[arch-general] Abiword package

2013-10-27 Thread Giovanni Scafora
Hi there, I am no longer interested in maintaining the abiword package. Is there anyone who wants to keep it?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up orphaned packages

2012-03-06 Thread Giovanni Scafora
Il 06/03/2012 11:12, Jelle van der Waa ha scritto: If python-lxml is orphan in [extra] (it looks like it accordign to archweb) , i would like to adopt it in [community] and add python3 support. translate-toolkit requires python-lxml, so I think that python-lxml should be in [extra] or moving

Re: [arch-general] [translation] pacman 4.0.2 string freeze

2012-02-06 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2012/2/6 Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com: rm -f it.gmo /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics --verbose -o it.gmo it.po it.po:505: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n' it.po:673: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n' it.po:1037: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both

Re: [arch-general] [translation] pacman 4.0.2 string freeze

2012-02-02 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2012/2/2 Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com: Transifex is throwing up a tantrum by saying the translation needs to end with \n, but it is there. Anyone knows how to make it shut up and accept the translation? Try to hit enter. -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-2

2011-10-26 Thread Giovanni Scafora
Il 25/10/2011 20:48, Thomas Bächler ha scritto: Am 25.10.2011 17:12, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Hi guys, please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel version - all external

Re: [arch-general] gsfonts - package is updated?

2010-03-25 Thread Giovanni Scafora
Il 26/03/2010 00:02, Ng Oon-Ee ha scritto: Repository : extra Name : gsfonts Version: 1.0.7pre44-1 Installed : 8.11-5 URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts/ I'm assuming this is a simple mess upstream on non-consecutive version numbers? The linked

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officially?

2010-03-09 Thread Giovanni Scafora
Il 09/03/2010 11:23, Allan McRae ha scritto: Why... namcap in testing works fine. Well, what about moving testing/namcap to extra? -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officially?

2010-03-09 Thread Giovanni Scafora
Il 09/03/2010 11:23, Allan McRae ha scritto: Fixed in git: http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=d85421ec Well, then do we should expect a new release of pacman? -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

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

2010-03-04 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2010/3/5, Andreas Wagner andreasbwag...@gmail.com: Hello, I am thoroughly enjoying using arch linux so I have tried to register for the Arch forums. I have tried several times but I get the message: Bots are unwelcome here. The door is right over there, don't let it hit you on the way

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

2010-03-04 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2010/3/5, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org: Here is a guide: http://arch.har-ikkje.net/gfx/human-or-not.png Nice. :-) AHAHAH -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] groupmod / pam bug - Arch hit by http://bugs.gentoo.org/300790

2010-02-28 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2010/2/28, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: I apologize if this has already been brought to your attention. Let me know if you want me to open a ticket. Fill a bug report, if you think that is a bug. -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] boost-1.42.0 rebuild

2010-02-23 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2010/2/23, Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com: Hi, just ran -Syu and got boost 1.42.0 but schroot in [community] is not yet updated and throws a libboost error. Just a heads-up in case it didn't turn up on the mentioned (off-ML) list. Rebuild is not completed yet for community repo. Only extra is

Re: [arch-general] Yafray

2010-02-06 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2010/2/6, Andrea Scarpino and...@archlinux.org: Seems that no one is interested, move it to AUR or simply delete it. I will be moving it to the AUR. -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

[arch-general] Yafray

2010-02-04 Thread Giovanni Scafora
Hi all, the last yafray release was the 0.0.9 version in Summer 2006. Notice that these sources aren't under development anymore. I would like replace it with yafaray 0.1.1. What do you think about? -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] Yafray

2010-02-04 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2010/2/4, Andrea Scarpino and...@archlinux.org: if you will maintain it, do this. I will not maintain it. BTW, yafray isn't under development anymore, so or we move it to the AUR or we leave it there... If we want to leave it there, I guess that we will have to upgrade it to yafaray 0.1.1

Re: [arch-general] Yafray

2010-02-04 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2010/2/4, Matěj Týč matej@gmail.com: That one is not true, Yafaray (note the added 'a', AFAIK Yafray does not exist any more) is actively developed and last website news are two weeks old. http://www.yafaray.org/ Please, read at http://www.yafaray.org/download YafRay 0.0.9 sources.

