[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.1.2-1

2010-03-17 Thread Tobias Powalowski
This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.1. Significant changes are: - The default metadata has change again (sorry about that). It is now v1.2 and will hopefully stay that way. It turned out there with boot-block issues with v1.1 which make it unsuitable for a default, though i

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/17/2010 10:09 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Also, kde3 kate works, but you get a lot of warnings dumped to console. Does > anyone know the what the problem causing the following messages is: > > kate: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mimetype text/plain > kate: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mime

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/17/2010 09:51 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 03/03/2010 05:20 PM, Giovanni Scafora wrote: > > Hopefull back on topic... > > I have gotten kde3 working on my new server (mostly). Currently, I > simply > soft-linked libjpeg.so.62 and libpng12.so and libpng12.so.0 to the current > lib

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/03/2010 05:20 PM, Giovanni Scafora wrote: > 2010/3/4, David C. Rankin : >> 13:47 archangel:~> /opt/kde/bin/konqueror --profile filemanagement >> /opt/kde/bin/konqueror: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: >> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Tr

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/05/2010 01:16 AM, Brendan Long wrote: > On 03/04/2010 05:22 PM, Baho Utot wrote: >> The only thing I really need from KDE is the Konqueror web browser. > > Wait.. someone who actually likes Konqueror? Why? > Why, fish, sftp, kdiff3 integration, single click focus in the space be

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 3 annoyance

2010-03-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/17/2010 09:41 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > I'm having a little annoyance with TBird 3, and was wondering if anyone > was experiencing the same thing and/or had a workaround. > > I have a large tree of folders in TBird, from 2 different IMAP accounts. > So I use the "Unread Folders" view,

Re: [arch-general] pdftk - almost build but died - need help figuring out if I can find a work-around

2010-03-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/17/2010 10:16 AM, Edgar Kalkowski wrote: >> >> Just a FYI, looks like fedora has pdftk with a gcc44 patch: >> >> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/pdftk/F-13/ > > That looks interesting. But wouldn’t that require gcc 4.4 to be build with > Java support? BEcause I tried that and sadly

Re: [arch-general] Package signing (was: Arch Linux security is still poor)

2010-03-17 Thread Myra Nelson
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 19:06, Linas wrote: > I had already this email draft in my head, but Ananda 'Arch Linux security > is still poor' thread, on which the point was also brought up, moved me to > really write it. > > First off, there's an implicit level of trust on the package software, no > m

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-17 Thread Mauro Santos
On 03/17/2010 10:45 PM, Linas wrote: >> Which complained about a dos compatibility flag and that I should >> change the display/entry units to sectors. This showed me a small bit >> of unused >> space above my last logical partition (/dev/sda12)... Don't worry about that for now, that could only c

Re: [arch-general] Abort forced filesystem check on boot

2010-03-17 Thread Tom
> Hi, > I have written a small patch for rc.sysinit which gives the user the > ability to abort a forced filesystem check with pressing the > escape-key. I haven't found another feature-request in the bugtracker > for this so I opened one: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18400 . > > What do you thi

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-17 Thread Linas
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Any way I only mention it because When I got around to installing Arch on one of the two partitions I recovered from Sabayon, I skipped the installation step of letting cfdisk touch my partitions and simply selected the partition I previously prepared for it with mkf

Re: [arch-general] HAL depreciation

2010-03-17 Thread dave reisner
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:13 PM, wrote: > Is it actually possible today to replace the automatic X11 > input device selection done by HAL by some udev rules ? > If yes, is there any guide/wiki/other_doc describing the > required incantations ? > > Ciao, > > -- > FA > > O tu, che porte, correndo s

Re: [arch-general] HAL depreciation

2010-03-17 Thread fons
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 06:04:54AM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > Those following the Beginner's Guide shouldn't be too concerned about > the 'up-and-coming' anything, IMO. It will (and should only) be updated > when it becomes necessary to, that is, when the previous steps stop > working. Which is not

[arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-17 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
I'm new to Arch. I recently dumped a very bloated Sabayon installation which left me enough room on my laptop for two other distros... I went with PCLinuxOS AND Arch because both sounded like reinstalling from scratch wasn't a twice a year thing... Actually I tried installing PCLinuxOS on a usb d

Re: [arch-general] HAL depreciation

2010-03-17 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 14:31 -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > It would appear that on Mar 17, Jan de Groot did say: > > > At this moment several applications, including XFCE and KDE, use hal for > > removable device handling. xorg-server still uses hal to configure input > > devices. > > Star

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Denis Kobozev
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote: >> Interesting. Judging from a quick glance at the NixOS homepage, nix >> deals with shared dependencies by having very precise rules about >> which package requires which versions of sha

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Isaac Dupree > wrote: >> NixOS does better >> (at least at the theoretical stuff, though it has fewer users..it was born >> in academia..Basically it is archtected so that you can have multiple >> versions of

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Denis Kobozev
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > NixOS does better > (at least at the theoretical stuff, though it has fewer users..it was born > in academia..Basically it is archtected so that you can have multiple > versions of any package installed and they inherently won't conflict with

