Re: [arch-general] Mutt with Icloud

2019-03-27 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-general
[2019-03-27 18:55:59 +0100] siefke_lis...@web.de: > have someone mutt with Icloud at work and can share the config? Your question has nothing to do with Arch Linux. You are far more likely to get a specific question on a particular piece of software answered by asking on the mailing list for that

Re: [arch-general] Proposal: add "--disable-modern-top" to procps-ng configure flags

2017-12-09 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-general
[2017-12-09 16:31:21 +] Jonathon Fernyhough: > Thanks for spending the time to consider the proposal and for your > valuable input, nevertheless. Your sarcasm is really pissing me off because I did take the time to review your bug report before replying with my analysis and two constructive su

Re: [arch-general] [mpd+ncmpcpp] mpd hangs when manually moving forward on track, or to nex track

2017-03-26 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2017-03-26 17:53:38 -1000] Gaetan Bisson: > [2017-03-26 20:22:58 -0600] Javier Vasquez via arch-general: > > If someone is familiar with mpd (user, non root) + ncmpcpp on Arch, > > perhaps can help me out... > > > > Whenever I move forward/backward on the same playin

Re: [arch-general] [mpd+ncmpcpp] mpd hangs when manually moving forward on track, or to nex track

2017-03-26 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2017-03-26 20:22:58 -0600] Javier Vasquez via arch-general: > If someone is familiar with mpd (user, non root) + ncmpcpp on Arch, > perhaps can help me out... > > Whenever I move forward/backward on the same playing track (f/b), mpd > just hangs, usually so hard, that mpd needs to be restarted to

Re: [arch-general] Mutt Compile-time Configuration

2016-08-19 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2016-08-20 01:39:28 +0200] Bruno Pagani: > > > Le 20 août 2016 01:09:06 GMT+02:00, Dutch Ingraham a écrit : > >Hello all: > > > >Mutt 1.7.0 was just released.[1] One new feature is the sidebar, which > >up to now required a patched version of mutt from the AUR. However, it > >is a > >compile-

Re: [arch-general] about mrelendig's, scimmia's, and dreisner's behavior

2016-08-11 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2016-08-11 00:28:37 -0400] Eli Schwartz via arch-general: > On 08/10/2016 11:39 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > I bet your momma told you not to swear and to start each sentence with a > > capital letter. So make her happy and start writing like a grown up... > > Well,

Re: [arch-general] about mrelendig's, scimmia's, and dreisner's behavior

2016-08-10 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2016-08-11 04:08:46 +0200] fnodeuser: > these fuckers keep creating problems. > > they hided my tasks for the second time. this makes it impossible for the > package maintainers to see the tasks. > > i didn't come here to play games with archlinux team members who happen to be > fucking morons

Re: [arch-general] Why did kernel packaging become slow?

2016-05-07 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2016-05-07 20:00:35 +] Abderrahman Najjar: > On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Tobias Powalowski via arch-general < > arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > > Thanks Andy, yes this is correct. > > Sorry folks sometimes real life catches you and that's more important. > > I'm sure all understand

Re: [arch-general] libreoffice not work

2015-10-12 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2015-10-12 22:53:47 -0500] Yaro Kasear: > It seems like bad form to enable unstable features for a package in > [extra]. Shouldn't it be set to enable the GTK2 VCL by default? I'd normally agree but seeing as every line is commented out in our shipped libreoffice-fresh.sh it appears GTK3 VCL is a

Re: [arch-general] postfix 3.0.0-3 in testing wont start

2015-03-19 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2015-03-19 19:36:35 -0400] Genes Lists: > fatal: /usr/lib/postfix/postfix-script: No such file o $ /usr/lib/postfix/bin/postfix-script This script must be run by the postfix command. Do not run directly. -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] gnupg 2.1 not stable

2014-12-17 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2014-12-17 09:03:31 -0500] Ido Rosen: > 2.0.26 is the stable version suggested for most users, > 2.1.1 is the brand-new modern version Arch is not stable, it's modern. Besides, there are no open bugs regarding gnupg on our tracker. -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] Meetup in Paris

