Some packages in need of an update

Some packages in need of an update

[Peter Müller]

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Hello Adolf,
hello * (to keep anybody else working on package updates in the loop),

for good measure, I just wanted to let you know that ...

(a) Michael is working on a glibc update, which includes binutils, so please do not
    worry about these, should they already have appeared on your radar.

(b) if you have time and capacity, curl, elfutils and udev are in need of an update.
    As for the latter, its source code can be retrieved from https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/releases/tag/v3.2.11,
    which is more straight-forward than extracting udev from systemd (which is a bit
    of a mess).

    None of these are pressing though, so there is no rush whatsoever. :-)

Thanks to a plethora of non-IPFire commitments I have in the following weeks, I won't
have time to work on package updates, and would rather focus on fixing some bugs that
have been assigned to me quite a while ago. Feel free to coordinate package updates
with the usual suspects (Matthias?), however.

As always, thanks for all the work, and have a nice rest of the weekend!

All the best,
Peter Müller

P.S.: The only exception to my promise above is probably linux-firmware, but I am not
sure if it will fit into Core Update 171, given that this update comes with a new
toolchain and something larger such as Perl, so there probably won't be sufficient space
left.

Re: Some packages in need of an update

[Adolf Belka]

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Hi Peter,

On 10/08/2022 22:27, Peter Müller wrote:
> Hello Adolf,
> hello * (to keep anybody else working on package updates in the loop),
> 
> for good measure, I just wanted to let you know that ...
> 
> (a) Michael is working on a glibc update, which includes binutils, so please do not
>      worry about these, should they already have appeared on your radar.
> 
> (b) if you have time and capacity, curl, elfutils and udev are in need of an update.
>      As for the latter, its source code can be retrieved from https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/releases/tag/v3.2.11,
>      which is more straight-forward than extracting udev from systemd (which is a bit
>      of a mess).
I will put them on my list.
> 
>      None of these are pressing though, so there is no rush whatsoever. :-)
I have been working on my file/mail/backup server machine because the old pata disk drive started to have some sector failures. So I have been transferring everything over to a raid based sata setup on the same machine but with a change of OS from Ubuntu to Arch Linux so I have been having a challenging time trying to work on the upgrade/transfer while at the same time keeping everything going on a day to day basis.
I have just about finished that successfully now so I will be able to spend more time on the package updates again.

Regards,

Adolf.
> 
> Thanks to a plethora of non-IPFire commitments I have in the following weeks, I won't
> have time to work on package updates, and would rather focus on fixing some bugs that
> have been assigned to me quite a while ago. Feel free to coordinate package updates
> with the usual suspects (Matthias?), however.
> 
> As always, thanks for all the work, and have a nice rest of the weekend!
> 
> All the best,
> Peter Müller
> 
> P.S.: The only exception to my promise above is probably linux-firmware, but I am not
> sure if it will fit into Core Update 171, given that this update comes with a new
> toolchain and something larger such as Perl, so there probably won't be sufficient space
> left.