[arch-general] Requesting ownership of the bugs for AIF in the bugtracker

2012-09-03 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
and which ones should be closed already. My username on the bugtracker is jdd . Footnotes: [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=6&cat%5B%5D=40&status%5B%5D=open&do=index -- Jeremiah Dodds blog : http://jdodds.github.com github : https://gi

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Thomas Rand writes: > On 16 August 2012 08:54, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: >> B: If it's noise to you, kill or filter out the threads in your >> reader. > > how about the OP takes his argument to another place considering they > are off topic & here to insight arg

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-15 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Thomas Rand writes: > On 16 August 2012 06:53, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: >> >> I tend to prefer systems that provide mailing lists and forums as two >> separate frontends to the same data. >> >> As far as ML noise goes, that's what killfiles and client-side fil

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-15 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
hoose your poison. I tend to prefer systems that provide mailing lists and forums as two separate frontends to the same data. As far as ML noise goes, that's what killfiles and client-side filters are for, no? People can (or at least should be able to) configure their mailreaders to mute p

Re: [arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?

2012-08-07 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
>> > > On the contrary, this inspired me to try zsh out. Im loving it so far! :D If you're just getting started out with zsh, you might like Sorin Ionescu's fork of oh-my-zsh[1] Footnotes: [1] https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto -- Jeremiah Dodds github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode : exhortatory

Re: [arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?

2012-08-07 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
"bashisms" being possibly relied on by a lot of scripts. Footnotes: [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Bash_Coding_Style -- Jeremiah Dodds github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode : exhortatory

Re: [arch-general] WTF? several anon_inode and /dev/null listings with lsof search

2012-08-06 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
s that could make use of them legitimately. If it makes you feel any better about it, here's a relevant part of the kernel source tree: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/anon_inodes.c -- Jeremiah Dodds github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode : exhortatory

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

2012-08-06 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
the best they can in the situation. I'm trusting >> it'll be fixed or replaced with some other kind of menu-based tool to help >> with >> the procedure in due course. It seems like it's just a matter of time. > > Seeing the postings by Jeremiah Dodds, he is alr

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

2012-08-06 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
"David C. Rankin" writes: > 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 an >> understanding of AIF's curren

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

2012-08-05 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
mature "third system". My main personal interest concerns unattended installs. I am currently using AIF successfully with the latest iso releases... there is a lot of work that needs done on it though. -- Jeremiah Dodds github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode : exhortatory

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

2012-08-04 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
ave come from trying to do too much too quick, but I don't really know. Also fwiw, I would agree with tpowa's recommendation of archboot for the moment for people who need more "hand-holding". It's a pretty solid tool. -- Jeremiah Dodds github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode : exhortatory

[arch-general] Testing archboot-2012.08-1-archboot-x86_64

2012-08-02 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
o work, and netcg started automatically using the profile created during setup. Without systemd support, netcfg did not start automatically. -- Jeremiah Dodds github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode : exhortatory

Re: [arch-general] [archboot] looking for 2012.08 beta testers

2012-08-01 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Tobias Powalowski writes: > Hi, > please drop me an answer if you are interest in testing the next > archboot release. > > Thanks > greetings > tpowa I'd be glad to do some testing in a VM. -- Jeremiah Dodds github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode : exhortatory

Re: [arch-general] chromium crash when print dialog is invoked

2012-08-01 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
his problem? Can anyone suggest a solution? I had not, but I can confirm the behaviour with chromium 20.0.1132.57-2 on x86_64, running xmonad. I get a total freeze of chromium (have to kill -9) if I hit C-p, or hit "print" from the menu. -- Jeremiah Dodds github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode : exhortatory

Re: [arch-general] Uninstallable Packages

2012-07-28 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Leonid Isaev writes: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 07:04:37 -0400 > Jeremiah Dodds wrote: > >> >> Sorry if this is dragging up an old topic, but I've been poking around >> AIF as I'm interested in possibly (hopefully) bringing it up to speed >> and/or improvi

[arch-general] Uninstallable Packages

2012-07-28 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
g the thing. If it isn't, I'd really like to know why. Footnotes: [1] unless, of course, it's not actually a menial task, in which case please enlighten me -- Jeremiah Dodds github: https://github.com/jdodds irc : exhortatory

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-26 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
gly hacks ;) -- Jeremiah Dodds github: https://github.com/jdodds irc : exhortatory

Re: [arch-general] pacman and corrupt packages

2012-07-24 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Oon-Ee Ng writes: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jeremiah Dodds > wrote: >> Shridhar Daithankar writes: >> >>> I deleted ati-dri package and redownloaded it. This time, without any >>> timeouts >>> and it still failed the upgrade with

