Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-29 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ook like when they're installed on my computer.) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-29 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
vergent opinion on what a bugtracker is? - A personal mechanism to pass notes addressed to Eli Schwartz? (That last reopen request...) Please use email instead... Submitting a reopen request with the sole effort of arguing with the Bug Wranglers about why "you're wrong" for repeatedl

Re: [arch-general] Remove Clisp from repository

2019-07-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 7/24/19 7:17 PM, Gilgamesh via arch-general wrote: On 7/24/19 1:44 AM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: On 7/24/19 12:35 AM, Gilgamesh via arch-general wrote: Hello, firstly, I don't know where I can send this message, so sorry if this is the wrong place. Clisp (an ANSI Common Lisp

Re: [arch-general] Remove Clisp from repository

2019-07-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
: https://gitlab.com/gnu-clisp/clisp/commit/8934707712fc87a5dbe9c4387440ed024525b38a The most recent commit to the project is from 3 weeks ago. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

Re: [arch-general] Proper use of signify in PKGBUILDs

2019-07-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 7/21/19 4:11 AM, Stephen Gregoratto wrote: On 2019-07-21 02:42, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: How does renaming the file from SHA256.sig to SHA256 help you validate the contents using signify? I rename it in the source array: "SHA256::${_mirrorurl}/${pkgver}/amd64/SHA25

Re: [arch-general] Proper use of signify in PKGBUILDs

2019-07-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
, be used in makepkg after all. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

Re: [arch-general] Proper use of signify in PKGBUILDs

2019-07-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
Moreover, what good do the checksums do you, when it's the files themselves that you want to verify? The latter problem is why I'm incredibly frustrated by projects that use PGP, too -- when the only thing they sign is a file containing checksums, and not the actual source file. -- Eli S

Re: [arch-general] How to get "b"-menu in Arch i3

2019-07-15 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
aro users, I'm a lot more disturbed by the script than I am by the PKGBUILD. Try counting the number of times the "bmenu" script will fall back to running "sudo pacman -Sy ranger && ranger". -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
rdware keys, there is no need to come up with a replacement for the password nightmare. Hardware keys have existed for some time now, and they were already intended as a replacement for the password "nightmare", something they do an excellent job at. Did you try getting one? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] package contents on fresh Arch install, like python etc...

2019-06-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
can do one better -- limited to executables and not shell builtins, aliases, or functions -- and list *all* conflicting command binaries. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] package contents on fresh Arch install, like python etc...

2019-06-20 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
n which case you can usually use them on any Linux distro without checking whether they are installed). -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Is it secure to just sign repository databases?

2019-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 6/17/19 12:38 PM, Manuel Reimer wrote: > On 17.06.19 18:18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> That being said, it's possible to configure sudo to run makechrootpkg, >> but only makechrootpkg, as root. Or run SUDO_USER=... SUDO_UID=... >> makechrootpkg. > &g

Re: [arch-general] Is it secure to just sign repository databases?

2019-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 6/17/19 11:11 AM, Manuel Reimer wrote: > On 16.06.19 17:57, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> As a matter of fact, if you use clean chroot builds >> then you possibly don't want to copy your private key to the chroot, and >> anyway there have IIRC been bugs with si

Re: [arch-general] How to name a package for the drm-openchrome tree?

2019-06-16 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
to support alternative architectures to list all arches they support in their PKGBUILDs. For someone who principally uses i686, this is a no-brainer. :p (Also: reminder that even though Arch usually has a bit of a rocky relationship with derivative distros, we are on exceedingly friendly terms

Re: [arch-general] Is it secure to just sign repository databases?

