Re: [arch-general] quick test

2012-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 21 Feb 2012 07:49:50 pete wrote: Well it seems Kmail has gotten frelled up i can see it looking for mail but it never gets any yet claws does . i do wish there would be a bit of a hurry up fixing kmail There does seem to be something up with Akonadi's IMAP resource in 4.8.0. I am

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ruby directory clean up proposal.

2012-02-14 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 13 Feb 2012 20:47:01 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: /etc/gemrc - contains gem: --user-install to install user installed gems with gem to $HOME/.gem/gems I didn't know about --user-install, but I just set GEM_HOME (actually, I use RVM). Can what you want be done by globally setting

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ruby directory clean up proposal.

2012-02-13 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, I'm not a dev, so am replying on arch-general, but a TU who uses a lot of ruby on Arch. Thanks for thinking about this. I too have been trying to come up with my own sane way of using ruby - gems particularly - with Arch. On Sunday 12 Feb 2012 17:37:17 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: Current

Re: [arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

2012-02-01 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 02 Feb 2012 01:55:47 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: - youtube html5 video does not work. I get a progress bar but no video frames. Does anybody else experience this too? I still have this problem too with my regular user account, which contains the same dot files that have been

Re: [arch-general] OT: iPad - FLOSS on the iPad - data transfer between an Arch PC and an iPad

2012-01-30 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 27 Jan 2012 17:42:05 Ralf Mardorf wrote: If those kinds of questions are OT for this list, than IMO there should be another Arch mailing list for threads similar to this one. I guess I'm not the only one, who prefer mailing lists to forums. I'm of the same mind. Having grown up on

Re: [arch-general] couple of log messages from kernel 3.2.2

2012-01-30 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 30 Jan 2012 13:22:14 Genes MailLists wrote: I noticed a couple of messages booting the new 3.2.2 kernel: (I) watchdog: - [287247.568009] NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. [287248.814530] watchdog: INTCAMT: cannot register miscdev on minor=130

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-01-25 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 23 Jan 2012 21:53:25 Norbert Zeh wrote: Laptop/intel graphics: Boots/reboots/halts all fine, as long as I don't suspend to RAM. After suspend to RAM, screen backlight is on, but screen remains black until turning the machine off. Apart from the screen issue, the machine seems to

Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-11 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 18:27:21 Tom Gundersen wrote: No particular group membership necessary. I'm not really sure exactly what packages need to be installed (I just install all the kde packages and hope for the best). This should just work(TM). If it does not there could be a

Re: [arch-general] pacman update conflict

2012-01-09 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 19:12:57 Sander Jansen wrote: resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: gcc: requires gcc-libs=4.6.2-1 :: valgrind: requires glibc2.15 Any suggestions on how to fix this

Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 16:25:14 Peter Nikolic wrote: I have just found one more that i cant find a way round , Just went to correct the timezone from Europe/Gurnsey to the correct Europe/London but it will not let me sac=ve the changes and does not ask for root password or anything ..

Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-08 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, Thanks for the helpful response, Tom. [Re: KDE system settings] However, I also see You are note allowed to save the configuration. That's odd. It works fine for me. You should see a key icon next to the Apply button, and when you click it you will be asked for the root password.

Re: [arch-general] update error

2012-01-07 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi Pete, Welcome to Arch. On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 15:33:41 Peter Nikolic wrote: I have just found one more that i cant find a way round , Just went to correct the timezone from Europe/Gurnsey to the correct Europe/London but it will not let me sac=ve the changes and does not ask for root

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

2012-01-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 16:14:46 Ionut Biru wrote: we don't have any packages with capital letters in name. that's a rule % pacman -Slq core extra community |grep [A-Z] libreoffice-ca-XV libreoffice-en-GB libreoffice-en-US libreoffice-en-ZA libreoffice-pa-IN libreoffice-pt-BR libreoffice-sa-IN

Re: [arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

2012-01-04 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 16:16:45 Jonathan Vasquez wrote: Never said the entire community was a democracy, I did say thought that like a democracy people vote for the packages to be included. You are right, that the Trusted Users have the final say on what packages get included, I never

Re: [arch-general] Is there a clean solution to get completely rid of Pulseaudio?

