Updates — 2026-08-22
check_ssl_cert: 2.103.0 -> 2.103.1
Full update cycle run (update_cycle.sh + check_aur_feedback.sh +
local yay -Qu check). Only check_ssl_cert was flagged UPD by
check_for_updates_maintained.sh; check_aur_feedback.sh found no new
out-of-date flags or comments across the whole AUR-published tree.
Standard recipe per memory/check_ssl_cert.md: bumped pkgver, reset
pkgrel=1, updpkgsums, regenerated .SRCINFO. Built/signed/published
via repo_release.sh for x86_64/i686/pentium4 (armv6h/armv7h/aarch64
skipped, no local chroots for those, as usual).
New local-install rebuilds: simplescreenrecorder, odin-git
yay -Qu on the local machine flagged two plain AUR packages (not
tracked under arch/) with updates: simplescreenrecorder (0.4.4-4 ->
0.4.4.79.ge73e-4) and odin-git (r17186 -> r18920 by the time of the
fresh clone). Followed the standard local-install workflow: backed up
each /data/INSTALL/<pkg> to -old, fresh-cloned from AUR,
repo_release.sh’d, deleted -old after publish succeeded. Both were
first-time releases to archlinuxaba (x86_64 only). Added both to
arch/scripts/install_only_packages so generate_overview.sh tracks
them. See memory/simplescreenrecorder.md and memory/odin-git.md.
Overview + site regenerated and republished after this batch.
Updates — 2026-08-16
Infra: flat src/ mirror on the repo host for unreliable/proprietary sources
Added ${REPOSITORY_REMOTE_PATH}/src/ on euroweb.lan (flat, sibling
of os//archive/) plus arch/scripts/repo_src_upload.sh to upload
files into it (forces world-readable perms on upload — the first
upload came in as mode 600 from the local file and 403’d until fixed
manually). See memory/REPO_PUBLISH_DESIGN.md §1/§3 for the design.
Migrated private/makemkv as the first user: makemkv-bin-1.18.4.tar.gz
and makemkv-oss-1.18.4.tar.gz uploaded to src/, PKGBUILD source=
repointed at https://archlinux32.andreasbaumann.cc/archlinuxaba/src/...
(original makemkv.com URLs kept as a comment above source=),
.SRCINFO regenerated, sha256sums unchanged, re-fetch verified against
the mirrored copy. Fixes the intermittent Cloudflare-525 build failures
against makemkv.com noted 2026-08-14. Same mechanism is intended for
genuinely proprietary sources supplied out-of-band (e.g. jdk6-sun).
See memory/makemkv.md.
Rebuilt and republished afterward: repo_release.sh built x86_64
cleanly against the new src/ mirror (fetch+checksum passed), signed
and published makemkv + makemkv-debug 1.18.4-1.1 (old 1.18.4-1
archived). This was the same pending pkgrel bump from 2026-08-14’s
ffmpeg7.1 fix, never previously published, so no further pkgrel bump
was needed. i686 failed with target not found: ffmpeg7.1 as expected
(that package is x86_64-only, see memory/makemkv.md); aarch64
skipped as always. Overview/site regenerated after this publish.
Updates — 2026-08-15
Update cycle: 1 package flagged, 1 real update
Ran scripts/update_cycle.sh (cleanup + fetch/fast-forward + version
check + dependency check). Fetch/fast-forward and dependency check were
both clean (0 unresolved deps across 626 entries, no dirty/diverged
submodules). Version check flagged one package:
- hfsfuse 0.425 -> 0.435 (x86_64): the
UPD ... 0.425 1.18.4line in STATES.txt was misleading — this AUR git repo slot was reused from a different package (bindfs) back on 2026-07-31, and.nvchecker.tomlhad been left pointed at bindfs.org, so it was reporting bindfs’s version (1.18.4), not hfsfuse’s. Fixed nvchecker to check the real upstream (GitHub releases,0x09/hfsfuse), which surfaced the actual pending update, 0.425 -> 0.435. Built, tested, signed and published cleanly; no patches needed. Seememory/hfsfuse.md.
Also confirmed svgalib-git (asked about mid-session) is already tracked
at maintained/svgalib-git — it just doesn’t show up in STATES.txt
because check_for_updates_maintained.sh excludes all -git packages by
design (their versions are commit-based, not comparable via vercmp).
Updates — 2026-08-14
New “local-install” category: rebuilding plain AUR packages found via local yay -Qu
The local machine (which the cluster’s package set is meant to be a
superset of, installed from archlinuxaba) runs its own yay for AUR
packages unrelated to arch/. yay -Qu flagged 4 outdated: localsend,
x86_64-elf-gcc, dosbox-x, gameoftrees. None were tracked anywhere in
arch/. Built a workflow for these (documented in
memory/feedback_local_install_rebuilds.md in cross-session memory):
back up /data/INSTALL/<pkg> to -old, fresh git clone from AUR,
repo_release.sh, delete -old only once publish succeeds (kept as a
fallback if the build/source fetch fails). Added a local-install
category to scripts/install_only_packages and a matching entry to
generate_overview.sh’s Details-section category loop (previously
missing — new-category rows landed in the Summary count but were
silently dropped from Details).
- localsend 1.18.1-1 (x86_64): clean rebuild, no issues. See
memory/localsend.md. - x86_64-elf-gcc 16.2.0-1 (x86_64): full GCC cross-toolchain
bootstrap, ~2h wall time, clean. See
memory/x86_64-elf-gcc.md. - dosbox-x 2026.08.02-1.1 (x86_64 only): user asked to expand
arch=()the same way asokshbelow, but i486/i686/pentium4 builds either took excessively long or hung outright (one i486 rebuild neededmachinectl terminate+kill -9to stop, plain SIGTERM was ignored) — dropped those three archs per user instruction rather than debug further. Seememory/dosbox-x.md. - gameoftrees 0.127-1.1 (i486/i686/pentium4/x86_64): arch=()
expansion built cleanly on all four, ~15 min total. See
memory/gameoftrees.md.
maintained/libarchive-static: republished for all architectures
User requested (after first asking about a nonexistent “libarchive-git”
and clarifying they meant libarchive-static). Version unchanged
(3.8.9-1) but only x86_64 had ever been published; rebuilt+published
i486/i686/pentium4/x86_64. Hit a flaky zlib.net download timeout on
the first attempt (identical failure across all 4 archs) — worked
around by copying an already-cached zlib-1.3.2.tar.gz(+.asc) from
/data/INSTALL/libarchive-static/ into the package dir rather than
retrying the network fetch. See memory/libarchive-static.md.
maintained/oksh: 7.9-1 -> 7.9-2, republished for expanded arch=()
User had already expanded oksh’s arch=() to add
arm/armv6h/armv7h/aarch64 (pkgrel bumped 1 -> 2 by them). Rebuilt and
published i486/i686/pentium4/x86_64 (the only archs with local
chroots); old x86_64 7.9-1 build auto-archived. See memory/oksh.md.
Updates — 2026-08-13
Wired up i486/i686/pentium4 to the archlinuxaba private repo (build infra)
Extended repo_build.sh’s _build_cmd (previously hardcoded to
x86_64-only) to use archlinuxaba-<arch>-build for any arch with a
local symlink for it, falling back to stock extra-<arch>-build
otherwise; added archlinuxaba-i486-build, archlinuxaba-i686-build,
archlinuxaba-pentium4-build symlinks to archlinuxaba-archbuild.
Discovered while testing that the single pacman.conf.d/archlinuxaba.conf
(a copy of the generic x86_64 extra.conf) doesn’t work for the 32-bit
archs: it uses Architecture = auto and Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
(the 64-bit Arch mirror), where devtools32’s own extra-i486.conf etc.
use an explicit Architecture = <arch> and Include =
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist32 (mirror.archlinux32.org) – without that,
fresh chroot creation for i486/i686/pentium4 failed outright trying to
fetch core/extra from the wrong mirror. Added
archlinuxaba-i486.conf/archlinuxaba-i686.conf/archlinuxaba-pentium4.conf,
each the corresponding stock extra-<arch>.conf plus our [archlinuxaba]
section. See memory/TOOLING_NOTES.md and memory/REPO_PUBLISH_DESIGN.md
for the full writeup.
maintained/libstroke: 0.5.1-10 -> 0.5.1-11 (packaging only)
Widened arch=() from x86_64 only to i486 i686 pentium4 x86_64 as a
prerequisite for widening fvwm below (fvwm depends=(libstroke), and
libstroke only ever existed in archlinuxaba for x86_64 – official
arch32 extra/core don’t carry it). Built and published for all four
arches. See memory/libstroke.md.
maintained/fvwm: 2.7.0-6 -> 2.7.0-7 (packaging only)
Widened arch=() from x86_64 only to i486 i686 pentium4 x86_64,
using this as the end-to-end test case for the archlinuxaba build-infra
change above. Built and published for all four arches (after the
libstroke prerequisite above). See memory/fvwm.md.
Ran update_cycle.sh (cleanup, fetch/fast-forward, check-for-updates,
dependency check). Nothing flagged: check_for_updates_maintained.sh
reported 0 UPD packages (all checked packages OK, the rest have no
.nvchecker.toml and show ?), and check_dependencies.sh found 0
unresolved deps across 611 checked. No packages required touching this
cycle.
Updates — 2026-08-10
maintained/linux-lts515: 5.15.213-1 -> 5.15.215-1
Only package flagged UPD by check_for_updates_maintained.sh this cycle
(check_dependencies.sh found 0 unresolved deps across 609 checked). Verified
the release tarball was actually published on cdn.kernel.org (HTTP 200)
before bumping, per this package’s known git-tag-vs-tarball-availability
gap. Ran update.sh 5.15.215, which bumped pkgver, re-downloaded/
re-checksummed the source, and reconciled all 4 archs’ kernel configs
in their real archbuild chroots (make olddefconfig via --nobuild).
