Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] final leg of /lib removal

2012-07-04 Thread Linas
On 04/07/12 00:43, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:42:09AM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> On the flip side, most custom kernel users should be more savvy than the >> average, do I don't see much of a problem. I maintain two aur kennels, >> shall I implement the move now (seems like it'

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37.3-1

2011-03-10 Thread Linas
Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > - bump to latest version > > greetings > tpowa X still broken :(

Re: [arch-general] Build in clean chroot

2011-03-10 Thread Linas
Baho Utot wrote: > This gives me an error > > /build/PKGBUILD: line 25: cd: /trinity.source/kdepim: Too many levels > of symbolic links > > I want to symlink the svn repo to inside the chroot so when > makechrootpkg -c -r creates the clean copy it doesn't have > to copy the entire svn source code

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-10 Thread Linas
Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > Dedicated to the relatively-closed and more-constrained version of whats > in the repos. Sure =) > > The distros have jumped fast, but I'm wondering about the Windows users > of openoffice, seems to me none of them would try libreoffice just > because its there (and frankly the p

Re: [arch-general] [core/filesystem 2010.10-1 -> 2010.12-1] breaks makepkg and firefox

2010-12-21 Thread Linas
Martín Cigorraga escribió: > Thanks for your quick answer. > > @cantabile, @Dave > Since I didn't upgraded core/filesystem package I have no issues with > makepkg and FF. > > In fact I already installed Dropbox by downloading the PKGBUILD > and the rest of the files and running makepkg as usual and

Re: [arch-general] Arduino 64 Wiki page

2010-12-21 Thread Linas
Ivan S. Freitas wrote: >> I would be grateful for feedback to help improve the quality of the >> document and if possible help testing that my experience was not a >> fluke. > After adding the user in the uucp group, is rebooting really > necessary? I think that a logout/login would be enough. Eve

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-19 Thread Linas
Christian Larsson wrote: > I know it doesn't adress the problem with flash, but are a side note. Most > of us only use flash in order to view flash videos, an most of the time we > also would like to download them. For this ytmp ( > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40172) is a great substi

Re: [arch-general] Licensing of Arch Wiki content

2010-06-17 Thread Linas
Ananda Samaddar wrote: > I notice it's all under GFDL 1.2. I'm wanting to use a Gentoo doc > for the Arch Security stuff but it's under a CC-SA attribution license > which is incompatible with GFDL. Would it be possible to allow Wiki > content under a CC licenses? I can't see it being too controve

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

2010-05-18 Thread Linas
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: > > > What could keep the simple cli from working on Arch? I know this stuff > worked > before updates

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-29 Thread Linas
Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> Under which circunstances would you envision the need to trust an old, >> compromised signature? >> > New install, dev for a coupl of [extra] packages has already left the > team. Having to recompile everytime a dev leaves the team is additional > (unnecessary) hassle IMO,

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-28 Thread Linas
Thomas Bächler wrote: > We must have a system that allows pacman to automatically verify new > developer keys and revoke old ones ... even more important, revoke them > in a way that signatures made before a certain date are still accepted, > but newer ones aren't. > I don't see this easily being i

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-28 Thread Linas
I wrote about this topic ~1 month ago. You don't need PKCis or distribute the keyrings themselves. GPG supports transitive trust. The pacman keyring would be installed by default trusting on whatever keys a pacman root signature has signed (there could also be a different master key for community d

Re: [arch-general] A peculiar LDAP setup

2010-04-26 Thread Linas
Piyush P Kurur wrote: > Hi, > > We have configured a set of machines to authenticate > against an LDAP database. For some machines we do not want the > users to login via their normal shell but some custom program > runs for them. For example if some one tries to login to the > smtp server vi

Re: [arch-general] [*] Java and/or MySQL geeks required

2010-04-20 Thread Linas
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Please note that you will need an Google Account to contribute. There > have been two contributors till I think. Any more ? Come on guys its > an Open Source project. > It won't have much visibility there. Have you considered creating it on http://en.wikibooks.org/ or