2019-06-16 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
rver can retroactively replace *all* packages built at any date, and trick you into signing a new repo DB referencing them. - In shared packaging situations, like when a team of dozens of people all upload packages, you want to be able to verify who signed each package, as opposed to o

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 5/27/19 6:10 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > >> I think Chet Ramey did a pretty good explanation in the linked mailing >> list about why this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what "POSIX" >> means, but just to be extr

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-25 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ash is allowed to claim it implements POSIX. Also I doubt dracut does insane things like attempt to invoke a utility named "^", with or without doing the POSIX thing and disambiguating it with the use of the command utility. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] User/group name restrictions

2019-05-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 5/23/19 7:08 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > Given that your initial post does specifically state that you are > patching the package in order to allow it, I will assume that nothing I > just said about upstream's intentions is remotely surprising to you -- > you would have to know that i

Re: [arch-general] User/group name restrictions

2019-05-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 5/24/19 4:03 AM, Andy Pieters wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:08 AM Eli Schwartz via arch-general < > arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > >> Given that your initial post does specifically state that you are >> patching the package in order to allow it, I will as

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
creation of the wiki page in November 2009[2] and I > believe before that it was on another wiki page that has since been > deleted without preserving its history[3], so I don't know where it came > from. Should this really be declared as wrong now? Easy answer! The wiki is a more in-depth discussion of what the manpage says, and therefore takes precedence. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] User/group name restrictions

2019-05-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
. Why be misleading? It will only result in people having no idea what you are talking about, assuming your public statements about this being some form of Arch Linux configuration are accurate, and giving you uninformed answers as a result. This is hardly conducive to your desired goal to find out why. -

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

2019-05-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ll consider it illogical, but I have been outvoted. But I would > not claim that “libdrm” maintainer is wrong on using 'custom' here. That most likely has to do with the fact that your own wiki link explicitly says that is what you're supposed to do. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-22 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
s we cannot trust /boot to be a sane filesystem.) I would rather avoid such bundles at all costs, it sounds like someone saw a problem named bootctl and decided to create even more problems in the name of a solution. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
d by the upstream dracut project are not POSIX compliant and therefore only work with bash, but they intend to fix that and at least some are fixed in git master (although I haven't tested), see for example https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/516 POSIX-compliant mode is exactly the opposite of what we want. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Installing base unattended without specific packages

2019-05-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 5/16/19 7:44 AM, Sefa Eyeoglu via arch-general wrote: > On Mittwoch, 15. Mai 2019 15:12:13 CEST Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> On 5/14/19 5:08 PM, Sefa Eyeoglu via arch-general wrote: >>> Hey fellow Arch Users, >>> >>> I am currently playing aro

Re: [arch-general] Installing base unattended without specific packages

2019-05-16 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
rintf 'linux-firmware\nlinux\n') # see list of packages in base, minus two that you want to exclude This list can be further piped to pacman -S - -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] /var/run vs /run in systemd unit files

2019-02-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
iles that contain "/var/run", you are welcome to file a bug report at https://bugs.archlinux.org -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] What update left mandb scrambled?

2019-02-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
Actually ISTR an IRC conversation with another packager, who discovered the same thing and who said he would get in touch with the the mandb maintainer about this. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] pambase update now requires explicit service files in /etc/pam.d/ - dovecot affected

2019-02-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
a bug about this in the first place as this should never have been relegated to thirdparty configuration performed only after reading the wiki. I did not realize there was no bug report for this... well, now there is one: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61852 -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and

Re: [arch-general] pambase in testing breaks email - *resolved*

2019-02-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
have been relegated to thirdparty configuration performed only after reading the wiki. I did not realize there was no bug report for this... well, now there is one: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61852 cyrus-sasl is covered by https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61712 -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler

Re: [arch-general] pambase - creating needed files for apps with normal user auth - pam_unix.so?

2019-02-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 2/22/19 11:49 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 02/20/2019 11:10 AM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> From a QA point of view, if no one found the packages which lack a >> policy in the several years the pambase ticket was open for, then >> putting a permissive polic

Re: [arch-general] pambase - creating needed files for apps with normal user auth - pam_unix.so?

