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

[Florian Hubold]

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 ...

*facepalm*