Re: [arch-general] Btrfs snapshots for upgrade operations

2012-10-28 Thread Yclept Nemo
snapshot of the current system which will then be upgraded - especially for security upgrades which need to be effective immediately, unless it is possible to remount a volume without rebooting. It seems that *pacnew and *pacsave files will no longer be required. Just some thoughts, Yclept Nemo

[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC, after the fact] initscripts config

2012-07-22 Thread Yclept Nemo
3) Personally this depends on the final rc.conf, is [1] or [2] going to be it? I don't enjoy visually collating options across rc.conf (terminal #1,vim) and rc.conf(5) (terminal #2,man). So if after actions (2), and (4), nothing remains but "esoteric" options, then sure, go ahead and do whatever yo

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading password hashes

2012-07-10 Thread Yclept Nemo
By the way, is it possible to upgrade password hashes without an intermediate password, assuming the new/old passwords are identical?

Re: [arch-general] Dovecot problem after update today

2012-06-07 Thread Yclept Nemo
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30181 Non-breaking space, 0x00a0 needs to be replaced with actual space, 0x0020

Re: [arch-general] Xulrunner as makedepend while eclipse is installed

2012-03-07 Thread Yclept Nemo
> What should an ordinary user do when updating eclipse and he receives the > message about conflicts and whether xulrunner should be removed? > > (I've just been escaping out of the attempted update with ctrl-C, on the > assumption that this is a temporary situation and will soon be fixed. Is th

Re: [arch-general] Daemon Locale

2011-12-09 Thread Yclept Nemo
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Yclept Nemo wrote: > I want to create a new postgresql database cluster with UTF-8 locale > and default (template) encoding. While initdb, run by rc.d/postgresql, > inherits the locale from the environment, rc.d/functions overrides the > locale to C

[arch-general] Daemon Locale

2011-11-23 Thread Yclept Nemo
I want to create a new postgresql database cluster with UTF-8 locale and default (template) encoding. While initdb, run by rc.d/postgresql, inherits the locale from the environment, rc.d/functions overrides the locale to C as specified by DAEMON_LOCALE So I am thinking, is there any reason why not

Re: [arch-general] Dejavu sans mono fonts rendering issue.

2011-06-11 Thread Yclept Nemo
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 9:43 AM, mwnn wrote: >> The following .fonts.conf file did the trick: >> ... > The slackware screenshot looks more like: > .. hehe, I must say I did not notice any significant difference aside from font and background

Re: [arch-general] Bachelor thesis

2011-06-09 Thread Yclept Nemo
Also NILFS filesystem development is very slow and the project has a long todo list including some gui tools.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] coreutils-8.12-2, initscripts-2011.06.3-1, net-tools-1.60-16, udev-171-2, yp-tools-2.12-2, ypbind-mt-1.33-2, iproute2-2.6.38-3

2011-06-07 Thread Yclept Nemo
If true, you might want to consider mentioning that it might be unnecessary to blacklist certain modules such as 'pcspkr' which are no longer automatically loaded (since load_modules.sh has been removed)

[arch-general] hwclock and openntpd

2011-06-04 Thread Yclept Nemo
A recent announcement said: * The adjustment of the hwclock for drift is moved into a daemon that should not be used in most scenarios as it can lead to subtle bugs (especially if using dual-boot or ntp). If you know what you are doing and want to adjust the hardware clock for drift, add `"hwcloc

Re: [arch-general] Pruning the bugtracker

2011-05-06 Thread Yclept Nemo
Speaking for the bugs I watch: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15746 FS#15746 - [kismet] should be built "make suidinstall" Should be simple enough to take a decision.

[arch-general] xinitrc.d framework

2011-02-07 Thread Yclept Nemo
I hacked an "xinitrc.d framework". The details are at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc.d_Framework. I'm only one person, so I'd appreciate any comments.