Re: [arch-general] User/group name restrictions

2019-05-23 Thread Spencer Collyer
On Thu, 23 May 2019 19:08:22 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 5/23/19 3:15 PM, Andy Pieters wrote: > > Hi > > > > This is something I gotten used to live with for a very long time > > now, patching the shadow package every time it is updated to allow > > capitals in the user/group

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 5/23/19 6:48 PM, ProgAndy wrote: > Am 24.05.19 um 00:21 schrieb mar77i via arch-general: > ... >> >> To answer my own question, of course I screwed it up already. >> Okay, so license=('custom:MIT'), license=('MIT') or license=('custom')? >> >> manual says: put licenses from

Re: [arch-general] User/group name restrictions

2019-05-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 5/23/19 3:15 PM, Andy Pieters wrote: > Hi > > This is something I gotten used to live with for a very long time now, > patching the shadow package every time it is updated to allow capitals in > the user/group names. > > I've often meant to write in to ask why and this is that glorious day. >

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread ProgAndy
Am 24.05.19 um 00:21 schrieb mar77i via arch-general: ... > > To answer my own question, of course I screwed it up already. > Okay, so license=('custom:MIT'), license=('MIT') or license=('custom')? > > manual says: put licenses from /usr/share/licenses/common into the license > array, otherwise

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread mar77i via arch-general
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, May 24, 2019 12:14 AM, Lone_Wolf wrote: > People, > > I forgot to tell ashark the primary reason why I felt a thread in arch > general ML was needed. > > Almost every file in libdrm tree has it's own copyright notice, I've > listed 4 examples at the

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread mar77i via arch-general
> I have read that article in ArchWiki. I understand that point that MIT > licences are all custom because of individual copyright line. But then I do > not understand when should I use license=('MIT') instead of > license=('custom')? > I have read that MIT is a set of licenses, but it is kinda

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread Lone_Wolf
People, I forgot to tell ashark the primary reason why I felt a thread in arch general ML was needed. Almost every file in libdrm tree has it's own copyright notice, I've listed 4 examples at the bottom of the mail. The COPYING file we include with libdrm doesn't list any of those 4

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread mar77i via arch-general
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, May 23, 2019 11:15 PM, mpan wrote: > > I talked about the topic on #archlinux and it seems that the accepted > solution is to use 'MIT' in the `license` array, despite there is no > corresponding text in the “licenses” package, and put the text into >

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 5/23/19 5:15 PM, mpan wrote: >> I have read that article in ArchWiki. I understand that point that MIT >> licences are all custom because of individual copyright line. But then I do >> not understand when should I use license=('MIT') instead of >> license=('custom')? >> I have read that MIT

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread mpan
> I have read that article in ArchWiki. I understand that point that MIT > licences are all custom because of individual copyright line. But then I do > not understand when should I use license=('MIT') instead of > license=('custom')? > I have read that MIT is a set of licenses, but it is kinda

[arch-general] User/group name restrictions

2019-05-23 Thread Andy Pieters
Hi This is something I gotten used to live with for a very long time now, patching the shadow package every time it is updated to allow capitals in the user/group names. I've often meant to write in to ask why and this is that glorious day. Why is it that uppercase letters are not allowed in

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread ashark
I have read that article in ArchWiki. I understand that point that MIT licences are all custom because of individual copyright line. But then I do not understand when should I use license=('MIT') instead of license=('custom')? I have read that MIT is a set of licenses, but it is kinda unclear. I

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread mpan
> Hello. I was repacking amdgpu-pro deb files and when I started converting > licences, I have noticed that libdrm* packages have a MIT Licence text in > copyright file. I decided to check if AUR/libdrm-git and Extra/libdrm uses > MIT licence, but they don't. I contacted Lone_Wolf (maintainer

[arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread ashark
Hello. I was repacking amdgpu-pro deb files and when I started converting licences, I have noticed that libdrm* packages have a MIT Licence text in copyright file. I decided to check if AUR/libdrm-git and Extra/libdrm uses MIT licence, but they don't. I contacted Lone_Wolf (maintainer of

Re: [arch-general] Arch on NVMe ssd

2019-05-23 Thread Ram Kumar via arch-general
Oh!.. these features are also available??!!!.. great yeah.. On Thu, 23 May 2019, 2:18 pm Ralf Mardorf via arch-general, < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2019 09:01:49 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > >The SSD drive also reports its own personal view of lifetime remaining >

Re: [arch-general] Arch on NVMe ssd

2019-05-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Thu, 23 May 2019 09:01:49 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >The SSD drive also reports its own personal view of lifetime remaining >and other interesting statistics using >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T%2E. > >173 Ave_Block-Erase_Count -O--CK 095 095 000-77 >202

Re: [arch-general] Arch on NVMe ssd

2019-05-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > In normal desktop/laptop use, you rarely write more than 1-2GB a day > on average -- so that would translate into a 190-95 year wear-life for > the drive under normal use. Even at 10GB a day, that would be a 19 > year life for the drive. The SSD drive also reports its own personal

Re: [arch-general] Arch on NVMe ssd

2019-05-23 Thread Ram Kumar via arch-general
Excelent, thanks Now my next immediate task will be to install Arch on Ssd and begin using it... On Thu, 23 May 2019, 9:47 am David C. Rankin, < drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > On 05/22/2019 10:12 PM, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: > > Nice, > > Thanks a lot guys. My first job for