Re: [arch-general] Keyboard (special funcs) in Gnome3

2012-10-24 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 24 Oct 2012 09:31 -0300, Héctor Herrera wrote: > Well, I have installed the package you suggested, but sadly I still don't > control the volume with my multimedia keys. And I dunno what to do. I > assume that I'll have to configure by my hand in /usr/include/X11, isn't > it? > > For the rec

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot

2012-09-22 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 22 Sep 2012 15:06 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 22.09.2012 10:07, schrieb Heiko Baums: > > Am Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:09:02 +0900 > > schrieb Zhengyu Xu : > > > >> After updating systemd to 191-1 in testing repo, I had following > >> messages during booting and the process was stuck (crashe

Re: [arch-general] Country Name (ISO-3116) Issues

2012-07-02 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 02 Jul 2012 19:28 +1200, Jason Ryan wrote: > On 02/07/12 at 07:20am, Zero Cho wrote: > > > > Thanks for your support. You're right. This is not intended to be a > > political debate, so I have been using a neutral word, Taiwan, rather than > > other more official but sensitive, less common

Re: [arch-general] Country Name (ISO-3116) Issues

2012-07-01 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 01 Jul 2012 21:23 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > > On Sun 01 Jul 2012 23:08 +0800, Zero, Chien-An Cho wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> First of all, I am sorry to bring political issues to here. I have

Re: [arch-general] Country Name (ISO-3116) Issues

2012-07-01 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 01 Jul 2012 23:08 +0800, Zero, Chien-An Cho wrote: > Hello, > > First of all, I am sorry to bring political issues to here. I have > been using ArchLinux for years, deployed on many servers, though I'm > not joining the community until now. The recent changes to the > ArchLinux webpages (ex

Re: [arch-general] NAS drive revisited

2012-05-20 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 20 May 2012 21:58 +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > I am still not able to write to my external NAS drive an iomega home > media drive You just can't write? If you can mount but can't write, then you have the wrong permissions on the drive and/or uid/gid mixups, depending on how you want it set up

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 11:45 +, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:27 AM, XeCycle wrote: > > I use pulseaudio on my laptop.  I start it by > > `start-pulseaudio-x11` in something like .xinitrc (I use a > > standalone wm with lxdm).  When I resume from pm-suspend, the > > system beepe

Re: [arch-general] People that depend on Arch, etc deserve to die? - Allan McRae - Clarifications

2011-12-23 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 23 Dec 2011 10:42 +, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Friday 23 Dec 2011 05:32:25 Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > > I wanted to know what was he trying to say? Is he saying that Arch and > > other Arch-like distros aren't serious distros that aren't meant for > > production? I mean I understand th

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-21 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 21 Nov 2011 22:36 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Excerpts from Bernardo Barros's message of 2011-11-20 00:06:05 +0100: > > text files opening automatically with wine is really a VERY annoying > > thing... > > This is pretty clearly a DE issue. Are you all using the same DE or is > this

Re: [arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.

2011-08-26 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 27 Aug 2011 09:12 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > Hi, > My system tends to slow down a lot when I copy files to and from a pen > drive or even from one hard disk to another. Even my mouse cursor > slows down. The system becomes almost unusable. I more than enough RAM > and I am using a tilin

Re: [arch-general] replacement for clyde

2011-08-20 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 19 Aug 2011 10:43 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > 2011/8/19 Cédric Girard : > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > > > >> I've used yaourt for a couple of years now. > >> It has always worked for me for the most part, and having a common > >> command for everything is

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support

2011-07-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 16 Jul 2011 15:47 -0500, Peggy Wilkins wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: > > On 07/16/2011 08:06 PM, Peggy Wilkins wrote: > >> > >> The annoucement suggests that a major reason for dropping support is > >> that it is "confusing" to end users.  An easy solution to t

