Re: [arch] Syntax error!

2005-03-24 Thread Aaron Griffin
## checking package integrity...done. loading package data...erro: syntax error in description file line 1 load_pkg: missing package name in /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg/glib-1.2.10-4. ## i'm assuming it's a custom built glib can you provide the PKGBUILD file... and

Re: [arch] For the life of me why Arch /windows dual boot not wor king?

2005-04-01 Thread Aaron Griffin
I am told that such a setup will screw my pc up because of the compaq partition on the first harddisk. Apperently manufactures like compaq have custom booting sequences and overwriting the main boot record will mess the pc up. That is why i have avoided this method. So until i am absolutly

Re: [arch] how to add some packages?

2005-04-01 Thread Aaron Griffin
you can check here: http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Custom%20local%20repository%20with%20ABS%20and%20gensync AUR has been promised for a while now... so cross your fingers 8) - phrakture - ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] first impressions

2005-04-04 Thread Aaron Griffin
the audio group should own those devices... just make sure you add your user to the audio group same with cd/dvd drives and the optical group... and there's a video group as well... ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] Better Support for wireless

2005-04-04 Thread Aaron Griffin
It might also be nice to add a COMMIT = [y | n] option... some cards require an explicit commit at the very end, so maybe a check: if [ COMMIT = y ]; then iwconfig $INTERFACE commit fi On Apr 4, 2005 2:05 PM, Aaron Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, suggestion about the placement

Re: [arch] PGKBUILD websystem

2005-04-04 Thread Aaron Griffin
Hmm, so you started this new system right after the AUR beta two weeks before the official final AUR launch? The AUR system will have about the same features. The intention of AUR was to get rid of packages and PKGBUILDs floating everywhere. It's still a nice system...

Re: [arch] Better Support for wireless

2005-04-06 Thread Aaron Griffin
I have found out that the script don`t work if you set up a leastime forever in your ap. DHCPD exits and the setup fails. Any ideas? Pierre Hmmm, well, sounds like an issue with dhcpcd... try adding -l 86400 to your /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd_args file and see if that helps... (86400 is a lease for

Re: [arch] Update failes, yp-tools conflicts

2005-04-06 Thread Aaron Griffin
checking for file conflicts... error: the following file conflicts were found: yp-tools: /bin/domainname: exists in filesystem yp-tools: /bin/nisdomainname: exists in filesystem yp-tools: /bin/ypdomainname: exists in filesystem can you do the following: pacman -Qo /bin/domainname

Re: [arch] Update failes, yp-tools conflicts

2005-04-06 Thread Aaron Griffin
checking for file conflicts... error: the following file conflicts were found: yp-tools: /bin/domainname: exists in filesystem yp-tools: /bin/nisdomainname: exists in filesystem yp-tools: /bin/ypdomainname: exists in filesystem can you do the following: pacman -Qo /bin/domainname

Re: [arch] removed docs

2005-04-08 Thread Aaron Griffin
I personally hate info pages - but I see no harm in adding them... I mean what's the max size of all these pages? 20MB... ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] AUR Released!

2005-04-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
200 downloads, it's probably fairly popular and should be made official)... maybe some type of translation mechanism (every 10 download == 1 vote increment)? Aaron Griffin phrakture ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org

Re: [arch] AUR Released!

2005-04-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
Remember there was once a plan to integrate this with archstats. Voting integrate there. Hey, that'd be cool - it'd have a bonus of bumping up the archstats usage (mines currently off, dunno why...)... wouldn't be that hard really ___ arch mailing

Re: [arch] aur packages not found

2005-04-29 Thread Aaron Griffin
Not all packages from AUR are in the community repo - only supported packages (the ones marked unsupported are only available in PKGBUILD form) - phrakture On 4/29/05, Fabian Braennstroem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I adjusted my pacman.conf- custom part to have access to the aur packages.

