Re: [arch-general] What happened to Powerpill?

2011-04-06 Thread Jeff Cook
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > Please, someone restart powerpill development. It was awesome. I had > to remove it in order to upgrade to pacman 3.5 but now I can't find it > anywhere. > The developer's post on the forums indicates that he's been working on a far better

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Attila
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 00:29:36 +0200 Heiko Baums wrote: > > cronie extends the original vixie cron package so the syntax, core > > feature set, etc are stable > > cronie implements advanced security hooks as well and can integrate > > with SELINUX (I am saving the "include SELINUX support in base for

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.37.6-1

2011-04-06 Thread Meyithi
On 6 April 2011 20:25, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Donnerstag 31 März 2011 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > > Upstream update. This package is NOT in testing (2.6.38 currently > > resides there), but at: > > http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/kernel26/ > > > > please signoff for both arches. > > > > g

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:24 PM, David C. Rankin < drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > On 04/06/2011 04:43 PM, Sander Jansen wrote: > >> This seems to be a monthly recurring discussion. How about not >> providing any default, just put all the different cron(s) in extra? >> I think eventually s

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Simon Perry
On 07/04/11, Heiko Baums wrote: | And this doesn't work in dcron, at least not as reliable as | the equivalent &bootrun of fcron. And that's one point why fcron is | much better than dcron. Are you sure that this is working in cronie? If | yes, are you sure that this works in cronie as reliable as

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:24:45 -0500 schrieb "David C. Rankin" : > Upstream stability makes sense. If redhat is behind cronie, then that > seems like the logical choice. Why is this logical? Is it the developer what makes a software good or is it the features and the stability? If Redhat's cronie h

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:07:17 +1000 schrieb Simon Perry : > On 06/04/11, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > | Right, both are viable choices, btw I will be migrating my > datacenters away | from dcron in the near future and doing a series > of tests on cronie and | fcron, I will post my findings to the list

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread David C. Rankin
On 04/06/2011 04:43 PM, Sander Jansen wrote: This seems to be a monthly recurring discussion. How about not providing any default, just put all the different cron(s) in extra? I think eventually systemd will provide a cron-like service :) Cheers, Sander Oh no, every distro needs a default cro

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:01 PM, DrCR wrote: > Could you guys elaborate on why you dislike selinux. I would > appreciate it. Do you prefer AppArmor, or do you dislike that as well? > > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis > wrote: > >> As for adding SELinux support in base but kee

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Simon Perry
On 06/04/11, Thomas S Hatch wrote: | Right, both are viable choices, btw I will be migrating my datacenters away | from dcron in the near future and doing a series of tests on cronie and | fcron, I will post my findings to the list. Here's one reason I stopped using fcron and went to cronie: | 2

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread DrCR
Could you guys elaborate on why you dislike selinux. I would appreciate it. Do you prefer AppArmor, or do you dislike that as well? On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: >> As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by default, >> +1 > > Although this isn

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Heiko Baums > wrote: > > > >> Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:25:42 -0600 > >> schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > >> > >> > As for adding SELinux support in base but ke

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Kaiting Chen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > > cronie has anacron features and I think is a good option. > > > > Unfortunately cronie isn't even in [community] yet. I've been trying to get > it there for a while. Also, in what wa

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Ángel Velásquez
2011/4/6 Tom Gundersen : > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: >> >>> Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:25:42 -0600 >>> schrieb Thomas S Hatch : >>> >>> > As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by >>> > default,

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > >> Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:25:42 -0600 >> schrieb Thomas S Hatch : >> >> > As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by >> > default, +1 >> >> Then you mean adding it t

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Kaiting Chen
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > cronie has anacron features and I think is a good option. > Unfortunately cronie isn't even in [community] yet. I've been trying to get it there for a while. Also, in what way is another crond + anacron inferior to fcron? --Kaiting. -- Ki

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

2011-04-06 Thread Kaiting Chen
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > Because the vast majority of vim extensions I've come across are turned on > as soon as they are installed, which means that installing them centrally > turns them on for *all* users on the system. > You could do set noloadplugins and then

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 and gcc 4.6 in Fedora 15

2011-04-06 Thread Bill Day
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > On 04/06/2011 12:14 AM, Bill Day wrote: > >> >> My installation of gnome shell in Arch throws an error saying that >>> >> gnome-shell can't find libgnome-bluetooth-applet. The bug is documented >> elsewhere, but no one seems to have suggested

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:57:58 -0600 > schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > > > All I want is a good decision to be made and have a crond that is not > > buggy. Therefore I think that it is foolish not to present the > > available options in an accurate lig

