Re: [arch-general] Network UPS Tools - PKGBUILD changes - any timeframe?

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/11/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: > As soon as someone submits an updated PKGBUILD that incorporates that feature? > If you post an updated PKGBUILD on the bug, I'll be happy to update it and > close another bug :P OK, Sounds fair. I'll change mine to put the

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:58:12 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin : > This sounds like throwing technology at a problem that basically boils > down to a communication issue. > > Without specific examples, this isn't going to go anywhere, really. > > Would someone mind linking to the bugs in question? I

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
2010/3/11 Ng Oon-Ee : > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:49 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: >> Am Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:59:07 -0600 >> schrieb Aaron Griffin : >> >> > Commenting on bugs after they are closed will just annoy the >> > developer. If you have an issue with the fix or something, reopening >> > is the r

Re: [arch-general] Network UPS Tools - PKGBUILD changes - any timeframe?

2010-03-11 Thread Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)
On 03/11/10 at 05:26pm, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > Just installed NUT on my box and it is still being compiled w/o and cgi > support. Looks like the decision has been made on where to put the cgi files: > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16554 > > Any timeframe for when the c

[arch-general] Network UPS Tools - PKGBUILD changes - any timeframe?

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Just installed NUT on my box and it is still being compiled w/o and cgi support. Looks like the decision has been made on where to put the cgi files: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16554 Any timeframe for when the changes might take place? Right now, every time there is a

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/11/2010 11:44 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote: >>I figured I'd give it another week before I started blaming Allan :p >> > > You should probably have done the opposite : > - in AUR comments, just quickly state what needs to be changed / fixed > - in the email , include the proper attachments

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:49 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:59:07 -0600 > schrieb Aaron Griffin : > > > Commenting on bugs after they are closed will just annoy the > > developer. If you have an issue with the fix or something, reopening > > is the right action. If you have info

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 16:45 -0500, Loui Chang wrote: > On Thu 11 Mar 2010 11:50 -0600, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: > > > > Sometimes pasting the pkgbuild in comments is the only solution, especially > > with lazy maintainers. :/ I've used a share posted that way, and a copy and > > paste seemed to wor

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Allan McRae
On 12/03/10 07:57, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 14:59 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: My primary complaint against flyspray is that it doesn't allow comments to be added after the bug is closed. The only way is by doing a

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 16:57, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > You should consider moving to bugzilla. -1. I've used bugzilla, and the interface is absolutely horrible. Flyspray is much much better.

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 14:59 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > > My primary complaint against flyspray is that it doesn't allow comments to > > be added after the bug is closed. The only way is by doing a request to > > reopen the bug, and e

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:19:46 +0200 (GTB Standard Time) schrieb Dimitrios Apostolou : > My primary complaint against flyspray is that it doesn't allow > comments to be added after the bug is closed. The only way is by > doing a request to reopen the bug, and even in that case your comment > is not

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:59:07 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin : > Commenting on bugs after they are closed will just annoy the > developer. If you have an issue with the fix or something, reopening > is the right action. If you have information to add, then add it to > the wiki, as THAT is the source o

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 11 Mar 2010 11:50 -0600, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Xavier Chantry > wrote: > > 2010/3/11 David C. Rankin : > > > I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to the AUR > > > package and sent Chris (the maintainer) an email telling him what > > > I'd

Re: [arch-general] .pyo files in twisted package

2010-03-11 Thread Allan McRae
On 12/03/10 02:33, Nezmer wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 05:23:40PM +0100, Pierre Chapuis wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:08 +0200, Nezmer wrote: Hi, I don't know If this has been brought up before. The PKGBUILD includes "--optimize=1". So .pyo files are included in the package and they con

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > My primary complaint against flyspray is that it doesn't allow comments to > be added after the bug is closed. The only way is by doing a request to > reopen the bug, and even in that case your comment is not added to the > comment list

Re: [arch-general] rsyncd pid file already exists

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Chris Allison wrote: > Hi, > > rsync when run as a daemon from /etc/rc.d/rsyncd writes it's own pid > file to /var/run/rsyncd.pid > this conflicts with the start-stop script which also writes the pid > file.  I couldn't get rsync to start as a daemon after upgradin

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
My primary complaint against flyspray is that it doesn't allow comments to be added after the bug is closed. The only way is by doing a request to reopen the bug, and even in that case your comment is not added to the comment list. Wouldn't this functionality remedy the "closing bugs early" si

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:50, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: > Sometimes pasting the pkgbuild in comments is the only solution, especially > with lazy maintainers. If a maintainer does not respond to email in a week or so, mail aur-general and the TUs will orphan the package so someone else can mainta

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Burlynn Corlew Jr
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote: > 2010/3/11 David C. Rankin : > > On 03/11/2010 09:50 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > >> If all else fails, blame Allan. Oh, and tell the maintainer what failed. > >> > > > > Gotcha! > > > >I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Xavier Chantry
2010/3/11 David C. Rankin : > On 03/11/2010 09:50 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> If all else fails, blame Allan. Oh, and tell the maintainer what failed. >> > > Gotcha! > >        I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to the AUR package > and sent > Chris (the maintainer) an email telling hi

Re: [arch-general] Where to install python apps: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xyz??