2014-08-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2014-08-29 18:29:25 -0600] José Javier Castro Matamoros: > Costa Rica? Please. Are we really going to whine for every neighborhood on earth? If you want an Arch meeting to take place in our area, make it happen, just like Sebastien is doing in Paris: find a room, speakers, sponsors for food/drin

Re: [arch-general] bugs.archlinux.org - enable comments on closed issues

2014-08-24 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2014-08-25 04:27:51 +0200] Nowaker: > Closing an issue and preventing the reporter > from adding anything to the topic isn't respectful. Sorry but I am not following you: who owes respect to who? Disabling comments as issues are closed saves valuable developer time, not because of the occasional

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Rethinking our CA certificate setup

2014-08-24 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2014-08-24 11:47:56 +0200] Jan Alexander Steffens: > - Ship the update-ca-certificates script in a ca-certificates-utils > package, which the certificate packages depend on > - ca-certificates becomes a metapackage depending on the -mozilla and > -cacert packages So we'd have three ca-certificate

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] systemd 215 group names

2014-07-09 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2014-07-09 19:22:55 +0300] Martti Kühne: > I'm currently travelling and more or less only have this machine to > work with. Upgrading while travelling has never been the brightest idea. Couldn't you wait till you get back home for that? -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] inkscape doesn't start

2014-06-23 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2014-06-23 19:07:25 +0200] Gerhard Kugler: > a few weeks I didn't start inkscape. Now it says: "inkscape: error > while loading shared libraries: libMagick++-6.Q16HDRI.so.3: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory" Update; it's fixed. -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] NTP: Possible permissions bug

2014-05-09 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2014-05-09 08:26:59 -0700] Kyle Terrien: > In ntp-4.2.7, there is a file called .placeholder. I know, I put it there. :) Anyhow I'm glad you diagnosed your problem. -- Gaetan pgp2Z8jsm8yHj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] NTP: Possible permissions bug

2014-05-08 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2014-05-08 18:34:54 -0700] Kyle Terrien: > I took out the "-u ntp:ntp" parameter (so ntp runs as root), and these > errors disappeared. Also, ntpq -p returns the NTP servers I'm > synchronized with. So, I'm pretty sure the issue is permissions related, > but I have no idea what it's running into.

Re: [arch-general] Move from libjpeg-turbo to mozjpeg

2014-03-07 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2014-03-08 04:32:28 +0100] N30N: > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mozjpeg/ When you take the existing libjpeg-turbo PKGBUILD, change a few lines, and remove the Contributor/Maintainer tags altogether, you're not showing much respect for the community. > I'd like to propose making the switch.

Re: [arch-general] FreeRDP

2013-12-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-12-29 23:50:50 -0600] Ben Hagan: > There is a 1.1 stable branch in their repo, and it implements some changes > that make freerdp much better to use. Version 1.1 is a "pre-release" and the "latest release" is 1.0.2 as you can see there: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/releases A

Re: [arch-general] nut UPS driver (upsdrvctl) fails to start for usbhid devices due to node perms - howto fix?

2013-12-16 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-12-16 21:33:33 -0600] David C. Rankin: > So if you think this should be in a new thread and not here -- talk to Gaetan. I'm quite confident no-one is going to care: it's now the third message you've send to this list about network-ups-tools. The first two haven't attracted much attention, so

Re: [arch-general] The Final Cleanup

2013-12-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-12-06 18:15:36 +0100] Alexander Rødseth: > I think .desktop files should ideally be provided by upstream. But for > cases where they are not currently being provided, we should provide > them. Sure. That's exactly like service files, or rc.d files before that. Nothing new here. > Regardless

Re: [arch-general] Patch for update-mime-info slowness

2013-12-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-12-06 01:14:08 -0500] Sébastien Leblanc: > I was not > looking to file a bug, or anything. I am only sharing a patch with > fellow Arch users. Then why did you Cc the maintainer of this package? I'm not insisting that bug reports and feature requests be submitted to our tracker just to make

Re: [arch-general] Patch for update-mime-info slowness

2013-12-05 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-12-04 15:00:31 -0500] Sébastien Leblanc: > I am kind of annoyed by the time it takes to update the MIME database Please, please, please. Bug reports and feature requests go to: https://bugs.archlinux.org/ Not this list, not private emails to maintainers, not a combination of the ab

Re: [arch-general] New users not automatically added to 'users' group if -g default group specified?

