Re: [arch-general] abs [WAS: arch-dev-public] Package maintainers wanted - heimdal, db, abs

2010-11-13 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 14/11/10 03:23, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Ray Rashif  wrote: >> >>> PKGBUILDs don't get multiple commits by multiple >>> contributors to the extent software projects do, where GIT would make >>> sense.

[arch-general] Testing - fusion-icon, ATI drv, xorg -> compiz splash corrupt

2010-11-13 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, After updating to the latest packages in testing (fusion-icon, ati driver, xorg), the compiz splash is corrupt. I don't know if this is the result of xorg, the ati driver or the updated fusion-icon to handle python 3. Basically, you just see a blurry square where the compiz splash s

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-13 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 17:32 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > > And I have nothing against cleaning up a repo. But this should be done > more considered. Means only unimportant, unpopular packages or packages > which don't run anymore should be moved to AUR or removed completely but > not packages which

Re: [arch-general] abs [WAS: arch-dev-public] Package maintainers wanted - heimdal, db, abs

2010-11-13 Thread Allan McRae
On 14/11/10 03:23, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: PKGBUILDs don't get multiple commits by multiple contributors to the extent software projects do, where GIT would make sense. they will in time my friend, if i get my way :-) this is a goal i am

Re: [arch-general] Replace dcron once again?

2010-11-13 Thread Leonid Isaev
On (11/13/10 18:57), Vincent Cappe wrote: -~> Allan McRae wrote: -~> > Surely someone can run a git bisect on this issue. It is a reasonably -~> > new occurrence. -~> -~> Except that the @daily bug only trigger every 24 hours or so. A little -~> too time consuming for git bisect, i would say. -

Re: [arch-general] Replace dcron once again?

2010-11-13 Thread Vincent Cappe
I wrote: > Except that the @daily bug only trigger every 24 hours or so. A little > too time consuming for git bisect, i would say. Or then, maybe not. Does the bug happen on a clean run (that is, when there is no timestamp)? in which case 'rm ${stampsdir}/*' before running crond and it should tr

Re: [arch-general] python3 thoughts

2010-11-13 Thread howit...@archlinux.us
I don't know what you see under a smooth transition, but I've had to edit the first line of a lot of apps.. (#!/usr/bin/python to #!/usr/bin/python2). No big trouble, but trouble nonetheless. Adrian 2010/11/12 Brendan Long > On 11/12/2010 11:46 AM, Auguste Pop wrote: > > Considering the incompa

Re: [arch-general] Replace dcron once again?

2010-11-13 Thread Vincent Cappe
Allan McRae wrote: > Surely someone can run a git bisect on this issue. It is a reasonably > new occurrence. Except that the @daily bug only trigger every 24 hours or so. A little too time consuming for git bisect, i would say. But, there is a way around this: overriding the libc time() and lo

Re: [arch-general] abs [WAS: arch-dev-public] Package maintainers wanted - heimdal, db, abs

2010-11-13 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 13 November 2010 06:13, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM, csgeek wrote: >>> Somewhat related question >>> >>> I've seen a few places deploy git based build systems. >>> >>> funtoo (re-implementation of gento

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:18:02 -0500 schrieb Loui Chang : > Sorry, Heiko. I don't think you properly understand Arch culture here. > If you want something done you are expected to contribute and put > forth your own effort to make it happen. The TUs and Devs cannot be > expected to be your personal

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:05:46 -0500 schrieb Leonid Isaev : > eboard:The latest version is: 1.1.1 (Feb 22nd, 2008) > gdesklets: gDesklets 0.36.1 released November 5th 2008 > lincity: The current stable release of lincity is version 1.12.1 >(Aug. 13, 2004) > tin: TIN 1.9.5 (un

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:34:20 +0100 schrieb Andrea Scarpino : > I'd like to see your application as TU. There are reasons, why I currently can't. If I could I would do it. I hope this will change in the near future, but it can take a while. Heiko

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-13 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 13 Nov 2010 15:23 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:46:30 +0100 > schrieb Andrea Scarpino : > > > On Thursday 11 November 2010 22:54:36 Roman Kyrylych wrote: > > > I adopted some (and edited the page). > > Nice, today we have 291 orphans packages in [extra] (they were 352 >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-13 Thread Leonid Isaev
On (11/13/10 15:23), Heiko Baums wrote: -~> Those packages are also quite common and important: -~> -~> > eboard -~> > gdesklets -~> > lincity -~> > pure-ftpd -~> > tcsh -~> > tin Let's see... eboard:The latest version is: 1.1.1 (Feb 22nd, 2008) gdesklets: gDesklets 0.36.1 released November

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-13 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Saturday 13 November 2010 15:23:45 Heiko Baums wrote: > Nice, then I would need to install 110 packages from AUR and compile > them manually. When I switched to Arch Linux about 3 years ago it was > less than 50. Is a tiny that you do not use any of ours ~8000 packages in official repositories.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-13 Thread Allan McRae
On 14/11/10 00:23, Heiko Baums wrote: I wouldn't say anything if you would cleanup the official repos from unnecessary, unimportant and unused or hardly used packages like some ttf fonts, GTK1 themes, etc. But there are too many, too important packages in your list which definitely belong into t

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:46:30 +0100 schrieb Andrea Scarpino : > On Thursday 11 November 2010 22:54:36 Roman Kyrylych wrote: > > I adopted some (and edited the page). > Nice, today we have 291 orphans packages in [extra] (they were 352 > three days ago). 62 will be moved to [community]. 127 to AUR.

[arch-general] [signoff] openvpn 2.1.4-1

2010-11-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Upstream bugfix update - the release announcement explicitly mentions this one: "Fixed problem with special case route targets ('remote_host'), which could cause filling of the routing table with random garbage. Thanks to Teodo MICU and Gert Doering for finding and fixing this issue." Please sign