[arch-general] New LTS kernel soon ?

2012-01-09 Thread fredbezies
Read this : https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/9/418 So, is Arch going to move is LTS kernel to 3.0.x, instead of 2.6.32.x where x is something like 52 ? -- Frederic Bezies fredbez...@gmail.com

Re: [arch-general] java-7-openjdk has been splitted

2012-01-09 Thread Andreas Radke
Am Mon, 9 Jan 2012 22:07:46 +0100 schrieb Heiko Baums : > Haven't you done this already two or three months ago? > > Heiko > First we split it into JRE and JDK, this time we split JRE into -headless and additional desktop files. -Andy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] udev-compat update (was: [HEADSUP] Minimum kernel version bump)

2012-01-09 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 01/07/2012 02:11 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: Hi guys, On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: I'll fix some minor issues I found (lacking static device nodes) when I push the next udev-compat release. Following up on this, I pushed a fix to trunk, and a pkg is available here:

Re: [arch-general] Hi from a new Arch user

2012-01-09 Thread hunterm
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Re: [arch-general] pacman update conflict

2012-01-09 Thread Sander Jansen
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Peter Lewis wrote: > On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 19:12:57 Sander Jansen wrote: >> resolving dependencies... >> looking for inter-conflicts... >> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) >> >> :: gcc: requires gcc-libs=4.6.2-1 >> :: valgrind: r

[arch-general] OT: misreadings? was: Re: [off-topic] Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver

2012-01-09 Thread Guus Snijders
On 05-01-12 01:17, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Jan 4, 2012 2:30 PM, "Jonathan Vasquez" wrote: [top posting] It's all good -- nice work on the contributions elsewhere -- best to simply ignore nonconstructive thoughts entirely. I would recommend you and others open a new thread with your re

Re: [arch-general] java-7-openjdk has been splitted

2012-01-09 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:34:58 +0100 schrieb Andreas Radke : > To satisfy server admins not forcing them install lots of typical > desktop deps (FS#27621) I've reworked our (openjdk7) JRE pkg and now > it's splitted into jre7-opnjdk-headless and an addon jre7-openjdk > desktop package. (I've followed

Re: [arch-general] java-7-openjdk has been splitted

2012-01-09 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 9 January 2012 15:40, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Andreas Radke > wrote: > > To satisfy server admins not forcing them install lots of typical > > desktop deps (FS#27621) I've reworked our (openjdk7) JRE pkg and now > > it's splitted into jre7-opnjdk-headless and

Re: [arch-general] java-7-openjdk has been splitted

2012-01-09 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Andreas Radke wrote: > To satisfy server admins not forcing them install lots of typical > desktop deps (FS#27621) I've reworked our (openjdk7) JRE pkg and now > it's splitted into jre7-opnjdk-headless and an addon jre7-openjdk > desktop package. (I've followed Debi

[arch-general] java-7-openjdk has been splitted

2012-01-09 Thread Andreas Radke
To satisfy server admins not forcing them install lots of typical desktop deps (FS#27621) I've reworked our (openjdk7) JRE pkg and now it's splitted into jre7-opnjdk-headless and an addon jre7-openjdk desktop package. (I've followed Debian here, they do a good job here). I expect some people cryin

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-09 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
>> When I compiled my custom kernel (from upstream, and yes I did enable >> device mapper support compiled into the kernel, I've also experimented >> with it as a module), the kernel fails to see the / partition. > > Short answer: It's not possible. The kernel is unable to scan for LVM > and activa

Re: [arch-general] 3 errors not sure of .

2012-01-09 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Monday 09 January 2012 10:09:38 Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 12:59:18 Peter Nikolic wrote: > > I cant even get the new stuff to take my old data from KDE 4.6.5 > > (4.6.5) "release 7 . > > Yeah, migrations are probably the trickiest area, because it's a one-time > thing.

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.01.2012 04:58, schrieb Jonathan Vasquez: > Hello everyone, > > So I've been experimenting on removing my use of initrd and using the > kernel directly. > > My current setup is the following: > > GPT, LVM, GRUB2 (So I can boot my partitions that are inside the LVM). > > /dev/sda1 BIOS Boot

Re: [arch-general] 3 errors not sure of .

2012-01-09 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 12:59:18 Peter Nikolic wrote: > I cant even get the new stuff to take my old data from KDE 4.6.5 (4.6.5) > "release 7 . Yeah, migrations are probably the trickiest area, because it's a one-time thing. What exactly are you trying to migrate, and what happens now? Paul

[arch-general] [dbscripts] Integrity check false-positives when overriding package information from package() (was: Perl dependencies)

2012-01-09 Thread Florian Pritz
Short summary: The last integrity check included some missing dependencies that are actually not missing, but provided by perl. The problem is that these provisions are generate at build time and not included in the PKGBUILD so the check won't deal with them correctly. On 09.01.2012 04:43, Qadri w

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-09 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Jonathan Vasquez > wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> So I've been experimenting on removing my use of initrd and using the >> kernel directly. >> >> My current setup is the following: >> >> GPT, LVM, GRUB2 (So I

[arch-general] Re: Email via mutt+offlineimap+msmtp

2012-01-09 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 07/01/12, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > I am trying to send and receive emaisl using mutt. I am using > offlineimap to download and store all my emails from two of my gmail > accounts. I use the same tools but msmtp. To not have to play with more than one account in a mutt session I have one mutt

Re: [arch-general] pacman update conflict

2012-01-09 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 19:12:57 Sander Jansen wrote: > resolving dependencies... > looking for inter-conflicts... > error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) > > :: gcc: requires gcc-libs=4.6.2-1 > :: valgrind: requires glibc<2.15 > > Any suggestions on how to fix this

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-09 Thread Jan Steffens
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > Hello everyone, > > So I've been experimenting on removing my use of initrd and using the > kernel directly. > > My current setup is the following: > > GPT, LVM, GRUB2 (So I can boot my partitions that are inside the LVM). > > /dev/sda1 BIO

Re: [arch-general] Hi from a new Arch user

2012-01-09 Thread Martti Kühne
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