Re: [arch-general] Is Voting Effective?

2014-04-11 Thread Daniel Wallace
So you're saying... blindly trusting someone else that is unknown to build and blindly sign a package is more secure than you downloading the pkgbuild with cower or something, looking at the PKGBUILD, and then using makepkg... How is that? Second, where do you propose the computing time and the

Re: [arch-general] Git

2013-09-30 Thread Daniel Wallace
> From: pdgid...@gmail.com > To: arch-general@archlinux.org > Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:32:26 +0100 > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Git > > On Monday 30 Sep 2013 05:13:57 Sebastian Schwarz wrote: > > On 2013-29-09, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > > If we were to use git, we should have one git repositor

Re: [arch-general] Is last archboot iso completely busted ?

2013-03-18 Thread Daniel Wallace
ic Bezies >fredbez...@gmail.com Known issue, check the arch-dev-publoc thread about moving netctl to extra - -- Sent from my Android Phone. Daniel Wallace Arch Linux Trusted User GTManfred -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: APG v1.0.8 iQFUBAEBCAA+BQJRR4lUNxxEYW5pZWwgV2FsbGFjZSAoZ3RtYW5mcmVkKS

Re: [arch-general] IRC down?

2012-12-12 Thread Daniel Wallace
to talk in #archlinux. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IRC_Channel#.23archlinux_-_The_official_support_channel -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology pgpR7lcVhX5QD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] On /etc/conf.d deprecation

2012-12-09 Thread Daniel Wallace
d > customize the unit file. > > So I'm curious to know why this mechanism was deprecated? Is it > speed we gain by not including the EnvironmentFile directive in the > systemd unit file? Is there some other reason I might be missing? > > > Thanks in advance, &g

Re: [arch-general] libtirpc from testing breaks login

2012-11-02 Thread Daniel Wallace
Jeff Van Dam wrote: >On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Arthur Titeica wrote: > >> On Thursday 01 November 2012 13:54:04 Jeff Van Dam wrote: >> > How did you determine which package was breaking logging in? Thank >you. >> >> There were only 4 packages upgraded. This one seemed the best >candidate.

Re: [arch-general] help

2012-10-28 Thread Daniel Wallace
Jesse Jaara wrote: >> and then I use “systemctl enable dhcpcd@ ” hoping to reset the >Internet connection but the shell tells me“ Fail to issue method >call:Read-only file system” > >You need to do 'systemctl enable dhcpcd@interface_name' >substituting the interface_name with your network device

Re: [arch-general] The future of sysvinit in Arch: Call for Help

2012-09-27 Thread Daniel Wallace
"G. Schlisio" wrote: >>> -remove initscripts from the repos >>> -no more developement in git and on arch-project ML >> I don't see the benefit of doing that quickly, but if that's what you >> guys want, it is fine with me. I would be in favor of initscripts >> dying a natural death. >> > >some pe

Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-25 Thread Daniel Wallace
you suggest, but I think > it'd be in the spirit of the help provided by, e.g., .pacsave and .pacnew > files, to have pacman issue a warning. > -- Patches to pacman are always welcome -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology pgpPSIstRMi2n.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] IRC channel banned

2012-09-16 Thread Daniel Wallace
> > Thank you > You are not banned. freenode services are down and you can't register and people who aren't registered can't talk. They are working on getting it fixed... just wait -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology pgp0dX6wbbA1U.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Using install dual iso 2012-09-07 - graphics issue?

2012-09-15 Thread Daniel Wallace
mike cloaked wrote: >I have made a bootable usbkey with the archlinux-2012.09.07-dual.iso >file but having tried to boot it, both on an Inspiron 530s and also a >Samsung Q35 netbook, there is a blue "graphics" screen but it does not >stop and offer me the choice of i686 or x86_64 but carries stra

Re: [arch-general] Pacman and Systemd's automount

2012-09-04 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 10:08:32PM +0200, Guillermo Leira wrote: > > -Mensaje original- > > De: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] En nombre de > > Daniel Wallace > > Enviado el: martes, 04 de septiembre de 2012 17:09 > > Para: Gener

Re: [arch-general] Pacman and Systemd's automount

2012-09-04 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Sep 4, 2012 11:04 AM, "Guillermo Leira" wrote: > > Hello! > > I have enabled systemd, and since then, I see the following: > > [root@guillelinux ~]# LANG=C pacman -Syu > :: Synchronizing package databases... > core is up to date > extra is up to date > community is up to date > multilib is

