Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
upgrading the pacman version, resulting in some files that could not be deleted due to not existing, but were not part of the new package and therefore did not exist afterward either. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Makepkg: Incremental builds

2020-11-02 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
edup - use git+https:// based sources, since git *can* (and does) figure out which files need to be modified on disk in order to be updated to the desired revision. makepkg -sri for git-based source code does indeed play quite nicely with incremental builds -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] sysstat man-page wrong

2020-10-30 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
archlinux.org/task/67703?project=5&string=sysstat -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] usbguard package neglected

2020-10-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ing "well it came from the same website and some unverified source told me the key totally got lost but it's fine. So let's blindly click accept". It doesn't matter if other distros are okay with that. Arch Linux is not. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Missing sys_siglist declaration

2020-10-01 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 10/1/20 3:28 PM, Hauke Fath wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 13:57:09 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> From the glibc 2.32 release notes: >> >> Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: >> [...] >> * The deprecated arra

Re: [arch-general] Missing sys_siglist declaration

2020-10-01 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
have been removed from . They are exported solely as compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use strsignal instead. https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=b1ccfc061feee9ce616444ded8e1cd5acf9fa97f -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

Re: [arch-general] Abuse of arch wiki?

2020-09-25 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 9/24/20 6:09 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 9/24/20 1:55 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> Mirroring a really old copy of the wiki is kind of unethical because >> they're spreading ancient out of date knowledge pretending to be modern, >> but I don&#x

Re: [arch-general] Abuse of arch wiki?

2020-09-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
n a ":" in it, e.g. "Special:Random" or "Help:Style" or "ArchWiki:About".) Mirroring a really old copy of the wiki is kind of unethical because they're spreading ancient out of date knowledge pretending to be modern, but I don't see how it's a

Re: [arch-general] [off-topic] Alternative to Thunderbird, with GPG support, caldav + cardav support, and ics remote webcal support and syncing

2020-09-11 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
t; https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-howto-and-faq > > Only for private key operations, so not the GPG keyring for public > keys. [...] Yes, that is why my message literally said "for your private key material". My point was that this might be good enough

Re: [arch-general] [off-topic] Alternative to Thunderbird, with GPG support, caldav + cardav support, and ics remote webcal support and syncing

2020-09-11 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
orts it). Note that Thunderbird still does support the GPG keyring for your private key material via a config option. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] conflict on /usr/bin generated by tigervnc?

2020-09-09 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
allation is broken and you need to tell pacman that pacman is wrong about your files. By stepping off the beaten path, you incur the possibility of being wrong and making things a lot worse. Do NOT use --overwrite unless you know what you're doing. DO what the original poster did, and

Re: [arch-general] conflict on /usr/bin generated by tigervnc?

2020-09-09 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
aults to "sbin" and on Arch must be "bin". This failed to happen; it's a bug in the package. Under no circumstances should the filesystem layout be deleted and replaced by this package as it would break everything... https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/67861 is the cor

Re: [arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`

2020-08-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/27/20 3:37 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 15:27:19 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> On 8/27/20 3:17 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 14:34:41 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >>>> Why is it ba

Re: [arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`

2020-08-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/27/20 3:17 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 14:34:41 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> Why is it bad if you have it installed but not running? > > > FS#41834 as an example. Or FS#28819. There is just no good reason to keep > dragging

Re: [arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`

2020-08-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
.php/User:Allan/Alternatives and then you could install your own preferred hostname implementation without conflicts. It would not be unreasonable at that time to make packages depend on a virtual provides for "hostname". -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] netcl leaves network down until reenable performed - do we need note?

2020-08-20 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/17/20 5:56 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: >> Couldn't there also be a post install that does a reenable for each netctl >> profile found in /etc/systemd/system as another option to avoid this SNAFU? > > That might have been an interesting precautionary measure for netc

Re: [arch-general] netcl leaves network down until reenable performed - do we need note?

2020-08-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
age advising people to reenable the service. I'm not sure it makes sense to do that automatically, since disabling a profile removes customizations and the netctl manpage explicitly warns you to be careful about doing so. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-16 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
it entirely, and fold it into "systemd". It's required by "base" anyway, lol. I don't believe the intention is to provide runtime generation of systemd units, and I think the pkgdesc is misleadingly simple in that regard. ... Anyway, if you want to have dialogue about whether

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-16 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/16/20 3:24 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On 2020-08-16 3:20 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> Reread the Arch commit. It wasn't removed. >> >> Arch used to move the symlink from the "systemd" package to the >> "systemd-sysvcompat&q

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-16 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ckage. As Andreas Bosch pointed out, the upstream install layout no longer includes these, and thus, arch doesn't move them into another package. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu ~ 1 yr. of packages, tty1 hangs after root clean, tty2 console login OK - how to fix?

