C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> # ldconfig -v
> ldconfig: Can't stat /usr/lib64: No such file or directory
> /usr/lib/libfakeroot:
>libfakeroot-0.so -> libfakeroot.so
> /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE:
>libperl.so -> libperl.so
> /lib:
> Aborted
I think there's no harm in "mkdir /usr/li
Myra Nelson wrote:
> After some more searching, work, and this email from the libc help
> list [ http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2011-12/msg0.html
> ] , I've attempted the code from Ulrich Dreppers page at
> http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/userapi-ipv6.html . The newer version
> of the code
Allan McRae wrote:
> On 10/12/11 07:29, Ionut Biru wrote:
>
>> On 12/09/2011 09:25 PM, Philipp wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there, I have linking issues with one of the programs I maintain
>>> in AUR and I don't quite understand the issue. Here's the output:
>>>
>>> g++ -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,re
Leonid Isaev wrote:
> I think it's a better idea to have either /var/lib or entire /var on
> reiserfs.
>
> /ext4 30Gb
> /var ext4 10Gb
> /bootext4 100Mb
> /var/lib reiserfs 500Mb
> /homeext4 85Gb
> /tmp ext2 2Gb
Interesting! Why do you think that? Me
Myra Nelson wrote:
> After some more searching, work, and this email from the libc help
> list [ http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2011-12/msg0.html
> ] , I've attempted the code from Ulrich Dreppers page at
> http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/userapi-ipv6.html . The newer version
> of the code
Myra Nelson wrote:
> I have a static ip address set up in rc.conf and my internet
> connections work, ftp clients work, ip addrlabel produces
>
> prefix ::1/128 label 0
> prefix :::0.0.0.0/96 label 4
> prefix ::/96 label 3
> prefix 2001::/32 label 7
> prefix 2002::/16 label 2
> prefix fec0::/1
Grant McDuling wrote:
> Hi, I am new to Arch, being a Mint user until now. I have the iso on
> CD now and ready to install. Can I do this is stages or is it best to
> do the complete basic install in one sitting?
Regarding disk partitioning: Arch wants to have /usr on the same
partition as "/" (
Guillermo Leira wrote:
> I'm not a programmer, so I can't submit code, but it would be nice if
> pacman would say "Installed as a dependency of: package-name", or
> something similar. It's just a suggestion.
If a package is removed without its dependencies, those dependencies
also lose the pointe
Christian Hesse wrote:
> Hmm... Did not notice the typo as well...
> I used the correct syntax automatically. Being a human can be bad and
> good. :D
Right. But people consulting mailinglists might not know all the ins
and outs. Therefore writing precise statements and citing without
cut&paste
Alex Ferrando wrote:
> Use provides(xz=5.0.0), more info on [1]
>
> [1]= https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pkgbuild#provides
Shouldn't this be "provides=('xz=5.0.0')"? Afterall, this is an array
variable? Or is there a bash function provides() of the same name?
clemens
Tom Gundersen wrote:
> 2011/11/29 "Jérôme M. Berger" :
>
>> And if your machine only boots very rarely (because it runs
>> continuously or because you hibernate it instead of rebooting) then
>> your "temporary" folder is never cleaned up. The solution that makes
>> the most sense is to have
Myra Nelson wrote:
> Alsa is in my daemons array and starts. The problem is the udev
> rule to restore the volume levels fails as it is run before /usr
> is mounted. That's why I was asking about udev rules and why [
> /usr/bin/alsactl restore ] works from the console after I've
> booted. After re
Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
> Yeah. I too have my personal stuff for that. I have a script actually
> which uses a file and from that creates the default.list file which is
> then used by anyone who cares to use it (Firefox, KDE etc). But I am
> now tired of the custom stuff. I just wanted to explore. A
Myra Nelson wrote:
> Currently I don't want to try to migrate /usr to /. / is only 4 GB and
> /usr is 8+ GB and everything works to well so I'll just do a fresh
> install later. Otherwise sudo /usr/bin/alsactl start works well.
