Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:23 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > Why will /opt have to go? > I always though /opt was for installing custom software which you do not > want to mix with other software (for example I have MATLAB and similar > stuff installed there with each of them in its separate folde

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 09:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:23 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > Why will /opt have to go? > > I always though /opt was for installing custom software which you do not > > want to mix with other software (for example I have MATLAB and similar

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > Why will /opt have to go? > Well, then: /opt -> /usr/opt And everyone will be happy :) BTW, will there be the move from /bin to /usr/bin in the foreseeable future? -- Rodrigo

Re: [arch-general] Systemd +1

2012-07-26 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:44 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > i think the likelihood of this is extremely low -- if your binary is > so borked it can't run at all, methinks none of your binaries will run > (since you have probably messed up the dynamic linker or something). > I'd have thought tha

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Christian Hesse
Rodrigo Rivas on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:18: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > wrote: > > > Why will /opt have to go? > > > > Well, then: > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > And everyone will be happy :) > > BTW, will there be the move from /bin to /usr/bin in the foreseeable future? G

[arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, DISCLAIMER: I support systemd but haven't switched to it yet, because I haven't had time till now, and also because I have some concerns. I like the ease-of-use that systems like PA/Systemd brings but I sincerely appreciate issues like the ones Ralf Mardorf and others have and I sincerely

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: > Rodrigo Rivas on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:18: >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik >> wrote: >> >> > Why will /opt have to go? >> > >> >> Well, then: >> >> /opt -> /usr/opt >> >> And everyone will be happy :) >> >> BTW, will th

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
> Well, then: > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > And everyone will be happy :) No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for personal stuff. That is the conflict. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > Thanks for reading such a long mail if you have reached this far! I read it, and all I have to say is that you obviously haven't done much (or any?) reading on systemd. That should be a pre-requisite to posting a request for information,

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > Well, then: > > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for personal > stuff. That is the conflict. > But then, /usr/local is for system administrat

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 14:18 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > Well, then: > > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for personal > stuff. That is the conflict. I need to go back to the future, sorry, back

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 26 Jul 2012 11:12:34 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 14:18 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > > Well, then: > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > > > No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for > > personal stuff. That

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:48 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > those are bash scripts Exactly, but what is better when we need to use irrational cryptic text files to set up or Linux, instead of easy to understand bash scrips?

[arch-general] How do you extract version from pacman?

2012-07-26 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
With the new virtualbox update I had to obtain virtualbox version in a script (and of course, virtualbox binary doesn't have a sane --version parameter...). Anyway, its pretty simple to pacman -Qi virtualbox | grep -e "^Version" | awk '{print $3}' | sed 's|-.||' Perhaps it may be nice to have a p

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:48 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> those are bash scripts > > Exactly, but what is better when we need to use irrational cryptic text > files to set up or Linux, instead of easy to understand bash scrips? Yeah, because key

Re: [arch-general] How do you extract version from pacman?

2012-07-26 Thread Morris
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > With the new virtualbox update I had to obtain virtualbox version in a > script (and of course, virtualbox binary doesn't have a sane --version > parameter...). > > Anyway, its pretty simple to pacman -Qi virtualbox | grep -e > "^Version" | awk

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 17:22 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:48 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > >> those are bash scripts > > > > Exactly, but what is better when we need to use irrational cryptic text > > files to set up or Li

Re: [arch-general] How do you extract version from pacman?

2012-07-26 Thread Christian Hesse
Morris on Thu, 2012/07/26 11:24: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > > With the new virtualbox update I had to obtain virtualbox version in a > > script (and of course, virtualbox binary doesn't have a sane --version > > parameter...). > > > > Anyway, its pretty simple to pa

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ian Fleming wrote: > I beleive its a question of > > How is the filesytem structure and its distributed nature/capabilities > relevant today > > i.e the need for /bin or /lib even. /bin has been removed in 1987 already - in favor of a symlink to /usr/bin and a few programs in the (at that tim

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ken CC wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I laugh away this trouble. > > Is there any information about the advantages of lib -> usr/lib? > > anyone likes to answer this question? The "advantage" is that you no longer can boot with a small root filesystem

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Mantas Mikulėnas
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > With respect to daemons, the BEFORE and AFTER in the service files is > redundant and though not likely to cause errors, likely to be > inconsistent, because for every service file where a daemon "xyz" appears > in AFTER, the corresponding

