Re: [arch-general] Making pacman check multiple repos

2009-12-11 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 02:13 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:58:17 +0800 > schrieb Ng Oon-Ee : > > > Because sometimes all the mirrors listed in mirrorlist will not have > > the file, if its just been uploaded. Also not everyone stays > > up-to-the-minute with updates, judging by

Re: [arch-general] Making pacman check multiple repos

2009-12-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:58:17 +0800 schrieb Ng Oon-Ee : > Because sometimes all the mirrors listed in mirrorlist will not have > the file, if its just been uploaded. Also not everyone stays > up-to-the-minute with updates, judging by the "updated after a month" > posts we see once in a while. > >

Re: [arch-general] Making pacman check multiple repos

2009-12-11 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:35 +0100, Xavier wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > While I'm not as concerned about security as some (most) here, I do > > think "db files from one site and packages from another" is a good idea. > > (some) Mirrors will be slow, however, and t

Re: [arch-general] makechrootpkg and long union unmount time

2009-12-11 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 12/12/2009 01:01 πμ, Ionut Biru wrote: On 12/12/2009 12:55 AM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: Hello, When I'm building a package using makechrootpkg and the build fails or I happen to interrupt it, sometimes it gets stuck at the "cleaning up unioned mounts" stage for a very long time (from several

Re: [arch-general] Making pacman check multiple repos

2009-12-11 Thread Xavier
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > While I'm not as concerned about security as some (most) here, I do > think "db files from one site and packages from another" is a good idea. > (some) Mirrors will be slow, however, and there will be additional > complexity since the db would p

Re: [arch-general] Making pacman check multiple repos

2009-12-11 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:54 +0200, Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote: > Aaron Griffin (2009-12-11 15:38): > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Brendan Long wrote: > > > For a little while I've been confused because pacman -Syu always said > > > that everything was up to date (for a week or more). I talked

Re: [arch-general] makechrootpkg and long union unmount time

2009-12-11 Thread Ionut Biru
On 12/12/2009 12:55 AM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: Hello, When I'm building a package using makechrootpkg and the build fails or I happen to interrupt it, sometimes it gets stuck at the "cleaning up unioned mounts" stage for a very long time (from several seconds up to a few minutes). During this

[arch-general] makechrootpkg and long union unmount time

2009-12-11 Thread Evangelos Foutras
Hello, When I'm building a package using makechrootpkg and the build fails or I happen to interrupt it, sometimes it gets stuck at the "cleaning up unioned mounts" stage for a very long time (from several seconds up to a few minutes). During this time, the disk shows intense activity. Does t

Re: [arch-general] Making pacman check multiple repos

2009-12-11 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Aaron Griffin (2009-12-11 15:38): > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Brendan Long wrote: > > For a little while I've been confused because pacman -Syu always said > > that everything was up to date (for a week or more). I talked to a > > friend at school and he had the same thing happening and I r

Re: [arch-general] Making pacman check multiple repos

2009-12-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Brendan Long wrote: > For a little while I've been confused because pacman -Syu always said > that everything was up to date (for a week or more). I talked to a > friend at school and he had the same thing happening and I realized > something might be wrong and com

[arch-general] Making pacman check multiple repos

2009-12-11 Thread Brendan Long
For a little while I've been confused because pacman -Syu always said that everything was up to date (for a week or more). I talked to a friend at school and he had the same thing happening and I realized something might be wrong and commented out mirrors one at a time until I found one with update

Re: [arch-general] Away from my PC -> away from bugtracker.

