From the monthly archives: December 2006

C++ support added to distcc and ccache

By On December 18, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Modules

Dear Lunar users,

I'm glad to announce that C++ support has been added to distcc and ccache. This means that you can now benefit from C++ compile results being cached as well as C++ builds being distributed among your machines.

These features can be enabled by running lunar optimize and switching on distcc, ccache [...]

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Update to coreutils

By On December 17, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Modules

Hello community,

to let you know: For the recent updates to ‘coreutils’ you HAVE TO update your coretools (lunar/theedge) first in order for the update not fail because of chmod and chown being lost in the process.

chown and chmod have recently been added to the so called ‘protected’ list thus they are now preserved [...]

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New Madwifi-svn module / CVS module to be phased out

By On December 14, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Modules

Hey everybody,

I added a madwifi-svn module to the moonbase. It is going to replace the madwifi-cvs module in a week (means the cvs modules is going to disappear and there’s only going to be the svn module). Also, the stable version of the madwifi wireless driver has been added as well named madwifi. It [...]

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New DRM module for XOrg 7.x

By On December 1, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Modules

Hello community,

I just added a new module to the moonbase called ‘drm-git’. It replaces the obsolete ‘libdrm-cvs’. Both modules have the sole purpose of providing the kernel interface modules for the direct rendering manager X uses to enable your video card’s 3D acceleration. So if you happen to have libdrm-cvs installed its going to [...]

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