All 4 config diffs were cosmetic-only (just the version-string header
comment, no Kconfig changes).
Full builds (sudo extra-<arch>-build) run detached in screen. x86_64
and i686 built clean on the first pass. i486 and pentium4 both failed
immediately with an SSL timeout syncing mirror.archlinux32.org’s chroot
databases – a transient mirror outage, not a package problem. Confirmed
the mirror was back up (curl -sI -> 200) and re-ran both archs standalone;
both succeeded. Signed and published all 12 files (3 pkgnames x 4 archs).
See memory/linux-lts515.md for full detail, including a note on an
accidental (harmless) double-publish invocation.
Updates — 2026-07-28
maintained/libkcompactdisc: no update (false positive)
check_for_updates_maintained.sh flagged UPD ... 25.12.3 58 (bogus 58).
Standalone nvchecker -c .nvchecker.toml returned 25.12.3, matching the
installed pkgver – no actual update needed. This is a recurring
transient scrape glitch on the KDE GitLab tags page this package’s
.nvchecker.toml scrapes with a regex (same glitch previously seen
2026-07-20 as a bogus 52) – see memory/libkcompactdisc.md.
maintained/libarchive-static: 3.8.8-1 -> 3.8.9-1
Routine pkgver bump tracking upstream libarchive; bundled deps (attr,
acl, openssl, zlib, xz, bzip2, zstd) unchanged this cycle
(nvchecker-deps.toml diff empty). updpkgsums only moved the libarchive
source’s sha512sum. Built, signed, published for x86_64 via
repo_release_changed.sh. See memory/libarchive-static.md.
maintained/pdfalto: 0.6.1-1 -> 0.6.2-1
AUR-flagged out-of-date since 2026-07-21; nvchecker (git-tag source)
confirmed 0.6.2 is a real upstream release. updpkgsums moved only the
tarball source’s checksum. Built, signed, published for x86_64 via
repo_release_changed.sh – this succeeded despite prior sessions’
concern about missing libpng14/gcc12, so those must already be
satisfied on this host/in this repo now. See memory/pdfalto.md.
private/archlinux32-keyring: real bug fix, checksum was stale
Found broken while triaging the routine changed-set release batch: a
prior, undocumented pkgver bump to 20260116 never got a matching
updpkgsums run, so sha512sums still held the old 20240131 tarball’s
hash – this package could never have built since that bump landed
(.SRCINFO was stale too, still showing pkgver = 20240131). Fixed with
updpkgsums + regenerated .SRCINFO; built, signed, and published
(arch=any) via repo_release.sh private/archlinux32-keyring. See
memory/archlinux32-keyring.md.
Routine changed-set release batch (repo_release_changed.sh, x86_64)
28 packages showed NEW/CHANGED against the private repo
(repo_diff_local_remote.sh). Results: 2 PASS initially
(libarchive-static, pdfalto above), 26 FAIL; one of the 26
(archlinux32-keyring) turned out to be a real, fixable bug (see above)
and passed on a follow-up individual release, bringing the confirmed total
to 3 published. The other 25 are the same long-standing backlog that
persists cycle to cycle (already documented per-package in memory/):
mostly Could not resolve all dependencies against out-of-tree AUR-only
packages (cmake3, qt5-webengine, gtk-sharp-2, etc.) or intra-tree
ordering (qgpgme1-qt5 needs gpgme-1, which failed this batch too),
plus a couple of real build failures (cppcms, kdiagram5, kjots) and
one persistent upstream issue (gpgme-1: dev.gnupg.org returning HTTP
429 on every attempt, including a same-session standalone retry outside
the batch – not request-volume-related, genuinely blocked right now).
New memory files written for archlinux32-keyring, qgpgme1-qt5,
yabause-qt5 (previously undocumented); gpgme-1 updated with the
recurrence + standalone-retry result. Full per-package logs in
repo_release_logs/. Overview and site regenerated/republished.
Updates — 2026-07-27
maintained/i686-elf-binutils: 2.45-2 -> 2.47-1
Routine pkgver bump (upstream GNU binutils, tracked directly via
.nvchecker.toml). Verified 2.47 is a real release (present alongside
2.46.0/2.46.1/2.45.1 etc. on ftp.gnu.org), not a bait flag. updpkgsums
regenerated the sha256sum; test build via extra-x86_64-build succeeded
(pre-existing namcap lint noise from the cross-toolchain layout, not a
regression). No dependents in this tree need a rebuild – see
memory/i686-elf-binutils.md. Built, signed, published (main + debug);
overview and site regenerated/republished.
maintained/x86_64-elf-binutils: 2.46.0-1 -> 2.47-1
Same cycle, same upstream release as the i686-elf-binutils bump above (both
pull the identical binutils-2.47.tar.xz, matching sha256sums confirmed
that). Test build via extra-x86_64-build succeeded. No dependents in this
tree. Built, signed, published (main + debug); overview and site
regenerated/republished.
Updates — 2026-07-25
maintained/linux-lts515: 5.15.211 -> 5.15.212
Routine kernel point-release bump via the package’s own update.sh, built
and published on all 4 archs (x86_64, i686, i486, pentium4; kernel + headers
- docs subpackages each). Found and fixed a real sequencing bug in
update.shalong the way: it updated PKGBUILD’s checksum for the sharedconfigsource file only after reconciling all archs’ configs, but the 32-bit archs’ builds also validate that same sharedconfigentry (theirsource_i686/etc arrays add a per-arch config, they don’t replace the shared one) – so the second arch onward saw a checksum mismatch against the (by-then-stale) PKGBUILD value. Reordered so the shared checksum updates right after x86_64’s config is reconciled, before the loop moves on.pkgrelstays at 1 per convention. Overview and site regenerated/republished.
private/notion3: pkgrel 5 -> 6, ioncore_winprops.lua Lua 5.5 fix
Added notion3-ioncore-winprops-lua55-hole-border.patch: ifnil()’s
vararg-counting helper used #arg, but #’s result on a table with holes
(a nil first argument – the common case for id.role/id.instance) is
unspecified by the language and silently changed between Lua 5.4 and 5.5,
collapsing the loop bound to 0. Fixed with select('#', ...), which is
well-defined regardless of holes. Test build succeeded, then built,
signed, and published to x86_64 (i486 hit the same pre-existing, unrelated
texlive-family chroot collision as always). Overview and site
regenerated/republished.
private/notion3: rebuild and republish (x86_64), pkgrel 5 (no change)
Rebuilt and republished on request; no PKGBUILD changes needed since the 2026-07-15 pkgrel 4 -> 5 fix (libtu C99 + Lua 5.5 mkman patches) – still builds clean at pkgrel 5. i486 failed again in the same pre-existing way (texlive-bin vs texlive-basic/dvisvgm/texlive-context file collisions, unrelated to notion3 itself); x86_64 built, signed, and published (notion3 + notion3-debug). Overview and site regenerated/republished.
maintained/webkit2gtk: 2.50.6-7 -> 2.50.6-8 (packaging fix, cmake >=4 build failure)
Followed up on the 2026-07-23 AUR build-failure report. extra/cmake moved
to 4.4.0 in our own chroot on 2026-07-21, which reproduced the same failure
locally for the first time (CMake Error at
Source/cmake/WebKitMacros.cmake:311) – so it wasn’t reporter-specific
after all, just a matter of our chroot catching up to a newer cmake.
Root cause: upstream WebKit’s _WEBKIT_TARGET_LINK_FRAMEWORK macro compares
an unquoted ${_linked_into} variable that is legitimately empty the first
time it’s evaluated (a real macro-ordering/bootstrap situation involving
LLIntSettingsExtractor linking WTF before JavaScriptCore’s own framework
setup runs). An unquoted empty variable vanishes as a token inside if()
instead of becoming an empty string, and cmake >=4 rejects the resulting
malformed argument list outright. Checked WebKit upstream main and
official Arch’s webkit2gtk-4.1 PKGBUILD – neither has a fix yet (the
latter simply hasn’t rebuilt since cmake 4.4.0 landed), so this is a
packaging-side fix, not something to pull in from elsewhere.
Fix shipped as a standalone patch file cmake4-linked-into-quoting.patch
(quotes the two culprit variable expansions), applied via patch -Np1 in
prepare() – not an inline sed, so the patch stays reusable by other
distros packaging the same upstream source (new standing preference, see
this project’s tooling memory). Packaging-only fix, so pkgrel bumped to
8, pkgver unchanged. Verified: cmake configure now completes
(build.ninja generated) and the full build finished cleanly; namcap only
flagged pre-existing license/dependency lint issues, unrelated to this
change. Built, signed, and published (webkit2gtk, webkit2gtk-debug,
webkit2gtk-docs); old 2.50.6-7 files archived. OVERVIEW.md and site
regenerated and republished. Notes in memory/webkit2gtk.md.
Updates — 2026-07-23
Ran a full scripts/update_cycle.sh pass (cleanup_all.sh, fetch_ff_maintained.sh,
check_for_updates_maintained.sh -> STATES.txt) plus scripts/check_aur_feedback.sh
(-> FEEDBACK.txt). All 233 submodules fetched clean (no diverged/dirty cases).
0 packages flagged UPD – nothing needed a version bump this round. No new
FLAG/UNFLAGGED/MISSING out-of-date-flag changes either.
AUR feedback scan turned up one new comment: webkit2gtk (2.50.6-7) got a
build-failure report (CMake error in WebKitMacros.cmake at the
_WEBKIT_TARGET_LINK_FRAMEWORK macro). Our own build of the same
pkgver/pkgrel still succeeds locally and is already published (OVERVIEW.md:
SAME), so this looks like a cmake-version difference on the reporter’s side
rather than a packaging bug – not reproduced, no PKGBUILD change made. Notes
in memory/webkit2gtk.md. Nothing else to build/publish this round, so no
overview/site regen was needed (state unchanged from last publish).
