[arch-general] rsync for mirroring

2009-10-02 Thread Piyush P Kurur
Hi, I am part of a group of people who run a mirror for some GNU/Linux distros. I have a question regarding how rsync works. The question is prompted by the frequent overloading of rsync mirrors. If I am not mistaken the overall idea behind rsync is the following (I am assuming that dest wants

Re: [arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-02 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 02 Oct 2009 15:07 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Biru Ionut wrote: > > On 10/02/2009 11:04 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> > >> Aaron Griffin schrieb: > >>> > >>> Looks like it was just a timing thing. The DB is only updated every > >>> hour. I ran the script m

[arch-general] vim upgrade problem

2009-10-02 Thread Samuel Baldwin
For some reason, vim will only load one external colour file, the rest it does nothing for. So, I tried to upgrade, but when I try to, I get this: arrakis^samtal# pacman -S vim resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): vim-7.2.245-1 Total Download Size:0.00 MB Tot

Re: [arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Biru Ionut wrote: > On 10/02/2009 11:04 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> >> Aaron Griffin schrieb: >>> >>> Looks like it was just a timing thing. The DB is only updated every >>> hour. I ran the script manually and it succeeded. >> >> And the packages are only synced fr

Re: [arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Aaron Griffin schrieb: >> >> Looks like it was just a timing thing. The DB is only updated every >> hour. I ran the script manually and it succeeded. > > And the packages are only synced from sigurd to gerolde every hour, half an > hour or so

Re: [arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-02 Thread Biru Ionut
On 10/02/2009 11:04 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Aaron Griffin schrieb: Looks like it was just a timing thing. The DB is only updated every hour. I ran the script manually and it succeeded. And the packages are only synced from sigurd to gerolde every hour, half an hour or so. So it might take a

Re: [arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Aaron Griffin schrieb: Looks like it was just a timing thing. The DB is only updated every hour. I ran the script manually and it succeeded. And the packages are only synced from sigurd to gerolde every hour, half an hour or so. So it might take a while until they show. signature.asc Descr

Re: [arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Loui Chang wrote: >> I've updated mhwaveedit to version 1.4.16. >> The package is in SVN and ftp but archweb doesn't want to update its >> info. >> >> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/mhwaveedit

Re: [arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > I've updated mhwaveedit to version 1.4.16. > The package is in SVN and ftp but archweb doesn't want to update its > info. > > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/mhwaveedit/ > > Anyone have an idea what the cause might be? Is it jus

Re: [arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-02 Thread Biru Ionut
On 10/02/2009 10:33 PM, Loui Chang wrote: I've updated mhwaveedit to version 1.4.16. The package is in SVN and ftp but archweb doesn't want to update its info. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/mhwaveedit/ Anyone have an idea what the cause might be? Thanks. did you run db-com

[arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-02 Thread Loui Chang
I've updated mhwaveedit to version 1.4.16. The package is in SVN and ftp but archweb doesn't want to update its info. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/mhwaveedit/ Anyone have an idea what the cause might be? Thanks.

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...

2009-10-02 Thread Andrea Scarpino
2009/10/2 Aaron Griffin : > You can do this, FYI, you don't need special permissions to remove > files from /srv/ftp. > > Just be careful :) Ok, fixed. -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...

2009-10-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > 2009/10/2 Aaron Griffin : >> I cleaned them up manually, and everything should fix itself, I believe >> > Please Aaron remove thunderbird -4 packages too, I uploaded > thunberbird-i18n without uppercase in pkgnames You can do this, FYI, you

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...

2009-10-02 Thread Andrea Scarpino
2009/10/2 Aaron Griffin : > I cleaned them up manually, and everything should fix itself, I believe > Please Aaron remove thunderbird -4 packages too, I uploaded thunberbird-i18n without uppercase in pkgnames -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...

2009-10-02 Thread Firmicus
Pierre Schmitz a écrit : > Am Freitag 02 Oktober 2009 19:21:54 schrieb Aaron Griffin: > >> I believe >> > > +1 for a "use only lower case in pkgname" policy > > This policy has always been there, no? Besides: 1. This is something that "namcap PKGBUILD" would have picked up. 2. In vim

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Freitag 02 Oktober 2009 16:51:55 schrieb Roman Kyrylych: > Safe Mode (which includes open_basedir) is deprecated in PHP 5.3, and > will be removed in 6.0.0. No, safe_mode and open_basedir are different features and only safe_mode is deprecated. The usage of open_basedir is recommend. -- Pie

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...

2009-10-02 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Freitag 02 Oktober 2009 19:21:54 schrieb Aaron Griffin: > I believe +1 for a "use only lower case in pkgname" policy -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...