Re: [arch-general] Yafray

2010-02-04 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2010/2/4, Matěj Týč matej@gmail.com: That one is not true, Yafaray (note the added 'a', AFAIK Yafray does not exist any more) is actively developed and last website news are two weeks old. I know, yafaray is actively developed, but we have yafray in extra repo, so I ask here to replace

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

2010-01-31 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2010/1/31, Hussam Al-Tayeb ht990...@gmail.com: Or simply tell him the the package kernel-headers was renamed to linux-api-headers? Nope, pacman already said him that. :-) -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

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

2010-01-31 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2010/1/31, f...@kokkinizita.net f...@kokkinizita.net: that means that cdrkit has been renamed to cdrtools ? :-) Of course, it means that the software has benn renamed or replaced by another one. -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

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

2010-01-31 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2010/2/1, f...@kokkinizita.net f...@kokkinizita.net: Pacman did *not* tell him this was just a rename. pacman just ask him if he wants to replace kernel-headers by api-headers, but it's obvious that software has been renamed or replaced by another one. If you dislike that behaviour, please send

Re: [arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?

2009-12-15 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/14, Xavier shinin...@gmail.com: I just noticed a bump of cpufrequtils to 006-2 : http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/cpufrequtils/ What do you do with the bugs ? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10959 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14083 Both are valid bugs, annoying,

Re: [arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?

2009-12-15 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/15, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: The second one doesn't make sense. Don't use /dev/null in combination with grep, use grep -q: grep -qw $governor sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors || modprobe -q $mod OK, then I put the following line: grep

Re: [arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?

2009-12-15 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/15, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: grep -qw $governor sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors || modprobe -q $mod Maybe a / before sys/ is missing? grep -qw $governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors || modprobe -q $mod

Re: [arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?

2009-12-15 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/15, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: I hope that works, look good though. Maybe a / before sys/ is missing? grep -qw $governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors || modprobe -q $mod I'll be waiting for your answer. -- Arch Linux Developer

Re: [arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?

2009-12-15 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/15, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com: If you put that line in an install file you're doing it wrong... That line is not in an install file. That line is in a script of /etc/rc.d/ -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?

2009-12-15 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/15, Andrea Scarpino and...@archlinux.org: So, the / is missing. OK, then I'm right, a / was missing. Thanks. -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?

2009-12-15 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/15, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: Indeed. OK, I just fixed FS10959 and FS14083. I hope that works. Let me know. -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?

2009-12-15 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/15, Xavier shinin...@gmail.com: Adding quotes to the test seems to work : if [ -n $governor ]; then So the result with default config will be instead : :: Setting cpufreq governing rules[BUSY] :: Invalid configuration in /etc/conf./cpufreq [FAIL] Other

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] Packaging Chromium for [extra]

2009-12-10 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/10, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com: It's happening with me too... :( Youtube crashes in the pages that contains videos. But another page (a brazilian news site with flash videos too) works fine. From me, Youtube does not crash in the pages that contains videos. --

Re: [arch-general] iwl5000 issues

2009-12-08 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/8, Rafa Grimán rafagri...@gmail.com: As I said before, my wireless was working until I updated. Don't know for sure which package broke wireless connectivity. See here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=635942 -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] iwl5000 issues

2009-12-08 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/8, Rafa Grimán rafagri...@gmail.com: Which was working until I updated my system. It seems that the problem is much more generic, as lots of people have problems with wireless interfaces and 2.6.31 kernels. iwlwifi-5000-ucode package works fine. Which kernel are you using before

Re: [arch-general] iwl5000 issues

2009-12-08 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/8, Rafa Grimán rafagri...@gmail.com: Which was working until I updated my system. Also, read comments at http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16138 -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

2009-12-01 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/12/1, Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com: When I started on here the mantra was Arch is what you make it. Packagers strive to make packages which are as vanilla as possible (without breaking) and provide the utility expected of such packages. Of course, if you want a system without hal/dbus,

[arch-general] [signoff] ar9170-fw-1.0-2-any

2009-11-28 Thread Giovanni Scafora
Hi guys, please signoff. ar9170-fw-1.0-2-any After signoff, I will be moving it from testing to core. Note: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16837 I have got already a signoff by Martin Dratva (raqua). -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] Please update boost from [extra] - PKGBUILD attached