2019-02-20 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
determine when "other" is used on my > system, or in aggregate across a larger number of users to avoid > problems. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 2/19/19 11:26 AM, Tinu Weber wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:22:34 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> On 2/19/19 10:19 AM, Tinu Weber wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 14:10:34 +0100, Robin Broda via arch-general wrote: >>>> remakepkg inv

Re: [arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
you want to reproduce it -- a reproducible rebuild of remakepkg packages should have as its only input, the original .pkg.tar.xz -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
n is not the canonical provider of thirdparty utilities. Nor should it be -- if the primary "person who cares" about the tool does not regularly interact with the pacman-dev mailing list, the code would simply rot as part of pacman, and furthermore, even if it did see active development in the pacman tree, it would be forced to conform to the slower release cycle of pacman for no reason. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] BrlTTY Hard Dependancy on eSpeak

2019-02-13 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
re not drop-in replacements, but apparently brltty supports both... If brltty can simply ignore those modules when they're not loadable it would make sense to only optdepend on it. By the same token, you might want to ask for espeak-ng support to be added. I encourage you to open a bug report asking

Re: [arch-general] Where does /usr/bin/uwsgi come from?

2019-01-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ip. Although it is unlikely you installed it without realizing it -- there is no reason django should *depend* on uwsgi. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Kpartx should be in the repos and archiso for enabling encrypted GPT install

2019-01-13 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
iso? I > should probably start by making a feature request for the archiso > package ... Documenting its use on the wiki, for starters. :p Then submit a feature request with rationale for inclusion at https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=6 -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

Re: [arch-general] Kpartx should be in the repos and archiso for enabling encrypted GPT install

2019-01-13 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 1/13/19 5:27 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: >> I want full disk encryption. There is nothing controversial about FDE, >> it is already covered in the Wiki, except that I want FDE without LVM. > > You can have FDE without LVM today, using the suggestion I just provided > and you

Re: [arch-general] Kpartx should be in the repos and archiso for enabling encrypted GPT install

2019-01-13 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
not a lot of work. The software does not seem to have a lot of dependencies... ... But I still do not understand what practical benefits you are seeking that are not solved by having multiple encrypted partitions on an unencrypted partition table. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Kpartx should be in the repos and archiso for enabling encrypted GPT install

2019-01-13 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
d key. If you do need hibernation support, the simple method would be to use a swap file residing on the encrypted / The more complex method would be to copy the initramfs encrypt hook and modify it to support an additional encrypted device with a different password. None of this needs k

Re: [arch-general] python 3.5 with or without python 3.7

2019-01-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
he version of the "python" package, as it will break all python-related software in the entire distribution, of which there is a tremendous amount. If you do it, you are no longer running Arch Linux. There is absolutely no issue with installing the python35 package next to the python package, it

Re: [arch-general] Update Groff version to 1.22.4

2018-12-30 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ery time someone asks about a release date it is postponed by a week -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] python2: Where is imp.py?

2018-12-30 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 12/30/18 6:19 PM, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > Am 30.12.18 um 23:06 schrieb Eli Schwartz via arch-general: >> On 12/30/18 4:04 PM, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I need to use the inspect module with python 2.7, but the imported imp >>&g

Re: [arch-general] python2: Where is imp.py?

2018-12-30 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
builtin in python2 and imp.py is a (deprecated!) part of the stdlib in python3. You should definitely be able to "import imp". Please explain your problem further. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?

2018-12-22 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ore > or less dead? :/ > But in MBR-land it seems to be the only alternative to grub? Bootloaders seem to suffer from a depressing lack of competition. Much as I like grub, I can appreciate the sadness that is this lack. Apparently syslinux git (a.k.a. the future 6.04) will also finally

Re: [arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?

2018-12-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
t doesn't validly build in 2018. Please wait, we are trying to get to a working state, and hopefully our syslinux maintainer will be able to resolve this sometime soon. Once we can trust the package actually works, we can move it to stable. Hope this clears things up for you. :) Good luck. -- Eli

Re: [arch-general] mariadb package outdate for over a month

2018-12-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
any information on why the package > is still out of date? > > Kind regards, > Sefa Eyeoglu > https://scrumplex.net https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2017-September/044255.html -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.

2018-12-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
very example of the entire Arch Linux distribution being completely ignorant about how grub works due to the LIES of the grub developers who use scary language to make people think it's too hard for mere mortals to use. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.

