[arch-general] Next Bug Day - Was : Assigning bugs proposal

2009-06-06 Thread Allan McRae
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: And done all posible renames of tasks to the form "[pkgname] the title". Bugtracker now looks much more orderly. and the function "Bug Reports" from package view page, works better :) In the last week more than 100 old task was closed :) There are plans in mind for

Re: [arch-general] install packages using links?

2009-06-06 Thread Andrei Thorp
Also, remaking all packages in the repos to do this? Erk. No thanks, Mr. Spillypants. -AT (PS. perhaps you folks haven't seen the Keith's Beer commercials where the guy keeps calling people Mr. Spillypants. Turns out that the actor for those commercials was later arrested for child porn and the c

Re: [arch-general] install packages using links?

2009-06-06 Thread Henning Garus
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:19 PM, clemens fischer wrote: > The advantage is easy to see:  you can always see what package some file > belongs to, pacman -Qo /path/to/file >and removing a package is as simple as removing matching > links and the installation directory. pacman -R pkgname > All fi

Re: [arch-general] install packages using links?

2009-06-06 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
clemens fischer wrote: > Hi, > > Whenever I install autotools-aware programs from source, they don't go > into /usr/local as is customary, but into their own directory called > /opt//, and then files in > /opt///{{s,}bin,man} etc. get symlinked into their > counterparts in /usr/local. I am using s

[arch-general] install packages using links?

2009-06-06 Thread clemens fischer
Hi, Whenever I install autotools-aware programs from source, they don't go into /usr/local as is customary, but into their own directory called /opt//, and then files in /opt///{{s,}bin,man} etc. get symlinked into their counterparts in /usr/local. I am using spill[1] for this. Thus, for gpp-2.2

Re: [arch-general] PKBUILD update after bug fix

2009-06-06 Thread Baho Utot
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 16:41 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > > How long does it take for the updated PKGBUILD to hit abs after a bug > > report is closed > > > > For example if the PKGBUILD is missing a dependency? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > The abs

Re: [arch-general] PKBUILD update after bug fix

2009-06-06 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > How long does it take for the updated PKGBUILD to hit abs after a bug > report is closed > > For example if the PKGBUILD is missing a dependency? > > Thanks > > The abs tree is updated every day so it could take up to one day.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Assigning bugs proposal

2009-06-06 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Tobias Powalowski wrote: > >> Hi guys. >> quite a lot of bug assigning happened lately, could you please add: >> [packagename] ... >> at the beginning of each bug topic, >> this way it's much easier to sort things on bugtracker. >> >> thanks >> greetings >> tpow

[arch-general] PKBUILD update after bug fix

2009-06-06 Thread Baho Utot
How long does it take for the updated PKGBUILD to hit abs after a bug report is closed For example if the PKGBUILD is missing a dependency? Thanks

Re: [arch-general] Solved : Re: Light-weight SMTP "server"

2009-06-06 Thread Magnus Therning
David Rosenstrauch wrote: On Sat, June 6, 2009 7:01 am, Magnus Therning wrote: Why do you _need_ an SMTP server? From the sounds of it you could use your ISP's server directly from the laptop via the VPN connection. Either that, or as another poster suggested, use SSH port forwarding to get to

Re: [arch-general] Solved : Re: Light-weight SMTP "server"

2009-06-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On Sat, June 6, 2009 7:01 am, Magnus Therning wrote: > Why do you _need_ an SMTP server? > From the sounds of it you could use your ISP's server directly from the > laptop via the VPN connection. Either that, or as another poster > suggested, > use SSH port forwarding to get to the SMTP server. >

Re: [arch-general] Solved : Re: Light-weight SMTP "server"

2009-06-06 Thread Magnus Therning
David Rosenstrauch wrote: On Fri, June 5, 2009 6:23 pm, Magnus Therning wrote: Mike Sampson wrote: I have used msmtp. From memory it just consists of a command line utility and a config file containing the mail server you want to use, credentials if used, etc. Worked well for me. There are quit

Re: [arch-general] Solved : Re: Light-weight SMTP "server"

2009-06-06 Thread Mike Sampson
> > Just curious, by the way: msmtp isn't exactly an SMTP "server", correct? > It's really just a sendmail replacement, right? (i.e., not a full-fledged > SMTP daemon, listening on port 25, etc.) > > DR > > Correct. It is just a command line tool that talks to an smtp server. That was all I neede