Re: [arch] gcc4

2005-05-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 5/2/05, Christer Solskogen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GCC 4.0 is in testing, and I was wondering if it was compiled using gcc 4.0? (or is this not needed anymore?) It's never *needed* - it's a minor, minor optimization that people seem to think is important. Does it matter if you save 0.3

Re: [arch] gcc4

2005-05-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 5/2/05, Neoklis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Viehrig wrote: the code should also be faster On Mon, 2 May 2005 12:06:49 -0500 Aaron Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I think this is relevant to this thread: http://www.coyotegulch.com/reviews/gcc4/index.html Ah, I

Re: [arch] cvsup and the AUR

2005-05-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
The issue here is, essentially, whether or not (or to what extent) there should be cvsup access (right along with abs) to the unsupported portion of the AUR. This, among other things, opens up the possibility for a user to relatively easily compile and install packages from the AUR using

Re: [arch] Initscripts w/ Network Profiles

2005-05-03 Thread Aaron Griffin
Ok, my input...Judd, I actually like your implementation slightly better than mine (and Pierre's) Let me suggest something: --- /etc/conf.d/net_profiles lo: config=lo 127.0.0.1 home: wireless=eth0 mode

Re: [arch] cvsup and the AUR

2005-05-03 Thread Aaron Griffin
A good idea, though. Webs of trust are cool in general, and I could imagine using them somehow in AUR at some point. Coming up with a quality score for a package based on how many of your trusted people voted that it was well-written, for example. I agree that sounds good... perhaps create

Re: [arch] cvsup and the AUR

2005-05-03 Thread Aaron Griffin
Well, that's kinda like the TUR's, only it's up to you to see if the user is trusted or not... I guess... sounds more like personal repos to me you map to my repo and you're trusting me (dusty does... my next wmii package is going to delete his WHOLE machine muaahahahaha)

Re: [arch] initng vs. sysv

2005-05-06 Thread Aaron Griffin
doubt Arch will change because something was slashdotted. Aaron Griffin phrakture ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] Idea for better init-scripts

2005-05-06 Thread Aaron Griffin
So, what about an easy grouping-mechanism? For example: (syslog @(hotplug dbus hal !alsa) @httpd !cups) you can use hotplug @dbus @hal Well, this is not very usefull because hotplug is the demon which needs a lot of time. dbus and hal start up fast. Ok, ummm you can get the same

Re: [arch] Initscripts w/ Network Profiles

2005-05-09 Thread Aaron Griffin
in general: * wired and wireless-networked should be configured the same way * a readable config-file (I like the one Aaron Griffin has posted) * parameters not needed should be optinal * optional commands which can be called after connecting and before disconnecting are usefull for VPN

Re: [arch] Arch on LinuxTag 2004

2005-05-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
Hmmm, it's short notice, but I'm interested in going - I've never been to europe before... or LinuxTag... I'll have to think about it and look into details like others have said, can someone step up and form some concrete plans (who, what, when, where)? i can take my laptop with me showing

Re: [arch] Question about /var packages

2005-05-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
For general interest, I use /www as it's the default for lighttpd... I like it a bit better as it's daemon agnostic. Whereas if you wanted to use the home scheme, and multiple HTTP servers, you'd have a mess of symlinks between /home/httpd /home/lighttpd /home/thttpd /home/some_other_server

Re: [arch] sysctl.conf

2005-05-18 Thread Aaron Griffin
Aaron Griffin wrote: Well, Arch doesn't set any kernel parameters by default, so sysctrl.conf isn't needed on install - it's only needed if a user needs to set kernel parameters, in which case, the old Arch addage of do it yourself comes into play. why not just add the proper entries

Re: [arch] DevFS is leaving

2005-06-13 Thread Aaron Griffin
For those of you running 2.4, it's not the end of the world. It just means you would have to compile your own kernel or use one from an extraneous repository like AUR or a user-controlled one. My guess is that, once 2.4 leaves Current, a few diehard 2.4 users will fill the void with their

Re: [arch] AUR forum thread

2005-06-14 Thread Aaron Griffin
Also, know that we are now resolved to make [community] and the unsupported collection accessible via cvsup, so that you can fetch the whole thing cleanly at once. Hopefully that will be a better solution than aurscrape -- which is effective.. don't mean to disparage it.. but inefficient.

