Re: [arch-general] New Conflict on System Upgrade - license? pear? vi?

David C. Rankin wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2009 06:55:24 pm Thomas Bächler wrote: David C. Rankin schrieb: Listmates, Here are some strange conflicts found during an attempted system update. Thankfully they are limited to the license package, pear and vi: (269/269) checking for fil

Re: [arch-general] Presto for pacman?

On Monday 22 June 2009 03:09:14 am Allan McRae wrote: > Magnus Therning wrote: > > Is there something similar to Yum Presto[1] for pacman? > > > > Would it be possible to do, or are there limitations in the package > > format that prevents it? > > > > /M > > > > [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F

Re: [arch-general] New Conflict on System Upgrade - license? pear? vi?

On Saturday 20 June 2009 06:55:24 pm Thomas Bächler wrote: > David C. Rankin schrieb: > > Listmates, > > > > Here are some strange conflicts found during an attempted system > > update. > > Thankfully they are limited to the license package, pear and vi: > > > > (269/269) checking for file

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

On Monday 22 June 2009 03:05:29 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2009 11:06:37 am David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > David C. Rankin wrote: > > > Listmates, Devs: > > > > > > I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. > > > > Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will dis

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Re: dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this! (possible Bug on Delete)

On Monday 22 June 2009 02:56:17 pm Jan de Groot wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 14:48 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > Huh??? Why wasn't nvidia_ecaejfdip9 deactivated. I have > > deleted the partition > > in cfdisk, tried to activate it (y) and deactivate it (n) and still it > > is > > th

Re: [arch-general] Holy Cow -- What happened to bash / vi??

David C. Rankin wrote: > I get this new message: > > [00:08 archangel:/etc] # noc fstab > bash: /usr/local/bin/noc: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Text file busy > > > Text file busy?? It's a text file, it's not busy, it's either saved or > you > get what was present the last time

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Preparing for libjpeg update

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > And the 2.6 version is old and does not have the arch in the package file > name either...   Good spotting.  I really should fix that! > > Allan There was some request to remove that some time ago in the flyspray as the only 2 packages dependin

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Preparing for libjpeg update

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: Allan McRae wrote: Hi all, This weekend should see the release of the first update for libjpeg in several years. Everything remains API compatible so this should be just a simple rebuild... of 130 packages from [extra]. That is too many packages for any sane

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Preparing for libjpeg update

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> This weekend should see the release of the first update for libjpeg in >> several years.  Everything remains API compatible so this should be >> just a simple rebuild...  of 130 packages from [extra

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Preparing for libjpeg update

Allan McRae wrote: > Hi all, > > This weekend should see the release of the first update for libjpeg in > several years. Everything remains API compatible so this should be > just a simple rebuild... of 130 packages from [extra]. That is too > many packages for any sane person and double the num

Re: [arch-general] portable player, usb plugging/mounting problems

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:58:28 -0300 "Guilherme M. Nogueira" wrote: . > I have a Sansa e200 portable media player and I'm having problems > mounting it. It used to work, but I can't recall when (I have been > listening to the same stuff for over 4 months now). > I'm using arch i686 with core, e

[arch-general] portable player, usb plugging/mounting problems

Hello dear Arch users, I have a Sansa e200 portable media player and I'm having problems mounting it. It used to work, but I can't recall when (I have been listening to the same stuff for over 4 months now). I'm using arch i686 with core, extra, community, kdemod-core and kdemod-extragear and upd

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Re: dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this! (possible Bug on Delete)

On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 14:48 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Huh??? Why wasn't nvidia_ecaejfdip9 deactivated. I have > deleted the partition > in cfdisk, tried to activate it (y) and deactivate it (n) and still it > is > there. Is this a bug? Or do I need to erase the metadata in some othe

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

On Monday 22 June 2009 11:06:37 am David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, Devs: > > > > I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. > > Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will disagree, but > personally I wouldn't suggest upgrading your entire box t

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

On Monday 22 June 2009 02:59:08 am Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > > > > Thanks Tobias and Allan, > > > >That is just what I needed to know! > > The whole point of using testing is.. you should have known that already. > :) Well my friend, when Tobias asked for assistance testing dmr

[arch-general] Fwd: Re: dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this! (possible Bug on Delete)