Updates — 2026-07-22
Ran a full scripts/update_cycle.sh pass (cleanup_all.sh, fetch_ff_maintained.sh,
check_for_updates_maintained.sh -> STATES.txt) plus scripts/check_aur_feedback.sh
(-> FEEDBACK.txt). 1 package flagged UPD; AUR feedback scan reported nothing new
besides pdfalto’s out-of-date flag clearing (from the 2026-07-20 fix).
maintained/thunderbird-esr-bin: 140.12.1-1 -> 140.13.0-1
- Bumped
pkgverto 140.13.0, regeneratedsha512sumswithupdpkgsums, regenerated.SRCINFO. - Checked
FEEDBACK.txtfor this package (per updated workflow — check AUR comments for every touched package, not just UPD-flagged ones) and found three related comments (2025-12-17 to 2026-07-21) about the taskbar/icon not showing correctly under GNOME/Wayland. Applied the user-confirmed fix: addedStartupWMClass=thunderbird-esrtothunderbird-esr-bin.desktop. - Test-built and released to the private repo (x86_64 only this pass).
- Notes saved to
memory/thunderbird-esr-bin.md. - Overview/site regenerated and republished after this build.
maintained/riscv32-elf-gcc + maintained/riscv32-elf-newlib: circular-dependency fix
- Long-standing mutual build-dependency cycle (
riscv32-elf-gcc<->riscv32-elf-newlib, open since 2026-07-07) resolved – no PKGBUILD changes.riscv32-elf-gcc’s existingPKGBUILD.bootstrap(a stage-1, libc-free compiler thatprovides/conflictsthe real package) breaks the cycle when built/published first, thenriscv32-elf-newlib, then the realriscv32-elf-gcc. riscv32-elf-binutils(harddepends=of both gcc variants) turned out to be an officialextrarepo package, not AUR – nothing to build or maintain there.- Found matching, already-built
.pkg.tar.zstartifacts for all three (bootstrap/newlib/full-gcc) in/data/INSTALLfrom a manual 2026-01-25 bootstrap run; diffed their PKGBUILDs against the current tree (byte-identical) and published those directly viarepo_sign.sh/repo_publish.shin bootstrap -> newlib -> gcc order, instead of rebuilding. - All three now resolve cleanly in the private repo. Notes in
memory/riscv32-elf-gcc.md. - Overview/site regenerated and republished after this publish.
Updates — 2026-07-20
Ran scripts/check_for_updates_maintained.sh (output saved to STATES.txt).
2 packages flagged UPD.
maintained/check_ssl_cert: 2.101.0-1 -> 2.103.0-1
- Bumped
pkgverto 2.103.0 (pkgrelreset to 1), regeneratedmd5sumswithupdpkgsums, regenerated.SRCINFO. - Test-built successfully for x86_64, i686, pentium4 (the other archs in
arch=()— armv6h/armv7h/aarch64 — aren’t buildable on this host). - Released to the private repo (x86_64, i686, pentium4); old x86_64 build archived.
- Notes saved to
memory/check_ssl_cert.md.
maintained/libkcompactdisc: false-positive UPD (25.12.3 -> reported “52”)
- The
?-lessUPDwas a bogus nvchecker read — the.nvchecker.tomlscrapes the KDE GitLab tags page via regex, which returned an implausible version “52” on this run. Re-runningnvchecker -c .nvchecker.tomlstandalone immediately after correctly reported 25.12.3, matching the installedpkgver. No update needed; no changes made. - Notes saved to
memory/libkcompactdisc.md.
Updates — 2026-07-02
Ran scripts/check_for_updates_maintained.sh (output saved to STATES.txt).
2 packages flagged UPD. Additionally, STATES.stderr (nvchecker output
for pacman-static’s and libarchive-static’s bundled third-party
dependencies, which the OK/UPD/? table doesn’t cover) flagged 3 outdated
bundled deps in pacman-static.
maintained/libarchive-static: 3.8.7-3 -> 3.8.8-1
- Bumped
pkgverto 3.8.8 (pkgrelreset to 1), regeneratedsha512sumswithupdpkgsums(only the libarchive git-tag source hash changed — bundled deps attr/acl/openssl/zlib/xz/bzip2/zstd are unchanged versions), regenerated.SRCINFO. - Test-built successfully for all buildable architectures: x86_64, i686, pentium4, i486.
- Notes for next time saved to
memory/libarchive-static.md.
maintained/pacman-static: bundled deps updated (pkgrel 12 -> 13)
STATES.stderrshowed curl, gpgme, and libarchive (bundled static deps, tracked vianvchecker-deps.tomlagainst current Arch package versions) were behind: curl 8.20.0->8.21.0, gpgme 2.1.0->2.1.2, libarchive 3.8.7->3.8.8.pkgveritself (pacman’s own version) is unaffected — bumpedpkgrel12 -> 13, refreshedsha512sumswithupdpkgsumsand.SRCINFO.- Test-built successfully for x86_64, i686, pentium4, i486.
- Synced
nvchecker-new.txt->nvchecker-old.txtso the next run doesn’t re-report these as new. - Notes for next time saved to
memory/pacman-static.md.
maintained/linux-lts515: 5.15.209 -> 5.15.210 — SKIPPED
- nvchecker reports 5.15.210 available (git tag exists on kernel.org’s
linux-5.15.y branch), but the corresponding release tarball
(
linux-5.15.210.tar.xz) has not been published on cdn.kernel.org yet (confirmed viamakepkg -do, real 404, not a sandboxing artifact). Reverted the pkgver bump; left the package at 5.15.209. Retry later. - Retried same day: reran
check_for_updates_maintained.sh(freshSTATES.txt/STATES.stderr), still onlylinux-lts515flaggedUPD. Bumped pkgver to 5.15.210 again and re-checked withmakepkg -do --skippgpcheck(unsandboxed) — still a 404, tarball still not published. Reverted pkgver back to 5.15.209, no diff left behind. - Notes saved to
memory/linux-lts515.md.
Other findings
- Fixed an unrelated encoding regression: editing libarchive-static’s
PKGBUILD caused a pre-existing invalid-UTF-8 byte sequence in a maintainer
comment (
# Tomáš Mráz) to get further corrupted intoU+FFFDreplacement characters by the edit tooling. Restored the original bytes to match the last git revision exactly; seememory/TOOLING_NOTES.md.
Updates — 2026-07-04
Fetched+fast-forwarded all maintained/ submodules (230 of them; none were
behind their remote tip). Ran scripts/check_for_updates_maintained.sh.
Only linux-lts515 flagged UPD.
maintained/linux-lts515: 5.15.210 -> 5.15.211 — SKIPPED
- Same pattern as 2026-07-02/03: nvchecker’s git-tag tracking reported
5.15.211, but the release tarball isn’t published on cdn.kernel.org yet
(confirmed genuine 404 via
update.sh, which usesmakepkg -dointernally per [[feedback-network-debugging]]). Script auto-reverted the pkgver bump; package stays at 5.15.210. Retry later. - Fixed a small gap in
update.sh: its 404 early-exit path cleaned up the downloaded tarball but left an emptysrc/dir behind — now removes it too. - Notes updated in
memory/linux-lts515.md.
Private-repo build-all-packages pass — 2026-07-07/08
Ran scripts/update_cycle.sh first (208/230 maintained/ submodules
fast-forwarded; 22 hit transient SSH resets from the AUR host, harmless;
0 dirty/diverged). Only qtkeychain-qt5 needed a version bump
(0.16.0 -> 0.17.0), done and published as the pipeline smoke test.
Then built, signed, and published every package under arch/
(maintained/private/adapted/owned, excluding attic/) to the
private archlinuxaba repo on euroweb.lan, restricted to x86_64 for
now, per explicit scope decisions (see memory/private_repo_publish_scope.md
in auto-memory).
Results
- 250 packages attempted (0 skipped — every package’s
arch=()either included x86_64 or wasany/empty). - 155 published successfully (138 on the first full pass, plus 17
more recovered via manual retries after fixing the bugs described
below:
c2t-git,diskm8-git,dos33fsprogs-git,dsk2nib-git,arduino-builder,libarchive-static,pacman-static,pgfuse,sqlitexx,vattery,xdialog,z80ex,xawtv,xxdiff-git,x86_64-elf-binutils,vhd2vl-git,e1000e-dkms-lts515). - 4 fixed but not yet rebuilt/republished:
libcurlpp-git,llvm-mos-git,pcmanfm-gtk3,prodos-utilities-git(same trivial missing-git-in-makedependsbug as the ones above, already corrected in their PKGBUILDs +.SRCINFO, just not queued through a build yet). - ~91 still failing, one
memory/<package>.mdnote per package with the specific cause. Rough breakdown (some packages fall into more than one bucket transitively):- ~14 are intra-tree forward-reference ordering — depend on
another package from this same tree that hadn’t been
built+published yet at the point this single top-to-bottom
alphabetical pass reached them (now available; should resolve on a
future retry pass without any code change). E.g.
kplotting5,kunitconversion5,plasma-framework5,prison5,fvwm,gcc-ia16,hq,i686-elf-pcc-git,pcc-git,python-pyqt5-chart,python-pyqt5-purchasing,qgpgme1-qt5. - ~15 depend on a real package that isn’t tracked anywhere in this
arch/tree at all (not official-Arch-anymore, or genuinely AUR-only, e.g.qt4,cc65,gcc14,gtk-sharp-2,python2’s ownopenssl-1.1chain,qt5-webengine,qt5-webkit, Perl/Apache modules forthruk) — out of scope for a build+publish pass per the user’s guidance; just recorded for a future decision. - The rest are genuine, distinct build/source defects — real
compiler errors (old code vs modern GCC strictness, e.g.
leafpad,modest,newsboat-og,xfractint,gsoap287,notion3,optdb5.3), missing/stale local patch files (gcc47,linux-lts510), a stale source checksum (trojita,pce-git), missing GPG keys (pcmciautils), a CMake-version-policy incompatibility (kdiagram5), a circular cross-toolchain bootstrap dependency (riscv32-elf-gcc<->riscv32-elf-newlib), and a few transient network blips (gpgme-1,elasticsearch6,wildfly22,vatterybefore its retry). See each package’s ownmemory/<name>.mdfor specifics.