Re: [arch] About the user forums

2005-06-15 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 6/15/05, Christopher Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order for that to work you would need someone full time taking questions and answers and posting them into the wiki which I think is kinda the bottom line point. Maveric-i686- For fun I was setting up a bot to do this sort of thing

Re: [arch] AUR forum thread

2005-06-16 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 6/16/05, cactus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to say that I find this whole how to quote properly in an Haha... well there's some of us email discussion as just plain rediculous. that aren't really sure ho- At least in a forum, I can easily ignore threads like this. yikes. I guess

Re: [arch] Playing with planet software

2005-06-29 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 6/29/05, Jason Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've set up a Planet Arch Linux for all the blogs, etc that relate to Arch. We might as well bring all the data together in one place. http://xentac.net/~jchu/planetarch/ Currently this is the URL. If everything comes together well, I'll get

Re: [arch] LinuxTag in Karlsruhe is over and went well

2005-07-01 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 7/1/05, Tobias Kieslich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 17:25:49 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: Hi, would be nice to put some names to the photo. There you go: http://tobias.tk-studio.de/images/112olymp/p1010008_b.jpg -tobbi could everybuddy please check his name

Re: [arch] wireless usb adapter

2005-07-01 Thread Aaron Griffin
I have a USB to Ethernet dongle... it works well On 7/1/05, Phil Dillon-Thiselton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The linuxquestions.org hardware compatibility list (HCL) has some wireless USB options on it - check out netgear - I think that is pretty good Phil -Original Message-

Re: [arch] Roaming Network Profiles (another attempt)

2005-07-06 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 7/5/05, Jason Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:07:00PM -0700, Judd Vinet wrote: Hey guys, I've made another attempt at hacking up some roaming network profiles. I wanted a system that could be used on top of the existing network config in rc.conf. I saw some

Re: [arch] makepkg does not fail in case the install script is not found

2005-07-07 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 7/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if I have a package that does not use an install script ? (ug) +# check for an install script +if [ $install != ]; then ... snip ... +fi That comment should explain it well enough 8)

Re: [arch] Suggestion for planet.archlinux.org

2005-07-08 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 7/8/05, Yi Qiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mircea Bardac wrote: I would like to point out that, on no other Planet I know, I don't get 20+ posts per day. Unfortunately, this happens with ArchLinux's Planet. Why so: Because * http://www.archlinux.org/rdf_feed.php (Official Updated

Re: [arch] Suggestion for planet.archlinux.org

2005-07-08 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 7/8/05, Jason Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree, people can subscribe to the package updates seperately if they wish. What I do think planet arch needs are hackergotchi's :) It's no problem to add them. If the different people who's feeds are being aggregated want them, they can

Re: [arch] Obtaining the .config file for kernel compile (again).

2005-07-10 Thread Aaron Griffin
Or run abs and check /var/abs/kernels/kernel26/config On 7/10/05, Mikael Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Terry wrote: I remember a previous post some months ago where Judd provided the latest .config file for the kernel. As I compile for win4lin, I'd like to get a copy. Is

Re: [arch] Subversion upgrade error

2005-07-18 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 7/18/05, Jason Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is related to the pacman upgrade. You notice how it still says upgrading subversion... done.? That means that subversion upgraded with no problems. There is a technical reason for the checks, but not the output (you'll have

Re: [arch] Roaming Network Profiles (another attempt)

2005-07-20 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 7/20/05, James Rayner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a question (i dont have access to linux atm) Does this new setup offer detection of wireless networks? iphitus Well, no, but like I said to dibble, seeing as the profiles are just sourced bash scripts, you can have it execute some crap

Re: [arch] 迫持

2005-07-22 Thread Aaron Griffin
dp's alive!! random japanese quiz time... how do you say: * I have a turkey in the car * Would you like to taste the fish? * I am a loud man in a very large hat. It's very important, I need to know ASAP JK On 7/22/05, matthew g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the point of this is?? On

Re: [arch] smartmontools

2005-07-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 7/28/05, Dimitrios Apostolou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand the procedure, if people like it and vote it, it will be included in the community repository. The reason I mention it in this list is that I think such a package is important enough to be in current or extra. Do you

Re: [arch] smartmontools

2005-07-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 7/28/05, Christer Solskogen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:45:29 -0500 Aaron Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously this package can't be that important because: a) I've honestly never heard of it and can't even bring myself to care enough to click the link Just

Re: [arch] About XOrg

2005-07-29 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 7/29/05, Douglas Soares de Andrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, then a question appeared im my head... Why xorg does not use fnlib as a pre-requisite to be installed ? Probably because it's optional - it should have some output though... but most packages don't have a depend=() entry for

Re: [arch] smartmontools

2005-08-01 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/1/05, Philip Dillon-Thiselton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't people just vote? It's not difficult for goodness sake! Hah... someone even said (somewhere) It's such a hassle to register just to vote ___ arch mailing list

Re: [arch] Do you guys like me?

