Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Nathan Wayde wrote: > from the sounds of it all those solutions require an internet connection. my > use-case is about installing on-demand what i want without an internet > connection - the same reason i never clear my cache when i uninstall stuff. > If i'm on th

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 15/09/10 01:13, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Nathan Wayde wrote: here's what I'd(and I imagine most others who know about sharing the cache) use a local mirror for: to be able to sync all other systems from it. plain and simple. if my systems don't have interne

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread Fess
On 19:13 Tue 14 Sep , C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Nathan Wayde wrote: > > here's what I'd(and I imagine most others who know about sharing the cache) > > use a local mirror for: > > > > to be able to sync all other systems from it. plain and simple. if my > > syste

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Nathan Wayde wrote: > here's what I'd(and I imagine most others who know about sharing the cache) > use a local mirror for: > > to be able to sync all other systems from it. plain and simple. if my > systems don't have internet connection or something like that the

Re: [arch-general] Installing createrepo/repoview on Arch Linux

2010-09-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/14/2010 01:24 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Here is a quick synopsis of what is required to install createrepo on Arch in case you need to provide an rpm repository for rpm based distros hosted on your Arch server: AUR Package Summary (in order to build/install): beecrypt rpm (THIS PKG IS OR

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 14/09/10 19:45, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Fess wrote: I still don't get it.. You have small pipe. But a lot of people have bigger. So - if you can't use - do not use it. Why EVERYONE shouldn't use it? it really is much more appropriate for everyone involve

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Help on maintaining LXDE packages wanted

2010-09-14 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 14.09.2010 21:11, Jürgen Hötzel wrote: > Hi, > > anyone wants help out on this topic? I personally don't use LXDE > anymore. > > Jürgen > I'd be interested. I use it on one machine. -- Sven-Hendrik

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread Fess
On 13:45 Tue 14 Sep , C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Fess wrote: > > I still don't get it.. You have small pipe. But a lot of people have > > bigger. So - if you can't use - do not use it. > > Why EVERYONE shouldn't use it? > > it really is much more appropriate for

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Fess wrote: > I still don't get it.. You have small pipe. But a lot of people have bigger. > So - if you can't use - do not use it. > Why EVERYONE shouldn't use it? it really is much more appropriate for everyone involved if you just use a shared cache, and respe

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread Fess
On 13:29 Tue 14 Sep , David C. Rankin wrote: > On 09/14/2010 12:08 PM, Fess wrote: >> 1)Have you heard about 3rd party mirrors? > Yep - it's bandwidth for somebody > >> 2)People who use gnome must die. No, really - too much traffic on servers. > To each his own - I'm using fluxbox at the moment

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/14/2010 12:08 PM, Fess wrote: 1)Have you heard about 3rd party mirrors? Yep - it's bandwidth for somebody 2)People who use gnome must die. No, really - too much traffic on servers. To each his own - I'm using fluxbox at the moment :p (very small) 3)With local mirror you have fast

[arch-general] Installing createrepo/repoview on Arch Linux

2010-09-14 Thread David C. Rankin
Here is a quick synopsis of what is required to install createrepo on Arch in case you need to provide an rpm repository for rpm based distros hosted on your Arch server: AUR Package Summary (in order to build/install): beecrypt rpm (THIS PKG IS ORPHANED, BUT STILL CURRENT FOR rpm-5.1.9)

[arch-general] [SOLVED] Re: Howto fix yum-createrepo PKGBUILD from AUR? (rpm is replaced by rpm-org - now rpm module missing?)

2010-09-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/14/2010 12:43 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, How do I fix the yum-createrepo PKGBUILD so that yum-createrepo looks for the module 'rpm-org' instead of looking for the outdated 'rpm' module? In the PKGBUILD, the depends currently is: The key is to use the "orphaned" rpm package in AUR.

Re: [arch-general] Howto fix yum-createrepo PKGBUILD from AUR? (rpm is replaced by rpm-org - now rpm module missing?)

2010-09-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/14/2010 12:35 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, How do I fix the yum-createrepo PKGBUILD so that yum-createrepo looks for the module 'rpm-org' instead of looking for the outdated 'rpm' module? In the PKGBUILD, the depends currently is: depends=('python' 'python-lxml' 'rpm' 'yum') However,

[arch-general] Howto fix yum-createrepo PKGBUILD from AUR? (rpm is replaced by rpm-org - now rpm module missing?)

2010-09-14 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, How do I fix the yum-createrepo PKGBUILD so that yum-createrepo looks for the module 'rpm-org' instead of looking for the outdated 'rpm' module? In the PKGBUILD, the depends currently is: depends=('python' 'python-lxml' 'rpm' 'yum') However, 'rpm-org' now provides 'rpm' so the

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread Fess
On 11:47 Tue 14 Sep , David C. Rankin wrote: > On 09/14/2010 08:13 AM, Fess wrote: >> err.. what? >> Don't you think, that mirrorsync in crontab is MUCH more easier way to get >> new packages, huh? >> I'm using local mirror for 3 years and i have no idea why i shoulnd't use it >> know. > > With c

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-09-14 Thread Steve Holmes
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:24:11PM +0200, Mathias Huber wrote: > Hi Steve, > > > When I do any of the emacs commands like ispell-buffer or > > ispell-region and the like, I keep getting a message in the prompt > > line of emacs saying > > "Text is read-only" > > That only concerns the contents a

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/14/2010 08:13 AM, Fess wrote: err.. what? Don't you think, that mirrorsync in crontab is MUCH more easier way to get new packages, huh? I'm using local mirror for 3 years and i have no idea why i shoulnd't use it know. With commercial bandwidth limited to 1M down, I worry about the extr

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-09-14 Thread Mathias Huber
Hi Steve, > When I do any of the emacs commands like ispell-buffer or > ispell-region and the like, I keep getting a message in the prompt > line of emacs saying > "Text is read-only" That only concerns the contents auf the mini-buffer (where you enter commands). Do you use backspace in the mini

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-2.6.35.3-1 or intel-537-2.60.80.0-68 breaks suspend (to disk and ram)

2010-09-14 Thread Adam Lantos
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:17 AM, ert256 wrote: > Hello. > > If you have similar problem, please comment on my bug report : > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20806 I'm also affected, could this be related to the intel drm regression reported at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29406 ?

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread reflexing
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Fess wrote: > On 04:00 Sun 12 Sep , David C. Rankin wrote: > > On 09/09/2010 07:40 AM, Fess wrote: > >> Page "Local mirros" was removed from wiki by this reason: > >> > >> - > >> It is generally frowned upon to create a local mirror due the bandwidth > that is

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-14 Thread Fess
On 04:00 Sun 12 Sep , David C. Rankin wrote: > On 09/09/2010 07:40 AM, Fess wrote: >> Page "Local mirros" was removed from wiki by this reason: >> >> - >> It is generally frowned upon to create a local mirror due the bandwidth that >> is required. >> There is not a good reason to create a loca

[arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-09-14 Thread Steve Holmes
I have emacs 23.2 running in a normal text console and am trying to spell check using the ispell.el facility in the emacs lisp libraries. I also installed aspell and espell-en packages to resolve the binary program to be used by the emacs ispell function. When I do any of the emacs commands like i

Re: [arch-general] Chromium crashes KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-14 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 14 September 2010 at 02:17 Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Adriano Moura wrote: > > 2010/9/13 Sven-Hendrik Haase > > > >> On 13.09.2010 18:38, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > I am using Chromium 6.0.x with KDE 4.5.1. Whenever any website > >> > pr