2020-08-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/10/20 11:25 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 8/10/20 10:10 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> After that many errors, why did you try rebooting without fixing things >> first? The obvious first step is to try rerunning all of those hooks >> using a modern pacma

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu ~ 1 yr. of packages, tty1 hangs after root clean, tty2 console login OK - how to fix?

2020-08-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
; Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: kde-systemd-start-condition not found: No > such file or directory > Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[495]: Queued start job for default target Main > User Target. > Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[495]: Reached target Paths. > Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[495]: Reached target Timers. > > But tty1 is still hung -- no display manager is loaded and I'm stuck on > tty2. I'm not sure what is stuck or what to kill to try and fix it. Before the > update sddm was fine and I loaded fluxbox to do the update rather than doing > it from within KDE. What do I check to try and bring the system back to a > working state? What to check? > -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Pros/Cons of Python zipapp packaging

2020-08-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ython package with an elaborate hack to make "sudo pip install" be officially supported and not touch dpkg-managed files. I'm not positive what guidance to give you beyond "I don't think this violates the packaging guidelines in the slightest, so have no fear on that count". -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Question about packaging a library (AUR)

2020-07-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
rovide the library in /usr/bin, but a usable workaround would be to symlink the binary in /usr/bin but install it in /opt/transcribe/. Check to see if it correctly picks up the right location, though. ;) You might need to create a wrapper script instead, which invokes it without a symlink. Yo

Re: [arch-general] Why bind-tools was merged into bind package?

2020-07-20 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
chive that builds two things in one "./configure && make && make install", it per default makes sense to ship them together. Saving the vast majority of users 100+ MiB of things they don't need is sufficient grounds to split them out. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Why bind-tools was merged into bind package?

2020-07-20 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ight to that opinion. However, if you intend to convince anyone *else* that this is indeed the case, you will need to do more than merely state your point of view. Specifically, you will need to prove it. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Why bind-tools was merged into bind package?

2020-07-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
e. The arguments you're using aren't arguments which arch typically values. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Package signature error after updated GPG key

2020-07-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
: timestamp: 1553963813 debug: exp_timestamp: 0 debug: validity: full; reason: Success debug: key: 97312D5EB9D7AE7D0BD4307351DAE9B7C1AE9161, NicoHood , owner_trust unknown, disabled 0 debug: signature is valid debug: signature is fully trusted -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signa

Re: [arch-general] Locale packages

2020-06-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
eply > etiquette) Generally people tend to delete the sections they are not replying to, but reply inline, rather than including everytyhing the bottom as a second copy of the sections you quoted and replied to inline. Still, replying inline is the main thing, and you did that. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Locale packages

2020-06-22 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ble to provide them all in the glibc package itself. (e.g. try uncommenting all 487 locales in /etc/locale.gen and it is a 500MB locale-archive, "only" 100MB if you stick to UTF-8 locales) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
t even get the benefits of bash, and never > have, if you used /bin/sh as your shebang. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 6/18/20 6:06 PM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > On 18/06/2020 18.22, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >>> And nearly everybody who has to write this quickly will do it wrong. >> >> And yet, some do not. Some write elegant, simple POSIX sh scripts which >> do it ri

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 6/18/20 6:00 PM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > On 18/06/2020 06.33, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> You pulled this assertion out of thin air, do you have any proof that it >> "breaks more than a decade of setups"? > > OP is the one making an assertion, so

Re: [arch-general] dash as default shell?

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ng. And yet, some do not. Some write elegant, simple POSIX sh scripts which do it right. For example, people often forget that pipelines and functions are an option, and sometimes a much faster and better option than global state variables. And most people who are writing /bin/bash scripts are *also*

Re: [arch-general] pacman --assume-installed in a config file?

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
nfigured Oxygen selection. Does anything else actually hardcode this? This dependency IMO should have been a post_upgrade message or a noto-fonts replaces=() or something. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] pacman --assume-installed in a config file?

2020-06-18 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ve fontconfig configuration) for many websites, and looks > quite bad *for me* (on a 14" FHD display). > It's also a 90MB package I don't need. Hmm, I wonder why it is a hard dependency instead of being used via ttf-font? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] What do you do with pacman.log? Periodically archive? Delete?

2020-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
o keep > or to truncate. Among other things, it serves as a handy way to tell when you first installed the system. :) I have so many better places to save 5mb of disk space, this doesn't even register in the top 400. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dash as default shell?

