Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-23 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:14 +0200, Xavier wrote: >> The only problem is that you can not always upgrade just one package. >> Sometimes you also need to upgrade a set of related packages. >> And in case of big rebuild, that set might be the whol

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-23 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:14 +0200, Xavier wrote: > The only problem is that you can not always upgrade just one package. > Sometimes you also need to upgrade a set of related packages. > And in case of big rebuild, that set might be the whole testing repo. > > As long as you are skilled enough to

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-23 Thread Xavier
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:06 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> Listmates, Devs: >> >>        I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. > > Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will disagree, but > personally I wouldn't suggest upgrading your entire box

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 22 June 2009 03:05:29 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2009 11:06:37 am David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > David C. Rankin wrote: > > > Listmates, Devs: > > > > > > I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. > > > > Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will dis

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 22 June 2009 11:06:37 am David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, Devs: > > > > I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. > > Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will disagree, but > personally I wouldn't suggest upgrading your entire box t

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 22 June 2009 02:59:08 am Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > > > > Thanks Tobias and Allan, > > > >That is just what I needed to know! > > The whole point of using testing is.. you should have known that already. > :) Well my friend, when Tobias asked for assistance testing dmr

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 12:06 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, Devs: > > > > I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. > > Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will disagree, but > personally I wouldn't suggest upgrading your entire bo

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Devs: I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will disagree, but personally I wouldn't suggest upgrading your entire box to testing. If you only want to kick the tires on one package from tes

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread Jan Spakula
Excerpts from Loui Chang's message of Mo Jun 22 16:41:41 +0200 2009: > > Is there a way for him to try the new 'dmraid' without going the whole > > way and migrating to [testing]. This would also be useful for him > > (and me) to know. > > Pretty simple. Enable testing, install dmraid, disable te

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 22 Jun 2009 14:12 +0100, Scot Becker wrote: > > Very true. You should keep up with development if you're going to be > > running [testing] and be prepared to struggle through any issues. > > Problems shouldn't come as a total surprise anyways. > > Sure. But 'struggling though any issues" d

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread Scot Becker
> Very true. You should keep up with development if you're going to be > running [testing] and be prepared to struggle through any issues. > Problems shouldn't come as a total surprise anyways. Sure. But 'struggling though any issues" doesn't mean he has to do it without our help, no? I'm new her

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 22 Jun 2009 10:59 +0300, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > The whole point of using testing is.. you should have known that already. :) Very true. You should keep up with development if you're going to be running [testing] and be prepared to struggle through any issues. Problems shouldn't come as

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2009 02:36:26 am Allan McRae wrote: >> David C. Rankin wrote: >> > Listmates, Devs: >> > >> >     I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. As part of the upgrade, >> > vi >> > was changed in a BIG way. (I could hardl

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 22 June 2009 02:36:26 am Allan McRae wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, Devs: > > > > I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. As part of the upgrade, vi > > was changed in a BIG way. (I could hardly use the thing and I have been > > using it for 20 years) The screen

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread Allan McRae
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Devs: I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. As part of the upgrade, vi was changed in a BIG way. (I could hardly use the thing and I have been using it for 20 years) The screen flashes when you double-escape, in insert mode if you move to colum 1 thi

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Montag 22 Juni 2009 schrieb David C. Rankin: > Listmates, Devs: > > I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. As part of the upgrade, vi > was changed in a BIG way. (I could hardly use the thing and I have been > using it for 20 years) The screen flashes when you double-escape, in inse

[arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, Devs: I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. As part of the upgrade, vi was changed in a BIG way. (I could hardly use the thing and I have been using it for 20 years) The screen flashes when you double-escape, in insert mode if you move to colum 1 things go nuts, inse