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Redmine Packages - Housekeeping #3574 (open): [uboot-mx6_cubox-i] Updated versionhttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/35742024-02-10T12:47:44Zryry
<p>Is it possible for parabola to provide a newer version of u-boot for mx6_cubox-i variants. With not being able to boot any other kernel with the current u-boot version which is quite old, there is no way to boot systems in parabola with any other kernel other than linux-libre and with the issues which are seemingly rectified by, but not pushed to the linux-libre kernel and others (only into the vanilla kernel) regarding some of the issues that it is having at the moment, but which appear fixed by bill-augers install hook, it would be useful to be able to boot other kernels and thus bootable systems again on this device.</p>
<p>I have tried this using the fairly recent u-boot version in trisquels packages, creating and changing the extlinux.conf file to match the correct folders and boot images in parabola and it works pretty much ok, booting vanilla linux-libre.</p>
<p>If not is there a way for me to build them for myself or can I even just use the trisquel one I have flashed to test?</p>
<p>Thanks<br />Ry</p> Installation Media - Housekeeping #3573 (in progress): drop parabolaiso and replace with archisohttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/35732024-02-06T14:07:52ZMegver83megver83@parabola.nu
<p>parabolaiso, our downstream fork of archiso, is no longer needed. In the past, archiso used to have a build.sh script to build each ISO edition. This was a mess and its devs replaced this method with profiledef.sh, which contains the ISO metadata and centralized the building process in mkarchiso.</p>
<p>In the actual state of archiso, we could directly use it with our custom ISO profile definitions to install our packages and our branding. Plus, there are no freedom nor technical issues AFAIK, like before, were the build.sh script downloaded pre-built binaries of EFI Shell, for example; or support for OpenRC had to added to mkparabolaiso. Nowadays parabolaiso is basically the same as archiso, but with our custom profiles, dual ISO support, removed support for the (optional) proprietary microcode images (from the blacklisted *-ucode packages, so not a big deal, just like with <a href="https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/3562" class="external">mkinitcpio</a>, in Parabola they would never be installed) and armv7 cross-build support.</p>
<p>I just tested a build of Parabola baseline ISO with archiso and went flawlessly. However, if we do drop parabolaiso in favor of archiso, we should update the grub package to include sbat.csv and the en@quot locale, which are the only problems I've found so far when building an ISO with grub bootloader (see the <a href="https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso/-/blob/5aac945f76d2bf8bb92ba16c9c1c08fc5cae5ab2/archiso/mkarchiso#L692" class="external">source</a>).</p>
<p>One "disadvantage" I see in this would be the loss of the ability to directly build armv7h rootfs from x86, since parabolaiso uses qemu-arm-static for this, like libretools. However, we could workaround this by building from an armv7h chroot. I'm sure a script can be written for this, if there isn't already one.</p> Packages - Housekeeping #3501 (on-hold): Drop [community{,-staging,-testing}], [staging], [testin...https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/35012023-06-23T03:52:28ZMegver83megver83@parabola.nu
<p>Some time ago, <a href="https://archlinux.org/news/git-migration-announcement/" class="external">Arch announced their git migration</a> which meant they merged [community] into [extra] and split [testing] into [extra-testing] and [core-testing] (same with -staging repos). We must sync these new repos, drop the old ones and reflect these changes in pacman.</p> Packages - Housekeeping #3487 (in progress): [STICKY][python]: and friends (x86_64)https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/34872023-05-22T19:36:12Zbill-auger
<p>this is the current list of strongly-coupled (pinned) 'python' dependents for x86_64 systems - each time 'python' is <br />upgraded in arch, each of these packages should be rebuilt against the upgraded 'python', pinned to 'python=N.N.N'</p> Packages - Housekeeping #3421 (open): [STICKY][qt5-base]: and friends (x86_64)https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/34212023-01-09T03:16:30Zbill-auger
<p>this is the current list of 'qt5-base' dependents for x86_64 systems - each time 'qt5-base' is upgraded in arch, each of these packages should be rebuilt against the upgraded 'qt5-base', pinned to 'qt5-base=N.N.N'</p>
<pre>
# build order: (qt5-base) <- qt5-styleplugins
# (qt5-base) <- qt5-webkit <- python-pyqt5 <- qutebrowser
</pre> Servers - Housekeeping #3411 (open): [redmine]: librejs compatibilityhttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/34112022-12-25T00:39:29Zdirenis
<p>Using librejs, i seen absolutely no javascript with a license on this website. It blocked various scripts for not having a license or being nontrivial, and it allowed some for these reasons: "Script appears to be trivial but defines functions." "Script appears to be trivial". Please put free javascript to a free distrobution's website.</p> Packages - Housekeeping #3385 (in progress): [qt5-webkit]: dropped from arch - many dependentshttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/33852022-12-06T02:10:57Zbill-auger
<p>we should decide to keep or drop these as a set - some are relatively popular (calibre, freecad, marble, quassel, qutebrowser) - calibre and qutebrowser are already frozen versions, due to support for webkit being dropped upstream</p>
<p>IIRC, signon-ui is integral to a complete KDE/plasma DE - it may be the only relatively essential webkit dependent; but we will need to investigate whether/how signon-ui could be made to function with neither webengine nor webkit present</p>
<pre>
$ sudo parabola-dependents -v qt5-webkit
updating database ....
