Re: [arch-general] Why not create a new repo specified for games ?

2011-11-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:40, Matej Ľach wrote: > I support this idea. > Keep most games in AUR and the more popular ones can have their own repo > [games] on a separate server. > This server could be community financed using donations and if not enough > interest will be raised for new repo, all

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Sl

2011-09-03 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:53, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > 2011/9/3 "Jérôme M. Berger" : >> Joker-jar wrote: >>> Hello! I just made `pacman -Ql ...` analogue for don't installed packages. >>> Enjoy ;) >>> >>> http://paste.org.ru/?h5cg9y >>> >>        You mean like “pkgfile -l” ? >> >>                J

Re: [arch-general] Why are install functions not in PKGBUILD?

2011-06-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 16:27, Matthew Monaco wrote: > It seems like the install functions pre/post_install/upgrade/remove could be > defined right in the PKGBUILD. Any particular reason why this isn't or > cannot be so? > This has come up on the ML before. It's because the PKGBUILD file is not i

Re: [arch-general] Pkgtools v22

2011-01-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 16:06, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:29:59 -0500 > Daenyth Blank wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm happy to announce that after a far-too-long wait, the latest >> version of pkgtools is released! This version is a compl

[arch-general] Pkgtools v22

2011-01-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
Hi All, I'm happy to announce that after a far-too-long wait, the latest version of pkgtools is released! This version is a complete rewrite from the ground up. The slow parts have been rewritten in C for a huge speed increase, and the body has been rewritten in python. Many thanks for brain0 and

Re: [arch-general] a python rewrite of pkgfile

2011-01-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:26, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > Maybe you could provide the PKGBUILD in the AUR? I'll have the package pushed to community by the end of the day, so it shouldn't be needed.

Re: [arch-general] a python rewrite of pkgfile

2011-01-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:54, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > hi. > I started in August a rewrite in python of pkgfile from pkgtools > package. Wow, was it really way back in August? Wow... It's been a really busy year for me. I'll try to get that release out today, since I have time. I've been sitting

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-10-20 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:16, Armando M. Baratti wrote: > Em 20-10-2010 05:24, Stefano Z. escreveu: >> >> anyone know if reportlab does work with python3 ? >> > > No, reportlab doesn't work with python3. > Neither Django, nor Twisted. > > As well the modules below are incompatible with python3 (t

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-10-19 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 20:36, Max Countryman wrote: > >> It seems that while most (all?) distributions include a /usr/bin/python3 >> link to their python3.xbinary, none do the same thing for python2.x. Either >> create your own symlink in your path for those distros or even better file a >> bu

Re: [arch-general] Question about arch packages

2010-10-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:19, Christian wrote: > Hi, > In the PKBUILD script there is some times install followed by a couple of > numbers, what are they for? > Many thanks, > Christian > > Can you be more specific?

Re: [arch-general] Te agregué como amigo en Facebook

2010-09-27 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 16:39, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 27.09.2010 22:36, uli.armbrus...@googlemail.com wrote: >> * Mauro Santos [27.09.2010 22:34]: >>> Is it just me or does this look like spam? >>> >>> -- >>> Mauro Santos >> >> Of course this is spam. Even mentioning Facebook in the subject is

Re: [arch-general] Any special reason for /etc/shadow.pacnew, or just normal pacman behavior.

2010-09-21 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 16:02, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        I always diff any new .pacnew files when they are created during an > update. See "man pacman", under HANDLING CONFIG FILES. It explains the behavior in detail.

Re: [arch-general] makepkg patch - generate .SRCINFO file when running "--source"

2010-07-27 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 13:36, Muhammed Uluyol wrote: > Why not make new arrays? > i686depends, x86_64depends, i686source, etc. Please don't... Also, please bottom post on this list.

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 35/48] find has a builtin delete action. Use it instead of exec'ing rm.