2013-12-04 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-12-04 22:12:40 -0600] David C. Rankin: > One question though, the USERGROUPS_ENAB flag seems self-explanatory, but > the > comments above the flag say: > > # > # Enable setting of the umask group bits to be the same as owner bits > # (examples: 022 -> 002, 077 -> 007) for non-root users,

Re: [arch-general] New users not automatically added to 'users' group if -g default group specified?

2013-12-04 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-12-04 12:57:23 -0600] Leonid Isaev: > On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:16:46 -0600 > "David C. Rankin" wrote: > > > In the past with arch installs, new users have always been added to the > > 'users' group. Now that is not being done. > > In short, this is OK; your user doesn't need to be mentione

Re: [arch-general] New users not automatically added to 'users' group if -g default group specified?

2013-12-04 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-12-04 09:16:46 -0600] David C. Rankin: > In the past with arch installs, new users have always been added to the > 'users' group. Now that is not being done. Bug reports go to: https://bugs.archlinux.org/ Not this list, not private emails to maintainers, not a combination of the

Re: [arch-general] [BUG]terminus-font

2013-12-03 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-12-03 07:49:15 -0800] John Davis: > I wonder if this is why I have a problem with ncurses output in xterms.? Upgrade to xterm-299, it fixes a regression with line-drawing. If your bug is still not fixed then, file a bug report. -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] arch rollback machine

2013-12-02 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-12-02 23:55:29 +0100] Sébastien Luttringer: > Ok, you want a fake db files with all versions of the same package. No, he just wants a directory with every version of each package in it. He won't ever update the db (no `pacman -Sy`) but can still install any package he needs with `pacman -S`

Re: [arch-general] Sorting by subject makes Evolution crash

2013-11-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-11-29 18:20:57 +0100] Ralf Mardorf: > I'm a Linux user, not a Linux developer. I'm not asking you to develop anything. Just to report informative messages that your operating system makes readily available to you through a few simple commands. Obtaining a backtrace is a straightforward, wel

Re: [arch-general] Sorting by subject makes Evolution crash

2013-11-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-11-29 16:13:42 +0100] Ralf Mardorf: > Evolution crashes if I sort mails by subject. As usual, a backtrace would be nice... > I'm using Linux only for more then 10 years. Then you must know that discussing problems without giving the least bit of debugging information never goes very far. N

Re: [arch-general] vsftpd build option --- why not support tcp_wrappers?

2013-11-27 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-11-28 11:19:09 +0800] Yi Zheng: >Do you think it is necessary to add native tcp_wrappers support > for VSFTPD? No. See: https://www.archlinux.org/news/dropping-tcp_wrappers-support/ > I do not use xinetd, and want restrict FTP accessing > by IP. I would personally use iptable

Re: [arch-general] Initramfs fallback render

2013-11-15 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-11-15 01:55:12 +0100] Ismael Bouya: > when we need to boot into "fallback mode", initramfs asks for root > password! What is the exact prompt that seems to be asking for the root password? Wouldn't there be any helpful info/warning/error messages preceding it? That'd clear up some confusion

Re: [arch-general] Should outdated changelogs be removed from the packages?

2013-11-12 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-11-12 22:25:32 +0100] Karol Blazewicz: > Should outdated changelogs be removed from the packages? Yes. No information is always better than inaccurate information. Unless the maintainers of those packages wishes to clearly mark their changelogs as outdated and keep them for historical purpo

Re: [arch-general] Sourcing /etc/rc.conf in configs and .install scripts

2013-11-12 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-11-12 15:25:09 -0600] Leonid Isaev: > In the particular case of the filesystem package, I think the above > conditional is actually useful. It is never triggered on an initscripts-less > installation, yet it makes the filesystem package workable for people who > prefer legacy initscripts. Th

Re: [arch-general] Sourcing /etc/rc.conf in configs and .install scripts

2013-11-12 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-11-12 22:05:12 +0100] Karol Blazewicz: > I noticed a few configs and .install scripts mention /etc/rc.conf > (mostly it's just '. /etc/rc.conf'), even though initscripts are not > supported anymore. > > For example locale.sh from filesystem package has > > elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then >