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a?singular package

2012-08-26 Thread Daniel Wallace
Why don't you take over maintenance of them so people can keep > using them? Systemd and sysvinit aren't the only inits out there, there is runit, upstart, openrc all of which are available in the aur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology pgpWoYuHuzBFT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-26 Thread Daniel Wallace
are you doing now? Isn't this not > forcing it on everybody? > > "Nobody has the intention to build a wall." > > Heiko I am pretty sure it said they will still work together, you still aren't forced to use it, you don't need udev etc... -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology pgpra584uQEOK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-21 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Aug 21, 2012 6:04 AM, "Christian Hesse" wrote: > > Paul Gideon Dann on Tue, 2012/08/21 11:01: > > On Tuesday 21 Aug 2012 11:05:07 Christian Hesse wrote: > > > Oh, the commands in the wiki exclude curl now. Did not notice that. > > > > > > I am fine with the situation, I can deal with these thi

Re: [arch-general] Broken perl packages "Justin Davis (juster) "

2012-08-18 Thread Daniel Wallace
quot; > is > unknown trust > error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package) > Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. you need to update the chroots archlinux-keyring, because the old key expired also, try extra-$a

Re: [arch-general] [System update] dhcpcd: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd@.service exists in filesystem

2012-08-14 Thread Daniel Wallace
testing repository, and I am getting the same error. > The conflict is with systemd-arch-units-20120704-1. > > pants. Community takes longer to sync, the 20120704-2 should take care of it -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology pgph5W3ik7VWZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] [System update] dhcpcd: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd@.service exists in filesystem

2012-08-14 Thread Daniel Wallace
ng [testing] without [community-testing], or this is > a packaging bug. Either way, don't use --force. > > If you DO use force, what will happen is that the the conflicting file > will be owned by both packages, and when systemd-arch-units gets > updated in the future to remove

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-08 Thread Daniel Wallace
all more than once. What error would you expect if that > was causing a problem? > > > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. better to use fdisk, gdisk, or parted for partitioning -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology pgpITpS9u18GG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Is there any project or interest for an new installer?

2012-08-06 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Aug 6, 2012 6:43 PM, "David C. Rankin" wrote: > > On 08/06/2012 05:29 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > > On 08/05/2012 03:56 PM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: > >> I've been working on fixing up AIF. I currently have basic support for > >> syslinux and grub-bios working, part of my aim is getting enough of

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-05 Thread Daniel Wallace
rub2 page which has much more information about grub2 than what the beginners guide describes -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology pgpYdbt8KL1R9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] New dual install iso -- Where the heck is arch-setup??

2012-08-03 Thread Daniel Wallace
omplain how this isn't K.I.S.S. here is a blogpost from Pierre Schmitz on how Archlinux was originally installed https://pierre-schmitz.com/how-your-parents-installed-arch/ -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology pgpo9GWOB1UWp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] pkgbuild depends() can you have both >= <=?

2012-07-30 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 08:16:28PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > Is it possible to have both a 'greater than' and 'less than' dependency on > any > single package listed as a depends in a PKGBUILD? I want to specify gegl > >=0.1.8 and <=0.2 for gimp26. Possible? > > Man page say

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:19:59AM +0800, Ken CC wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I laugh away this trouble. > > Is there any information about the advantages of lib -> usr/lib? > > anyone likes to answer this question? > > > > -ken this was the thread

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-24 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I laugh away this trouble. > Is there any information about the advantages of lib -> usr/lib? > I like to read it, after I finished the following occupational therapy [1]. > I suspect that if I won't do it now, I have to restore my Arc

Re: [arch-general] pm-hibernate not working since update to 3.4.5-1-ARCH

2012-07-20 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:53:01PM +0200, Arvid Warnecke wrote: > Hello Ike, > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:27:22AM +0200, Ike Devolder wrote: > > Op vrijdag 20 juli 2012 08:05:33 schreef Arvid Warnecke: > > > I have already been used to not beeing able to suspend my MacBook Pro > > > since the bu

Re: [arch-general] Roadmap for user-intervention upgrades [was: Still Glibc problems]

2012-07-20 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:41:44PM -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: > On 07/20/12 at 03:27pm, Norbert Zeh wrote: > > I > > think the reason why you are having a much more serious issue is that it > > seems > > you haven't updated your system in a long time. So now you're running into > > dealing wit

Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:usrlib - Note -> rebuild any needed packages *before* attempting update

2012-07-15 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 05:20:03PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 07/15/2012 04:52 PM, Daniel Wallace wrote: > > I missed your part about rebuilding before doing pacman -Syu --ignore > > glibc, that should be unnecessary as the files will be available in > > /usr/lib >

Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:usrlib - Note -> rebuild any needed packages *before* attempting update

2012-07-15 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 04:20:36PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > After working through the glibc update on several boxes, there should be a > _note_ added to the wiki. You should check the ownership of files in /lib > _before_ attempting any part of the latest update with: > > $ find

Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:usrlib - Note -> rebuild any needed packages *before* attempting update

2012-07-15 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 04:20:36PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > After working through the glibc update on several boxes, there should be a > _note_ added to the wiki. You should check the ownership of files in /lib > _before_ attempting any part of the latest update with: > > $ find

Re: [arch-general] Upgraded kmod, but --ignored linux & glibc, modules still in /lib - can I reboot safely?

2012-07-15 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:35:58AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Tom, All, > > I see the glibc /lib move is out of testing. I updated with --ignore > linux,glibc and received an install warning from kmod stating: > > ==> Kernel modules are now only read from /usr/lib/modules... > > My modu

Re: [arch-general] Why Multiple Forums for different issues? Arch Linux/ARM?

2012-07-09 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:06:55AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 07/09/2012 10:52 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:> Check the ArchLinux ARM forum: > > > > http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3036&p=18467 > > Why do we have different forum systems with different login > requirements for d

Re: [arch-general] util-linux pacman error, file conflicts (safe to force?)

2012-07-09 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 04:52:08PM +0100, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 9 July 2012 16:49, David C. Rankin wrote: > > Tom, All, > > > > I ran into the following error regarding util-linux upgrade. I've looked > > in the forum and the website, but nothing specific to it. The error is: > > > > (72/72

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] heads up: /lib removal

2012-07-07 Thread Daniel Wallace
Say no to updating pacman first and read the news. If you choose to reinstall use the net iso or core-remote it will install only up to date packages, do not use the core iso's cache. On Jul 7, 2012 9:27 PM, "Damjan" wrote: > Allan pushed glib 2.16-2 into [testing] which removes /lib as a >> dire

Re: [arch-general] Error when upgrading "reflector"

2012-07-03 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Jul 3, 2012 9:51 AM, "Szu-Han Chen" wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:28:03AM -0400, Benjamin Boudreau wrote: > > Just got when doing a pacman -Syu: > > > > reflector-2012.7.1-1-any 10.8 KiB 672K/s 00:00 > > [#] 1 > > ... > > (14/14) checking for file conf

Re: [arch-general] installation failure

2012-06-18 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:34:20PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > I am getting a failure when attempting to install 64-bit arch as the main OS > on my principal desktop system. > > I am following the instructions at > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM, since I have two > bra

Re: [arch-general] installation failure

2012-06-18 Thread Daniel Wallace
Say no to upgrading pacman first. also, SyncFirst is being removed whenever the next pacman comes out https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2012-February/015123.html On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:34:20PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > I am getting a failure when attempting to install 64-bi

Re: [arch-general] time to drop openjdk6 ?

2012-06-18 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:46:05PM +0100, Nabil Freij wrote: > What about building an android rom image? I believe that still needs > openjdk6? > > Nab > > On 14 June 2012 19:37, David C. Rankin wrote: > > > On 06/13/2012 12:32 PM, Andreas Radke wrote: > > > >> Oracle has declared JRE/JDK7 the p

Re: [arch-general] unable to update system, pacman acting up (again!)

2012-04-11 Thread Daniel Wallace
Supposedly this bug is fixed in the new pacman upgrade, the correct solution would be to just say no to upgrading pacman first. this will solve your problem now. The reason it wasn't working earlier was becasue gcc was released with version 4.7.0-4 and gcc-multilib was still providing version 4.7

Re: [arch-general] libgl conflict with ati-dri, intel-dri, mach64-dri, ...

2012-03-25 Thread Daniel Wallace
what drivers are you actually using for X? if it is nvidia, then just remove all the xf86-video drivers (pacman -Qqs xf86-video|sudo pacman -Rns -) otherwise, you should still remove those extra ones any way... On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 06:35:57PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > On upd