2011-12-23 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 23 Dec 2011 10:57:40 Ralf Madorf wrote: On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 13:02 +0330, ali.mous...@gmail.com wrote: you can't use gnome 3 without pulse audio. if you don't want to use pulse audio, consider using another DE or WM. At the moment I'm using Xfce only, but I will have the libre

[arch-general] python-urwid and python2-urwid contain .pyo files, didn't used to.

2011-12-23 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, python-urwid and python2-urwid now seem to contain .pyo files, but they didn't before. Just thought I'd check that this was intentional. Caveat: I know nothing about python packaging, but pacman just gave me a bunch of file conflicts for .pyo files not previously owned by anything. Pete.

Re: [arch-general] Is there a clean solution to get completely rid of Pulseaudio?

2011-12-23 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 23 Dec 2011 11:18:33 Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Friday 23 Dec 2011 12:06:37 Kwpolska wrote: Dear idiot, I'm kinda wondering why you aren't filtered from my mailbox yet. [..] I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E. Period. Seriously? It's comments like this that make me wonder if

Re: [arch-general] python-urwid and python2-urwid contain .pyo files, didn't used to.

2011-12-23 Thread Peter Lewis
On 23/12/11 20:32, Peter Lewis wrote: python-urwid and python2-urwid now seem to contain .pyo files, but they didn't before. Just thought I'd check that this was intentional. Caveat: I know nothing about python packaging, but pacman just gave me a bunch of file conflicts for .pyo files

Re: [arch-general] Unable to upgrade community/rekonq (PGP signature issue)

2011-12-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 Dec 2011 01:36:35 Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2011-12-20 19:38:19 +0530] Keshav P R: error: rekonq: key 22AD5874F39D989F is unknown error: key 22AD5874F39D989F could not be looked up remotely I opened a bug about this a couple of days ago: FS#27612. This seems to be Peter Lewis

Re: [arch-general] Unable to upgrade community/rekonq (PGP signature issue)

2011-12-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 Dec 2011 03:15:58 Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2011-12-20 15:57:02 +] Peter Lewis: I have my master key stored offline, and I hope it will last forever I see. It's just to bad that it is only 1024-bit long... RSA and DSA keys of this length will probably be crackable in ten

Re: [arch-general] Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-16 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 16 Dec 2011 15:37:01 Ralf Madorf wrote: The Internet anonymity is grotesque, it's like talking to a chatbot like ELIZA (Weizenbaum is one of my idols :). Did you note that most Linux users use their real names :)? This is more important for me than thinking about top and bottom

Re: [arch-general] KDE Debugging

2011-12-10 Thread Peter Lewis
On Saturday 10 Dec 2011 12:17:59 Marek Otahal wrote: It's not about a missing debugging program, but you would need kde built with debug symbols. Try to find packages with -debug or something alike in name. Not sure if arch has them prebuild though. No, you need to rebuild the relevant

Re: [arch-general] Problem automatically importing key for signed package.

2011-11-06 Thread Peter Lewis
Ah, thanks guys. On Sat, 05 Nov 2011, Myra Nelson wrote: You need to import your key into the pacman-key database with sudo pacman-key --keysever pgp.mit.edu -r 22AD5874F39D989F, then everything shoud work fine. I knew that this was an option, but wasn't sure why everyone else's key seemed

[arch-general] Problem automatically importing key for signed package.

2011-11-05 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, I've been trying to get to grips with the package signing stuff, and have just added my first signed package (choqok) to [community], but am having a problem installing it from the repo, when pacman doesn't already know about my key. I'm probably missing a step somewhere, or maybe I've found

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

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Lewis
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Evangelos Foutras wrote: Archlinux Changes: - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel version Interesting... can someone clarify what's going on with this? I was under the impression that under the new versioning scheme some versions would only have two numbers now, e.g.

