Re: [arch-general] lcms - needs upgrade because of security

2010-08-14 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Kurt J. Bosch kjb-temp-2...@alpenjodel.de wrote: Am 2010-08-14 21:48, schrieb Laurent Carlier: You should fill a bugreport as there is security issues No. Last time I did this it was rejected - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10679 That reject was plain

Re: [arch-general] Package signing for the umpteenth time (was Re: unrealircd 3.2.8.1-2 contains backdoor)

2010-06-13 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Ananda Samaddar ana...@samaddar.co.uk wrote: This is the reason why we need package signing for Pacman.  I'm aware that some progress has been made and it's being worked on.  Are there any updates? It's all there :

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Check all checksum types

2010-06-08 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Kazuo Teramoto kaz@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Check every checksum that makepkg supports rather than only md5sums. Fixes FS#17168. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org --- I am sure

Re: [arch-general] Cannot install shaman from AUR

2010-06-05 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:36 AM, xenof0nt xenof...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry there is no other alternative. The only solution is Shaman2 but currently is in Alpha stage. That means it is highly unstable and dangerous for your system. Arch will never provide a graphical tool for pacman. So if you

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay! - Was: Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Xavier Chantry chantry.xav...@gmail.com wrote: Then, if you want to do something about it, just go ahead and talk with these people Joerg kindly mentioned. Ask them whether they agree or disagree with Eben's interpretation that GPL compliance on mkisofs

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay! - Was: Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Thu 27 May 2010 14:43 +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: Dozens of people have contributed to the discussion, but no one actually cares about getting some clarifications ? I just don't get it. I feel like I did my part

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: Sadly audio performance / locks /latency seems to be not on graphics driver developers minds at all. It's definitely not their primary focus. But if you open a bug report saying that commit greatly increased

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Xavier Chantry chantry.xav...@gmail.com wrote: Also note the first item about latency on this page : http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo Ah now I remember where this latency TODO came from, there actually was one report about bad latency earlier

Re: [arch-general] Burning From Command Line

2010-05-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:32 PM, C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.me wrote: at the possibility of playing devils advocate, i don't see anything outrageous by Jeorg's claims... even after reading the full 40+ messages twice and the yay thread started afterwards. Sorry to inform you that you

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Looking at the xrun statistics in function of audio period size, it looks like current nouveau is blocking audio (either by dis- abling interrupts, or by locking a shared HW resource) for about 3-4 ms. *No* driver today should

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-25 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:32 AM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: I don't mind having to tweak things, do a lot of configuration manually, etc. etc., but I do expect things to work when they go into core/extra, or at least have a fallback available. There is none, AFAICS. I don't know what you

Re: [arch-general] Burning From Command Line

2010-05-24 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Rasmus Steinke r...@xssn.at wrote: Jörg has a point. While of course being biased about his pet cdrtools, cdrkit is not on par with cdrtools in any way. Those updates you mention more or less only consist of small fixes, no progess at all in that package.

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-24 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:00 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Hello all, over the past few months I have installed Arch on a number of systems, all of them used for quite intensive audio work (think of systems with 1000 jack ports). All of them have worked flawlessly, no latency problems

Re: [arch-general] Burning From Command Line

2010-05-23 Thread Xavier Chantry
2010/5/23 Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com: On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 23:07 -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote: 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

Re: [arch-general] AIF through proxy

2010-05-22 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2010 02:04:41 +0200 Andre \Osku\ Schmidt andre.osku.schm...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2010 22:41:12 +0200

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: AIF through proxy

2010-05-22 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: or write this to /etc/profile: alias pacman='http_proxy=.. ftp_proxy=.. pacman' I would suggest that last way, either an alias or shell function or shell wrapper.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] phoronix: Is Arch faster than Ubuntu?

2010-05-19 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: Came across my reader today

Re: [arch-general] vim runtime woes

2010-05-14 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Jan Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com wrote: The vim runtime that can be retrieved via rsync is outdated. Some of the patches modify the runtime, and some of these changes (e.g. 394) are lost when the runtime is overwritten with the runtime from rsync. Not

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD parser

2010-05-10 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 10/05/10 02:06, Loui Chang wrote: On Sun 09 May 2010 16:21 +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Allan McRaeal...@archlinux.org  wrote: Sourcing is dangerous if the PKGBUILD is from

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD parser

2010-05-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Sourcing is dangerous if the PKGBUILD is from an untrusted source.  It also fails with package splitting... Makes me wonder why pkgbuilds are written in bash. Sounds like a big design flaw. But it depends on what our

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD parser

2010-05-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: Yeah I've thought about this as well. Source packages could have a similar format as binary packages with a .PKGINFO file to present the metadata in an easily parsable format. You can read some of my incomplete

Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?

