[arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
Hello, I'd like to ask what are the plans for the xorg-server 1.8, especially now when RC1 of xorg-server 1.9 is out. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not demanding anything but I'm wondering what is holding back the move to [extra]. I'm using new xorg-server on two different computers (notebook

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:14 +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: Hello, I'd like to ask what are the plans for the xorg-server 1.8, especially now when RC1 of xorg-server 1.9 is out. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not demanding anything but I'm wondering what is holding back the move to [extra].

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread Gan Lu
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Jan de Groot j...@jgc.homeip.net wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:14 +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: Hello, I'd like to ask what are the plans for the xorg-server 1.8, especially now when RC1 of xorg-server 1.9 is out. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not demanding

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi, I think Nvidia still does not work with 1.8 Regards, Gaurish Sharma

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 16 June 2010 12:17, Gaurish Sharma cont...@gaurishsharma.com wrote: Hi, I think Nvidia still does not work with 1.8 Regards, Gaurish Sharma At least nvidia-beta works fine.

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread Jakob Gruber
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 12:17:16 Gaurish Sharma wrote: Hi, I think Nvidia still does not work with 1.8 Regards, Gaurish Sharma Working perfectly here: $ pacman -Q xorg-server nvidia xorg-server 1.8.1-1 nvidia 195.36.24-2

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-16 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:08:09 -0400 schrieb Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com: with the exception of a few movie websites which were kinda entertaining I agree. These movie websites are just annoying, too. Why can't the studios present their informations about a movie in plain HTML with a

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread Øyvind Heggstad
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:47:16 +0530 Gaurish Sharma cont...@gaurishsharma.com wrote: Hi, I think Nvidia still does not work with 1.8 Regards, Gaurish Sharma The last I heard was that the devs are waiting for the legazy nvidia drivers to be updated. (nvidia-173xx/96xx)

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-16 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi, People can try minitube[1] from AUR. Its based on QT and plays youtube without flash. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34462 Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-16 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Gaurish Sharma cont...@gaurishsharma.com wrote: Hi, People can try minitube[1] from AUR. Its based on QT and plays youtube without flash. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34462 Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com This is seriously

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

2010-06-16 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
On 16 June 2010 02:23, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Just to clarify the build process that goes on here: 1) make a clean chroot (mkarchroot - only needs done once) 2) build package in chroot (makechrootpkg) 3) upload package to staging area and commit to svn (e.g. testingpkg) 4)

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

2010-06-16 Thread Patrick Brisbin
On 06/14/10 at 11:33pm, Michishige Kaito wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Nilesh Govindarajan's message of 2010-06-14 18:28:24 +0200: On 06/14/2010 09:07 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Nilesh Govindarajan's message of 2010-06-14 17:09:26 +0200:

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread Nicky726
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:17:44 +0200 From: ?yvind Heggstad mrelen...@har-ikkje.net On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:47:16 +0530 Gaurish Sharma cont...@gaurishsharma.com wrote: Hi, I think Nvidia still does not work with 1.8 Regards, Gaurish Sharma The last I heard was that the devs are

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread fons
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:06:59PM +0200, Nicky726 wrote: The last I heard was that the devs are waiting for the legazy nvidia drivers to be updated. (nvidia-173xx/96xx) Uh... to hell with nvidia, there is nouveau... and if I remember correctly noone did wait for the catalyst. no

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

2010-06-16 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
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[arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Carlos Mennens
I have a USB thrumb drive when I mount it, it mounts fine and shows up as USBDRIVE on my system. I would like to know how I can reformat the drive as fat32 using the 'mkfs' command and also setting a new system label on the drive as ocz_usb? I do not appear to have the tools installed on my Arch

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread Aljosha Papsch
Am 16.06.2010 18:04, schrieb f...@kokkinizita.net: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:06:59PM +0200, Nicky726 wrote: The last I heard was that the devs are waiting for the legazy nvidia drivers to be updated. (nvidia-173xx/96xx) Uh... to hell with nvidia, there is nouveau... and if I

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Aljosha Papsch
16.06.2010 20:11, Carlos Mennens wrote: I have a USB thrumb drive when I mount it, it mounts fine and shows up as USBDRIVE on my system. I would like to know how I can reformat the drive as fat32 using the 'mkfs' command and also setting a new system label on the drive as ocz_usb? I do not

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
With /dev/sdb as your usb drive, to format: fdisk /dev/sdb mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1 and then to name the partition: mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 ::ocz_usb -- Guilherme M. Nogueira Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Aljosha Papsch joschi.pap...@yahoo.de wrote: How can you answer to a message that was sent after yours? Probably by not running an NTP daemon and having your system clock fall behind or get misconfigured.

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.06.2010 20:23, schrieb Guilherme M. Nogueira: With /dev/sdb as your usb drive, to format: fdisk /dev/sdb mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1 and then to name the partition: mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 ::ocz_usb Then (for mlabel) you'll need mtools, too. The label can be passed as an option to

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 16.06.2010 20:23, schrieb Guilherme M. Nogueira: With /dev/sdb as your usb drive, to format: fdisk /dev/sdb mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1 and then to name the partition: mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 ::ocz_usb Then (for

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Carlos Mennens's message of Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:11 -0400: It appears Arch can't find /dev/sdd1 however I can find it fine when I use the 'fdisk' utility. I don't understand why... You should not fdisk on a partition (like sdd1), only on the whole device e.g. /dev/sdd [r...@tuna

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread jwbirdsong
On 06/16/2010 10:06 AM, Nicky726 wrote: Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:17:44 +0200 From: ?yvind Heggstadmrelen...@har-ikkje.net On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:47:16 +0530 Gaurish Sharmacont...@gaurishsharma.com wrote: Hi, I think Nvidia still does not work with 1.8 Regards, Gaurish Sharma

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread jwbirdsong
On 06/16/2010 10:06 AM, Nicky726 wrote: Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:17:44 +0200 From: ?yvind Heggstadmrelen...@har-ikkje.net On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:47:16 +0530 Gaurish Sharmacont...@gaurishsharma.com wrote: Hi, I think Nvidia still does not work with 1.8 Regards, Gaurish Sharma

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread fons
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:31:02PM +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Aljosha Papsch joschi.pap...@yahoo.de wrote: How can you answer to a message that was sent after yours? Probably by not running an NTP daemon and having your system clock fall behind or

[arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date

2010-06-16 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi, The fwbuilder package which is very usefull for writing firewall rules is flagged out of date since weeks. there is a major 4 which has lots of new features[1] Any reason its not being updated to latest version?

