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

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
. in theory (modulo fat fingers), the only files i *removed* were ones that [pacman -Qo] said were unowned. and, *those* files were unowned post [pacman -Syu]. a time machine would help. absent that, again, i guess we'll "let that mystery be". thanks again. cheers, Greg

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

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
e npm package) "rc". it's a convoluted it world out there. cheers, Greg ps -- that every web site i build has its own local copies of all the npm packages used for that site is both a (simplification) boon and a (disk usage) shame. but, i digress.

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

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
before* doing [pacman -Syu]. cheers, again thanks, sorry for all the detail, Greg

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

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
wide install of (sub-)packages. (and, in my right mind, i try to avoid doing such system-wide installs.) cheers, Greg

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

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
y, in such as way as i've described. cheers, Greg

[arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
hub/..., and minimist/...). okay, thanks in advance for any thoughts. cheers, Greg

Re: [arch-general] Belated Arch-Conf pacman improvement suggestion

2020-10-11 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
ks so > you don't sit through two more timeouts on a repo that is known failed > at that point. something like this would be nice (where the "marking" would survive for "this run" of pacman, and maybe really means, "move to the end of the list of mirrors to try"). cheers, Greg

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

2020-09-09 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
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. i wonder if maybe a suitable, upper-cased, warning added to the "--overwrite" section of the man page might be useful? cheers, Greg

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

2020-06-07 Thread Greg Minshall
thanks, all! i believe i'll now be able to recover. now i've set up to use CacheDir. (/home is a separate partition on my hard drive; /home/minshall is where i live, but, having initially configured with a too-small root, and being nervous/lazy to "resize in place", /home now also is "home" to f

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

2020-06-07 Thread Greg Minshall
y 23 03:04 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-5.2.1-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst (going through my symlink). if that helps me patch back up my system? cheers, Greg

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

2020-06-07 Thread Greg Minshall
in advance, Greg (210/487) upgrading pacman-mirrorlist [#... truncated ... #] 100% warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-5.2.1-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: No such file or direc

Re: [arch-general] can't 'pacman -Syu' to xorgproto 2019.2-2

2020-01-08 Thread Greg Minshall
thanks -- now subscribing.

Re: [arch-general] can't 'pacman -Syu' to xorgproto 2019.2-2

2020-01-08 Thread Greg Minshall
mar77i, no, i hadn't seen (or paid sufficient attention to) that message. and, that seems to get me past the dependency problem. thanks very much. cheers, Greg

[arch-general] can't 'pacman -Syu' to xorgproto 2019.2-2

2020-01-08 Thread Greg Minshall
hi. today i can't do a "pacman -Syu", and i'm still too much of a newbie to know how to approach this. i'll be grateful for any advice. the following message was mentioned recently, and maybe relates? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64892 cheers, Greg

Re: [arch-general] Extreme Minimalist Challenge

2019-11-18 Thread Greg Land via arch-general
You could also go straight up embedded with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yocto_Project . This would let you get a very very small image built. On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 01:26 riveravaldez via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > On 11/17/19, Eli Schwartz via arch-general > wrote: >

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

2019-10-10 Thread Greg Land via arch-general
Maybe I'm just old but not having a text editor by default in the rootfs seems wrong. I had a professor once say everyone should learn at least a few vi commands because "no matter what distro/ flavor of Unix you have to deal with vi will always be there". I admit one hundred percent that it doe

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

2019-10-08 Thread Greg Land via arch-general
You can take this one step further and create your own repo to host said packages. That way you can build aur stuff in one place and deploy it out to a few machines at once. We have about 4+ arch machines in the house and this is where we are headed. On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 3:54 PM Genes Lists vi

Re: [arch-general] Drop VI from [core] (was Re: Winter Cleanup of [community])

2013-01-24 Thread Greg Bouzakis
m really have to share the same PKGBUILD? I would be in favour of having a proper modern vim implementation in core no matter what its name would be. The only downside is that vim would need signoffs. I think that if a different PKGBUILD is used for gvim then gvim wouldn't need those as well. Greg

[arch-general] Truecrypt mounting vanishes desktop icons

2013-01-13 Thread Greg .
When i use truecrypt --mount /PATH/OF/FILE /home/usr/Desktop all of my folders vanish. I then tried to unmount using truecrypt -d /PATH/OF/FILE and nothing, but after reboot the folders are back on Desktop. Is there any way to be able to mount on Desktop but not lose my folders?