2018-12-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ges all these things with respect to the grub bootloader. I am in the gradual process of hopefully fixing all this via rewriting the wiki page for grub. My current progress towards this end can be seen at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Eschwartz/Grub#Configuration -- Eli Schwa

Re: [arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.

2018-12-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
type of person to look at pacman's output. Either way, there is not much to be done about it after the fact. Much like there's not much to be done about packaging the grub.cfg in the first place, 6 years after the fact, except to fix what we can and resolve to do better next time. -- Eli Schwartz B

Re: [arch-general] NetBeans 9.0 not a drop-in replacement of 8.2

2018-11-12 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ported to qt5), etc. Notice, these are all typically support libraries used as dependencies for other packages, rather than leaf software. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] NetBeans 9.0 not a drop-in replacement of 8.2

2018-11-12 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
entirely unheard of for major new releases of a software to need migration, drop features (and hopefully add new ones), etc. This does *not* mean it is new software entirely, and it should *not* be named something new. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly

2018-11-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
the job cleanup.{service,time} : https://git.archlinux.org/infrastructure.git/tree/roles/dbscripts/files The dbscripts cleanup script itself: https://git.archlinux.org/dbscripts.git/tree/cron-jobs/ftpdir-cleanup -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly

2018-11-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
e database has been altered, > and old versions removed, between the -y's refresh and fetching a long > list of packages? It won't be old and now missing, because you used -Sy and it will refresh *again*. But if you don't use -y, then trying to install a package first looks in the cache, where it may not need to be fetched... -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly

2018-11-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
623e01f0c45235cd This will eventually make its way to pacman-contrib upstream, but it's pending some pacman changes which are still in git and only very recently landed. In the meantime you can also use https://github.com/eli-schwartz/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/cacheupdates Just run cacheupdates

Re: [arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly

2018-11-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
nd it seems to have gone well. Forgot to mention, but yeah, running the command that the hook was supposed to run, will usually work. :D If it doesn't work, it would be because the hook specifies NeedsTargets and therefore expects to receive a list of files on standard input, listing the files whic

Re: [arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly

2018-11-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
to see if you get the same error. Then, try installing pacman-git from the AUR or from my unofficial repo hosted at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#eschwartz The fix should be in pacman-git, and this should no longer crash. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Issue linking 32-bit GAS assembly

2018-10-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ich you have not asked yourself why you are using it. Did you read the manpage for this? -shared Create a shared library. This is currently only supported on ELF, XCOFF and SunOS platforms. On SunOS, the linker will automatically create a shared library if the -e option is not used and there

Re: [arch-general] Can I prevent Pacman from running hooks?

2018-10-13 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
sing: CPPFLAGS='-DSYSHOOKDIR=\"/i/dont/want/to/run/any/hooks/\"' ./configure But I don't see any point to this. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] AppArmor support

2018-09-28 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ll be?), doesn't properly handle paths with spaces or newlines in them, and also spends a lot of time searching the whole directory tree instead of only searching the given subpath. I favor option one. :) Also, PKGBUILDs with complex metadata assignments are annoying to do correctly, which is probably a reminder that we should all strive to avoid them! *glares at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/58776 and sighs* -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] AppArmor support

2018-09-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
feature (directly > or indirectly). Even if you disable the mitigations, the fast path we're talking about here was simply deleted from linux.git -- it doesn't exist anymore, zero, zilch, squat, nada. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] MariaDB package version

2018-09-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
gt; good about keeping everything up-to-date, so I am curious what the > reason for this is. Something to do with compatibility? https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2017-September/044255.html If you have further news, feel free to share. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trus

Re: [arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?

2018-09-20 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
releases. (Anyway I'm delighted to see the number of java versions decrease by at least one.) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?

2018-09-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
letely inert in either an installed package or a *.pkg.tar.xz file. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?

2018-09-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
fy its configuration which is something that goes against the current architecture... What would happen instead is pacman.conf could be used to configure this. I'm not sure if IgnorePkg or HoldPkg would have an effect here... -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?