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 20 Jun 2011 03:34 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > On 2011/6/20 Loui Chang wrote: > > On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > >> > >> netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. > >> > >> - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > > netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. > > - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used > by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless > interface you want to use (also pos

Re: [arch-general] Drop non-free ?! (Was: Commit in ffmpeg/trunk)

2011-05-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 07 May 2011 11:24 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > a bit of a divergence ... but as i think about next-gen packaging > quite a bit i've often considered if a most advanced distribution > system would negate issues like this ... for example, what if a > nonfree package _knew_ it was nonfree

Re: [arch-general] Drop non-free ?! (Was: Commit in ffmpeg/trunk)

2011-05-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 07 May 2011 18:18 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Sat, 7 May 2011 12:05:21 -0400, Loui Chang wrote: > > On Sat 07 May 2011 18:32 +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: > >> On 05/07/2011 06:28 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > >> >Is faac support in ffmpeg causing troubl

Re: [arch-general] Drop non-free ?! (Was: Commit in ffmpeg/trunk)

2011-05-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 07 May 2011 18:32 +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 05/07/2011 06:28 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > >Ionut Biru wrote: > >> > >>drop nonfree stuff, fix headers > >> > >>Modified: PKGBUILD > >>=== > >>--- PKGBUILD2011-05-07

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 29 Apr 2011 23:00 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:41 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > Can someone pls clarify what exactly is broken about localtime?  I've been > > using it for years without any (noticable) issue.  I'll be happy to switch > > over if I need to, but

Re: [arch-general] Printer driver

2011-04-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 28 Apr 2011 22:50 +0200, Maciej Sobkowski wrote: > I want to install driver for my Brother DCP-J315W printer. I've downloaded > driver files from brother's site, since there is no package, neither in repo > nor in aur. It was in deb format, also rpm available. The driver is split > into two

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-21 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:46 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 02:32:42AM -0400, Kaiting Chen wrote: > > So what's the status here? I pulled cronie into [community-testing] > > a couple of days ago and will probably merge it into [community] > > soon. So that's the one I vote. > >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] ncurses-5.8-1

2011-02-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 27 Feb 2011 12:01 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > On 27/02/11 10:40, Allan McRae wrote: > >> > >> Major upstream update. > >> > >> Test well. There is no soname bump, but experience tells me that some > >> rebuilds will probably be required

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package

2011-02-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 09 Feb 2011 11:23 -0500, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking at FS#20778 and was wondering what we should do with it. > > While it is true that the "traditional vi" is buggy and not user > friendly. It does not seems that BusyBox is a good alternative. > > There are options

Re: [arch-general] Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-22 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 22 Jan 2011 06:23 -0500, hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_h...@lavabit.com wrote: > > > Can someone stop him from spamming our inboxes ? > > Meeku: "our" means the whole mailing list. You should have used the word > "my" and if you are a cl

Re: [arch-general] unable to install anything via yaourt

2011-01-01 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 04:51 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Sat, 1 Jan 2011 22:17:11 -0500 > schrieb Loui Chang : > > > If you're having problems using yaourt to try to install from > > [unsupported], or any repo, then you're probably having a problem with > > ya

Re: [arch-general] unable to install anything via yaourt

2011-01-01 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 08:12 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > > > On Sun 02 Jan 2011 08:00 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:53 AM, jesse jaara > > wrote: > > > > > > &

Re: [arch-general] unable to install anything via yaourt

2011-01-01 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 08:00 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:53 AM, jesse jaara wrote: > > > Does xz work alone? > > On 2.1.2011 4.21, "Madhurya Kakati" wrote: > > > i ran pacman -Syu and system is fully updated. > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:42 AM, jesse jaara > > w

Re: [arch-general] We want to help

2010-12-15 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 14 Dec 2010 09:54 -0200, Tomás Acauan Schertel wrote: > The Brazilian Arch Linux Community wants to help Arch Linux project, > working on bug reports and feature requests. > As first task, we plan to help conclude the development of AUR version 2. > > We don't have lots of developers, but w

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 18:30 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:26:00 +0100 > schrieb Pierre Schmitz : > > > I second this. If the reason for moving a package to core is that the > > installer cannot handle it otherwise the installer needs to be fixed. > > The question is not that the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 20:12 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 19:12:05 +0100 > schrieb Tobias Powalowski : > > > This is a proper solution without making core a big monster again. > > greetings > > Adding all filesystem tools to [core] won't make it a big monster. ;-) I'm not so sure a

Re: [arch-general] Changing subject line - Was: Python 3 Rationale?