Re: [arch-general] [util-linux 2.22.1-2] "uuidd" typo error

2012-11-17 Thread Greg Bouzakis
r 'uuidd' >> error: command failed to execute correctly >> >> so i have two question: >> 1. which severity should i report in the bugtracker > > None. 2.22.1-3 is in [core] Also its not a typo. Its not supposed to say uuid. Greg

Re: [arch-general] net-tools: Deprecated?

2012-10-30 Thread Greg Bouzakis
It was pulled by dhclient which is what NM uses now instead of dhcpcd cause it has ipv6 support. See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31289 (to which you are already subscribed to :) ) Greg

Re: [arch-general] Moving CK-removal + GNOME 3.6? Announcement draft.

2012-10-29 Thread Greg Bouzakis
Dave Reisner wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Greg Bouzakis wrote: >> >> Tom Gundersen wrote: >> >> > What about: >> > >> > "ConsoleKit replaced by logind >> > >> > With GNOME 3.6, polkit and networkmanager moving to

Re: [arch-general] Moving CK-removal + GNOME 3.6? Announcement draft.

2012-10-29 Thread Greg Bouzakis
n on DM's should be added as well. And probably a mention on [0] as a solution for people not using one. [0]: http://blog.falconindy.com/articles/back-to-basics-with- x-and-systemd.html My 2 cents Greg

Re: [arch-general] Modify installed package version

2012-10-23 Thread Greg Bouzakis
question. > > Thanks to you and Matthew for the answers. IMO the best solution is creating a custom repository and putting it on the top of pacman.conf's repository list. No need to hack anything. Greg

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] iproute2 to base

2012-10-18 Thread Greg Bouzakis
Leonid Isaev wrote: > On 10/16/2012 08:21 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: >> [2012-10-16 10:41:09 -0500] Leonid Isaev: >>> I fully support having netcfg in base (and as a default network backend >>> in arch) because it is far better than the alternatives :) I don't think >>> that wpa_supplicant/crda be

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Greg
On 5/2/2012 4:07 PM, Marek Otahal wrote: Could this fruitful debate finally STFU please? :) +1

Re: [arch-general] When will Arch switch to Upstart

2011-01-19 Thread Greg Bur
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 04:12 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Madhur Ahuja wrote: > > > Any ideas when will Arch switch to upstart based booting system ? > > > > Oh God please never. It would be nice to have it as an option for users who > are interested (I'm totally f

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] tcp_wrappers-7.6-12

2010-08-30 Thread Greg Bur
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 13:16 +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > signoff for both arches please > fixes: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16048 #ipv6 support > > greetings > tpowa Everything works as expected on x86 and x86_64. Thanks!

Re: [arch-general] IPTables DDoS

2010-07-20 Thread Greg Bur
ables -D INPUT -s $ip -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j DROP) ; done ; done Obviously you have to tweak the tcpdump parameters to fit the attack but it's also self-healing. Once a host stops hitting the server the DROP rule is removed. It's more complex and only semi-automatic but when configured properly you can safely drop it in a screen session and set it and forget it. Cheers, Greg

Re: [arch-general] Surviving without X

2009-03-29 Thread Greg
Just curious why would you want to not use x on a daily basis? On Mar 30, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Juan Diego wrote: mplayer also has a fb output plugin On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:34 PM, BinkyTheClown wrote: 2009/3/29 MaurĂ­ cio Hi, Do you think it's possible to live without X, replacing fra

Re: [arch-general] /etc/fstab :no ext. hdd

2009-03-29 Thread Greg
If it is working now, I wouldn't worry about it. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 29, 2009, at 9:29 PM, "Preston C." wrote: btw your uid and gid shoud match those in fstab. Is this something I need to be concerned about?

Re: [arch-general] /etc/fstab :no ext. hdd

2009-03-29 Thread Greg
for my for my external he on my server. As for the multiple cdrom entries, the second cdrom is actually your DVD drive. (or vice-versa) I believe my laptop with an all in one drive has two entries in fstab aswell. Thank you Greg, that clears things up a lot. Will look into it more, then get

Re: [arch-general] /etc/fstab :no ext. hdd

2009-03-29 Thread Greg
Hi, On arch, such things as adding external drives to fstab are left up to the user :) Just add a line for it. /dev/sdb1 /media/externalhd ext3 user 0 0 Of course, change for the actual device name, filesystem, and desired mount point. You may also need to change the mount options, but th