2018-09-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
h other, so there's absolutely nothing wrong with doing so. Admittedly, it's no longer a repo package so it's unsupported, but that was the case whether it was moved to the AUR or deleted with a replaces. ... You will get prompted again and again on every pacman -Su "to see if you're final

Re: [arch-general] AppArmor support

2018-09-09 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
cally, Spectre has proven to be our friend here -- due to all the mitigations, there is now no fast path for these system calls, so your kernel is just as slow whether AUDIT is enabled or not. Therefore, we ended up simply enabling it. See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42954 for more background. --

Re: [arch-general] AppArmor support

2018-09-09 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
to ask questions. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] AUR: Failing to install gnupod-git (no perl-date-parse)

2018-09-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 9/7/18 11:38 AM, Jeanette C. wrote: > Sep 7 2018, Eli Schwartz via arch-general has written: > ... >> Jeanette, you can submit an orphan request for this package as the >> original maintainer is not fixing it, and then adopt the package to fix >> the dependencies. >

Re: [arch-general] AUR: Failing to install gnupod-git (no perl-date-parse)

2018-09-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
he original maintainer is not fixing it, and then adopt the package to fix the dependencies. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Services with DefaultDependencies=no

2018-08-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
g the system. e.g. you might want RPC daemons running as soon as possible. You most likely do want haveged running as soon as possible. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] update today causes avantfax_hourly cron: Exec format error?

2018-08-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/27/18 2:57 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 08/26/2018 08:11 AM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> in the "avantfax_hourly" file > Yes, of course it does, > > $ head -n 2 /srv/http/avantfax/includes/phb.php I've reread these two statements eleven tim

Re: [arch-general] update today causes avantfax_hourly cron: Exec format error?

2018-08-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/26/18 9:48 AM, SET wrote: > Le dimanche 26 août 2018 15:11:36 CEST Eli Schwartz via arch-general a écrit : >> some wonderful shebang > > Ha ! My wonderful shebang was "#/bin/sh" instead of "#!/bin/sh". > > After correcting the typo, run-

Re: [arch-general] update today causes avantfax_hourly cron: Exec format error?

2018-08-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
mething completely and utterly irrelevant. Mind you, this is just a guess. The only thing I know for sure is that your real problem is exactly what Ralph said it was. You're installing a crontab designed to run every hour, into a location meant to be run as an executable (by anacron which runs ever

Re: [arch-general] Antergoes problem.

2018-08-22 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
tinued or problematic. > > Ignoring that Antergoes isn't supported by this mailing list Can you please refrain from willfully ignoring this fact. Thanks. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] blueman authentication problem

2018-08-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
.setstate for system-bus- > name::1.735 [python /usr/bin/blueman-applet] (owned by unix-user:frank) > > Any ideas how to change this strange behavior? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59736 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=239697 -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Include paths for python 3

2018-08-13 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
nd one software dependency, seems rather inefficient. Learn to love pkg-config, it's quite fantastic. ;) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] valgrind error -- the 'impossible' happened?? (fully updated Arch system)

2018-08-11 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
/known, and more critically, it was in the expectation of getting a reply. Hence it would be logical to wait for said reply. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Kernel source URL change

2018-08-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
*signed* and thus makepkg will check if that signature > matches one of those specified in the validpgpkeys array. > > From a security standpoint, it's irrelevant if the sources come from > arch hosted infra, from github, or from kernel.org. I'm all for hosting it through bittorrent TBH. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Kernel source URL change

2018-08-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
Who are you trying to convince here? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Kernel source URL change

2018-08-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ts > signature. > > Here you go: > https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.17.13.tar.xz > https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.17.13.tar.sign We do not listen to your orders. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] libjson-c.so.3 problem

2018-08-05 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
_64.pkg.tar.xz ... /usr/bin/named NEEDED libjson-c.so.4 You did a partial update. Things broke. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] using makepkg.conf to set arbitrary environments (was: aur/solr: Unknown PGP key)

2018-07-30 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ten do not realize that what seems obvious to us (cf. my above inferences regarding the language syntax) are non-obvious to others. When confusion arises, this is a good opportunity to get outside perspective on the matter (and, coincidentally, a sneaky way to trick people into becoming contribut

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] proposal to add "aurpublish" to community

