Re: [arch-general] New mailing list for real-time multimedia (audio/video)

On 8 December 2017 at 01:53, David Runge wrote: > Hey all, > > Florian Pritz was so kind to setup a new mailing list for the purpose of > discussing real-time multimedia (audio and video) on Arch Linux [1]. > Whether you're running big productions or are just fiddling away on

Re: [arch-general] Can we please have a co-maintainer ...

On 14 October 2017 at 06:51, Rashif Ray Rahman <sc...@archlinux.org> wrote: > Thanks for your support and interest. As I already have more than one > proposal we can consider it taken care of, for packages in community. > I will see how we can set up a dedicated mailing list sinc

Re: [arch-general] Can we please have a co-maintainer ...

On 14 October 2017 at 01:58, Marcelo "Marc" Ranolfi via arch-general wrote: > Guys, > > Great to see this brought up here. > > I've been using Ardour 5.12 for quite a while now, along with recent > versions of some of the other packages listed. To be honest I've been >

Re: [arch-general] Can we please have a co-maintainer ...

On 13 October 2017 at 18:56, David Runge wrote: > On October 13, 2017 2:02:42 PM GMT+02:00, Mark Raynsford > wrote: >>I use Ardour daily. I'd like to volunteer to help, but I'm not sure >>what's involved. > In the case of Ardour luckily

Re: [arch-general] Arch Wiki Professional_audio

Great to know there was a talk about Arch pro-audio in LAC! I think there is a lot of information there that you can add to the wiki. I did a rewrite once but as Ralf said, rewriting again can be quite difficult. Ralf, David, and anyone else invested in pro-audio now -- let me hijack this thread

Re: [arch-general] Ardour 5.6 released - status on update

Sorry guys really no excuse other than "RL". Some of the other packagers did help to update a few of my packages but ardour seems to have been missed, most likely because it remained in testing. I have updated and moved immediately to [extra]. On 22 March 2017 at 16:27, Ralf Mardorf

Re: [arch-general] Ardour 5 - Was: What's with Ray Rashif?

On 11 January 2017 at 15:42, David Runge wrote: > ... > Would it be possible to push Ardour 5.5 now? > There's plenty of help and updates in the rest of this mail thread. > We're nearly a year behind by now. > Arch used to be bleeding edge... > ... Ralf, David Thanks guys for

Re: [arch-general] Ardour 5 - Was: What's with Ray Rashif?

On 21 December 2016 at 22:41, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 16:02:13 +0100, David Runge wrote: > >is it possible to push ardour 5.5 to extra and/or testing? We're > >getting really far behind by now :-/ > > Hi, > > at the moment I'm testing a new audio

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

On 21 March 2016 at 23:22, David C. Rankin wrote: > What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have > been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years Unix/Linux > ... There is no policy per se that helps anyone here.

Re: [arch-general] Update to OpenCV 2.4.11?

On 29 July 2015 at 03:45, André Apitzsch andre.apitz...@etit.tu-chemnitz.de wrote: Hi everybody, OpenCV 2.4.11 has been released about five months ago. Arch still ships 2.4.10. An Update to the newer version would simplify transition to 3.0. See

Re: [arch-general] package bup marked out-of-date for several months

On 29 June 2015 at 07:05, Zander B lez...@gmail.com wrote: I have also noticed that the package opencv is out of date. Is there a another way to get the package updated (including submitting an updated package myself)? There was a minor release to which I did not update for several months, but

Re: [arch-general] VTK package is outdated

On 15 June 2015 at 11:25, Andrejs Mivreņiks m...@gim.fastmail.fm wrote: If I don't do anything in another two weeks I'll drop it to AUR where it might be better taken care of. What about packages like opencascade[1] that depend on VTK? Also it might take quite a long time to build from AUR. I

Re: [arch-general] VTK package is outdated

On 13 June 2015 at 17:33, Simon Hanna j0k3...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Nicola Bizzoca nicola.bizz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The VTK package present in the community repository is not updated to the last version 6.2.0 http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/858

