Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 03:33:03 bardo composed: > 2009/5/18 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. : > >                 > >                         > >                 > > I think this may be your problem. I searched some time ago and found > out PolicyKit didn't support group matche

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 02:59:02 Jan de Groot composed: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 02:51 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Yes, that is the total 22 byte contents that crashed kmail. And this > > is a RC > > release??? > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14698 > > I

[arch-general] kde dark themes

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
kdeusers, If you haven't tried a dark theme for your kde desktop yet, you are missing out on some really cool looks. I toyed with dark themes over the years, but never really found one that worked. After being inspired to try again by senior Rosenstrauch posted one to the list, I took

Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-19 Thread Allan McRae
Eric Bélanger wrote: 2009/5/19 Sébastien Duquette : On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Eric Bélanger wrote: Another solution is to have all computers using only one pacman cache located on a single computer via nfs. So once a computer has downloaded a packages, all the other ones can g

Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-19 Thread Eric Bélanger
2009/5/19 Sébastien Duquette : > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Eric Bélanger > wrote: > >> Another solution is to have all computers using only one  pacman cache >> located on a single computer via nfs. So once a computer has >> downloaded a packages, all the other ones can grab it directly fr

Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-19 Thread Sébastien Duquette
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Eric Bélanger wrote: > Another solution is to have all computers using only one  pacman cache > located on a single computer via nfs. So once a computer has > downloaded a packages, all the other ones can grab it directly from > the local network. I might be wron

Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-19 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Andrei Thorp wrote: >>> (...) When a computer on the network asks for a file >>> that's been downloaded previously, there is no need to go into the >>> Internet. >> >> Yes and no. >> >> arch packages are not exactly small. I run a squid cache and a cache object >>

Re: [arch-general] Firefox bug that may be Arch specific

2009-05-19 Thread Dwight Schauer
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Matthew wrote: > Emmanuel Benisty wrote: >> >> Hi List, >> >> Just for information, there has been already two bug reports in >> Bugzilla that mention a bug in the display size of textboxes. Until >> now, only Archers seems to suffer from this bug and one of the mo

Re: [arch-general] Firefox bug that may be Arch specific

2009-05-19 Thread Matthew
Emmanuel Benisty wrote: Hi List, Just for information, there has been already two bug reports in Bugzilla that mention a bug in the display size of textboxes. Until now, only Archers seems to suffer from this bug and one of the mozilla developers has marked this issue as specific to Arch. Theref

Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-19 Thread Andrei Thorp
>> (...) When a computer on the network asks for a file >> that's been downloaded previously, there is no need to go into the >> Internet. > > Yes and no. > > arch packages are not exactly small. I run a squid cache and a cache object > size of 128KB serves me pretty well. To accomodate all arch pa

Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-19 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 22:29:05 Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:11, Shridhar Daithankar > > wrote: > > (Yes I read about pkgdd but I need something thats in core/extra as it > > gives extra confidence in terms of testing.) > > You can definitely trust Xyne, he's a great author. Y

Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-19 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:11, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > (Yes I read about pkgdd but I need something thats in core/extra as it gives > extra > confidence in terms of testing.) > You can definitely trust Xyne, he's a great author. You really don't need to be so paranoid. :P Plus you can just l

Re: [arch-general] Firefox bug that may be Arch specific

2009-05-19 Thread André Ramaciotti
It seems to be a problem with Firefox 3.5 beta only. (I can't confirm it, though) On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Kurt J. Bosch wrote: > On 2009-05-19 04:50, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: >> >> Hi List, >> >> Just for information, there has been already two bug reports in >> Bugzilla that mention a bu

Re: [arch-general] Firefox bug that may be Arch specific

2009-05-19 Thread Kurt J. Bosch
On 2009-05-19 04:50, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: Hi List, Just for information, there has been already two bug reports in Bugzilla that mention a bug in the display size of textboxes. Until now, only Archers seems to suffer from this bug and one of the mozilla developers has marked this issue as spe

Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-19 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, On Tuesday 19 May 2009 18:44:13 Andrei Thorp wrote: > We see people trying to make an Arch repo mirror to save themselves > bandwidth. I think that doesn't really make too much sense. Instead, > it seems much better to implement a download proxy. The way this works > is that all traffic is

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-19 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: OOOH, This is much worse than I thought. kword will not even open a text file without crashing. Where does this bug go? Arch, kdemod or kde?. I seems like it should go to Arch because there is something wildly incompatible between the koffice build and kde3.

Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-19 Thread Andrei Thorp
Hey, We see people trying to make an Arch repo mirror to save themselves bandwidth. I think that doesn't really make too much sense. Instead, it seems much better to implement a download proxy. The way this works is that all traffic is routed through a computer which backs up stuff that passes thr

Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

2009-05-19 Thread bardo
2009/5/18 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. : >                 >                         >                 I think this may be your problem. I searched some time ago and found out PolicyKit didn't support group matches. A quick look to the PolicyKit.conf(5) man page seems to confirm this is still the ca

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 02:51:09 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > > OOOH, > > This is much worse than I thought. kword will not even open a text file > without crashing. Where does this bug go? Arch, kdemod or kde?. I seems > like it should go to Arch because t

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-19 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 02:42:40 David C. Rankin, > J.D.,P.E. composed: >> Listmates, >> >>       I installed koffice and attempted to open an openoffice (.odt) document >> and kword crashed immediately.

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-19 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 02:51 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Yes, that is the total 22 byte contents that crashed kmail. And this > is a RC > release??? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14698 I think that says all. KOffice 2.0RC isn't a release candidate, and 2.0 isn't a stable usable re

Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 01:31:46 Allan McRae composed: snip > > You might want to look into this: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/info/pkgd > > > > > > > > Pre pacman-3.0 (I think), the architecture was not included in the file > name. Anything in the [community] repo still wil

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 02:42:40 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > Listmates, > > I installed koffice and attempted to open an openoffice (.odt) document > and kword crashed immediately. Next I opened kword again to read through > the help file and any notes, an

[arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Listmates, I installed koffice and attempted to open an openoffice (.odt) document and kword crashed immediately. Next I opened kword again to read through the help file and any notes, and the help doesn't seem to work either: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/koffice.