Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-24 Thread Andres P
this. ...but that's the whole point of bash/zsh completion. Do you put links to $HOME in /etc or use CDPATH? I mean, modern shells have facilities so let's use them. Joining the list of people that think these links are unnecesary. Andres P

Re: [arch-general] Important notice on the Arch Security Team to the whole Arch Linux community.

2010-06-22 Thread Andres P
to the point of no recognition. They have confidence in their skills instead of quitting before giving it a shot. This arch security news group sounds great. Specially if they intend to sit down and code. Andres P

Re: [arch-general] Important notice on the Arch Security Team to the whole Arch Linux community.

2010-06-22 Thread Andres P
probably don't have the know-how that openbsd does, but they gotta start somewhere. What better place than the randomness that is arch? Andres P

Re: [arch-general] Important notice on the Arch Security Team to the whole Arch Linux community.

2010-06-21 Thread Andres P
with the notion that patching is bad. As long as you submit upstream, it's anything but a detriment. Upstream *wants* you to fix their crap. Andres P

Re: [arch-general] Important notice on the Arch Security Team to the whole Arch Linux community.

2010-06-21 Thread Andres P
Arch's svn repo, etc. Andres P

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-18 Thread Andres P
. Not to mention that initializing variables like that is undefined and bound to *always* cause confusion. Andres P [1] http://openssl.org/about [2] http://marc.info/?l=openssl-devm=114652287210110w=2 [3] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=k...@roeckx.be

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Andres P
a specific and particular purpose; something that is not possible for those creating a distribution for a generic, multi-purpose user base. 2 words. Debian, and SSH. Did you mean ssl? Andres P

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 3.4.0-1

2010-06-16 Thread Andres P
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: Upstream release, please signoff. Small detail, Optional Deps : fakeroot: for makepkg usage as normal user python: for rankmirrors script usage rankmirrors is now bash. Andres P

Re: [arch-general] File Associations for firefox thunderbird :)^

2010-06-15 Thread Andres P
associations for FF and TB ? Does mozilla work with ~/.mailcap? :/ Andres P

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Do not refer to $startdir/{src, pkg} in PKGBUILDs

2010-06-08 Thread Andres P
want to loose the sumcheck for the rest of sources. Maybe $sources should have a per entry ! or @ prefix that disables sum checks for that file. This could be extended to make one of the !@ chars skip extraction, since duplicating the filenames in $noextract is less practical. Andres P

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Do not refer to $startdir/{src, pkg} in PKGBUILDs

2010-06-08 Thread Andres P
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:03 PM, d...@falconindy.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 07:58:55PM -0430, Andres P wrote: 2010/6/8 Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org: It is very rare that you should ever need to use $startdir in a PKGBUILD at all. I exclude config.h from dwm's PKGBUILD $source

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Rewrite early RTC device creation

2010-06-08 Thread Andres P
a useless use of cat: devnum=$( /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/dev) And the subshell is also unnecesary: read -r devnum /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/dev The second one is posix... Andres P

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Do not refer to $startdir/{src, pkg} in PKGBUILDs

2010-06-08 Thread Andres P
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 09/06/10 10:38, Andres P wrote: If makepkg were as fluid as /usr/share/mk in *BSD, this wouldn't be such an issue. ;) I have no idea what /usr/share/mk does in this regards so you will need to explain more. In *bsd

Re: [arch-general] test

2010-05-27 Thread Andres P
on another provider and test your thing. Don't annoy us. Mr. Aaron may ban you if you do this once more. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com Jesus... calm down man. Mr Aaron... really? -- Andres P