XBPS week news: 11/05/2010 - 17/05/2010

This week there have been a lot of changes both in packages and xbps-src and its helpers.

Package upgrades:

• vim: updated to 239 patch level, added icons and .desktop file for gvim.
• initramfs-tools: merged in 0.94.4 from Debian, now hibernation works properly.
• xbps-casper: merged in 1.236 from Ubuntu, fixed some errors detecting filesystems.
• kernel: updated to 2.6.34.
• udev: updated to 154.
• xbps-mklive: updated to 0.3.3, multiple improvements.
• lame: updated to 3.98.4.
• mercurial: updated to 1.5.3.
• ntfs-3g: updated to 2010.3.6.
• pixman: updated to 0.18.2.
• lcms: updated to 1.19. 2.0 is ABI incompatible, it will have to wait.
• transmission: updated to 1.93.
• git: updated to 1.7.1.
• curl: updated to 7.20.1.
• qemu: updated to 0.12.4.
• xorg-server: updated to 1.8.1.
• upower: updated to 0.9.3.
• syslinux: updated to 3.86.
• gettext: updated to 0.18.
• libffi: updated to 3.0.9.
• gawk: updated to 3.1.8.
• gcc-multilib: updated to 4.5.0.
• glibc32: updated to 2.11.1.
  

A major overhaul of the gcc-multilib packages for x86_64 has been done, and now building with -m32 is fully supported; of course if you don't have the 32bit libraries to link against it won't work.

xbps-src now also checks for required utilities in the host system before doing
any operation. That simply has been added to avoid errors from new or existing users while building the bootstrap with 'xbps-src bootstrap'.