Re: [arch-general] linux-firmware upgrade altered grub

2013-11-08 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-11-08 17:27:59 +] Anthony Campbell: > I see that what happened was a kernel upgrade. This > led to a lot of activity by mkinitcpio as it built the image. I don't > know if that could have altered the boot sector. No. What may alter the boot sector is a bootloader upgrade... -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] linux-firmware upgrade altered grub

2013-11-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-11-06 08:56:04 +] Anthony Campbell: > After an upgrade yesterday which I'm pretty sure included linux-firmware > I found that boot reversed the order What do you mean by "pretty sure"? How do you know linux-firmware is to blame? This package only modifies files under /usr so it is unlike

Re: [arch-general] Replacing journal completely with syslog-ng

2013-10-27 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-10-27 18:41:36 +0200] Dimitris Zervas: > Journalctl requires too much resources (I have a 512MB KVM) and some times > it kicks the server out of memory. Unless you can refine your description of the problem, we can do nothing to help than give suggestions blindly at random. Here's one: add t

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-26 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-10-26 09:39:21 +0200] Carsten Mattner: > So that means Arch Linux has always been unique in that regard > and it has been by lucky accidence static linking of libs installed > by pacman worked? Yes. > If that's the case this should be documented the same way other > distros (suckless) do no

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-25 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-10-25 10:10:55 +0200] Carsten Mattner: > Is there still a way to statically link libraries where > the recent change to remove the .a files has been > completed? To build something statically you will just need to rebuild its dependencies statically too. Note that static libraries have never

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Re: [arch-dev-public] Plasma-NM plasmoid moved to [extra]

2013-10-12 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-10-12 22:44:44 -0400] Genes Lists: > I used it to connect to local wifi - worked fine. Left my laptop > and returned a couple hours later. I am still connected - and the hover > pop up shows the connection and correct SSID. However clicking the > applet no longer shows an active connectio

Re: [arch-general] Upgrade problem

2013-09-30 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-30 09:15:50 -0700] Anatol Pomozov: > Hi > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > > I attempted to update yesterday (pacman -Syu) & I got this message at the > > end of the update: > > > > '(121/121) checking for file conflicts > > [###

Re: [arch-general] Two things: TODO-list orphans in [community] and switching over to git

2013-09-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-29 17:33:52 +0200] Alexander Rødseth: > In connection with the newly created TODO lists for rebuilds of > packages formerly maintained by people that are no longer involved > with Arch Linux, I wondered if there would be any objections if I > moved the following packages from [community] t

Re: [arch-general] Two things: TODO-list orphans in [community] and switching over to git

2013-09-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-29 17:33:52 +0200] Alexander Rødseth: > As I gather, we all like git better than svn, for a long list of > reasons. Are there any objections to switching over from svn to git as > repositories for the official packages? The reason to stick with SVN has always been that certain devs/TUs wa

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-28 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-28 22:25:55 +0100] Dan Liew: > On 28/09/13 19:27, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > [2013-09-28 15:26:56 +0100] Delcypher: > > > I am strongly against this proposal. > > For many reasons, including those in the page Allan pointed to, dynamic > > libraries should

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-28 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-28 15:26:56 +0100] Delcypher: > For popular packages that have can build static libraries and shared > libraries, build both but put the static libraries into their own > "*-staticlibs" package and the *-libs" packages should contain only > shared libraries. For example for boost you would

Re: [arch-general] glibc 2.18-5 question

2013-09-26 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-26 15:15:12 +] LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT: > So, out of curiosity, how big is the threat since I am under the impression > that almost 100% if not 100% of Arch binaries uses libc.so People are free to build static libraries on Arch and use them. There are probably not many who do that

Re: [arch-general] Donate to Arch Linux

2013-09-26 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-26 08:22:36 +0100] Anthony Campbell: > On 23 Sep 2013, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > > > > > So first you ask whether donors can be anonymous and, even before > > getting an answer, you get carried away assuming that they can't?!? > > > > Most