2010-05-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:43 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys,        I have had vim and gvim installed side by side for 6 months+, today during update, pacman wanted to remove vim because it now conflicts with gvim. So I removed gvim and updated. What is the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [toolchain] gcc 4.5 breakage

2010-05-06 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Rogutės Sparnuotos rogu...@googlemail.com wrote: All this is probably unrelated to http://gcc.gnu.org/PR43987, but perhaps it will save some time for someone, as your post about busybox helped me. I'll wait for a new gcc package before reporting a gcc bug. IMO

Re: [arch-general] Crisp Rendering Fonts

2010-04-29 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Michishige Kaito chris.webs...@gmail.com wrote: Anti-aliasing is turned off for small point sizes and turned on for larger sizes. Denis. I'd be very interested in finding out how this is controlled. Could you point me at a resource on the topic?

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

2010-04-29 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: I know this is a silly reason, but this is the general trend I've observed dealing with people in real life and on the internet. They fear from using Linux because they think it has no GUI or it is bad. Well that's

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] gcc-4.5 toolchain rebuild

2010-04-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Emmanuel Benisty benist...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your reply Allan. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 17/04/10 00:03, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: Just out of curiosity, what is the plan regarding this issue (quoted

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

2010-04-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:05 AM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net wrote: On Thu, April 8, 2010 9:51 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: So WTF?!?!?!?  Hal sees the keyboard.  And xev running inside the x session sees the keyboard.  SO WHY ON EARTH IS MY KEYBOARD STILL DEAD IN MY X

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

2010-04-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:54 PM, bardo ilba...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/4/9 David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net: * I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like this: expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1 line 8 of xfree86 W  T  F  ? ! ? Not sure it's the same problem, but

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

2010-04-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:32 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net wrote: I upgraded my extremely not-up-to-date server last night (523 packages upgraded).  The upgrade generally went well, except for one significant issue:  the keyboard is no longer working under Xorg.  It works fine in a

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

2010-04-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:59 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net wrote: Anybody have any ideas on this?  GUI is completely unusable on the server until I solve this!  :-( I really have zero idea what's going on.  And it's a difficult thing to find good specific search terms for, as

[arch-general] nvidia with latest Xorg

2010-04-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:35 PM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: On 04/07/2010 09:55 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 04/07/2010 10:46 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote: Can you attach full Xorg log and config ? I'm not using any xorg config.  Log is at: http://www.darose.net

Re: [arch-general] Getting X running on new install (Ionut Biru)

2010-03-31 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Alain Muls alain.m...@gmail.com wrote: That is exactly what I did. I am not a beginner and have read quite some articles about Arch and I am aware of the fact that I have to follow carefully all steps in this installation process. So pleas bear with me and hep

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:22 +0800 schrieb Ian-Xue Li da.mi.spi...@gmail.com: As for MOC, I recommend cmus over MOC because it got more decoder over different types files. Well, just tried cmus. It's so complicated an

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:54:48 +0200 schrieb Xavier Chantry chantry.xav...@gmail.com: Heh cmus is probably my preferred player now so I ought to defend it. Too complicated, seriously ? The only command I ever need

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grep-2.6.1-1

2010-03-29 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Xavier Chantry chantry.xav...@gmail.com wrote: A very quick look at the git repo : http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=54d55bba41f2ff31682fe6523ef6f49b37a0e20f I just love these easy to browse web interface :) 2.6.2 released which includes

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grep-2.6-1

2010-03-25 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Upstream big update. Local changelog:  - Removed the multibyte locale speed-up patch (and all the patches to fix the issues it created...) as it is now included upstream.  - Removed the other patches as it appears they

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

2010-03-25 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Giovanni Scafora giova...@archlinux.org wrote: 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

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] dmraid-1.0.0rc16-3

2010-03-18 Thread Xavier Chantry
Tobias, did you receive the last mail from dmraid developer ? It seems we can solve this problem in a better way now with just a runtime option. And keep just the dynamic binary. I will see if I can get that running and working. Or do you still want to temporarily re-add static dmraid despites

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Denis Kobozev d.v.kobo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi archers, It has been repeated a lot of times that doing piecemeal updates with pacman -Sy pkgname is not a very good idea. What about ignoring packages? Is it as dangerous? And a more general question: is it even

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

2010-03-15 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: After a quick look at it I don't see much that would apply though.  Arch doesn't have releases.  Arch follows upstream releases very closes (in some cases even too closely ;-) So, if there is no need for backporting