2010-06-30 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 18:32, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 30.06.2010 23:58, schrieb Daenyth Blank: >> I don't think this is portable though. >> > > Portability is not an issue. The beauty about this is that we can simply > assume we have GNU tools and we do use L

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 04/48] Use [[ ]] instead of [ ] for conditional checking when running in bash.

2010-06-30 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 17:56, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: >> It is worth 10 - 30% speedup whenever you want to compare something. > > Where do you get this from? I always used [ ], and I found it > sufficient. Why is [[ ]] faster? > >> -if [ "$USECOLOR" =

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 35/48] find has a builtin delete action. Use it instead of exec'ing rm.

2010-06-30 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 17:47, Victor Lowther wrote: > --- >  rc.sysinit |    2 +- >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit > index 319ea60..037a9f2 100755 > --- a/rc.sysinit > +++ b/rc.sysinit > @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ stat_busy "Removing Leftover F

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 68, Issue 76

2010-06-26 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 06:14, wrote: >> Message: 10 >> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:40:04 -0400 >> From: Caleb Cushing >> Subject: Re: [arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too >>       long. >> To: a...@ape3000.com,  General Discussion about Arch Linux >>       >> Message-ID: >>    

Re: [arch-general] This is the "arch"-general list - Was Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 06:56, Allan McRae wrote: > [it is rude not to change subject lines when going off-topic...] > > On 27/05/10 20:13, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Blah, blah, blah > > Seriously, stop it.   50+ messages that are entirely off-topic for the > original question. I agree. Joerg, yo

Re: [arch-general] Burning From Command Line

2010-05-22 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 22:49, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > What ? Is that really true ?!?!? State some link where it is officially > declared by the developers. Joerg is the author of the software he recommends, so not exactly unbiased...

Re: [arch-general] can you only test certain packages?

2010-05-20 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 18:05, Jeroen Op 't Eynde wrote: > There is a number 3. > > 3. Add [testing] and do a pacman -Sy package-you-like. It will install the > latest package from testing and its dependencies. Remove [testing] again and > you can go on using your non-testing system. I don't know

Re: [arch-general] BASH no longer does 'for i in $(ls); do ls $i; done'??

2010-05-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 16:17, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        I'm usually quite good at one-liners, but my simple ones no longer > work in > Arch. Same cli works fine in suse. What have I messed up? To wit: In short, you're doing it wrong. http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 15:09, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > What if we're elitist and don't want newbies like you switching to Linux > and polluting the signal-to-noise ratio of our beloved mailing-lists > with useless, off-topic questions? > > -- > Gaetan > The ml is not the place for you to be a jack

Re: [arch-general] [xmonad] Screenshot of all workspaces?

2010-04-29 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 16:31, Nick Stepa wrote: > Hello all! I use xmonad and want to make screenshot of all workspaces at > once. How can I do it? > > Plz don`t say: "For each workspace - switch to it and use scrot" (= > > For each workspace, switch to it and use import :)

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Daenyth Blank
>> Govindarajanwrote: >>> I have enabled compiz and some effects. Anybody knows how to take >>> screenshot of the Ring Switcher ? Bind a key to scrot with the right settings, or just call it with a delay

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-28 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 14:32, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > This could > also cause problems when downloading some package that depends on a > public key that was not downloaded yet. Adding the keyring to the same rule that prompts you to upgrade pacman before anything else might make sense he

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-28 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 13:18, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > I'm thinking about a two way signing process. The dev signs the > package and send it to the server. The server would have a script or a > cron job to verify if the signature is valid and is from someone > trusted [1]. If so, the orig

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-08 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 23:05, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > * Bizarrely enough, *some* of the keys on the keyboard actually work (such > as / * - + on the numeric keypad). > > * I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like this: > expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1 line 8 of x

Re: [arch-general] Firefox Qt package

2010-04-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 17:15, Bernhard Friedreich wrote: > Does anybody know how I can replace the original firefox-qt package on > aur? I think it's obsolete and it doesn't seem to work (I think). Email the maintainer, give him a week or so to reply. If he doesn't, email aur-general and a TU can

Re: [arch-general] Debootstrap for Arch?

