Re: [arch-general] Post-packaging modification tool

2015-04-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 03:19:25PM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst < > sebastiaanlokho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2015-04-28 18:50 GMT+02:00 Magnus Therning : > > > > > I have a large set of already packages (300+) that I'd like to make > > > some

Re: [arch-general] Post-packaging modification tool

2015-04-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 07:18:12PM +0200, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: > 2015-04-28 18:50 GMT+02:00 Magnus Therning : > > > I have a large set of already packages (300+) that I'd like to make > > some minor modifications to the meta data in. Since it takes a few > > hours to build them all I'd pref

Re: [arch-general] Post-packaging modification tool

2015-04-28 Thread Eli Schwartz
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst < sebastiaanlokho...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-04-28 18:50 GMT+02:00 Magnus Therning : > > > I have a large set of already packages (300+) that I'd like to make > > some minor modifications to the meta data in. Since it takes a few > > hours to

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 28-04-2015 21:39, Guus Snijders wrote: > Op 28 apr. 2015 21:04 schreef "Bardur Arantsson" : >> >> On 28-04-2015 20:39, Daniel Micay wrote: People forget vi(1) is part of POSIX so required on "systems that both support the User Portability Utilities option and define the POSIX2_CHA

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 28 apr. 2015 21:04 schreef "Bardur Arantsson" : > > On 28-04-2015 20:39, Daniel Micay wrote: > >> People forget vi(1) is part of POSIX so required on "systems that both > >> support the User Portability Utilities option and define the > >> POSIX2_CHAR_TERM symbol." [ http://pubs.opengroup.org/o

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 28-04-2015 20:39, Daniel Micay wrote: >> People forget vi(1) is part of POSIX so required on "systems that both >> support the User Portability Utilities option and define the >> POSIX2_CHAR_TERM symbol." [http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ >> ] >> >> The former is probably a good

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread Daniel Micay
> People forget vi(1) is part of POSIX so required on "systems that both > support the User Portability Utilities option and define the > POSIX2_CHAR_TERM symbol." [http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ > ] > > The former is probably a good idea, seeing as the User Portability > Utilit

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread H8H
thanks :) It's only ONE damn tool to make all users happy. And some of them bad, because wpa_supplicant has some vulnerabilities. But its only one tool, everything you forgot to install on the live medium can installed afterwards, but not wpa_supplicant or other missing network tools. cheers On

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread Feirlane
And wpa_supplicant is an opt-depend of netctl, but maybe it should indicate it's needed for X802.1x as it currently only says it's for wireless networking. -- GPG Key: 8387FCC3 On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Paladin wrote: > On , LoneVVolf wrote: >> Given that dhcpcd & iproute2 are already in

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread Paladin
On , LoneVVolf wrote: > Given that dhcpcd & iproute2 are already in the base group, wired networking > is already supported by > installing base. Technical note: It's not enough on all wired networks, X802.1x needs wpa_supplicant. I forget it almost always I reinstall one of my machines.. P. --

Re: [arch-general] Post-packaging modification tool

2015-04-28 Thread Sebastiaan Lokhorst
2015-04-28 18:50 GMT+02:00 Magnus Therning : > I have a large set of already packages (300+) that I'd like to make > some minor modifications to the meta data in. Since it takes a few > hours to build them all I'd prefer to avoid dong that. So, is there > a tool out there that allows me to make

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread Toyam Cox
On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Sam Stuewe wrote: > This may just be my personal opinion, but I have always thought that > `base` was supposed to be the absolute bare minimum to have a bootable > installation. From that view, it makes sense that a few very small > editors made sense in `base` ba

[arch-general] Post-packaging modification tool

2015-04-28 Thread Magnus Therning
I have a large set of already packages (300+) that I'd like to make some minor modifications to the meta data in. Since it takes a few hours to build them all I'd prefer to avoid dong that. So, is there a tool out there that allows me to make some minor changes to the meta data of a package? To

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread LoneVVolf
On 28-04-15 16:35, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: I'll reserve my opinions on including wpa_supplicant in base, but I feel that it at least deserves a mention in the Arch Installation Guide. It's strange to me that the installer has better networking support than the base system. I've installed Arch on 5

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread Jeremy O'Brien
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015, at 07:13, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: > On 28 April 2015 at 05:21, H8H wrote: > > Don't get me wrong, but it is annoying to configure the whole wirless > > stuff and netctl just said, STOP! There is ONE missing dependency: > > wpa_supplicant. ONLY ONE PACKAGE I MISSED TO REACH

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 28 April 2015 at 05:21, H8H wrote: > Don't get me wrong, but it is annoying to configure the whole wirless > stuff and netctl just said, STOP! There is ONE missing dependency: > wpa_supplicant. ONLY ONE PACKAGE I MISSED TO REACH THE WORLD :-( You are given the freedom to choose what to install