2009-11-26 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/11/25, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com: If the soname changes, then everything needs to be rebuilt. We try to keep one large rebuild in testing at a time. Currently we have rebuilds for heimdal in there. I just checked it out. The soname changes, then everything needs to be

[arch-general] [signoff] zd1211-firmware-1.4-3-any switched to arch=any

2009-11-24 Thread Giovanni Scafora
Hi guys, I'm looking for user signoffs on the upgrade not killing the device. zd1211-firmware-1.4-3-any After signoffs, I will be moving it from testing to core. Thanks. -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/11/23, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de: I'm running a Linux only system, so I don't need samba. Wouldn't it be possible to move smbclient from depends to optdepends in the affected packages? Why do you don't fill a bug report for those packages? -- Arch Linux Developer

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/11/23, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de: But if I wanted to compile everything manually I would have stayed with Gentoo. ;-) mplayer != everything -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] only detect 1 cpu

2009-11-16 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/11/16, viodreamlis...@gmail.com viodreamlis...@gmail.com: Hi all! I have got a quad core procesor but my archlinux only detect 1 cpu. It's very strange. Are you using kernel26 2.6.31.6-1? I have got all of my cpu: Linux pavilion64 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 10 19:01:40 CET 2009

Re: [arch-general] CUPS won't detect my usb printer

2009-11-15 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/11/15, Jim Burton j...@sdf-eu.org: DAEMONS=(syslog-ng netfs keymaps hal crond alsa slim wicd !usblp cups) Remove it from DAEMONS array and add it to the MODULES array: MODULES=(!usblp) -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-11-01 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/10/31, Bobby valn...@gmail.com: I just received an invite. I have 20 invites to send out, so if anyone still needs one, I'll probably give away 10 of them to you guys. Respond quickly :) Can you send me one? -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-10-31 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/10/31, Artyom Smirnov smirnof...@gmail.com: Just got another 12 invites in my account. Sending one to you. could you please give me one too? thanks. -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] vi problems

2009-10-15 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/10/15, richard terry rte...@pacific.net.au: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) vim: /usr/bin/rview exists in filesystem http://www.archlinux.org/news/464/ -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] perl 5.10.1-3 broken ?

2009-10-08 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/10/8, Firmicus firmi...@gmx.net: See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16488 But please, broken is too strong! Perl is not broken. It's just that because of the purge options in makepkg.conf, all pods have been deleted. But ALL the documentation is still there in the form of manpages.

Re: [arch-general] Xorg broken after last update

2009-08-01 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/8/1, Luís Moreira lmm1...@gmail.com: Hello. The last update broke my Xorg, the screen just goesn black and hangs there, CTRL+ALT+F1 (etc) doesn't do anything. I'm using X86_64, *without* [testing]. The updated packages were kernel26 nvidia xorg-server (and some others,

Re: [arch-general] Xorg broken after last update

2009-08-01 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/8/1, Luís Moreira lmm1...@gmail.com: nvidia Are you using nvidia-185.18.31-1? -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] Xorg broken after last update

2009-08-01 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/8/1, Muhammad Qadri muhammad.a.qa...@gmail.com: Yes. I believe that is the latest one, since pacman -Syu shows nothing needs updates. Correct? Yeah, nvidia-185.18.31-1 is the latest one. I am also using x86_64 (without testing) and kernel 2.6.30.4-1 -- Arch Linux Developer

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30.4-1

2009-07-31 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/7/31, Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de: Hi guys, just an upstream bump. please signoff fast Signoff for x86_64 -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-19 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/7/19, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: For anyone else caught with the same problem. I wrote a small script that reinstalls vim and moves vi to vi.vni. The script is nothing more that what you would simply do by hand, it just collects all the commands in one

Re: [arch-general] About user signoffs

2009-07-14 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/7/14, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com: Hi all. I would like to know how can we, common and lay users, give signoffs on the packages that we use in testing. I know that arch-public-dev is read only for non developpers and I would like to help too. Can we send the

Re: [arch-general] About user signoffs

2009-07-14 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/7/14, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: Yes please, do so whenever you can. Generally, you can reply to any thread on arch-dev-public as long as you send the reply to arch-general and personally, I appreciate such input. BTW and FYI, before I only referred to the arch-dev-public ML.