2010-12-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 06 Dec 2010 23:24 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > > Top posting vs. going off topic without changing subject lines. I'm not > > sure which is worse... > > Bottom posting in Gmail is a pain in the ass. --Kaiting. Get a better mail client

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-12-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 06 Dec 2010 10:27 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > Scroll CLEAR down to the bottom for my response. > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:02:27PM -0400, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > > Really please, please don't top post. > > http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/ > > Who cares! it takes too long t

Re: [arch-general] what happened to nut (network-ups-tools)?

2010-11-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 29 Nov 2010 22:31 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 11/29/2010 09:11 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > > David, is it really that hard to do a few searches before asking? > > No, I did search for the package on the web-site. I just didn't think > to search AUR. I hadn'

Re: [arch-general] what happened to nut (network-ups-tools)?

2010-11-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 29 Nov 2010 20:03 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > Where did nut go? I just checked and network-ups-tools is no longer > available. Did it change names? I must have missed it. Thanks. David, is it really that hard to do a few searches before asking?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-13 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 13 Nov 2010 15:23 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:46:30 +0100 > schrieb Andrea Scarpino : > > > On Thursday 11 November 2010 22:54:36 Roman Kyrylych wrote: > > > I adopted some (and edited the page). > > Nice, today we have 291 orphans packages in [extra] (they were 352 >

Re: [arch-general] Replace dcron once again?

2010-11-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 12 Nov 2010 10:26 +0900, Alex Matviychuk wrote: > Thanks to this thread I decided to look at both dcron and fcron. First > google result for dcron led me to this: > > This is from a Linux From Scratch readme here: > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/dcron.txt Nice. The g

Re: [arch-general] Te agregué como amigo en Faceboo k

2010-09-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 27 Sep 2010 22:12 +0100, Mauro Santos wrote: > This is a message that will probably show up at least one more time > because facebook will remind everyone that didn't create an account that > they have been invited. Well, I followed the opt out links. Hopefully that works.

Re: [arch-general] Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wants to become the next person after U.S. Senator Ernie Chambers to sue God

2010-09-26 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 22 Sep 2010 23:18 -0600, Gary Wright wrote: > > ,.-'"...``~., > .,.-"..."-., > .,/.

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

2010-09-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 16 Sep 2010 16:53 +0200, Linus Eklöf wrote: > What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. Gnash might > not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free > software. What's really sad is that so many sites rely on flash in the first place.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] inkscape finding a maintainer

2010-09-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 31 Aug 2010 08:27 +0200, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2010-08-31 01:32:21 -0400] Loui Chang: > > On Mon 30 Aug 2010 19:24 +0200, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > > [2010-08-30 19:54:44 +0300] Ionuț Bîru: > > > > Does anyone in our dev team uses inkscape like a daily bases

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] inkscape finding a maintainer

2010-08-30 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 30 Aug 2010 19:24 +0200, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2010-08-30 19:54:44 +0300] Ionuț Bîru: > > Does anyone in our dev team uses inkscape like a daily bases and > > wants to maintain it? > > I use it about once a week or so; if you want inkscape to stay in > [extra] I could maintain it. Now if

Re: [arch-general] 3 minutes and 12 seconds Youtube video of My Arch Linux

2010-08-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 29 Aug 2010 18:03 +0600, reflexing wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore > wrote: > > > I have just uploaded a Youtube video of my Arch Linux which was installed > > on an external 2.5" USB harddrive December last year (2009). The length of >

Re: [arch-general] Referencing $srcdir in PKGBUILD?