Re: [arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date

2010-06-16 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 06/16/2010 11:47 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: Hi, The fwbuilder package which is very usefull for writing firewall rules is flagged out of date since weeks. there is a major 4 which has lots of new features[1] Any reason its not being updated to latest version? maybe the maintainer is busy

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] +1 for moving kernel + Xorg18

2010-06-16 Thread Damjan Georgievski
big +1 to move the kernel. not much important stuff hanging in Greks staging queue. see http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=commit;h=585aba8f04cb622be09bae67648a935a6681ed92 Actually, this is the full list of the patches queued for 2.6.34.1

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

2010-06-16 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: The proposed model is based on the web of trust. We would trust on some keys to sign other keys. The main keys would be kept by some high trusty developers. They would sign the public keys of the other developers (and their personal keys too)

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

2010-06-16 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Ionuț Bîru wrote: i found this annoying since, debugging is more harder, i have to download the resulted package to test it, send it, wait for the pool to come. is a mess :D even if my system is compromised, we build our packages in clean chroots. The workflow won't be

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

2010-06-16 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
Hey, what do you think about this way of verifying packages? On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: On another note, an easy but maybe a bit costly way to avoid any MITM tampering to packages, is serve *.md5 files for every package through a trusted HTTPS host. Then everyone can query

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-16 Thread Ray Rashif
On 16 June 2010 09:21, C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.me wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Alexander Lam lambchop...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:40 PM, C Anthony Risinger

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

2010-06-16 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: Hey, what do you think about this way of verifying packages? On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: On another note, an easy but maybe a bit costly way to avoid any MITM tampering to packages, is serve *.md5

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

2010-06-16 Thread Allan McRae
On 17/06/10 00:48, Guillaume ALAUX wrote: Are the python scripts in the pacbuild package (apple, strawberry, queuepackage, waka and uploadpackage) used any more as described in this pagehttp://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacbuild ? Because some of these scripts point to the old current

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

2010-06-16 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Dan McGee wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: Hey, what do you think about this way of verifying packages? On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: On another note, an easy but maybe a bit costly way to avoid any MITM

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Ray Rashif
On 17 June 2010 03:26, Sergey Manucharian ingeniw...@gmail.com wrote: Excerpts from Carlos Mennens's message of Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:11 -0400: It appears Arch can't find /dev/sdd1 however I can find it fine when I use the 'fdisk' utility. I don't understand why... You should not fdisk on a

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

2010-06-16 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Dan McGee wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: Hey, what do you think about this way of verifying packages? On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Dimitrios Apostolou

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-16 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 21:56 +0200, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:31:02PM +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Aljosha Papsch joschi.pap...@yahoo.de wrote: How can you answer to a message that was sent after yours? Probably by

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Out-of-date packages in [extra]/[community]

2010-06-16 Thread Angel Velásquez
- biopython - pylint - python-cheetah - python-formencode - python-sqlobject (needed by pacbuild, but does pacbuild still work?!) - python-gdata (needed by pytube in [community]) - python-vpython Let me have the python ones (mainly for pylint python-cheetah python-sqlobject python-vpython)

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-16 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com wrote: I simply couldn't get the same elements with the same ease in time, and thus failed to offer a presentation. They decided to stick with Flash, but I kept the multimedia tools within the open-source domain for

[arch-general] mplayer 31428-1 broken without libvpx.so.0

2010-06-16 Thread PT M.
after recent update, mplayer failed to load with such error: $ mplayer mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory this so i think is supposed by libvpx, but: $ pacman -Ql libvpx|grep /usr/lib libvpx /usr/lib/ libvpx

Re: [arch-general] mplayer 31428-1 broken without libvpx.so.0

2010-06-16 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM, PT M. pen...@gmail.com wrote: after recent update, mplayer failed to load with such error: $ mplayer mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory this so i think is supposed by

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 3.4.0-1

2010-06-16 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 17/06/10 12:34, Dan McGee wrote: Upstream release, please signoff. Please make sure to update your makepkg.conf when updating to this, _including in your chroots_.  There may be file stripping issues if you do

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 3.4.0-1

2010-06-16 Thread Allan McRae
On 17/06/10 12:56, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Allan McRaeal...@archlinux.org wrote: On 17/06/10 12:34, Dan McGee wrote: Upstream release, please signoff. Please make sure to update your makepkg.conf when updating to this, _including in your chroots_. There may be

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 3.4.0-1

2010-06-16 Thread Andres P
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: Upstream release, please signoff. Small detail, Optional Deps : fakeroot: for makepkg usage as normal user python: for rankmirrors script usage rankmirrors is now bash. Andres P

Re: [arch-general] mplayer 31428-1 broken without libvpx.so.0

2010-06-16 Thread PT M.
ok i got it, i somehow have libvpx 0.9.0-4 installed (cant remember form where, maybe aur?), with no libvpx.so.0 provided. i reinstall libvpx from extra and everything's fine On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM, PT M.