Re: [arch-general] Pacman Error: upgrading to same package version again & again

2010-02-16 Thread Nagy Gabor
> Hi, > Pacman is acting weird. > Its asking me to upgrade same set of packages over & over. Even, I have just > updated said packages.I posted my query on forums[1] but helpful reply. So > posting it here: Check /var/lib/pacman/local/, you will probably find many duplicated entries there. Then

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-02-08 Thread Nagy Gabor
Allan McRae wrote: >> With every big rebuilds we get new breakage stories. It seems like >> it's the norm nowadays rather than the exception. >> >> I am wondering if it's really only the users that are to blame.. or if >> Arch is also to blame. Or if Arch was supposed to be an elitist >> distributi

Re: [arch-general] Why there is duplicate dependencies when searching package on the home page

2008-09-07 Thread Nagy Gabor
You should file a bug report at our bug tracker. Packages should only depend on other from testing if they are in the same repo themself. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11414 -- SZTE Egyetemi Konyvtar - http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu This messag

Re: [arch-general] Why there is duplicate dependencies when searching package on the home page

2008-09-07 Thread Nagy Gabor
Idézet Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 9/6/08, 甘露(Gan Lu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is this a bug or something? Not sure what you mean, can you give me an example? Are all depends in there twice? Is it possible it's including both i686 and x86_64 packages? http://www.archlinux.org/p

Re: [arch-general] About Arch pkg compress format

2008-05-20 Thread Nagy Gabor
Idézés Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 15:55 +0900, Bendany Qian wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I just have a sugguestion about the pkg format. > > > > Currently archlinux is using gzip compress method to pack the > > package, I think it is better to use bzip2. since bzip2 f

Re: [arch-general] Upstream bugs, patches

2008-05-02 Thread Nagy Gabor
> > And I don't hear much complaints about the distro-patching from > > developers (exceptions: Jörg Schilling for example). A bit going > > further, I think that "patchability" is one of the main power of > > open source; and I see nothing wrong (fundamentally) in the common > > practice, that dis

Re: [arch-general] Upstream bugs, patches

2008-05-02 Thread Nagy Gabor
> Nagy Gabor wrote: > > An example: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5861 > > This is quite an old bug, and we are just waiting and waiting... > > > > Sometimes packagers are slow, sometimes upstream is slow. This is not > so surprising, the time of open source deve

Re: [arch-general] Upstream bugs, patches

2008-05-01 Thread Nagy Gabor
> Just a link in case you missed it > http://phraktured.net/patching-patching-patching.html > First reply is mine. OK. I suggested my preferred answer in "foreword", that we shouldn't answer this question in general, estimate the answer in every particular case instead. Some comments: AUR is one

[arch-general] Upstream bugs, patches

2008-05-01 Thread Nagy Gabor
Hi! I'm new to this list, and my English is far from perfect, please tolerate it ;-) I am/was a big fan of ArchLinux, I'm using it from 0.5 version, I also made some little contributions to pacman, but now I noticed some tendencies which I cannot accept. So I would like to hear the official "stan