Re: [arch-general] Could not receive my Bugtracker Activation Code

2014-12-30 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
Random suggestion: have you tried asking for a password reset? https://bugs.archlinux.org/lostpw On 29 December 2014 at 22:57, Minh Nhut Duong wrote: > I try to create my account again but this user already taken. :( > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Eli Schwartz > wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec

Re: [arch-general] depends vs. optdepends

2014-12-30 Thread Eli Schwartz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Leonid Isaev wrote: > Well, other distros following certain packaging guidelines doesn't imply that > Arch should follow them as well. If you subscribe e.g. to fedora-devel you'll > see how much more complicated compared to Arch the packaging process in Fedora > is

[arch-general] makepkg as root

2014-12-30 Thread Magnus Therning
I just noticed that `makepkg` no longer accepts '--asroot', does that mean there now is no way to convince `makepkg` to build despite being run as root? /M P.S. I am fully aware of the problems with building as root, but as I'm only building packages I'm myself creating, and doing it in a docker

Re: [arch-general] A symlink in /etc

2014-12-30 Thread Neven Sajko
I guess that's why the plan9port ls presented it differently :) Thank you Scott, I should have first searched for more info on symlinks.

Re: [arch-general] A symlink in /etc

2014-12-30 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Neven Sajko wrote: Hello, I found a symlink named os-release in the /etc directory. The package it points to is owned by filesystem, but I don't know which package the symlink belongs to. And I think the symlink is world writable by mistake, but I don't know to whom should I

[arch-general] A symlink in /etc

2014-12-30 Thread Neven Sajko
Hello, I found a symlink named os-release in the /etc directory. The package it points to is owned by filesystem, but I don't know which package the symlink belongs to. And I think the symlink is world writable by mistake, but I don't know to whom should I report the bug. Does anyone know something

Re: [arch-general] depends vs. optdepends

2014-12-30 Thread Troy Engel
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Hopefully the "tribal knowledge" how maintainers decide what becomes a > suggested and what becomes a recommended dependency will be add by Troy > to the Debian and Ubuntu Wikis. The editing of the Arch Wiki IMO is > nonsense, just spreading

Re: [arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

2014-12-30 Thread Mohammad_AlSaleh
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 02:02:32PM +0100, Christian Hesse wrote: > Christian Hesse on Tue, 2014/12/30 13:42: > > Mohammad_AlSaleh on Tue, 2014/12/30 14:36: > > > Hello. > > > > > > I just came across some weird behavior. > > > > > > A small testcase: > > > > > > cd /tmp # should be tmpfs > > >

Re: [arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

2014-12-30 Thread Christian Hesse
Christian Hesse on Tue, 2014/12/30 13:42: > Mohammad_AlSaleh on Tue, 2014/12/30 14:36: > > Hello. > > > > I just came across some weird behavior. > > > > A small testcase: > > > > cd /tmp # should be tmpfs > > touch tfile > > ln -s tfile tlink > > cat tlink > > > > When cat executes, it retur

Re: [arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

2014-12-30 Thread Mohammad_AlSaleh
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 01:42:03PM +0100, Christian Hesse wrote: > Mohammad_AlSaleh on Tue, 2014/12/30 14:36: > > Hello. > > > > I just came across some weird behavior. > > > > A small testcase: > > > > cd /tmp # should be tmpfs > > touch tfile > > ln -s tfile tlink > > cat tlink > > > > When

Re: [arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

2014-12-30 Thread Christian Hesse
Mohammad_AlSaleh on Tue, 2014/12/30 14:36: > Hello. > > I just came across some weird behavior. > > A small testcase: > > cd /tmp # should be tmpfs > touch tfile > ln -s tfile tlink > cat tlink > > When cat executes, it returns with success(0). But, if cat is executed > as root, it fails with

[arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

2014-12-30 Thread Mohammad_AlSaleh
Hello. I just came across some weird behavior. A small testcase: cd /tmp # should be tmpfs touch tfile ln -s tfile tlink cat tlink When cat executes, it returns with success(0). But, if cat is executed as root, it fails with a permission denied error. What's really happening is, the open() sys

Re: [arch-general] depends vs. optdepends

2014-12-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:01:16 -0600, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:39:55 -0600 > Troy Engel wrote: > > Nor did I ever claim it was (and what are you even arguing here?) > > -- I was careful to mention the packaging tools (RPM/DEB) as both > > of these infrastructures underpin many di

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox - 1. How to solve a strange error? - 2. Another VM to replace VBox?

2014-12-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:05:03 +0200, psy...@tfwno.gf wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > 2. Is there another virtual machine easy to use, without a huge > > learning curve? Any recommendations? > You can try QEMU, it has KVM support among many other features. Y

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

2014-12-30 Thread Christian Hesse
Marcel Korpel on Tue, 2014/12/30 11:57: > * Christian Hesse (Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:12:45 +0100): > > this year I received an extra Christmas present: Bartłomiej > > Piotrowski asked me to apply to become an Arch Linux trusted user. > > Just some days later Ike Devolder had the same in mind - as I a

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox - 1. How to solve a strange error? - 2. Another VM to replace VBox?

2014-12-30 Thread psycho
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 2. Is there another virtual machine easy to use, without a huge > learning curve? Any recommendations? Hello, You can try QEMU, it has KVM support among many other features. You only need to `--help' yourself and RTFM and everything

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

2014-12-30 Thread Marcel Korpel
* Christian Hesse (Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:12:45 +0100): > this year I received an extra Christmas present: Bartłomiej > Piotrowski asked me to apply to become an Arch Linux trusted user. > Just some days later Ike Devolder had the same in mind - as I already > have a sponsor he promised to give his v

Re: [arch-general] depends vs. optdepends

2014-12-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:13:52 -0600, Doug Newgard wrote: > Arch isn't Debian, every binary isn't given it's own package. When I read the OPs mail, I wanted to write the same. Now I just need to ad my +1. I very seldom want split packages, I prefer that Arch Linux very seldom does split packages an

[arch-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

2014-12-30 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello Arch Linux community, this year I received an extra Christmas present: Bartłomiej Piotrowski asked me to apply to become an Arch Linux trusted user. Just some days later Ike Devolder had the same in mind - as I already have a sponsor he promised to give his vote. Thanks! My name is Christia