[arch-general] Building netboot images

2010-03-07 Thread Piyush P Kurur
Hi, I would like to create a (custom) netboot install image of archlinux to facilitate installation within our department. I have few queries regarding the corresponding mkinitcpio.conf. 1. How do I use custom hooks together with standard hooks *without* installing them in /lib/initcp

Re: [arch-general] Something is seriously wrong with FlashPlugin; makes chrome & firefox crash like crazy

2010-03-07 Thread Robert Howard
Same problem here. Running dual E5410 Xeons; Firefox crashes and will not restart. On Mar 7, 2010 9:59 PM, "Shridhar Daithankar" wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 20:54:24 Gaurish Sharma wrote: > Hi, > My CPU is Intel E5300.AKAIK, lahf onl... I am running a E7400 with flashplugin 10.0.45.2-1. No is

Re: [arch-general] Something is seriously wrong with FlashPlugin; makes chrome & firefox crash like crazy

2010-03-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 07 March 2010 20:54:24 Gaurish Sharma wrote: > Hi, > My CPU is Intel E5300.AKAIK, lahf only applies to AMD athlon 64 line of > chips. Plus, flash earlier used to work but this crashing has started > about 2-3weeks back. > > anyone else having similar issues> I am running a E7400 with fl

Re: [arch-general] New xorg-server package braks fluxbox?

2010-03-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 3/7/10, Thaddeus Nielsen wrote: > Javier Vasquez [j.e.vasque...@gmail.com] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Today's pacman -Syu installed new xorg-server package: >> >> % pacman -Qs xorg-server >> local/xorg-server 1.7.5.901-1 (xorg) >> X.Org X servers >> >> I have xorg.conf configured without hal suppo

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > The only way for this to actually happen would be for someone to set up a > git repo with a handful of packages and demonstrate that it works better > with the usual packaging workflow.  That is what was done with SVN and why > it was chosen wh

Re: [arch-general] New xorg-server package braks fluxbox?

2010-03-07 Thread Thaddeus Nielsen
Javier Vasquez [j.e.vasque...@gmail.com] wrote: > Hi, > > Today's pacman -Syu installed new xorg-server package: > > % pacman -Qs xorg-server > local/xorg-server 1.7.5.901-1 (xorg) > X.Org X servers > > I have xorg.conf configured without hal support: > > Section "ServerFlags" > Opt

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Allan McRae
The only way for this to actually happen would be for someone to set up a git repo with a handful of packages and demonstrate that it works better with the usual packaging workflow. That is what was done with SVN and why it was chosen when we switched from CVS. Allan

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 07/03/10 21:34, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:24:42PM +0100, Xavier Chantry wrote: [...] And in 95% of the cases, I do not need any history, I just need the last version to read/edit/rebuild. Yes, with git you get the full history. I've still not grokked why that

Re: [arch-general] New xorg-server package braks fluxbox?

2010-03-07 Thread Thaddeus Nielsen
Javier Adrián Ortiz de la Tabla [adriandelata...@gmail.com] wrote: > >> And with the new xorg-server the behavior I'm seing is that if I try > >> to maximize/minimize a window, fluxbox freezes, but if I do top, I > >> don't see any process eating resources, neither memory, neither cpu... > >> > >>

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread fons
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:24:42PM +0100, Xavier Chantry wrote: > I have grepped the full abs tree many times for various reasons. It is > very practical. No question about that, but it would still be possible to download everything. When you do a netinstall pacman gets a few hundred packages ind

Re: [arch-general] New xorg-server package braks fluxbox?

2010-03-07 Thread Javier Adrián Ortiz de la Tabla
>> And with the new xorg-server the behavior I'm seing is that if I try >> to maximize/minimize a window, fluxbox freezes, but if I do top, I >> don't see any process eating resources, neither memory, neither cpu... >> >> Another weird behavior, is that fluxbox keys are dead.  I configured >> for e

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:14 PM, wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 02:49:01PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> The only viable solution I could think of is using one git repository >> per package - and that is just crazy. > > I wonder, is it really that crazy ? > > I've been looking into git as a

Re: [arch-general] New xorg-server package braks fluxbox?

