Re: [arch-general] Why not create a new repo specified for games ?

2011-11-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:40, Matej Ľach matej.l...@gmail.com wrote: I support this idea. Keep most games in AUR and the more popular ones can have their own repo [games] on a separate server. This server could be community financed using donations and if not enough interest will be raised

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Sl

2011-09-03 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:53, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/9/3 Jérôme M. Berger jeber...@free.fr: Joker-jar wrote: Hello! I just made `pacman -Ql ...` analogue for don't installed packages. Enjoy ;) http://paste.org.ru/?h5cg9y        You mean like “pkgfile -l” ?  

Re: [arch-general] Why are install functions not in PKGBUILD?

2011-06-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 16:27, Matthew Monaco dgbale...@verizon.net wrote: It seems like the install functions pre/post_install/upgrade/remove could be defined right in the PKGBUILD. Any particular reason why this isn't or cannot be so? This has come up on the ML before. It's because the

Re: [arch-general] a python rewrite of pkgfile

2011-01-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:54, solsTiCe d'Hiver solstice.dhi...@gmail.com wrote: hi. I started in August a rewrite in python of pkgfile from pkgtools package. Wow, was it really way back in August? Wow... It's been a really busy year for me. I'll try to get that release out today, since I have

Re: [arch-general] a python rewrite of pkgfile

2011-01-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:26, Thomas Dziedzic gos...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe you could provide the PKGBUILD in the AUR? I'll have the package pushed to community by the end of the day, so it shouldn't be needed.

[arch-general] Pkgtools v22

2011-01-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
Hi All, I'm happy to announce that after a far-too-long wait, the latest version of pkgtools is released! This version is a complete rewrite from the ground up. The slow parts have been rewritten in C for a huge speed increase, and the body has been rewritten in python. Many thanks for brain0 and

Re: [arch-general] Pkgtools v22

2011-01-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 16:06, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:29:59 -0500 Daenyth Blank daenyth+a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I'm happy to announce that after a far-too-long wait, the latest version of pkgtools is released! This version is a complete

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-10-20 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:16, Armando M. Baratti ambaratti.lis...@gmail.com wrote: Em 20-10-2010 05:24, Stefano Z. escreveu: anyone know if reportlab does work with python3 ? No, reportlab doesn't work with python3. Neither Django, nor Twisted. As well the modules below are incompatible

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-10-19 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 20:36, Max Countryman m...@me.com wrote: It seems that while most (all?) distributions include a /usr/bin/python3 link to their python3.xbinary, none do the same thing for python2.x. Either create your own symlink in your path for those distros or even better file a

Re: [arch-general] Question about arch packages

2010-10-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:19, Christian christia...@runbox.com wrote: Hi, In the PKBUILD script there is some times install followed by a couple of numbers, what are they for? Many thanks, Christian Can you be more specific?

Re: [arch-general] Te agregué como amigo en Facebook

2010-09-27 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 16:39, Florian Pritz bluew...@server-speed.net wrote: On 27.09.2010 22:36, uli.armbrus...@googlemail.com wrote: * Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com [27.09.2010 22:34]: Is it just me or does this look like spam? -- Mauro Santos Of course this is spam. Even

Re: [arch-general] Any special reason for /etc/shadow.pacnew, or just normal pacman behavior.

2010-09-21 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 16:02, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys,        I always diff any new .pacnew files when they are created during an update. See man pacman, under HANDLING CONFIG FILES. It explains the behavior in detail.

Re: [arch-general] makepkg patch - generate .SRCINFO file when running --source

2010-07-27 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 13:36, Muhammed Uluyol uluy...@gmail.com wrote: Why not make new arrays? i686depends, x86_64depends, i686source, etc. Please don't... Also, please bottom post on this list.

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 04/48] Use [[ ]] instead of [ ] for conditional checking when running in bash.

2010-06-30 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 17:56, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: It is worth 10 - 30% speedup whenever you want to compare something. Where do you get this from? I always used [ ], and I found it sufficient. Why is [[ ]] faster? -if [

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 35/48] find has a builtin delete action. Use it instead of exec'ing rm.