2010-08-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 17 Aug 2010 13:01 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Excerpts from Loui Chang's message of 2010-08-17 12:35:41 +0200: > > On Tue 17 Aug 2010 12:09 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: > > > Am Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:15:34 +1000 > > > schrieb Allan McRae : > > >

Re: [arch-general] Referencing $srcdir in PKGBUILD?

2010-08-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 17 Aug 2010 12:09 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:15:34 +1000 > schrieb Allan McRae : > > > grep your files in your package for $srcdir (the actual value...). > > If it is not in a config file or RPATH or the like, you can probably > > ignore it. > > I'm not quite sure i

Re: [arch-general] /etc/profile PATH variable wrong

2010-08-15 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 15 Aug 2010 07:08 -0700, mike rosset wrote: > > Someone unaware of dotfiles might miss them, but others (blind or > > sighted) should be able to access them without issue. > > And all of this has nothing to do with the orignal issue /usr/local. I > only suggested using something in $HOME fo

Re: [arch-general] /etc/profile PATH variable wrong

2010-08-15 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 15 Aug 2010 06:33 -0700, mike rosset wrote: > > I use ~/.local/bin for user specific applications and scripts. ~/bin would > > create visible clutter to the home folder. > > > > -- > > Ape > > That might work for you however in Jude's case being a blind user I > would think he would want s

Re: [arch-general] Shouldn't pacman restart dovecot after update?

2010-08-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 07 Aug 2010 20:04 -0600, Gary Wright wrote: > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > > On Sat 07 Aug 2010 01:26 +0200, Guus Snijders wrote: > >> HTH, HAND > > > > What? > > > > > > HTH[1] HAND[2] > >

Re: [arch-general] Shouldn't pacman restart dovecot after update?

2010-08-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 07 Aug 2010 01:26 +0200, Guus Snijders wrote: > HTH, HAND What?

Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)

2010-08-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 05 Aug 2010 22:51 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, You got a script for the gals too? :D > I developed a script to help me read the output of pacman -Ss in 2 > nicely formatted columns. The output of 'pacman -Ss srchterm' drives > me nuts trying to read down the package names an

Re: [arch-general] makepkg patch - generate .SRCINFO file when running "--source"

2010-08-02 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 02 Aug 2010 17:03 +0200, vlad wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:49:11AM -0400, Loui Chang wrote: > > On Tue 27 Jul 2010 15:25 +0200, vlad wrote: > > > Here is a patch against makepkg from git which introduces a new > > > function "write_srcinfo()".

Re: [arch-general] makepkg patch - generate .SRCINFO file when running "--source"

2010-08-02 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 27 Jul 2010 15:25 +0200, vlad wrote: > Here is a patch against makepkg from git which introduces a new function > "write_srcinfo()". This generates a file .SRCINFO - like the .PKGINFO > one - when "makepkg --source" is run and then it is added to the src.tar.gz > archive. > I think having s

Re: [arch-general] mandriva beat us to a new version

2010-07-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 29 Jul 2010 10:05 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: > of perl > http://jquelin.blogspot.com/2010/07/perls-state-in-mandriva-cooker.html > how embarrassing. Congrats to them! How's that embarrassing?

