Re: [arch-general] Apppearance of .pacnew files

2012-06-05 Thread Allan McRae
On 06/06/12 16:21, Geoffroy PLANQUART wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a question about the appearance of .pacnew files. I've got two > servers running archlinux, and I did pacman's 4.0.3 upgrade on both. > > The first server did the upgrade as expected, creating the pacman.conf.pacnew > file. > > Th

[arch-general] Apppearance of .pacnew files

2012-06-05 Thread Geoffroy PLANQUART
Hi, I've got a question about the appearance of .pacnew files. I've got two servers running archlinux, and I did pacman's 4.0.3 upgrade on both. The first server did the upgrade as expected, creating the pacman.conf.pacnew file. The second server merge my file with the new one, without asking

Re: [arch-general] virtualbox-bin aur - vboxdrv -> dkms -> confusion...

2012-06-05 Thread Sébastien Luttringer
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >  Is there a benefit to the AUR version over the Community version? They > should be feature equivalent now. Most features should be the same as non-free code is in virtualbox-ext-oracle[1]. Using community version is recommended. There is

Re: [arch-general] virtualbox-bin aur - vboxdrv -> dkms -> confusion...

2012-06-05 Thread Genes MailLists
... > > virtualbox-bin is an AUR package, discution should take place in aur-general. > ... Is there a benefit to the AUR version over the Community version? They should be feature equivalent now. gene

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-05 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jun 4, Alexandre Ferrando did say: > On 4 June 2012 22:27, Sudaraka Wijesinghe > wrote: > > If this is a poll, I vote "Arch should require Secure Boot to be disabled" > > > > I choose a distro like Arch because it doesn't have a financial motive > > and will not give int

Re: [arch-general] virtualbox-bin aur - vboxdrv -> dkms -> confusion...

2012-06-05 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:23 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 06/05/2012 03:16 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> So how do I rebuild the module manually in this case? sudo /etc/rc.d/dkms restart. >> >>   Also, since I don't really want the module autogenerated, do I even need >> dkms in the DAEMONS

Re: [arch-general] virtualbox-bin aur - vboxdrv -> dkms -> confusion...

2012-06-05 Thread Sébastien Luttringer
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:16 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >  So I read the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Virtualbox ... This page is for virtualbox official package. You can find informations in the package comment page. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51727 >  Also, since I don't

Re: [arch-general] virtualbox-bin aur - vboxdrv -> dkms -> confusion...

2012-06-05 Thread David C. Rankin
On 06/05/2012 03:16 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: So how do I rebuild the module manually in this case? Also, since I don't really want the module autogenerated, do I even need dkms in the DAEMONS line of rc.conf? What I want to do is just leave MODULES=(vboxdrv), but I need to know how to b

[arch-general] virtualbox-bin aur - vboxdrv -> dkms -> confusion...

2012-06-05 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I just updated virtualbox-bin from aur to 4.1.16 and I'm confused by the drop of the /etc/rc.d/vboxdrv init script. After building and installing the package I received the warning: ==> **Warning** ==> This version drop vboxdrv initscript. ==> Please change to dkms instead of vboxdrv

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-05 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 5 June 2012 17:25, Calvin Morrison wrote: > > Just wondering - why does it have to be Microsoft's Key to used? It doesn't. You can sign boot loader using your own key. But then you need to store this key in UEFI firmware. This is actually what I'm suggesting – that we should create an Arch Li

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-05 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/05/2012 11:25 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote: > > Just wondering - why does it have to be Microsoft's Key to used? Could > there be an Arch Linux provided key that would allow a Secure Boot? > > Thanks > > calvin > To be a bit more precise - the key belongs to the owner as always. It's the

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-05 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 5 June 2012 09:54, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > On 4 June 2012 22:27, Sudaraka Wijesinghe > wrote: >> >> If this is a poll, I vote "Arch should require Secure Boot to be disabled" >> >> I choose a distro like Arch because it doesn't have a financial motive >> and will not give into market pressur

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-05 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 4 June 2012 22:27, Sudaraka Wijesinghe wrote: > > If this is a poll, I vote "Arch should require Secure Boot to be disabled" > > I choose a distro like Arch because it doesn't have a financial motive > and will not give into market pressures such as this. > If we want keep hardware vendors from

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-05 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 31 May 2012 10:48:27 Genes MailLists wrote: > Matthew Garret(Redhat) has written[1] an updated and interesting > blog on this topic; which of course will impact arch too ... sharing > in case anyone hasn't seen it: > >http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html > > gene/ > > [1] A

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-05 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 31 May 2012 10:48:27 Genes MailLists wrote: > Matthew Garret(Redhat) has written[1] an updated and interesting > blog on this topic; which of course will impact arch too ... sharing > in case anyone hasn't seen it: > >http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html > > gene/ > > [1] A