Re: [arch-general] Issue with systemd --user services

2013-09-25 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-25 21:33:08 +0100] John Smith: > I'm having problems with starting 'mpd' as a user service: > > $ systemctl --user status mpd > mpd.service - Music Player Daemon >Loaded: loaded (/home/me/.config/systemd/user/mpd.service; enabled) >Active: inactive (dead) ^^

Re: [arch-general] Donate to Arch Linux

2013-09-23 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-23 11:02:42 +0200] Ralf Mardorf: > 1. Do they care for "Arch Linux" as reference? You quoted the following bit: "When making a donation, please always notify the association at donation (at) ffis.de so we can track the transaction properly." In the email, just tell SPI:

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird unread message count

2013-09-19 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-19 15:35:20 -0400] David Rosenstrauch: > Having one small issue with the new Thunderbird (v24.0) upgrade. Discussing bugs on this list is pointless; please do not do it. Rather, submit a bug report to our tracker or, better yet, upstream's. This is the only way anything will ever get fixe

Re: [arch-general] sysctl.conf.pacsave messages of archlinux.org and archlinux.de are different

2013-09-18 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-18 10:39:55 +0200] Ralf Mardorf: > archlinux.org claims "If you never customized /etc/sysctl.conf, you have > nothing to do", while archlinux.de's claim is that only those settings > > "# Protection from the SYN flood attack. > net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1 > # Disable packet forwarding. >

Re: [arch-general] System-Wide Pulseaudio

2013-09-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-09-06 21:37:02 +0200] arnaud gaboury: > Please leave the whole conversation so everyone can follow from the > beginning. The best practice really is to trim your quote down to only the bits that are relevant to your reply. Like I just did. -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] arch rollback machine

2013-08-24 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-08-24 10:51:20 +0100] Leonidas Spyropoulos: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Florian Dejonckheere > wrote: > > I'd be interested in joining the maintenance team. > me too Peter obviously had something useful to contribute to this list. Now, wishing that you were on the team gets nothing d

Re: [arch-general] 64 bit kernel with 32 bit userspace

2013-08-20 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-08-21 06:22:54 +0200] Magnus Therning: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1314594 > > Slightly unrelated, but is that link supposed to work? For me it's > "incorrect or outdated". It's the BBS' way of saying you have to log in... -- Gaetan pgp9GF9Wvl0w2.pgp Description: PG

Re: [arch-general] The new mupdf package doesn't have the 'mupdf' file

2013-08-17 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-08-17 17:25:11 +0800] Iru Cai: > After I updated mupdf, I found that /usr/bin/mupdf is missing, and is > replaced by mupdf-x11, which is a little inconvenient. Can the maintainer > add a mupdf link to it? mupdf-curl is a little fancier: it can render PDF while downloading them (of course thi

Re: [arch-general] Disabled asm in x264 on i686

2013-08-01 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-08-02 07:46:39 +0200] Jens Arm: > Why are asm optimizations disabled in x264 on i686? Here is the relevant commit: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/x264&id=a7a9241e6d0e7825c0baf333c49ea080e45a6c02 Unfortunately the log "update to latest

Re: [arch-general] Upstream urls and package descriptions

2013-08-01 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-08-01 18:02:38 +0200] Karol Blazewicz: > The same upstream url can be used by many packages and standardizing > would make it a bit easier to find which packages need to have the > upstream url updated. That is just not feasible. As you noticed yourself: sometimes, a www prefix and/or slash

Re: [arch-general] Upstream urls and package descriptions

2013-08-01 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-08-01 20:23:18 +0200] Karol Blazewicz: > Should I open a single report for the base package e.g. > libreoffice-i18n and list which split packages need to be fixed or > open a report for each split libreoffice-* package? One report per pkgbase is good. -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] CLI diffing tool other than Vim?

2013-07-30 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-07-30 18:41:00 -0400] Leonid Isaev: > Please guys... you only add more work for the moderators. Thanks for caring. They were whitelisted, but not anymore. It's the prisoner's dilemma: when a discussion goes nowhere, the clever choice is to stop replying. Replying anyhow might get you the la

Re: [arch-general] CLI diffing tool other than Vim?

