Re: [arch-general] Old "news"

2010-09-22 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 15:34, Dan McGee wrote: > The URLs for all news items changed, so your news feed probably saw > this and thought the items were new. I'm not sure why Django uses the > URL as a guid, but this should be a one-time occurrance. In my experience this is a regular one-time occu

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:41 -0500, Myra Nelson wrote: > > One would hope this is enough to end the BS, it's getting tiring. > > Myra Nelson Did you just compare the service of highly-paid lawyers and doctors with voluntary time on the Arch ML? =) My observation is that most of the responses so

Re: [arch-general] Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wants to become the next person after U.S. Senator Ernie Chambers to sue God

2010-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/23/2010 12:16 AM, reflexing wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of > Singapore wrote: > >> I want to sue God for being too busy and unresponsive. How can I file a >> lawsuit against Him at the United States Supreme Court? >> >> > Not this AGAIN! > No

Re: [arch-general] Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wants to become the next person after U.S. Senator Ernie Chambers to sue God

2010-09-22 Thread Gary Wright
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore wrote: > I want to sue God for being too busy and unresponsive. How can I file a > lawsuit against Him at the United States Supreme Court? > > -- > Yours sincerely, > > Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 Dip(Mechatronics

Re: [arch-general] Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wants to become the next person after U.S. Senator Ernie Chambers to sue God

2010-09-22 Thread reflexing
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore wrote: > I want to sue God for being too busy and unresponsive. How can I file a > lawsuit against Him at the United States Supreme Court? > > -- > Yours sincerely, > > Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 Dip(Mechatronic

[arch-general] Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wants to become the next person after U.S. Senator Ernie Chambers to sue God

2010-09-22 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore
I want to sue God for being too busy and unresponsive. How can I file a lawsuit against Him at the United States Supreme Court? -- Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) Citizenship: Singapore Citizen/Singaporean Alma Maters: [1

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread Myra Nelson
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 20:23, Steve Holmes wrote: > Yeah, when I got started into learning package maintenance in Arch, I > recall reading the wiki pages for AUR and ABS (the Arch Build > System). Sorry, I forget the exact links but the ABS stuff explains > PKGBUILDs really well and when I combi

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread Steve Holmes
Yeah, when I got started into learning package maintenance in Arch, I recall reading the wiki pages for AUR and ABS (the Arch Build System). Sorry, I forget the exact links but the ABS stuff explains PKGBUILDs really well and when I combined that with the AUR material, I felt I was pretty will inf

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 15:01 -0300, Ángel Velásquez wrote: > David, > > I will try to have some courtesy to you this time. > > I usually read the mailing list, I don't reply it at all (just when I > need to say my opinion) but, trust me, I read at least 70% of the > mails of the list... From that

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On 09/22/2010 01:52 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 09/21/2010 05:17 PM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: On 09/21/2010 04:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I've seen recent "Request to Ophan package XYZ" posts, and I've found some fairly large AUR packages that are orphaned (like RPM5). But, h

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
What about the aur-general mailing-list ?

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread Mario Figueiredo
On 22-09-2010 15:21, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: On 09/21/2010 10:07 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote: On 21-09-2010 23:17, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: On 09/21/2010 04:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I've seen recent "Request to Ophan package XYZ" posts, and I've found some fairly large AUR p

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread Ángel Velásquez
David, I will try to have some courtesy to you this time. I usually read the mailing list, I don't reply it at all (just when I need to say my opinion) but, trust me, I read at least 70% of the mails of the list... From that 70% that I've read, I see, that you ask _anything_ on the list, so I don

Re: [arch-general] Local Mirror - Wiki Article

2010-09-22 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On 09/22/2010 01:20 PM, Fess wrote: On 09:18 Tue 21 Sep , Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: Since the other thread is huge and hard to follow, I am creating a new thread. I would like to use this thread to talk strictly about the Local Mirror wiki article. I have updated the wiki article to reflect the

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread Stefan Erik Wilkens
Hello again David, If you're motivated and willing to learn, you can always give it a try! A fair amount of the packages in the AUR are fairly simple to maintain (version bumping, applying a simple patch etc.) and most related questions have already been asked, debated and answered on the forums.

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/21/2010 05:17 PM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > On 09/21/2010 04:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> Guys, >> >> I've seen recent "Request to Ophan package XYZ" posts, and I've found >> some >> fairly large AUR packages that are orphaned (like RPM5). But, how do AUR >> packages get new maintai

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 22/09/10 18:44, David C. Rankin wrote: On 09/21/2010 09:07 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote: On 21-09-2010 23:17, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: On 09/21/2010 04:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I've seen recent "Request to Ophan package XYZ" posts, and I've found some fairly large AUR pack

Re: [arch-general] 2.6.35.5-1 Fails To Boot: ERROR 24: Attempt to access block outside partition??