2018-07-29 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 07/22/2018 12:55 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 07/20/2018 04:23 AM, WorMzy Tykashi via arch-general wrote: >> On 20 July 2018 at 08:38, Jelle van der Waa wrote: >> >>> On 07/20/18 at 09:05am, Jelle van der Waa wrote: >>>> On 07/19/18 at 07:23pm, Flo

Re: [arch-general] aur/solr: Unknown PGP key

2018-07-28 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
gt;> "$HOME"/.config/pacman/makepkg.conf in order to make this work properly. I consider this to be eminently reasonable without further modifications to makepkg.conf(5), since it is described as being sourced after all. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] aur/solr: Unknown PGP key

2018-07-28 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
umentation on the makepkg wiki page. Anyway, it's indicated pretty clearly in the manpage already. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] aur/solr: Unknown PGP key

2018-07-28 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
gnal, *continuing what I feel to be a general trend on a personal level*, and thus fair game for my sarcasm, "low-wit" or not. For I consider that to have been trolling. The fact that it had a useful result was entirely accidental and surprising. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] aur/solr: Unknown PGP key

2018-07-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 07/26/2018 06:50 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 18:30:01 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> What does the "web bug" have to do with this discussion? > > It's a hint that not every user likes 'auto-key-retrieve', but instead > only manuall

Re: [arch-general] aur/solr: Unknown PGP key

2018-07-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
you verified the > signature. > > I'm using an alias to manually add new keys: > > $ grep gkey= .bashrc > alias gkey='gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.uni-mainz.de --recv-keys' What does the "web bug" have to do with this discussion? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] aur/solr: Unknown PGP key

2018-07-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
just > change? Or does the package have security issues, and I shouldn't > install it? I've literally got no clue what you're trying to imply here. Database? What database? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Possible to "inherit" from a package?

2018-07-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
hing wrong, because their developers don't *intend* to produce incorrect behavior. Also pacaur is officially discontinued and archived on Github. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] proposal to add "aurpublish" to community

2018-07-22 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 07/20/2018 04:23 AM, WorMzy Tykashi via arch-general wrote: > On 20 July 2018 at 08:38, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > >> On 07/20/18 at 09:05am, Jelle van der Waa wrote: >>> On 07/19/18 at 07:23pm, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote: >>>> On Wed 18.07.18 -

Re: [arch-general] Possible to "inherit" from a package?

2018-07-15 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
there is https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=customizepkg -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Possible to "inherit" from a package?

2018-07-15 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
o the question of "why on earth do you feel the need to send three emails to point someone at a wiki page"... You do realize this is totally wrong? [core] is not assumed installed the base group is. And that really has nothing to do with the offtopic efficacy of the -s option.

Re: [arch-general] Best way to customize PS1

2018-06-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
in 2011. For the past 7.5 years, /etc/bash.bashrc has been the canonical place to make custom bash-specific modifications, due to it being *correctly* marked as a backup file. I've got no clue why you think it isn't one. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Issue with browser opening in LXDE

2018-06-16 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
click on a link and a > windows opens returning Error: $HOME/$URL: Not existing file or > directory Where $HOME is my home path and $URL is the target URL. I > have no clue regarding what configuration makes it so. Any > suggestions? Which version of xdg-utils? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading mlocate: /var/lib/mlocate/ Permissions Warning.

2018-06-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 06/10/2018 09:53 AM, Tinu Weber wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 09:20:38 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> It's a fancy way of doing `|| true`. > > Yes, that I knew - I just thought that it would make Make stop at the > error (message) rather than continuing (al

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading mlocate: /var/lib/mlocate/ Permissions Warning.

2018-06-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
bly a PKGBUILD function gets added to convert >> existing installations? > > I'm sorry, but I don't understand that sentence. I'm blindly assuming this was intended to be "a post-install script to fix it", but even then no, plus it wouldn't really get rid of the errors. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading mlocate: /var/lib/mlocate/ Permissions Warning.

2018-06-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
cally removed and reinstalled and users might wish to modify the permissions for many reasons (which is not typically the case for files). -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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