Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 01:43:37 pm Patrick Brisbin wrote: > as a small aside; after being corrected a few times on bbs, i now know > that > > pacman -Qqe | grep -vx "$(pacman -Qqm)" > pkg.list > > and > > cat pkg.list | xargs pacman -S --noconfirm --needed > > work the best for this.

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Alexander Duscheleit
Am Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:25:07 +0300 schrieb Roman Kyrylych : > 2009/8/26 Lukáš Jirkovský : > > > > What about putting date when pacman -Syu was run for a last time in > > that file? It would still suffer from lag when using mirrors but I > > guess it should be accurate enough. > > I don't think an

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Patrick Brisbin
On 08/26/09 at 01:35pm, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 03:19:30 am Nathan K. Bathory wrote: > > > > > > pacman -Q obviously not the answer, but whilst on that - is it > > > possible to do a pacman -Q, save the output somewhere, then on > > > another machine, just reverse the

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 03:19:30 am Nathan K. Bathory wrote: > > > > pacman -Q obviously not the answer, but whilst on that - is it > > possible to do a pacman -Q, save the output somewhere, then on > > another machine, just reverse the process? Would save me heaps of > > time putting a system

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2009/8/26 Lukáš Jirkovský : > > What about putting date when pacman -Syu was run for a last time in > that file? It would still suffer from lag when using mirrors but I > guess it should be accurate enough. I don't think anyone is going to really put something in that file, so don't hold your brea

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
2009/8/26 Aaron Griffin : > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: >>> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 10:40 +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2009, 09:56 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot: > As Arch is a rolli

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 10:40 +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote: >>> Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2009, 09:56 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot: >>> >>> > As Arch is a rolling release system, we decided to

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 10:40 +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2009, 09:56 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot: >> >> > As Arch is a rolling release system, we decided to remove the file. But >> > as tools use this file to identify A

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gerhard Brauer schrieb: Neat! Or the percentage of our roadmap to world domination (BTW: i always missed this in Roadmap on Flyspray) It's not nearly complete. Right now, Arch runs on a very small percentage of computers world-wide. We need at least 20% until we can inject our world-domi

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2009, 10:52 +0200 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: > > maybe we should put the output of `pacman -Q | sha1sum` in /etc/arch-release. > git style! :P Neat! Or the percentage of our roadmap to world domination (BTW: i always missed this in Roadmap on Flyspray) > Dieter Gerh

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2009, 10:45 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot: > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 10:40 +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > > > > To far this we could maybe add a function to pacman, so that after every > > -Syu the unixtime gets written to this file. > > This would give us: > > * IMHO the highest

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:45:33 +0200 Jan de Groot wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 10:40 +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2009, 09:56 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot: > > > > > As Arch is a rolling release system, we decided to remove the > > > file. But as tools use this file to i

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 10:40 +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2009, 09:56 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot: > > > As Arch is a rolling release system, we decided to remove the file. But > > as tools use this file to identify Arch systems, we decided to keep the > > file, but make it

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2009, 09:56 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot: > As Arch is a rolling release system, we decided to remove the file. But > as tools use this file to identify Arch systems, we decided to keep the > file, but make it empty. > > 2009.08 won't be 2009.08 as soon as you run pacman -Syu

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 10:04 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > maybe we should delete it. > Did you mean 'identifying whether a system is arch linux' (which seems > pretty pointless, you know when a system is arch linux) OR do you mean > 'identify which "version" an arch system is' ? > Assuming th

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:12:53 +1000 richard terry wrote: > Thanks for the replies, me I didn't mean anything, they just asked me > what was in the file. > > pacman -Q obviously not the answer, but whilst on that - is it > possible to do a pacman -Q, save the output somewhere, then on > another

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Nathan K. Bathory
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:12:53 +1000 richard terry wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 18:04:42 Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:56:13 +0200 > > > > Jan de Groot wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 17:45 +1000, richard terry wrote: > > > > /etc/arch-release > > > > > > > > Anyone

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread richard terry
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 18:04:42 Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:56:13 +0200 > > Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 17:45 +1000, richard terry wrote: > > > /etc/arch-release > > > > > > Anyone know what is meant to be in this file > > > > > > The guys on the gambas

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:56:13 +0200 Jan de Groot wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 17:45 +1000, richard terry wrote: > > /etc/arch-release > > > > Anyone know what is meant to be in this file > > > > The guys on the gambas user list are writing some sort of script so > > users can identify details

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 17:45 +1000, richard terry wrote: > /etc/arch-release > > Anyone know what is meant to be in this file > > The guys on the gambas user list are writing some sort of script so users can > identify details of their system in case of bugs etc, and i was asked if > this file

[arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread richard terry
/etc/arch-release Anyone know what is meant to be in this file The guys on the gambas user list are writing some sort of script so users can identify details of their system in case of bugs etc, and i was asked if this file exists, which is does, but it is empty? ?any other unique arch ident

Re: [arch-general] arch release schedule

2008-12-12 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008 schrieb Grigorios Bouzakis: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Christopher Daley wrote: I know there are new archboot isos up for testing on the mirrors. Maybe you could work on getting AIF integrated with that? ftp://locke.s

Re: [arch-general] arch release schedule

2008-12-11 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008 schrieb Grigorios Bouzakis: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Christopher Daley wrote: > > I know there are new archboot isos up for testing on the mirrors. Maybe > > you could work on getting AIF integrated with that? > > > > ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archl

Re: [arch-general] arch release schedule

2008-12-11 Thread Ghost1227
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Fredrik Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dieter Plaetinck schrieb: Hi all, Any estimation when the next arch release will be? Or will it be announced on this mailing list a few days before? that would be good enough too. The r

Re: [arch-general] arch release schedule

2008-12-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Fredrik Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dieter Plaetinck schrieb: >>> Hi all, >>> Any estimation when the next arch release will be? Or will it be >>> announced on this mailing list a few days before? that would be good >>> enough too. >>> >>> The reason I'm

Re: [arch-general] arch release schedule

2008-12-11 Thread Fredrik Eriksson
> Dieter Plaetinck schrieb: >> Hi all, >> Any estimation when the next arch release will be? Or will it be >> announced on this mailing list a few days before? that would be good >> enough too. >> >> The reason I'm asking is AIF has again undergone many changes. I could >> start working now on a

Re: [arch-general] arch release schedule

2008-12-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Dieter Plaetinck schrieb: Hi all, Any estimation when the next arch release will be? Or will it be announced on this mailing list a few days before? that would be good enough too. The reason I'm asking is AIF has again undergone many changes. I could start working now on a usable, reasonab

Re: [arch-general] arch release schedule

2008-12-10 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Christopher Daley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know there are new archboot isos up for testing on the mirrors. Maybe you > could work on getting AIF integrated with that? > > ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/iso/archboot/2008.12/ > I would say no since

Re: [arch-general] arch release schedule

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Daley
I know there are new archboot isos up for testing on the mirrors. Maybe you could work on getting AIF integrated with that? ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/iso/archboot/2008.12/ On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Daenyth Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > I think that

Re: [arch-general] arch release schedule

2008-12-10 Thread Daenyth Blank
I think that the hope is to have a new installer iso out before christmas. Not sure yet.

[arch-general] arch release schedule

2008-12-10 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi all, Any estimation when the next arch release will be? Or will it be announced on this mailing list a few days before? that would be good enough too. The reason I'm asking is AIF has again undergone many changes. I could start working now on a usable, reasonably stable alpha release wit