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

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Lewis
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Thomas Bächler wrote: Interesting... can someone clarify what's going on with this? I was under the impression that under the new versioning scheme some versions would only have two numbers now, e.g. 3.0. Is this not the case any more and we will always have a

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

2011-10-27 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 27.10.2011 06:00, schrieb illdred: and some of the error messages mention something about scsi but fore scrolling past. then the system stops doing anything. This may or may not be related, but I had to put options scsi_mod max_luns=4 (4 was

Re: [arch-general] Content of new text file

2011-07-13 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Squall Lionheart wrote: When using Dolphin in KDE4 to *Create New Text File...* the new file is not empty, it contains a space and a newline character. I have looked for some kind of setting or template file that controls this default and have not been

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 + KDE 4 are both large disappointments.

2011-04-10 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Jelle van der Waa wrote: While with GNOME it's the case that GNOME2 is dead , SO LONG LIVE GNOME3!! *jelly drinks beer with his gnome friends Seriously, if someone does fork gnome2, they should so call it troll. Pete.

Re: [arch-general] Where should system-wide vim files go?

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: Checked out some other vim colour-themes on the AUR, the majority seem to install to the same location. Some choose /usr/share/vim/vim** instead, but that breaks when vim updates. Perhaps /usr/share/vim/vimfiles makes more sense (only found one

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 3.5.1-1

2011-03-23 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Dan McGee wrote: Should fix all the known rough edges in 3.5.0 release. http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS?h=maint All issues from the 3.5.0 signoff thread have been addressed. For what it's worth, signoff x86_64 with pleasure. Thanks for all the great

[arch-general] Pacman db files and permissions.

2011-03-18 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, It seems to me that something has changed regarding the way pacman handles permissions of its files since 3.5. I updated to pacman 3.5 yesterday, and today tried to do a pacman -Ss foo as my normal user. I got some error: could not open file errors and it bailed. Now, I have my umask set as

Re: [arch-general] Pacman db files and permissions.

2011-03-18 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Allan McRae wrote: On 19/03/11 08:34, Peter Lewis wrote: It seems to me that something has changed regarding the way pacman handles permissions of its files since 3.5. Please file a bug report. Before the sync databases were extracted so your umask did not matter

Re: [arch-general] kde4 loads kde3 parts -- is this a packaging issue?

2011-02-26 Thread Peter Lewis
On Saturday 26 February 2011 04:50:50 David C. Rankin wrote: I need some help figuring out where to start in trying to keep kde4 from loading most of kde3 when kde4 is launched from the kdm chooser. Just a wild guess from someone who spent quite a while trying to get KDE 3.5.n installed in

Re: [arch-general] Trinity Running on Arch Linux!

2011-02-17 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 17:32:59 David C. Rankin wrote: It works! After building kdebase (and fighting with other modules), I just decided to start trinity and see if it would work. Changed ~/.xinitrc to 'startkde' and then typed 'startx' and:

Re: [arch-general] Package deletion request

2011-02-14 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 14 February 2011 12:43:04 D. Can Celasun wrote: I've adopted, updated and reuploaded the ejecter[1] package as indicator-ejecter[2] to follow the general naming convention regarding Ayatana packages [3] . Can someone please delete the original ejecter package? [1]

Re: [arch-general] pacman -S xfce4-goodies fail

2011-02-01 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 12:31:44 doherty pete wrote: when i input pacman -S xfce4-goodies many information like this xfce4-xkb-plugin-0,5.3.3-4_x86_64.pkg.tar is invalid or corrupted ... ... how to resolve this? The file was probably corrupted during download. Try deleting it from

Re: [arch-general] wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here or on the trinity site?

2011-01-28 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 28 January 2011 17:20:40 David C. Rankin wrote: As I work through building the pkgbuilds for Trinity on Arch, I have been keeping notes, etc. on what has to take place. I will put that information up on a wiki. My question to the Arch devs is do you want it here on the Arch

Re: [arch-general] about pacman -S nvidia

2011-01-27 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 27 January 2011 13:35:04 Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 14:28 +0100, Vlad George wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:21:38PM +0800, doherty pete wrote: i just down from kernel.org adn install it CLASSIC! You gotta love one-word replies.