Re: [arch-general] Open-sourced: OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software package

On 9 June 2015 at 20:25, Zeev Pekar zeev.pe...@avtechscientific.com wrote: Hello Andrejs and the Arch community! we have updated all our dependencies(among them VTK to 6.1): http://asl.org.il/2015/06/09/ASL-0.1.2_released/ Now we look for volunteers to add ASL package for Arch - please, send

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

On 28 April 2015 at 05:21, H8H h...@dev-nu11.de wrote: Don't get me wrong, but it is annoying to configure the whole wirless stuff and netctl just said, STOP! There is ONE missing dependency: wpa_supplicant. ONLY ONE PACKAGE I MISSED TO REACH THE WORLD :-( You are given the freedom to choose

Re: [arch-general] [extra] package depending on [community] package

On 11 February 2015 at 09:39, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: Wasn't there a guideline somewhere against this? Should I raise bugs when I see this is taking place? Specific example that I just noticed is mpd, because libnfs in community updated. Of course, mpd was updated within 12

Re: [arch-general] warning: foobar: local (1.0.0-2) is newer than community (1.0.0-1)

On 17 January 2015 at 18:23, Jan Alexander Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com wrote: Resetting the pkgrel is indeed wrong. pkgrel should be bumped when moving to [community], and that has been my habit when moving packages from the AUR. I agree. Even I used to be guilty. Although this is not

Re: [arch-general] depends vs. optdepends

On 30 December 2014 at 05:58, Troy Engel troyengel+a...@gmail.com wrote: It is my opinion this is a dangerous precedent to install binaries from an official package that are linked to shared libraries which are not required to be installed. I'm wondering why Arch considers it acceptable to

Re: [arch-general] wireshark-qt 1.12

On 1 October 2014 06:54, G. Richard Bellamy rbell...@pteradigm.com wrote: When looking at the PKGBUILD for the wireshark split package [1], I see that both wireshark-cli and wireshark-gtk use conflicts=(wireshark) but wireshark-qt does not. Should it? Nope. The use of replaces=(wireshark)

Re: [arch-general] Arch curiosity

On 19 August 2014 22:44, James cc...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Savyasachee Jha savya.jha91 at gmail.com writes: ... I think your curiosity about the file systems Arch supports can be satisfied by this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_systems Thanks for the response, but, I'm not

Re: [arch-general] makepkg.conf CFLAGS

On 1 June 2014 18:03, Yamakaky yamak...@yamaworld.fr wrote: Hi I just discovered the gcc option march=native. It enables all the local-supported optimizations, without downsides except the non-portability of the binaries. Is there a reason why it isn't enabled by default, as cross platform

Re: [arch-general] makepkg.conf CFLAGS

On 2 June 2014 18:56, Yamakaky yamak...@yamaworld.fr wrote: I believe when the decision was made it was simply based on the fact that being able to share is worth more for the community than local optimization. PKGBUILDs and packages from repositories have to be portable, but it's not a

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

On 13 March 2014 11:09, Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com wrote: Hi, Are there instructions for creating an archlinux usb key with persistence somewhere? I want to use my archlinux usb key as a diagnostic tool, and sometimes it is helpful to save files to it for later review. Any

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

On 11 February 2014 09:16, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: WorMzy Tykashi wormzy.tyka...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

On 14 January 2014 18:04, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: They're kept neatly tucked out of the way in /usr/lib/ruby, except for a few wrappers that end up in /usr/bin so that they're in the PATH. You use your system as you wish, but that is not recommended/supported practice. You

Re: [arch-general] How stable are the new version number formats on eg. filesystem, usbutils, etc.

