Re: [arch-general] Update GNU Wget

2016-02-03 Thread G. Schlisio
> I am the one maintaining wget-git on AUR, so I do use the latest version > anyways. However, as the maintainer of GNU Wget, I am interested in what > keeps Arch Linux from adopting the newest version yet. It's been flagged > out of date for almost three months now. If there is something that

Re: [arch-general] Link to the original efivars BBS thread

2016-02-03 Thread Kyle Terrien
Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 02/04/2016 12:45 AM, Kyle Terrien wrote: >> Was the thread moved? Does anyone have the new address of the thread? >> >> --Kyle >> >> [0]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207549 >> > > It's still there, but it was moved to TGN so you need to be logged into >

Re: [arch-general] Link to the original efivars BBS thread

2016-02-03 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 02/04/2016 12:45 AM, Kyle Terrien wrote: > Hello all, > > A few days ago, there was a big stink about bricking motherboards > accidentally with an overzealous rm that descended into > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. > > It all started with one thread on the BBS titled "No POST after rm -rf > /".

[arch-general] Link to the original efivars BBS thread

2016-02-03 Thread Kyle Terrien
Hello all, A few days ago, there was a big stink about bricking motherboards accidentally with an overzealous rm that descended into /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. It all started with one thread on the BBS titled "No POST after rm -rf /". After reading about the issue, I went into archivist mode

Re: [arch-general] pacman and hooks

2016-02-03 Thread Magnus Therning
Doug Newgard writes: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2016 23:51:16 +0100 > Magnus Therning wrote: > >> Doug Newgard writes: >> >> > On Tue, 02 Feb 2016 23:25:58 +0100 >> > Magnus Therning wrote: >> > >> >> Stefan Tatschner writes: >> >> >> >> > On 01.02.2016

[arch-general] [pacman] unknown-horizons / dependencies

2016-02-03 Thread Peter Nabbefeld
Hi, as far as I understood, there's a conflict between "unknown-horizons" and current version of fife. However, the game refuses to start, so I want to re-install it, respectively replace it by the git version. Using "pacman -Rssd" (also using only one "s"), optional dependencies of other

Re: [arch-general] [pacman] unknown-horizons / dependencies

2016-02-03 Thread Doug Newgard
On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 18:20:44 +0100 Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > Hi, > > as far as I understood, there's a conflict between "unknown-horizons" > and current version of fife. However, the game refuses to start, so I > want to re-install it, respectively replace it by the git

Re: [arch-general] Update GNU Wget

2016-02-03 Thread Darshit Shah
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:15 AM, G. Schlisio wrote: > Am 15.12.2015 um 00:44 schrieb Darshit Shah: > > Any updates on this issue? > > you might consider building it locally from ABS [0]. > it looks like a simple version bump is sufficient, and no other program > is linked