2013-07-30 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-07-30 10:32:40 +0100] Paul Gideon Dann: > On Tuesday 30 Jul 2013 10:58:21 Chris Down wrote: > > On 2013-07-30 09:43, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > > I run a couple of Arch servers, and I'm trying to teach someone how to go > > > about maintaining it (for when I'm not around). The difficulty is

Re: [arch-general] Apache PID File not readable

2013-07-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-07-29 18:39:09 +] LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT: > Wow, this thread has just made me realized that there was a run directory in > root dir. That happened a year ago. See: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2011-December/06.html -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

2013-07-25 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-07-25 12:28:59 -0600] Chris Moline: > very slow network connection when I'm running deluged Look up "qos" (quality of service): Linux can be configured to prioritize sending small packets over larger ones. Small packets correspond almost exclusively to interactive connections... -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~

2013-07-25 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-07-25 10:35:11 +0200] Ralf Mardorf: > If I run > HOME=/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1 xfce4-terminal --maximize > by xfce4-terminal > the path gets completely ignored, all settings still are stored > to /home/rocketmouse and not to the > path /home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1. Applications h

Re: [arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

2013-07-25 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-07-24 21:27:11 -0600] Chris Moline: > I installed anything-sync-daemon but I have no idea what to sync. General question: isn't the effect of that software exactly the same thing as increasing the vm.dirty_expire_centiseconds kernel parameter? Except maybe in the case of a given application

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux ISO signing

2013-07-21 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-07-21 18:56:28 -0400] Leonid Isaev: > Is there a particular reason why the images themselves are signed as > opposed to only their checksum files? For instance, Fedora provides > sha256sums with inline sigs [1], and verifying image checksum + checksum file > signature is _much_ less CPU

Re: [arch-general] Why is netcfg again in [base]?

2013-07-16 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-07-16 15:05:24 +0200] Karol Blazewicz: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 22:03 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > >> it appears that netcfg is removed again > > > > Half-OT: > > Yes, earlier today there was an update available, now it isn't available

Re: [arch-general] Why is netcfg again in [base]?

2013-07-16 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-07-16 13:25:57 +0200] A Rojas: > why are my messages still moderated? See below. > If I understood correctly, when the moderation system was set up the > idea was that after the first message was accepted the address was > automatically whitelisted. That's incorrect. Only subscribers with

Re: [arch-general] Wrapper for yaourt and pacman

2013-07-13 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-07-13 23:16:25 +0200] Ralf Mardorf: > i=`pacman -Syu` does work, $i contains all packages Just use: `pacman -Syu --print --print-format %n` > How can I get a package list of the output "-Syua"? > > Btw. is there a way to get a cache for yaourt that isn't located > in /tmp? if not, then th

Re: [arch-general] xdelta3 not updated for i686

2013-07-13 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-07-13 14:09:18 +0200] Karol Blazewicz: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Karol Blazewicz > wrote: > > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/differences/ says that xdelta3 has > > not been updated for 32-bit - why? > > https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=package

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux on servers?

2013-07-09 Thread Gaetan Bisson
Obviously, I am biased, but... [2013-07-09 11:13:08 +0100] M Saunders: > After installation you just want security and critical bug > fix updates for software, and not major version bumps, right? If you are prepared to stick to a given feature set, maybe. Then, you might be able to achieve near-a

Re: [arch-general] "vi" just terminates on a 32bit machine

2013-06-16 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-06-16 11:21:33 +0200] Manuel Reimer: > if I access one of my systems via "ssh" and try to use "vi" there, > then it immediately returns with exit status "1". The proper place to discuss this is our bug tracker: https://bugs.archlinux.org/ -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] [procps-ng] archlinux default sysctl.conf

2013-06-13 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-06-13 19:58:06 -0500] Leonid Isaev: > After reading sysctl-related manpages in systemd, I started to wonder > about the logic behind /etc/sysctl.conf shipped with core/procps-ng. If one > follows systemd's conventions, this file should be in /usr/lib/sysctl.d and > mnemonically called s

Re: [arch-general] uml_utilities dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-06-10 23:16:02 +0800] Brock Zheng: > I found that uml_utilities vanished in the repo. It can't be found > in core/extra/communit repo, and also AUR . Next time, please do a simple search before putting questions to this list you could have easily answered yourself... https://en

Re: [arch-general] Why is webkitgtk2 flagged out of date?

