Hi,
As you have probably noticed, my involvement in DevOps tasks has dwindled
in recent months. I have given away a few tasks to others already, but
since I hardly use my root access any more, I think it is finally time
to officially open up the spot and let someone else take over.
Back when we
Not sure why this wasn't signed, but this mail should be.
On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 11:10:59AM +0200, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I no longer have the time necessary to properly handle actual TU duties
> so I am retiring my TU hat. I will still continue main
Hi,
I no longer have the time necessary to properly handle actual TU duties
so I am retiring my TU hat. I will still continue maintaining some
packages I have in [community] via my developer hat.
That said, I'd like to orphan some of them too. If anyone is interested
in taking over one of these
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 05:25:07PM +0200, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public
wrote:
> On 13.05.2018 22:47, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote:
> > We could just generate an automated cloud image signing key (only for
> > this purpose) of course and automatically
On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 07:04:56AM -1000, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
wrote:
> I don't believe many people sign off on packages not headed to [core].
> Definitely feel free to move scribus to [community].
So far I've told our tester that they don't have to because we don't
really look at
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 06:20:36PM +0200, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'll turn off dragon.archlinux.org in 2 weeks unless someone objects. It
> used to host our backups, but these have since moved to
> vostok.archlinux.org.
>
> Evangelos and me che
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:23:07PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa
wrote:
> To resolve this issue we could simply remove the propset id's, since for
> me, although not sure about others they don't seem particulary useful.
+1 for getting rid of them.
Florian
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 07:15:31PM +0200, Antonio Rojas via arch-dev-public
wrote:
> I'm not very fond of adding todo lists for things that are not
> completely under devs/TU's control (some packages have not been ported
> upstream yet). It will just sit there unfinished for months and we
> will
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Antonio Rojas via arch-dev-public
wrote:
> And gone. After the KDE4 and PyQt4 removal, 'pactree -sru qt4 | wc -l' went
> down from 78 to 44. The full list is below: if any of your packages is in
> there, please check whether it can be dropped, ported
Hi,
I'll turn off dragon.archlinux.org in 2 weeks unless someone objects. It
used to host our backups, but these have since moved to
vostok.archlinux.org.
Evangelos and me checked if there are any important files left on there,
but we couldn't find any. If someone else wants to check, you'll
- Bluewind
- Developer, DevOps
- any monday should be fine
Can't promise how much I'll answer, but I'll try.
Florian
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On Wed 18.07.18 - 15:28, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote:
> I would like to add this to [community], but I'm unsure what people
> think about this; specifically, whether this might come too close to
> "supporting the AUR via [community] packages". Note that this is *not*
> an AUR helper and
On 10.06.2018 01:35, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> Archival of all packages between September 2013 and December 2016 is finished:
>
> https://archive.org/details/archlinuxarchive
>
> Here is some documentation on this "Historical Archive" hosted on archive.org:
>
>
On 01.06.2018 19:24, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> - does the devops team have a place to store passwords? I would like to
> create an "Arch Linux" account, so that I'm not the only one to have
> access.
You can send me the password and I'll put it in our ansible repo in the
vault.
> I also
On 30.05.2018 20:20, Lukas Fleischer via arch-dev-public wrote:
> Do you plan on keeping packages if they are the ones currently in the
> repos?
AFAIK they are saved in such a way that for each day there is a
directory that contains all the packages. If a package exists in
multiple directories it
On 30.05.2018 18:25, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> Their software [1] is written in python, so can you please install these
> packages:
>
> python-pip python-args python-clint python-docopt python-jsonpointer
> python-jsonpatch python-yaml
Done. Please tell me once it's done so I can remove them
On 30.05.2018 17:49, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> What about sending previous years to the Internet Archive before deleting
> them locally?
I myself am not interested enough in keeping the old packages to figure
out what rules the Internet Archive has and how I could upload all this
data to them. If
Hi,
So far we haven't ever cleaned up the archive
(https://archive.archlinux.org/), but it's getting too big and I don't
think we have any use for packages from years ago.
Next week I will remove the years 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Florian
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On 13.05.2018 22:47, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote:
> We could just generate an automated cloud image signing key (only for
> this purpose) of course and automatically sign the images with that key.
> Problem with this is: If our build server ever get pwned the person will
> have
On 18.04.2018 13:27, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> OSUOSL [1] in the US has several "new" refurb servers with dual Xeon E5-2660.
