Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [announcement] qemu/qemu-kvm announcement draft

2010-01-11 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Dienstag 12 Januar 2010 schrieb Alexander Duscheleit: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:07:19 +0100 > > Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > Am Sonntag 10 Januar 2010 schrieb Simon Boulay: > > > On 01/10/2010 09:48 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > > > Am Samstag 09 Januar 2010 schrieb Simon Boulay: > > > >> On

Re: [arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 11 Jan 2010 21:33 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > re-read the old stuff over and over again. Nothing annoys me more > than haveing to page through five generations of past messages in a > single thread to get all the way to the bottom just to have a single > line of text say something like "Th

Re: [arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-11 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 21:33 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > If bottom-posting is so passionately desirable, then may I suggest > people trim down the history of a thread to the most recent 1 or 2 > generations back. Or maybe even better, just reply with no quoting > and and briefly summarize the quo

[arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Holmes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I've been seeing some very passionate pleeds in posts lately concerning top-posting of replies. I, for one, don't really mind seeing top-posted e-mails like that because I can see the reply quickly and if the thread is current in my mind, I don't

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Holmes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I'm fairly new to the Arch Linux scene so am still learning a lot about package building and maintenance. Left over from my Slackware days gone by, Iknow well the importance of the rc.d scripts and how they work. For local stuff, there's rc.loca

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 11.01.2010 19:38, schrieb Aaron Griffin: >> If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in >> /etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be >> modified. Users are more than welcome to do what we don't intend

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [announcement] qemu/qemu-kvm announcement draft

2010-01-11 Thread Alexander Duscheleit
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:07:19 +0100 Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Sonntag 10 Januar 2010 schrieb Simon Boulay: > > On 01/10/2010 09:48 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > > Am Samstag 09 Januar 2010 schrieb Simon Boulay: > > >> On 01/09/2010 09:09 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > >>> Am Samstag 09 Ja

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] rp-pppoe-3.10-2

2010-01-11 Thread Alexander Duscheleit
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:49:50 +0100 Daniel Isenmann wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:20:32 +0100 > Daniel Isenmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > this is just a small fix for FS#13876 -[rp-pppoe] package: .so file > > in /etc (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13876). > > The kernel-mode plugin is now un

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.01.2010 19:38, schrieb Aaron Griffin: > If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in > /etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be > modified. Users are more than welcome to do what we don't intend, but > you need to control whether of not pacman mucks with

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

2010-01-11 Thread Baho Utot
On Monday 11 January 2010 13:36:06 Carlos Williams wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > > I always wait cat /proc/mdstat until the raid is finished, even though it > > says you don't have to, I don't want any trouble :) > > I see your point but when you have 2x 1 TB drive

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD for extra/cegui

2010-01-11 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 09:40:46AM -0500, Eric Bélanger wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense >> wrote: >> > Hi all! >> > >> > I've posted on forum (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88509) >>

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 11 Jan 2010 13:54 -0500, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 13:38, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in > > /etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be > > modified. Users are more than welcome to do what we don

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 13:38, Aaron Griffin wrote: > If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in > /etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be > modified. Users are more than welcome to do what we don't intend, but > you need to control whether of not pacman mu

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Jim Pryor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:36:55AM -0500, Eric Bélanger wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Paul Mattal wrote: >> > On 01/06/2010 01:09 AM, Paul Mattal wrote: >> > I've just placed dcron 4.2 into [testing]. This is a major update to dcro

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

2010-01-11 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > I always wait cat /proc/mdstat until the raid is finished, even though it says > you don't have to, I don't want any trouble :) I see your point but when you have 2x 1 TB drives, you're in for a wait. >> #mdadm -D --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf > >

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD for extra/cegui

2010-01-11 Thread Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 09:40:46AM -0500, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense > wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I've posted on forum (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88509) > > that the package extra/cegui was out of date and then was instructed >

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

2010-01-11 Thread Baho Utot
On Monday 11 January 2010 12:52:57 pm Carlos Williams wrote: > OK - I am once again attempting to use Arch install for 2010 on my > system which has two identical hard drives and I simply want to mirror > both drives in a RAID1 array. I have read the Wiki so much at this > point it has become memor

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Jim Pryor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:36:55AM -0500, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Paul Mattal wrote: > > On 01/06/2010 01:09 AM, Paul Mattal wrote: > > I've just placed dcron 4.2 into [testing]. This is a major update to dcron, > > under a new maintainer (who is an Arch user, and v

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

2010-01-11 Thread Jim Pryor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:52:57PM -0500, Carlos Williams wrote: > Here is my error: > > ::Running Hook [mdadm] > Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/md0 > > Root device '/dev/md0' doesn't exist, attempting to create it > ERROR: Failed to parse block device for ids for /dev/md0 > ERROR: Unable to

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

2010-01-11 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: > OK - I am once again attempting to use Arch install for 2010 on my > system which has two identical hard drives and I simply want to mirror > both drives in a RAID1 array. I have read the Wiki so much at this > point it has become memorize

[arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

2010-01-11 Thread Carlos Williams
OK - I am once again attempting to use Arch install for 2010 on my system which has two identical hard drives and I simply want to mirror both drives in a RAID1 array. I have read the Wiki so much at this point it has become memorized. I am NOT using LVM or anything, just a Arch user who wants RAID

Re: [arch-general] building x86_64 packages under qemu?

2010-01-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.01.2010 17:48, schrieb Chris Brannon: > Is there any reason why building x86_64 packages under > qemu-system-x86_64 would be a bad idea? It is a little slow, but it is > usable. Plus, qemu has a curses interface. It is not a little slow, but painfully slow (remember: the compiler runs in a

Re: [arch-general] building x86_64 packages under qemu?

2010-01-11 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Montag 11 Januar 2010 schrieb Chris Brannon: > Is there any reason why building x86_64 packages under > qemu-system-x86_64 would be a bad idea? It is a little slow, but it is > usable. Plus, qemu has a curses interface. > > -- Chris > why not using a chroot for this? ok this only works if y

[arch-general] building x86_64 packages under qemu?

2010-01-11 Thread Chris Brannon
Is there any reason why building x86_64 packages under qemu-system-x86_64 would be a bad idea? It is a little slow, but it is usable. Plus, qemu has a curses interface. -- Chris

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD for extra/cegui

2010-01-11 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense wrote: > Hi all! > > I've posted on forum (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88509) > that the package extra/cegui was out of date and then was instructed > by Allan to post the modified PKGBUILD on the mailing list. > > Basically,