2020-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
sheer numbers, as well as most non-Linux forms of Unix. It's actually in practice very unlikely that this will break anyone's setup. Also if you really think Arch Linux is afraid to break people's setups, I suggest you reread https://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/ -- Eli

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
tems such as alpine linux. So any script assuming /bin/sh is bash, is broken on lots of systems. ... This is not actually a problem, I've used dash as my /bin/sh for years and haven't once encountered a broken script. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
s in doing this > > Pretty much this, to be honest. I don't really see the point of > changing everyone's /bin/sh for one person's personal preference when > there isn't really any point in doing so to begin with. Completely free, no cost speed improvements have

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
and it worked > flawlessly. It would be extremely safe because it wouldn't do anything, not even what the original poster wanted. It's completely unrelated to anything whatsoever. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
again. Could >> dash be made the default shell in Arch? > > > Couldn't you just set it as the default for your user using chsh? This isn't about using it as a login shell. Describing this as "my default shell" is a very bad description. This is actually about sett

Re: [arch-general] Wesnoth probably has wrong dependency

2020-06-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ools/wesnoth/wmltools3.py usr/share/wesnoth/data/tools/wmlunits usr/share/wesnoth/data/tools/wmllint-1.4 usr/share/wesnoth/data/tools/wmlscope usr/share/wesnoth/data/tools/wmlxgettext usr/share/wesnoth/data/tools/wmllint -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] oops, 'sudo: pacman: command not found'

2020-06-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
lling pacman is an adequate recovery method, though as the disaster manifested by wiping pacman from your system, you'll need to extract the *.pkg.tar.zst using bsdtar, or use the static recovery binaries listed here: https://www.archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-packag

Re: [arch-general] Network manager package naming

2020-06-05 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
he naming conventions of those > packages to use one common scheme that's easy to remember instead of > having multiple coexisting ones? These are the upstream names of the relevant projects. So the "why" of things is not hard to understand. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Arch should be apolitical

2020-06-01 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
dreaded "like"/"upvoting" methodology of community interaction. Need I say more?) Problem solved. Let's dance to celebrate. ^('-')^ ^('-')^ v('-')v v('-')v <('-'<) (>'-')> <('-'<) (>'-')> B A -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] How will Arch handle systemd 245 and homed?

2020-05-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ory. And those didn't cause the standard type of user accounts to stop working, now did they? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Problem with packaging pyxdg and xdg from PyPI

2020-04-05 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
it with the repo package on every singe pacman -Syu. Fragmentation is fun. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] nvidia-dkms pkgrel increase after every linux upgrade

2020-03-31 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 3/31/20 1:31 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em março 31, 2020 14:03 Eli Schwartz via arch-general escreveu: >> >> See the broadcom-wl PKGBUILD for how to avoid this. Also note the >> wireguard-{arch,lts} packages have adopted this method. >> >> It's up t

Re: [arch-general] nvidia-dkms pkgrel increase after every linux upgrade

2020-03-31 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
s up to Sven-Hendrik Haase if he wants to do this, though. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-22 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
kernel crashes! Note that backporting an upstream fix is not considered "patching upstream code". In that case, it will just depend on how problematic the issue is and whether it justifies the effort of a backport. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Python2-gimp - what functionality was lost?

2020-03-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
forum user whose python/pygtk based plugin no longer worked -- and in demonstrating how that solution could be achieved in the general case. The person who uploaded it was not interested in providing long-term maintenance of that AUR package, therefore, it was immediately orphaned. Seems pretty clear-cut t

Re: [arch-general] Teo En Ming's Linux From Scratch (LFS) 20200302-systemd Bootable Live CD/DVD Kernel Panic

2020-03-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2020-March/053535.html Please have patience and wait for an answer from the LFS community, rather than asking LFS questions to the Arch Linux community. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Problem with reflector

2020-03-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 3/8/20 12:29 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > On 3/7/20 11:21 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> On 3/7/20 11:53 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote: >>>> Thanks for your reply. If I put this in a bash script, will it reset once >>>> the script is done running? >&g

Re: [arch-general] Problem with reflector

2020-03-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
environment of the *parent process*, only the script itself, and child processes started by the script. Have I completely misunderstood the question? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Problem with reflector

2020-03-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
reaks the default python. Although, if you're just interested in running additional python versions other than the /usr/bin/python3.8 binary currently provided by Arch, then... you really should not be overriding the "python" binary at all. Just install a python3.7 program or whateve

Re: [arch-general] Problem with reflector

2020-03-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
default python. You should only be using venvs when manually activated for a given project, limited to the shell in which you are using the project. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] How did spyder/python-spyder-kernels downgrade version?