2010-03-31 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 21:17, Piyush P Kurur wrote: > You can install packages under a particular directroy using the command > > pacman -S pkgname -r /gateway/to/hell > > So using that you can actually build a chrooted environment and work > your way up. Duh, now why didn't I think of that? Ther

Re: [arch-general] Debootstrap for Arch?

2010-03-31 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 19:31, Brendan Long wrote: > Is there anything similar to debootstrap for Arch? Debootstrap basically > a command where you give it some options and point it to a partition and > it installs Debian (or a Debian-based distro) onto it. > I bet you can smash AIF in the right w

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games

2010-03-25 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 15:18, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 14:20, Dan McGee wrote: >> I'm not super thrilled about this regression. Either way, I think we >> should probably add an option to the scripts to use a designated file >> as the target for

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games

2010-03-20 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 14:20, Dan McGee wrote: > I'm not super thrilled about this regression. Either way, I think we > should probably add an option to the scripts to use a designated file > as the target for rankmirrors testing; this way you could specify a DB > filename or any other file as th

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games

2010-03-20 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 13:52, Dan McGee wrote: > Where is the mirrorlist so I can try this? What version of rankmirrors > are you using? You left out quite a few helpful details that might > lead to people helping out that don't have time to try and track all > these things down on their own. > >

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games

2010-03-19 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 00:38, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Observe the ping using ping -c 100. > > If there is some loss in packets, you need to consult your ISP unless you're > using wireless transmission. 0% packet loss, and it's not just me, it's everyone who uses rankmirrors on our mirrorlist

[arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games

2010-03-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
For some reason rankmirrors seems to really hate the arch-games mirrorlist. I don't know whether it's a bug or whether there's some sort of server misconfiguration. [r...@muspelheimr pacman.d]# rankmirrors -t archgames-mirrorlist Querying servers, this may take some time... * * * * Servers

Re: [arch-general] Dedicated Arch servers

2010-03-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:58, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > On Thursday 18 Mar 2010 10:04:58 pm Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Do you know some dedicated server / VPS provider (unmanaged), who >> supports Arch Linux, with good service and reasonable rates ? > Hi, > you the the providers which

Re: [arch-general] Package signing (was: Arch Linux security is still poor)

2010-03-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 20:06, Linas wrote: > I had already this email draft in my head, but Ananda 'Arch Linux security > is still poor' thread, on which the point was also brought up, moved me to > really write it. There's a bug on the tracker about this, please contribute there. There's no poi

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....

2010-03-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 13:24, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Let this thread not be just another "Will be nice" one. Pacman devs, > please start implementing these package verification things. And you're paying them how much that allows you to tell them what to work on? Seriously, patches welcome.

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....

2010-03-15 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 17:43, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > Would there be any enthusiasm for a dedicated security team? This has been proposed multiple times, but oddly enough no one who has proposed it has ever taken any steps to make it happen...

Re: [arch-general] twm: cannot open fontset

2010-03-15 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:14, Thanos Zygouris wrote: > But when i changed my $LANG from en_US.utf8 to C, twm worked! Is en_US.utf8 uncommented in locale.gen and have you rebuilt locales?

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 16:57, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > You should consider moving to bugzilla. -1. I've used bugzilla, and the interface is absolutely horrible. Flyspray is much much better.

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:50, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: > Sometimes pasting the pkgbuild in comments is the only solution, especially > with lazy maintainers. If a maintainer does not respond to email in a week or so, mail aur-general and the TUs will orphan the package so someone else can mainta

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-03-10 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 16:54, clemens fischer wrote: > I always use "pacman -Rs".  It's a wrapper script, I normally don't use > a bare "pacman", so there's not even neglect at play. > That's the problem. You want to add -c. -s removes in one direction, -c removes in the other.

