Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
the pacman version, resulting in some files that could not be deleted due to not existing, but were not part of the new package and therefore did not exist afterward either. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Makepkg: Incremental builds

2020-11-02 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ces, since git *can* (and does) figure out which files need to be modified on disk in order to be updated to the desired revision. makepkg -sri for git-based source code does indeed play quite nicely with incremental builds -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] sysstat man-page wrong

2020-10-30 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
archlinux.org/task/67703?project=5=sysstat -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] usbguard package neglected

2020-10-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
and some unverified source told me the key totally got lost but it's fine. So let's blindly click accept". It doesn't matter if other distros are okay with that. Arch Linux is not. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Missing sys_siglist declaration

2020-10-01 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 10/1/20 3:28 PM, Hauke Fath wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 13:57:09 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> From the glibc 2.32 release notes: >> >> Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: >> [...] >> * The deprecated

Re: [arch-general] Missing sys_siglist declaration

2020-10-01 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ave been removed from . They are exported solely as compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use strsignal instead. https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=b1ccfc061feee9ce616444ded8e1cd5acf9fa97f -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc

Re: [arch-general] Abuse of arch wiki?

2020-09-25 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 9/24/20 6:09 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 9/24/20 1:55 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> Mirroring a really old copy of the wiki is kind of unethical because >> they're spreading ancient out of date knowledge pretending to be modern, >> but I don't s

Re: [arch-general] Abuse of arch wiki?

2020-09-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
t; in it, e.g. "Special:Random" or "Help:Style" or "ArchWiki:About".) Mirroring a really old copy of the wiki is kind of unethical because they're spreading ancient out of date knowledge pretending to be modern, but I don't see how it's a problem for attribution. Mor

Re: [arch-general] [off-topic] Alternative to Thunderbird, with GPG support, caldav + cardav support, and ics remote webcal support and syncing

2020-09-11 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
t; https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-howto-and-faq > > Only for private key operations, so not the GPG keyring for public > keys. [...] Yes, that is why my message literally said "for your private key material". My point was that this might be good enough

Re: [arch-general] [off-topic] Alternative to Thunderbird, with GPG support, caldav + cardav support, and ics remote webcal support and syncing

2020-09-11 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
e that Thunderbird still does support the GPG keyring for your private key material via a config option. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] conflict on /usr/bin generated by tigervnc?

2020-09-09 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ng about your files. By stepping off the beaten path, you incur the possibility of being wrong and making things a lot worse. Do NOT use --overwrite unless you know what you're doing. DO what the original poster did, and ask the experts before proceeding. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and

Re: [arch-general] conflict on /usr/bin generated by tigervnc?

2020-09-09 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
quot;sbin" and on Arch must be "bin". This failed to happen; it's a bug in the package. Under no circumstances should the filesystem layout be deleted and replaced by this package as it would break everything... https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/67861 is the correct solution.

Re: [arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`

2020-08-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/27/20 3:37 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 15:27:19 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> On 8/27/20 3:17 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 14:34:41 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >>>> Why is i

Re: [arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`

2020-08-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/27/20 3:17 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 14:34:41 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> Why is it bad if you have it installed but not running? > > > FS#41834 as an example. Or FS#28819. There is just no good reason to keep > dragging

Re: [arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`

2020-08-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
then you could install your own preferred hostname implementation without conflicts. It would not be unreasonable at that time to make packages depend on a virtual provides for "hostname". -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] netcl leaves network down until reenable performed - do we need note?

2020-08-20 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/17/20 5:56 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: >> Couldn't there also be a post install that does a reenable for each netctl >> profile found in /etc/systemd/system as another option to avoid this SNAFU? > > That might have been an interesting precautionary measure for netct

Re: [arch-general] netcl leaves network down until reenable performed - do we need note?

2020-08-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
e the service. I'm not sure it makes sense to do that automatically, since disabling a profile removes customizations and the netctl manpage explicitly warns you to be careful about doing so. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-16 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
l. I don't believe the intention is to provide runtime generation of systemd units, and I think the pkgdesc is misleadingly simple in that regard. ... Anyway, if you want to have dialogue about whether it's useful to have a telinit program, regardless of upstream's defaults, by all means, feel free to have

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-16 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/16/20 3:24 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On 2020-08-16 3:20 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> Reread the Arch commit. It wasn't removed. >> >> Arch used to move the symlink from the "systemd" package to the >> "systemd-sysvcompat"

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-16 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
Andreas Bosch pointed out, the upstream install layout no longer includes these, and thus, arch doesn't move them into another package. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu ~ 1 yr. of packages, tty1 hangs after root clean, tty2 console login OK - how to fix?