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

2010-03-15 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: 1) what allan said : A group could monitor security issues and file bugs to get the devs to fix them. Is there any evidence that this is actually needed? No, Allan asked for some numbers, and I am curious too.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-13 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: I do not see all reopen requests, but the need to beg seems overstated...  I do know that it is much, much easier to get a bug reopened if the request is clear and well justified.  A large portion of reopen requests

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-12 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 13/03/10 08:35, Aaron Griffin wrote: Does anyone have an opinion on this? In my eyes, I imagine the kind of people who want this feature simply wish to argue about the closing. I've had to deal with enough PM

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

2010-03-11 Thread Xavier Chantry
2010/3/11 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: On 03/11/2010 09:50 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: If all else fails, blame Allan. Oh, and tell the maintainer what failed. Gotcha!        I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to the AUR package and sent Chris (the maintainer)

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

2010-03-10 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Not really... The problem is that pacman does not clean up packages installed as a dependency for a package that are no longer needed due to an update which removed that dep. And by the way, we cannot be 100% sure

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs = git ?

2010-03-08 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like this is a solution that's looking for a problem to happen. As far as I know, working with svn isn't a big deal and isn't a problem. Just a side-note : I discovered git svn today, it's really a blessing

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs = git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:51:30 +0100 Stefan Husmann stefan-husm...@t-online.de wrote: 4) users can check out older versions of packages easily, with limited storage overhead. Do you want to store binary packages in

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs = git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:14 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 02:49:01PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: The only viable solution I could think of is using one git repository per package - and that is just crazy. I wonder, is it really that crazy ? I've been looking

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-04 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Denis Kobozev d.v.kobo...@gmail.com wrote: Bottom posting shows its downside only when you recently joined a mailing list, for example - you start receiving emails from threads that have been going for a long time and you have no idea what people are

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1

2010-02-28 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 28/02/10 19:10, Roman Kyrylych wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 16:46, Tobias Powalowskit.p...@gmx.de  wrote: Hi guys, kernel 2.6.33 first test run ... Enjoy have fun and give me feedback, I have Intel 965GM video

Re: [arch-general] Archwiki - Installing with fake raid - really chopped up...

2010-02-28 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:57 PM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys, I don't know who does the wiki editing on the Installing with Fake RAID page, but a lot of the helpful information was deleted and it has been edited down to the point that it is confusing. You

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Samba package sizes

2010-02-27 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Rogutės Sparnuotos rogu...@googlemail.com wrote: Dan McGee (2010-02-26 19:09): Guys, does anyone else think this is getting out of hand? ... Seriously, 45 f-ing MB for samba? How can that be possible? ... Samba is growing up fast. It is long known upstream

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Fwd: FS#17503: [unzip] zsh completion missing for unzip patches

2010-02-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Thayer Williams thay...@gmail.com wrote: Bumping this for feedback.  7z correctly unzips localized win32 zip files, but bsdtar/unzip cannot.  Is that good enough to remove the conflicting win32 patches from unzip? Links to feature request for adding support

Re: [arch-general] Xscreensaver corrupts ext4 / partition

2010-02-21 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: Bad thing it's still kind of unknown how to solve or to work around it.  Well, the work around is not to use xscreensaver, :-(.   I don't remember if I can get xlockmore to lock when there's no activity... Well,

Re: [arch-general] powertop vs archlinux vs ubuntu

2010-02-21 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Stefano Z. mie.iscrizi...@gmail.com wrote: hi i've bought a new notebook (hp pavilion dm1-1150sl) and installed archlinux. i have see a strange thing with powertop, i'm running the vanilla arch kernel26, and i have see this behaviour: Cn                

Re: [arch-general] new libdrm breaks nouveau

2010-02-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ray Kohler ataraxia...@gmail.com wrote: Downgrading libdrm makes X work again. Is this already being worked on, or should I open a bug? If so, against which package, libdrm or xf86-video-nouveau? You need to upgrade and rebuild both xf86-video-nouveau and

Re: [arch-general] VIM history

2010-02-12 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: Or add the following to .vimrc or /etc/vimrc: runtime vimrc_example.vim to enable other features that you are probably used to Yeah this is a lot better :) I started by just including it with runtime. But

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: I think we may have this fixed in pacman-git, but Nagy or Xavier would know for sure... That documentation from man PKGBUILD still applies, I don't think we ever considered it as a bug/problem : replaces (array)

Re: [arch-general] KMS again with 2.6.33?

2010-02-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Jan de Groot j...@jgc.homeip.net wrote: The point is that it moved to the staging tree now, where further development will take place. After a while, there won't be an out-of-tree version anymore because all development happens in the official kernel git tree.