Re: [arch-general] Howto handle poppler conflict with poppler-qt3

2010-03-10 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:34, Laurie Clark-Michalek wrote: > Good for you :) I'm satisfied with my KDE 4.4, and though I realise > not everyone can be, I shan't be loosing too much sleep over it :) > > FUD and Unsubstantiated claims however... Well they're a worry :) I really have to agree here.

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH (dbscripts)] Fix permissions of incoming packages.

2010-03-09 Thread Daenyth Blank
I doubt that running find is needed, just run chmod directly on the files being uploaded by commitpkg, or have repo-add chmod the individual files (it's running as root right?) On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 18:48, Chris Brannon wrote: > This patch changes the permissions of uploaded packages to 664, bef

Re: [arch-general] pacman search help needed: howto find package that provides html2ps?

2010-03-08 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 21:40, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: > On 03/08/10 at 08:36pm, David C. Rankin wrote: >>       I'll check it out. Before I got your message, I was able to find it in >> AUR with >> a search.  If pkgfile is a cli tool, it's just what I'm looking for. > It is a cli to

Re: [arch-general] pacman search help needed: howto find package that provides html2ps?

2010-03-08 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 19:13, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        I have made friends with pacman in most areas, but one are I still > don't know > is " How to I find the uninstalled package that will provide xxx?" > > pacman -Ss must just search package names and not the contents. I need t

Re: [arch-general] Amavisd-new Only in AUR?

2010-03-05 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:49, Carlos Mennens wrote: > Does anyone have any idea what is holding this > software back from getting votes / moved into the 'Community? Is it > considered buggy or just not widely used enough in the Arch community? Most likely there hasn't been a TU interested in tak

Re: [arch-general] can't register for Arch forums

2010-03-04 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 20:27, Baho Utot wrote: > Where do I start? > > I can't read the guide all I see is some red and green lines over some text. > > Is some one trying to obfuscate this process? > > Now tell the truth here.. > > Did your kids get their crayons out again? > > Can someon

Re: [arch-general] Tired of being asked for a password for "su"? Arch has the solution

2010-03-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 17:58, David C. Rankin wrote: >        It worries me to think about the possible security implications, but > the lazy > side of me sure does like the convenience :p > It's also a bigger issue if you use ssh or a vpn where you could potentially be getting connections from o

Re: [arch-general] Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys

2010-02-24 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:34, Andre Ramaciotti wrote: > as in "they don't show any keycode > on 'xev' or 'showkey'". It sounds like those keys are broken. It should be sending something. Is it old?

Re: [arch-general] Nuking a MySQL Install

2010-02-13 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 20:50, gt wrote: > Did you try the --debug switch for pacman. See what information it shows. > You want pacman -Rscn to "nuke" it. You'll have to manually remove the databases, pacman isn't going to touch your data, nor should it.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Let's agree on a common coding style

2010-02-13 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 15:12, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > For example, in a PKGBUILD I would write ${pkgname}_$pkgver, because _ can > be part of a variable name, but I'd much rather prefer to use > $pkgname-$pkgver, since hyphens are not allowed in variable names. > > Less typing, less ugliness.

Re: [arch-general] pacman message: "too much happens::" ...

2010-02-07 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 15:32, clemens fischer wrote: > No chance.  'Cause it went away by itself.  How about checking the > servers?  Does any component of them contain that string "too much > happens"?  I can imagine many people accessed the package servers due to > the libpng* updates. > > > cle

Re: [arch-general] pacman message: "too much happens::" ...

2010-02-05 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 18:07, clemens fischer wrote: > Sorry.  It's an fcrontab entry: > >  { pacman --noprogressbar -Sy && pacman --noprogressbar -Qu || :; } 2>&1 > > > clemens > > Try it with --debug for more info?

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - Arch needs to disable powerdevil suspend default -> very hard shutdown...