> Each machine has a total of 16 cores / 32 threads and 140 GB RAM, so that
> would make nice build machines.
>
> Would this be useful to the dev community? Soyuz is a bit
On 15.03.2018 11:24, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote:
> Since I no longer use freecad myself I am not very interested in
> continuing to maintain it. If nobody steps up, I will move it to AUR in
> about a week.
Moved freecad, opencascade, python2-pivy, python-pyside-tools, s
Hi,
Since I no longer use freecad myself I am not very interested in
continuing to maintain it. If nobody steps up, I will move it to AUR in
about a week.
Some notes:
- The current release is over a year old, a new one should come
soonish.
- There is an open bug[1] that leads me to believe
On 14.02.2018 12:55, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote:
> Funny thing... people using yaourt probably removed this package as I
> believe it highlights dependencies that are no longer needed after an
> upgrade!
How about having this feature in pacman, maybe with an indicator if the
package
Hi,
We have a new member joining the sysadmin/devops team by recommendation
of Allan. I've already rolled out root and git access.
Welcome Phillip, let's break stuff! (slightly) ;)
Florian
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Hi,
Once again, debug repos came up in IRC. AFAIK progress on this is
blocked by Pierre not responding/merging patches. gbs has implemented
quite a lot in dbscripts itself, but we still need someone to come up
with a migration plan, testing and deploying the whole thing.
Eli offered to take the
On 25.01.2018 02:02, Christian Rebischke wrote:
> Isn't this more like a workaround?
> I would really appreciate automated ISO image builds or at least the
> option that more than one person is able to generate these images.
Reducing the bus factor should really be a goal for us, so yes, it's a
On 21.01.2018 20:50, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote:
> I would definitly
> prefer to have the vagrant boxes around the same date as we release our
> ISO images.
How about letting it run every day and adding a quick check to the
script that only starts the build when the iso is
On 03.01.2018 16:05, Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public wrote:
> - perl-crypt-ssleay:
> bluewind: spamassassin
> spupykin: perl-finance-quote
taken
> - perl-fcgi:
> bluewind: perl-cgi-fast, smokeping
> bpiotrowski: nginx
> seblu: nginx
> dan: munin-node, munin
On 15.11.2017 09:07, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> Generally speaking, I am in favor of setting up a fresh Bugzilla
> instance and not doing any sort of migration. The idea of switching to a
> new bug tracker came up at least four years ago and my feeling is that
> all this migration work is what was
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for all the work you put into the distro and I wish you all the
best for your future.
Florian
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On 13.09.2017 11:07, Jiachen Yang via arch-dev-public wrote:
> Please reset my password as well.
> Login name: farseerfc
Done
Florian
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On 02.09.2017 20:33, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote:
> I will migrate our mail server from nymeria to orion on Sunday
> (tomorrow, September 3rd) starting around 12:00 UTC. The domains will
> stay the same
Just for the record, the correct settings to receive/send mails are a
On 02.09.2017 21:36, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
>> Can you please do that for my account: username==bisson.
>>
> Could you please reset mine as well? Thanks in advance.
Both reset. If anyone else wants a reset, please send a private mail or
use IRC. No need to spam this list.
Florian
Hi,
I will migrate our mail server from nymeria to orion on Sunday
(tomorrow, September 3rd) starting around 12:00 UTC. The domains will
stay the same, user names will stay the same expect for one user. The
server may be unavailable for some time during the migration.
User passwords are not
Hi,
Eli Schwartz has just joined Doug as a bug wrangler and will help us
deal with bugs even better.
Welcome Eli!
Florian
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Hi,
Due to a bad disk orion is currently offline as the RAID is rebuilding.
This will take several more hours to complete.
Services affected by this include:
- rsync.archlinux.org
- sources.archlinux.org
- svn
- dbscripts
Florian
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On 11.06.2017 01:39, Allan McRae wrote:
> I am very against this part (hook is completely fine). Having the perl
> executable be something other than upstream (and every other distro)
> provides, is not what Arch is about.
Noted
> I'm assuming the new location would be transparent to packagers
Hi,
Perl 5.26, as any other new perl version, requires all modules that are
not purely perl code to be rebuilt. We did that for all packages in our
repos.
For a list of upstream changes please refer to `man perldelta`[1].
[1]
On 09.05.2017 11:08, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> There we go. Far from perfect, happy to hear suggestions from spirits of
> poetry.
