Packages to update in Haiku repo

[pulkomandy]

Things to not forget for the beta3 release.

Update at least the following packages in the haiku repo and the release image:

• ICU to version 66 (or later), needed for WebKit updates
• There seem to be problems with gawk not being available for gcc2 anymore, it's suggested to switch to mawk (faster, smaller, used in debian and ubuntu as the default awk install)
• Add tnftp as we have removed the built-in FTP client in the haiku package
• Update Noto fonts (otherwise for example the backspace symbol in Keymap prefs is not showing)
• WebKit (prepare a new release after ICU has been updated and builders are running pre-beta3 versions of Haiku)
• New Mesa version?

[X512]

There seem to be problems with gawk not being available for gcc2 anymore

Any reasons for using GCC 2 for command line utilities? GCC 2 is really needed only for add-on support.

[pulkomandy]

No real reason, we could use only the x86 version I think, but we didn't manage to get that working with the script that collects the packages to use for haiku builds for some reason (it failed to resolve dependencies).

[pulkomandy]

Ping. It is annoying that only two people know how to do this/have the access to the server and they won't do it or document it.

[kallisti5]

I completely agree. Send me your ssh public key Pulkomandy

[kallisti5]

... also 4 people have access to the server :-)

[pulkomandy]

I don't even know which server I need to access for this. And the process does not seem properly/completely documented.

[kallisti5]

Just noting here that pulkomandy has access and ran the tools :-)

[pulkomandy]

Yes. Did a first build of a repo, hit some problems while building Haiku using it (missing libopus which is a new dependency of ffmpeg, for example). Will continue to work on it over the weekend.

[pulkomandy]

Done in hrev55089.

[korli]

Is the package update process now documented?

[pulkomandy]

Yes, ​https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/docs/develop/build/repositories/README.md was updated with the current instructions in hrev55040.