On 15 January 2014 07:39, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: All, Updating different minimum dependency package version info for tde PKGBUILDs, I note there have been a number of 'version number format' changes for various packages. E.g.: filesystem 0.x.y-z ==

Re: [arch-general] Packages Verified with MD5

On 13 January 2014 00:58, Taylor Hornby ha...@defuse.ca wrote: If so, this should be fixed as soon as possible. How feasible would it be? Could it be as simple as making a script that: 1. Finds the 'source' and 'md5sums' lines. 2. Downloads the packages and checks the md5sums. 3. Computes

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

On 13 January 2014 18:52, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not trying to dismiss your effort, I'm just concerned that this seems a little like duplication. It's about options. You can experience the same thing with Python, R, Vim, etc. I have long given up using distribution

Re: [arch-general] Packages Verified with MD5

On 12 January 2014 14:09, Taylor Hornby ha...@defuse.ca wrote: Are there other packages still being verified with MD5? Can we fix them too? I'll gladly donate my time if it's not something that can be automated. Of the 4890 base packages shown by ABS, 2988 are MD5-only. That is 61%, or more

Re: [arch-general] MAKEFLAGS remodelation

On 6 January 2014 02:11, SpinFlo sl1pk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi waf have internal multithreading detection, no need add job options That may be true, but it does support a job option. [1] I also don't get the point of this topic, since $MAKEFLAGS simply contains a hyphen, a character, and a

Re: [arch-general] MAKEFLAGS remodelation

On 6 January 2014 03:57, Kalrish Bäakjen kalrish.ant...@gmail.com wrote: My goal was to make it generic. SCons and Waf support the -j option, but that is coincidental. MAKEFLAGS is for make; why tweak it to make it work with other build systems? And, if other build systems support some options

Re: [arch-general] Package management

On 6 January 2014 09:26, Kalrish Bäakjen kalrish.ant...@gmail.com wrote: Note, however, that the model I propose wouldn't introduce many changes. You say that, but you also say this: There are also directories in /usr/lib that should be renamed. To me, that by itself implies 'many changes'.

Re: [arch-general] Anyone has the skill to create a ArchLinux Logo render

On 14 November 2013 11:21, Brock.Zheng goodme...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I found a beautiful wallpaper in Unbuntu: http://www.linuxeden.com/upimg/allimg/131114/254-1311140Z412.jpg Anyone has the skill art taste to render the Arch version? any interesting comments? This is the author (found

Re: [arch-general] mplayer2 deprecation

On 31 October 2013 06:38, kendell clark coffeekin...@gmail.com wrote: Since mplayer2 has been deprecated and moved to the aur, i've been trying to find another console video player that will play videos in full screen. Fullscreen in console requires a trick, AFAIK. In fact, the 'fs' option has

Re: [arch-general] mplayer2 deprecation

On 31 October 2013 17:55, coffeekin...@gmail.com wrote: hi Thanks for the help. That worked better than my attempts did, although now when I start mplayer with the alias I get the following: [fbdev2] Screensize is smaller than video size (1600x900 1600x1200) FATAL: Cannot initialize video

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro

On 20 October 2013 04:13, Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be expected that packages like nvidia-rt are moved too, if linux-rt is moved from AUR to [community]? Yes. We have generally kept our official repos slim of kernels, and especially for -rt it was at some point kind of

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro

On 19 October 2013 04:21, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: PS after closing the thread. Perhaps we could continue this thread at the archaudio list. I'll subscribe within the next days. You can also drop by #archaudio on Freenode if you use IRC. If you don't feel comfortable

Re: [arch-general] Bringing in alsa-tools

On 16 July 2013 23:25, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 22:31 +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: Let me know if you have any objections to (i) adding this to [extra], and/or, (ii) splitting the package like this. CC'ing arch-general if anyone who uses the stuff

[arch-general] Bringing in alsa-tools

Hey folks I'd like to provide alsa-tools [1] in our repos as it contains some very useful niche tools for some sound cards (mostly pro audio). It is presently in the AUR in one form or another. [2] It comes as one single tarball in terms of sources but the subdirs are self-contained. I'm leaning

[arch-general] [FYI] On ardour 3.1.10 and jack2-multilib 1.9.9.5

Hello folks This is just a note so that you don't have to flag these packages unnecessarily: * ardour 3.1.10 is _not_ a source release It is a binary-only update from upstream. The source code release remains unchanged (since translations are generated during the build process). [1] ::

Re: [arch-general] What is the policy regarding the urgency of fixes ?