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Peter Lewis
dropbox email invitation On Monday 24 January 2011 10:06:18 Ray Rashif wrote: Guys..I don't think anyone has to tell you this but such invites are _always_ unintended. E-mail services have a bad tendency to automatically insert contacts into your friends' list, mailing list or not. So please,

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 24 January 2011 10:19:02 Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 10:12 +, Peter Lewis wrote: dropbox email invitation On Monday 24 January 2011 10:06:18 Ray Rashif wrote: Guys..I don't think anyone has to tell you this but such invites are _always_ unintended. E-mail

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 24 January 2011 10:41:38 Ng Oon-Ee wrote: You're welcome. Unfortunately, that's the way the web works nowadays. :-( Also, at least in dropbox's case I did not remember them allowing selection of emails, its mainly all-or-nothing (which makes sense considering the size of the

Re: [arch-general] Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 20 January 2011 14:15:32 Cédric Girard wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Jesse Young jesse.yo...@gmail.com wrote: hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama _hare_h...@lavabit.com wrote: Do you really believe this is a serious request ? Heh

Re: [arch-general] xdg autostart files.

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 13 January 2011 22:39:30 Ng Oon-Ee wrote: Is this really the right thing to do? Should that .desktop file be in the package or should it be up to the user to decide whether or not to load the GTK client? There is a wicd-nogtk in the AUR,

[arch-general] xdg autostart files.

2011-01-13 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, I don't know much about XDG, but I was trying to figure out why every time I started up a desktop session (KDE) wicd-tray was being loaded, when I didn't want it to be. I couldn't find any reference to it in any of the KDE autostart directories. Then I noticed that it has a .desktop file

Re: [arch-general] Patent protection

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 09 December 2010 11:00:43 Mauro Santos wrote: If Microsoft wants to get you, they will do so anyways, OIN member or not. OIN does not have a patent license for ALL patents that are being sold, and even if they had them, Microsoft has several other trivial patents like the ones

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Lewis
Hey Jeff, Interesting points. On Wednesday 08 December 2010 08:48:07 Jeff Cook wrote: Whenever I try bottom-posting, my clients complain that I just sent them a blank email. I think the trick is not to top or bottom post, but to interleave your reply, keeping the relevant parts of the

Re: [arch-general] Changing subject line - Was: Python 3 Rationale?

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 07 December 2010 14:03:34 Julius Caesar wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Mon 06 Dec 2010 23:24 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Top posting vs. going off topic

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio

2010-11-29 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 29 November 2010 09:21:12 Jan de Groot wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 10:09 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: I guess I am one of those pulse-haters. I don't care whether it's in [extra], some other official repo or not since I simply don't need it. But now mplayer pulls in libpulse,

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 28 November 2010 12:48:38 Jan Steffens wrote: Note that as far as I know, phonon is an abstraction API with similar functionality like GStreamer, not PulseAudio. Yes indeed, that's my understanding too. Anyway, thanks Jan - I can report that I'm using KDE, VLC etc. without pulse and

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-27 Thread Peter Lewis
On Saturday 27 November 2010 06:30:36 Ng Oon-Ee wrote: Good to see the overwhelming positive lean; is pulse being considered for an eventual default by chance? Almost nothing is default on Arch... So you should ask Gnome. And the answer is that yes, it will be default on Gnome. If

Re: [arch-general] Gnome question (that is unanswered on the gnome mailinglist)

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 18 October 2010 at 07:48 Magnus Therning wrote: I thought I'd try my luck on here, even though this is a rather Gnome-specific question: In the past I've been using seahorse to provide both a gpg agent and an ssh agent. Recently I noticed that gnome-keyring-daemon provides both

Re: [arch-general] Clearing out [testing]

2010-09-26 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 26 September 2010 at 11:17 Allan McRae wrote: I want to move the python rebuilds to the [testing] repo after the new GNOME release hits the main repo. So now would be a good time for us to do a clear out of [testing]. Here is a somewhat annotated list of packages currently in the

[arch-general] Yesterday's qtcurve update...