2010-06-30 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 18:32, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 30.06.2010 23:58, schrieb Daenyth Blank: I don't think this is portable though. Portability is not an issue. The beauty about this is that we can simply assume we have GNU tools and we do use Linux ... because

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 68, Issue 76

2010-06-26 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 06:14, je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: Message: 10 Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:40:04 -0400 From: Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too       long. To: a...@ape3000.com,  General Discussion about Arch Linux      

Re: [arch-general] This is the arch-general list - Was Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 06:56, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: [it is rude not to change subject lines when going off-topic...] On 27/05/10 20:13, Joerg Schilling wrote: Blah, blah, blah paraphrased Seriously, stop it.   50+ messages that are entirely off-topic for the original

Re: [arch-general] Burning From Command Line

2010-05-22 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 22:49, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: What ? Is that really true ?!?!? State some link where it is officially declared by the developers. Joerg is the author of the software he recommends, so not exactly unbiased...

Re: [arch-general] can you only test certain packages?

2010-05-20 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 18:05, Jeroen Op 't Eynde jer...@xprsyrslf.be wrote: There is a number 3. 3. Add [testing] and do a pacman -Sy package-you-like. It will install the latest package from testing and its dependencies. Remove [testing] again and you can go on using your non-testing

Re: [arch-general] BASH no longer does 'for i in $(ls); do ls $i; done'??

2010-05-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 16:17, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys,        I'm usually quite good at one-liners, but my simple ones no longer work in Arch. Same cli works fine in suse. What have I messed up? To wit: In short, you're doing it wrong.

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Daenyth Blank
Govindarajanli...@itech7.comwrote: I have enabled compiz and some effects. Anybody knows how to take screenshot of the Ring Switcher ? Bind a key to scrot with the right settings, or just call it with a delay

Re: [arch-general] [xmonad] Screenshot of all workspaces?

2010-04-29 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 16:31, Nick Stepa hired...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! I use xmonad and want to make screenshot of all workspaces at once. How can I do it? Plz don`t say: For each workspace - switch to it and use scrot (= For each workspace, switch to it and use import :)

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 15:09, Gaetan Bisson r...@vesath.org wrote: What if we're elitist and don't want newbies like you switching to Linux and polluting the signal-to-noise ratio of our beloved mailing-lists with useless, off-topic questions? -- Gaetan The ml is not the place for you to

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-28 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 13:18, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about a two way signing process. The dev signs the package and send it to the server. The server would have a script or a cron job to verify if the signature is valid and is from someone trusted

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-28 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 14:32, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: This could also cause problems when downloading some package that depends on a public key that was not downloaded yet. Adding the keyring to the same rule that prompts you to upgrade pacman before anything

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-08 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 23:05, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net wrote: * Bizarrely enough, *some* of the keys on the keyboard actually work (such as / * - + on the numeric keypad). * I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like this: expected keysym, got

Re: [arch-general] Debootstrap for Arch?

2010-03-31 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 19:31, Brendan Long kori...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anything similar to debootstrap for Arch? Debootstrap basically a command where you give it some options and point it to a partition and it installs Debian (or a Debian-based distro) onto it. I bet you can smash AIF

Re: [arch-general] Debootstrap for Arch?

2010-03-31 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 21:17, Piyush P Kurur ppk wrote: You can install packages under a particular directroy using the command pacman -S pkgname -r /gateway/to/hell So using that you can actually build a chrooted environment and work your way up. Duh, now why didn't I think of that?

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games

2010-03-25 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 15:18, Daenyth Blank daenyth+a...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 14:20, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not super thrilled about this regression. Either way, I think we should probably add an option to the scripts to use a designated file as the target

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games

2010-03-20 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 13:52, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: Where is the mirrorlist so I can try this? What version of rankmirrors are you using? You left out quite a few helpful details that might lead to people helping out that don't have time to try and track all these things down on

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games

2010-03-20 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 14:20, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not super thrilled about this regression. Either way, I think we should probably add an option to the scripts to use a designated file as the target for rankmirrors testing; this way you could specify a DB filename or any

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games

2010-03-19 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 00:38, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: Observe the ping using ping -c 100. If there is some loss in packets, you need to consult your ISP unless you're using wireless transmission. 0% packet loss, and it's not just me, it's everyone who uses rankmirrors on

Re: [arch-general] Dedicated Arch servers

2010-03-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:58, Gaurish Sharma cont...@gaurishsharma.com wrote: On Thursday 18 Mar 2010 10:04:58 pm Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, Do you know some dedicated server / VPS provider (unmanaged), who supports Arch Linux, with good service and reasonable rates ? Hi, you the the

[arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games

2010-03-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
For some reason rankmirrors seems to really hate the arch-games mirrorlist. I don't know whether it's a bug or whether there's some sort of server misconfiguration. [r...@muspelheimr pacman.d]# rankmirrors -t archgames-mirrorlist Querying servers, this may take some time... * * * *

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....