On 1 May 2013 22:54, Pavan Yalamanchili cont...@pavanky.com wrote: For example, the following commit fixes a bug https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/cudaid=09ae51b3d87b7cc8cce2bfd1026e711e29368a8f But that change would require a 400+ MB to be

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [pacman-dev] debug package repositories

On 15 April 2013 17:52, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: In fact, I will provide the needed patches for a separate [debug] and [community-debug] repo if that is what is decided to happen. I personally think that is the only way to go about it. I wouldn't want -debug packages to take up

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

On 14 April 2013 12:13, Kyle k...@gmx.ca wrote: According to Rashif Ray Rahman: # -- with UUID. I dislike hardcoding label names as they are likely to # change, but UUIDs are static (barring reformats). I greatly prefer labels, because they are human readable, chosen by the end user

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

On 13 April 2013 14:27, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: On 04/12/2013 12:32 AM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: Hi Those SanDisk drive are a real pain you can use them but you are going to have to fdisk it first there is stuff on there that stops Linux dead in it's tracks i have several of

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Add Wayland/Weston

On 16 February 2013 13:36, Martín Cigorraga m...@archlinux.us wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Jan Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Martín Cigorraga m...@archlinux.us wrote: Sorry for the 'molehill' kid, but Cai's still right, isn't him?

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro based on Arch Linux

On 12 February 2013 20:05, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi :) is there an audio distro based on Arch Linux, that already is rawly set up for audio studio production. Another requirement for me is, that such a distro shouldn't cause or at least only less inconsistencies,

Re: [arch-general] USB Flash drive problems

On 6 November 2012 02:50, Squall Lionheart headmastersqu...@gmail.com wrote: I guess running systemctl should tell you? If you are using systemd it will list a lot of running services. Otherwise I assume it will return a dbus error (but I haven't tried that myself, so only a guess). FYI, I

Re: [arch-general] devtools?

On 2 November 2012 07:25, Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:14:16 +0100 Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu wrote: On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:26:35 +1000 Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: What is the mirror at the top of your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist? Server

Re: [arch-general] PyQT fails when I try to use it with Python 2.7

On 30 October 2012 04:01, Asdrúbal Iván Suárez Rivera asdrubal.ivan.suarez.riv...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/29 Kwpolska kwpol...@gmail.com: On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Asdrúbal Iván Suárez Rivera asdrubal.ivan.suarez.riv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello guys, this is my first message to this

Re: [arch-general] libffado update

On 21 September 2012 21:36, Aapo Vienamo aapo.vien...@iki.fi wrote: Hello. I noticed that libffado was updated recently. It looks like that the new version of libffado is incompatible with the version of jack in the arch repos. To demonstrate the problem: aapo ~ $ jackd -dfirewire

Re: [arch-general] Wanted: advice dual-booting Arch and Windows 7 on new laptop

On 18 September 2012 17:14, Robbie Smith zoqae...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone advise me on how I could overcome these issues? Has anyone had any experience with new HP g6 models? My current laptop is not my own, and when I got it, I didn't want to mess with the partitioning. So I made some

Re: [arch-general] [seemingly solved] Issue with Jack2, ALSA or current kernels

On 17 September 2012 01:04, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Thank you Ray :) seemingly it's solved. I can't test it now, but the bad messages are gone away [1]. What was the culprit? Ralf, you're welcome. It was most probably related to a bug with GCC optimisation [1], which

Re: [arch-general] Issue with Jack2, ALSA or current kernels

On 16 September 2012 19:34, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Unfortunately I can't remember when it gets broken. The Rt still is blinking when I start jackd by QJackCtl and if I play a WAV by Audacity via Jack everything seems to be ok. Because I didn't produce music for some

Re: [arch-general] Issue with Jack2, ALSA or current kernels

On 16 September 2012 21:54, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: At least I won't join IRC today. Not an issue. IRC is just real-time when both parties are present, that's it :) I'll do some testing as someone has reminded me of a subtle bug, which may or may not be related. --