2010-09-15 Thread Peter Lewis
Yesterday's qtcurve update totally broke compositing on my KDE desktop. Specifically, the qtcurve-kde4 window decoration doesn't allow OpenGL to load, only XRender (which is very slow). Anyone else got this? % lspci -vv ... Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME,

Re: [arch-general] Chromium crashes KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-15 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 15 September 2010 at 10:08 Madhurya Kakati wrote: Is qt-gtk-engine used as the widget theme for gtk apps? Yes i am using the GTK engine. is it causing the problem? Well it seems like that's not necessarily (the whole of) the problem, but I have noticed qt-gtk-engine

Re: [arch-general] Chromium crashes KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-14 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 14 September 2010 at 02:17 Madhurya Kakati wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Adriano Moura adriano.l...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/9/13 Sven-Hendrik Haase s...@lutzhaase.com On 13.09.2010 18:38, Madhurya Kakati wrote: Hi, I am using Chromium 6.0.x with KDE 4.5.1.

Re: [arch-general] Shouldn't pacman restart dovecot after update?

2010-08-04 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, On Wednesday 04 Aug 2010 at 06:22 Andreas Radke wrote: You seem to want to use a distribution made safe for less skilled users. Why do you keep wasting our time suggesting to make Arch something it's not meant to be??? I don't think that David necessarily does want this, and I hope no one

Re: [arch-general] Shouldn't pacman restart dovecot after update?

2010-08-03 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 03 Aug 2010 at 09:28 Magnus Therning wrote: No useless little 1-line notes only ment for braindead users.. i only want to see what i need to see. I doubt I'm as knowledgeable on Linux systems as you, so I'd rather like seeing a bit more messages than you need to see. I have to

Re: [arch-general] No updates in a while - Is this the 'untiered mirror' thing?

2010-08-02 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 02 Aug 2010 at 08:24 Robert Howard wrote: I've noticed the same thing. No updates in a week. Very unusual for the packages I use. This thread just prompted me to check and yeah I hadn't had anything for at least a few days. I just did a sort of Monte-Carlo test, by switching mirrors

Re: [arch-general] No updates in a while - Is this the 'untiered mirror' thing?

2010-08-02 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 02 Aug 2010 at 08:48 Kazuo Teramoto wrote: On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Peter Lewis p...@muddygoat.org wrote: thread just prompted me to check and yeah I hadn't had anything for at least a few days. I just did a sort of Monte-Carlo test, by switching mirrors in /etc/pacman.d

Re: [arch-general] arch-dev-public misleading

2010-08-02 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 02 Aug 2010 at 15:50 Firmicus wrote: On 31/07/2010 14:00, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 31.07.2010 13:30, schrieb jesse jaara: The name and description of the arch-dev-public mailing list are extreamly misleading, for me personally the name and description tells that the list is

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Forum Update in Progress

2010-08-01 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 30 Jul 2010 at 10:51 Peter Lewis wrote: Now it's done, the fonts are all big! Is it just my eyes, or can they be made smaller again (the fonts, not my eyes)? Ah, just realised that the forum has different themes :-) Excellent work, thanks! Pete.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Forum Update in Progress

2010-07-30 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 30 Jul 2010 at 02:01 Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Allan McRae wrote: The update of our forum software to FluxBB 1.4 is currently in progress and may take a few more hours. Now it's done, the fonts are all big! Is it just my eyes, or can they be made smaller again (the fonts, not

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WARNING: KDE 4.5 RC3 in [testing]

2010-07-27 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 27 Jul 2010 at 09:29 Andrea Scarpino wrote: I am about to move the first wave of KDE 4.5 RC3 packages into [testing] without l10n packages. KDE SC 4.5.0 will released next week. Thanks Andrea - your work on providing these RC packages has been great. * no kdebindings-ruby (does not

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WARNING: KDE 4.5 RC3 in [testing]

2010-07-27 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 27 Jul 2010 at 17:44 Andrea Scarpino wrote: On Tuesday 27 July 2010 17:54:00 you wrote: Any idea if this will be fixed by the time of the final release or will Ruby not be an option in 4.5? (Or will be required to use ruby 1.8 if we want ruby bindings?) Well, I do not think

Re: [arch-general] community/jre and community/jdk packages are out of date - PKGBUILD proposal

2010-07-25 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, On Sunday 25 Jul 2010 at 16:50 Guillaume ALAUX wrote: I also have some suggestions for these packages: - rename them from {jre,jdk} to {java6-sun-jre,java6-sun-jdk} or so would enable us to use different versions of SUN's JVM (Java5, 6 and 7) Well the open jdk package is called openjdk6.

