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OIL REMOVED FROM EXTRA AS NVIDIA-OPEN, LINUX-ZEN MOVE TO TESTING
By RepoJournal · Filed · About Arch Linux · Composed from the cited sources · methodology
Arch purged the oil package from extra-x86_64 while three major kernel and driver updates advance through the staging pipeline.
The packaging team removed oil [1] from the extra repository, cleaning up a dependency that's seen limited adoption. Meanwhile, three significant updates are graduating from staging to testing: nvidia-open [3] continues its journey toward stable, linux-zen [5] is now available for testing, and netfilter-fullconenat [4] moved up as well. Firefox Developer Edition bumped to 151.0b5-1 [2] in the same window. For systems running nvidia hardware or zen kernels, these testing packages are ready to validate before the stable push.
Action items
- → Test linux-zen from extra-testing if you run zen kernel builds archlinux/svntogit-packages [plan]
- → Verify nvidia-open stability in testing if you have RTX/newer hardware archlinux/svntogit-packages [plan]
- → Remove oil package from any local configs if installed archlinux/svntogit-packages [monitor]
References
- [1] remove oil from extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
- [2] update firefox-developer-edition to 151.0b5-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
- [3] move nvidia-open from extra-staging-x86_64 to extra-testing-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
- [4] move netfilter-fullconenat from extra-staging-x86_64 to extra-testing-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
- [5] move linux-zen from extra-staging-x86_64 to extra-testing-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