>
> ---
>
I'm not a poet, but let's try.
Also I'm not entirely sure if there is only one rsync endpoint. When
running `rsync rsync://rsync.archlinux.org` I see
On 19.04.2017 21:50, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> I just wanted to clear this up with the other TUs: Is it ok for [community]
> packages to have optional deps on AUR packages or not?
We generally tell people that we do not support AUR packages and because
of this there are no AUR
I've adopted transmission
Florian
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Hi,
Our web server (apollo.archlinux.org) appears to experience some
hardware issues and will be checked by the ISP shortly. Please expect a
downtime of up to 14 hours.
The following services will be affected: bugs, planet, security, www
(main website)
Other services (wiki, bbs, mailinglists)
On 29.03.2017 15:54, Nicola Squartini via arch-dev-public wrote:
> ==> ERROR You don't have permission to move packages from testing-
> x86_64 to community-testing-x86_64
>
> Can anybody help me with this? Thanks
Since you don't have permissions to push packages to testing, db-update
didn't add
On 25.03.2017 22:19, Allan McRae wrote:
> I have been working on and off to include source packages into a pacman
> database to allow pacman to directly replace these.
Having this in pacman would be the best solution IMHO, but I think we
should be fine with svn/git right now. We have a lot more
On 25.03.2017 12:24, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> This brings the question, what is the point of keeping it running?
Getting rid of ABS also removes one of the things that need to be
adapted when we switch our repos to git or even just the new dbscripts.
+1 from my side.
Florian
Hi,
I've set up kanboard[1] for us[2]. Currently there is only one board for
the infrastructure and it has public viewing enabled[3]. Anyone with an
account is can create their own personal boards and I can create group
boards as well.
If you (dev/TU/support staff) want an account, please send
Hi,
We are in the process of migrating patchwork to a new server. Since it
is not heavily used (I think Allan is the only active user) and it's the
last blocker on gudrun, we decided to take it offline for now.
All mails are stored and will be added once the migration is complete.
It's just the
On 01.02.2017 20:08, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> No hard feelings from this side of the room. Have we ever considered
> using software like mirrorbrain so users could just hit
> ${country_code}.mirrors.archlinux.org to get the packages?
I don't feel like adding a single point of failure is a
On 30.01.2017 21:57, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
> Idea sounds good to me, don't forget that you can also 'generate a
> mirrorlist' here, so you might want to remove the 'use mirror status'
> option there too. (or was that not part of the plan?) [1]
>
> [1] https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/
My
Hi,
I've just received a report from a mirror admin about some very heavy
traffic. After some investigation it appears that the traffic towards
his mirror started to rise around the beginning of the new year when we
disabled the mirror checker on gerolde. Since we now only have a mirror
checker
On 23.01.2017 22:09, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> If Florian has no issues with it, I'm completely fine with creating a
> list and channel beforehand.
I don't mind creating those, but we already have an arch-ports list[1].
Maybe it's a good idea to revive that?
[1]
I still have two media players that run i686, but I can switch those to
a different distro if necessary although I'd obviously prefer not having
to do that. Count that as a -0.25.
If we drop it, I'd just like to keep the possibility of us supporting
different architectures. I believe there was
On 26.11.2016 13:38, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Any opinion about this change? Who can post news about this on the website?
You should be able to add news here[1] at the top right. I don't use
openvpn so I don't care about this, but converging towards what upstream
does is generally a good idea.
On 20.10.2016 17:31, Levente Polyak wrote:
> On 10/20/2016 02:25 PM, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote:
>> I'll start slowly dropping packages to AUR in a few weeks.
>
> Well I'm not 100% sure but do you mean the already orphan packages or
> all not required package
On 28.09.2016 15:37, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote:
> I will look through the list in 2 weeks and start orphaning packages
> that do not have a reason for the holdup in the out of date message.
So it turns out archweb doesn't allow me to easily orphan packages the
way the AUR d
On 06.08.2016 10:18, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote:
> [1] https://www.archlinux.org/devel/reports/long-out-of-date/
We still have tons of packages on that list. Please check if the list
includes any of your packages and either update or orphan them. You can
also check the out of d
On 26.09.2016 11:18, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Some of us had zsh set to be the default shell. Can we have that back?
You should be able to set a password with passwd and run chsh to change
the shell.