2020-08-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/10/20 11:25 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 8/10/20 10:10 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> After that many errors, why did you try rebooting without fixing things >> first? The obvious first step is to try rerunning all of those hooks >> using a modern pac

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu ~ 1 yr. of packages, tty1 hangs after root clean, tty2 console login OK - how to fix?

2020-08-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
start-condition not found: No > such file or directory > Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[495]: Queued start job for default target Main > User Target. > Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[495]: Reached target Paths. > Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[495]: Reached target Timers. > > But tty1 is still hung -- no display manager is loaded and I'm stuck on > tty2. I'm not sure what is stuck or what to kill to try and fix it. Before the > update sddm was fine and I loaded fluxbox to do the update rather than doing > it from within KDE. What do I check to try and bring the system back to a > working state? What to check? > -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Pros/Cons of Python zipapp packaging

2020-08-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
cially supported and not touch dpkg-managed files. I'm not positive what guidance to give you beyond "I don't think this violates the packaging guidelines in the slightest, so have no fear on that count". -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Question about packaging a library (AUR)

2020-07-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
usable workaround would be to symlink the binary in /usr/bin but install it in /opt/transcribe/. Check to see if it correctly picks up the right location, though. ;) You might need to create a wrapper script instead, which invokes it without a symlink. You may wish to clarify with upstream

Re: [arch-general] Why bind-tools was merged into bind package?

2020-07-20 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
"./configure && make && make install", it per default makes sense to ship them together. Saving the vast majority of users 100+ MiB of things they don't need is sufficient grounds to split them out. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Why bind-tools was merged into bind package?

2020-07-20 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
. However, if you intend to convince anyone *else* that this is indeed the case, you will need to do more than merely state your point of view. Specifically, you will need to prove it. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Why bind-tools was merged into bind package?

2020-07-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
sing aren't arguments which arch typically values. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Package signature error after updated GPG key

2020-07-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
estamp: 1553963813 debug: exp_timestamp: 0 debug: validity: full; reason: Success debug: key: 97312D5EB9D7AE7D0BD4307351DAE9B7C1AE9161, NicoHood , owner_trust unknown, disabled 0 debug: signature is valid debug: signature is fully trusted -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.

Re: [arch-general] Locale packages

2020-06-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
are not replying to, but reply inline, rather than including everytyhing the bottom as a second copy of the sections you quoted and replied to inline. Still, replying inline is the main thing, and you did that. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Locale packages

2020-06-22 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
all 487 locales in /etc/locale.gen and it is a 500MB locale-archive, "only" 100MB if you stick to UTF-8 locales) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
benefits of bash, and never > have, if you used /bin/sh as your shebang. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 6/18/20 6:06 PM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > On 18/06/2020 18.22, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >>> And nearly everybody who has to write this quickly will do it wrong. >> >> And yet, some do not. Some write elegant, simple POSIX sh scripts which >> do it ri

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 6/18/20 6:00 PM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > On 18/06/2020 06.33, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> You pulled this assertion out of thin air, do you have any proof that it >> "breaks more than a decade of setups"? > > OP is the one making an assertion, so

Re: [arch-general] dash as default shell?

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
And yet, some do not. Some write elegant, simple POSIX sh scripts which do it right. For example, people often forget that pipelines and functions are an option, and sometimes a much faster and better option than global state variables. And most people who are writing /bin/bash scripts are *also* doin

Re: [arch-general] pacman --assume-installed in a config file?

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ction. Does anything else actually hardcode this? This dependency IMO should have been a post_upgrade message or a noto-fonts replaces=() or something. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] pacman --assume-installed in a config file?

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
fig configuration) for many websites, and looks > quite bad *for me* (on a 14" FHD display). > It's also a 90MB package I don't need. Hmm, I wonder why it is a hard dependency instead of being used via ttf-font? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] What do you do with pacman.log? Periodically archive? Delete?

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
mong other things, it serves as a handy way to tell when you first installed the system. :) I have so many better places to save 5mb of disk space, this doesn't even register in the top 400. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dash as default shell?

