Re: [arch-general] Daylight Saving Time canceled in Ukraine, will Arch know?

2011-09-22 Thread Jonathan
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 23:27:50 -0400, Jonathan wrote: > > You can check the current DST dates with "zgrep -v /etc/localtime | grep > > 2011" Once you get the updated package you can copy the new zoneinfo file > > from /usr/share/zoneinf

Re: [arch-general] ConvertXToDVD alternative for Linux.

2011-09-22 Thread Luis Cabarcas
spumux it's a very simple comand line utility to mux subtitles into mpg files, search for it it should be trivial to make a pkgbuild for this piece of software. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On Thursday, September 22, 2011, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > > > On Thursday, Sep

[arch-general] Pacman 4.0.0rc2

2011-09-22 Thread Dan McGee
You don't need to be as daring this time- we've had some 246 commits since RC1. The most relevant changes is signing is about 95% functional at this point- see directions below the links. * pacman -U http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz * pacman -U http://dev.archlinux.o

[arch-general] mcabber failing to connect (loudmouth+openssl issue)

2011-09-22 Thread Robin Martinjak
Hi, if anyone else has problems using mcabber (or freetalk?) with ssl, rebuilding loudmouth wih "--with-ssl=openssl" fixes the issue: https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/issue/81/cant-establish-tls-ssl-connection-after Regards, Robin pgpb55K0Qj9mL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] What about packaging something like "emacs-goodies" in AUR?

2011-09-22 Thread Auguste Pop
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:48 PM, XeCycle wrote: > Hello list. > > I found the package `emacs-goodies-el' quite useful when I was using > Ubuntu, but Arch doesn't seem to have a equivalent package.  I know I > can install them myself, but it may be better to pack some of the most > used into one p

Re: [arch-general] Daylight Saving Time canceled in Ukraine, will Arch know?

2011-09-22 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 19:29:17 +0300, Barton wrote: > How would Arch Linux handle it for the users who do not have NTP > configured? Btw, this has nothing to do with NTP (or other time synchrnonisation mechanisms). The system's internal clock uses epoch time, which is timezone independent. T

Re: [arch-general] Daylight Saving Time canceled in Ukraine, will Arch know?

2011-09-22 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 23:27:50 -0400, Jonathan wrote: > You can check the current DST dates with "zgrep -v /etc/localtime | grep > 2011" Once you get the updated package you can copy the new zoneinfo file > from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime. You want "zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 20

Re: [arch-general] ConvertXToDVD alternative for Linux.

2011-09-22 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Thursday, September 22, 2011, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On Thursday, September 22, 2011, Joshua Stiefer wrote: > >> On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 11:53 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: >> > On Thursday, September 22, 2011, marshall wrote: >> > >> > > On 22/09/11 06:02, Madhurya Kakati wrote: >> > > >> > >>

Re: [arch-general] ConvertXToDVD alternative for Linux.

2011-09-22 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Madhurya Kakati's message of 2011-09-22 05:58:59 +0200: > Hi, > One of the very few reasons that I still Dual boot windows is that I don't > know how to convert media files from one format to another in Linux. On > windows I use 2 very easy to use softwares namely FormatFactory and >

Re: [arch-general] ConvertXToDVD alternative for Linux.

2011-09-22 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Thursday, September 22, 2011, Joshua Stiefer wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 11:53 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > > On Thursday, September 22, 2011, marshall wrote: > > > > > On 22/09/11 06:02, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > > > > > >> On Thursday, September 22, 2011, marshall wrote: > > >> > > >> O