Re: [arch-general] perl-authen-sasl: local (2.1401-1) is newer than community (2.15-1)

2010-07-20 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 20 Jul 2010 17:14 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > This is what happens to me now > # pacman -Syu > ... > :: Starting full system upgrade... > warning: perl-authen-sasl: local (2.1401-1) is newer than community (2.15-1) > > I guess this happens because I have installed something from test

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > > > On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > >> Oh, I do. I would just prefer to work with the package management > >> framework, not work a

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 10:42 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Victor Lowther > > wrote: > > > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-30 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 30 Jun 2010 18:48 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Excerpts from Aaron Griffin's message of 2010-06-30 17:55:40 +0200: > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Caleb Cushing > > wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Aaron Griffin > > > wrote: > > >> I have no idea where the number

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

2010-06-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 30 Jun 2010 00:15 +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:56:39 -0500 > Aaron Griffin wrote: > > I was also waiting for someone more knowledgeable with regards to the > > wiki. > > > > If it's my say-so you want, I don't see a problem with adding > > *additional* content und

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 29 Jun 2010 09:27 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > Which is change the modelines? No thanks. > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Bash_Coding_Style Neat. Where does the 132 columns come from?

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 28 Jun 2010 10:03 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > >Depends on what you define as Arch. > >I've heard that Arch is what you make of it. Hehe. > >I don't know if you could disqualify it from a difference of one

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 28 Jun 2010 09:13 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > On Jun 28, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > > >On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > >>On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing > >> wrote: > >>>On Sun, Jun 27, 20

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing > wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther > > wrote: > >> Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. > > > > why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper >

Re: [arch-general] Boost

2010-06-18 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 18 Jun 2010 11:52 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 18.06.2010 11:38, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > > On 06/18/2010 09:30 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > >> On 18/06/10 16:24, Daniel Bumke wrote: > >>> Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded > >>> from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a w

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

2010-06-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 17 Jun 2010 21:42 +0100, 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

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 17 Jun 2010 21:19 +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > On 17/06/10 at 08:46pm, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should > > security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and > > then reach a consensus. Arch Linux Security Task F

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-15 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 15 Jun 2010 18:23 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 15.06.2010 18:22, schrieb Andreas Radke: > > Am Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:12:38 +0300 > > schrieb Ionuț Bîru : > >> the current x86_64 version of flashplugin has security problems and > >> adobe dropped/temporally closed x86_64 releases. > >> >

Re: [arch-general] Cannot install shaman from AUR

2010-06-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 05 Jun 2010 23:05 +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:36 AM, xenof0nt wrote: > > Arch will never provide a graphical tool for pacman. > > So if you can't live with this, then change to another distro > > Never say never. > Just curious, where does that come from ? > Why

Re: [arch-general] change user and group in env in PKGBUILD

2010-06-03 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 03 Jun 2010 01:48 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: > so i'm trying to update the oracle pkgbuild on AUR. oracle's installer > won't run as root, but it thinks that it's running as root. how can I > change this? I believe it is supposed to be run as the user and group > that it gets installed as w

Re: [arch-general] Games for Linux !

2010-05-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 28 May 2010 23:00 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > This mailing list is only for discussing problems. Besides we use > arch-games repo ;) > > On 5/28/10, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > It seems there are lot of games for Linux we're not aware of because > > most of the times we stick to our

Re: [arch-general] dualboot?

2010-05-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 27 May 2010 16:42 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On 05/27/2010 04:21 PM, Stefan Husmann wrote: > >python is no requirement for Arch Linux itself. If you do not like it, > >just do not install it. > > Isn't pacman written in python? That would make python a > requirement for Arch then,

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay! - Was: Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 27 May 2010 14:41 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-January/010357.html > > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-May/013557.html > > eh

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay! - Was: Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 27 May 2010 19:11 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 27.05.2010 17:52, schrieb Loui Chang: > > Anyways, it's been stated that > > licensing isn't really the issue any more. The fact is no Dev or TU is > > interested in maintaining cdrtools. Jörg has something

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay! - Was: Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 27 May 2010 18:32 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Loui Chang wrote: > > That would be nice and useful if people actually believed that there > > would be an end to this discussion. Anyways, it's been stated that > > licensing isn't really the issue any mo

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay! - Was: Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 27 May 2010 14:43 +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: > Dozens of people have contributed to the discussion, but no one > actually cares about getting some clarifications ? > I just don't get it. > I feel like I did my part of the work already by getting a report from > Eben, just to see Joerg accu

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay!