2010-03-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 13:24, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: Let this thread not be just another Will be nice one. Pacman devs, please start implementing these package verification things. And you're paying them how much that allows you to tell them what to work on? Seriously,

Re: [arch-general] Package signing (was: Arch Linux security is still poor)

2010-03-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 20:06, Linas linas...@ymail.com wrote: I had already this email draft in my head, but Ananda 'Arch Linux security is still poor' thread, on which the point was also brought up, moved me to really write it. There's a bug on the tracker about this, please contribute

Re: [arch-general] twm: cannot open fontset

2010-03-15 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:14, Thanos Zygouris thanos.zygou...@gmail.com wrote: But when i changed my $LANG from en_US.utf8 to C, twm worked! Is en_US.utf8 uncommented in locale.gen and have you rebuilt locales?

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....

2010-03-15 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 17:43, Ananda Samaddar ana...@samaddar.co.uk wrote: Would there be any enthusiasm for a dedicated security team? This has been proposed multiple times, but oddly enough no one who has proposed it has ever taken any steps to make it happen...

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:50, Burlynn Corlew Jr burl...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes pasting the pkgbuild in comments is the only solution, especially with lazy maintainers. If a maintainer does not respond to email in a week or so, mail aur-general and the TUs will orphan the package so someone

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 16:57, Hussam Al-Tayeb ht990...@gmail.com wrote: You should consider moving to bugzilla. -1. I've used bugzilla, and the interface is absolutely horrible. Flyspray is much much better.

Re: [arch-general] Howto handle poppler conflict with poppler-qt3

2010-03-10 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:34, Laurie Clark-Michalek bluepepp...@archlinux.us wrote: Good for you :) I'm satisfied with my KDE 4.4, and though I realise not everyone can be, I shan't be loosing too much sleep over it :) FUD and Unsubstantiated claims however... Well they're a worry :) I

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-03-10 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 16:54, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote: I always use pacman -Rs.  It's a wrapper script, I normally don't use a bare pacman, so there's not even neglect at play. That's the problem. You want to add -c. -s removes in one direction, -c removes in

Re: [arch-general] pacman search help needed: howto find package that provides html2ps?

2010-03-08 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 19:13, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys,        I have made friends with pacman in most areas, but one are I still don't know is How to I find the uninstalled package that will provide xxx? pacman -Ss must just search package names and not

Re: [arch-general] pacman search help needed: howto find package that provides html2ps?

2010-03-08 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 21:40, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) ghost1...@archlinux.us wrote: On 03/08/10 at 08:36pm, David C. Rankin wrote:       I'll check it out. Before I got your message, I was able to find it in AUR with a search.  If pkgfile is a cli tool, it's just what I'm looking for.

Re: [arch-general] Amavisd-new Only in AUR?

2010-03-05 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:49, Carlos Mennens carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any idea what is holding this software back from getting votes / moved into the 'Community? Is it considered buggy or just not widely used enough in the Arch community? Most likely there hasn't been a TU

Re: [arch-general] can't register for Arch forums

2010-03-04 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 20:27, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: Where do I start? I can't read the guide all I see is some red and green lines over some text. Is some one trying to obfuscate this process? Now tell the truth here.. Did your kids get their crayons out

Re: [arch-general] Tired of being asked for a password for su? Arch has the solution

2010-03-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 17:58, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote:        It worries me to think about the possible security implications, but the lazy side of me sure does like the convenience :p It's also a bigger issue if you use ssh or a vpn where you could potentially be

Re: [arch-general] Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys

2010-02-24 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:34, Andre Ramaciotti andre.ramacio...@gmail.com wrote: as in they don't show any keycode on 'xev' or 'showkey'. It sounds like those keys are broken. It should be sending something. Is it old?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Let's agree on a common coding style

2010-02-13 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 15:12, Evangelos Foutras foutre...@gmail.com wrote: For example, in a PKGBUILD I would write ${pkgname}_$pkgver, because _ can be part of a variable name, but I'd much rather prefer to use $pkgname-$pkgver, since hyphens are not allowed in variable names. Less typing,

Re: [arch-general] Nuking a MySQL Install

2010-02-13 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 20:50, gt codere...@gmail.com wrote: Did you try the --debug switch for pacman. See what information it shows. You want pacman -Rscn to nuke it. You'll have to manually remove the databases, pacman isn't going to touch your data, nor should it.