You could also put a line into etc/rc.local :
/etc/rc.d/alsa start
Myra Nelson wrote:
> The .install files are contained in the package.
I know. I wanted to know where they go before the entire package with
all transactions is considered "done". The warning indicated that the
first, preliminary extraction step went wrong.
> Might I ask what you were compiling
Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
> Now whenever a new package is installed. It will contain an XML file
> containing description of the mimetype in the same manner. When the
> package is installed, the file will be transferred to a folder. The
> main file which contains the descriptions of the mime type will
clemens fischer wrote:
> Gaetan Bisson wrote:
>
>> If that's easy then it shouldn't be too hard for you to open a bug
>> report on the tracker and submit a patch.
>
> Then what component does the actual extracting? Is it libfetch? That
> would be an ups
Leonid Isaev wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:07:18 +0100
> Geert Hendrickx <...> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:55:55 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote:
>>
>> > Actually, what is stupid is keeping /tmp in RAM. It is an important
>> > dir, where you might have an valuable info in case of a system
Allan McRae wrote:
> On 25/11/11 09:18, clemens fischer wrote:
>
>> would it be possible to let pacman, libalpm and libfetch honor the
>> environment variable TMPDIR?
>
> File a bug report or at least post to the pacman-dev list. Then
> relevant people might actually
Gaetan Bisson wrote:
> If that's easy then it shouldn't be too hard for you to open a bug
> report on the tracker and submit a patch.
Then what component does the actual extracting? Is it libfetch? That
would be an upstream moving target, because it comes from netbsd. Do
you guys accept patche
Hi,
would it be possible to let pacman, libalpm and libfetch honor the
environment variable TMPDIR?
I mean, this is stupid. Many people keep /tmp in RAM, on a tmpfs, and
make it big enough, but not too big, as it takes away RAM when getting
loaded.
#define TMP_LOC "TMPDIR"
#include /* gete
hollunder@... wrote:
>> hollunder@..., Sat 2011-11-12 @ 22:42:57-0500:
>> [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22674#c11
>
> Thanks Taylor,
> I still consider this a bug because this didn't happen for years but
> seems to happen every time I boot since 3.1.
>
> Another workaround is t
Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Your system has two versions of libc.so.6: A 32 bit and a 64 bit version
> (/usr/lib32/libc.so.6 vs. /lib/libc.so.6), and your script cannot
> distinguish them. Actually, using readelf, this is not so easy to solve:
>
> 1) A 64 bit binary always loads only 64 bit libraries,
Auguste Pop wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:24 PM, clemens fischer <...> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I compiled the new 3.0.8 stable kernel, and the script also
>> invoked mkinitcpio(8), which eventually puts the new udev-174 into
>> the initramfs image. Thereafter th
Karol Blazewicz wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:18 PM, clemens fischer <...> wrote:
>
>> Mkinitcpio already seems to be smart enough:
>>
>> BINARIES="/usr/sbin/minilogd"
>>
>> in etc/mkinitcpio.conf should do the trick.
>
> Sorry
Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 27.10.2011 10:38, schrieb clemens fischer:
>
>> minilogd requires the following libs:
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11K Oct 18 18:34 /usr/sbin/minilogd lrwxrwxrwx
>> 1 root root 12 Sep 9 01:23 /usr/lib32/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.14.so
>&g
clemens fischer wrote:
> Dwight Schauer wrote:
>
>> My root= on my kernel boot line is using /dev/by-uuid/ so if the
>> initramfs can find the root device, I'm sure it can find the /usr
>> device from the rootfs /etc/fstab.
>>
>> I've not notic
Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:57 PM, clemens fischer <...> wrote:
>
>> Thomas Bächler wrote:
>>
>>> Am 25.10.2011 20:12, schrieb clemens fischer:
>>>
>>>>> Mounting /usr needs to go to the initramfs. It is possible t
Dwight Schauer wrote:
> My root= on my kernel boot line is using /dev/by-uuid/ so if the
> initramfs can find the root device, I'm sure it can find the /usr
> device from the rootfs /etc/fstab.