2005-08-04 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/4/05, matthew g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I want to know if you guys like me? Would you guys like me to participate in active disscusion? Please tell me the truth. I'm very unsure of a lot of things. I know for a fact when I was at school not to many people liked me. I figure it

Re: [arch] child

2005-08-04 Thread Aaron Griffin
First time I heard it was in speech... so my response was: What the hell are ass burgers? On 8/4/05, RedShift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard about Asperger's syndrome before, saw a documentary on it long time ago. On a personal note, whatever limitations I would have (be it mentally or

Re: [arch] Palm Sync: serious problem

2005-08-05 Thread Aaron Griffin
Stupid responses from me: a) can you provide a link to Dusty's posts about this? b) does anything different happen as root? it says 'failed to backup database', so maybe it doesn't have the proper permissions somewhere On 8/5/05, Paul Mattal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I *think* this is a

Re: [arch] Palm Sync: serious problem

2005-08-05 Thread Aaron Griffin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Griffin wrote: Stupid responses from me: a) can you provide a link to Dusty's posts about this? Admittedly, I don't know for fact that what he's encountered is the same issue, but misery loves company, and it's certainly possible that whatever's causing my

Re: [arch] package heimdal vs netkit-rsh

2005-08-05 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/5/05, Don Bostrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me why the current/heimdal 0.6.5-1 conflicts with the netkit-rsh 0.17-2 package? Provides : netkit-rsh When a package has a the provides line, it means that everything that is part of what it's providing is included.

Re: [arch] run perl script daemon as non-root user

2005-08-08 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/8/05, Rosenstrauch, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: su - username -c commandtorun Ick. I was hoping for a better way. That's actually a fairly standard way of doing it. Most udev runnable programs do this... i.e. Xandros has a udev script to open up konqeror (sp?) when a usb device is

Re: [arch] Dissappointed in the newsletter 'faq' item.

2005-08-09 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/9/05, Douglas Soares de Andrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The newsletter are in control of the devs ? If so, im very sad, because, these kind of commentaries should never go for a official archlinux way of talking to its users. No, it's under the control of dibble, xerxes2, myself, and

Re: [arch] Re: Dissappointed in the newsletter 'faq' item.

2005-08-09 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/9/05, Douglas Soares de Andrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing, phrak. I think that the channel should be best moderated. There are some kind of jokes there that dont are suitable for a official archlinux channel, since there is the prime place for newcomers. Why not create a

Re: [arch] Arch Politics

2005-08-09 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/9/05, Igor Galic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dusty Phillips wrote: alot of stuff that was all true So instead of starting yet another, probably fruitless, discussion, we should all quietly agree, and get back to having a great distro, like we used before. So long, Igor. Hahahahah.

Re: [arch] Arch Politics

2005-08-10 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/10/05, Dusty Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a slight modification to the bike shed theory: http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/16.19.shtml Ya I wanted to link to that, but couldn't find it. Dusty mine is green (

Re: [arch] Newsletters

2005-08-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
I never knew the newsletters were actually emailed - most people are referencing the newsletter posted on the main page of archlinux.org On 8/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:27:40PM +0100, Rosenstrauch, David wrote: Anyone have any idea why I'm

Re: [arch] Problem with monitor

2005-08-12 Thread Aaron Griffin
Technically a high powered AC-DC converter then an DC-AC converter would work fine... I'd throw an isolation transformer in there too for good measure, but that should fix it... though it's expensive and you'd have to do some wiring, which is dangerous on outlets [ outlet ] [ isolation xfrmr