package: 'qt5-webkit' not found - creating dummy package
dummy package 'qt5-webkit' created
querying database ....
compiling results for (103) dependents ....
searching abslibre ....
direct and transitive parabola dependents:
[qt5-webkit] <- pcr-testing/anki-ccbc
[qt5-webkit] <- libre/bibletime
[qt5-webkit] <- libre/calibre3
[qt5-webkit] <- libre/freecad
[qt5-webkit] <- libre/marble-common
[qt5-webkit] <- nonprism/openshot
[qt5-webkit] <- libre/parley
[qt5-webkit] <- pcr/pythonqt
[qt5-webkit] <- pcr/qt5-quick1
[qt5-webkit] <- qt5-quick1 <- maliit-framework <- pcr/maliit-plugins
[qt5-webkit] <- libre/quassel-client
[qt5-webkit] <- libre/quassel-monolithic
[qt5-webkit] <- libre/qutebrowser
[qt5-webkit] <- pcr/rstudio-desktop
[qt5-webkit] <- libre/sigil
[qt5-webkit] <- libre/signon-ui
[qt5-webkit] <- signon-ui <- kaccounts-integration <- libakonadi <- akonadi <- libre/kde-development-environment-meta
[qt5-webkit] <- signon-ui <- kaccounts-integration <- purpose <- nonprism/choqok
[qt5-webkit] <- signon-ui <- kaccounts-integration <- purpose <- libre/okular
[qt5-webkit] <- signon-ui <- kaccounts-integration <- purpose <- okular <- libre/kile
[qt5-webkit] <- signon-ui <- kaccounts-integration <- purpose <- plasma-browser-integration <- libre/plasma-meta
[qt5-webkit] <- libre/supercollider
</pre> armv7h - Hardware Support #2978 (open): linux-libre-chromebook C201 support statushttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/29782021-02-09T15:07:14Zbill-auger
<p>re: forum thread <a class="external" href="https://labs.parabola.nu/boards/17/topics/330">https://labs.parabola.nu/boards/17/topics/330</a> - this is to be a proper tracking ticket for on-going work toward stabilizing support for the chromebook C201</p>
<p>we would like to support the C201, but currently none of the parabola devs own one; so we need people to volunteer to use it regularly, and report any problems - a few have volunteered already - i have subscribed them to this ticket</p>
<ul>
<li>mai</li>
<li>Time4Tea</li>
<li>BlockHtK</li>
<li>CBotulinum</li>
<li>nuclearkev (#dragora IRC - not registered on redmine)</li>
<li>danielp3344</li>
</ul>
<p>it currently has its own wiki article<br /><a class="external" href="https://wiki.parabola.nu/Computers/Asus_Chromebook_C201">https://wiki.parabola.nu/Computers/Asus_Chromebook_C201</a></p>
<p>because this computer is capable of booting parabola with libreboot, it is deemed to be highly desirable from a software/hardware freedom perspective, and should be designated with high-priority support status - the eventual goal is to add it to the short list of well-supported "Recommended ARM Computers"; but it is not clear at this time, if it it still working<br /><a class="external" href="https://wiki.parabola.nu/Computers/Recommended_ARM_Computers">https://wiki.parabola.nu/Computers/Recommended_ARM_Computers</a></p>
<p>that list is related to ticket <a class="issue tracker-9 status-1 priority-6 priority-high2" title="Housekeeping: Parabola Recommended Computers - Get various libre-friendly computers into hackers hands - docume... (open)" href="https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/2866">#2866</a></p> Upstreaming Patches - Upstreaming #2809 (open): Upstream pcr/searx changeshttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/28092020-06-15T13:49:01ZGNUtooGNUtoo@cyberdimension.orgUpstreaming Patches - Upstreaming #2807 (open): Upstream prboom-plus --disable-cpu-opthttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/28072020-06-14T19:42:37ZGNUtooGNUtoo@cyberdimension.orgUpstreaming Patches - Upstreaming #2802 (open): Add Parabola pacstrap support in Hyperbolahttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/28022020-06-12T21:47:59ZGNUtooGNUtoo@cyberdimension.orgUpstreaming Patches - Upstreaming #2801 (open): Look if we still need to upstream our debootstrap...https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/28012020-06-12T21:47:43ZGNUtooGNUtoo@cyberdimension.orgUpstreaming Patches - Upstreaming #2800 (open): Finishes the conversion of pysim to python3 to pa...https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/28002020-06-12T21:47:22ZGNUtooGNUtoo@cyberdimension.orgUpstreaming Patches - Upstreaming #2799 (open): Upstream 0002-fix-Atmel-maXTouch-touchscreen-supp...https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/27992020-06-12T21:01:22ZGNUtooGNUtoo@cyberdimension.orgUpstreaming Patches - Upstreaming #2797 (open): Find a way to upstream RAW boot support for OMAP ...https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/27972020-06-12T20:03:15ZGNUtooGNUtoo@cyberdimension.org