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Thomas S Hatch wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > >> Thomas S Hatch wrote: >> > >> > I am saving the "include SELINUX support in base for a latter date" >> > >> > my understanding though is that the stated position of Arch was "no >> > systemd" >> >> s/was/is/g >>

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:57:58 -0600 schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > All I want is a good decision to be made and have a crond that is not > buggy. Therefore I think that it is foolish not to present the > available options in an accurate light. fcron is absolutely not buggy as far as I can tell. I'm usi

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:30:26 -0600 > schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > > > dcron and fcron are not under active development, > > fcron is under active development. It's just feature complete and > therefore not developed anymore, but bugs are still fix

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:25:42 -0600 > schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > > > As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by > > default, +1 > > Then you mean adding it to [core]. (base) is supposed to be installed > on every system. A

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:30:26 -0600 schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > dcron and fcron are not under active development, fcron is under active development. It's just feature complete and therefore not developed anymore, but bugs are still fixed if they occur. So don't mix it up with a "dead" project. I gue

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:54:00 -0600 schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > Unfortunately this particular issue is not like the good ol' > syslog-ng vs rsyslog debate, this one is about the present default > having bugs that upstream is not fixing. No, this issue is worse than the syslog-ng vs. rsyslog debate a

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:25:42 -0600 schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by > default, +1 Then you mean adding it to [core]. (base) is supposed to be installed on every system. And SELinux is definitely not necessary for a minimal base Linux ins

Re: [arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > > > I am saving the "include SELINUX support in base for a latter date" > > > > my understanding though is that the stated position of Arch was "no > > systemd" > > s/was/is/g > > That is also my understanding in

[arch-general] base stuff (was: Change Arch's default crond)

2011-04-06 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > I am saving the "include SELINUX support in base for a latter date" > > my understanding though is that the stated position of Arch was "no > systemd" s/was/is/g That is also my understanding in regards to selinux. Although i am not familiar with "stated positions" about

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Sander Jansen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Heiko Baums > wrote: > > > >> Am Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:27:27 +0200 > >> schrieb Thomas Bächler : > >> > >> > That said, fcron lacks /etc/cron.d/ functio

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Sander Jansen
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > >> Am Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:27:27 +0200 >> schrieb Thomas Bächler : >> >> > That said, fcron lacks /etc/cron.d/ functionality which was the most >> > important argument against it. I persona

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:27:27 +0200 > schrieb Thomas Bächler : > > > That said, fcron lacks /etc/cron.d/ functionality which was the most > > important argument against it. I personally don't need that and I like > > fcron a lot. > > Are you sur

Re: [arch-general] GNUstep path

2011-04-06 Thread Cédric Girard
2011/4/6 Cédric Girard > I'll test that and give feedback. OK. Thanks again to both of you and sorry for the noise. It is indeed working fine. -- Cédric Girard

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:27:27 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler : > That said, fcron lacks /etc/cron.d/ functionality which was the most > important argument against it. I personally don't need that and I like > fcron a lot. Are you sure about that? I mean, I didn't need /etc/cron.d, yet. So I don't kn

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.04.2011 09:19, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: > I can think of three considerations for a cron daemon: > 1 . Minimal - its a cron daemon, it does not need to be complex > 2. Active development > 3. Anacron functionality > > As far as I can see this leaves us with fcron, dcron and cronie. Cronie > p

Re: [arch-general] ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64/packages

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.04.2011 18:15, schrieb Sergej Pupykin: > > Hi, > > what is this symlink: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64/packages/ ? > Good question, I don't think it should be there. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 10:24:42 -0600 schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > The thing to do is contact the package maintainer and present the > idea, and ask what needs to be done to make the change. > > I for one +1 to the move, I like dcron, but when it takes this long > to fix bugs upstream we need to unfort

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux for mipsel (Loongson)

2011-04-06 Thread Nicolás Reynolds
El 07/04/11 01:08, Heiher dijo: > Hello everyone, > > Update > 1.Homepage: http://www.archloong.info > 2.Docs: http://www.archloong.info/archlinux/other/docs/ > > Currently, this system just release base system, users can install software > from mirror server. The desktop environment LXDE and man

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux for mipsel (Loongson)

2011-04-06 Thread Heiher
Hello everyone, Update 1.Homepage: http://www.archloong.info 2.Docs: http://www.archloong.info/archlinux/other/docs/ Currently, this system just release base system, users can install software from mirror server. The desktop environment LXDE and many softwares is works. This base system contain

