Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-07 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Monaco wrote: > I like having volume control for HDMI out. And I like that this mysterious > starving audio, playing silence, glitch has disappeared. But I don't like > that pulse uses so much CPU and i think it's a major reason why my computer > is runn 5-

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

2011-04-07 Thread Attila
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:34:42 +0200 Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > cronie also appears to be the nicest migration choice for users who > are not used to fcron. It seems to support anachron features, cron.d, > daily/weekly/etc, is able to actually keep time and works just like > expected whereas fcron

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-07 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 04/07/2011 03:01 PM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote: Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote: GNOME 3.0.0 packages are now available in the [testing] repository. These bring with it an update to gtk2, as well as the new gtk3. This is a major update and you should take note of a co

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

2011-04-07 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Kaiting Chen wrote: > > The thing is that cronie is forked from vixie-cron which is much older than > fcron. And I would venture to say that vixie-cron or some derivative is the > default crond for the vast majority of distributions out there. --Kaiting. > Why do you have --disable-anacron in the

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

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas S Hatch
> cronie also appears to be the nicest migration choice for users who are > not used to fcron. It seems to support anachron features, cron.d, > daily/weekly/etc, is able to actually keep time and works just like > expected whereas fcron has fcrontab with a slightly different syntax. We > could actu

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

2011-04-07 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 08.04.2011 00:15, Kaiting Chen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: > >> Why do you need vixie cron syntax? Can't you migrate once to a new >> syntax? Btw., most of fcron's syntax is the same as the syntax of every >> cron daemon. You can easily take your previous crontab

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

2011-04-07 Thread Kaiting Chen
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Why do you need vixie cron syntax? Can't you migrate once to a new > syntax? Btw., most of fcron's syntax is the same as the syntax of every > cron daemon. You can easily take your previous crontabs. You probably > have only to do some changes

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

2011-04-07 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 7 Apr 2011 23:16:46 +0200 schrieb Heiko Baums : > But let's try to get objective again. Btw., generally it doesn't really matter that much which cron daemon is installed by AIF. Another cron daemon can easily be installed afterwards. A cron daemon is not such an important and sensible sof

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

2011-04-07 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 7 Apr 2011 21:53:58 +0200 schrieb Marek Otahal : > Sorry to sound rude, but Heiko, it's you who is pushing fcron so > unhealthily heavily. I wouldn't have no opinion on the two crons but > after reading the discussion I'd stick to cronie. Just my 2c. Well, on the one hand yes, on the oth

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

2011-04-07 Thread Marek Otahal
On Thursday 07 of April 2011 12:32:50 Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 22:03:23 -0600 > > I spent quite some time as a trainer for Red Hat and taught classes on > > SELinux. > > Is this why you want to push cronie so heavily? > > Heiko Sorry to sound rude, but Heiko, it's you who is pushin

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-07 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Thomas S Hatch wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > >> I guess you mean http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/32759 > > Thanks for the link, I did not want to bring up SELinux yet, because I will > not be getting to it for a few months, but this will help

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > Yaro Kasear wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 18:13:04 Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > >> Thomas S Hatch wrote: > >> > > >> > Yes the systemd topic keeps popping up, right now we don't know > >> > if certain upstream changes are going

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-07 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Yaro Kasear wrote: > On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 18:13:04 Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: >> Thomas S Hatch wrote: >> > >> > Yes the systemd topic keeps popping up, right now we don't know >> > if certain upstream changes are going to force Arch into using systemd > or >> > not. >> >> I dont think s

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

2011-04-07 Thread Divan Santana
On Thursday 07 April 2011 18:08:39 Yaro Kasear wrote: > Selinux is another unneeded thing, but even worse is that it practically > requires a doctorate in computer science to manipulate. Can't deny its > security, though. +1 to leaving it out of Arch, not that anyone's asking > Arch to. I don't

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Re: [hylafax-users] Error building 6.0.5 on Arch Linux /sys/stat.h:299:47: error: declaration of ‘int fchmod(int, __mode_t) throw ()’ throws different exceptions

2011-04-07 Thread David C. Rankin
On 04/07/2011 11:41 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: but I can't help but wondering if something is checking ownership expecting to find the files owned by the 'fax' user and then not executing the faxrcvd or notify commands as a result. It's not just ownership of the executables, but also the files

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Re: [hylafax-users] Error building 6.0.5 on Arch Linux /sys/stat.h:299:47: error: declaration of ‘int fchmod(int, __mode_t) throw ()’ throws different exceptions

2011-04-07 Thread David C. Rankin
On 04/01/2011 09:13 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: It's probably going to be build with gcc4.6 ;) Jelle, When the next version is built, we need to take a look at the file ownership for the files under /var/spool/hylafax. Currently the files are owned by root or uucp. However, we have a 'fa

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

2011-04-07 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:08:39 -0500 schrieb Yaro Kasear : > Selinux is another unneeded thing, but even worse is that it > practically requires a doctorate in computer science to manipulate. > Can't deny its security, though. +1 to leaving it out of Arch, not > that anyone's asking Arch to. For peo

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

2011-04-07 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 18:13:04 Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > 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 tha

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

2011-04-07 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 15:27:27 Thomas Bächler wrote: > 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 > > > > A

Re: [arch-general] Possibility of including xorg input patch

2011-04-07 Thread Cédric Girard
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Florian Pritz wrote: > Has upstream accepted that patch? The corresponding bug report is: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865 It seems there is still some work to be done before the patch can be accepted upstream. -- Cédric Girard

Re: [arch-general] Possibility of including xorg input patch

2011-04-07 Thread Florian Pritz
On 07.04.2011 17:05, Kirill Churin wrote: > Can this patch https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=33142 be > applied to Arch's xorg? Has upstream accepted that patch? -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[arch-general] Possibility of including xorg input patch

2011-04-07 Thread Kirill Churin
Can this patch https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=33142 be applied to Arch's xorg? It solves famous problem https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865 with broken keyboard input for users who use multiple keyboard layouts without any noticeable side-effects. It's known this patch

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

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 07.04.2011 04:30, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: > > 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

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 07.04.2011 04:36, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: > > I like to hear that Tom! > > Unfortunately many people think that having SELinux compiled in means > that > > it is running, having SELinux compiled into the core utils and the kernel > > but

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

2011-04-07 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:30:46 -0600 schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > 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. Data center? So the systems are running

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

2011-04-07 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 22:03:23 -0600 schrieb Thomas S Hatch : > I would say that we should consider compatibility with vixie cron > syntax - this is and has been the expected syntax for the default > cron daemon for a LONG time and avoids hindering Arch Linux adoption. Why do you need vixie cron syn

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

2011-04-07 Thread Divan Santana
On Thursday 07 April 2011 00:25:42 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by default, > +1 +1 -- Divan Santana

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

2011-04-07 Thread Divan Santana
On Thursday 07 April 2011 00:25:42 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > As for adding SELinux support in base but keeping it turned off by default, > +1 +1 -- Divan Santana

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

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.04.2011 04:30, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: > 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. I think that will be more valuable than any continuatio

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

2011-04-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 21:22:14 -0600 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > I think that Arch would benefit from inducing SELinux as an option > because it expands the venues available for Arch Linux systems, I > also think that inclusion in base of SELinux requires a minimal > amount of maintenance and SELinux is

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.04.2011 04:36, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: > I like to hear that Tom! > Unfortunately many people think that having SELinux compiled in means that > it is running, having SELinux compiled into the core utils and the kernel > but leaving it turned off has 0 negative effect on the system. If that