2010-03-07 Thread Thaddeus
Javier Vasquez [j.e.vasque...@gmail.com] wrote: > Hi, > > Today's pacman -Syu installed new xorg-server package: > > % pacman -Qs xorg-server > local/xorg-server 1.7.5.901-1 (xorg) > X.Org X servers > > I have xorg.conf configured without hal support: > > Section "ServerFlags" > Opt

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread fons
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 02:49:01PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > The only viable solution I could think of is using one git repository > per package - and that is just crazy. I wonder, is it really that crazy ? I've been looking into git as a replacement for my own use. One repo per project see

[arch-general] New xorg-server package braks fluxbox?

2010-03-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, Today's pacman -Syu installed new xorg-server package: % pacman -Qs xorg-server local/xorg-server 1.7.5.901-1 (xorg) X.Org X servers I have xorg.conf configured without hal support: Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices""False" Option "AllowEmptyInput"

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:51:30 +0100 > Stefan Husmann wrote: > >> > 4) users can check out older versions of packages easily, with >> > limited storage overhead. >> Do you want to store binary packages in the git repo? Maybe I >> misundersta

Re: [arch-general] A good twitter client

2010-03-07 Thread Gaurish Sharma
On Sunday 07 Mar 2010 7:45:31 am Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone know a good twitter client for KDE apart from Firefox's > echofon, Chromed Bird (I don't use GChrome), and KDE μblog ? > Twitgin sucks if you have to many tweets from people you're following and > that's my case. Here i

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:51:30 +0100 Stefan Husmann wrote: > > 4) users can check out older versions of packages easily, with > > limited storage overhead. > Do you want to store binary packages in the git repo? Maybe I > misunderstand you. Checking out older PKGBUILDs would be doable in > svn als

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Stefan Husmann
Am 07.03.2010 12:03, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: Couldn't find any discussion about this, but what about we maintain our packages in git instead of svn? pros: 1) git is awesome That is a personal opinion, not an argument. 2) we don't need abs/rsync anymore. users can just read from git. Users

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Muhammed Uluyol
> The only viable solution I could think of is using one git repository > per package - and that is just crazy. > With submodules it wouldn't be that bad.

Re: [arch-general] Something is seriously wrong with FlashPlugin; makes chrome & firefox crash like crazy

2010-03-07 Thread Muhammed Uluyol
If the lahf fix doesn't work, you could try nspluginwrapper

Re: [arch-general] Something is seriously wrong with FlashPlugin; makes chrome & firefox crash like crazy

2010-03-07 Thread Arvid Picciani
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:09:24 +0530, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu". If you care about flash enough to not just uninstall it, try a 32bit chroot. There should be plenty stuff on google from the time they didnt have a 64bit version.

Re: [arch-general] Amavisd-new Only in AUR?

2010-03-07 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Snarkout wrote: > There are many options besides amavisd - mimedefang comes immediately to > mind.  If you're using postfix or sendmail, google milter. Yes. I have only ever used Postfix for MTA. I will check out 'milter'.

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:49:22 +0800 Ray Rashif wrote: > It will work, no doubt. But the problem is this: > > svn co $url --depth empty # nothing > cd $dir > svn up $pkg > > ..against this: > > git clone $url # everything > cd $dir > git config core.sparsecheckout true > echo $pkg > .git/info/spa

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Florian Pritz
On 07.03.2010 17:49, Ray Rashif wrote: > And also I think the main thing here is > git will work backwards, and as such, will pull in the whole repo: > > "DO NOT CHECK OUT THE ENTIRE SVN REPO." http://learn.github.com/p/intro.html#small_vs_svn Maybe someone (dev?) could clone the entire svn repo

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Ray Rashif
On 07/03/2010, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:49:01 +0100 > Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> 1) We want to be able to see which PKGBUILD matches the package in the >> repository. In SVN, we use copy - which is subversion's equivalent to >> branching: By copying, you create a reference

Re: [arch-general] A good twitter client

2010-03-07 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
2010/3/7 Shridhar Daithankar > On Sunday 07 March 2010 14:21:48 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > What happened to kde twitter widget? I cannot find it anymore in the list > > of widgets. Following claims that it is still available with 4.4. It is > > not available online either. > > > > http://www.

