HI all!

Working on the liveCDs last week seemed to be quite less problematic than usual.
I'm happy to annouce a full rewrite of the mkstage script (called mkstage2). It is much more reliable and much less complicated, I've also splitted the source files to little separate scripts which work on much lesser data.

As some of you may have noticed, liveCDs have been uploaded yesterday. Now, lets get to the stages: since there's automatic rebuild available, it makes no sense releasing the stages along with the liveCDs. Stages are rebuilt every month and can be found in the FTP stages directory. As of now, a full rebuild is in progress, so to have fresh stages. Once the new ones will be ready, the older ones (stored with the installCDs) will be deleted, since they only take up space.

As anticipated in the official thread, acx and acx-firmware support has been dropped due to the lack of updated releases. For the very same reason, madwifi-ng is still left out.

The feature bumps in this release include:

• GCC 4.4.1
• Glibc 2.10.1
• linux-headers-2.6.30-r1
• 2.6.31 kernel + reiser4

Cheers,
Fabio Scaccabarozzi

Hi all!

First of all sorry for the long absence, it's been a very busy month.
Anyway, I've got a bunch of news:

• Worked on automatic stage rebuilding, all should work as expected. You will find the stages in experimental FTP directory (now building new stages for i686, later for amd64). Please note that those releases include GCC 4.4.x (currently 4.4.1) without graphite deps (that's because I can't tune USE flags during stage1/2/3). They will be built every three weeks and the process gets niced to avoid server slowdowns. You can find the script I'm using in the mkstage FTP directory.
• General server updates and review
• Created barnyard2 ebuild, available in the main overlay and also submitted to bugzilla
• Migrated a number of outdated ebuilds to the outdated overlay
• Updated some ebuild descriptions

Now, lets come to the CDs: I know kernel 2.6.30 has been released and has also seen 3 minor revisions, but I'm waiting for GCC 4.4.x to become at least unstable (drop the hardmask). There are a good number of packages that exhibit problems with GCC 4.4.x, as you can see from the GCC 4.4 porting bug. A lot of those bugs have been addressed, but still a few need to be fixed before it can be marked unstable. I hope that for the end of September it will be possible to drop the hardmask, so to be able to release a new version. Meanwhile, you can stick onto the auto-stages and old CDs (that don't lack any vital functionality regarding 2.6.29->2.6.30 bump).

Cheers,
Fabio Scaccabarozzi

Hi, all!

I'm happy to announce the revision bump of the April release.

I've been following a request from kernelOfTruth and Jupiter1TX to have the USB and HID modules builtin, so to have USB keyboards properly working (genkernel bug?) and that has been done (thanks goes out to kernelOfTruth and Jupiter1TX for the testing the betas). You can read about this on the Official thread @Gentoo Forums.
Another important thing, which may pass unobserved, is the update to TrueCrypt 6.2a. Thanks to the the trustees council on May 17th, the ebuild has been unmasked and upgraded, and then included in the release :-)

One thing's still to fix. Please pay attention when downloading by accessing FTP directly: though the suffix is "-r1" the CDs are named as usual, and the stages are the pure exact copy from the 20090407 one. I'm working on automatic stage rebuild for both archs, that should (hopefully) completely obsolete the need to release the CDs along with the stages. I was thinking of a three-week based rotation. I've written the script but I've got some little issues with the grsec patch blocking access to the temporary directories and the automatic e-mailing. Will notify soon =)

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Neo2