2010-05-26 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 26 May 2010 21:59 +0530, Piyush P Kurur wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:06:36AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > > > I do not speak for the other Arch developers, but the reason why I > > > will not officially package cdrtools for Arc

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD parser

2010-05-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 10 May 2010 09:23 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 10/05/10 02:06, Loui Chang wrote: > >On Sun 09 May 2010 16:21 +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: > >>But I just had an idea now, if we're thinking about AUR use case : > >>makepkg --source could generate a suit

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD parser

2010-05-09 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 09 May 2010 16:21 +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > Sourcing is dangerous if the PKGBUILD is from an untrusted source.  It also > > fails with package splitting... > But I just had an idea now, if we're thinking about AUR use case : > mak

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Redefining [testing] and a new [staging] repo

2010-05-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 07 May 2010 13:12 -0400, Ray Kohler wrote: > Even though I'm just a user, I'd like to add my support to this idea. > I even considered proposing it myself less than a month ago. I run > [testing], since I want to contribute to finding problems before they > reach [core] and [extra], but I do

Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?

2010-05-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 07 May 2010 10:01 -0500, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:57 AM, David C. Rankin < > drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > > > On 05/07/2010 09:48 AM, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: > > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Johannes Held wrote: > > > > > >> http://www.archlinux

Re: [arch-general] about arch

2010-05-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 06 May 2010 18:08 +0900, Juan Diego Tascón wrote: > I was reading the "about" page (http://www.archlinux.org/about/) in > the archlinux website and I noticed that this line is a little > outdated: "Arch also offers an [unsupported] section in the Arch Linux > User Repository (AUR), which con

Re: [arch-general] Raising identical task against multiple packages?

2010-04-24 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 24 Apr 2010 20:21 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > On 24/04/10 15:47, Loui Chang wrote: > > On Sat 24 Apr 2010 11:06 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> Is there a way to raise an identical task against multiple packages in > >> FlySpray? > >> > >>

Re: [arch-general] Raising identical task against multiple packages?

2010-04-24 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 24 Apr 2010 11:06 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > Is there a way to raise an identical task against multiple packages in > FlySpray? > > I'd like to raise a task against all binary haskell-* packages, but > I'd rather like to avoid wearing out my mouse doing it ;-) Open one task and list al

Re: [arch-general] what is this supposed to mean ?

2010-04-21 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 21 Apr 2010 23:49 +0200, Matěj Týč wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 00:28 +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > > Please see the front page news. There are instructions regarding the > > CUPS update. :) > > And I also think that it is not feasible to have to take a look at the > frontpage if you u

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

2010-04-20 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 20 Apr 2010 17:32 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Me and my friend are doing a project to write a simplified ebook for > students of high school in India. The syllabus has been changed a lot > and the students have been introduced to the world of FOSS. The > current physical book authors

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

2010-03-30 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 30 Mar 2010 19:26 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: > schrieb Xavier Chantry : > > > Heh cmus is probably my preferred player now so I ought to defend it. > > > > Too complicated, seriously ? The only command I ever need is the > > initial one to add my music directory : > > # add fi

Re: [arch-general] on rolling release / reinstallation

2010-03-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 17 Mar 2010 16:01 -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > So I'm guessing that these "workarounds" happen whenever a "pacman > -Syu" leads to breaking something... (Which means that I probably > should only do an "pacman -Syu" when A) I've got time to test all my > stuff. AND B) I've got tim

Re: [arch-general] Something really wrong with yum-createrepo from AUR - doesn't work. [Solved - sort of]

2010-03-13 Thread Loui Chang
> On 03/13/2010 01:57 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > > The yum-createrepo package seems not to be the same as the > > createrepo package that you normally see. Specifically executing > > the yum-createrepo script with the help option discloses: > > It's better if these things are docume