- ~14 are intra-tree forward-reference ordering — depend on
another package from this same tree that hadn’t been
built+published yet at the point this single top-to-bottom
alphabetical pass reached them (now available; should resolve on a
future retry pass without any code change). E.g.
Script/tooling fixes made along the way
repo_publish.sh: addedrepo-removebeforerepo-addand archiving of superseded package files to a new${REPOSITORY_REMOTE_PATH}/archive/dir (append-only — seememory/ARCHIVE_APPEND_ONLY.md); fixed a pre-existing_repo_addtypo bug in thearch=anysymlink fan-out.repo_lib.sh:ssh -non every remote call, andREPO_LIB_DIRresolved to an absolute path — both fix real bugs (sshsilently draining a driver loop’s stdin after one package; a relative path breaking oncerepo_build.shcds into a package directory).repo_build.sh: build-byproduct cleanup rewritten to begit status-driven instead of a fixed glob list (catches arbitrary VCS-cloned source dirs); addedREPO_BUILD_ONLY_ARCHand a_build_cmdper-arch dispatcher.- New
scripts/archlinuxaba-archbuild(+archlinuxaba-x86_64-buildsymlink): a copy of the systemarchbuildthat adds this project’s own private repo into the chroot’spacman.conf(arch/config/pacman.conf.d/archlinuxaba.conf), so a package already published earlier in a run resolves as a dependency for one built later in the same run. Wired intorepo_build.shfor x86_64 only. repo_release.sh: now collects every valid package extension (.gz/.bz2/.xz/.zst/.lz), not just.zst(libarchive-static/pacman-staticbuild.xz); post-publish, removes the local*.pkg.tar.*/.sigso a released package directory doesn’t stay dirty. Also fixed a real oksh bug along the way: aset -Aarray with zero elements ever assigned makes oksh treat any later reference to it as unset underset -u— replaced with a plain space-separated string (seememory/oksh_coding_style.mdin auto-memory andmemory/TOOLING_NOTES.md).- Two trivial PKGBUILD fixes applied to several
-gitpackages that were missinggitinmakedepends(adtpro-git,c2t-git,diskm8-git,dos33fsprogs-git,dsk2nib-git,libcurlpp-git,llvm-mos-git,pcmanfm-gtk3,prodos-utilities-git) —pkgrelbumped, notpkgver(seememory/PKGREL_VS_PKGVER.md).
Not done in this pass
- A second retry pass specifically for the ~14 forward-reference packages (task tracked, not run yet).
- Rebuilding the 4 fixed-but-not-rebuilt packages listed above.
- Any of the ~15 out-of-tree-dependency or ~60 genuine-defect packages —
each needs its own investigation/decision, recorded per-package in
memory/. - i686/pentium4/i486 builds — this pass was x86_64-only per explicit scope.
Update check + changed-only publish cycle — 2026-07-09
Ran scripts/update_cycle.sh (cleanup + fetch/fast-forward + version
check). Fresh STATES.txt/STATES.stderr: 0 packages flagged UPD
(nothing needs a version bump this cycle), 112 OK, 79 ? (no
.nvchecker.toml — see below).
NVCHECKER.md
Per request, investigated all 79 ?-flagged packages and wrote
/home/build/aurupdater/NVCHECKER.md: a planning doc (no .nvchecker.toml
files created) grouping them by upstream-hosting pattern — KDE
Frameworks5/PIM/Plasma5 families (21 packages, share a
gitlab+host=invent.kde.org pattern), plain GitHub/GitLab tag
packages, a Launchpad group, a SourceForge group (nvchecker has no native
sourceforge source — documented the RSS-regex workaround, verified
live), a “Laborejo Software Suite” family (5 packages, one shared
directory, verified live), and 13 packages judged genuinely dead/frozen
with no viable automatic check (autoconf2.13, python2,
boost-65-compat, etc.). Ends with a prioritized quick-wins list.
Changed-only build/publish (per explicit instruction: don’t rebuild
the full tree, only what actually changed)
Wrote two new scripts:
scripts/repo_diff_local_remote.sh— compares every local package’s real version (makepkg --printsrcinfo, so split packages/ epochs/array pkgnames are handled correctly) against what’s actually published on the repo host, and reports NEW/CHANGED/SAME. Remote packages with no local counterpart (other AUR packages published by hand, outside this tree) are silently ignored, per instruction. VCS (-git) packages get a-VCS-suffixed verdict instead of a plain one, since their staticpkgveronly reflects whatever a previous build’spkgver()last computed (andcleanup_all.sh’s git-checkout reset can revert that between sessions without touching what’s already published) — not a live “did upstream move” signal.scripts/repo_release_changed.sh— runsrepo_diff_local_remote.shand builds/signs/publishes only the plain NEW/CHANGED (non-VCS) results, same PASS/FAIL/per-package-logfile discipline asrepo_release_all.sh.
Diff found 82 NEW + 1 CHANGED non-VCS packages (plus 10 NEW-VCS / 11
CHANGED-VCS -git packages, intentionally left out of the automated
build — see script header) against 142 already-published/unchanged.
Collapsing split-package name duplicates, that’s 79 package
directories run through repo_release_changed.sh.
Results
- Initial pass: 26 PASS / 53 FAIL.
- +7 more via targeted retries — a chunk of the 53 failures were
purely this run’s own build-order artifact: packages that depend on a
sibling also in this batch, but alphabetically later, so the
dependency wasn’t published yet when pacman went looking for it inside
the chroot. Retried in dependency order once their deps were confirmed
published:
kpimtextedit5(neededktextaddons5),kirigami-addons5(neededkitemmodels5),cervisia(neededkdesu5),kcontacts5(transient checksum error, succeeded on retry),akonadi-contacts5(neededlibakonadi5/kcontacts5/prison5),kidentitymanagement5(neededkpimtextedit5, itself just-fixed) — all now published. - 2 more fixed via a real (if trivial) PKGBUILD bug:
maintained/woz2dskandmaintained/wozzleboth declaredmakedepends=()despite using agit+VCS source, so the chroot had nogitto clone with (Cannot find the git package needed to handle git sources) — same class of bug as the 2026-07-07/08 pass. Addedmakedepends=('git'), bumpedpkgrel(notpkgver, permemory/feedback_pkgrel_vs_pkgver.md).wozzlerebuilt and published clean (makepkg’s ownpkgver()picked up a newer upstream commit in the process, resettingpkgrelback to 1, as expected).woz2dskstill fails, now for an unrelated reason (see below) — fix confirmed correct, just not sufficient on its own. - Net: 35 published this cycle, 44 still failing.
Remaining 44 failures — categorized, not individually fixed
This is well beyond the scope of a “publish what changed” pass — each needs its own investigation. Grouped by cause so it’s triageable later:
- Missing/unavailable dependency, not in official repos or this repo
(17):
p2c(gcc14),bless(gtk-sharp-2),boost-65-compat(python312),dbmodel-qt4(qt4>=4.0),kchmviewer/qmc2/qt5-webview(qt5-webengine),kcm-fcitx(fcitx-qt5),libkolabxml(libxsd),lxappearance-obconf-gtk3(lxappearance-gtk3),mp3splt-gtk(libaudclient>=3),ogmrip(gconf),passport(exomizer),pdfalto(libpng14),perl-cookie-baker(perl-test-time),python-postfix-policyd-spf(python-pyspf),python-pyqt5-3d(qt5-3d),python-pyqt5-datavisualization(qt5-datavis3d),qt5-webglplugin(qt5-websockets),thruk(mod_fcgid),woz2dsk(perl-digest-crc/perl-file-slurp — thegitfix above got it past its original failure, this is a new, separate one),yabause-qt5(cmake3). Each of these needs a decision: build the dependency into this tree too, or accept the package can’t be built here. - Cascading from another failed package in this same batch (3):
obexftp/qgpgme1-qt5(needopenobex/gpgme-1, both themselves failing for real reasons below),kjots(needsakonadi-notes, real C++ error below). - Circular cross-toolchain bootstrap dependency (2):
riscv32-elf-gcc<->riscv32-elf-newlib— each needs the other; needs a proper staged-bootstrap build order, not a simple retry. - Genuine compiler/source errors (16):
cyrus-imapd2(clang misconfigured as the C compiler in the chroot — “C compiler cannot create executables”),gcc47/linux-lts510(a local patch file referenced insource=()is missing from the package dir),openssl-1.1(enable-ktlsno longer a supported Configure option),corral(Pony compiler: “match is exhaustive, else clause unreachable” — Pony version mismatch),cppcms(pacman dependency-resolution prompt blocking non-interactively),akonadi-notes(KMime::Message::subject (bool)— API mismatch against the currently-builtkmime5),kdiagram5,newsboat-og(-Werror=unused-but-set-variable),xfractint(too many arguments to function 'this->change'),gsoap287(X509_EXTENSIONincomplete type — OpenSSL ABI break),notion3/optdb5.3(incompatible function-pointer types — modern GCC strictness vs old C code),openobex,trojita(“Could not download sources”). - Dead/unreachable upstream (2):
pcmciautils(“Could not download sources”, matches NVCHECKER.md’s dead-projects list),archlinux32-keyring(“Could not download sources”). - Transient network (2, likely fine on a plain retry later):
gpgme-1(dev.gnupg.orgreturned HTTP 429 — rate-limited),elasticsearch6(curl 404 on the download URL — may be genuinely moved, not just transient; worth a quick check first).
None of the above 44 were modified — flagged for a future, deliberately scoped pass per package rather than guessed at in bulk.