2020-03-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ike the new version was added to community-testing, then withdrawn. Any future updates to it *should* increment the pkgrel once again, so no downgrades ever happen. As for why they were withdrawn to begin with, this has some context: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65683 -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wran

Re: [arch-general] kernel full compilation ?

2020-03-03 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
es in /lib/modules/.../*.ko) then you can get away with recompiling the plugin completely. This rule likewise applies universally to any software that makes use of loadable plugins. block/blk-core.o is not just for loadable modules though... -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signa

Re: [arch-general] Package Jami is out of date

2020-02-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 2/26/20 9:08 PM, Simon Brand wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:57:30 -0500 > Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > >> This, however, is not. Why do you think that Bruno is "not active >> anymore"? Why do you think that asking someone else to take over his >>

Re: [arch-general] Package Jami is out of date

2020-02-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
nd multiple people are working on a solution. In no way is Bruno Pagani (@Archange) "not active anymore". Please have patience. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Potential removal of Chromium in ~2 months

2020-02-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ot;spyware". > > Those who treat geolocation as critical feature may choose different > browser but forcing everyone out of they beloved one for this > particular reason seems like overreaction to me. > > Yours sincerely > > G. K. > -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ends > > or > > paccheck --opt-depends PACKAGE_NAME > > seems to provide the same output as > > paccheck --opt-depends --quiet --recursive Check again. $ paccheck --opt-depends bash bash: all optional dependencies satisfied $ $ paccheck --opt-depends --quiet bash

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
*webkit2gtk* is missing its optional dependencies on gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
s "all installed packages". -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [pacman-dev] Privilege separation in the pacman downloader (Was: Pacman Database Signatures)

2020-02-06 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 2/4/20 11:08 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > Since I'm unfamiliar with apt and other tools, what exactly do they do? > Given pacman/apt/your-choice-of-package-manager must somehow write to a > cachedir, e.g. /var/cache/pacman/pkg, it would need a dedicated download > user,

[arch-general] [pacman-dev] Privilege separation in the pacman downloader (Was: Pacman Database Signatures)

2020-02-04 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
man is one big binary at the moment, it doesn't fork+exec to run collections of binaries implementing different parts of the package manager (which is actually a plus when it comes to speed), so this might entail major re-architecturing of that part of pacman. Doing it for external XferCommand

Re: [arch-general] Pacman Database Signatures

2020-02-04 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
of 74 different authorized individuals. Hopefully there will be wonderful news soon. In the meantime, I for one make sure that my personal repository hosted on https://pkgbuild.com includes database signatures. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Why are Archlinux packages stripped of (debugging) symbols?

2020-01-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
Oooh, that's actually a really interesting idea. I bet we could make this just consume a foo-debug package, then we could just modify devtools to add OPTIONS+=('debug') in makepkg.conf, and have commitpkg upload the debug package separately to the symbol server. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Why are Archlinux packages stripped of (debugging) symbols?

2020-01-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ux_Mac_OS_X -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Why are Archlinux packages stripped of (debugging) symbols?

2020-01-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
rovement; but I would like > to know why are more packages built with included debugging symbols. > Do you think that, eg., all packages in "core" being built with > debugging symbols would be OK? Maybe it would be OK if just function > names were included, without source file

Re: [arch-general] Why are Archlinux packages stripped of (debugging) symbols?

2020-01-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
's symbol server can also be used with a trivial gdb script to let gdb download the debug info on-demand, if you're debugging firefox.) The Arch maintainer for firefox actually does exactly this -- our firefox package is stripped, but the symbols are uploaded to Mozilla right after makepkg completes. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Finding virtual dependencies

2020-01-06 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ides are in use, compare to the third package: "bumblebee (requires mesa-libgl)" or further down, see "abuse (requires mesa-libgl) (make)" So it seems nothing depends on *-dri, not even for make/check depends. There's even only one AUR package which uses one of them: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-opentegra-git/ -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-04 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
at all, I'm just curious about > information related to POSIX vs Linux, IOW I'm interested in learning > by reading, but it's a broken thread. > > Could you please provide a pointer to the start of this thread? The thread started on arch-dev-public; replies on arch-gene

Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-03 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
to actually package it! So I need to decide if I'm interested in the effort that would take, for an XSI option. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web

2019-12-09 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
commands Which may lead to accidental cases of: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] pacman has nothing to do last 5 days

2019-12-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
s worth of "[repository] is already up to date", which would be a definite red flag that something is wrong. Now that you used -Syyuu, we have no idea whether your pacman installation refreshed the databases because the server said they needed to be refreshed or because you told pacman to

Re: [arch-general] Note: Latest bind-9 update removes root.hints - fails to start with old configs

2019-12-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
this case, it would seem that resolving the pacnew file is required in order to start the updated bind package. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Failed to compile python 2.7.9 with pyenv on arch.