2020-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
sheer numbers, as well as most non-Linux forms of Unix. It's actually in practice very unlikely that this will break anyone's setup. Also if you really think Arch Linux is afraid to break people's setups, I suggest you reread https://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/ -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wr

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
pine linux. So any script assuming /bin/sh is bash, is broken on lots of systems. ... This is not actually a problem, I've used dash as my /bin/sh for years and haven't once encountered a broken script. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
doing this > > Pretty much this, to be honest. I don't really see the point of > changing everyone's /bin/sh for one person's personal preference when > there isn't really any point in doing so to begin with. Completely free, no cost speed improvements have no utility? Reread the o

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
t worked > flawlessly. It would be extremely safe because it wouldn't do anything, not even what the original poster wanted. It's completely unrelated to anything whatsoever. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ask again. Could >> dash be made the default shell in Arch? > > > Couldn't you just set it as the default for your user using chsh? This isn't about using it as a login shell. Describing this as "my default shell" is a very bad description. This is actually about setting dash a

Re: [arch-general] Wesnoth probably has wrong dependency

2020-06-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
wesnoth/wmltools3.py usr/share/wesnoth/data/tools/wmlunits usr/share/wesnoth/data/tools/wmllint-1.4 usr/share/wesnoth/data/tools/wmlscope usr/share/wesnoth/data/tools/wmlxgettext usr/share/wesnoth/data/tools/wmllint -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] oops, 'sudo: pacman: command not found'

2020-06-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
te recovery method, though as the disaster manifested by wiping pacman from your system, you'll need to extract the *.pkg.tar.zst using bsdtar, or use the static recovery binaries listed here: https://www.archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/ (Or use th

Re: [arch-general] Network manager package naming

2020-06-05 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
the naming conventions of those > packages to use one common scheme that's easy to remember instead of > having multiple coexisting ones? These are the upstream names of the relevant projects. So the "why" of things is not hard to understand. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Arch should be apolitical

2020-06-01 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
quot;like"/"upvoting" methodology of community interaction. Need I say more?) Problem solved. Let's dance to celebrate. ^('-')^ ^('-')^ v('-')v v('-')v <('-'<) (>'-')> <('-'<) (>'-')> B A -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] How will Arch handle systemd 245 and homed?

2020-05-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
f user accounts to stop working, now did they? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Problem with packaging pyxdg and xdg from PyPI

2020-04-05 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
package on every singe pacman -Syu. Fragmentation is fun. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] nvidia-dkms pkgrel increase after every linux upgrade

2020-03-31 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 3/31/20 1:31 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em março 31, 2020 14:03 Eli Schwartz via arch-general escreveu: >> >> See the broadcom-wl PKGBUILD for how to avoid this. Also note the >> wireguard-{arch,lts} packages have adopted this method. >> >> It's up to Sve

Re: [arch-general] nvidia-dkms pkgrel increase after every linux upgrade

2020-03-31 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
to Sven-Hendrik Haase if he wants to do this, though. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-22 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
rnel crashes! Note that backporting an upstream fix is not considered "patching upstream code". In that case, it will just depend on how problematic the issue is and whether it justifies the effort of a backport. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Python2-gimp - what functionality was lost?

2020-03-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
forum user whose python/pygtk based plugin no longer worked -- and in demonstrating how that solution could be achieved in the general case. The person who uploaded it was not interested in providing long-term maintenance of that AUR package, therefore, it was immediately orphaned. Seems pretty clear-cut to me. --

Re: [arch-general] Teo En Ming's Linux From Scratch (LFS) 20200302-systemd Bootable Live CD/DVD Kernel Panic

2020-03-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
fromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2020-March/053535.html Please have patience and wait for an answer from the LFS community, rather than asking LFS questions to the Arch Linux community. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Problem with reflector

2020-03-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 3/8/20 12:29 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > On 3/7/20 11:21 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> On 3/7/20 11:53 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote: >>>> Thanks for your reply. If I put this in a bash script, will it reset once >>>> the script is done running? &g

Re: [arch-general] Problem with reflector

2020-03-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
*parent process*, only the script itself, and child processes started by the script. Have I completely misunderstood the question? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Problem with reflector

2020-03-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
Although, if you're just interested in running additional python versions other than the /usr/bin/python3.8 binary currently provided by Arch, then... you really should not be overriding the "python" binary at all. Just install a python3.7 program or whatever, and invoke it as `python3.7`. -

Re: [arch-general] Problem with reflector

2020-03-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
the default python. You should only be using venvs when manually activated for a given project, limited to the shell in which you are using the project. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] How did spyder/python-spyder-kernels downgrade version?

