[arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice

2010-09-28 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, For those that rely on OpenOffice, and for those that prepare the packages, it's official, OpenOffice forked as of Sept. 28, 2010. Here is the press release: http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_release.html Main Site: http://www.documentfoundation.org/ Prob

[arch-general] bug in ghostscript 8.71 causes hylafax to send blank pages

2010-09-28 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Anyone using hylafax should be aware that a bug in ghostscript 8.71 will case hylafax to send blank pages. The following is the response from the upstream folks. I'll look for a newer version, test and report back. David, you using ghostscript 8.71 on that server? That's a known

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.6-2

2010-09-28 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/28/2010 01:15 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Latest kernel is in testing, > please signoff for both arches. > > seems -1 package had wrong headers while packaging > > > greetings > tpowa Looks good. Booted 1st time, no usbhid-ups hang, dmraid activated properly. Fantastic! Thanks Tobias :

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-09-29 00:55:12 +0200: > On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 00:12 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2010-09-28 23:19:19 +0200: > > > On 29 September 2010 03:33, Philipp Überbacher > > > wrote: > > > > Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's m

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 00:12 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2010-09-28 23:19:19 +0200: > > On 29 September 2010 03:33, Philipp Überbacher > > wrote: > > > Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-09-28 21:06:57 +0200: > > >> Or use bauerbill and set mplay

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-headers breaks VMWare and VirtualBox

2010-09-28 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 14:44 -0700, John Holbrook wrote: > Thanks. I just found it in testing. Install fixed my problem. Very > frustrating though. Kernel updates always go through [testing] first.

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2010-09-28 23:19:19 +0200: > On 29 September 2010 03:33, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-09-28 21:06:57 +0200: > >> Or use bauerbill and set mplayer to automatically compile from abs if > >> there's an update =) > > > >

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-headers breaks VMWare and VirtualBox

2010-09-28 Thread John Holbrook
Thanks. I just found it in testing. Install fixed my problem. Very frustrating though.

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-headers breaks VMWare and VirtualBox

2010-09-28 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 09/29/2010 12:31 AM, John Holbrook wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing the issue as discussed here on the forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105637 This mentions a bug report at: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20972 The fix mentioned is to run kernel26-headers -2. I am currently

[arch-general] kernel26-headers breaks VMWare and VirtualBox

2010-09-28 Thread John Holbrook
Hi, I'm experiencing the issue as discussed here on the forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105637 This mentions a bug report at: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20972 The fix mentioned is to run kernel26-headers -2. I am currently running "core/kernel26-headers 2.6.35.6-1 [ins

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread Ray Rashif
On 29 September 2010 03:33, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-09-28 21:06:57 +0200: >> Or use bauerbill and set mplayer to automatically compile from abs if >> there's an update =) > > I'm curious, what can it actually do? Build from ABS, ok, but > automatically

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] preparing LibreOffice

2010-09-28 Thread Allan McRae
On 29/09/10 05:27, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:04:42 +0200 schrieb Andreas Radke: I'm going to prepare Arch builds for libreoffice in our svn but won't upload any binary packages until the new way gets more clear. Why not uploading binary packages? Wouldn't be the worst idea to

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] preparing LibreOffice

2010-09-28 Thread Ray Rashif
On 29 September 2010 03:04, Andreas Radke wrote: > Anyway go-openoffice is depricated as said in the #go-oo channel topic. Superseded by libreoffice (or whatever it will finally be called, eg. if they manage to get the OpenOffice brand, so go-openoffice shouldn't go anywhere for the moment. On 2

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-09-28 21:06:57 +0200: > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 20:19 +0200, uli.armbrus...@googlemail.com wrote: > > * Ionuț Bîru [28.09.2010 17:41]: > > > On 09/28/2010 06:39 PM, Samir wrote: > > > > I have a question about Best Practices or... a clean way of handeling >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] preparing LibreOffice

2010-09-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:04:42 +0200 schrieb Andreas Radke : > I'm going to prepare Arch builds for libreoffice in our svn but won't > upload any binary packages until the new way gets more clear. Why not uploading binary packages? Wouldn't be the worst idea to have both packages in the repo, so th

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread uli . armbruster
* Ng Oon-Ee [28.09.2010 21:07]: > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 20:19 +0200, uli.armbrus...@googlemail.com wrote: > > * Ionuț Bîru [28.09.2010 17:41]: > > > On 09/28/2010 06:39 PM, Samir wrote: > > > > I have a question about Best Practices or... a clean way of handeling > > > > these types of scenarios.

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 20:19 +0200, uli.armbrus...@googlemail.com wrote: > * Ionuț Bîru [28.09.2010 17:41]: > > On 09/28/2010 06:39 PM, Samir wrote: > > > I have a question about Best Practices or... a clean way of handeling > > > these types of scenarios... > > > > > > I've seen this come up with

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread uli . armbruster
* Ionuț Bîru [28.09.2010 17:41]: > On 09/28/2010 06:39 PM, Samir wrote: > > I have a question about Best Practices or... a clean way of handeling > > these types of scenarios... > > > > I've seen this come up with several packages > > > > If I install mplayer and x264 from pacman, but then pul

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.6-2

2010-09-28 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches. seems -1 package had wrong headers while packaging greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally si

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread Florian Pritz
On 28.09.2010 18:46, Samir wrote: > I was trying to think if there's anything, as a packager, that I could > do to prevent or mitigate dll hell (.so hell? ) > Some time ago I wrote a patch to add special dependencies to packages so that issue is being worked on. What's the status Allan? PS: Ple

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread Samir
Fair enough. I was trying to think if there's a cleaner way of avoiding breakage. I found http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15982 which seems to provide some sanity. I was trying to think if there's anything, as a packager, that I could do to prevent or mitigate dll hell (.so hell? ) --

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread Florian Pritz
On 28.09.2010 17:39, Samir wrote: > Now, to be fair.. mplayer probably should have been linked against > libx264.so rather then libx264.so.104 (-git package provides a > libx264.so.105). Normally that number only changes if the libraries aren't compatible anymore. That means mplayer might break co

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 09/28/2010 06:39 PM, Samir wrote: I have a question about Best Practices or... a clean way of handeling these types of scenarios... I've seen this come up with several packages If I install mplayer and x264 from pacman, but then pull x264-git from aur, and install that. x264 conflicts w

[arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread Samir
I have a question about Best Practices or... a clean way of handeling these types of scenarios... I've seen this come up with several packages If I install mplayer and x264 from pacman, but then pull x264-git from aur, and install that. x264 conflicts with x264-git which makes sense.. but th