2010-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/22/2010 12:29 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Uh Oh... > > Just updated and 2.6.35.5-1 fails to boot. It fails at the very start > of boot. > The screen output is: > > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap5 ro vga=0x31a > > [Linux-bzImage setup=0x3200, size=0x20ac50] > > E

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/21/2010 09:07 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote: > On 21-09-2010 23:17, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: >> On 09/21/2010 04:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> Guys, >>> >>> I've seen recent "Request to Ophan package XYZ" posts, and I've found >>> some >>> fairly large AUR packages that are orphaned (l

[arch-general] Monitor not going to "power save" mode in suspend

2010-09-22 Thread Madhurya Kakati
Hi, I am using pm-utils to suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disk. In both the suspends my LCD monitor goes black but doesn't go to the "power save mode" i.e the light doesn't turn orange. This happens only in archlinux though. On Windows when i standby (suspend) the monitor properly goes to "power sav

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/21/2010 05:17 PM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > On 09/21/2010 04:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> Guys, >> >> I've seen recent "Request to Ophan package XYZ" posts, and I've found >> some >> fairly large AUR packages that are orphaned (like RPM5). But, how do AUR >> packages get new maintai

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/21/2010 03:57 PM, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote: > Hello David, > > If you're logged in to the AUR, any package with an orphan status will > have an "Adopt Packages" button on its page. Yep, I've seen that button, but I'm not sure anybody wants a lawyer maintain any package :p I see some that I

[arch-general] 2.6.35.5-1 Fails To Boot: ERROR 24: Attempt to access block outside partition??

2010-09-22 Thread David C. Rankin
Uh Oh... Just updated and 2.6.35.5-1 fails to boot. It fails at the very start of boot. The screen output is: kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap5 ro vga=0x31a [Linux-bzImage setup=0x3200, size=0x20ac50] Error 24: Attempt to access bloack outside partition Press any key

Re: [arch-general] Local Mirror - Wiki Article

2010-09-22 Thread Fess
On 09:18 Tue 21 Sep , Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > Since the other thread is huge and hard to follow, I am creating a new > thread. > I would like to use this thread to talk strictly about the Local Mirror > wiki article. > > I have updated the wiki article to reflect the new pool directory. > Curren

Re: [arch-general] Old "news"

2010-09-22 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:20:29 +0530 > Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:05 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu) >> wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mike Sampson >> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, jesse jaar

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On 09/21/2010 10:07 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote: On 21-09-2010 23:17, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: On 09/21/2010 04:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I've seen recent "Request to Ophan package XYZ" posts, and I've found some fairly large AUR packages that are orphaned (like RPM5). But, how

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-22 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 18:37:56 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hmm, after reading some responses, I don't think I'll use BTRFS on /, > because the power here is quite unreliable and my UPS can't guarantee > proper switching (it's nearly 12 yrs old!). > > So, what else would you guys recommen

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-22 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hmm, after reading some responses, I don't think I'll use BTRFS on /, because the power here is quite unreliable and my UPS can't guarantee proper switching (it's nearly 12 yrs old!). So, what else would you guys recommend on / in order achieve high speed and no failures if the FS was left in an i

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.22-1

2010-09-22 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Dienstag 21 September 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > Latest kernel is in testing, > please signoff for both arches. > > greetings > tpowa anyone i686? -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Descript

Re: [arch-general] Intel GMA 3150 Graphics Card driver

2010-09-22 Thread Cédric Girard
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Adamzyg wrote: >Did any one use Netbook and the CPU is Intel NM450 which embeded > Graphics Card GMA 3150? I install the XF86-video-intel driver package by > pacman, > > *$ pacman -Ss xf86-video* | grep intel* > *extra/xf86-video-intel 2.12.0-1 (xorg-video-dr

[arch-general] Intel GMA 3150 Graphics Card driver

2010-09-22 Thread Adamzyg
Did any one use Netbook and the CPU is Intel NM450 which embeded Graphics Card GMA 3150? I install the XF86-video-intel driver package by pacman, *$ pacman -Ss xf86-video* | grep intel* *extra/xf86-video-intel 2.12.0-1 (xorg-video-drivers) [installed]* but the glxgears just output like below:

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-22 Thread Dan Vrátil
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:23:07 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, > > After true multilib support came for arch, I reformatted / as jfs to > install arch64. > But somehow, I feel my system is slow (in spite of regular fscks on > every ten mounts and using deadline scheduler) as compared to arc

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-22 Thread Ray Rashif
On 22 September 2010 14:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, > > After true multilib support came for arch, I reformatted / as jfs to > install arch64. > But somehow, I feel my system is slow (in spite of regular fscks on > every ten mounts and using deadline scheduler) as compared to arch32 & > e

Re: [arch-general] Old "news"

2010-09-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:20:29 +0530 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:05 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu) > wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mike Sampson > > wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, jesse jaara > >> wrote: > >>> Did anyone else revice some old maiöing list me

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-22 Thread Gergely Imreh
On 22 September 2010 14:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, > > After true multilib support came for arch, I reformatted / as jfs to > install arch64. > But somehow, I feel my system is slow (in spite of regular fscks on > every ten mounts and using deadline scheduler) as compared to arch32 & > e