2020-03-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
was added to community-testing, then withdrawn. Any future updates to it *should* increment the pkgrel once again, so no downgrades ever happen. As for why they were withdrawn to begin with, this has some context: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65683 -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted Use

Re: [arch-general] Package Jami is out of date

2020-02-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 2/26/20 9:08 PM, Simon Brand wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:57:30 -0500 > Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > >> This, however, is not. Why do you think that Bruno is "not active >> anymore"? Why do you think that asking someone else to take over his >

Re: [arch-general] Package Jami is out of date

2020-02-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
multiple people are working on a solution. In no way is Bruno Pagani (@Archange) "not active anymore". Please have patience. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Potential removal of Chromium in ~2 months

2020-02-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
are". > > Those who treat geolocation as critical feature may choose different > browser but forcing everyone out of they beloved one for this > particular reason seems like overreaction to me. > > Yours sincerely > > G. K. > -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
> > or > > paccheck --opt-depends PACKAGE_NAME > > seems to provide the same output as > > paccheck --opt-depends --quiet --recursive Check again. $ paccheck --opt-depends bash bash: all optional dependencies satisfied $ $ paccheck --opt-depends --quiet bash $ -

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
s missing its optional dependencies on gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
s "all installed packages". -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [pacman-dev] Privilege separation in the pacman downloader (Was: Pacman Database Signatures)

2020-02-06 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 2/4/20 11:08 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > Since I'm unfamiliar with apt and other tools, what exactly do they do? > Given pacman/apt/your-choice-of-package-manager must somehow write to a > cachedir, e.g. /var/cache/pacman/pkg, it would need a dedicated download > user,

Re: [arch-general] Why are Archlinux packages stripped of (debugging) symbols?

2020-01-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
lly a really interesting idea. I bet we could make this just consume a foo-debug package, then we could just modify devtools to add OPTIONS+=('debug') in makepkg.conf, and have commitpkg upload the debug package separately to the symbol server. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Why are Archlinux packages stripped of (debugging) symbols?

2020-01-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
c_OS_X -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Why are Archlinux packages stripped of (debugging) symbols?

2020-01-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ou think that, eg., all packages in "core" being built with > debugging symbols would be OK? Maybe it would be OK if just function > names were included, without source file line info? > > Sidenote: Do you know why are split debug packages not yet available? I'm personally no

Re: [arch-general] Why are Archlinux packages stripped of (debugging) symbols?

2020-01-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
on-demand, if you're debugging firefox.) The Arch maintainer for firefox actually does exactly this -- our firefox package is stripped, but the symbols are uploaded to Mozilla right after makepkg completes. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Finding virtual dependencies

2020-01-06 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
to the third package: "bumblebee (requires mesa-libgl)" or further down, see "abuse (requires mesa-libgl) (make)" So it seems nothing depends on *-dri, not even for make/check depends. There's even only one AUR package which uses one of them: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-opentegra-git/ -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-04 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
st curious about > information related to POSIX vs Linux, IOW I'm interested in learning > by reading, but it's a broken thread. > > Could you please provide a pointer to the start of this thread? The thread started on arch-dev-public; replies on arch-general occurred when members of t

Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-03 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
eed to decide if I'm interested in the effort that would take, for an XSI option. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web

2019-12-09 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
cidental cases of: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] pacman has nothing to do last 5 days

2019-12-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
s worth of "[repository] is already up to date", which would be a definite red flag that something is wrong. Now that you used -Syyuu, we have no idea whether your pacman installation refreshed the databases because the server said they needed to be refreshed or because you told pacman to

Re: [arch-general] Note: Latest bind-9 update removes root.hints - fails to start with old configs

2019-12-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
it would seem that resolving the pacnew file is required in order to start the updated bind package. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Failed to compile python 2.7.9 with pyenv on arch.

2019-12-01 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
> upgrade) ensurepip="--upgrade" ;; \ > install|*) ensurepip="" ;; \ > esac; \ > ./python -E -m ensurepip \ > $ensurepip --root=/ ; \ > fi > == These log lines are useless, your problem has nothing to do with running ensurepip. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] python-cmake?