Florian
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Hi,
According to Jan, everything has been transferred to the new server
(soyuz). I'll be shutting down celestia next weekend.
I see some of you have connected to celestia in the last few days. I
believe Jan only synced once on Friday so any changes you made since
have probably not been migrated
On 22.09.2016 23:37, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> I've no opinion on the choice of this new server, my question is more
> about the process. Why this discussion have not been done on the
> devops mailing list?
As far as I know, only Jan really maintains the build server and I
didn't feel like
Hi,
Just to let you know, I've just ordered a new build server.
After discussion with Jan, we went with a PX61 with HDDs instead of SSDs
since disk space is always an issue on the old one.
Florian
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On Monday, September 19, 2016 7:34:23 PM CEST Allan McRae wrote:
> If we adopt SSE2 in any form, you will need to rebuild your entire
> system to use it. It will be used in optimizations everywhere.
Just for the record: I also run 2 geode boxes as media players and I'd like to
keep them running
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 6:01:22 PM CEST Nicola Squartini via arch-
general wrote:
> Trying to release electron-1.3.4-1, I issued /community/db-update
> on repos.archlinux.org but I get:
>
> ==> WARNING: Repo [community] (i686) is already locked by sourceballs.
> -> Retrying in 10
On 17.08.2016 23:30, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
>> Is that really not enough?
> Enough for what? If you really wanna help me, you just talk to me and offer
> your help, but you don't send a rocket on the public list.
I'm not sure why you bring this up again here since I was under the
impression
On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 9:52:40 PM CEST you wrote:
> > Since I'm running into this with opencascade myself: Where would that be?
> > Should it be posted to this list?
>
> Unflag the package, then flag it yourself with a comment of the details. At
> least devs can find the information there.
On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 9:35:02 PM CEST Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> If there is a good
> reason not to upgrade a package, put that information somewhere, instead
> of letting it decay.
Since I'm running into this with opencascade myself: Where would that be?
Should it be posted to this
On Monday, July 25, 2016 2:32:29 PM CEST Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public
wrote:
> I've already received 4 responses to my initial mail about this so I'll
> start by creating accounts for those first and see if everything works
> as expected.
Just a quick update:
I haven't rec
Hi,
We have quite a few packages that are marked out of date for more than a
month[1]. Some of them even for a year or two. You can also view a list
of your own packages via the link on the developer dashboard under the
heading "Developer Reports".
Can everyone please either update their
Hi,
Since there was only positive feedback to the idea of giving some users
signoff permissions I went ahead and created the necessary group in
archweb. I've created a test user and clicked around a bit and it looks
like it works as expected so I'll now start creating accounts for testers.
I've
Hi,
Just a quick note: Orion (repos.archlinux.org) has a defective hard disk
that will be replaced soonish. Expect some (hopefully short) downtime.
Florian
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On 04.07.2016 06:37, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> I don't see how it makes signoffs useless. Instead of "works for me", I
> got "something is broken" message either via bug tracker or IRC/e-mail.
> The result is the same – the package is fixed or pulled out from testing.
Sure, we don't need
Am 2016-06-30 09:41, schrieb Johannes Löthberg via arch-dev-public:
That has actually come up on IRC a lot of times over the last couple
years, users asking how to sign-off packages / if they can help
signing-off.
I've already got 4 people willing to help, but nobody here voiced an
opinion on
Am 2016-06-29 20:49, schrieb Bartłomiej Piotrowski:
I guess we can just
move to lazy consensus mode and assume if nobody complains, the package
is fine and move it after 48-76 hours.
As pointed out on arch-general (not by me) this makes the whole signoff
process useless. Maybe we should look
On 01.06.2016 09:51, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> Signing my message. Also, of course the topic is wrong. We're moving
> FROM nymeria TO orion.
Just a quick update: Given gudrun crashed the other day we have put this
move on hold and are now working on clearing out gudrun first.
We'll send
On 01.06.2016 11:36, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote:
> We are currently experiencing some technical problems with the webserver
> for archlinux.org, bugs.archlinux.org, patchwork.archlinux.org. We are
> working on it, but resolving this problem could take a while.
The machin
Hi,
We are currently experiencing some technical problems with the webserver
for archlinux.org, bugs.archlinux.org, patchwork.archlinux.org. We are
working on it, but resolving this problem could take a while.
The mailinglists, AUR, wiki and forums are hosted on a different machine
and are still
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