[arch-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

2014-12-30 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello Arch Linux community, this year I received an extra Christmas present: Bartłomiej Piotrowski asked me to apply to become an Arch Linux trusted user. Just some days later Ike Devolder had the same in mind - as I already have a sponsor he promised to give his vote. Thanks! My name is

Re: [arch-general] depends vs. optdepends

2014-12-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:13:52 -0600, Doug Newgard wrote: Arch isn't Debian, every binary isn't given it's own package. When I read the OPs mail, I wanted to write the same. Now I just need to ad my +1. I very seldom want split packages, I prefer that Arch Linux very seldom does split packages

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

2014-12-30 Thread Marcel Korpel
* Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de (Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:12:45 +0100): this year I received an extra Christmas present: Bartłomiej Piotrowski asked me to apply to become an Arch Linux trusted user. Just some days later Ike Devolder had the same in mind - as I already have a sponsor he promised to

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox - 1. How to solve a strange error? - 2. Another VM to replace VBox?

2014-12-30 Thread psycho
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: 2. Is there another virtual machine easy to use, without a huge learning curve? Any recommendations? Hello, You can try QEMU, it has KVM support among many other features. You only need to `--help' yourself and RTFM and everything

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

2014-12-30 Thread Christian Hesse
Marcel Korpel marcel.kor...@gmail.com on Tue, 2014/12/30 11:57: * Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de (Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:12:45 +0100): this year I received an extra Christmas present: Bartłomiej Piotrowski asked me to apply to become an Arch Linux trusted user. Just some days later Ike Devolder

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox - 1. How to solve a strange error? - 2. Another VM to replace VBox?

2014-12-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:05:03 +0200, psy...@tfwno.gf wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: 2. Is there another virtual machine easy to use, without a huge learning curve? Any recommendations? You can try QEMU, it has KVM support among many other features. You

Re: [arch-general] depends vs. optdepends

2014-12-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:01:16 -0600, Doug Newgard wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:39:55 -0600 Troy Engel troyengel+a...@gmail.com wrote: Nor did I ever claim it was (and what are you even arguing here?) -- I was careful to mention the packaging tools (RPM/DEB) as both of these infrastructures

[arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

2014-12-30 Thread Mohammad_AlSaleh
Hello. I just came across some weird behavior. A small testcase: cd /tmp # should be tmpfs touch tfile ln -s tfile tlink cat tlink When cat executes, it returns with success(0). But, if cat is executed as root, it fails with a permission denied error. What's really happening is, the open()

Re: [arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

2014-12-30 Thread Christian Hesse
Mohammad_AlSaleh ce.mohammad.alsa...@gmail.com on Tue, 2014/12/30 14:36: Hello. I just came across some weird behavior. A small testcase: cd /tmp # should be tmpfs touch tfile ln -s tfile tlink cat tlink When cat executes, it returns with success(0). But, if cat is executed as

Re: [arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

2014-12-30 Thread Mohammad_AlSaleh
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 01:42:03PM +0100, Christian Hesse wrote: Mohammad_AlSaleh ce.mohammad.alsa...@gmail.com on Tue, 2014/12/30 14:36: Hello. I just came across some weird behavior. A small testcase: cd /tmp # should be tmpfs touch tfile ln -s tfile tlink cat tlink

Re: [arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

2014-12-30 Thread Christian Hesse
Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de on Tue, 2014/12/30 13:42: Mohammad_AlSaleh ce.mohammad.alsa...@gmail.com on Tue, 2014/12/30 14:36: Hello. I just came across some weird behavior. A small testcase: cd /tmp # should be tmpfs touch tfile ln -s tfile tlink cat tlink When cat

Re: [arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

2014-12-30 Thread Mohammad_AlSaleh
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 02:02:32PM +0100, Christian Hesse wrote: Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de on Tue, 2014/12/30 13:42: Mohammad_AlSaleh ce.mohammad.alsa...@gmail.com on Tue, 2014/12/30 14:36: Hello. I just came across some weird behavior. A small testcase: cd /tmp #

Re: [arch-general] depends vs. optdepends

2014-12-30 Thread Troy Engel
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Hopefully the tribal knowledge how maintainers decide what becomes a suggested and what becomes a recommended dependency will be add by Troy to the Debian and Ubuntu Wikis. The editing of the Arch Wiki IMO is

[arch-general] A symlink in /etc

2014-12-30 Thread Neven Sajko
Hello, I found a symlink named os-release in the /etc directory. The package it points to is owned by filesystem, but I don't know which package the symlink belongs to. And I think the symlink is world writable by mistake, but I don't know to whom should I report the bug. Does anyone know

Re: [arch-general] A symlink in /etc

2014-12-30 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Neven Sajko wrote: Hello, I found a symlink named os-release in the /etc directory. The package it points to is owned by filesystem, but I don't know which package the symlink belongs to. And I think the symlink is world writable by mistake, but I don't know to whom should

Re: [arch-general] A symlink in /etc

2014-12-30 Thread Neven Sajko
I guess that's why the plan9port ls presented it differently :) Thank you Scott, I should have first searched for more info on symlinks.

[arch-general] makepkg as root

2014-12-30 Thread Magnus Therning
I just noticed that `makepkg` no longer accepts '--asroot', does that mean there now is no way to convince `makepkg` to build despite being run as root? /M P.S. I am fully aware of the problems with building as root, but as I'm only building packages I'm myself creating, and doing it in a

Re: [arch-general] depends vs. optdepends

2014-12-30 Thread Eli Schwartz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: Well, other distros following certain packaging guidelines doesn't imply that Arch should follow them as well. If you subscribe e.g. to fedora-devel you'll see how much more complicated compared to Arch the packaging

Re: [arch-general] Could not receive my Bugtracker Activation Code

2014-12-30 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
Random suggestion: have you tried asking for a password reset? https://bugs.archlinux.org/lostpw On 29 December 2014 at 22:57, Minh Nhut Duong nhu...@gmail.com wrote: I try to create my account again but this user already taken. :( On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Eli Schwartz