Re: [arch-general] pacman message: too much happens:: ...

2010-02-05 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 18:07, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote: Sorry.  It's an fcrontab entry:  { pacman --noprogressbar -Sy pacman --noprogressbar -Qu || :; } 21 clemens Try it with --debug for more info?

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - Arch needs to disable powerdevil suspend default - very hard shutdown...

2010-02-03 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 13:02, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: [stuff] The bug tracker is probably a more appropriate place for all this.

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 09:59, ludovic coues cou...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/1 Emmanuel Benisty benist...@gmail.com lts is not for everyday desktop usage. By the way,  there should be a way to get older with something like that pacman -S kernel26-2.6.32.6-1 Arch is a rolling release distro.

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
2010/2/1 Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com: Agreed. But recently a USB problem (possibly a bug) was being discussed heavily on the forums. What about it ? Didn't the developers test the kernel properly before releasing it to the community ? They do test the kernel, but you can't possibly

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and security - it needs some work

2010-02-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 15:17, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: How does Arch Linux far behind in security as compared to Debian. Perhaps I caught this conversation late but I would like to know what makes Debian better in aspects of security -vs- Arch? Can anyone please explain?

Re: [arch-general] Setting global environment variable

2010-02-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 17:11, Ty John ty...@eye-of-odin.com wrote: Basically, I want to set and unset the variable when I connect and disconnect the VPN. The best way is probably to have a set of aliases in your bashrc that run it and set the variables. Scripts and functions cannpt modify the

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and security - it needs some work

2010-01-31 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:01, Ananda Samaddar ananda.samad...@vfemail.net wrote: I really like Arch. I switched about a year ago after being a Debian user for nine years.  There is something that troubles me though about Arch.  Its lack of security focus. Basically this and everything

Re: [arch-general] core/linux-api-headers?

2010-01-31 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 20:11, Brendan Long kori...@gmail.com wrote: The difference between replaced and renamed is significant though. There's no reason not to replace kernel-headers with linux-api-headers, but there are some other packages (cdrtools vs cdrkit comes to mind) that would give

Re: [arch-general] Why taking so long?

2010-01-30 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 07:13, pyther pyt...@pyther.net wrote: Likely everything is being compiled in the kernel. The idea behind this is so you can take the binary and distribute it to anyone and have it work on their systems (with different hardware). if you want to use your own config and

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit - tone it down

2010-01-30 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 06:48, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: In Germany, it is possible to have a technically based discussion without attacking the other people. If you try to have the same using the English language, people often claim that they have been

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-25 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 13:40, Ray Kohler ataraxia...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Kitty seca...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, I'm in favor of #3, and practically, the other bigger distros that have switched back to cdrtools are fatter targets for any legal action. Furthermore,

Re: [arch-general] Yet another step toward Arch evil plan

2010-01-13 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:51, ianux ia...@free.fr wrote: They provide ArchLinux 2009.08 in both 32 and 64 bit with their own kernel with grsecurity (2.6.31.5-grs) How well does this integrate? Arch doesn't have any officially-endorsed grsecurity kernel. Does it require userspace modifications?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 13:38, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in /etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be modified. Users are more than welcome to do what we don't intend, but you need to control

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] libpng todo list

2010-01-08 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 16:59, Jan de Groot j...@jgc.homeip.net wrote: I just created a todo list containing 163 packages. This todo list contains all packages that link to libpng and that should get rebuilt when we update to libpng 1.4.0. What is the new soname? I'd like to make a list for

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 06:17, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Good thing you signed that message...  it would be a shame if we did not know that +1 was definitely from you. Allan +1

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-07 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 08:42, Emmanuel Benisty benist...@gmail.com wrote: Just FTR, I have bisected the issue and found out this commit was to blame: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=181a5336d6cc836f05507410d66988c483ad0154 I've reverted it and

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-07 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 17:01, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: This is on the intel-gfx list and has been replied to by one of the devs. Sweet :D

Re: [arch-general] coreutils 8.1 major problem

2009-12-04 Thread Daenyth Blank
2009/12/4 Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkov...@gmail.com: Hi everyone, I've just noticed coreutils 8.1 in [testing] repo and I think I should warn you. Unfortunatelly it has one quite bad regression which can break quite many scripts. You should file on our bug tracker too.