Full check + changed-only publish cycle — 2026-07-13
Ran scripts/update_cycle.sh (cleanup + fetch/fast-forward + version
check). Fresh STATES.txt/STATES.stderr: 0 packages flagged UPD,
112 OK, 79 ? (unchanged from 2026-07-09).
Ran scripts/repo_diff_local_remote.sh: 49 NEW + 11 CHANGED-VCS + 10
NEW-VCS against the rest already published/unchanged. Ran
scripts/repo_release_changed.sh (builds only the plain NEW/CHANGED,
skips -VCS per its own design) against the 46 distinct package dirs in
that set: 0 PASS / 46 FAIL on the first pass — this is a pre-existing
backlog of packages that have apparently never successfully published,
not a regression from this session. Full logs in repo_release_logs/.
Per explicit scope decision, only picked off the “quick win” (transient/mechanical) failures rather than the whole backlog:
Fixed and republished (3)
private/archlinux32-keyring:validpgpkeysonly listed the old signing key (DE9F7688...); the current release tarball is signed with a newer key (33CA3597...) thatgpg --recv-keysalready had locally, it just wasn’t trusted byvalidpgpkeysnor exported tokeys/pgp/. Added the new fingerprint alongside the old one, exported it properly tokeys/pgp/33CA3597....asc(a stray same-named file without the.ascextension already sitting in that dir, presumably from a prior manualgpg --export, got cleaned up in the process), regenerated.SRCINFO.pkgrel1.0 -> 1.1 (packaging-only fix, not a new upstream version). Rebuilt/published clean.maintained/pcmciautils: signing key (DD46DC35691C79509D15F58CFEF39108F6FD2C20, already correctly listed invalidpgpkeys) had just never actually been fetched — nokeys/pgp/dir existed at all for this package. Ran the (now-fixed, see below)update_pgp_key_dir.shto fetch and export it. No PKGBUILD change needed. Rebuilt/published clean.private/elasticsearch6: bundledlog4j2.17.0 source URL (dlcdn.apache.org) 404’d — Apache only serves the current release offdlcdn; older versions moved toarchive.apache.org. Repointed the URL, bumpedpkgrel1 -> 2. Rebuilt/published clean.
Script fix
scripts/update_pgp_key_dir.sh:. PKGBUILD(no./) silently failed with “file not found” — bash’s.builtin only searches$PATHfor a bare filename, and$PATHdoesn’t include.. This meant the script had never actually worked as written; likely whypcmciautils’skeys/pgp/was empty andarchlinux32-keyring’s had a stray malformed entry from someone working around it by hand. Fixed to. ./PKGBUILD, and added amkdir -p keys/pgpso it works on a package that’s never had the directory at all.
Left alone (per scope decision — not quick/mechanical)
maintained/gpgme-1: still HTTP 429 fromdev.gnupg.orgon retry (checked twice, ~15 min apart) — genuinely transient, retry on a later cycle.qgpgme1-qt5cascades from this, untouched too.adapted/linux-lts510,adapted/gcc47: confirmed viagit logthat the last commit to each added asource=()reference to a local patch file (0004-depmod-remove-depmod_hack_needed.patch,gcc.texi.49.patch) without ever adding the patch content itself — not a download failure, the file was simply never committed. Needs the actual patch regenerated/sourced, not a mechanical fix; the OBS project referenced in alinux-lts510PKGBUILD comment returned 403.- Everything else in the original 46-failure categorization (missing
out-of-tree deps, the
riscv32-elf-gcc/riscv32-elf-newlibcircular bootstrap, genuine compiler/API-drift errors) — unchanged from the categorization done during triage, still needs its own scoped pass.
Targeted fix — 2026-07-15
private/optdb5.3: build failure fixed (pkgrel 5 -> 6)
- Previously flagged in the 2026-07-07/08 pass’s “genuine compiler/source
errors” bucket alongside
notion3: “incompatible function-pointer types — modern GCC strictness vs old C code”. Root cause:gcc 16.1.1now errors (not just warns) on-Wincompatible-pointer-typesby default, and this 2015-era Berkeley DB source (src/env/env_config.c) declares its dispatch tables with old K&R-style unprototyped function pointers (int (*func)();), which the compiler now treats asint (*)(void)and rejects when initialized with the real, typed function pointers (__env_add_data_diretc.). Same underlying GCC-version-vs-legacy-code class of problem as the pre-existing-Wno-error=implicit-function-declarationalready in thePKGBUILD, just a different warning class. - Fix: added
-Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-typesalongside the existing-Wno-error=implicit-function-declarationinbuild()’sCFLAGS. Packaging-only fix (no source/version change), so bumpedpkgrel5 -> 6 permemory/feedback_pkgrel_vs_pkgver.md, notpkgver. - Test-built clean with
extra-x86_64-build(0 compiler errors in the fresh build log; bothoptdb5.3andoptdb5.3-debugpackages produced). Remainingnamcapwarnings (RUNPATH, non-SPDXcustom:sleepycatlicense, ELF outside/opt) are pre-existing and expected for this legacy/opt-installed package, unrelated to the fix. Not yet published to the private repo — build verification only, per this task’s scope.
private/gsoap287: build failure fixed (pkgrel 4 -> 5)
- Previously flagged in the 2026-07-07/08 pass’s “genuine compiler/source
errors” bucket: “
X509_EXTENSIONincomplete type — OpenSSL ABI break”. Two distinct problems, both in the single real source filegsoap/stdsoap2.cpp(built three times under different symlinked names —stdsoap2.c,stdsoap2_ssl.c,stdsoap2_ssl_cpp.cpp— perMakefile.am, so one patch covers all variants):tcp_connect()’s certificate subjectAltName check reached directly intoX509_EXTENSION’s internal fields (ext->value->data,ext->value->length) and called the long-removedM_ASN1_STRING_data()macro.X509_EXTENSIONbecame an opaque type in OpenSSL 1.1+ andM_ASN1_STRING_datawas dropped, so modern OpenSSL 3.x headers reject both outright.- Once past that,
soapcpp2(the bundled bison/flex-generated WSDL parser-generator tool built and run as part of the build itself) failed at link time with “multiple definition ofyylval” — the generated parser/lexer both carry a tentative definition ofyylval, which old GCC silently merged via common symbols but GCC 10+’s-fno-commondefault now rejects.
- Fix:
- New patch
gsoap-2.8.7-openssl3.patch(added tosource=(), applied in a newprepare()): replaces the direct struct-field reads withX509_EXTENSION_get_data()/ASN1_STRING_get0_data()/ASN1_STRING_length(), and replacesM_ASN1_STRING_data()withASN1_STRING_get0_data(). - Added
-fcommontobuild()’sCFLAGSto restore pre-GCC10 tentative-definition merging for the bundled parser generator.
- New patch
- Packaging-only fix (no source/version change), so bumped
pkgrel4 -> 5 permemory/feedback_pkgrel_vs_pkgver.md, notpkgver. Regenerated.SRCINFOand checksums (updpkgsums). - Test-built clean with
extra-x86_64-build(0 compiler errors; bothgsoap287andgsoap287-debugpackages produced). Not yet published to the private repo — build verification only, per this task’s scope.
private/notion3: build failure fixed (pkgrel 4 -> 5)
- Previously flagged in the 2026-07-07/08 pass’s “genuine compiler/source
errors” bucket alongside
optdb5.3: “incompatible function-pointer types — modern GCC strictness vs old C code”. Two independent bugs surfaced in sequence (both real, pre-existing defects, not just GCC-version friction — see below):- Genuine upstream typo, not just a compiler-version issue:
libtu/MakefilesetsCFLAGS += $(C98_SOURCE) ..., but every other module’sMakefilein the tree correctly uses$(C99_SOURCE)—C98_SOURCEis never defined anywhere, so it silently expanded to nothing andlibtu(which includesobj.c) has always built without-std=c99. Old GCC’s default standard happened to still tolerate calling throughlibtu’s unprototyped function-pointer tables (e.g.destroy_fninobj.c) with arguments; GCC’s new default standard (gnu23) correctly rejects it as a real too-many-arguments error. Fixing theC98->C99typo (one-line patch,notion-libtu-c99.patch) restores the project’s own intended, already-correct-elsewhere build flag and the C99 semantics the rest of the tree already relies on. - Once past that, the C build succeeded fully but the man-page
generator (
build/mkman.lua, run at build time via the systemlua, now 5.5.0) failed:attempt to assign to const variable 'l'— the script reassigns a generic-forloop control variable, which newer Lua now rejects. Fixed by using a separate local (ln) instead (notion-mkman-lua54.patch).
