From 0a576d92c6249820cb7ebf5038888c502656e24e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:06:44 +0100 Subject: news/2010-10: New. --- contributing/web_pages/news/skeleton.mdwn | 2 + news/2010-10.mdwn | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 67 insertions(+) create mode 100644 news/2010-10.mdwn diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/skeleton.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/skeleton.mdwn index 8f08fba2..c0b4647b 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/skeleton.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/skeleton.mdwn @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ Watch these places for news: Better use the Git log. + * + * Debian * diff --git a/news/2010-10.mdwn b/news/2010-10.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6f909005 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2010-10.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta date="2010-12-20 11:10 UTC"]] + +A month of the Hurd: *bug fixing* / *flubber re-installation*. +[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news +text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" +else=" +[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] + +[[!cut id="full_news" text=""" + +A bit of bug fixing has bee going on: + +Samuel Thibault taught [[GNU Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] that Intel Pentium +4 and Opteron-class CPUs [are not just +i386](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-10/msg00021.html), but +in fact a bit more advanced. Not only does this help GNU Mach to select +optimized code paths, but this information is also propagated to the user +space, and used for the `uname` command, for example. + +Pino Toscano continued [fixing bugs in the socket-related glibc code and Hurd's +pfinet](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-10/msg00017.html). + +After finding out that our `pread` implementation does not conform to the POSIX +standard in one aspect, Manuel Menal analyzed this, and [posted a +patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-10/msg00056.html). + +Alexey Kuznetsov [privided IPv6 raw socket +fixes](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-10/msg00028.html) for +[[hurd/translator/pfinet]]. + +Michael Banck [uploaded a new version of +crosshurd](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-10/msg00006.html) +to keep up with recent packaging and dependency changes. + +Samuel Thibault uploaded [[hurd/translator/gopherfs]] packages [to the Debian +repository](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/10/msg00018.html). He +also [enabled IPv6 support for Debian Installer +installations](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-10/msg00034.html). + +Thomas Schwinge: + +> It's been a really long-long time (hooray!), but now +> [[flubber|public_hurd_boxen]]'s root file system is totally hosed, and thus +> needs to be +> [re-installed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-10/msg00003.html). +> (I've been running `apt-get dist-upgrade` when the box apparently crashed.) +> Running `e2fsck` on it spew out over 50.000 lines of illegal and +> multiply-claimed block lists, before I terminated it, so no chance. I'll do +> this over the weekend. `/home/` etc. are not affected, thanks to being on a +> separate partition. + +As of two days later, the machine was +[re-installed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-10/msg00011.html). + +"""]] -- cgit v1.2.3