2013-06-09 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-06-10 01:29:05 +0200] Karol Blazewicz: > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/webkitgtk2/ > Flagged out-of-date on 2013-03-27 > Last Updated: 2013-05-06 19:52 UTC Did you have a look at: http://webkitgtk.org/releases/ P.S. Did you expect an answer in the Subject field too?

Re: [arch-general] Arch, IBus, and Rime: IBus engines are not switched

2013-06-07 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-06-07 08:06:01 +0200] Julius Adorf: > Do you have a clue how to make IBus change to the right engine after > switching input methods? Wouldn't you agree that's a question for an IBus support mailing list? -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] /bin symlink breaking fetchmail

2013-06-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-06-06 22:20:46 -0400] Scott Lawrence: > In short, the latest upgrade seems to have borked fetchmail: > > fetchmail: Error writing to MDA: Broken pipe > > Deleting the /bin symlink and creating a /bin directory containing > only a symlink /bin/sh pointing to /usr/bin/bash, makes fetchmail

Re: [arch-general] Postfix and libsasl2.so.2 or libsasl2.so.3

2013-06-01 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-06-01 13:05:54 -0400] Dave Ariens: > Is there an issue with the current postfix package? No. > # pacman -S postfix dovecot Do `pacman -Syu` before; partial upgrades are not supported. And next time please at least tell us which versions of which packages you are talking about (postfix, li

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Adding !staticlibs to our default makepkg.conf

2013-05-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-05-29 20:24:14 +0300] Hussam Al-Tayeb: > Why not check first which applications build with --disable-static? 99% of all applications use autotools and therefore support this. Now do you really feel like adding an extra line to every PKGBUILD in our repository is neater than just enabling an

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Finishing the /usr move

2013-05-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-05-29 09:30:18 +0100] Paul Gideon Dann: > On Wednesday 29 May 2013 18:13:01 Allan McRae wrote: > > Yes - /sbin, /usr/sbin and /bin will all point at /usr/bin. So > > hardcoded paths will not matter. Only file locations will. > > Just a little curious: does someone know what the reason is

Re: [arch-general] What is the policy regarding the urgency of fixes ?

2013-05-02 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-05-01 10:54:40 -0400] Pavan Yalamanchili: > Subject: [arch-general] What is the policy regarding the urgency of fixes ? Do you expect replies in the Subject field too? We all agree on ground rules which are clearly stated in the wiki (for instance: avoid patches that are non-critical or hav

Re: [arch-general] zsh-history-substring-search with grml-zsh-config

2013-04-09 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-04-09 09:21:24 +0200] f gr: > Excerpt from Oon-Ee Ng's message > of 2013-04-09T11:23+0800: > > > I use grml-zsh-config and after a recent update > > zsh-history-substring-search seems to have stopped working (up and > > down no longer search for the substring). > > > > Anyone with the same

Re: [arch-general] Is makepkg completely broken in pacman 4.1 ?

2013-04-01 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-04-01 10:40:06 +0200] fredbezies: > So I reported a bug : https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34542 > > Did anybody get this too ? And what is the point of posting here? You already reported this to our bug tracker, which is where any discussion should take place. Stop looking for other people

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] BIND10? No, thanks.

2013-03-20 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-03-20 15:44:35 +0100] Armin K.: > On 03/20/2013 03:39 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > >[2013-03-20 15:14:19 +1100] Gaetan Bisson: > >>Deprecation of bind and dnsutils > > > >I've just moved dnsutils to [extra] and orphaned it as well as bind. > >This anno

Re: [arch-general] SOLVED Re: Cannot chroot '/bin/bash': No such file or directory

2013-03-17 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-03-17 15:42:55 +0200] Gesh hseG: > Also, this move was publicized in the forums, IRC topic, mailing list and > front-page news. > Seriously, if you're updating a months-old system, you'd better go over the > front-page news, at the very least. Top-posting again?!? Feel free to spend five mo

Re: [arch-general] error during update of qt4 and qt5

2013-03-15 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-03-15 15:49:17 +0530] phani: > what to do about this? Send this report to the proper place: https://bugs.archlinux.org/ -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] BIND10? No, thanks.