>
> I've not noticed any breakage on all my system's that have a seperate
> /usr, apart from the message
On Tue-2011/10/25-14:56 clemens fischer wrote:
> My system broke with udev-174-1. I have rules renaming eth* according
> to their MACs for consistency, guarding against dependency on
> order-of-detection, plus rules to customize a wlan running on an USB
> device. These rules didn
Cédric Girard wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:07 PM, clemens fischer wrote:
>
>> On Tue-2011/10/11-07:12 C Anthony Risinger wrote:
>>
>> > On Oct 10, 2011 7:41 PM, "Martin" <...> wrote:
>> >
>> >> [spanish] ... [/spanish]
>
On Tue-2011/10/11-07:12 C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2011 7:41 PM, "Martin" <...> wrote:
>
>> [spanish] ... [/spanish]
>
> ... and then no one else can benefit or contribute to this out-of-band
> conversation?
Why yes! instead of "reflector", pacman's own "rankmirrors" script
provides
Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 25.10.2011 20:12, schrieb clemens fischer:
>
>>> Mounting /usr needs to go to the initramfs. It is possible to
>>> implement a mount handler for this. At this stage, the by-label
>>> symlinks exist already.
>>
>> AFAIU
On Tue-2011/10/11-13:06 Neal Haslam wrote:
> @Tom
> Thankyou for pointing out powertop2. It allows for more control than
> the original powertop. The URL in the PKGBUILD is not correct because
> of kernel.org's changes. Googling for a new location was easy enough.
If it was so easy, what was so
Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:56 PM, clemens fischer <...> wrote:
>
>> My system broke with udev-174-1. I have rules renaming eth*
>> according to their MACs for consistency, guarding against dependency
>> on order-of-detection, plus rules to
Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:12 PM, clemens fischer ... wrote:
(Removed email. No need to atract spammers!)
>> What patch would that be? THE-FAVOURITE-SEARCH-ENGINE didn't pull
>> anything useful for "patch Thomas-Bächler busybox". Can somebo
Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 25.10.2011 14:12, schrieb clemens fischer:
>>> We are currently working on adding support for the second approach,
>>> but we are not there yet (I have some patches against mkinitcpio to
>>> add this, but they rely on a patch by Thomas ag
'uname -rms' -> "Linux 3.0.7-spott x86_64"
On Thu-2011/10/20-09:41 Myra Nelson wrote:
> Error messages yes, but no warning about problems with the image and
> the image is created and boots fine. Keeping up with the mailing list
> makes all the difference in the world.
My system broke with udev-
Thomas Bächler wrote:
> No. Even if things fail entirely, we will provide a hook for
> mkinitcpio that mounts /usr before switching to the real root
> filesystem. This will eliminate all your potential bugs. However
> - this hook hasn't been written yet.
Imagine somebody with a desktop arch-linux
Tom Gundersen wrote:
> From time to time we get bug reports that are really difficult to
> debug, and that eventually turn out to be due to a separate /usr. Once
> we figure out the cause, we usually end up having to say, sorry, there
> is nothing we can do about that, but in the meantime we have
On Wed-2011/10/12-23:55 Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from scrat's message of 2011-10-12 22:44:14 +0200:
>> The problem is I can't get the firmware for the new driver because
>> git.kernel.org is down so I am unable to test. :(
>
> It's up for me :)
You might try[1]. It should have the
On Mon-2011/08/22-00:40 Allan McRae wrote:
> On 22/08/11 03:10, Myra Nelson wrote:
>
>> Works like a charm. Thanks again for the assistance. I missed #GPGDir
>> = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ in the new pacman.conf file or I would have
>> investigated further. I only had one other problem, importing Andre
Mantas M. wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 08:26:53PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:
>
>> I have used "gconf-editor", added the directory chain
>
> Very few programs still use the GConf settings. Most follow the XDG
> configuration at ~/.local/share/applications/
F.Gr. wrote:
> Uli Armbruster [2011-09-11T21:50 CEST]:
>
>> Put
>>
>> export BROWSER=your_browser
>>
>> into your bashrc, zshrc or into a file you put into /etc/profile.d,
>> depending on what you want.
