Re: [arch-general] warning: foobar: local (1.0.0-2) is newer than community (1.0.0-1)

2015-01-17 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 17 January 2015 at 12:19, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Regarding to my AUR cache [1], it seems to be common practise, that packages that moved from AUR to community get a lower pkgrel=-value. IMO that is very annoying and doesn't make sense. I don't want to reinstall

Re: [arch-general] Selective upgrade: pacman -Syu, yes but not the kernel

2014-05-12 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
Che On May 12, 2014 12:56 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org wrote: Hi all, I would like to make my system up to date except for the kernel. pacman -Syu propose to upgrade a bunch of softwares that includes the kernel There's nothing wrong on upgrading the

Re: [arch-general] Does something in makepkg now remove '*.a' files automatically during package?

2014-01-20 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
This thread [ 1 ] might tell you why. In short, !staticlibs is now a default in makepkg.conf https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-October/025542.html On 20 January 2014 21:57, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.comwrote: All, This may be ridiculous, if so I

Re: [arch-general] error during update of qt4 and qt5

2013-03-15 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 15 March 2013 11:19, phani listm...@phanisvara.com wrote: pacman wanted to update some qt4 and qt5 packages, but this didn't work because of the following error: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) /usr/share/applications/assistant.desktop exists in both 'qt4' and

Re: [arch-general] Local packages newer than ones from core?

2012-10-28 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 28 October 2012 06:41, kendell clark coffeekin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I just tried to update my internal system with #pacman -Syyu tonight and recieved the following warnings from pacman. warning: binutils: local (2.23-1) is newer than core (2.22-10) warning: e2fsprogs: local

Re: [arch-general] Issues with torrents

2012-10-26 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 26 Oct 2012 09:27, Leonidas Spyropoulos artafi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Alexandre Ferrando alfer...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 October 2012 23:03, Figue ffi...@gmail.com wrote: I've a similar issue like you with Deluge. A post that describes what I see in my

[arch-general] Issues with torrents

2012-10-25 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
First of all, I don't know if this is the right place to ask such a question, so excuse me if it turns to be it isn't. Some days ago I realized that most of my torrents (mostly related to the openbittorrent tracker but also including another ones (The arch iso torrent works, though) ) fail to

Re: [arch-general] Issues with torrents

2012-10-25 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 25 October 2012 13:07, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2012-10-25 12:57:18 +0200] Alexandre Ferrando: Some days ago I realized that most of my torrents (mostly related to the openbittorrent tracker but also including another ones (The arch iso torrent works, though) ) fail

Re: [arch-general] Issues with torrents

2012-10-25 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 25 October 2012 23:03, Figue ffi...@gmail.com wrote: I've a similar issue like you with Deluge. A post that describes what I see in my /var/log: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123807 |[...] TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 53126. Dropping request| [...] I don't have any

Re: [arch-general] testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot

2012-09-22 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 22 September 2012 16:20, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: And, btw., instead of threatening and banning people with different opinions you rather should take their criticisms serious and take them as an incentive to improve Arch Linux and to make it better instead of worse. Heiko

Re: [arch-general] linux 3.5 and resolution EDID problem

2012-08-31 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 31 August 2012 06:53, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: Hello all, After upgrading to linux-3.5.2, my monitor lost its highest resolution of 1360x768 and went to 1024x768 instead. Downgrading to linux-3.4.9 fixed the issue for the moment. There are some problems

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-21 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 22 August 2012 01:40, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Patrick Murphy theger...@gmail.com wrote: What alternative to systemd would you rather see? systemd is the alternative, the standard has been initscripts for decades. Now that

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 16 August 2012 15:16, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: My problem with CONFIG_HZ exists independently of whether you experience the problem yourself or not. I guess you've reported it to kernel devs, right...?

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 16 August 2012 15:27, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Alexandre Ferrando alfer...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 August 2012 15:16, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: My problem with CONFIG_HZ exists independently of whether you

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 26 July 2012 12:07, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I don't claim to be an expert, I already mentioned that I'm a dummy. So again: Is Linux in the future for experts only? Arch has always been targeted towards a competent userbase, if you're not that kind of person, there's

Re: [arch-general] mpd, ncmpcpp

2012-07-10 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 10 July 2012 16:56, Arno Gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com wrote: With systemd-tools replacing udev, I thought it was a first step to move later to systemd. Then I remember a very long discussion on this list about a potential move to systemd. I shall have misanderstood then! Wrong. That

Re: [arch-general] Glibc 2.16.0-2 in testing killed my system.

2012-07-07 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 7 July 2012 17:53, Arno Gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/07/2012 05:47 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: Updated lib32-glibc in [multilib-testing]. Just install glibc last. $ pacman -Syu --ignore glibc $ pacman -S glibc * Is this the correct way to upgrade without breaking a system?

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 22 June 2012 20:34, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: I am a long-time debian user. Is there an Archlinux live environment available anywhere so I can take a look round without installing AL to my hard drive..? I created a grub menu entry for ‘archlinux-2011.08.19-core-dual.iso’ and

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 4 June 2012 22:27, Sudaraka Wijesinghe sudaraka.wijesin...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/04/12 23:48, Genes MailLists wrote:   Just to add another fedora link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pjones/Features/SecureBoot   Sounds like they till plan to make use of the UEFI CA $99 signing

[arch-general] libusbx as replacement for libusb

2012-06-01 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
As the subject says, with the move from libusb to libusbx I've encountered an issue when upgrading my system with testing enabled: :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace libusb with testing/libusbx? [Y/n] y resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare

Re: [arch-general] libusbx as replacement for libusb

2012-06-01 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
Nevermind, ignore this thread. Didn't see there was another like this one.