Re: [arch-general] on rolling release / reinstallation

2010-03-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 17 Mar 2010 16:01 -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > So I'm guessing that these "workarounds" happen whenever a "pacman > -Syu" leads to breaking something... (Which means that I probably > should only do an "pacman -Syu" when A) I've got time to test all my > stuff. AND B) I've got tim

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote: >> And a more general question: is it even theoretically possible to have >> a bleeding edge distro with piecemeal updates and with no required >> manual intervention during updates or i

Re: [arch-general] on rolling release / reinstallation

2010-03-17 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 16, Isaac Dupree did say: > I enjoyed the 6-month reinstalls... for a while. They reminded me how my > system was set up ; to make backups ; etc. I've got a slight difficulty with that... I've been a multi-boot guy for a long time. It started because sometimes I could

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote: > Hi archers, > > It has been repeated a lot of times that doing piecemeal updates with > pacman -Sy pkgname is not a very good idea. What about ignoring > packages? Is it as dangerous? > > And a more general question: is it even theoretically

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 03/17/10 14:42, Denis Kobozev wrote: Hi archers, It has been repeated a lot of times that doing piecemeal updates with pacman -Sy pkgname is not a very good idea. What about ignoring packages? Is it as dangerous? the most likely danger with small version skews is if a library is upgraded,

[arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Denis Kobozev
Hi archers, It has been repeated a lot of times that doing piecemeal updates with pacman -Sy pkgname is not a very good idea. What about ignoring packages? Is it as dangerous? And a more general question: is it even theoretically possible to have a bleeding edge distro with piecemeal updates and

Re: [arch-general] HAL depreciation

2010-03-17 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 17, Jan de Groot did say: > At this moment several applications, including XFCE and KDE, use hal for > removable device handling. xorg-server still uses hal to configure input > devices. > Starting from xorg-server 1.8, we'll disable the hal backend and switch > to ude

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 3 annoyance

2010-03-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/17/2010 10:46 AM, Ionut Biru wrote: On 03/17/2010 04:41 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm having a little annoyance with TBird 3, and was wondering if anyone was experiencing the same thing and/or had a workaround. I have a large tree of folders in TBird, from 2 different IMAP accounts. S

Re: [arch-general] HAL depreciation

2010-03-17 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On 3/17/10, James Rayner wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16 +0530, "Nilesh Govindarajan" >> wrote: >>> >>> I don't have seven mouse buttons. >>> The mouse and keyboard is already configured in xorg.conf using >>> drivers mouse and kbd. >>

Re: [arch-general] HAL depreciation

2010-03-17 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 3/17/10, James Rayner wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16 +0530, "Nilesh Govindarajan" > wrote: >> >> I don't have seven mouse buttons. >> The mouse and keyboard is already configured in xorg.conf using >> drivers mouse and kbd. >> If I stop hal, and then start Xorg, it doesn't work. I've to ha

Re: [arch-general] pdftk - almost build but died - need hel p figuring out if I can find a work-around

2010-03-17 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Montag, 15. März 2010, schrieb David C. Rankin: > On 03/15/2010 01:06 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > > On 03/14/2010 10:37 AM, Edgar Kalkowski wrote: > >> Am oder ungefähr am Freitag, 12. März 2010, schrieb David C. Rankin: > >>> Guys, > >>> > >>> I need pdftk for a script I use

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 3 annoyance

2010-03-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/17/2010 10:46 AM, Ionut Biru wrote: maybe is not a matter of configs. maybe this is really a bug and should be submitted upstream. Could be. If so, though, I'd like to get some more info on the problem first. Anyone else experiencing this issue with TBird automagically selecting a di

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 3 annoyance

2010-03-17 Thread Ionut Biru
On 03/17/2010 04:41 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm having a little annoyance with TBird 3, and was wondering if anyone was experiencing the same thing and/or had a workaround. I have a large tree of folders in TBird, from 2 different IMAP accounts. So I use the "Unread Folders" view, in conju

[arch-general] Thunderbird 3 annoyance

2010-03-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I'm having a little annoyance with TBird 3, and was wondering if anyone was experiencing the same thing and/or had a workaround. I have a large tree of folders in TBird, from 2 different IMAP accounts. So I use the "Unread Folders" view, in conjunction with the mail.check_all_imap_folders_for

Re: [arch-general] Package signing (was: Arch Linux security is still poor)

2010-03-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 17.03.2010 01:06, schrieb Linas: > There are several ways to close the gap: > *Always download the package list from ftp.archlinux.org > It's the easier solution, but it only protects against the mirror > operator. Moreover, it increases load on that server and makes it a > single point of failu

Re: [arch-general] HAL depreciation

2010-03-17 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16 +0530, "Nilesh Govindarajan" wrote: > > I don't have seven mouse buttons. > The mouse and keyboard is already configured in xorg.conf using > drivers mouse and kbd. > If I stop hal, and then start Xorg, it doesn't work. I've to hard reset > my box. That's because you ha

Re: [arch-general] HAL depreciation

2010-03-17 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 03:06 +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Does anyone know how much of HAL is needed in ArchLinux these days? > I'm asking because I've learned that both udev and HAL configure the > keymap of input devices nowdays and > I wonder what other former HAL features are already imple