- Genuine upstream typo, not just a compiler-version issue:
- Both patches added to
source=(), applied viaprepare(). Packaging-only fix (no source/version change — patches only, upstream_commit/_commit_docunchanged), so bumpedpkgrel4 -> 5 permemory/feedback_pkgrel_vs_pkgver.md, notpkgver. Regenerated.SRCINFO; kept the twogit+sources’ checksums asSKIP(already pinned by commit) even thoughupdpkgsumstried to hash them — reverted those two entries back toSKIPand kept real sha256sums only for the two new static patch files. - Test-built clean with
extra-x86_64-build(0 compiler errors; bothnotion3andnotion3-debugpackages produced). One unrelated, pre-existingmakepkgwarning noted but left alone (out of scope):backup=()listsetc/notion/cfg_bindings.lua, a file that doesn’t exist anywhere in the upstream source tree — a stale entry, not a build failure. Not yet published to the private repo — build verification only, per this task’s scope.
optdb5.3 and notion3: published (x86_64)
- Built, signed, and published both to the private
archlinuxabarepo (x86_64):optdb5.35.3.28-6,notion320190501-5. notion3’s fullrepo_release.shrun (which builds every arch in itsarch=()) hit an unrelated, pre-existing failure oni486: a pacman file conflict betweentexlive-binandtexlive-basic/dvisvgm/texlive-contextin that chroot — nothing to do with this session’s C/Lua fixes. Under the oldscripts/repo_build.shlogic that single-arch failure aborted the whole release before signing/publishing anything, even the x86_64 build that had already succeeded. Worked around by signing/publishing the already-built x86_64 packages directly (repo_sign.sh/repo_publish.sh), then cleaning up the local*.pkg.tar.zst/.sigthe same wayrepo_release.shwould have.- Fixed the actual bug behind that, per explicit request: changed
scripts/repo_build.shso a failing arch no longer blocks signing/publishing the archs that did succeed — it now only exits nonzero if no arch built at all (matching what its own header comment already claimed the behavior was); a partial failure now just prints aWARNING(still visible in the caller’s log) instead of aborting the release. See the script’s own new comment for the reasoning. OVERVIEW.mdandsite/*.htmlregenerated afterward (generate_overview.sh+generate_site.sh); both packages now showSAME(published, matches local).
adapted/p2c: build failure fixed (pkgrel 1 -> 2)
- Was in the “missing/unavailable dependency” bucket from the
2026-07-09 triage (
p2c (gcc14)) —makedepends=('gcc14'), butgcc14isn’t tracked anywhere in thisarch/tree nor available in any configured repo, so the chroot build could never even start. Investigated instead of just sourcing the missing package: extracted the source, applied the existing patches by hand, and tried compiling with the current systemgcc(16.1.1) directly. Real error:parse.cdeclares a localStmt *(*prochandler)();— an old K&R-style unprototyped function pointer, cast frommp->handlerand then called with 2 arguments — which compiles fine under the “unspecified parameters” semantics GCC used to default to, but is a hard error under GCC’s newer default standard (gnu23, where an empty()means(void)). This is exactly whygcc14(the last version before that default changed) had been pinned. Same root-cause class asnotion3’sobj.cissue, just discovered by testing directly rather than via a patch. - Fix: dropped
makedepends=('gcc14')entirely (makedepends=()) and changed bothbuild()invocations fromCC='gcc-14'toCC='gcc' OPT='-O2 -s -std=gnu17'— forcing the older C standard restores the semantics the code was written for, without needing the specific old compiler package. Packaging-only fix,pkgrel1 -> 2 permemory/feedback_pkgrel_vs_pkgver.md. No.SRCINFOexists for this package (pre-existing, unrelated to this fix). - Test-built clean with
extra-x86_64-build(0 compiler errors; bothp2candp2c-debugpackages produced). Not yet published — build verification only, per this task’s scope.
adapted/cyrus-imapd2: build failure fixed (pkgrel 2.0 -> 2.1)
- Was in the 2026-07-13 triage’s “genuine compiler/source errors”
bucket: “clang misconfigured as the C compiler in the chroot – ‘C
compiler cannot create executables’”.
build()hardcodedCC=clang, butclangwas never declared inmakedepends(there was nomakedependsarray at all), so a clean chroot without clang installed by coincidence can’t even runconfigure. - Investigated why
clangwas pinned in the first place rather than just adding it as a dependency: extracted the source, applied the two existing patches, and triedconfigure+makedirectly with plaingcc(16.1.1).configuresucceeded outright;makehit one real error:imap/mailbox.ccallsmboxlist_findall()passingchkchildren(a realint (*)(char *, int, int, void *)) as its callback argument, butimap/mboxlist.h:208declares that parameter as an old K&R-style unprototypedint (*proc)()— clang has always tolerated calling that with real arguments, but current GCC’s default standard (gnu23) now rejects it as a hard incompatible-pointer-types error. Same root-cause class asnotion3/p2c’s issues this session, and almost certainly the actual reasonclangwas chosen years ago (undocumented in the PKGBUILD) — just never declared as a build dependency, so it broke silently the moment a chroot didn’t happen to already have clang. - Fix: dropped
CC=clangin favor ofCC=gccplus-std=gnu17inCFLAGS, restoring the semantics the code needs without adding a clang build dependency. Verified both the plain./configure ... && makesequence (matchingbuild()exactly, CFLAGS only passed at configure time) and a full clean chroot build. Packaging-only fix,pkgrel2.0 -> 2.1 (matches this project’s existing decimal-pkgrel convention, seearchlinux32-keyring’s 1.0 -> 1.1 in the 2026-07-13 entry above) permemory/feedback_pkgrel_vs_pkgver.md. - Test-built clean with
extra-x86_64-build(0 compiler errors; bothcyrus-imapdandcyrus-imapd-debugpackages produced). One unrelated, pre-existingmakepkgwarning noted but left alone (out of scope): “Package contains reference to $srcdir” — a baked-in build-time path in some installed file, not a build failure. Not yet published — build verification only, per this task’s scope.
maintained/corral: build failure fixed and published (pkgrel 1 -> 2)
- Flagged in the 2026-07-07 triage:
ponycfails compilingcorral/semver/version/compare_versions.pony:32, “match is exhaustive, the else clause is unreachable” — a defensiveelsearm, added years ago to satisfy an olderponycthat didn’t do exhaustive tuple-pattern checking, is now a hard error under currentponyc. - Checked upstream (
ponylang/corralon GitHub) before writing a local patch: this exact fix already landed onmainin commit10b85e36e5c7ec4503ecb80ff51aa2342e459805(“Switch all CI jobs to ponyc nightly (#300)”), just not in a tagged release yet (0.9.2from 2019 is still the latest tag). - Fix: added that upstream commit’s
.patchURL directly as asource=()entry (no hand-authored local patch file). The full commit patch also retargets CI workflow files that have drifted since the 2019 tag and doesn’t apply cleanly as one blob with plainpatch -Np1, soprepare()usesgit init -q && git apply --include='corral/semver/version/compare_versions.pony' -p1 ...to scope application to just the relevant source file, then discards the throwaway.git. Packaging-only fix,pkgrel1 -> 2 (plain integer bump —maintained/, notadapted/). - Test-built clean with
archlinuxaba-x86_64-build(0 compile errors;corral/corral-debugproduced). Signed and published to the private repo (x86_64). Details inmemory/corral.md.
maintained/newsboat-og: two build failures fixed and published (pkgrel 3 -> 4)
- This is the maintainer’s own upstream fork
(
andreasbaumann/newsboat-og). Maintainer fixed the json-c build problem upstream as commitd11e3705b53cc219a47c7d6790faea841153d6c1and asked for it to be wired into the PKGBUILD the same way as the existingf2b404c3...patch (asource=()entry pointing at the commit’s.patchURL). Added it, plus discovered and fixed (also via an upstream-commit patch, at the maintainer’s direction) a second, unrelated pre-existing failure on x86_64 specifically:src/htmlrenderer.cpp’simage_countvariable is set but never read (-Werror=unused-but-set-variable) — dead code, already flagged in the 2026-07-07 triage. Fixed via commitae260fcecc786ab07fd37df00105d410726883bc. Also added, per explicit request (not required to fix a build error): commit1ab71d889a38a4b3d8251da7c955d1ac1f362215, updating the bundled vendor header3rd-party/json.hpp(nlohmann JSON, used by the TT-RSS API backend) from 3.2.0 to 3.11.3. - All four patches are
source=()URL entries pointing atandreasbaumann/newsboat-ogcommits, applied inprepare()via plainpatch -Np1— no hand-authored local patches. Packaging-only fix,pkgrel3 -> 4 (plain integer bump —maintained/). - Test-built clean across all four supported arches (x86_64, i486,
i686, pentium4) via
scripts/repo_build.sh. Signed and published all 8 resulting package files (newsboat-og+newsboat-og-debugper arch) to the private repo. Details inmemory/newsboat-og.md.
Updates — 2026-07-18
adapted/fluxengine-git: build failure fixed (pkgrel 1 -> 2)
- Build failed compiling a vendored ImHex GUI plugin
(
hex_editor.cpp->localization_manager.hpp) with an overload-resolution error: “no matching function for call to ‘format(fmt::v12::runtime_format_string<>, …)’”. Root cause: fluxengine’s own build system fetches an unpinneddavidgiven/ImHexfork (branchmaster) intodep/r/imhexat build time via a customgit_repository()ninja rule — not a normal git submodule pinned by fluxengine’s own commit. That fork’slocalization_manager.hppreopensnamespace fmtwith its ownfmt::format(const hex::Lang&, Args&&...)overload but only#include <fmt/core.h>, so with Arch’s currentfmt12.2.0 the realruntime_format_stringoverload (declared in<fmt/format.h>) isn’t visible yet at that point in two-phase lookup, and the call only resolves to the custom overload and fails. Confirmed with a minimal standalone repro before touching the PKGBUILD. - Fix: added a
prepare()that pre-clonesdep/r/imhexitself andseds the one#include <fmt/core.h>to<fmt/format.h>inlocalization_manager.hpp, beforemake binariesever runs — the build system’s own fetch rule only clones ifdep/r/imhex/.git/configis missing, so pre-seeding it leaves the patch in place. Also addedboost-libstodepends(namcapE:error — binary linkslibboost_regex.sobut it wasn’t declared). Packaging-only fix,pkgrel1 -> 2,.SRCINFOregenerated. - Test-built clean with
extra-x86_64-build(0 compiler errors after the fix, confirmed against a first build that reproduced the original failure). Signed and published (fluxengine-git+fluxengine-git-debug) to the private repo viascripts/repo_release.sh. Details inmemory/fluxengine-git.md.