Re: [arch] KDE compile flags

2005-08-19 Thread Aaron Griffin
it might be that the testing binaries are stripped... did you make a pacman package (or manually run strip on it)? On 8/19/05, Nick Schermer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the compile flags used to compile KDE in testing, because I compiled KDE with -march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2

Re: [arch] terminal display problems with screen, with alsamixer/kismet on

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Griffin
This is a terminfo issue - I had the same thing with centericq... I solved this by including the following in my bashrc: alias screen=TERM=screen screen ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] 0.7 extra

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Griffin
Hah, I'm with RedShift on this - there's no point in doing this and it's directly agains the Arch philosophy. If you're wanting to do something like this, I would suggest checking out RedHat or Fedora Core On 8/22/05, RedShift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess you're out of luck. Why would

Re: [arch] 0.7 extra

2005-08-22 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/22/05, John Proctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some issues with KDE 3.4 has caused problems with some other tools that I use. I just want KDE 3.3 and all libs that it depends on from the time of 0.7. I can build it all or piece it together, but a frozen repository would be ideal. There are

Re: [arch] terminal display problems with screen, with alsamixer/kismet on

2005-08-23 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/23/05, Igor Galic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Griffin wrote: This is a terminfo issue - I had the same thing with centericq... I solved this by including the following in my bashrc: alias screen=TERM=screen screen I tested this configuration and it works pretty good on my

Re: [arch] pacman feature request

2005-08-23 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/23/05, eliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yum has the following feature: check-update Implemented so you could know if your machine had any updates that needed to be applied without running it interactively. Returns exit value of 100 if there are packages available for an update.

Re: [arch] Pronnounciation of our beloved distribution's name

2005-08-24 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/24/05, Andy Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 Aug 2005 14:15, Bozhidar Batsov wrote: Hello, I hate to bother you with such foolish question, but does someone now how does Judd refer to the distro, because the word arch has double pronnounciation - [a:tS] and [a:k]. We

Re: [arch] terminal display problems with screen, with alsamixer/kismet on

2005-08-24 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/24/05, Igor Galic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few other problems i encountered today: Vim. [home]/[end] still doesn't work -- in X, that is. It does however work in the console. Ummm what does your inputrc look like? did you check mine? check these out: http://phraktured.net/.inputrc

Re: [arch] Pronnounciation of our beloved distribution's name

2005-08-24 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/24/05, Bozhidar Batsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/24/05, Andy Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 Aug 2005 14:15, Bozhidar Batsov wrote: Hello, I hate to bother you with such foolish question, but does someone now how does Judd

Re: [arch] pacman feature request

2005-08-25 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/25/05, Jürgen Hötzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:02:30PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: On 8/23/05, eliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yum has the following feature: check-update Implemented so you could know if your machine had any updates that needed

Re: [arch] pacman feature request

2005-08-25 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/25/05, Jürgen Hötzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:10:24AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: On 8/25/05, Jürgen Hötzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:02:30PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: On 8/23/05, eliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yum has

Re: [arch] 2.6.13-archck1 - cko like patchset

2005-08-29 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/29/05, James Rayner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ArchCK is a derivation of the CK patchset that is taking a similar path to the old CKO patchset. It aims to include a variety of popular features and updates that have not currently made it to the vanilla kernel. Con Kolivas' CK patchset is the

Re: [arch] DEVFS removed from kernel 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/29/05, Jason Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Version 0.8 will have a kernel with no devfs. I suspect we won't get rid of devfs completely till then (then again, if the kernel people take it out, we may have to push through 0.8 sooner than later ;) ). It sounds like you missed the thread

Re: [arch] 2.6.13-archck1 - cko like patchset

2005-08-31 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/31/05, Richard Golier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This wasn't happening with old kernel. I love this statement hey, if it didn't happen with the old kernel, use the old kernel. Otherwise, it's yet-another-kernel-upgrade-issue. This happens. Don't freak out. Just fix it. For the

Re: [arch] Question towards this libtool stuff

2005-08-31 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/31/05, Matthias-Christian Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I read the issue about libtool on the website, but I asking myself howto get my packages built during the switch. Have a look tomboy for example: /bin/sed: can't read /opt/gnome/lib/libgnomeprint-2-2.la: No such file or