Re: [arch-general] Issue with Jack2, ALSA or current kernels

On 16 September 2012 22:41, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I installed the optional dependencies. # pacman -Syu libffado dbus-core python2 Targets (4): libxml++-2.34.2-1 dbus-core-1.6.4-1 libffado-2.0.1-7 python2-2.7.3-2 Only the missing FFADO lib output disappeared, all

Re: [arch-general] kde and systemd [was Re: [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package]

On 28 August 2012 16:01, Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:55:06 +0200 Joakim Hernberg j...@alchemy.lu wrote: $ pacman -Qi shows me that kdebase-workspace depends on consolekit, which in turn depends on polkit. The above comment seems to suggest that kde will soon

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

On 15 August 2012 21:31, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: I just subscribed to this list, and 80% of the traffic I'm seeing is problems with systemd. That should tell you something; systemd has problems. Felipe, I understand where you're coming from, and I can feel you. But,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

On 16 August 2012 01:21, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: So, if you *already* know that there are problems, why not wait? What's wrong with waiting another year, and see if you don't see so many problems then? What's the hurry to break people's systems? Felipe, we've been

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

On 16 August 2012 03:46, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:25:05AM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: Please think of systemd as the freedesktop.org specs for desktop files or graphical interoperability between distributions (X11, d-bus). I'm trying to attach

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

On 13 August 2012 16:04, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 02:08:43AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Of course bullshit is also rife and quite amusing sometimes. The same pro audio world sells Ł10,000 gold power cables as thick as your arm and then plugs them

Re: [arch-general] Why is scribus installing gimp-light-2.6.11?

On 10 August 2012 12:32, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys, The latest scribus update attempts to install gimp-light 2.6.11 (not 2.6.12?) as a dependency for the update. This fails on my box because I created a gimp26 package which is gimp 2.6.12. Is the

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

On 23 June 2012 02:34, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: I am a long-time debian user. Is there an Archlinux live environment available anywhere so I can take a look round without installing AL to my hard drive..? You are already in a live environment. It is console-based and provides

Re: [arch-general] wget

On 2 May 2012 15:43, gt static.vor...@gmx.com wrote: PS: Just curious, how did you land on arch mailing list? Are you using arch too? Also, please learn to use search engines. We get these on occasion. The general theory is that they do use google but the choice to post to the arch mailing

Re: [arch-general] Reliable documents (was Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch)

On 30 April 2012 17:35, Lorenzo Bandieri lorenzo.bandi...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/4/30 Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 +0200 Gour wrote: we did embrace LaTeX/LyX etc. To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use Lyx as your editor or something

Re: [arch-general] RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

On 25 April 2012 23:25, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: I strongly believe that should we move away from intscripts it needs to be to an event-driven system (such as systemd or upstart) and it was not clear from the webpage that OpenRC provides this. I concur. Although the current init

Re: [arch-general] Can you test machine to set --jobs[=N] from w/i PKGBUILD?

On 1 April 2012 10:59, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.comwrote: Guys, Is there any way to check the number of cores on a machine to set the number of jobs within a PKGBUILD?: make -j'X' I have some dual-core and some quad-core boxes and the difference between -j2 and -j4

Re: [arch-general] A bug reported, no response in two weeks

On 31 March 2012 14:17, Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkov...@gmail.com wrote: I'm onto fixing it. I think the reason why it wasn't fixed is that dragonlord isn't very active (actually I haven't seen him active for quite maybe a few months). He is - sporadically. He should reply if you ask him on IRC.

Re: [arch-general] kopete and google talk

On 8 March 2012 20:58, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: I have configured a gmail account in kopete and google talk/libjingle is enabled. However if I right click on the contact properties, Call google talk

Re: [arch-general] jackdbus

On 29 January 2012 22:12, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: How do I set up jackdbus? Standard jackd configuration will not work for jackdbus. It is a dynamic system and overall takes a different approach to initialise and has a different configuration file. Reboot and start afresh