2019-11-28 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
contain no JavaScript, but do contain a bash script. Because downloading bash scripts into $HOME/bin/ is hard, but npm install mycoolscript is "easy". tl;dr Wherever you saw the advice to pip install cmake was probably misinformed. This does not provide python bindings to cmake. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

Re: [arch-general] about ecryptfs-utils, openssl supporting should be added ?

2019-11-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
. coreutils also depends on openssl. In the unlikely event that openssl was removed from the set of packages installed in a base installation (which would be an event of note for linux distributions in general), the ecryptfs-utils PKGBUILD would only need to explicitly depend on openssl. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[arch-general] calibre is now available in python3

2019-11-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
or python3 regressions will be greatly appreciated, as there are probably a lot of fun edge cases and I'd like to see this finished sooner rather than later. ;) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks

2019-11-11 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
he spirit of user choice to which we aspire, provide guidance on opting into the use of a technology that a significant percentage of our active community says they would like to use. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] How to install archlinux using a specific parition of usb instead of the whole usb?

2019-11-05 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
tively, you can use grub to boot an ISO *file* as a loopback device. Some people do this to create multiboot USBs. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-01 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
o I *inverted the question*. (I acknowledge I may have gotten a bit exaggerated in the process... I apologize. OTOH, I didn't quite intend my statements about kernel-install 100% seriously.) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User [0] Putting something in a manpage doesn't necessarily make

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-01 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
for quite some time it seems that the individual in question was on... parental leave, IIRC? I'm not sure what the current status is. So the jury is still out on whether dracut or mkinitcpio is more work. ;) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-10-31 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
no one drank the Fedora kool-aid. *steps off soapbox* -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] 'base' package install with non-updated linux-kernel

2019-10-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ecially, you should have no problem installing or updating any other package, in this case 'base'. Also note that 'base' does not depend on 'linux'. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base`, package - manual intervention required

2019-10-11 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
tive measure due to the lack of clarity with the former base group feels odd when people are working behind the scenes to try to figure out what a proper solution in the right place should look like. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
;here's the things 99.% of people need but you'll have to install separately after reading some caveat and if you don't, then you will not even be able to type in 'man' to figure out your mistakes while offline"? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
evise my question: who is joe, why do I care who he is, and what does his personal editor do for me? For that matter, if it carefully described as his own editor, am I allowed to use it? Alternatively, is it designed to be used by other people than its original intendee? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wra

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
uot; group, and any group of recommendations would need to be named something like, oh, "base-extras". So, once again, you would not be able to `pacstrap /mnt base`. Some changes were always inevitable. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
and a step back, and mostly weren't ready for it either way. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
a depends+=('cryptsetup') I do not need mdadm or lvm2, because I don't use RAID or lvm, so why do you think my system is unusable without it? Note: in practice, both are required by libblockdev, which means if you use udisks2 you have both installed anyway. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Recent logwatch update may need a news item?

2019-09-20 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
nk archlinux should be opinionated and modify upstream service files. I hear your argument that the package should have a post_upgrade message. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Recent logwatch update may need a news item?

2019-09-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
.timer I guess it's entirely possible that users were logging without using mail at all. There are guides for generically forwarding systemd logs via email, though. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ndrewgregory/pacutils/issues/32 is a thing. :) The --mode option has some issues. Perhaps try asking for a status update there? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
have an option to do this. You could try submitting a feature request for it. :) You can extract everything between the '' though, which I think should handle any filenames since packaged filenames can contain spaces or single quotes but not newlines, and the paccheck output doesn't contain any mor

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
cts, of course). But they can only ever occur when something modifies the file *after* pacman installs it, so there is really no automated way to check for this. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
at mtree file that don't cause > pacman to complain. > > Not every error means the file on disk must be changed, perhaps it's a > packaging problem, but it can be a useful aid. pacman -S pacutils && paccheck --file-properties -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Whatsapp group

2019-08-13 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
host on our own website are a special case, and the IRC and reddit communities exist because many users wanted them to. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

2019-08-02 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
u (using shell-escaped $'\303\251') *iff* I first export LC_ALL=C (which is not a UTF-8 locale and therefore cannot print unicode characters). This indicates something is wrong with your locale, because at the very least, your shell cannot parse the character correctly -- maybe neither can libre

Re: [arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

2019-08-02 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ch '/tmp/unicode paths are /testfile.txt' $ loffice '/tmp/unicode paths are /testfile.txt' $ I could successfully edit this file in libreoffice, save content, or reopen it. Tested with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and the libreoffice-fresh package -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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