2013-03-09 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-03-09 09:51:38 -0500] Genes Lists: >One observation - bind is the de facto standard and as far as I can > tell used by the majority of the root servers [1] (and the majority of all > major DNS servers according to wikipedia [2] and bind website [3] anyway > :-)). > >We may wa

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] BIND10? No, thanks.

2013-03-09 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-03-09 21:37:01 +] Mike Cloaked: > Apologies for replying to my own previous post, but having read up a little > more about authoritative and caching/recursive namerservers - it seems that > a good alternative to bind (which I use on all my machines especially as a > local authoritative DN

Re: [arch-general] How to wait efficiently for a package to update?

2013-02-07 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-02-08 15:28:06 +1100] Gaetan Bisson: > [2013-02-08 12:14:25 +0800] Oon-Ee Ng: > > So I'm checking out python-sympy for some calculations in the Robotics > > subject I teach and realized that a bug was recently fixed in git > > which is crucial to what I hope to us

Re: [arch-general] How to wait efficiently for a package to update?

2013-02-07 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-02-08 12:14:25 +0800] Oon-Ee Ng: > So I'm checking out python-sympy for some calculations in the Robotics > subject I teach and realized that a bug was recently fixed in git > which is crucial to what I hope to use it for. python-sympy-git in the > AUR and that's settled. > > Then I got to w

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Add Wayland/Weston

2013-02-07 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-02-08 09:13:20 +0800] Oon-Ee Ng: > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > [2013-02-08 01:23:30 +0100] Sébastien Luttringer: > >> [4] I'm already existed by arch-general be closed again > > > > I cannot make sense of that sentence... &g

Re: [arch-general] Troubleshooting random crash

2013-02-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-02-06 19:06:45 -0500] Andre Goree: > Not really too keen on downgrading a bunch of packages that might break > dependencies and provide a REAL mess. If I have to go through that long > process, I'd rather just reinstall -- which at this point I'm planning > to do anyways. Well, there is lit

Re: [arch-general] Troubleshooting random crash

2013-02-06 Thread Gaetan Bisson
There are obvious gaps in your report; fixing them would be a good first step towards better understanding the problem. For instance: [2013-02-06 10:57:59 -0500] Andre Goree: > I believe this started happening after a recent update > but I can't know for sure and I can't really reproduce it... Gi

Re: [arch-general] Steam License

2013-01-31 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-01-31 16:01:18 +0100] Lone_Wolf: > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-January/024354.html > > In that thread on arch-dev-public, the license from valve for the steam > client is discussed. > Sofar noone mentioned section C4, export controls. As far as I understand,

Re: [arch-general] signature from "Thorsten Tpper " is unknown trust

2013-01-28 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-01-29 04:51:49 +0100] Karol Babioch: > Am 29.01.2013 04:37, schrieb Gaetan Bisson: > > Dave's answer certainly misses the real question of why Thorsten would > > want an expiration date on his GPG key, > > Because its good and common practice. There are several

Re: [arch-general] signature from "Thorsten Tpper " is unknown trust

2013-01-28 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-01-28 23:36:48 -0300] Martín Cigorraga: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > > > > That's generally what happens when you put an expiration date on a GPG > > key and time passes up until the current time exceeds the expiration > > date. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/

Re: [arch-general] Strange isse with my arch usb install

2013-01-20 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-01-21 00:05:35 -0600] kendell clark: > Systemd-udevd: renaming network interface wlan0 to wlo2 See the thread starting there: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-January/024223.html Essentially, network devices now have funny names... Revert to classical

Re: [arch-general] Protect a cron job from systemd

2013-01-02 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-01-02 11:07:01 +0200] Dimitrios Apostolou: > Any ideas on how to instruct systemd to not kill it > when terminating crond? Indeed, cron daemon services should use KillMode=process. I'll implement that for cronie and push it to [testing] right away. If you use another daemon, please create a

Re: [arch-general] Troubles with ALSA

2012-12-31 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-12-31 17:01:48 -0006] Jack Stanek: > I've been having problems with ALSA recently. I'm pretty sure what you are looking for is the `alsactl store` command; have you read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture -- Gaetan

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