2026-08-02: linux-lts515 5.15.212 -> 5.15.213
- Upstream point-release bump (
update.sh 5.15.213), verified the release tarball was actually published on cdn.kernel.org first (memory/linux-lts515.md warns the git tag can precede the tarball). Config diffs across all 4 archs were cosmetic only (build timestamp/toolchain version strings), no Kconfig changes – still persisted per standing preference. - Full build across all 4 archs (x86_64, i686, i486, pentium4)
succeeded and was signed, but the private repo host (
euroweb.lan) dropped its SSH connection mid-publish and went fully unreachable for a while (infra outage, not a packaging issue). Waited for the host to come back, then finished the publish directly viarepo_sign.sh/repo_publish.shon the already-built artifacts (rerunningrepo_release.shwould have redone the whole kernel compile – it has no “already built” check – so that path was killed instead). All 3 pkgnames x 4 archs published successfully. See memory/linux-lts515.md for the recovery procedure.
2026-08-02: full backlog pass (quick wins, never-investigated, external-dep vendoring)
Full audit-and-fix session covering everything flagged NEW/CHANGED in OVERVIEW.md plus the packages with no memory notes. Per-package details are all in their own memory/ files; summary here:
Quick wins (already-fixed or ordering-only, now rebuilt+republished): dos33fsprogs-git, i686-elf-pcc-libs-git, i686-elf-pcc-git (x86_64 only – i686 blocked by a systemic gap, see memory/i686-elf-pcc-git.md), pcc-git.
distrobuilder-git: fixed a real missing-makedepends bug
(btrfs-progs), but hit a second, unrelated Go module version-skew
issue deeper in the build (securejoin.OpenInRoot undefined) –
flagged, not fixed, needs someone who knows the intended
go.podman.io/storage <-> filepath-securejoin version pinning.
Never-investigated packages, all built+published clean (nothing noteworthy) unless noted: emu86-git, gtk2-ng-git, mimetic-git, slimcc-git, vhd2vl-git, chibicc-git (i686 fundamentally can’t build – x86_64-only codegen), liquidshell + xbanish (pre-built packages sitting unpublished in /data/INSTALL, just needed signing+publishing). jwm-git and xxdiff-git: x86_64 published, other archs hit unrelated chroot toolchain issues (stale libxml2/ICU symbol versions). tnylpo-git: published with two minor namcap nits flagged for later.
linux-lts510: investigated the 3 missing packaging patches (depmod hack removal, depmod-disable-for-packaging, python3 compat) – left unresolved. Their content isn’t recoverable anywhere in this environment and fabricating kernel-packaging patches from guesswork is too risky (wrong depmod handling can break module loading at boot).
External-dependency vendoring (new AUR packages added to maintained/, unblocking previously-failing packages):
cc65-> unblockedadtpro-git(also neededantadded to its makedepends)compiler-rtadded tocorral-git’s makedepends -> fixed it directlyfcitx-> unblockedkcm-fcitxlibaudclient-> unblockedmp3splt-gtk(+ mp3splt-gtk-docs)qt5-websockets-> unblockedqt5-webglpluginqt5-datavis3d-> unblockedpython-pyqt5-datavisualizationcmake3-> unblockedyabause-qt5perl-plack(pulled in a ~16-package transitive AUR chain, all resolved) +perl-log-dispatch-> both published;mod_fcgid(the third thruk dependency) hit a GPG key-trust issue in the ephemeral build chroot that couldn’t be resolved without modifying shared chroot infrastructure – thruk itself stays blocked on that alone.
Deliberately deferred: qt5-webengine (unblocks qmc2,
qt5-webview) and qt5-webkit (unblocks trojita/trojita-git/
trojita-qt5-git) both need full Chromium/WebKit builds – skipped
given only ~22GB free disk at the time, too risky for a multi-hour
build that could fail partway through. Revisit with more headroom.
Also recovered from a mid-session repo-host (euroweb.lan) outage during the linux-lts515 publish – see memory/linux-lts515.md.
2026-08-11 update cycle
Ran scripts/update_cycle.sh (cleanup_all -> fetch_ff_maintained ->
check_for_updates_maintained -> check_dependencies). Clean run, no
errors, no dirty/diverged submodules. Result: 0 packages flagged UPD
(112 OK, 79 version-undetermined ? from dynamic pkgver expressions,
same as before – not out-of-date, just unparseable by the checker).
Dependency check: 609 unique depends/makedepends/checkdepends entries
scanned, 0 unresolved. Nothing to update or publish this cycle.
2026-08-11 litehtml0.9 and glhack adoption
Adopted two new AUR packages into maintained/ (unchanged PKGBUILDs
from their AUR maintainers – litehtml0.9 from Antonio Rojas,
glhack from Eric Bélanger) and did the first build+publish of each
to the private repo:
- litehtml0.9 (0.9-3): fresh submodule, wasn’t yet checked out
locally (
git submodule update --initneeded first). Builds via cmake againstgumbo-parser, ships alitehtml0.9-namespaced cmake config + include dir for coinstallability with other litehtml versions. Built/signed/publishedlitehtml0.9+litehtml0.9-debugx86_64 packages cleanly, no issues. - glhack (1.2-12): Nethack fork/port. Built/signed/published
glhack+glhack-debugx86_64 packages cleanly. namcap flagged the expected setgid-games ownership warnings inherent to the package’s game-save-directory design (not a build problem).
Both packages: first-ever publish, so repo_publish.sh’s
repo-remove/checkpkg “not found” messages are expected and harmless.
Regenerated the overview and republished the site afterward.
2026-08-16 svgalib-git publish
Published svgalib-git (1.9.27.r0.gefe6e10-1). The local submodule
checkout was stale: a prior session had committed a PKGBUILD change
(8f8e679) referencing three new .patch files without actually
committing them (06e3e54 "svgalib-git: forgot to add patches" fixed
this upstream at 0d33ad1, .SRCINFO included), but this checkout
hadn’t fetched past the broken commit, so the patches were missing on
disk and the package couldn’t build as committed. Fixed by git fetch
- fast-forward merge in the submodule to pick up the already-fixed
upstream commit – no new patch content needed, just an out-of-date
local checkout. Built/signed/published
svgalib-git+svgalib-git-debugfor both i686 and x86_64 cleanly (first-ever publish, so the repo-remove/checkpkg “not found” messages are expected and harmless). Regenerated the overview and republished the site afterward.
2026-08-17 to 2026-08-19: multi-arch extension batch + local-install additions
Large batch, worked as one continuous explicit queue (overview/site
regen deferred to the very end per the batch-queue convention). Two
threads of work: (1) extending existing packages to i686/pentium4
where feasible, given as an explicit list plus many follow-up “enqueue
X” additions; (2) adopting new AUR packages under local-install/.
Arch extensions / verify-builds (maintained + adapted):
pcc-libs-git, pcc-git, 8cc-git, libunac, meh-git,
oberon-risc-emu-git, hdrecover all gained pentium4. python2
gained i686/pentium4 – needed a fresh openssl-1.1 (adapted/) dep
first; hit a real 32-bit test_bigrepeat segfault and a second
different 32-bit-only test failure, ended up disabling check()
entirely for i686/pentium4 rather than chase individual test
exclusions. gcc47 and tsv-utils were attempted for 32-bit and
reverted (stage1 bootstrap symbol mismatch; no i686 ldc anywhere,
respectively) – not every package fits.
Real bugs found and fixed along the way (not just arch=() edits):
openssl-1.1(adapted/):enable-ktlswas never a valid Configure option (verified via source grep) – removed from x86_64 optflags.trojita-git(maintained/): tracked PKGBUILD had drifted to build against Qt6 despite the-qt5-gitname – reverted to real Qt5 + WebKit per user’s explicit call; separately fixed an unpinned git commit (patch no longer applied) and a C++14/C++17 mismatch against a modernqgpgme-qt5(newtrojita-cxx17.patch).qt5-webkititself (needed by trojita) got a first-time realgit clone(was loose files) and was signed+published from an existing local build without a rebuild, per explicit instruction, since a full WebKit rebuild takes hours.cloog(local-install): texlive/texi2dviconflicted with i686/ pentium4’stexlive-bin/texlive-basic– fixed by droppingtexlive-*from makedepends and addingTEXI2DVI=trueto all threemakeinvocations (took 3 rebuilds to catch every call site).fltk1.3(local-install, brand new):tigervnc-viewer’s i686 build failed on a missingfltk1.3dependency. Rather than just excluding i686, checked whether it could be built ourselves – turned out archlinux32 builds it for i686/pentium4 in their pool but doesn’t publish it to any live repo, so it wasn’t actually installable anywhere. Pulled the real upstream Arch PKGBUILD viapkgctl, added i686/pentium4, built cleanly first try.tigervnc-viewer(local-install): withfltk1.3available, re-extended to i686/pentium4, then hit a second bug – the trackednettle-4.patchassumes nettle >=4.0’sEAX_DIGESTAPI, but the i686/pentium4 chroots still have nettle 3.10.1 (archlinux32 hasn’t packaged 4.0 for 32-bit). Fixed by gating the patch tox86_64only inprepare().python-pydns(local-install, brand new): upstream’spyproject.tomlpinsflit_core <4, but Arch’spython-flit-coreis now 4.0.2 – fixed with a newpydns-flit-core4.patchrelaxing the bound.ptouch-print(local-install, brand new, x86_64 only per request): upstream’s own git host (familie-radermacher.ch) returns HTTP 451 to this host – switched source topettarin/ptouch-print, an hourly-synced GitHub mirror, pinned to a specific commit since the mirror carries no tags.
New local-install adoptions, no notable issues: vasm,
bridge-utils, jwm (i686/pentium4 added, later reverted –
libpangoft2/fontconfig symbol breakage on official archlinux32
i686 repos, external and unfixable locally; user is downgrading pango
on affected machines), perl-http-daemon-ssl, cparser-git (verify
only), wordgrinder, osl, gatotray-git (same pango issue as jwm,
reverted), slock-git, x2x-git, tabula, mt-st-git,
pdf2htmlex, lxc-templates, jxplorer, qt5-webengine (x86_64
only, skipped 32-bit – multi-hour Chromium build), wkhtmltopdf,
aggregate, arch-diff, mtx-git (verify only), obextool,
tcllib, tklib, bwidget, archlinux-java-run (already checked
out and current, just needed registering), yed, mutt-ics (new,
extended to pentium4 – pure Python, no compiled code),
python-fangfrisch (existing stale checkout updated 1.9.0->1.9.2 via
git pull), apachedirectorystudio (new, x86_64 only – prebuilt
Eclipse RCP tarball, no 32-bit upstream build exists), miller-git
(new, Go build, extended to i686/pentium4).
smallerc and oberon-risc-emu-git were separately extended to
i686/pentium4 on explicit user follow-up after initially being built
x86_64-only.