2019-12-01 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
e no in \ > upgrade) ensurepip="--upgrade" ;; \ > install|*) ensurepip="" ;; \ > esac; \ > ./python -E -m ensurepip \ > $ensurepip --root=/ ; \ > fi > == These log lines are useless, your problem has nothing to do with running ensurepip. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] python-cmake?

2019-11-28 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
abuse npmjs.org to install nom modules that contain no JavaScript, but do contain a bash script. Because downloading bash scripts into $HOME/bin/ is hard, but npm install mycoolscript is "easy". tl;dr Wherever you saw the advice to pip install cmake was probably misinformed. This does not provide python bindings to cmake. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

Re: [arch-general] about ecryptfs-utils, openssl supporting should be added ?

2019-11-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
crypto. coreutils also depends on openssl. In the unlikely event that openssl was removed from the set of packages installed in a base installation (which would be an event of note for linux distributions in general), the ecryptfs-utils PKGBUILD would only need to explicitly depend on openssl. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[arch-general] calibre is now available in python3

2019-11-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
d.com forums) for more info... Bug reports for python3 regressions will be greatly appreciated, as there are probably a lot of fun edge cases and I'd like to see this finished sooner rather than later. ;) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Extreme Minimalist Challenge

2019-11-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
lso experiment with Gentoo, by configuring the necessary USE flags to disable any features you do not need. I hope this helps. :) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks

2019-11-11 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
nitcpio plugins for since September 2013. It would be wonderful if Arch Linux would, in the spirit of user choice to which we aspire, provide guidance on opting into the use of a technology that a significant percentage of our active community says they would like to use. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] How to install archlinux using a specific parition of usb instead of the whole usb?

2019-11-05 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
tively, you can use grub to boot an ISO *file* as a loopback device. Some people do this to create multiboot USBs. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-01 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
s surprisingly surprising". So I *inverted the question*. (I acknowledge I may have gotten a bit exaggerated in the process... I apologize. OTOH, I didn't quite intend my statements about kernel-install 100% seriously.) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User [0] Putting somethin

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-01 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
for quite some time it seems that the individual in question was on... parental leave, IIRC? I'm not sure what the current status is. So the jury is still out on whether dracut or mkinitcpio is more work. ;) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-10-31 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
act quite *that* shocked that no one drank the Fedora kool-aid. *steps off soapbox* -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] 'base' package install with non-updated linux-kernel

2019-10-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
separately and specially, you should have no problem installing or updating any other package, in this case 'base'. Also note that 'base' does not depend on 'linux'. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base`, package - manual intervention required

2019-10-11 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
e as a reactive measure due to the lack of clarity with the former base group feels odd when people are working behind the scenes to try to figure out what a proper solution in the right place should look like. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
does updated wiki documentation become a giant list of "here's the things 99.% of people need but you'll have to install separately after reading some caveat and if you don't, then you will not even be able to type in 'man' to figure out your mistakes while offline"? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
o let me revise my question: who is joe, why do I care who he is, and what does his personal editor do for me? For that matter, if it carefully described as his own editor, am I allowed to use it? Alternatively, is it designed to be used by other people than its original intendee? -- Eli Schwar

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
te a "minimal" group, and any group of recommendations would need to be named something like, oh, "base-extras". So, once again, you would not be able to `pacstrap /mnt base`. Some changes were always inevitable. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
So we've taken a step forward and a step back, and mostly weren't ready for it either way. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
bcryptsetup.so and therefore also having a depends+=('cryptsetup') I do not need mdadm or lvm2, because I don't use RAID or lvm, so why do you think my system is unusable without it? Note: in practice, both are required by libblockdev, which means if you use udisks2 you have both installed anyway. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Recent logwatch update may need a news item?

2019-09-20 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
on't see why you think archlinux should be opinionated and modify upstream service files. I hear your argument that the package should have a post_upgrade message. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Recent logwatch update may need a news item?

2019-09-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
watch.timer I guess it's entirely possible that users were logging without using mail at all. There are guides for generically forwarding systemd logs via email, though. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
ory/pacutils/issues/32 is a thing. :) The --mode option has some issues. Perhaps try asking for a status update there? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
does not have an option to do this. You could try submitting a feature request for it. :) You can extract everything between the '' though, which I think should handle any filenames since packaged filenames can contain spaces or single quotes but not newlines, and the paccheck output doe

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
a bit of manual work yourself, or reinstall the package. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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