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-12 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 12 Mar 2010 14:11 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > > On Fri 12 Mar 2010 13:28 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > >> > But just closing a bug should not be done

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-12 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 12 Mar 2010 13:28 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > > But just closing a bug should not be done. There's usually a reason why > > a bug is reported even if it's invalid. > > Seriously, present some examples here, this talking in the abstract is

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-12 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 12 Mar 2010 09:34 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > Commenting on closed bugs is not doable in Flyspray. > > More-over, I think it is a bad idea. The only reason people want > commenting on closed bugs is so that they can argue with the > developers - give reasons why the bug shouldn't be close

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 11 Mar 2010 11:50 -0600, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Xavier Chantry > wrote: > > 2010/3/11 David C. Rankin : > > > I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to the AUR > > > package and sent Chris (the maintainer) an email telling him what > > > I'd

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Clean up the base group

2010-02-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 28 Feb 2010 01:59 +0530, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > rp-pppoe should not be removed, Its very handy and easy to use tool. > It was using it this tool I was able to connect the internet in > ArchLinux. without it I won't be able to install arch. the alternative > ppp is hard to configure. Rp-ppp

Re: [arch-general] How to obtain development headers for package

2010-02-23 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 23 Feb 2010 23:11 +, Michishige Kaito wrote: > Maybe I'm just not understanding how Arch works, so please forgive my > ignorance. I come from ubuntu, and there you get development headers for > most packages by following the naming convention, which is package-dev. A > quick apt-cache se

Re: [arch-general] [patch] AIF, discover repos on iso.

2010-02-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 19 Feb 2010 22:26 +0100, Mark Pustjens wrote: > The attached patch fixes a TODO in lib-pacman of aif. > Instead of hardcoding that `core' is always available locally and > falling back to net for others, it now checks /src/ for repos. > > It assumes repos are stored at /src/$repo/pkg/. All

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-25 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 25 Jan 2010 16:28 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Heiko Baums wrote: > > >I don't know anything about the technical differences between cdrkit > >and cdrtools but http://cdrkit.org says: > >News > >2009/10/11 > >Cdrkit 1.1.10 has been released. > > >So the last stable release was not a yea

Re: [arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-12 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 12 Jan 2010 19:28 +0100, Guus Snijders wrote: > On 12-01-10 06:27, Loui Chang wrote: > >I think part of the problem is that some email clients like gmail > >webmail help persist the bad behaviour. They default with top posting > >replies and sending HTML emails. I hav

Re: [arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 11 Jan 2010 21:33 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > re-read the old stuff over and over again. Nothing annoys me more > than haveing to page through five generations of past messages in a > single thread to get all the way to the bottom just to have a single > line of text say something like "Th

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 11 Jan 2010 13:54 -0500, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 13:38, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in > > /etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be > > modified. Users are more than welcome to do what we don

Re: [arch-general] Looks like an AUR (web interface) bug?

2010-01-03 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 04 Jan 2010 05:46 +0800, talki walki wrote: > The following page of msort in AUR says "Package details could not be > found." > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33319 > > While one can fetch the package info using the rpc interface: > > wget 'http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=sea

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-18 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 18 Dec 2009 17:54 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > I agree with Dieter, that the install should be measured by speed and > > automation -- but long ago I realized that there a whole lot of other > > people out there that just don't think like me :p > > Don't misunderstand me. An interact

Re: [arch-general] Single Person ISP?

2009-11-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 19 Nov 2009 00:44 -0700, Brendan Long wrote: > So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've > been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can > find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, > so I decided, "I have a phon

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Magazine

2009-11-04 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 02 Nov 2009 19:26 -0600, Daniel J Griffiths wrote: > Loui Chang wrote: > >Hey guys. I'm just curious. What's going on with the magazine? > >Is there any intent to revive it? > > > >I know that I'd look forward to news/forum summaries at least if t

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