Re: [arch-general] Systemd and init scripts

2012-05-29 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 29 May 2012 19:24, Myra Nelson myra.nel...@hughes.net wrote: The latest move of udev to systemd-tools brings up one question for me. When do I need to stop updating my machines so I don't have to switch to systemd? I don't take care of servers or a massive number of systems, just two

Re: [arch-general] Broken DBus

2012-04-15 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 15 April 2012 17:22, mlell08 mlel...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I had a problem with dbus shortly. The error messagtes were of the kind file not found: /var/dbus/system_bus_socket However, I use systemd (an init replacement using parallel and on-demand loading of system services) and

Re: [arch-general] Regressions with X and dbus (maybe?)

2012-04-12 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 12 April 2012 23:07, G. Schlisio g.schli...@gmx.de wrote: anyone got a hint where to look first? i have no idea what to do atm. The only hint that I've got is that it appears to be a systemd related issue. Doesn't happen with the regular initscripts.

Re: [arch-general] Regressions with X and dbus (maybe?)

2012-04-10 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 10 April 2012 16:14, G. Schlisio g.schli...@gmx.de wrote: Hello all, since the last update today, my X server does not start on startup, i have to start it manually. after that, a lot of things dont work, such as network (wicd), audio (alsa, no pulseaudio!). attempting to start dbus needs

[arch-general] Eclipse-cdt updates

2012-04-06 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
In the past few days I've noticed something kind of strange with eclipse-cdt on the packages page [ 0 ]. Also this can be seen if you follow the rss feed for updates. A few times every day since april 1st or so the eclipse-cdt package gets updated or downgraded from 8.0.1-2 to 8.0.2-1 and

Re: [arch-general] aria2c left a mess on system

2012-03-25 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 25 March 2012 14:57, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: six aria2c for good measure.  The original bittorrent is no better and in many ways worse so if I do anything with that type of download again I'll either have to find me a 3rd linux alternative that can run from the command

[arch-general] Xulrunner as makedepend while eclipse is installed

2012-03-02 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
Because of [ 0 ] now eclipse and xulrunner packages conflict. I maintain two AUR packages [ 1 ] that need xulrunner at build time and I also have installed eclipse. I know building that packages in a clean chroot can be a solution but I'm afraid that is not what I can assume they will do about

Re: [arch-general] Gringotts, alternatives?

2012-03-02 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 2 March 2012 11:17, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: 1. How do I get the data out of the gringotts vault?  Is there any other application that can read it and help me pull everything out? (I suppose I can always move the vault over to a Ubuntu box and extract it there, but I'd

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 16 February 2012 22:04, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: I've no intention to do a full system upgrade ATM, nor should it be necessary. The problem is not that the missing lib is out of date but that pacman apparently can't get it. That's exactly why you need to do a full system

Re: [arch-general] problem installing octave

2012-02-16 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 16 February 2012 22:52, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: Could you elaborate a bit on that ?  Isn't 'pacman -S foo' supposed to either install (if not yet installed) or update any dependencies of 'foo' ? That anyway is what apperently it has done for the last three years I've

Re: [arch-general] problem installing custom kernel

2012-02-01 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 1 February 2012 13:06, Madhurya Kakati mkakati2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried compiling and installing the linux kernel from ABS. I modified the PKGBUILD file as mentioned in the wiki. The kernel compiles fine and the pkg gets built with the name linux-custom as specified in the PKGBUILD.

Re: [arch-general] problem installing custom kernel

2012-02-01 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 1 February 2012 13:24, Madhurya Kakati mkakati2...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/01/12 at 01:13pm, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: provides=('kernel26')  conflicts=('kernel26')  replaces=('kernel26') That's you problem in the PKGBUILD. Your custom kernel doesn't need to provide, conflict nor replace

Re: [arch-general] lib32-xcb, libxcb, and xcb-proto newer than in repos?

2012-01-25 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 25 January 2012 09:25, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: lib32-libxcb: local (1.8-1) is newer than multilib (1.7-3) warning: libxcb: local (1.8-1) is newer than extra (1.7-2) warning: xcb-proto: local (1.7-1) is newer than extra (1.6-2) I

Re: [arch-general] lib32-xcb, libxcb, and xcb-proto newer than in repos?

2012-01-25 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 25 January 2012 09:41, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Alexandre Ferrando alfer...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 January 2012 09:25, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: lib32-libxcb: local (1.8-1) is newer

Re: [arch-general] Just thinking out loud...

2012-01-08 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 8 January 2012 17:53, Clive Cooper cl...@winpe.com wrote: ... I wonder how much work would be involved in compiling ArchLinux to run on a Raspberry PI? Clive -- Infinity: A concept for those who cannot comprehend the big picture. () Arch Linux - For movers and shakers. () Building

Re: [arch-general] 3 errors not sure of .

2012-01-07 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 7 January 2012 15:08, Peter Nikolic p.nikol...@btinternet.com wrote: On Saturday 07 January 2012 14:00:43 Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: Try to start Firefox i get . Symbol lookuo error :/usr/lib/libgkt-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: 9_datalist_get_data . Did you install Firefox

Re: [arch-general] update error

2012-01-07 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
Read the news at archlinux.org On 7 Jan 2012 15:44, Peter Nikolic p.nikol...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi i have just run pacman -Syu reasonable list of updates downloaded ok integrity check ok but then error : (conflicting files) filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem initscripts: