs to ntfs-3g and putting it in the A series so that it
    can be used as the default NTFS filesystem. All the best wishes to the
    ntfsprogs project for future improvement, but nftsprogs couldn't extract and
    compile the Linux kernel on an NTFS partition here, and ntfs-3g could.
    It also seems to have a better community and support going right now.
    Thanks to the users who wrote with their opinions to help make this decision.
    a/pkgtools-12.1.0-noarch-5.tgz: Default making a USB boot stick to off.
  • a/sysvinit-scripts-1.2-noarch-18.tgz
    a/udev-118-i486-2.tgz: Blacklist old bcm43xx driver (b43 and b43legacy are
    the recommended drivers now).
    ap/alsa-utils-1.0.15-i486-2.tgz: Set reasonable volume defaults if there are
    none in /etc/asound.state. Thanks to Eric Hameleers.
  • ap/gutenprint-5.0.2-i486-1.tgz
  • ap/ntfsprogs-2.0.0-i486-1.tgz
  • d/m4-1.4.10-i486-1.tgz
    reporting that m4-1.4.9 had a serious calculation bug.
  • d/pkg-config-0.23-i486-1.tgz
    k/kernel-source-2.6.24.3_smp-noarch-2.tgz: CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is now the
    default in the supplied Slackware generic .config.
  • kde/kdelibs-3.5.9-i486-3.tgz
    cursor after a block paste. Thanks to Peter Sevens for showing me the fix.
  • l/atk-1.22.0-i486-1.tgz
  • l/dbus-1.1.20-i486-1.tgz
    for helping to maintain the dbus build scripts.
  • l/dbus-glib-0.74-i486-2.tgz
  • l/dbus-qt3-0.70-i486-2.tgz
  • l/gnome-icon-theme-2.22.0-noarch-1.tgz
    l/glib2-2.14.6-i486-3.tgz: Set G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1, and if the locale is
    UTF-8, then set G_FILENAME_ENCODING=“@locale” (which will override the
    G_BROKEN_FILENAMES setting). This should get us a little closer with UTF.
    Thanks to Dave Minton for pointing out the issue to Robby Workman, who
    (in turn), sent it in to me.
  • l/gtk+2-2.12.9-i486-1.tgz
  • l/hal-info-20080313-noarch-1.tgz
    l/hicolor-icon-theme-0.10-noarch-3.tgz: Don't make an icon-theme.cache file
    in /usr/share/icons.
  • l/lcms-1.17-i486-1.tgz
  • l/libart_lgpl-2.3.20-i486-1.tgz
  • l/pango-1.20.0-i486-1.tgz
    l/pygtk-2.12.1-i486-2.tgz: Robby said it would help to recompile this.
  • l/wavpack-4.41.0-i486-1.tgz
    This is needed for audacious WAV format support.
  • n/gnupg2-2.0.8-i486-1.tgz
  • n/gnutls-2.2.2-i486-1.tgz
  • n/gpgme-1.1.6-i486-1.tgz
  • n/libassuan-1.0.4-i486-1.tgz
  • n/libksba-1.0.3-i486-1.tgz
  • n/libgcrypt-1.4.0-i486-1.tgz
    n/libgpg-error-1.6-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled.
  • n/pinentry-0.7.5-i486-1.tgz
  • n/samba-3.0.28a-i486-1.tgz
  • n/wireless-tools-29-i486-1.tgz
  • x/libXScrnSaver-1.1.3-i486-1.tgz
  • x/libXv-1.0.4-i486-1.tgz
  • x/libxkbfile-1.0.5-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-amd-2.7.7.7-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-apm-1.2.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-ark-0.7.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-ast-0.85.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-chips-1.2.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-cirrus-1.2.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-dummy-0.3.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-glint-1.2.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-i128-1.3.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-i740-1.2.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-neomagic-1.2.0-i486-1.tgz
    x/xf86-video-rendition-4.2.0-i486-1.tgz:
    Upgraded to xf86-video-rendition-4.2.0.
  • x/xf86-video-s3-0.6.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-s3virge-1.10.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-savage-2.2.0-i486-1.tgz
    x/xf86-video-siliconmotion-1.6.0-i486-1.tgz:
    Upgraded to xf86-video-siliconmotion-1.6.0.
  • x/xf86-video-sis-0.10.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-sisusb-0.9.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-tdfx-1.4.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-trident-1.3.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-tseng-1.2.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-v4l-0.2.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-vmware-10.16.0-i486-1.tgz
  • x/xf86-video-voodoo-1.2.0-i486-1.tgz
  • xap/audacious-1.5.0-i486-1.tgz
  • xap/audacious-plugins-1.5.0-i486-1.tgz
    xap/gkrellm-2.3.1-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against gnutls-2.2.2.
    xap/pidgin-2.4.0-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against gnutls-2.2.2.
  • xap/xfce-4.4.2-i486-3.tgz
  • xap/xpdf-3.02pl2-i486-3.tgz
    Thanks to Selkfoster for the .desktop file and for pointing out the icon.
    extra/grub/grub-0.97-i486-5.tgz: Recompiled without the inode patch since
    e2fsprogs-1.40.8 broke the GRUB we patched to work with e2fsprogs-1.40.6.
    extra/linux-2.6.24.3-nosmp-sdk/: Updated SMP to no-SMP kernel source patch.
  • extra/parted/parted-1.8.8-i486-1.tgz
    extra/slackpkg/slackpkg-2.70.1-noarch-1.tgz:
    Upgraded to slackpkg-2.70.1-noarch-1. Thanks to Piter Punk.
    isolinux/initrd.img: Offer ntfs-3g read-write mounts for NTFS partitions.
    Upgraded to parted-1.8.8. Upgraded to e2fsprogs-1.40.8.
    kernels/hugesmp.s/*: Recompiled with CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN.
    kernels/huge.s/*: Recompiled with CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN.
    kernels/speakup.s/*: Recompiled with CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN.
    Updated to latest Speakup GIT pull.
    usb-and-pxe-installers/: Offer ntfs-3g read-write mounts for NTFS partitions.
    Upgraded to parted-1.8.8. Upgraded to e2fsprogs-1.40.8.
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  • Last modified: 13 months ago
  • by Giuseppe Di Terlizzi