Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-10 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 10:40:27AM -0600, Stephen Martin wrote: If you want to use arch in a server environment, you should probably use your own repo to be safe. Have a testing machine be on rolling release. When that machine is stable, push its packages to a private repo and update your

Re: [arch-general] netctl provides wifi-menu which is unusable

2014-02-27 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 06:10:39PM +0100, Nowaker wrote: Guys, the goal of this slanted ranting (really?) is to propose a good solution and make Arch better. Please refrain from implying that the current state needs being made better in the first place. This is exactly what we're trying to

Re: [arch-general] broken system after today upgrade

2013-01-24 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:21:12AM +0100, arnaud gaboury wrote: I was thereafter happy to log into my system, with no kernel panic ! I decided to reinstall all packages from the broken upgrade. Nevertheless, everything is not fine. Somme apps are broken, and do not know why. I guess it is

Re: [arch-general] Secure Boot Support

2012-12-05 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 04:23:27PM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: But Thomas is right: this has to be implemented and tested by those who own such hardware; which at this time we don't. Seems like a perfect opportunity to spend some hard-earned donation money on a test rig, no? Greetings,

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:53:02AM -0400, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: As far as ML noise goes, that's what killfiles and client-side filters are for, no? People can (or at least should be able to) configure their mailreaders to mute people or topics they want to mute. This. This so very much. We're

[arch-general] Quoting mails like a boss (was: Re: IRC channel)

2012-08-16 Thread Dennis Herbrich
Thomas Rand wrote: [snipped irrelevant content] I use gmail yet ooh I bottom post! *chuckles* And tomorrow we'll learn how to quote properly and how to modify a subject line, while we're on the topic of mail hygiene? And all that without undue sarcasm, but in a polite and helpful manner?

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

2012-07-26 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:52:49AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:43 +0300, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jayesh Badwaik jayesh.badwai...@gmail.com wrote: With respect to daemons, the BEFORE and AFTER in the service files is redundant and

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

2012-07-26 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:07:02PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf 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? I'm at a loss what kind of answer you are expecting, nobody has any right or even the ability to answer such a

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

2012-07-26 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:45:28PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Never change a winning team as long as your alternative for sure does improve the computer usage for everybody. I assume you wanted to say unless instead of as long as. First off, everybody is not Arch Linux' target demography. No

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

2012-07-26 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:59:29PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:31 +0200, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: 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

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general]WIKI/pacman -Sy

2012-06-27 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 03:56:25PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: On the *pacman WIKI*, there is a useful Warning: **When installing packages, do *not* refresh the package list without upgrading https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Upgrading_packages the system (i.e. |pacman -Sy

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:36:17AM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: add this in my */etc/rc.local.shutdown*: |*echo Copying LOGs... now=`date +%Y%m%d_%Hh%M` mkdir -p /logs_backup/$now cp -Rp /var/log/* ~/backup/logs_backup/$now/* My ~ folder is on another HD. Will this script be enough to

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:31:49PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/19/2012 04:20 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: On 06/19/2012 04:14 PM, gt wrote: Can you please elaborate how you manage the regular updates, especially kernel, udev, glibc etc. Do you hold back the upgrades to packages which

Re: [arch-general] Time for new release?

2012-06-17 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 09:25:25PM +0200, Geoffroy PLANQUART wrote: I noticed that every time I set up a new VM, I have to manually run the `pacman-key --init' and `pacman-key --populate archlinux'. Wouldn't it be time to set up a new installation release? Thus new users wouldn't have to

Re: [arch-general] Time for new release?

2012-06-17 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:00:27PM +0200, Geoffroy PLANQUART wrote: However: Distributing a pacman keychain master key to more than one machine is rarely a sensible solution. If you actually want the very specific additional security checks offered by only allowing signed packages,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?

2012-06-14 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:50:24AM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 13.06.2012 21:57, schrieb Chris Sakalis: Hello, not a very important application, and there may be some workarounds, but with openjdk7 Minecraft [1] fails to load the correct bundled libraries on 64bit. From the exception,

[arch-general] Minecraft on x86_64 with OpenJDK7 (was: Re: [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?)

2012-06-14 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:06:09AM +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:50:24AM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 13.06.2012 21:57, schrieb Chris Sakalis: Hello, not a very important application, and there may be some workarounds, but with openjdk7 Minecraft [1] fails

Re: [arch-general] libusbx upgrade problem, conflicting with usbmuxd

2012-06-01 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 10:09:44AM +0200, fredbezies wrote: Got this : :: Remplacer libusb par testing/libusbx ? [O/n] o [...] English version : Replace by testing / libusbx? [Y / n] y [...] I've got nothing to say regarding the issue, but nevertheless: When reporting any program

Re: [arch-general] makepkg is creating BOTH a /pkg and pkgusr on build??

2012-05-18 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 07:54:27AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: OK, I'll check again for the package manipulating pkgdir, because I'm using the standard package: package() { msg Packaging ${pkgname}-${pkgver} cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver} make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install } Interestingly

Re: [arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users

2012-03-11 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 08:04:27AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I tried setting up emacspeak and emacspeak needs two variables exported to the user's .profile file in order to work. The EMACSPEAK_DIR variable needs to point at the location of emacspeak and DTK_PROGRAM needs to point at the

Re: [arch-general] Seemingly archlinux specific problem with logkeys

2012-01-04 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 07:03:56AM -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote: On 01/04/2012 06:33 AM, SanskritFritz wrote: I started a topic on the forum, but we didnt reach to any solution: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129528 In hope for a more competent audience, I repost my question

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mounting linux partition with gid

2008-06-26 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, June 26, 2008 17:00, Ralph Alvy wrote: How do I create a Linux data partition that's fully accessible to me, as user, after boot? $ sudo chgrp -R somegroup directory where partition is mounted Is that a trick question? *wondering* Dennis

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Wed, June 11, 2008 14:45, Dave Heistand wrote: Hi, Greetings! What I'm looking for is a way to see a diff of my package cache prior to and just after syncing, i.e. what packages are out of date (which pacman does show), what packages have been removed from the repositories since my last

Re: [arch-general] GTK applications can not remember their last position

2008-06-10 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Tue, June 10, 2008 10:32, Chris Bolton wrote: if you go to that bug page, and follow the link to the upstream bug report, apparently there's a patch that fixed. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to apply that patch. can someone provide instructions? thanks. I uploaded a PKGBUILD integrating