Re: [arch] Question towards this libtool stuff

2005-08-31 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 8/31/05, Philip Dillon-Thiselton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Griffin wrote: On 8/31/05, Matthias-Christian Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I read the issue about libtool on the website, but I asking myself howto get my packages built during the switch. Have a look tomboy

Re: [arch] Codename for the upcoming Arch Linux 0.8

2005-09-08 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/8/05, Aaron Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this thread will never end. Damn straight! What's better than spamming random words that would make cool/funny names for a release Arch 0.8 - Oxcart Arch 0.8 - Dingle Arch 0.8

Re: [arch] Codename for the upcoming Arch Linux 0.8

2005-09-08 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/8/05, Matthias-Christian Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Heisenberg (in remembrance of Werner Heisenberg) That one's uncertain. hahahahaha (I hope someone gets it) ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] Codename for the upcoming Arch Linux 0.8

2005-09-08 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/8/05, Martin Lefebvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arch 0.8: DASHER Arch 0.8: DANCER Arch 0.8: PRANCER Arch 0.8: VIXEN Arch 0.8: COMET Arch 0.8: CUPID Arch 0.8: DONNER Arch 0.8: BLITZEN Arch 0.8: Cookies Arch 0.9: Milk ___ arch mailing

Re: [arch] Codename for the upcoming Arch Linux 0.8

2005-09-08 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/8/05, Matthias-Christian Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Chu wrote: My vote goes for Noodly. Jason Why it sounds like noodle, which is according to my dictionary food or a idiot. This makes no sense. It's just a stupid name. I'm _against_ it. Matthias-Christian Hah, your

Re: [arch] Codename for the upcoming Arch Linux 0.8

2005-09-08 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/8/05, K. Piche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cabbie - gets you where you're going(tm) Speaking of that, does anyone else think we could come up with a better tagline than An i686 Optimized Distribution? How about Ockam's razor meets Linux! ___ arch

Re: [arch] Automounting

2005-09-16 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/16/05, Jan de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 15:43 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote: It seems that there are a lot of automounters out there at the moment--autofs, automount, supermount, submount, ivman--but which one is the best to use? I know that D-BUS/HAL make

Re: [arch] wmi - to be or not to be

2005-09-19 Thread Aaron Griffin
For the record, I have wmii already in [community], so you need not worry about that, unless you plan on moving it into extra. I have only been packaging the releases, though snapshots are released often. I think wmi10 is still worthwhile, and should remain there, as they are seperate WMs, not

Re: [arch] wmi - to be or not to be

2005-09-20 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/19/05, James Rayner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be enough people here disagreeing with merging to extra, so we may as well hijack this thread :P Arg, missing the point - wmi and wmii are both stable and working window managers, and are entirely different from each other. It is

Re: [arch] Brace for impact

2005-09-20 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/20/05, Askadar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arch combines the good points of other distributions: the easy configuration from Slackware, the package management from Debian, the build system from Gentoo. The Installation is a lot of work. The reward for your effort is a stable and fast system,

[arch] servers down?

2005-09-20 Thread Aaron Griffin
Is archlinux.org down? Anyone experiencing problems or is it just me? - phrak ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] servers down?

2005-09-20 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/20/05, eliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judd Vinet said: Yup. All's well again now, though. We'll probably have to chuck some more RAM into that box (or get another one) to handle the increasing load. Just curious Judd, what are the specs on that box? I have some spare ram if it's

Re: [arch] Put [community] by default into 0.8

2005-09-20 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/20/05, Vinay Shastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a point of criticism has always been that Arch has a lot of packages missing from the standard repositories. What about including [community] by default in 0.8s pacman.conf? TUs do their work diligently and new users could be offered a

Re: [arch] Put [community] by default into 0.8

2005-09-20 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/20/05, Khashayar Naderehvandi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we could ask users during installation whether they would want [community] enabled or not, and also throw in an appropriate warning. The value of this idea, I think, lies in the fact that the new user will be aware of

Re: [arch] servers down?

2005-09-21 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/20/05, Martin Lefebvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aren't you scared phrakture is going to start stalking you? Or maybe I'll start stalking.grandcentral station... ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] servers down?