Re: [arch-general] No Compiz with current Kernels - but compiz with Linux alchemy 2.6.32-lts OK - Huh?

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 12 Jul 2010 at 05:12 David C. Rankin wrote: On my box I continue to have problems with the current kernels on, booting lts works fine with compiz - how is that so? IIRC - lts used to be cli only, now it boots into runlevel 5 just fine. Any thoughts on why compiz won't run on

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 28 Jun 2010 at 13:36 Caleb Cushing wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: So why is phonon support disabled in Qt? if memory serves correct from gentoo days it has to do with qt phonon an kde phonon stepping on each others

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 17 Jun 2010 at 21:53 Angel Velásquez wrote: Let's Make Arch Overprotected (LMAO) Tape Arch's Cracks - Organiztaion (TACO) I vote for TACO ! or: Tape Arch's Cracks Over Toughened Arch Community Operation Tough Arch Crack Ops Lots of TACO options :-) But yes, something

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

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 15 Jun 2010 at 06:48 Madhurya Kakati wrote: I am a full time KDE user and I don't have GNOME or its libraries. Firefox and Thunderbird keep asking me to choose applications to open .pdf, .doc, .xls, http://, etc. Is there no package which can fix the file associations for FF and

Re: [arch-general] Broken kwallet after kde 4.4.4 update

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, On Wednesday 02 Jun 2010 at 21:56 Marek Otahal wrote: anyone else experiencing issues with kwalletmanager after the upgrade? Nothing too helpful to add I'm afraid, other than it's working here. I upgraded yesterday and had no problems. KWallet seemed to forget that Korgac was allowed to

Re: [arch-general] Google Chrome

2010-05-28 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 28 May 2010 at 10:14 Madhurya Kakati wrote: Now that Google Chrome is not beta any more and chromium hasn't been updated in the repos yet i think i should install Google-Chrome from AUR. However Chrome for linux is very much behind Chrome for windows so I want to ask to those users

Re: [arch-general] Running Mozilla Prism?

2010-05-27 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 27 May 2010 at 13:35 Nicolás Reynolds wrote: I don't have time to do this right now, but if anyone fancies turning these instructions into a prism-svn package, then I'd be happy to help test. there you go :) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37539 Excellent, thanks

Re: [arch-general] Running Mozilla Prism?

2010-05-27 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 27 May 2010 at 16:34 Peter Lewis wrote: there you go :) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37539 Ah, also that /usr/bin/prism links to the pkgdir when it should link to /usr/lib/prism-1.0b4/bin/prism But, fixing that, it launches but just gives a window

Re: [arch-general] Running Mozilla Prism?

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 at 14:30 Magnus Therning wrote: Anyone out there using Prism successfully on Arch 64bit? After reading this thread I just took a look - I hadn't heard of it before. It seems the PKGBUILD pulls in an i686 binary (there's a complementary bin32- version). Is there a reason

Re: [arch-general] Running Mozilla Prism?

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 at 10:16 Magnus Therning wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:03, Peter Lewis p...@muddygoat.org wrote: On Tuesday 25 May 2010 at 14:30 Magnus Therning wrote: Anyone out there using Prism successfully on Arch 64bit? After reading this thread I just took a look - I

Re: [arch-general] Running Mozilla Prism?

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 at 11:31 Peter Lewis wrote: The stand-alone app is only built for 32bit by upstream (that seems to be a common situation for Mozilla stuff, rather sad if you ask me ;-). The code is available in an SVN repo so it ought to be possible to do a build from source. I

[arch-general] New udev rules

2008-11-15 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi folks, I'm new to posting here, but figured that it might be the place to ask about this kind of thing :-) I just bought a new printer/scanner - a Brother DCP-305C - and noticed that it's not included in the udev rules for sane (/etc/udev/rules.d/53-sane.rules), though quite a lot of