>
> some application (in my case e.g. google earth) doesn't work
> correctly by putting BRO
Hi,
when using eg. "evince" to view a PDF document, links open in
"epiphany", which seems to be a gnome default browser.
I need to change this, but all the links the comes up
with hint at using menus like "system -> ... -> browser". I only run
a window-manager, no desktop, so there's no such th
clemens fischer wrote:
> % urxvt
> urxvt: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so: undefined
> symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr
>
> I moved Util.so elsewhere and urxvt started working again.
>
> But:
>
> # cpanp
> Data::Dumper
John K Pate wrote:
> I had a breakage (with the same error message) with
> rxvt-unicode-chinese from the AUR, but it was resolved upon upgrading
> to the new version. I don't know if the fix was due to recompiling or
> the new version, however.
Note that I don't have any foreign, ie. non ARCH per
Nathan Wayde wrote:
> On 10/03/10 20:03, clemens fischer wrote:
>
>> Ironically, if pacman was such a tidy package manager and devs were
>> so keen to keep things that way, why is there ever any output in
>> "pacman -Qdt"?
>
> Could it be because you e
f...@... wrote:
> But then doing a full system upgrade (as advised on this list)
> completely locked up the machine - frozen screen, dead capslock led
> etc. No other choice but a power cycle, broken filesystems, and hours
> of work repairing them and putting bits and pieces back in place.
> I sti
On Mon-2010/02/01-11:26 Thanos Zygouris wrote:
> P.S.1 : Most of the CDs are bootable ones, writen with "cdrecord -v
> speed=8 dev=/dev/scd0 -data -tao -multi". They boot normally though.
I thought multi-session CDs must be "finished" or "finalized" before
they can be fully used?
clemens
Attila wrote:
> At Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 02:13 Dan McGee wrote:
>
>> No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list-
>> does it make sense to do so?
>
> Instead this makes something easier i must say that this could be
> dangerous too because it could end in some str
I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the
web. Here's my question: in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such
as:
NoExtract = usr/share/man/man1/mkisofs*
NoExtract = etc/logrotate.d/*
or:
NoUpgrade = etc/cron.daily/logrotate etc/logrotate.*
clemens
Gaurish Sharma wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 Feb 2010 6:31:52 pm Nagy Gabor wrote:
>
>> Check /var/lib/pacman/local/, you will probably find many duplicated
>> entries there. Then you should manually remove the older entries.
>>
>> (This is probably caused by backup or buggy third party scripts. Next
>>
It may so happen that one wants to know what's wrong with some
configuration, but it is handled at boot time and the initscripts don't
provide enough info. An alternative is to use the hook functions
scattered about the initscripts, which may or may not be better for your
needs.
This is my trick
clemens fischer wrote:
> ... After switching to tmux, I increased the rate at which these
> messages are dequeued and displayed, so the queues filled up.
Actually, I _decreased_ the dequeuing rate, and that's why they filled
up. Sigh.
clemens
clemens fischer wrote:
> "too much happens:: Synchronizing package databases..."
It was my fault after all. Maybe you'd have found it, if I had posted
the entire fcrontab command:
@mail(1),first(5) 8h ${tellit} "pacman sync"; \
{ pacman --noprogressbar -Sy &
Aaron Griffin wrote:
> Could it be a message from cron itself?
No, you might have read in my original post that I grepped for the
string in fcron, pacman and libalpm, as well as the libc.
clemens
Daenyth Blank wrote:
> Maybe it's an error from your download agent if you're not using
> libfetch in pacman?
Not that, either. I'm using no download agent.
I wonder why it went away a few days ago. Does anybody else use
"http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/archlinux/"; or
"http://ftp.uni-bayr
Daenyth Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 18:07, clemens fischer
> wrote:
>> Sorry. It's an fcrontab entry:
>>
>> { pacman --noprogressbar -Sy && pacman --noprogressbar -Qu || :; } 2>&1
>
> Try it with --debug for more info?
No chance.
