Re: [arch-general] Mailing list rename

[R. Dale Thomas]

Aaron Griffin wrote:


Ok... well - how about this - I shut it off, as a trial, on this list.
Anyone want to yell about it?



Well, sure looks much better that way.

[arch-general] Building core/base packages

[R. Dale Thomas]

I have an uptodate i686 chroot tree and am using a current abs tree for 
core/base packages.
There appears to be a problem with several of the packages:

1) iputils-20070202-3  Error message:
rdisc.c: In function 'do_fork':
rdisc.c:250: error: 'OPEN_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)

2) dialog-1.1_20070604-3  Failure to download:

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dialog/dialog_1.1-20070604.orig.tar.gz

3) tzdata-2007i-2  Failure to download:
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2007h.tar.gz
 version j is present.


rdt.

Re: [arch-general] Building core/base packages

[R. Dale Thomas]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
[snip]

Thanks, Aaron.

Re: [arch-general] Building core/base packages

[R. Dale Thomas]

Roman Kyrylych wrote:

2007/12/11, R. Dale Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

I have an uptodate i686 chroot tree and am using a current abs tree for 
core/base packages.
There appears to be a problem with several of the packages:

1) iputils-20070202-3  Error message:
rdisc.c: In function 'do_fork':
rdisc.c:250: error: 'OPEN_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)


could you try version -4 from Testing?


2) dialog-1.1_20070604-3  Failure to download:

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dialog/dialog_1.1-20070604.orig.tar.gz

3) tzdata-2007i-2  Failure to download:
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2007h.tar.gz
  version j is present.



version j is in Testing



Roman, what is the procedure to get the version from testing (and I will)?

Re: [arch-general] Building core/base packages

[R. Dale Thomas]

Roman Kyrylych wrote:

2007/12/11, R. Dale Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

I have an uptodate i686 chroot tree and am using a current abs tree for 
core/base packages.
There appears to be a problem with several of the packages:

1) iputils-20070202-3  Error message:
rdisc.c: In function 'do_fork':
rdisc.c:250: error: 'OPEN_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)


could you try version -4 from Testing?


2) dialog-1.1_20070604-3  Failure to download:

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dialog/dialog_1.1-20070604.orig.tar.gz

3) tzdata-2007i-2  Failure to download:
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2007h.tar.gz
  version j is present.



version j is in Testing



Yes, sir, both iputils & tzdata from testing build correctly.  Thank 
you.

Re: [arch-general] problem compiling for i586 with new makepkg

[R. Dale Thomas]

Karolina Lindqvist wrote:
[snip]


-w redirects output to somewhere else than the standard place, i.e. overrides 
PKGDEST.
Now instead I have to comment out PKGDEST=/home/packages in makepkg.conf and 
remember to always set it before makepkg instead. It also works, but I 
thought -w was very convenient and used it a lot.


I guess I am going to maintain this, for my own usage, for quite a while now, 
since I have a machine that is going to run it. It appears that a few others 
also quietly maintain archi586 the same way.


Karolina



I'm with you Karolina, I need to support some VIA machines, too.

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 41, Issue 23

[R. Dale Thomas]

Leandro Chescotta wrote:
no, i dont have plan9 installed, and the file is wmiirc, i have just 
realized that my ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc file has not the proper permissions, 
i chmod +x it, but now i have wmii to not load properly, and in VT1 it 
says there's in line 63 near unespected esac...


the portion of ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc that gives the error:

# Event processing
#  Processed later by `wmiiloop' and evaled.
#  Duplicate the eval line and replace 'eval' with 'echo' for details.

eventstuff() {
cat <<'!'
# Events
Event Start
case "$1" in
wmiirc)
exit;
esac  # < error in vt1





shouldn't that be exit;;

Re: [arch-general] top posting

[R. Dale Thomas]

Scott wrote:
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. 
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? 
A: Top-posting. 
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?



:)

(I bet a bunch of other people wanted to do that.)




Sorta like using a date format of MM/DD/YY, huh?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] maintainers wanted

[R. Dale Thomas]

I use tcl/tk and would be interested in supporting it and helping
out the Arch dev team.  Let me know how I can help.