Re: [arch-general] Unable to Install Arch on Server

2009-12-02 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:59, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Dell server (Power Edge 1855) blade that I am trying to install Arch Linux on. I have no problems installing / running Debian, CentOS, or Ubuntu on this hardware but when I try to boot from Arch CD (2009.08

Re: [arch-general] Unable to Install Arch on Server

2009-12-02 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 13:15, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Daenyth Blank daenyth+a...@gmail.com wrote: I think that usually means that your grub+initrd combo is broken somewhere. Post your configs? There are no configs. I am trying to do a fresh

Re: [arch-general] custom repo guide?

2009-12-02 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 13:17, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: The only stipulation was that you needed to manually specify the build order and do the dep stuff manually. Maybe you could use pactree for this, to generate the order somehow? It seems like it's possible to do, except

Re: [arch-general] xf86-input-evdev conflicts with xorg-server. Remove xorg-server?

2009-12-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
2009/12/1 Arvid Picciani a...@exys.org: Arvid Picciani wrote: warning: cannot resolve hal=0.5.13, a dependency of xorg-server never mind my bitching.  rebuilding xorg-server without hal was a matter of abs,edit,makepkg 3 arch Are you using -Syu or are you trying to just randomly -S

Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules - Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-12-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
Flavio,        It was installed on 11/6 along with emovix, libmms, cdrdao, libmodplug, speex, libshout, mpg123, libasyncns, pulseaudio, wavpack and quanta. I'm not sure which recommended it as an option. The weird part is that sound continued working as normal until just this past week.

Re: [arch-general] leafnode-svn and zoneminder

2009-12-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 18:56, Geoffrey Lane freebal...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody know of a repo or a template for making a arch package out of a svn/git repo? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_guidelines newpkg in pkgtools does a little bit of the work for you.

Re: [arch-general] usable browser?

2009-11-26 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 18:51, Arvid Picciani a...@exys.org wrote: what is left? lynx co.

Re: [arch-general] kmail spellcheck reporting no errors when there plainly are errors - can someone confirm?

2009-11-25 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:05, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net wrote: On 11/25/2009 04:43 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: FYI - I've set the kwallet password to nothing, and it's seemed to work out nicely, as it no longer prompts me for the wallet password at inopportune times. In theory

Re: [arch-general] Need Text-to-Speech

2009-11-23 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:17, Keith grndr...@gmail.com wrote: Peace to you, Daenyth. Glad to help :)

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:06, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:46 -0200 And finally, yes, there are optdeps, but pacman don't handle them as nicely it handles obligatory dependencies. If I install an optdep as an explicit installed package, when I uninstall

Re: [arch-general] Need Text-to-Speech

2009-11-22 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 20:12, Keith grndr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. This article may help: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_for_the_blind

Re: [arch-general] Single Person ISP?

2009-11-19 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:23, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: There are probably ways around that windows program requirement for the free ISPs. Years ago I was able to connect to AOL using a program called penggy. I can say from personal experience that pengy hasn't worked in over 5

Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

2009-11-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:48, Hamo hamo...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Archlinux users, Chrome is likely to be a daily-use web browser and with the Chrome OS releasing,it will become more and more reliable.Archlinux is a rolling-release distribution and it aims at being bleeding edge.So we should

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 61, Issue 39

2009-11-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:36, jelle van der waa jellevd...@gmail.com wrote: Re: We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium... (Juan Diego) There are enough arch user maintained repo's, you could ask them to package it beside that how much work is AUR ;) Can you please reply to the specific

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-17 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:07, Arvid Picciani a...@exys.org wrote: Mutt grows old and still doesn't do threads the way i want. i've tried sup, but find it too early in development. Especcially it is unusable slow. Can somone recommend another MUA? thanks I just saw a link on reddit this

Re: [arch-general] file system capabilities

2009-11-04 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:12, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: so can this be done by default? thus reducing setuid usage? it should improve security right? This should probably go on the bug tracker as a feature request.

