[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-04 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
We all know the situation with dcron (it can't keep time properly) and it still is broken. No fix (or any changes for that matter) have gone into its upstream git for over a year now. There have been multiple yeah-I'll-take-a-looks from various people as well as its upstream maintainer and no work

Re: [arch-general] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-04-04 Thread Brendan Long
On 04/04/2011 05:01 AM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > On 04/04/2011 12:04 AM, Brendan Long wrote: >> On 03/27/2011 01:47 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote: >>> On a side note, I think it is also useful to have GPT >>> partitioning as default now since it is way superior to MBR (see >>> logical partitions linked-li

[arch-general] [systemd] v23 released, heads up

2011-04-04 Thread Dave Reisner
Hey all, A heads up for anyone using systemd, I've just pushed the latest tag to [community-testing]. It's going to be hanging out there until we at least see udev-167. More notably, there's been a fairly silly change [1] in place that will muck up the formatting of log facilities in dmesg and sys

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1

2011-04-04 Thread Adrian C.
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Just out of interest, are you only booting this kernel with lilo or > others too? > >> I forgot to mention that the previous kernel 2.6.38.1-1 LILO can use. I booted 2.6.38.2-1 with syslinux, it went fine. -- Adrian C. (anrxc) | anrxc..sysphere.or

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1

2011-04-04 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On 04/04/2011 03:08 PM, Adrian C. wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > I don't think Lilo should be a show stopper. Use a more modern > bootloader such as Syslinux (if you want simple), Grub 1 or Grub 2. Modern, like grub? LILO is in [core], and is actively being developed. It

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1

2011-04-04 Thread Adrian C.
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Adrian C. wrote: > > Just out of interest, are you only booting this kernel with lilo or > > others too? > > Just LILO, I haven't tried grub, but did wrote a menu.lst in advance > if I had to. Sorry, for the second time I forgot to mention that the previous kernel 2.6.38.1

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1

2011-04-04 Thread Adrian C.
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > I don't think Lilo should be a show stopper. Use a more modern > bootloader such as Syslinux (if you want simple), Grub 1 or Grub 2. Modern, like grub? LILO is in [core], and is actively being developed. It was also a part of the Arch installation f

Re: [arch-general] gtk3-engines doesn't work

2011-04-04 Thread Cédric Girard
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Heiher wrote: > Hello, > > Could you tell me why gtk3-engines doesn't work? Seems the gtk3 not > load it by 'strace'. > > -- > Best regards! > Heiher > Hello, Wrong ML. This package is in AUR. Regards, -- Cédric Girard

[arch-general] gtk3-engines doesn't work

2011-04-04 Thread Heiher
Hello, Could you tell me why gtk3-engines doesn't work? Seems the gtk3 not load it by 'strace'. -- Best regards! Heiher

[arch-general] Packages for stable core EFL libraries?

2011-04-04 Thread mathieu p
Hi, The current packages for eina, evas, ecore, etc in community are -svn, and since the enlightenment team released the 1.0 ( http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=news/show&l=en&news_id=28) and later the 1.0.1 (http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=news/show&l=en&news_id=29) version of their toolki

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1

2011-04-04 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Montag 04 April 2011 schrieb Adrian C.: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > Hi guys, > > please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches. > > Can't signoff i686. LILO can not boot it. > > # /sbin/lilo -v > ... > Fatal: Setup length exceeds 31 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite b

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1

2011-04-04 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 10:08:09 +0200, Adrian C. wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches. Can't signoff i686. LILO can not boot it. # /sbin/lilo -v ... Fatal: Setup length exceeds 31 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot loae

[arch-general] Where should system-wide vim files go?

2011-04-04 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
I installed vim-peaksea from the AUR the other day and couldn't use it, because it installed in /usr/share/vim/colors/peaksea.vim. This seems a fairly standard directory, but its not in runtimepath on a fresh install (AFAIK). Checked out some other vim colour-themes on the AUR, the majority seem t

Re: [arch-general] deprecate grub (legacy) - opinion?

2011-04-04 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Heiko Baums wrote: > > Not a good idea. Syslinux doesn't work on multiboot systems and grub2 > is not marked as stable as far as I know. > No version of GRUB legacy has ever been marked as stable either. Its been marked as alpha software from its inception, until its deprecation in favour of GRUB2

Re: [arch-general] Default Bootloader for AIF

2011-04-04 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On 04/04/2011 12:04 AM, Brendan Long wrote: On 03/27/2011 01:47 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote: On a side note, I think it is also useful to have GPT partitioning as default now since it is way superior to MBR (see logical partitions linked-list info) and supports multiple primary partitions. I'm not su

Re: [arch-general] deprecate grub (legacy) - opinion?

2011-04-04 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:07:03 +0530 schrieb "KESHAV P.R." : > I want your opinion regarding whether grub-legacy (core/grub) > package should be deprecated (downgrade it to extra/community/AUR) now > that syslinux is in core. Not a good idea. Syslinux doesn't work on multiboot systems and g

Re: [arch-general] deprecate grub (legacy) - opinion?

2011-04-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
grub legacy is all that will install on my amd k8 computer for some strange reason at least according to debian when I try upgrading grub. On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, KESHAV P.R. wrote: > Hi all, > I want your opinion regarding whether grub-legacy (core/grub) > package should be deprecated (dow

[arch-general] deprecate grub (legacy) - opinion?

2011-04-04 Thread KESHAV P.R.
Hi all, I want your opinion regarding whether grub-legacy (core/grub) package should be deprecated (downgrade it to extra/community/AUR) now that syslinux is in core. THe actual upstream has been dead for 4 years and every fork (grub4dos, super grub disk, grub-fedora) is either lacking in

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1

2011-04-04 Thread Adrian C.
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches. Can't signoff i686. LILO can not boot it. # /sbin/lilo -v ... Fatal: Setup length exceeds 31 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot loaer Machines would be left in a constant state of reb