I would like to inform everyone that I have asked Nico to take over as the project's main maintainer.

For more than a year, Nico has been proving his value in answering all requests, keeping the builders working, and finding new mirrors and resources. I'm confident he's more than capable of replacing me, and wish him the best of luck.

I won't be leaving the staff, I'm just giving the project space to grow. From now on, please consider Nico's GPG keys the root one, signing our keyring and mirrorlist.

Congratulations to Nico. And a big hug to chaotic's current 85k users!

Hey guys! We have a new mirror located in France, provided by @sorcerer420's IRC network 🥳
Make sure to update your chaotic-mirrorlist & edit it accordingly if you want to force the usage of mirror 😊 if you are using the geo-mirror and live close to Paris, you will automatically be using the mirror.

#INTERVENTION #PYTHON

Lately the Python 3.10 update hit the Arch repos which means a lot of package rebuilds needed to be done. You can do sudo pacman -S $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.9) to reinstall all affected packages.

What's up everyone! I'm happy to announce that @edu4rdt recently joined the builders 🥳
In order, it might be a necessary to update the chaotic-keyring before other packages as the new signing key is needed for some packages.

A little heads up for people experiencing issues with DKMS module updates: today Arch pushed the long awaited GCC/Binutils/Glibc to core repos. By now, we rebuilt most kernels using the new GCC so reinstalling those updated packages will fix the warnings. Cheers! 😌

Hey people 👋
You might have noticed that updates were no longer pushed since Saturday - this is due to a full repo rebuild we started with the goal of a general cleanup and having everything compiled with the new toolchain. Initially, the plan was to freeze the mirrors and be done with it yesterday but things are taking longer than expected. Our mirrors will resume syncing once a missing set of packages has been fixed 😊
It's also worth noting that some packages will return at a later date while some others won't return at all due to compilation issues or PKGBUILDs being gone from AUR 👀

Update: the mirrors are fully synced up again 👌

It is now possible to use an IPFS mirror thanks to the pacman.store project providing it! The address can be found in the updated mirrorlist (of course disabled by default) while usage instructions can be found on the projects git repo 🚀

Hello everyone! 👋🏻
I hope you are alright and feeling fine! During the last few hours, a major repository cleanup & a lot of package fixes took place. The cleanup had the goal of spending less time building these packages & wasting less energy.

Most of the removed packages concerned the garuda-builder routines - here a lot of the listed packages were in fact not used anymore by respective maintainers, making them redundant. Some other packages were either severely outdated or not building anymore for a longer period of time.

This might have the side effect of also having removed a few packages that other people were using (as the packages were never requested since they were available already). If you are wondering why a package is suddenly marked as "foreign" if it wasn't before, it is very likely that the cleanup was causing it.

Don't be afraid, we can easily add them back (given they build successfully) - just open up an issue at our packages repo and we will handle the rest! 😊

At this point, since we never really had a proper announcement, I would also like to thank @Technetium1 and @alex_j_p for helping out with package maintenance and @itsTyrion and @shrirangkahale for providing their mirrors. ☺️

Finally, 5.18 TKG kernel builds are getting started soon, the toolbox was still building 5.17 ones until now. That's it for now, have a nice time! 🐱

Sup everyone! 👋🏻
We have some cool news regarding a (massive) bunch of new mirrors thanks to @edu4rdshl, @ayulauffer and @alissonlauffer! 🎉😁
The new locations are as follows:
- Arizona, USA
- Australia
- Brazil 2
- Canada 2
- Chile
- Finland
- Hong Kong
- New York, USA
- Saudi Arabia
- Taipei City
- United Arab Emirates
- Virginia, USA 2
As usual, our geo-mirror will route requests to the nearest location automatically, for those who prefer to do it manually there is the updated chaotic-mirrorlist.
Cheers! 🧑🏻‍💻

Did some codering today and came up with a fancy lil project

Ever wondered where the chaotic mirrors are and which one is used? Well now you can know!
https://status.chaotic.cx/map
Also super great if you want to consider hosting a mirror wink wink

We're aware of connection issues in our main router, we're investing it, expect instability in all mirrors and .chaotic.cx domain.

UPDATE: Problem bypassed!

It is time for another announcement! I hope everyone is feeling good ☺️
After having performed a full repository rebuild due to OpenSSL 3 hitting the Arch repositories, a few packages aren't yet back. We are tracking the progress in this GitHub issue! 📑

A merry Christmas to everyone! Have a nice time and take care of yourselves🎄🎁🤗

Hello everyone! 🤗
We have a new statuspage powered by Upptime! 🎉 Being completely driven by GitHub actions, it is also able to automatically create issues and tag the corresponding maintainer in case of outages. Its repo can be found here. 👀

Chaotic-CDN is back! A big thanks to @makzk for providing a mirror in Chile as well as @ayulauffer for providing Silky.Network mirrors! ❤️

Our mirror map has become pretty green again😊

Officially releasing https://github.com/chaotic-cx/nyx today

It works for any distro with nix package manager installed, though Linux-only (no Darwin) and the modules are NixOS-only. Includes daily bumped gamescope_git, mesa_git, sway_git, yuzu-early-access_git.

For non-nixers, you can run any of these things without installing system-wide, like: nix run github:chaotic-cx/nyx/nyxpkgs-unstable#gamescope_git -- -w 1920 -h 1080 -W 3440 -H 1440 -b vkcube

Updates on a separated tg channel: @chaotic_nyx

We are aware of the python 3.11 bump, we're rebuilding stuff already, there are a lot of packages please be patient.

If stuff fails, please rebuild them from AUR (specify "aur/" to your helper, like "paru -S aur/python-mydarilingpackage"), most python packages are light, or wait a little more before upgrading.

Hello chaotic community 🤗

Some of you might have noticed a new username among our maintainers lately - therefore I'd like to officially welcome @stackofprimes (xiota), who is going to help with general package maintenance 🥳
They already initiated a massive cleanup of broken / obsolete packages as well as a lot of package fixes which also means having more space for other applications 🎉

The Arch Linux project announces that they are retiring the community repo since Chaotic-AUR got it covered. It's mirrors are currently in progress of being synced to reflect those changes 🚀
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