2010-02-03 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 13:02, David C. Rankin wrote: > [stuff] The bug tracker is probably a more appropriate place for all this.

Re: [arch-general] Setting global environment variable

2010-02-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 17:11, Ty John wrote: > Basically, I want to set and unset the variable when I connect and > disconnect the VPN. The best way is probably to have a set of aliases in your bashrc that run it and set the variables. Scripts and functions cannpt modify the calling environment.

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and security - it needs some work

2010-02-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 15:17, Carlos Williams wrote: > How does Arch Linux far behind in security as compared to Debian. > Perhaps I caught this conversation late but I would like to know what > makes Debian better in aspects of security -vs- Arch? Can anyone > please explain? > Mainly package si

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
2010/2/1 Nilesh Govindarajan : > Agreed. But recently a USB problem (possibly a bug) was being discussed > heavily on the forums. What about it ? Didn't the developers test the kernel > properly before releasing it to the community ? > They do test the kernel, but you can't possibly expect them to

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 09:59, ludovic coues wrote: > 2010/2/1 Emmanuel Benisty > lts is not for everyday desktop usage. > > By the way,  there should be a way to get older with something like that > pacman -S kernel26-2.6.32.6-1 > Arch is a rolling release distro. The repo only keeps one version

Re: [arch-general] core/linux-api-headers?

2010-01-31 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 20:11, Brendan Long wrote: > The difference between replaced and renamed is significant though. > There's no reason not to replace kernel-headers with linux-api-headers, > but there are some other packages (cdrtools vs cdrkit comes to mind) > that would give the same messag

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and security - it needs some work

2010-01-31 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:01, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > I really like Arch. I switched about a year ago after being a Debian > user for nine years.  There is something that troubles me though about > Arch.  Its lack of security focus. > Basically this and everything related to it comes down to ma

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit - tone it down

2010-01-30 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 06:48, Joerg Schilling wrote: > In Germany, it is possible to have a technically based discussion without > attacking the other people. If you try to have the same using the English > language, people often claim that they have been personally attacked and > personally atta

Re: [arch-general] Why taking so long?

2010-01-30 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 07:13, pyther wrote: > Likely everything is being compiled in the kernel. The idea behind this is > so you can take the binary and distribute it to anyone and have it work on > their systems (with different hardware). > > if you want to use your own config and select what y

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-25 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 13:40, Ray Kohler wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Kitty wrote: >> FWIW, I'm in favor of #3, and practically, the other bigger distros >> that have switched back to cdrtools are fatter targets for any legal >> action. Furthermore, who exactly would be doing the s

Re: [arch-general] Yet another step toward Arch evil plan

2010-01-13 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:51, ianux wrote: > They provide ArchLinux 2009.08 in both 32 and 64 bit with > their own kernel with grsecurity (2.6.31.5-grs) How well does this integrate? Arch doesn't have any officially-endorsed grsecurity kernel. Does it require userspace modifications? Have they su

Re: [arch-general] [arch-notifications] Orphan Extra package [snes9x] marked out-of-date

2010-01-13 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 06:29, Arch Website Notification wrote: > > * Note: this is an automated message > > @gmail.com wants to notify you that the following package may be out > of date: > >    Package Name: snes9x >    Architecture: i686 >    Repository:   Extra >    (http://www.archlinux.org/p

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 13:38, Aaron Griffin wrote: > If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in > /etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be > modified. Users are more than welcome to do what we don't intend, but > you need to control whether of not pacman mu

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] libpng todo list

2010-01-08 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 16:59, Jan de Groot wrote: > I just created a todo list containing 163 packages. This todo list > contains all packages that link to libpng and that should get rebuilt > when we update to libpng 1.4.0. What is the new soname? I'd like to make a list for arch-games as well.

