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

[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.