Re: [arch-general] GNUstep path

2011-04-06 Thread Cédric Girard
Le 6 avr. 2011 18:40, "Lukáš Jirkovský" a écrit : > > On 6 April 2011 17:27, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > > At Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:34:50 +0200, > > Cédric Girard wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is there any particular reason why GNUstep (gnustep-base in [community]) get > >> installed in /opt/GNUste

Re: [arch-general] GNUstep path

2011-04-06 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 6 April 2011 17:27, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > At Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:34:50 +0200, > Cédric Girard wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Is there any particular reason why GNUstep (gnustep-base in [community]) get >> installed in /opt/GNUstep? Especially libraries in >> "/opt/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/"

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Corey Johns wrote: > fcron is pretty much the de facto cron of choice for anyone needing a cron > without special case needs. A nice general cron program. > > I do wonder about the bureaucratic processes in place to facillitate such a > switch, though. > The thin

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Corey Johns
fcron is pretty much the de facto cron of choice for anyone needing a cron without special case needs. A nice general cron program. I do wonder about the bureaucratic processes in place to facillitate such a switch, though.

[arch-general] ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64/packages

2011-04-06 Thread Sergej Pupykin
Hi, what is this symlink: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64/packages/ ?

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Ian-Xue Li
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:41:13AM +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > packages we know are broken by putting them into the base group. Perhaps > fcron is a fine choice. > > Bug report for reference: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18681 It surely would be great for fcron to replace dcron, since b

Re: [arch-general] GNUstep path

2011-04-06 Thread Sergej Pupykin
At Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:34:50 +0200, Cédric Girard wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there any particular reason why GNUstep (gnustep-base in [community]) get > installed in /opt/GNUstep? Especially libraries in > "/opt/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/" cannot be found by binaries > depending on them unles

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 and gcc 4.6 in Fedora 15

2011-04-06 Thread Sebastian Rust
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06.04.2011 16:37, Cédric Girard wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Sebastian Rust wrote: > >> Their current release date is May 24th > > > Is this really important when next Fedora is released? (Nothing personal > Sebastian, just a general qu

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 and gcc 4.6 in Fedora 15

2011-04-06 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 04/06/2011 06:13 PM, zhiwei wrote: Gnome 3 is late again define late -- Ionuț

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 and gcc 4.6 in Fedora 15

2011-04-06 Thread zhiwei
Gnome 3 is late again 2011/4/6 Cédric Girard > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Sebastian Rust >wrote: > > > Their current release date is May 24th > > > Is this really important when next Fedora is released? (Nothing personal > Sebastian, just a general question) > > FYI, GCC 4.6 has been relea

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 and gcc 4.6 in Fedora 15

2011-04-06 Thread Cédric Girard
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Sebastian Rust wrote: > Their current release date is May 24th Is this really important when next Fedora is released? (Nothing personal Sebastian, just a general question) FYI, GCC 4.6 has been released the 25th of March and Gnome 3 should be released today. --

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 and gcc 4.6 in Fedora 15

2011-04-06 Thread Sebastian Rust
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05.04.2011 19:51, Bernardo Barros wrote: > 2011/4/5 Rémy Oudompheng >> >> Fedora 15 has not been released and is in Alpha phase, which certainly >> does not mean it can be considered as stable. >> >> > I know, but they committed themselves to rele

[arch-general] GNUstep path

2011-04-06 Thread Cédric Girard
Hello, Is there any particular reason why GNUstep (gnustep-base in [community]) get installed in /opt/GNUstep? Especially libraries in "/opt/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/" cannot be found by binaries depending on them unless "/opt/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh" is sourced. Or may

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

2011-04-06 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Auguste Pop wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> 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

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

2011-04-06 Thread Auguste Pop
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > 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

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

2011-04-06 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:04, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: >> 2011/4/5 János Illés : >>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 13:18, Magnus Therning wrote: IMNSHO there are *very* few vim extensions that should ever be installed centrally.  I'd recommend

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

2011-04-06 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: > 2011/4/5 János Illés : >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 13:18, Magnus Therning wrote: >>> IMNSHO there are *very* few vim extensions that should ever be >>> installed centrally.  I'd recommend every vim user to embrace >>> GetLatestVimScripts[1] i

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

2011-04-06 Thread Magnus Therning
2011/4/5 János Illés : > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 13:18, Magnus Therning wrote: >> IMNSHO there are *very* few vim extensions that should ever be >> installed centrally.  I'd recommend every vim user to embrace >> GetLatestVimScripts[1] instead.  For the other stuff (read "broken vim >> extensions")