Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] abs-2.4.0-1

2010-10-02 Thread Allan McRae
On 02/10/10 21:19, Mike Sampson wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 02/10/10 19:29, Mike Sampson wrote: [snip] Slightly off topic. I always wondered why there wasn't a Python proto PKGBUILD included in abs. There is one in the wiki[1] which I use when I need it tho

Re: [arch-general] RPM Question

2010-10-02 Thread Steven Susbauer
On 10/2/2010 7:41 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote: It works on all the major distros but fails to install on Arch due to an RPM dependency. Their install script just fails saying it can't find rpm. The script contains much ugliness and is McAfee proprietary, so I doubt hacking it will be productive. So t

Re: [arch-general] RPM Question

2010-10-02 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote: > > So the question is: can Arch be configured/tricked into an rpm install? > > If you can get a hold of the rpm spec file, you could feed it to spec2arch (from pkgtools), run makepkg -s on the resultant PKGBUILD, and modify their script to use

[arch-general] RPM Question

2010-10-02 Thread Lew Wolfgang
Hi Folks, New Arch user here. I really like it! Another Arch user recommended it to me after I started noticing quality issues with another of the main distributions. I'm currently working on a test install to see if Arch will function in a very restricted environment. So far I've succes

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] packages are newer in extra than in staging

2010-10-02 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > Hi, > > some packages have been updated in extra and have been mark as done in the > python todo list but they weren't rebuilt against staging. > > looking quick on the list, django (staging removed on 9 september) > > extra 1.2.3-1 > marked as d

Re: [arch-general] Need help with compilation

2010-10-02 Thread Kazuo Teramoto
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Christian wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to compile a package from source called BRLTTY. The current > version that is in the repository is v4.1 so I looked in the PKGBUILD script > and I installed the dependencies, but most of them were already installed > when

Re: [arch-general] Need help with compilation

2010-10-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:36:51 +0200 schrieb "Christian" : > Hi all, > I am trying to compile a package from source called BRLTTY. The > current version that is in the repository is v4.1 so I looked in the > PKGBUILD script and I installed the dependencies, but most of them > were already installed

[arch-general] Need help with compilation

2010-10-02 Thread Christian
Hi all, I am trying to compile a package from source called BRLTTY. The current version that is in the repository is v4.1 so I looked in the PKGBUILD script and I installed the dependencies, but most of them were already installed when I installed the version that was in the repository. But I am

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] abs-2.4.0-1

2010-10-02 Thread Mike Sampson
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 02/10/10 19:29, Mike Sampson wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Slightly off topic. I always wondered why there wasn't a Python proto >> PKGBUILD included in abs. There is one in the wiki[1] which I use when >> I need it though it would be handy to have

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] abs-2.4.0-1

2010-10-02 Thread Allan McRae
On 02/10/10 19:29, Mike Sampson wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 02/10/10 18:52, Guillaume Brunerie wrote: 2010/10/2 Allan McRae Hi, I just pushed a new abs release to [testing]. The "major" changes are: - use the tarball method for initial sync - fix tarba

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] abs-2.4.0-1

2010-10-02 Thread Mike Sampson
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 02/10/10 18:52, Guillaume Brunerie wrote: >> >> 2010/10/2 Allan McRae >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just pushed a new abs release to [testing].  The "major" changes are: >>>  - use the tarball method for initial sync >>>  - fix tarball method to work

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] abs-2.4.0-1

2010-10-02 Thread Allan McRae
On 02/10/10 18:52, Guillaume Brunerie wrote: 2010/10/2 Allan McRae Hi, I just pushed a new abs release to [testing]. The "major" changes are: - use the tarball method for initial sync - fix tarball method to work with $arch in mirrorlist - updated prototypes for pacman-3.4 - addition

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] abs-2.4.0-1

2010-10-02 Thread Guillaume Brunerie
2010/10/2 Allan McRae > Hi, > > I just pushed a new abs release to [testing]. The "major" changes are: > - use the tarball method for initial sync > - fix tarball method to work with $arch in mirrorlist > - updated prototypes for pacman-3.4 > - addition of bzr prototype > > I will push it to