Re: [arch-general] KDE 4.4 + pnm2ppa + CUPS

2010-03-07 Thread Lars Tennstedt
On 01/03/2010 10:38 AM, Lars Tennstedt wrote: On 01/03/2010 02:11 AM, Arvid Picciani wrote: On 01/02/2010 09:20 PM, Lars Tennstedt wrote: Qt4 applications behave like KDE4 applications. The printer recognizes the job and all it prints is a blank paper, sometimes with headline but always with

Re: [arch-general] Something is seriously wrong with FlashPlugin; makes chrome & firefox crash like crazy

2010-03-07 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi, My CPU is Intel E5300.AKAIK, lahf only applies to AMD athlon 64 line of chips. Plus, flash earlier used to work but this crashing has started about 2-3weeks back. anyone else having similar issues> Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Nilesh

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:49:01 +0100 Thomas Bächler wrote: > 1) We want to be able to see which PKGBUILD matches the package in the > repository. In SVN, we use copy - which is subversion's equivalent to > branching: By copying, you create a reference and all history of the > copied file is still t

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.03.2010 12:03, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: > Couldn't find any discussion about this, > but what about we maintain our packages in git instead of svn? > > pros: > 1) git is awesome > 2) we don't need abs/rsync anymore. users can just read from git. > 3) git network communication is more effici

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:18:26 +0800 Ray Rashif wrote: > On 07/03/2010, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 7. März 2010 12:03:08 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: > >> 2) svn->git migration is not trivial, since tools, the website, .. > >> will need to be adapted. > > > > The problem is that our current

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Ray Rashif
On 07/03/2010, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Sonntag, 7. März 2010 12:03:08 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: >> 2) svn->git migration is not trivial, since tools, the website, .. will >> need to be adapted. > > The problem is that our current repo layout and workflow is not mappable to > git. E.g. we use sv

[arch-general] Changed GNUstep directory in new windowmaker package

2010-03-07 Thread Daniel Isenmann
Hi, today I have released a new release of the windowmaker package. The important change is the GNUstep directory. I have changed this to /usr/lib/GNUstep. It was requested as a bug report (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15301) and it’s now equal to Debian’s GNUstep directory location. That means

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Sonntag, 7. März 2010 12:03:08 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: > 2) svn->git migration is not trivial, since tools, the website, .. will > need to be adapted. The problem is that our current repo layout and workflow is not mappable to git. E.g. we use svn's feature to checkout specific dirs/files et

Re: [arch-general] Messages from fcron

2010-03-07 Thread Florian Pritz
On 07.03.2010 12:00, Magnus Therning wrote: > I keep on getting messages from fcron along what can be found below. Does > anyone know where I should look to fix this? The syslog-ng (dcron uses syslog) package adds crond.log to it's logrotate config file and the fcron package has it's own logrotat

[arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Couldn't find any discussion about this, but what about we maintain our packages in git instead of svn? pros: 1) git is awesome 2) we don't need abs/rsync anymore. users can just read from git. 3) git network communication is more efficient then rsync (afaik) 4) users can check out older versions

[arch-general] Messages from fcron

2010-03-07 Thread Magnus Therning
I keep on getting messages from fcron along what can be found below. Does anyone know where I should look to fix this? /M Original Message Subject: fcron /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 08:58:09 + From: To: magnus.thern...@ntlworld.com error: sys

Re: [arch-general] A good twitter client

2010-03-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 07 March 2010 14:21:48 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > What happened to kde twitter widget? I cannot find it anymore in the list > of widgets. Following claims that it is still available with 4.4. It is > not available online either. > > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6978/1

Re: [arch-general] A good twitter client

2010-03-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 07 March 2010 13:08:42 christopher floess wrote: > On 03/07/2010 03:15 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know a good twitter client for KDE apart from Firefox's > > echofon, Chromed Bird (I don't use GChrome), and KDE μblog ? > > Twitgin sucks if you have to many twee