Heinz, I thought I would forward this one to you just in case there is a bug on the delete. It is probably just my limited understanding of dmraid, but I thought after I deleted the partition in cfdisk and then deactivated the device (nvidia_ecaejfdi) node nvidia_ecaejfdip9 should disa

Re: [arch-general] dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this! (possible Bug on Delete)

On Monday 22 June 2009 03:13:41 am Tobias Powalowski wrote: > I need to explain this a bit more: > > > Now i cfdisk this device, are the nodes updated then? > - I mean do i get the /dev/mapper/vidia_fffadgicp1 p2 p3 autimatically or > do I need to run dmraid -ay for every partition i created? > -

Re: [arch-general] okular print preview error

Just to bump this discussion -- I too am having this problem. /tmp is definitely not empty, and there is no DRM in this document (it was produced by me via pdflatex). Does anyone know what else might cause this? -- Thanks, Leonid Grinberg

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 12:06 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, Devs: > > > > I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. > > Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will disagree, but > personally I wouldn't suggest upgrading your entire bo

Re: [arch-general] deps not being properly recognized?

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Andrei Thorp wrote: > Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of Sat Jun 20 21:37:11 -0400 2009: >> Caleb Cushing wrote: >> > I can't figure out why pacman thinks that deps aren't being fulfilled. >> > >> > Targets (1): perl-datetime-0.50-1 >> > >> > :: perl-datetime-f

Re: [arch-general] Holy Cow -- What happened to bash / vi??

Excerpts from Aaron Griffin's message of Mon Jun 22 12:27:01 -0400 2009: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Daenyth Blank wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:47, Loui Chang wrote: > >> On Mon 22 Jun 2009 03:09 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > >>> I will downgrade vi. If that is what the future of

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] + help needed readline rebuilds

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Aaron Griffin wrote: >> There are LOTS of packages in extra and community that need rebuilds. >> The original output from Allan's script is as follows: >> abiword-plugins >> abook >> afterstep >> amule >> bc >> cdcd >> clisp >> ecasou

Re: [arch-general] Holy Cow -- What happened to bash / vi??

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:47, Loui Chang wrote: >> On Mon 22 Jun 2009 03:09 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> I will downgrade vi. If that is what the future of vi looks like, I >>> don't want any part of it. Changes that dramatic ought to be

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Devs: I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will disagree, but personally I wouldn't suggest upgrading your entire box to testing. If you only want to kick the tires on one package from tes

Re: [arch-general] dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this!

On Monday 22 June 2009 03:13:41 am Tobias Powalowski wrote: > I need to explain this a bit more: > > If you start with empty disks, eg. 2 disks > I put them together in bios of raid controller. > After booting install media, which runs dmraid -ay during boot process, i > get something like that: >

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

Excerpts from Loui Chang's message of Mo Jun 22 16:41:41 +0200 2009: > > Is there a way for him to try the new 'dmraid' without going the whole > > way and migrating to [testing]. This would also be useful for him > > (and me) to know. > > Pretty simple. Enable testing, install dmraid, disable te

Re: [arch-general] dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this!

On Monday 22 June 2009 03:16:15 am Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Just forgot one question, is /dev/sda also shown in /dev tree if dmraid is > used? > thanks > greetings > tpowa They are all there: [09:53 archangel:~] # l /dev/sd* brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-06-22 01:40 /dev/sda brw-rw 1 ro

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

On Mon 22 Jun 2009 14:12 +0100, Scot Becker wrote: > > Very true. You should keep up with development if you're going to be > > running [testing] and be prepared to struggle through any issues. > > Problems shouldn't come as a total surprise anyways. > > Sure. But 'struggling though any issues" d

Re: [arch-general] deps not being properly recognized?

Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of Sat Jun 20 21:37:11 -0400 2009: > Caleb Cushing wrote: > > I can't figure out why pacman thinks that deps aren't being fulfilled. > > > > Targets (1): perl-datetime-0.50-1 > > > > :: perl-datetime-format-strptime: requires perl-datetime>=0.4304 > > > > 50

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

> Very true. You should keep up with development if you're going to be > running [testing] and be prepared to struggle through any issues. > Problems shouldn't come as a total surprise anyways. Sure. But 'struggling though any issues" doesn't mean he has to do it without our help, no? I'm new her

Re: [arch-general] Holy Cow -- What happened to bash / vi??