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 06:17, Allan McRae wrote: > Good thing you signed that message...  it would be a shame if we did not > know that "+1" was definitely from you. > > Allan > +1

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-07 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 17:01, Thomas Bächler wrote: > This is on the intel-gfx list and has been replied to by one of the devs. > > Sweet :D

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-07 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 08:42, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: > Just FTR, I have bisected the issue and found out this commit was to blame: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=181a5336d6cc836f05507410d66988c483ad0154 > > I've reverted it and rebuilt 2.6.32. Issue

Re: [arch-general] coreutils 8.1 major problem

2009-12-04 Thread Daenyth Blank
2009/12/4 Lukáš Jirkovský : > Hi everyone, > I've just noticed coreutils 8.1 in [testing] repo and I think I should > warn you. Unfortunatelly it has one quite bad regression which can > break quite many scripts. You should file on our bug tracker too.

Re: [arch-general] custom repo guide?

2009-12-02 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 13:17, Aaron Griffin wrote: > The only stipulation was that you needed to > manually specify the build order and do the dep stuff manually. Maybe you could use pactree for this, to generate the order somehow? It seems like it's possible to do, except for any dep cycles.

Re: [arch-general] Unable to Install Arch on Server

2009-12-02 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 13:15, Carlos Williams wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Daenyth Blank wrote: >> I think that usually means that your grub+initrd combo is broken >> somewhere. Post your configs? > > There are no configs. I am trying to do a fresh install

Re: [arch-general] Unable to Install Arch on Server

2009-12-02 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:59, Carlos Williams wrote: > I have a Dell server (Power Edge 1855) blade that I am trying to > install Arch Linux on. I have no problems installing / running Debian, > CentOS, or Ubuntu on this hardware but when I try to boot from Arch CD > (2009.08 Netinst or Core), I g

Re: [arch-general] leafnode-svn and zoneminder

2009-12-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 18:56, Geoffrey Lane wrote: > Anybody know of a repo or a template for making a arch package out of a > svn/git repo? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_guidelines "newpkg" in pkgtools does a little bit of the work for you.

Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules -> Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-12-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
> Flavio, > >        It was installed on 11/6 along with "emovix, libmms, cdrdao, > libmodplug, > speex, libshout, mpg123, libasyncns, pulseaudio, wavpack and quanta". I'm not > sure which recommended it as an option. The weird part is that sound continued > working as normal until just this past

Re: [arch-general] xf86-input-evdev conflicts with xorg-server. Remove xorg-server?

2009-12-01 Thread Daenyth Blank
2009/12/1 Arvid Picciani : > Arvid Picciani wrote: > >> warning: cannot resolve "hal>=0.5.13", a dependency of "xorg-server" > > > never mind my bitching.  rebuilding xorg-server without hal was a matter of > abs,edit,makepkg > > <3 arch > Are you using -Syu or are you trying to just randomly -S th

Re: [arch-general] usable browser?

2009-11-26 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 18:51, Arvid Picciani wrote: > what is left? lynx & co.

Re: [arch-general] kmail spellcheck reporting no errors when there plainly are errors - can someone confirm?

2009-11-25 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:05, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On 11/25/2009 04:43 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > FYI - I've set the kwallet password to nothing, and it's seemed to work out > nicely, as it no longer prompts me for the wallet password at inopportune > times. > > In theory this is less se

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:06, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:46 -0200 >> And finally, yes, there are optdeps, but pacman don't handle them as >> nicely it handles obligatory dependencies. If I install an optdep as >> an explicit installed package, when I uninstall the other packag

Re: [arch-general] Need Text-to-Speech

2009-11-23 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:17, Keith wrote: > Peace to you, Daenyth. > Glad to help :)

Re: [arch-general] Need Text-to-Speech

2009-11-22 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 20:12, Keith wrote: > Hello. This article may help: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_for_the_blind

Re: [arch-general] Single Person ISP?

2009-11-19 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:23, Loui Chang wrote: > There are probably ways around that windows program requirement for the > free ISPs. Years ago I was able to connect to AOL using a program called > penggy. > I can say from personal experience that pengy hasn't worked in over 5 years.