2009-10-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: >> 2009/10/2 Aaron Griffin : >>> Yeah and I get error emails every time someone visits that page, so >>> thanks for the spam :) >>> >>> Let me know which ones are the keepers and I'll d

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...

2009-10-02 Thread Andrea Scarpino
2009/10/2 Aaron Griffin : > Yeah, I think this is a goof in the backend scripts somewhere. Looks > like all the capitalized versions are -2 and the lowercase are -3, > correct? Yes, I read only lowercase in PKGBUILD -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...

2009-10-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > 2009/10/2 Aaron Griffin : >> Yeah and I get error emails every time someone visits that page, so >> thanks for the spam :) >> >> Let me know which ones are the keepers and I'll delete the others from >> the DB so I stop getting mails > I to

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...

2009-10-02 Thread Andrea Scarpino
2009/10/2 Aaron Griffin : > Yeah and I get error emails every time someone visits that page, so > thanks for the spam :) > > Let me know which ones are the keepers and I'll delete the others from > the DB so I stop getting mails I touched nothing on thunderbird-spell -2 and -3! I swear! I think -2

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...

2009-10-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Stefan Husmann wrote: > Andrea Scarpino schrieb: >> >> On 02/10/2009, Thomas Bächler wrote: >>> >>> See: >>> >>> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-commits/2009-October/062928.html >>> >>> Giovanni, I hate to have to point fingers here, but before making

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...

2009-10-02 Thread Stefan Husmann
Andrea Scarpino schrieb: On 02/10/2009, Thomas Bächler wrote: See: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-commits/2009-October/062928.html Giovanni, I hate to have to point fingers here, but before making such a change to somebody else's package, it should be discussed here. Now we have s

Re: [arch-general] TeXLive problems

2009-10-02 Thread Firmicus
Juan Diego a écrit : > I have the same problem here > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Firmicus wrote: > >> Piyush P Kurur a écrit : >> >>> I am having problems with the texlive package. I tried to install >>> the package texlive-most and here is the error that pacman throws >>> >>> /usr/

Re: [arch-general] TeXLive problems

2009-10-02 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
It should be solved... Maybe your mirror is not yet sync? 2009/10/2 Juan Diego > I have the same problem here > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Firmicus wrote: > > Piyush P Kurur a écrit : > >> I am having problems with the texlive package. I tried to install > >> the package texlive-most and

Re: [arch-general] TeXLive problems

2009-10-02 Thread Juan Diego
I have the same problem here On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Firmicus wrote: > Piyush P Kurur a écrit : >> I am having problems with the texlive package. I tried to install >> the package texlive-most and here is the error that pacman throws >> >> /usr/share/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/amsrefs/amsj.bib

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Roman Kyrylych
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 13:23, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Sergej Pupykin schrieb: >> >>  >> Patching them is overkill, it would be an example of the unnecessary >> patching we do not want in >>  >> Arch. I would keep them self-contained, no matter which solution will >> be used in the end. I >>  >> wo

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2009/10/2 Sergej Pupykin : > I put new phpmyadmin into community-testing > > To use it you should: > - add FollowSymlinks options > - append directories to php.ini >       open_basedir = /usr/share/webapps/:/etc/webapps > - change web-alias to /usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin > > What do you think abo

Re: [arch-general] ERROR - Installing texlive: map file `ams-bsr-interpolated.map' has not been found

2009-10-02 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Thanx a lot Firmicus for your work ;) 2009/10/2 Firmicus > Nicolas Bigaouette a écrit : > > See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16420 and > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16422 > > > > Both fixed. > F > > > 2009/10/1 Firmicus > > > > > >> A Rojas a écrit : > >> > >>> David C. Rankin wrote: > >

Re: [arch-general] TeXLive problems

2009-10-02 Thread Firmicus
Piyush P Kurur a écrit : > I am having problems with the texlive package. I tried to install > the package texlive-most and here is the error that pacman throws > > /usr/share/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/amsrefs/amsj.bib exists in both > 'texlive-core' and 'texlive-bibtexextra' > /usr/share/texmf-dist/b

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Sergej Pupykin
>> Ugh, I forgot the open_basedir problem. I'll look at what you did and will comment on it later. >>Generally I don't like having FollowSymlinks enabled. open_basedir can be adjusted one time if we use common dirs for all webapps (/etc/webapps and /usr/share/webapps) I think symlink is the sin

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sergej Pupykin schrieb: I put new phpmyadmin into community-testing To use it you should: - add FollowSymlinks options - append directories to php.ini open_basedir = /usr/share/webapps/:/etc/webapps - change web-alias to /usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin What do you think about this solution