[arch-general] Arch Linux on Freerunner

2009-07-08 Thread Giovanni Scafora
Hi guys, I just noticed this project [1], It's awesome. :-) What do you think about? Cheers, [1] http://archmobile.org/trac/wiki/AFR -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] commoncpp2 rebuild

2009-07-05 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/7/5, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz...@yahoo.com.ar: Also add ccscript3 to the rebuild list. Probably not currently in the list, because it is broken for the same reason. See FS#14294 - [ccscript3] Needs rebuild: linked agains old libccgnu2 ccscript3 added to the commoncpp2 rebuild

Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?

2009-06-25 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/6/24, Jozsef joz...@gmx.com: that's not just about sound. something is always broken for someone. but the reasons are different. Do you already tried with alsaconf? -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

2009-05-28 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/5/28, Daenyth Blank daenyth+a...@gmail.com: I don't really see how this is needed. If a user updates package X which he knows is running a daemon, it's not hard to know whether or not it should be restarted. We should always assume the user is competant +1 Here, I am fine with

Re: [arch-general] broken john package

2009-05-18 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/5/18, Sébastien Duquette ekse...@gmail.com: The package for john is broken, it is missing files that make it unusable. I filled a bug report (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14422) a month ago and other users complained about this issue. The current maintainer is andrea and the package

Re: [arch-general] libconfig error

2009-04-05 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/4/4, Mike Sampson m...@sambodata.com: Besides the missing .install file in CVS, the .install scriptlet tries to install info files on your system. However, these files are deleted from the PKGBUILD. The postinstall scriptlet error is harmless, but you should file a bug in the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WICD, up for grabs

2009-01-03 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/1/3, Grigorios Bouzakis grb...@gmail.com: Anyway, i just think that a GUI alternative to netcfg should be available in official repos for people who dont use GNOME or KDE. I think that a GUI alternative to netcfg is not indispensable. -- Arch Linux Developer (voidnull) AUR Pacman

Re: [arch-general] scons update

2008-12-19 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2008/12/19, Alessandro Doro ordo...@gmail.com: Is there a reason for reverting to the stable scons release or the packager intended to update to latest 1.1.0.d20081207? pacman -Sy scons and accept to install it anyway. -- Arch Linux Developer (voidnull) AUR Pacman Italian Translations

Re: [arch-general] customized ArchLinux install CD with speech support

2008-12-09 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2008/12/8, Chris Brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am happy to announce the first release of a modified ArchLinux CD for i686 with speech support. The .iso should be almost equivalent to the FTP installer, with one exception: it starts speaking at boot. Great! Thanks for your excellent

Re: [arch-general] Welcome Geoffroy Carrier!

2008-12-05 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2008/12/5, Geoffroy Carrier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Welcome aboard Geoffroy. -- Arch Linux Developer (voidnull) AUR Pacman Italian Translations Microdia Developer http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] maintainers wanted

2008-06-14 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2008/6/14, JJDaNiMoTh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm glad for your interesting ( it's beatiful see users interested on distribuition's developing ), but I hope that the searching of new devs ( if it really happens ) starts from TUs, as is usual. +1 I agree. I'm interested too. -- Giovanni Scafora

Re: [arch-general] Rename 'unstable' to 'developing'

2008-05-01 Thread Giovanni Scafora
scratch. The unstable repo is using svn now. Maybe, we could rename it to community? -- Giovanni Scafora Arch Linux Trusted User (voidnull) http://www.archlinux.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-06 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2008/4/6, Thomas Bächler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2) I'd like to remove the (hardcoded) line /usr/bin/setterm -blank 15 from rc.sysinit. +1 here. -- Giovanni Scafora Arch Linux Trusted User (voidnull) http://www.archlinux.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [arch-general] signoff kernel26-2.6.24.3-6

2008-03-26 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2008/3/26, Aaron Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Suffice to say: for all the old timers out there, I am on your side. I *am* an old timer, and I will do everything in my power to make arch what it was. You're my hero. :-) Count me too on that list. -- Giovanni Scafora Arch Linux Trusted User