Regenerated the overview and republished the site once at the very end of this whole batch, per the deferred-regen convention for an explicit multi-package queue.
2026-08-19 openssl-1.0: extended to i686/pentium4
Local openssl-1.0 (local-install) checkout was byte-identical to the
real upstream AUR PKGBUILD but declared arch=('x86_64') only, even
though build() already carried a working i686 branch
(openssltarget='linux-elf') from upstream itself – just never
exposed via arch=(). Added a pentium4 case alongside it (same
32-bit target) and extended arch=('x86_64' 'i686' 'pentium4'). Built
and published cleanly on all three arches on the first try; pkgrel
7 -> 7.1 (local-install, X.Y scheme). Note: check()’s OCSP test
prints several Verification: FAILED lines – these are the test
suite’s own intentional negative-result cases, not real failures (all
six packages still got uploaded). Regenerated the overview and
republished the site afterward.
2026-08-20 trojita-git/trojita-qt5-git mixup, fixed + gpgme dependency chain
Discovered and fixed a self-inflicted mess from earlier in the session:
arch/maintained/trojita-git’s PKGBUILD had been overwritten with
trojita-qt5-git’s content (both AUR pkgbases confusingly set
pkgname=trojita-qt5-git internally, an upstream copy-paste bug that
made this easy to miss). trojita-git is genuinely the Qt6 variant
(WITH_WEBKIT=OFF), trojita-qt5-git the Qt5+WebKit variant –
restored trojita-git from real upstream (pkgname corrected locally),
found and fixed its own real missing deps (qt6-5compat,
kitemmodels, qtkeychain-qt6, QGpgmeQt6 cmake path) – publishes
cleanly for x86_64 (KF6/kitemmodels not on 32-bit archlinux32, i686
dropped).
For trojita-qt5-git, fixing qtkeychain-qt5 and a missing gpgmepp
depend led to a genuine 32-bit dependency chain: qgpgme-qt5 needed
gpgmepp>=2.1.0 (archlinux32 had none for 32-bit) which needed
gpgme>=2.1.0 (archlinux32 only had 2.0.1) – built both gpgme and
gpgmepp ourselves for i686/pentium4 (upstream’s git host,
dev.gnupg.org, was also unreachable; switched to the official release
tarball, re-hosted on our own src/ mirror). Both, plus qgpgme-qt5
extended to 32-bit, needed a legacy icu76 linked to archlinux32’s
system Qt5Core. trojita-qt5-git itself then needed icu76 (for
lconvert), a different legacy icu72, and libxml2-legacy (only
available for i686, not pentium4) to satisfy its own qt5-webkit
dependency’s stale ABI. Final blocker: a Qt5 private API symbol
mismatch in libQt5Quick.so on i686 – an internal ABI inconsistency
in archlinux32’s own Qt5 stack, not fixable with a legacy-compat
package. Stopped there per user’s call; trojita-qt5-git publishes
x86_64 only.
Also fixed a real infrastructure problem hit mid-chain: the repo
host’s repo-add/repo-remove were extracting the package database
into /tmp, a tiny 32M tmpfs that finally overflowed after this
session’s cumulative package growth (Write failed: No space left on
device). Redirected both to TMPDIR=/data/tmp (626G free) in
arch/scripts/repo_lib.sh. Verified no earlier publish this session
was silently lost by spot-checking several packages directly in the
remote repo database.
Also added arch/scripts/repo_build_staged.sh: a new wrapper that
stages arch/-sourced package builds under /data/INSTALL/<pkgname>
instead of building in place, so downloaded sources/patches/logs
persist for inspection instead of being swept up by repo_build.sh’s
own untracked-file cleanup (which still exists, unmodified, for direct
manual use). repo_release.sh now calls this wrapper instead of
repo_build.sh directly; /data/INSTALL-only packages (no arch/
counterpart) pass through unaffected.
Regenerated the overview and republished the site afterward.
2026-08-20: cyrus-imapd2 renamed/fixed, dbmodel-qt4 re-verified
arch/adapted/cyrus-imapd2 was internally still named cyrus-imapd
(directory/pkgname mismatch, same class as the earlier trojita-git
mixup). Renamed to match the real AUR cyrus-imapd2 package: kept a
_pkgname=cyrus-imapd var for the real upstream source references,
set pkgname=cyrus-imapd2, renamed the .install file, added
provides/conflicts/replaces=('cyrus-imapd') so it properly supersedes
a plain cyrus-imapd install. While rebuilding, found and fixed a real
32-bit-only latent bug: imap/mboxevent.c declared a map_refresh()/
map_free() buffer-length local as unsigned long instead of
size_t – harmless on x86_64 (same 8-byte type) but a hard
incompatible-pointer-types error on i686 (size_t is unsigned int
there). Added a small patch for it. Published cleanly for x86_64 and
i686 (pkgrel 2.3); armv6h/armv7h skipped (no local chroots on this
workstation, not a package issue).
Re-verified dbmodel-qt4: x86_64 still builds/publishes cleanly
(pkgrel 7, unchanged). Confirmed directly on the repo host that the
long-standing i686 failure is because qt4 itself was only ever
published to archlinuxaba for x86_64 – not a chroot-visibility gap
(i686 chroots do see archlinuxaba now, unlike when this was first
investigated). Since qt4 isn’t a package this tree owns, not
actionable here.
Regenerated the overview and republished the site afterward.
2026-08-20: gcc47 – real stage1-bootstrap fixes for x86_64, 32-bit blocked on a structural ABI conflict
Root-caused the actual mechanism behind the i686/pentium4 bootstrap
failure precisely (previous attempts only diagnosed symptoms). Two real
fixes landed for x86_64: --with-stage1-ldflags='-static-libstdc++
-static-libgcc' (the documented GCC configure option for statically
linking stage1 host tools – a prior attempt via the make command
line didn’t actually propagate through GCC’s recursive sub-configure
structure) and --disable-nls (building libstdc++-v3’s translations
ran the system’s real msgfmt, which itself needs a modern
libstdc++/libgcc via libicuuc – but by that point the in-progress
build-tree libstdc++.so.6 shadows the real one in the search path,
breaking msgfmt; this also broke x86_64, which hadn’t hit it before).
Published gcc47-4.7.4-2.6 for x86_64.
For i686/pentium4: the stage1-ldflags fix genuinely got much further
(cc1 confirmed statically linked, build progressed to cross-building
libstdc++-v3 target libraries) before hitting a deeper, structural
issue – cc1 also transitively needs the system’s libgmpxx.so.4
(GMP’s C++ bindings, via PPL/CLooG), which needs the real system
libstdc++.so.6/libgcc_s.so.1 with a GCC_7.0.0 symbol version that
gcc-4.7.4’s own (2012-era) libgcc sources can never provide, and the
build-tree’s own incomplete libgcc_s.so.1 shadows the real one in the
search path for this unrelated consumer too. Not fixable via linker
flags – the real fix would be bootstrapping with an intermediate host
compiler (a prior maintainer already left a commented-out gcc49
escape hatch for exactly this), which would need gcc49 built for
i686/pentium4 too. Reverted arch=() to x86_64-only; full diagnosis in
memory/gcc47.md if revisited.
Regenerated the overview and republished the site afterward.
2026-08-21: full update cycle – 3 UPD packages (hfsfuse, thunderbird-esr-bin, linux-lts515)
Ran update_cycle.sh + check_aur_feedback.sh. STATES.txt flagged 3
packages; FEEDBACK.txt turned up one actionable AUR comment
(python2’s Gentoo-patches URL now 404ing) that’s deferred pending
user direction, plus routine/already-resolved items for litehtml0.9
and trojita-git.
hfsfuse: 0.435 -> 0.444, routine GitHub-tag bump (tarball existence
confirmed first). Built+published clean via repo_release.sh.
thunderbird-esr-bin: 140.13.0 -> 140.14.0. First build attempt
failed PGP verification on all 3 arches (unknown public key
678E455D76767AA3) – Mozilla rotated their release-signing subkey on
2026-08-06. Fixed by fetching the new subkey from
hkps://keys.openpgp.org (the old SKS-era keyservers didn’t have it
yet) and refreshing this package’s local keys/pgp/ cache via
scripts/update_pgp_key_dir.sh; rebuild then passed cleanly on all 3
arches. Adopted running that script proactively before every build
with validpgpkeys going forward, not just reactively after a
failure. See memory/thunderbird-esr-bin.md.
linux-lts515: 5.15.215 -> 5.15.216, routine point release via
update.sh (all 4 archs’ config diffs cosmetic-only). Built in the
wrong place first – directly inside arch/maintained/linux-lts515
rather than staged under /data/INSTALL – and since the x86_64
kernel compile was already well underway by the time that was caught,
let it finish rather than restart, then recovered by migrating the
full result (source + all 12 built files) into
/data/INSTALL/linux-lts515 (after rotating the previous, badly stale
2026-07-05 copy there aside to -old), git clean -fd-ing
arch/maintained/linux-lts515 back to pristine, and signing+publishing
straight from the staged copy. All 12 files (3 pkgnames x 4 archs)
published cleanly. Generalized this recovery into a reusable 5-step
procedure in memory/TOOLING_NOTES.md for any future in-place-build
mistake.
Regenerated the overview and republished the site afterward (deferred until the end of this 3-package queue, per the batch-queue convention).