Dan McGee wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:08 PM, clemens fischer wrote:
>
>> I'm updating the pacman database about once a day. For the last few
>> days I always get this message:
>>
>> "too much happens:: Synchronizing package databases..."
>&g
Hi,
I'm updating the pacman database about once a day. For the last few
days I always get this message:
"too much happens:: Synchronizing package databases..."
but everything works fine. I checked usr/bin/pacman,
/usr/lib/libalpm.so.4 and usr/sbin/fcron using strings(1) for the text
"much",
On Thu-2009/09/24-22:24 Aaron Griffin wrote:
> And this appears to be fixed in git
>
> http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/bash-completion/commit/?id=f733e71e1f8d63c072a402346d8162f9c6b63ae2
> http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/bash-completion/commit/?id=f871fe4101ed89cb98e201aed8c975fd3061905b
On Thu-2009/08/13-07:06 Allan McRae wrote:
> conflicts=$(pacman -Ssq kdebase-)
conflicts=($(pacman -Ssq kdebase-))
If "conflicts" is supposed to be an array.
clemens
Can I put IPv6 rules into the regular etc/iptables/iptables.rules file
containing only IPv4 rules otherwise?
I noticed that both /usr/sbin/iptables and /usr/sbin/ip6tables depend on
the same .so libs, so me thinks these libs need to have IPv6 support and
all is well.
Also, to make IPv6 work I put
On Mon-2009/08/10-19:58 Daenyth Blank wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:24, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>
>> If you like these, you can stick them in ~/.inputrc for your user
>> account. It works for any app using readline.
>
> I added those to my ~/.inputrc, but it's still not working. Is there
> anyt
On Tue-2009/07/28-09:37 Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 04:15, Flavio Costa wrote:
>
>> Muting the "PC Beep" in "alsamixer" mutes the beep, but the internel
>> speaker doesn't come back to life
>
> I think that is because of CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP=y If it is really
> important t
On Mon-2009/08/03-16:52 clemens fischer wrote:
> I don't run a customary desktop, just screen(1) in urxvt(1) on
> Xorg(7), all applications being ncurses driven. Doing:
>
> pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xorg-server-1.6.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
>
> fixed it.
xorg-server-1.
On Sat-2009/08/01-23:58 Lu?s Moreira wrote:
> The last update broke my Xorg, the screen just goesn black and hangs
> there, CTRL+ALT+F1 (etc) doesn't do anything.
>
> I'm using X86_64, *without* [testing].
>
> The updated packages were
>
> kernel26
> nvidia
> xorg-server
> (and some others, less i
Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> archboot depends are designed to generate a working image, vi on
> archboot is vim, as long as this is not fixed it cannot move in.
could that editor be made pico(1), then?
clemens
On Sun-2009/07/26-17:36 Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> As long as vim is not fixed this cannot move in, install the version
> from testing or use latest git version.
Sorry to sound ignorant: what has an editor got to do with archboot??
clemens
I wrote:
> Environment variables:
>
> $LDDD_LIB_IGNORE: globs of missing lib-names to ignore[2].
> $LDDD_DONT_CHECK: globs of file names to completely ignore[2].
As a usage example, I don't have but the most basic qt stuff, and no
rrd-data-graphing, no ruby etc., ie. typical household optio
I rewrote lddd from extra/devtools. The intent was to make it faster
and remove false positives, as well as support for ignoring certain
files completely, filtering the list of missing libs to handle optional
dependencies, take /etc/ld.so.conf into account and in general make it
more usable. NB:
On Fri-2009/07/10-21:53 Caleb Cushing wrote:
> the problem is it's ending up with no values.
If you prefer to have your own settings in etc/resolv.conf, you can do
this: create "/etc/dhcpcd.enter-hook" with example contents:
# what is supposed to be in /etc/resolv.conf:
new_domain_name="."
