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Thanks to Erik Jan Tromp for assistance and advice with testing the changes
for lzip and thread support, as well for as getting a bug in lzlib/plzip
fixed upstream.
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* Version 1.20 released.
* main.cc: Added new option '--loose-trailing'.
* Improved corrupt header detection to HD=3.
* main.cc: Show corrupt or truncated header in multimember file.
* main.cc (main): Option '-S, --volume-size' now keeps input files.
* encoder_base.*: Adjust dictionary size for each member.
* Replaced 'bits/byte' with inverse compression ratio in output.
* Show progress of decompression at verbosity level 2 (-vv).
* Show progress of (de)compression only if stderr is a terminal.
* main.cc: Show final diagnostic when testing multiple files.
* main.cc: Do not add a second .lz extension to the arg of -o.
* decoder.cc (verify_trailer): Show stored sizes also in hex.
Show dictionary size at verbosity level 4 (-vvvv).
* lzip.texi: Added chapter 'Output'.
Last edited by franzen; 02-15-2018 at 04:12 AM.
Reason: changelog added
I found out the new network configuration in rc.inet1 using iproute2 does not setup the broadcast address, so some programs using getifaddrs or struct ifaddrs for network discovery do not get a broadcast address, for example CUPS, if there is no broadcast address it does not found the LAN printers.
I just realized about it even though the scripts were updated on Fri Nov 17 00:56:25 UTC 2017, so I'm sharing the information.
Firefox 58 has no sound for alsa even though it is built with "--enable-alsa".
There is a simple patch that fixes the problem:
Code:
# HG changeset patch
# User Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>
Bug 1430274 - Define MOZ_ALSA for more source files.
diff --git a/security/sandbox/linux/moz.build b/security/sandbox/linux/moz.build
index 7347659..3b4d405 100644
--- a/security/sandbox/linux/moz.build
+++ b/security/sandbox/linux/moz.build
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ if CONFIG['MOZ_GMP_SANDBOX']:
'SandboxOpenedFiles.cpp',
]
+if CONFIG['MOZ_ALSA']:
+ DEFINES['MOZ_ALSA'] = True
+
# This copy of SafeSPrintf doesn't need to avoid the Chromium logging
# dependency like the one in libxul does, but this way the behavior is
# consistent. See also the comment in SandboxLogging.h.
The problem should be fixed in Firefox 59 as mentioned in the bug report:
I know, it is in the SBo, BUT it is literally part of the VDPAU stack and a must to have for using hardware accelerated decoding by Flash Player and natively shipped MPlayer, even FFMPEG then our beloved Firefox will use that for Youtube.
And that "hardware accelerated decoding" can have dramatic benefits on low powered Intel laptops and not only. For example, that can double the battery life while watching movies.
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