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 61, Issue 39

2009-11-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:36, jelle van der waa wrote: > Re: We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium... (Juan Diego) > > There are enough arch user maintained repo's, you could ask them to package > it beside that how much work is AUR ;) Can you please reply to the specific thread instead of

Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

2009-11-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:48, Hamo wrote: > Dear Archlinux users, > Chrome is likely to be a daily-use web browser and with the Chrome OS > releasing,it will become more and more reliable.Archlinux is a > rolling-release distribution and it aims at being bleeding edge.So we > should have a mainta

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-17 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:07, Arvid Picciani wrote: > Mutt grows old and still doesn't do threads the way i want. > i've tried sup, but find it too early in development. Especcially it is > unusable slow. > > Can somone recommend another MUA? > > thanks > I just saw a link on reddit this morning

Re: [arch-general] programmable API for flyspray?

2009-11-07 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 16:16, Chris Brannon wrote: > Is there any way to access bugs.archlinux.org programmatically?  I'd love > to be able to manipulate it from the shell. > > TIA, > -- Chris > Could probably hack something with perl's WWW::Mechanize

Re: [arch-general] file system capabilities

2009-11-04 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:14, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:12, Shridhar Daithankar > wrote: >> so can this be done by default? thus reducing setuid usage? it should improve >> security right? >> > This should probably go on the bug tracker as a f

Re: [arch-general] file system capabilities

2009-11-04 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:12, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > so can this be done by default? thus reducing setuid usage? it should improve > security right? > This should probably go on the bug tracker as a feature request.

Re: [arch-general] editors graphic, video new (to archlinux) encoder decoder theora

2009-10-26 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 22:31, andrew james wrote: > Uhh... what? Are you maybe looking for the "flag out of date" button for packages on the website?

Re: [arch-general] Full system encryption with support for hibernation

2009-10-25 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:17, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > The only way mentioned in the wiki is highly not recommended as you > would have to place your key on the unencrypted boot partition, which > basically conflicts the idea of full encryption (see > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syste

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-22 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:39, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote: > yes, it's a serious issue and yes the users should be aware. But should the > system itself decide to take this action or should we simply inform and let > the user decide. I lean towards the latter myself. > Absolutely inform the user. D

Re: [arch-general] makepkg git download agent

2009-10-19 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:25, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: >    Hello all! > >    Just a small question: is there somewhare a download agent for > makepkg that uses Git? > >    Thanks, >    Ciprian. > I tried to make one some time ago, but it is a lot more complex than it seems at first glance.

Re: [arch-general] Splitting up the 'boinc' package

2009-10-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 13:49, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, It probably makes more sense to mail the maintainer of the package directly as not everyone reads the ML

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] List of packages that could be rebuilt if you have nothing better to do...

2009-10-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:16, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Good job. > > And for "Packages that can be converted to arch=any" sometime ago I > sended a list of tentative packages [#1]. Its old and some of listed > packages [#2] are now "any" Do you have a script to do this? I'm looking at tryi

Re: [arch-general] checking runlevels in rc.shutdown

2009-10-05 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:36, Aaron Griffin wrote: > I have a feeling this was done to mirror the rc.multi script (which is > what starts the DAEMONS array). But, you're right. If I boot into > single user mode (runlevel 1) and then start daemons manually, > rc.shutdown should should them down cle

Re: [arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-04 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 04:41, David C. Rankin wrote: > I have a i586 box that I have attempted to update for the past several days > which kept telling me no updates were available (which I knew wasn't the case > because I had had numerous x86_64 updates over the same period of time). Try pacman

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:38, Crouse wrote: > hm I use > > https://www.sevenl.net/all-dedicated-servers > > It's not a VPS, it's a dedicated private server. Running Arch. > I use it for archlinux.me and others, costs about $55 month. > I get the whole machine this way ;) > > Crouse. > Arch-ga

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