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> __
> / \ ___
> | | / \
> @ @ | It looks like you are |
> || ||| trying to update your |
> || || <--| system, are you sure? |
> |\_/|\___/
> \___/
The ASCII-art is by far the best
On Thu-2009/07/09-19:17 Gerhard Brauer wrote:
> for arch in ${ARCHES}; do
>for repo in ${REPOS}; do
>echo -e -n "$arch-$repo:\t"
>date +"%x %X" -u -d @$(wget -q -O - $1/$repo/os/$arch/lastsync)
>done
> done
please don't post anything like this: apart from being barely
com
On Wed-2009/06/24-00:02 Loui Chang wrote:
> I'm going to try to take time to think up and work out a prototype for
> a robust system that will run the next generation of AUR. Right now
> I have some measly shell script to help me flesh out my ideas hah.
Whatever you do, please don't loose that JS
On Tue-2009/07/07-22:17 clemens fischer wrote:
> (gdb) bt
> incomplete CFI data; unspecified registers (e.g., eax) at 0xb7fa838a...#0
> 0xb7fa84dc in _getopt_internal_r ()
> from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1 0xb7fa946e in _getopt_internal () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2 0xb7fa9
Daenyth Blank wrote:
> Are you using [testing]? When is the last time you updated those
> programs and/or libraries?
I had [testing] for a while, only for testing some X11 libs back when
I had a problem with a trackball. I stopped using it about a week ago,
but I think there's no package left on
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> Compare with me
>
> $ md5sum /usr/lib/liblzma.so.0 /lib/libpthread.so.0 /lib/libc.so.6
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /usr/bin/xz
> 72cd526ea4ee299f5c9eb1b49180d163 /usr/lib/liblzma.so.0
> e12a37058b6360660658ad2bd26c2b57 /lib/libpthread.so.0
> 2a1cf98f035403805ae860b95fd8
For a few days now I noticed some programs not working, like "lzma" or
"xz" from the "xz-utils". They segfault and "xz --help" says:
$ /usr/bin/xz --help
/usr/bin/xz: unrecognized option '--'
/usr/bin/xz: Try `/usr/bin/xz --help' for more information.
So I went to compile the original sour
Xavier wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:58 PM, clemens fischer wrote:
>
>> is there a regular expression describing the version comparison
>> algorithm in pacman/lib/libalpm/package.c::alpm_pkg_vercmp()?
>
> Could you give an example of what you are trying to do?
simple
Hi,
is there a regular expression describing the version comparison
algorithm in pacman/lib/libalpm/package.c::alpm_pkg_vercmp()?
I have a pacman wrapper (bash script) that needs to determine the
package name to give to pacman given a directory name, because it is
possible to give globs to filena
Andrei Thorp wrote:
> Okay, but how do those links get to the places they're supposed to be
> if you don't update packages to put them there?
Currently all files are there, no need to change that, it works. If any
package is updated, the files would have to be replaced anyway, so put
links to th
Andrei Thorp wrote:
> Well, as far as I can tell, the problem is that this requires the
> updating of the 4050 packages we have at the moment. All of them. By
> hand. For rather limited gain.
Well, you don't get it as far as I can tell. As all paths stay the
same, _not one single package_ has to
Daenyth Blank wrote:
> -1. It's really not needed, pacman does plenty. And we should stick to
> the FHS when possible.
Keeping with norms is almost always good, but putting package files into
their own directories and linking to them from the standard FHS places
doesn't violate the FHS. Unless t
Andrei Thorp wrote:
> Also, remaking all packages in the repos to do this?
Where's the problem? The symlinking can be done at leisure, on routine
updates. They are compatible.
clemens
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> clemens fischer wrote:
>> /usr/local/bin/gpp -> /opt/gpp/2.24/bin/gpp*
>> /usr/local/man/man1/gpp.1 -> /opt/gpp/2.24/man/man1/gpp.1
>> ...
>>
>> [1] http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/spill/
>
> Maybe GoboLinux is for y
Hi,
Whenever I install autotools-aware programs from source, they don't go
into /usr/local as is customary, but into their own directory called
/opt//, and then files in
/opt///{{s,}bin,man} etc. get symlinked into their
counterparts in /usr/local. I am using spill[1] for this.
Thus, for gpp-2.2
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