Re: [arch-general] Full system encryption with support for hibernation

2009-10-25 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:17, Karol Babioch ka...@babioch.de wrote: Hi, The only way mentioned in the wiki is highly not recommended as you would have to place your key on the unencrypted boot partition, which basically conflicts the idea of full encryption (see

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-22 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:39, Stefan Erik Wilkens stefanwilk...@gmail.com wrote: yes, it's a serious issue and yes the users should be aware. But should the system itself decide to take this action or should we simply inform and let the user decide. I lean towards the latter myself.

Re: [arch-general] makepkg git download agent

2009-10-19 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:25, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote:    Hello all!    Just a small question: is there somewhare a download agent for makepkg that uses Git?    Thanks,    Ciprian. I tried to make one some time ago, but it is a lot more complex than it

Re: [arch-general] Splitting up the 'boinc' package

2009-10-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 13:49, Karol Babioch ka...@babioch.de wrote: Hi, It probably makes more sense to mail the maintainer of the package directly as not everyone reads the ML

Re: [arch-general] checking runlevels in rc.shutdown

2009-10-05 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:36, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: I have a feeling this was done to mirror the rc.multi script (which is what starts the DAEMONS array). But, you're right. If I boot into single user mode (runlevel 1) and then start daemons manually, rc.shutdown should

Re: [arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-04 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 04:41, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: I have a i586 box that I have attempted to update for the past several days which kept telling me no updates were available (which I knew wasn't the case because I had had numerous x86_64 updates over the same

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:38, Crouse cro...@archlinux.us wrote: hm I use https://www.sevenl.net/all-dedicated-servers It's not a VPS, it's a dedicated private server. Running Arch. I use it for archlinux.me and others, costs about $55 month. I get the whole machine this way ;)

Re: [arch-general] Last couple of updates Knocked my Wireless -- OUT (atheros/madwifi/ath_pci)

2009-09-22 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:43, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Vincent,        Thank you for the information. At least I know I'm not going crazy... It looks like I will have to downgrade the kernel to test the older madwifi package: Could you try to recompile the

Re: [arch-general] crypto++ broken on arch? (unable to link)

2009-09-17 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 17:03, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: according to the crypto++ mailing list my code does compile with that command on ubuntu. if I'm doing something wrong for arch I'd like to know. But I'm concerned that something is not being compiled right for

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-17 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 17:04, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: The other is that I had trouble finding a truly lightweight X terminal (there were times when xterm was considered bloated ;) so I packaged myself rxvt. Most other distributions offer it so in case you decide to include it

Re: [arch-general] ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues

2009-09-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:23, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote:    Hello all!    During my installation trials for ArchLinux 2009.02, I've stumbled upon some issues that I describe below. Please file bugs at http://bugs.archlinux.org (Release Engineering project)

Re: [arch-general] My first convert isn't going so well. Problems with net install.

2009-09-08 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 20:01, David C. Rankindrankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Listmates,        One of my friends from the openSuSE list was trying his first archilinux install and ran into an issue. IWell, my first attempt at installing Arch Linux did not go well. Error messages

Re: [arch-general] split packages documentation

2009-09-05 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:32, Ali H. Caliskanali.h.calis...@gmail.com wrote: depends=(('libgl' 'libx11=1.2.2'          'libxt' 'gcc-libs=4.4.1'          'dri2proto=2.1' 'libdrm=2.4.13'),         ('libdrm=2.4.13' 'libxxf86vm=1.0.99.1'          'libxdamage=1.1.1' 'expat=2.0.1'), '') Bash can

Re: [arch-general] Audio cd ripper

2009-09-04 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 06:52, o...@larstennstedt.deo...@larstennstedt.de wrote: Hello, I am searching for an audio cd ripper for my Arch Linux box and have some questions about that. I really like abcde

Re: [arch-general] offlineimap

2009-08-31 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:08, joz...@gmx.com wrote: @ Loui Chang What was wrong with my signature? :) Anyway thanks for suggestion. It's only 2 lines now :) If your sig is longer than your actual message...

Re: [arch-general] A little weirdness at boot time

2009-08-29 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 15:16, André Ramaciottiandre.ramacio...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I thought too. Anyway, it didn't work, but I found out what the real problem was. For some reason, sometimes I got: Wireless - eth0 Ethernet - eth1 and other times I got: Ethernet - eth0 Wireless -

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