2010-03-11 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 11/03/2010 06:27 μμ, David C. Rankin wrote: Guy, I know nothing about python other than what it is. I need to install repoview-0.6.5 on my arch server, but I'm not sure where. Looking at the other python apps like cairo, FusionIcon, etc.. thay seem to be installed as a subdirectory to

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/11/2010 09:50 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > If all else fails, blame Allan. Oh, and tell the maintainer what failed. > Gotcha! I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to the AUR package and sent Chris (the maintainer) an email telling him what I'd done. Hopefully he can move c

Re: [arch-general] .pyo files in twisted package

2010-03-11 Thread Nezmer
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 05:23:40PM +0100, Pierre Chapuis wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:08 +0200, Nezmer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't know If this has been brought up before. > > > > The PKGBUILD includes "--optimize=1". So .pyo files are included in > > the package and they conflict with

[arch-general] Where to install python apps: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xyz??

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
Guy, I know nothing about python other than what it is. I need to install repoview-0.6.5 on my arch server, but I'm not sure where. Looking at the other python apps like cairo, FusionIcon, etc.. thay seem to be installed as a subdirectory to: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ The

Re: [arch-general] .pyo files in twisted package

2010-03-11 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:08 +0200, Nezmer wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know If this has been brought up before. > > The PKGBUILD includes "--optimize=1". So .pyo files are included in > the package and they conflict with existing ones. > > Is there a reason to do this for twisted specifically? Or

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 09:41 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 03/11/2010 09:19 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > I need yum as a dependency to yum-createrepo, but the package is > > flagged as > > out-of-date in AUR. This is the first time I've run across an out of date > > p

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/11/2010 09:19 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > I need yum as a dependency to yum-createrepo, but the package is > flagged as > out-of-date in AUR. This is the first time I've run across an out of date > package in something I needed to build so I don't have experience with

[arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, I need yum as a dependency to yum-createrepo, but the package is flagged as out-of-date in AUR. This is the first time I've run across an out of date package in something I needed to build so I don't have experience with the procedure after finding a package out of date. Do we:

[arch-general] .pyo files in twisted package

2010-03-11 Thread Nezmer
Hi, I don't know If this has been brought up before. The PKGBUILD includes "--optimize=1". So .pyo files are included in the package and they conflict with existing ones. Is there a reason to do this for twisted specifically? Or did I miss a change in python packaging policies?

Re: [arch-general] [Tool] rebuildorder.py: determines rebuild order of a list of packages.

2010-03-11 Thread Allan McRae
On 11/03/10 22:58, Ionut Biru wrote: On 03/11/2010 02:55 PM, Mark Pustjens wrote: Hi List, Based on the rebuildorder script by Allen McRae (1) I've written a script which determines, given a list of packages, the order in which they should be built. A package x that depend on package y is alway

Re: [arch-general] [Tool] rebuildorder.py: determines rebuild order of a list of packages.

2010-03-11 Thread Ionut Biru
On 03/11/2010 02:55 PM, Mark Pustjens wrote: Hi List, Based on the rebuildorder script by Allen McRae (1) I've written a script which determines, given a list of packages, the order in which they should be built. A package x that depend on package y is always below y on the list, for any package

[arch-general] [Tool] rebuildorder.py: determines rebuild order of a list of packages.

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Pustjens
Hi List, Based on the rebuildorder script by Allen McRae (1) I've written a script which determines, given a list of packages, the order in which they should be built. A package x that depend on package y is always below y on the list, for any package y x depends on. This script can also inc

Re: [arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 11:47:18 schrieb Chris Allison: > This would appear to be an upstream bug/feature. Yes, see http://bugs.php.net/51242 -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

[arch-general] rsyncd pid file already exists

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Allison
Hi, rsync when run as a daemon from /etc/rc.d/rsyncd writes it's own pid file to /var/run/rsyncd.pid this conflicts with the start-stop script which also writes the pid file. I couldn't get rsync to start as a daemon after upgrading yesterday, without commenting out the line in the start-stop scr

Re: [arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Allison
On 11 March 2010 10:30, Chris Allison wrote: > > > On 11 March 2010 10:23, Chris Allison > wrote: >> >> Morning, >> >> Since updating yesterday, all my php scripts that connect to a mysql >> database (whether local or over the network) stopped being able to connect.  >> I had to append the por

Re: [arch-general] Bad Idea?

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.03.2010 23:23, schrieb Carlos Mennens: > Is it a bad idea to install nVidia display drivers manually by > downloading them from nvidia.com and installing it by hand...or should > I use 'Pacman'? I read that I could mess up my system by manually > installing packages and should always use Pacm

Re: [arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Allison
On 11 March 2010 10:23, Chris Allison wrote: > Morning, > > Since updating yesterday, all my php scripts that connect to a mysql > database (whether local or over the network) stopped being able to connect. > I had to append the port number to the host definition in the mysql connect > function ca

Re: [arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 11/03/2010 12:23 μμ, Chris Allison wrote: Morning, Since updating yesterday, all my php scripts that connect to a mysql database (whether local or over the network) stopped being able to connect. I had to append the port number to the host definition in the mysql connect function call to get

[arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Allison
Morning, Since updating yesterday, all my php scripts that connect to a mysql database (whether local or over the network) stopped being able to connect. I had to append the port number to the host definition in the mysql connect function call to get them to work again. I have been unable to find

Re: [arch-general] Kopete and Yahoo

2010-03-11 Thread Ionut Biru
On 03/11/2010 06:53 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, Yahoo is not working with Kopete 1.0.0 Any ideas ? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18624 -- Ionut

Re: [arch-general] Bad Idea?

2010-03-11 Thread Brendan Long
On 03/09/2010 03:23 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > Is it a bad idea to install nVidia display drivers manually by > downloading them from nvidia.com and installing it by hand...or should > I use 'Pacman'? I read that I could mess up my system by manually > installing packages and should always use Pac