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-14 Thread Linas
David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and > stopping > processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse > did > was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming convention of > rc. So,

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread Linas
Seems my message didn't get through. It was just doing rc() { /etc/rc.d/$*; } And to get completion, complete -o filenames -W "$(cd /etc/rc.d/ && echo *)" rc That requires a relogin / sourcing the profile again to update the completion (could be avoided with another function) but it's neat and s

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Linas
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:12:15PM +0200, Linas wrote: >> >>> If your main problem is to create playlists for a recursive music tree, >>> I guess that >>> this would work with pretty much all players: >>> find /

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Linas
If your main problem is to create playlists for a recursive music tree, I guess that this would work with pretty much all players: find /path/to/music > music-list.m3u $PLAYER music-list.m3u __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best

Re: [arch-general] Issue with man

2010-03-24 Thread Linas
Damien Churchill wrote: > I've got a rather confusing issue with man. Whenever I try and view a > man page I just end up with a blank screen. > > http://www.imagebam.com/image/41dd5973332829 > > This occurs for any page, even for local ones. I was wondering if > anyone would be able to shed any lig

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-18 Thread Linas
On 18/03/10 12:52, Mauro Santos wrote: On 03/18/2010 09:10 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: 0xf, 5, Who cares which it's called? As long as it contains the logical partitions... But the ending sector thing will bug me if I don't fix it. So for my piece of mind I'm gonna have to do somethin

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

2010-03-18 Thread Linas
Myra Nelson wrote: There is one last problem with trust that no one can cure. You either trust the devs or you don't. This is illustrated by a classic quote from Ken Thompson "The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies th

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-17 Thread Linas
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Any way I only mention it because When I got around to installing Arch on one of the two partitions I recovered from Sabayon, I skipped the installation step of letting cfdisk touch my partitions and simply selected the partition I previously prepared for it with mkf

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

2010-03-16 Thread Linas
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. First off, there's an implicit level of trust on the package software, no matter which OS you use. When using Windows, you trus

Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!

2010-03-15 Thread Linas
Peter Cannon wrote: pacman -Si xfce|less and looked for a package that might get me to a minimal desktop I could work with. I thought maybe xfdesktop... pacman -S xfdesktop Why have you done this? If you look at the 'man' page you will see http://linux.die.net/man/1/xfdesktop xfdesktop

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-13 Thread Linas
Xavier Chantry wrote: The tiny size of the reopen textbox does not give a lot of freedom for justifications either. I think this is completely missing the point though. I don't understand why Dan is the only developer who sees that it sometimes makes sense to provide additional information on clo

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2

2010-03-10 Thread Linas
Byron Clark wrote: Unfortunately that only works if there is only one sshd process returned by pidof. Here's the case I'm worried about: /var/run/sshd.pid: 343 pidof sshd: 3433 And the case where add ^$ around the pid breaks: /var/run/sshd.pid: 343 pidof sshd: 343 2452 2453 Yes of

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2

2010-03-10 Thread Linas
Byron Clark wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Byron Clark wrote: if pidof sshd | grep -q $(cat /var/run/sshd.pid); then echo "pid in /var/run/sshd.pid is valid" else echo "invalid pid" fi Ignore that, it isn't entirely safe. You may want grep -q "^$(cat

Re: [arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread Linas
Carlos Mennens wrote: Yes I am very familiar with that Wiki article but find Swap on RAID is useless, no? For my scenario I was going to do the following and please correct me if you think this is wrong: It is useful if you want to continue running the system even with a failed disk (witho

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-04 Thread Linas
Aaron Griffin wrote: However, this is a mailing list. Not everyone is aware of the "state" of the list at any given time. It's best to bottom post and only reference relevant material so that even someone coming upon the 15th email in a chain is able to read just that email and understand it for