2005-09-21 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/21/05, Matthew G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan de Groot wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:46 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: On 9/20/05, eliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judd Vinet said: Yup. All's well again now, though. We'll probably have to chuck some more RAM into that box

Re: [arch] Why is madwifi unsupported?

2005-09-23 Thread Aaron Griffin
In addition, madwifi does not release anything - the entire codebase is in cvs with no releases ever: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82936 This is just flat out terrible form. It says quite a few things about the developers which I won't go into just yet - but in order to

Re: [arch] PKGBUILD Guidelines Question

2005-09-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/28/05, Andrew Conkling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should probably be installing the python scripts to site-packages, e.g. via distutils. That's the right place for Python stuff, but I'm not sure about the rest. http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/doc/ That's not nessecarilly

Re: [arch] RFC: pacman wishlist

2005-09-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/27/05, Mark Rosenstand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made a feature wishlist for pacman. I'd like to hear your comments! 1. Option to fake %REASON% when --add'ing packages. This is handy, for example, if you're installing $makedepend'ed packages or a chain of home made packages

Re: [arch] RFC: pacman wishlist

2005-09-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
You know. I was going to respond in a logical fashion to everything you said, until I noticed this little gem: You are being stupid. Well, Mr Mark. Let me be the first (and hopefully, for your own sake, not the last) to say: you are being stupid. You request functionality without so much as

Re: [arch] RFC: pacman wishlist

2005-09-29 Thread Aaron Griffin
I need to point out that Judd has probably wiped his hands clean of this thread. You people are getting nowhere. /me puts on his in defense of bfinch hat You want documentation? Do it yourself, just like the PPC port, x86_64 port, Archie, and other misc projects. Like someone above stated,

Re: [arch] PKGBUILD Guidelines Question

2005-09-29 Thread Aaron Griffin
/ shedskin /usr/bin/ss On Wednesday 28 September 2005 11:24 am, Aaron Griffin wrote: On 9/28/05, Andrew Conkling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should probably be installing the python scripts to site-packages, e.g. via distutils. That's the right place for Python stuff, but I'm not sure

Re: [arch] RFC: pacman wishlist

2005-09-29 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 9/29/05, Mark Rosenstand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too much to read ... man, I wish I still cared about this thread... can we just stop this? ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] Discontinue Development

2005-09-30 Thread Aaron Griffin
Yeah, don't contact me about it either On 9/30/05, eliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which project was that? Matthias-Christian Ott said: Hi, I decided to discontinue all development related to Arch Linux/Pacman. I don't have the time to continue and don't want it. I will remove all my

Re: [arch] Re: Unlibtooling program

2005-10-04 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 10/4/05, James Rayner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to bitch on the bugtracker: http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=detailsid=3290 you need to keep going down the chain (I'd report each package too) - if you slayed cairo, and now fontconfig is complaining, slay fontconfig - continue

Re: [arch] wmii: tabs disabled

2005-10-06 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 10/5/05, Mathias Beig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to get all clients into bar when tabs are disabled? tabs are not disabled... you need to unlock the client, then create a new one. IIRC it's MODKEY+u to unlock and MODKEY+SHIFT+u for lock

Re: [arch] listing packages which are not in the repos

2005-10-07 Thread Aaron Griffin
Hmm I'd vote for it in pacman... sounds worthwhile... until then: #! /bin/bash installed=`pacman -Q | tr ' ' -` repos=`pacman -Sl | cut -d' ' -f2,3 | tr ' ' -` for pkg in $installed do found=`echo $repos | tr ' ' \n | grep $pkg` if [ $found != $pkg ]; then echo $pkg fi done

Re: [arch] Easytag-devel in AUR

2005-10-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 10/11/05, Andrew Conkling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that easytag-devel is orphaned in the AUR but that easytag in the extra repository is the same version. Does it still need to be in the AUR? This was discussed earlier, and there were some issues removing it - IIRC neotuli was

[arch] random pacman idea

2005-10-18 Thread Aaron Griffin
I'll detail my train of thought here, as it makes this idea seem rather cool. I keep a system level ctags file (ctags -R /usr/include), and every now and then, APIs change and I need to update the tagfile, but don't notice it on installation. I thought it'd be nice if pacman somehow let me know

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