Re: [arch-general] pacman and corrupt packages

2012-07-24 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
014 but I don't think that can > solely fix the issue. --debug is printing enough information or so I would > like to think. > > Pl. Help. Does it continue after a "pacman -Scc"? - Jeremiah Dodds github: https://github.com/jdodds irc : exhortatory -

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-11 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Mateusz Loskot writes: > Hi, > > I'm wondering, what amount of Arch users and developers > use the mailing lists in comparison to the number of people > registered to the Arch Forums? > > Can we have some basic mailing lists statistics anywhere posted? > > Personally, I prefer mailing lists, but

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Don deJuan writes: > On 05/02/2012 11:35 AM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: >> Don deJuan writes: >> >>> Um, was a sarcastic joke LOL >> >> Yes, with no indication in reply to a genuine (and fairly reasonable, if >> you remember being a newbie to linux) questi

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Don deJuan writes: > Um, was a sarcastic joke LOL Yes, with no indication in reply to a genuine (and fairly reasonable, if you remember being a newbie to linux) question.

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Don deJuan writes: > On 05/02/2012 12:25 AM, Debashish Saha wrote: >> are the commands are different for archlinux and linuxmint? >> i dont know, if it is so sorry for disturbing you.can u say what is >> mailling list for linuxmint? >> >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Diep Pham Van wrote: >>>

Re: [arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

2012-04-15 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
"Stefan Husmann" writes: > Why not using a PKGBUILD from AUR to do so? We have a fantastic package > manager, we should use it. How do you deinstall such a self built emacs? > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7 emacs-bzr, pulls from trunk > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID

Re: [arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

2012-04-14 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Steve Holmes writes: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:12:12PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: > I switched to emacs-nox from community which works fine. I may even >> keep using it as it obviously has significantly less dependencies than >> emacs compiled with X support. > > Well, it seems that it is fix

Re: [arch-general] mplayer steals system sound

2012-02-19 Thread jeremiah . dodds
Tom Gundersen writes: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Thorsten wrote: > > Are you using pulseaudio? If not, do that. If you are, then make sure > that alsa-plugins and pulseaudio-alsa are installed too. > > -t FWIW, I do not use pulse, and I have zero problems running mplayer and getting so

Re: [arch-general] Any suggestions on frequently rebuilding a git package?

2011-09-19 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:59 PM, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > > Note, as emacs might be written in something else than C or C++ like > some sort of lisp that might not work. or may be , it could work; I > don't know emacs. Vim rocks \o/ Emacs core, which is a lisp interpreter, is written in C.

Re: [arch-general] Any suggestions on frequently rebuilding a git package?

2011-09-18 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:33 AM, XeCycle wrote: > Hi, I build Emacs from git quite frequently, about twice a month or so. > However the PKGBUILD from AUR rebuilds everything each time, which takes > too many time I think.  Perhaps Emacs is small, but I think there should > be a way to prevent too

Re: [arch-general] Unreachable system and general ARP weirdness

2011-09-03 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:39 PM, swh wrote: > Any help is appreciated. > Just to get prerequisites out of the way, have you done the for f in $(find /etc -type f -name '*pacnew'); do orig = ${f%.pacnew} diff -u $orig $f > /tmp/$orig.diff done then review the config changes and make updates

Re: [arch-general] After the recent linux kernel update booting fails if usb disks are present in /etc/fstab

2011-06-06 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 06-06-2011 13:58, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > > There's no reason to ever, ever, put USB drives in the fstab. Look at the > top > > of the fstab file, it reads "static file system information." Unless > you're > > guaranteed to have your thumbdr

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-08 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > > I'd prefer a separate [selinux] repo. So that people know what they are > doing. > > +1 from a users perspective, the changes in a machine's setup from non-SE to SE are non-trivial to the point that a separate repo would make things much easie

Re: [arch-general] Several advices about Perl Package Packaging Standards

2011-03-08 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
2011/3/8 Ángel Velásquez > > I share your opinion. > > -1 to that proposal, users of spamassasin doesn't even know that > spamassasin is coded on perl . > > Another -1 from me. If I saw a package called perl-mail-spamassasin, I'd assume it was a library for interfacing with spamassasin from perl

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-08 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > > I will be using awesomeWM > FWIW, that doesn't stop you from using the gnome or kde libs for ... well, whatever. You'll likely end up with one, the other, or both on your system at some point anyhow.

Re: [arch-general] Creation of startup scripts

2010-10-06 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Christian wrote: > I want to start my programs at boot time from /etc/rc.d > OK i will read up on bash scripting then and see what I can come up with! > I just want to understand what certain things mean and if I can leave them > out or not when I copy and use othe

Re: [arch-general] RPM Question

2010-10-02 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote: > > So the question is: can Arch be configured/tricked into an rpm install? > > If you can get a hold of the rpm spec file, you could feed it to spec2arch (from pkgtools), run makepkg -s on the resultant PKGBUILD, and modify their script to use