Re: [arch-general] about mrelendig's, scimmia's, and dreisner's behavior

Just to weigh in, fnodeuser's accusations of "deleted/hidden bugs" are because they can't figure out how to use Flyspray. (Switch to All Projects and enable show Closed Tasks.) I spent a few minutes treating them civilly, trying to show them how to use the bugtracker and how to write a good bug r

[arch-general] unoffical package signing

So, I've decided to unofficially start signing my packages. We don't need pacman or namcap or support from other tools. Here is how it works. gpg --detach-sign foo.pkg.tar.xz scp foo.pkg.tar.xz.sig pkgbuild.com:~/public_html/sigs/ That is it. Mine are at http://pkgbuild.com/~kkeen/sigs/ Of cou

[arch-general] State of the Repositories

If you have not played with Expac yet, you should! It is a brilliant program. Here is a small example of it in action. Feel free to tease me for the overuse of pipes. > find /var/abs -name 'PKGBUILD' | wc -l 3976 > grep -rc '|| return 1$' /var/abs | cut -d ':' -f 2 | awk '{s+=$1} END {print >

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:13:38 -0600, Dan McGee wrote > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:09 PM, keenerd wrote: > > There does not seem to be a documented "standard rsync" command for > > the mirrors to use, so I'm making all sorts of wild assumptions about > >

[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

A lot of people have been getting bit by mirrors being out of sync. Fundamentally, this comes down to a mirror's database tarball being ahead or behind of the packages which actually exist on the mirror. Rsync is made for bulk updating, but it is not atomic, and bad things happen if you interact w