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

2010-02-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Arvid Picciani a...@exys.org wrote: if someone actually posts patches or other constructive stuff, please CC me. We're rewriting pacman anyway and looking for a solution to handle this mess in particular. Right now the only idea i got is versioned deps which

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

2010-02-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 09/02/10 19:50, Xavier Chantry wrote: Anyway, care to explain what you are rewriting pacman for ? There are probably plenty of good reasons to do that, I am just curious to know if you have any:) I guess

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] package signoffs

2010-02-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Eric Bélanger snowmanisc...@gmail.com wrote: One reason that it takes time to get signoffs for certain packages is that we don't know if enough devs use it to get the required signoff. For instance, I don't use openvpn. How many devs use openvpn? I don't know

Re: [arch-general] KMS again with 2.6.33?

2010-02-08 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de wrote: It will be supported as .33 will ship kms. Right now .32 supports kms for ati and intel cards, nouveau is optional. It seems the question was not only about kms but also about dri2, which is needed to get 3d support with

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

2010-02-08 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Jeff Horelick jdho...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I have a suggestion to possibly make rebuilds a bit less painful (or non-existant). I think this is a good idea because it seems

Re: [arch-general] KMS again with 2.6.33?

2010-02-08 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Jan de Groot j...@jgc.homeip.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:52 +0100, Xavier Chantry wrote: It seems the question was not only about kms but also about dri2, which is needed to get 3d support with kms. About nouveau, ums was dropped from ddx on 11th

[arch-general] Eben Moglen's view on mkisofs GPL (non-)compliance

2010-02-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
I also hope this helps somehow. -- Forwarded message -- From: Karl Berry via RT licens...@fsf.org Date: Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:42 AM Subject: [gnu.org #544172] Fwd: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit To: chantry.xav...@gmail.com Hello Xavier, Eben

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-02 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com wrote: Urmm..if it is so important, Arch gives you the power to roll your own kernel. Heck, I don't even have a fallback, because I don't need it. Like Fons, I have an RT kernel, and a normal kernel. Either acts as a backup of

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-01 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:59 PM, ludovic coues cou...@gmail.com wrote: WAIT WHAT? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/kernel26-lts/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/kernel26-lts/ lts is not for everyday desktop usage. Who said anything about desktop usage ? It is

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

2010-02-01 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Brendan Long kori...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like the real problem is pacman's message then. My suggestion: change package x has been replaced by package y to package x has been renamed package y. fork/alternative != rename The term 'replace' is more general

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] exim maintainer wanted

2010-02-01 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 01/02/10 13:08, Allan McRae wrote: exim has no maintainer and I have been assigned a bug for it as the last person to rebuild it (db-4.8 rebuild). I do not use it and have no intentions of fixing the bug. Does anybody

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

2010-01-27 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Jan de Groot j...@jgc.homeip.net wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:45 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Just to make it clear: There is not a single claim from a lawyer that confirms the

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

2010-01-27 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jan de Groot j...@jgc.homeip.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:19 +0100, stefan-husm...@t-online.de wrote: Hello, the only reason I did not move cdrtools to community was that license reason.  So if that is no showstopper anymore, I can maintain it.

[arch-general] PulseAudio

2010-01-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to read up on the different sound components, just do a google search. There's tons of articles out there, some very good, mostly a bit crap. Lennart Pottering (dev for Pulse) has a particularly good one I

Re: [arch-general] problem with video driver ?

2010-01-25 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:46 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Meanwhile I installed nouveau. The only difference I notice is that now the 'visual bell' in xterm has become very slow as well (to the point of being unusable), also locally. I suspect you did not install it properly and were

Re: [arch-general] Xscreensaver corrupts ext4 / partition

2010-01-25 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Thayer Williams thay...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote:  Bad thing that xscreensaver corrupted / so that it couldn't be unlocked, and under console there was no way to loging, some misplaced

Re: [arch-general] problem with video driver ?

2010-01-24 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:50 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Hello all, Today I installed Arch on my desktop which previously had Fedora. All works well except  ssh -X zita2 emacs where zita2 is my laptop. It works, but it is ex tre me ly slow, I can count the lines being displayed

Re: [arch-general] problem with video driver ?

2010-01-24 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:04 AM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: It is the 'ssh -X zita2 emacs' that is very slow. Running emacs locally is perfectly OK. The previous install was F9, it used nv, and the same 'ssh -X zita2 emacs' worked perfectly. Nothing has changed on zita2. As far as I can

Re: [arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-20 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Marti Raudsepp ma...@juffo.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: Actually when you think about it, most blogs are all in reverse chronical order which to me is the same thing as top-posting and nobody seems

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com wrote: Often times it's the user configuration files that mess up a system, so keep that in mind unless you're really confident it's all in the packages themselves. And if you're thinking of reinstalling a la pacman -S $(comm