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:02:43 -0400 Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:47, Loui Chang wrote: > > On Mon 22 Jun 2009 03:09 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > >> I will downgrade vi. If that is what the future of vi looks like, I > >> don't want any part of it. Changes that dramatic ough

Re: [arch-general] Holy Cow -- What happened to bash / vi??

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:47, Loui Chang wrote: > On Mon 22 Jun 2009 03:09 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: >> I will downgrade vi. If that is what the future of vi looks like, I >> don't want any part of it. Changes that dramatic ought to be forked. > > You were previously using vim named 'vi'. > Th

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

On Mon 22 Jun 2009 10:59 +0300, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > The whole point of using testing is.. you should have known that already. :) Very true. You should keep up with development if you're going to be running [testing] and be prepared to struggle through any issues. Problems shouldn't come as

Re: [arch-general] Holy Cow -- What happened to bash / vi??

On Mon 22 Jun 2009 03:09 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > I will downgrade vi. If that is what the future of vi looks like, I > don't want any part of it. Changes that dramatic ought to be forked. You were previously using vim named 'vi'. The new one is actually a fork of vi called nvi.

Re: [arch-general] dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this!

On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 10:16 +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Just forgot one question, is /dev/sda also shown in /dev tree if dmraid is > used? > thanks > greetings > tpowa That looks logical to me. dmraid is just RAID using the devicemapper/lvm subsystem. When I use LVM on a machine, I will get

Re: [arch-general] Presto for pacman?

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> Is there something similar to Yum Presto[1] for pacman? >> >> Would it be possible to do, or are there limitations in the package >> format that prevents it? >> >> /M >> >> [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features

Re: [arch-general] dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this!

Just forgot one question, is /dev/sda also shown in /dev tree if dmraid is used? thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this!

I need to explain this a bit more: If you start with empty disks, eg. 2 disks I put them together in bios of raid controller. After booting install media, which runs dmraid -ay during boot process, i get something like that: /dev/mapper/nvidia_fffadgic because no partitions are there. Now i cfdi

Re: [arch-general] Holy Cow -- What happened to bash / vi??

On Monday 22 June 2009 12:42:18 am Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:26 AM, David C. Rankin < > > drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > > Listmates, > > > >I updated to [testing] and now I am having strange behavior from > > ... > > Any p

Re: [arch-general] Presto for pacman?

Magnus Therning wrote: Is there something similar to Yum Presto[1] for pacman? Would it be possible to do, or are there limitations in the package format that prevents it? /M [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Presto This is already implemented in the unreleased pacman codebase.

[arch-general] Presto for pacman?

Is there something similar to Yum Presto[1] for pacman? Would it be possible to do, or are there limitations in the package format that prevents it? /M [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Presto -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2009 02:36:26 am Allan McRae wrote: >> David C. Rankin wrote: >> > Listmates, Devs: >> > >> >     I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. As part of the upgrade, >> > vi >> > was changed in a BIG way. (I could hardl

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

On Monday 22 June 2009 02:36:26 am Allan McRae wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, Devs: > > > > I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. As part of the upgrade, vi > > was changed in a BIG way. (I could hardly use the thing and I have been > > using it for 20 years) The screen

Re: [arch-general] dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this!

On Monday 22 June 2009 02:14:15 am Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > So I guess I will have to edit all the scripts to put an extra 'p' in > > them as well. (Really kind of a pain, but if this new scheme is going to > > be the standard, I can do it, ...but if this is just a 'proposed' change, > > th

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Devs: I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. As part of the upgrade, vi was changed in a BIG way. (I could hardly use the thing and I have been using it for 20 years) The screen flashes when you double-escape, in insert mode if you move to colum 1 thi

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

Am Montag 22 Juni 2009 schrieb David C. Rankin: > Listmates, Devs: > > I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. As part of the upgrade, vi > was changed in a BIG way. (I could hardly use the thing and I have been > using it for 20 years) The screen flashes when you double-escape, in inse

[arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

Listmates, Devs: I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. As part of the upgrade, vi was changed in a BIG way. (I could hardly use the thing and I have been using it for 20 years) The screen flashes when you double-escape, in insert mode if you move to colum 1 things go nuts, inse

Re: [arch-general] dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this!

> So I guess I will have to edit all the scripts to put an extra 'p' in > them > as well. (Really kind of a pain, but if this new scheme is going to be the > standard, I can do it, ...but if this is just a 'proposed' change, then I > would rather not. > > So is this Official? If so I d