Re: [arch-general] Why no git --depth=1 option for makepkg?

2018-03-03 Thread Adam Levy via arch-general
> It provides a now dead link because there is a rogue space character > ("Use r"). The following link works: Thank you Tinu Weber. Silly oversight on my part. After reading the discussions in previous feature requests the answer is pretty clear. It could break some packages if used incorrectly a

Re: [arch-general] OpenRA / Mono exceptions

2018-03-03 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 03/03/2018 11:56 AM, Alajos Odoyle wrote: > On 2018-03-02 13:07, Levente Polyak via arch-general wrote: >> >> That's literally an incredibly stupid idea. Symlink >> /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5 to /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.6 does not magically >> make it compatible for both, it is ABI incompatible that's t

Re: [arch-general] Why no git --depth=1 option for makepkg?

2018-03-03 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 03/03/2018 12:50 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > On 03/03/18 08:48, mike lojkovic via arch-general wrote: >> It would be extremely nice to have shallow clone support for some packages. >> The Unreal git repo requires pulling down 20 gigabytes for a build, taking >> maybe a half hour each time.

Re: [arch-general] Reliability test for hard drives and SSD

2018-03-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 03 Mar 2018 17:06:46 +, Guus Snijders wrote: >Something which can help with replacing early etc. In our case: a >certain model HDD was reported with a high error rate. I didn't think of that. I agree that a statistic could be helpful to replace drives, before they fail.

Re: [arch-general] Why no git --depth=1 option for makepkg?

2018-03-03 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 03/03/18 08:48, mike lojkovic via arch-general wrote: > It would be extremely nice to have shallow clone support for some packages. > The Unreal git repo requires pulling down 20 gigabytes for a build, taking > maybe a half hour each time. > An effective workaround is to create a shallow clone

Re: [arch-general] OpenRA / Mono exceptions

2018-03-03 Thread Guus Snijders via arch-general
Op za 3 mrt. 2018 18:14 schreef Doug Newgard via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org>: > On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 17:56:52 +0100 > Alajos Odoyle wrote: > > > On 2018-03-02 13:07, Levente Polyak via arch-general wrote: > > > > > > [symlink lib version] > > > > It will do until the fix made it into

Re: [arch-general] OpenRA / Mono exceptions

2018-03-03 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 17:56:52 +0100 Alajos Odoyle wrote: > On 2018-03-02 13:07, Levente Polyak via arch-general wrote: > > > > That's literally an incredibly stupid idea. Symlink /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5 > > to /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.6 does not magically make it compatible for both, > > it is ABI in

Re: [arch-general] Reliability test for hard drives and SSD

2018-03-03 Thread Guus Snijders via arch-general
Op za 3 mrt. 2018 17:30 schreef Ralf Mardorf : > Also very helpful could be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija the > result is useless, too, but a good step into the right direction to > notice self-delusion. > When it comes to predicting stats; agreed. This is the other way around; historic dat

Re: [arch-general] OpenRA / Mono exceptions

2018-03-03 Thread Alajos Odoyle
On 2018-03-02 13:07, Levente Polyak via arch-general wrote: That's literally an incredibly stupid idea. Symlink /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5 to /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.6 does not magically make it compatible for both, it is ABI incompatible that's the whole point of a soname bump. Anything linking to

Re: [arch-general] Reliability test for hard drives and SSD

2018-03-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Also very helpful could be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija the result is useless, too, but a good step into the right direction to notice self-delusion.

Re: [arch-general] Reliability test for hard drives and SSD

2018-03-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 03 Mar 2018 11:16:30 +, Guus Snijders via arch-general wrote: >Op za 3 mrt. 2018 08:56 schreef Ralf Mardorf : > >> On Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:20:51 +0300, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: >> >The primary aim of the project is to find drives with longest "power >> >on hours" and minimal number of

Re: [arch-general] Reliability test for hard drives and SSD

2018-03-03 Thread Guus Snijders via arch-general
Op za 3 mrt. 2018 08:56 schreef Ralf Mardorf : > On Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:20:51 +0300, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > >The primary aim of the project is to find drives with longest "power > >on hours" and minimal number of errors. > > Pardon, but this is idiotic, since the HDDs and SSDs with the longes

Re: [arch-general] Why no git --depth=1 option for makepkg?

2018-03-03 Thread Tinu Weber
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 22:52:47 -0900, Adam Levy via arch-general wrote: > Additional comments about closing: This has been rejected numerous times: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Use r:Apg#makepkg:_shallow_git_clones > > Which provides a now dead link. It provides a now dead link becau

Re: [arch-general] Why no git --depth=1 option for makepkg?

2018-03-03 Thread mike lojkovic via arch-general
It would be extremely nice to have shallow clone support for some packages. The Unreal git repo requires pulling down 20 gigabytes for a build, taking maybe a half hour each time. On Mar 3, 2018 1:53 AM, "Adam Levy via arch-general" < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > Hi > > I recently came ac

Re: [arch-general] Reliability test for hard drives and SSD

2018-03-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 08:55:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:20:51 +0300, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: >>The primary aim of the project is to find drives with longest "power >>on hours" and minimal number of errors. > >Pardon, but this is idiotic, since the HDDs and SSDs with the l