2009-12-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Hello all > > I will be away from now for about two or more weeks. I recently surfered > an small irritation on my eyss, so I can not stay on my PC :( Leaving > the bugtracker in their hands,  I hope to be with you again soon. Good

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 16:02 +0100, Xavier wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Hussam Al-Tayeb > wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:45 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > >> Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > >> > The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as > >> follows. > >> > >> > >> I thi

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread Xavier
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:45 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: >> > The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as >> follows. >> >> >> I think some of this would be solved if/when we implement this: >> http:

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread Allan McRae
vlad wrote: Hi, On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 02:54:30PM +0200, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:45 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as follows. I think some of this would be solved if/when we implement this:

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread vlad
Hi, On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 02:54:30PM +0200, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:45 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > > > The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as > > follows. > > > > > > I think some of this would be solved if/when we imple

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:45 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > > The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as > follows. > > > I think some of this would be solved if/when we implement this: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_OptDepends Than

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread Allan McRae
Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as follows. I think some of this would be solved if/when we implement this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_OptDepends

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:29 +1100, James Rayner wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:40 +0200, "Hussam Al-Tayeb" > > wrote: > > The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as > follows. > > Let's say a package called package1 installs some extra binaries or > > plugins. Those extra not so

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Packaging Chromium for [extra]

2009-12-11 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > OK, just uploaded -2 to testing; let me know, if it does work or not. Now it is working with youtube. A local site with flash videos continues to work. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? --

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
James Rayner schrieb: How about instead those extra binary files or plugins are split into another package called package1-plugins and have libsomething as plain dependency? Then on package1 installation, pacman should say something like: Recommended packages: package1-plugins for blah blah funct

Re: [arch-general] Away from my PC -> away from bugtracker.

2009-12-11 Thread Ionut Biru
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Hello all > > I will be away from now for about two or more weeks. I recently surfered > an small irritation on my eyss, so I can not stay on my PC :( Leaving > the bugtracker in their hands,  I hope to be with you again soon. > > Be

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:29:03 +1100 "James Rayner" wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:40 +0200, "Hussam Al-Tayeb" > wrote: > > The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as > > follows. Let's say a package called package1 installs some extra > > binaries or plugins. Those extra not so

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:40 +0200, "Hussam Al-Tayeb" wrote: > The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as follows. > Let's say a package called package1 installs some extra binaries or > plugins. Those extra not so used binaries or plugins have extra > dependencies (let's call them

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-11 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Freitag 11 Dezember 2009 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > Am Montag 07 Dezember 2009 schrieb Tom: > > So, any news on this? > > I 'fixed' it by removing radeon from initramfs, but as has been pointed > > out, thats not really a solution!? > Please get files from bugreport http://bugs.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-11 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Montag 07 Dezember 2009 schrieb Tom: > So, any news on this? > I 'fixed' it by removing radeon from initramfs, but as has been pointed > out, thats not really a solution!? > HI guys, This kms firmware issue revealed a bug in initcpio and firmware handling. Would you mind to test a fix for the

[arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as follows. Let's say a package called package1 installs some extra binaries or plugins. Those extra not so used binaries or plugins have extra dependencies (let's call them libsomething) marked as optdepends. so on installation pacman will

Re: [arch-general] kde4/kmail slow - anybody else notice or is it just me?

2009-12-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/09/2009 01:14 AM, Fabian Schölzel wrote: 2009/12/8 David C. Rankin: Specifically I see a slowdown when I access a mail folder containing>2000 messages or so. Each time I leave and return to a folder (my arch folder for example) kmail reloads and re-sorts the entire folder taking some 20+ s

Re: [arch-general] kde4/kmail slow - anybody else notice or is it just me?

2009-12-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/08/2009 08:00 PM, Atanas Zhelev wrote: 2009/12/8 David C. Rankin: On Tuesday 08 December 2009 01:55:36 and regarding: Am Dienstag 08 Dezember 2009 08:41:15 schrieb David C. Rankin: Anybody else seeing a slow down in kmail? Hi, i have 11000+ messages in my POP3 account and don't see

Re: [arch-general] go-openoffice not opening templates - anybody else?

2009-12-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/10/2009 06:00 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: 2009/12/10 Ng Oon-Ee: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 04:13 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I had to uninstall go-openoffice today and install the regular (beta) version so my templates would open again. When I would try and open them in go-oo,