Re: [arch-general] Multithreaded XZ

2014-12-21 Thread Christian Hesse
Jan Alexander Steffens on Mon, 2014/12/22 08:07: > On Dec 22, 2014 8:00 AM, "Christian Hesse" wrote: > > For Arch packages there is nothing that requires repeatable output. > > Yes, there is. Package signatures are made using the compressed package. > Delta packages work by patching the uncompre

Re: [arch-general] Multithreaded XZ

2014-12-21 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Dec 22, 2014 8:00 AM, "Christian Hesse" wrote: > For Arch packages there is nothing that requires repeatable output. Yes, there is. Package signatures are made using the compressed package. Delta packages work by patching the uncompressed package and then recompressing it. If the compressor wo

Re: [arch-general] Multithreaded XZ

2014-12-21 Thread Christian Hesse
Jan Alexander Steffens on Mon, 2014/12/22 04:08: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Mark Lee wrote: > > Now that xz is multithreaded (not available in Arch Repos yet); I was > > wondering if package building and installing would, by default, > > utilize multiple threads. Sure. I do use the multi

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning

2014-12-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.12.2014 um 22:48 schrieb Leonid Isaev: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 09:49:42PM +0100, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: >> Thanks everyone for your responses! It seems that gdisk is still favorable >> for advanced tasks, but fdisk is can be used for basic tasks, as are >> usually required by beginners.

Re: [arch-general] dhcpcd not working after install from custom iso

2014-12-21 Thread Christian Demsar
On December 17, 2014 2:46:07 PM EST, "P. A. López-Valencia" wrote: > >On 17/12/14 09:22, Christian Demsar wrote: >> I had internet connection when installing from an iso I built using >the >> archiso tools, but dhcpcd isn't connecting any more (starting via >> sytemd). I've also had internet acce

Re: [arch-general] Multithreaded XZ

2014-12-21 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Mark Lee wrote: > Now that xz is multithreaded (not available in Arch Repos yet); I was > wondering if package building and installing would, by default, > utilize multiple threads. It won't, since the output of XZ in multi-threaded mode is different from single-t

Re: [arch-general] Multithreaded XZ

2014-12-21 Thread Troy Engel
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Mark Lee wrote: > > Now that xz is multithreaded (not available in Arch Repos yet); I was > wondering if package building and installing would, by default, > utilize multiple threads. You can do it already - just set the environment variable XZ_OPTS="-T x" (where

[arch-general] Multithreaded XZ

2014-12-21 Thread Mark Lee
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Re: [arch-general] hp myroom

2014-12-21 Thread Javier Vasquez
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Javier Vasquez > wrote: > Hi, > ... > With virtualRooms I don't have any problems getting whatever is shared from > the virtual rooms. > > With myRoom I can use the VoIP functionality, I can chat, I can share > desktop, and from my room I can also share desktop

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning

2014-12-21 Thread Sebastiaan Lokhorst
2014-12-21 22:48 GMT+01:00 Leonid Isaev : > > This is not true. Some low-end modern machines completely drop legacy > BIOS > > boot. So booting via UEFI is required, and thus GPT is required. > > I really doubt this. Are you saying that some vendors on purpose break such > things as booting from a

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning

2014-12-21 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 09:49:42PM +0100, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: > Thanks everyone for your responses! It seems that gdisk is still favorable > for advanced tasks, but fdisk is can be used for basic tasks, as are > usually required by beginners. No, that was my point: for "advanced" tasks you

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning

2014-12-21 Thread Sebastiaan Lokhorst
Thanks everyone for your responses! It seems that gdisk is still favorable for advanced tasks, but fdisk is can be used for basic tasks, as are usually required by beginners. 2014-12-17 5:43 GMT+01:00 Stefan Höck : > > However, I think we still should consider having only UEFI in the > beginners g

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning

2014-12-21 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 08:15:26PM +0100, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > On 2014-12-16 19:58, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Since more than a year now, fdisk (provided by util-linux) has had GPT > > support. This theoretically makes gdisk a duplicate of fdisk, and we could > >

Re: [arch-general] Booting ArchLinux with `initscripts` is now broken

2014-12-21 Thread P. A. López-Valencia
Hmm... If the other message wen through, my apologies, it is completely wrong. On 19/12/14 17:13, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: Hello all! I'm in a little bit of a pickle, and I would like to ask for some help with my particular setup. I haven't switched to `systemd` and I'm still booting my s

Re: [arch-general] Booting ArchLinux with `initscripts` is now broken

2014-12-21 Thread P. A. López-Valencia
On 19/12/14 17:13, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: Hello all! I'm in a little bit of a pickle, and I would like to ask for some help with my particular setup. I haven't switched to `systemd` and I'm still booting my system with the old `initscripts` `/etc/rc.sysinit` and friends (except this all