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 02 Oct 2009 12:23 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Sergej Pupykin schrieb: > > >> Patching them is overkill, it would be an example of the > >unnecessary patching we do not want in > > >> Arch. I would keep them self-contained, no matter which > >solution will be used in the end. I > > >> woul

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Sergej Pupykin
I put new phpmyadmin into community-testing To use it you should: - add FollowSymlinks options - append directories to php.ini open_basedir = /usr/share/webapps/:/etc/webapps - change web-alias to /usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin What do you think about this solution? (I hope all webapps ca

Re: [arch-general] TeXLive problems

2009-10-02 Thread Xavier
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Piyush P Kurur wrote: > I am having problems with the texlive package. I tried to install > the package texlive-most and here is the error that pacman throws > > /usr/share/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/amsrefs/amsj.bib exists in both > 'texlive-core' and 'texlive-bibtexex

[arch-general] TeXLive problems

2009-10-02 Thread Piyush P Kurur
I am having problems with the texlive package. I tried to install the package texlive-most and here is the error that pacman throws /usr/share/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/amsrefs/amsj.bib exists in both 'texlive-core' and 'texlive-bibtexextra' /usr/share/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/amsrefs/amsra.bst exists i

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sergej Pupykin schrieb: >> Patching them is overkill, it would be an example of the unnecessary patching we do not want in >> Arch. I would keep them self-contained, no matter which solution will be used in the end. I >> wouldn't even have such a big problem with having configuration in >>

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Sergej Pupykin
>> Patching them is overkill, it would be an example of the unnecessary patching we do not want in >> Arch. I would keep them self-contained, no matter which solution will be used in the end. I >> wouldn't even have such a big problem with having configuration in >> /usr/share/www/phpmyadmin/con

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Firmicus
Sergej Pupykin a écrit : > >> I would say, use /usr/share/www/ (or similar) for static/php files, > and provide proper configuration > >> files that set the correct Alias and Directory directives for > popular servers like apache and > >> lighttpd. Users can then use Include directives (in case o

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sergej Pupykin schrieb: >> I would say, use /usr/share/www/ (or similar) for static/php files, and provide proper configuration >> files that set the correct Alias and Directory directives for popular servers like apache and >> lighttpd. Users can then use Include directives (in case of apa

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Sergej Pupykin
>> I would say, use /usr/share/www/ (or similar) for static/php files, and provide proper configuration >> files that set the correct Alias and Directory directives for popular servers like apache and >> lighttpd. Users can then use Include directives (in case of apache) to load those confighu

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sergej Pupykin schrieb: I do not want to split packages into /etc, /usr/share and /var folders with kludge symlinking. Would it be good if I replace /srv/http with /var/www/ or something like this? I would say, use /usr/share/www/ (or similar) for static/php files, and provide proper config

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:58:19 +0200 Firmicus wrote: > Roman Kyrylych a écrit : > > Yes, packaging a webapp is nice for automatic upgrading with pacman, > > but users can have multiple web servers with multiple vhosts > > in /srv, so often installing something there won't make it working > > anyway

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Firmicus
Roman Kyrylych a écrit : > 2009/10/2 Sergej Pupykin : > >> Hi, >> >> I want to discuss using /srv directory in packages >> >> (For reference: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16410) >> >> Of course I can easy sed and rebuild all my web packages, but I want to know >> reason why we disable /srv in

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Sergej Pupykin
At Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:10:56 +0200, RedShift wrote: > If packages start putting stuff in /srv as well, where are we > supposed to put OUR data? You don't want to put your data where > packages put data as well. Why not? If you download for example dokuwiki you put your pages into ./data director

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Sergej Pupykin
At Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:47:24 +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > IMO web apps should not even be packed as packages. > It's easy to download sources from an official site and install > in whatever user's webserver directory is. > Yes, packaging a webapp is nice for automatic upgrading with pacman, > but

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:47:24 +0300 Roman Kyrylych wrote: > 2009/10/2 Sergej Pupykin : > > Hi, > > > > I want to discuss using /srv directory in packages > > > > (For reference: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16410) > > > > Of course I can easy sed and rebuild all my web packages, but I > > want to

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread RedShift
Sergej Pupykin wrote: Hi, I want to discuss using /srv directory in packages (For reference: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16410) Of course I can easy sed and rebuild all my web packages, but I want to know reason why we disable /srv in packages? (Did I skip something?) **cut** >> /srv a

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2009/10/2 Sergej Pupykin : > Hi, > > I want to discuss using /srv directory in packages > > (For reference: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16410) > > Of course I can easy sed and rebuild all my web packages, but I want to know > reason why we disable /srv in packages? IMO web apps should not even