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 26 Jul 2012 16:48:30 Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > I read it, and all I have to say is that you obviously haven't done > much (or any?) reading on systemd. That should be a pre-requisite to > posting a request for information, and it IS if you're an Arch (DIY) > user. > At one point, I had read

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 14:18 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > > Well, then: > > > > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > > > No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for personal > > stuff. That is the conflict. > > I

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:43 +0300, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > wrote: > > With respect to daemons, the BEFORE and AFTER in the service files is > > redundant and though not likely to cause errors, likely to be > > inconsistent, because for every ser

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > Odd, Arch uses SysV's init, but it certainly doesn't have a SysVinit > > init system. It's much closer to BSD, and a lot of the tools we use > > are custom. > > I know, and it's not necessarily bad. > I find OpenBSDs to be brilliantly straight forward. Part of that might be because there

Re: [arch-general] Systemd +1

2012-07-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > Nevertheless, this overall good opinion can't hide certain (or significant I > > might say) worries. Your system now relies in a bunch of binary code that > > might not be posible to workaround if something goes wrong. Scripts may not > > be > > as efficient but they are great in order to skip

Re: [arch-general] Systemd +1

2012-07-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> If the system is so borked and you dont have the busybox around, you can > also delete the root=whatever from the kernel command line and you will get > a (initramfs) prompt. Then you can use it as a quick'n'dirty rescue system. This assumes the user is knowledgeable too. If a script fails chan

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Why will /opt have to go? I think he meant it will have to leave root. It should have been under /usr like /usr/local in the first place. -- Why not do something good every day and install BOINC. _

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> » > The merged directory /usr, containing almost the entire vendor-supplied > operating system resources, offers us a number of new features regarding > OS snapshotting and options for enterprise environments for network > sharing or running multiple guests on one host. Most of this is much >

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I read it, and all I have to say is that you obviously haven't done > much (or any?) reading on systemd. That should be a pre-requisite to > posting a request for information, and it IS if you're an Arch (DIY) > user. I read it and there are valid points for and against that some choose to ignor

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I still believe that there should be a script/program which can output > all the configurations from different file onto the terminal describing the > currently configured boot process. I nice perhaps ncurses gui or any config displaying binary always comes along but shouldn't be required

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:52:49AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:43 +0300, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > > wrote: > > > With respect to daemons, the BEFORE and AFTER in the service files is > > > redundant and though not like

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 11:57 +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:52:49AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:43 +0300, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > > > wrote: > > > > With respect to daemons, the BEFORE a

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Kevin Chadwick wrote: > hmmm, I think I've brought this up before and forgotten the response, > something along the lines of they are not static anymore anyway. They > are atleast majoratively on OpenBSD. *BSD ignored most FHS agreements from 1987 and unfortunately Linux followed this. > I bel

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 26 July 2012 12:07, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't claim to be an expert, I already mentioned that I'm a dummy. So > again: Is Linux in the future for experts only? > Arch has always been targeted towards a competent userbase, if you're not that kind of person, there's still distros that don't

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-26 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:05 AM, David Benfell wrote: > I have no evidence that it actually runs. If nothing else, I would > expect a pause, while it works its way through all those "sleep 1" > statements even if everything succeeds on the first try. And my > understanding is that none of my netwo

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 11:57 +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: > By the way ... ... is there the need to improve something that already works, while there are other things that still don't work? Do you give a guarantee that systemd won't make things more complicated and that everything, every user use

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Christian Hesse
Christian Hesse on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:27: > Rodrigo Rivas on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:18: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > > wrote: > > > > > Why will /opt have to go? > > > > > > > Well, then: > > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > > > BTW, wil

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:07:02PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't claim to be an expert, I already mentioned that I'm a dummy. So > again: Is Linux in the future for experts only? I'm at a loss what kind of answer you are expecting, nobody has any "right" or even the ability to answer such a

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > Why will /opt have to go? I don't think we will ever manage to get rid of /opt. However, if we were to follow brainworker's renaming scheme I'd suggest /opt to /crap Should make it clear what kind of packages belong there ;-) -t

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:31 +0200, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: > On 26 July 2012 12:07, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I don't claim to be an expert, I already mentioned that I'm a dummy. So > > again: Is Linux in the future for experts only? > > > > Arch has always been targeted towards a competent userb

Re: [arch-general] Systemd +1

2012-07-26 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > ... We want valid opinion here > not bashing. > > Bash even is smaller than systemds core binary... At this point in the discussion it is clear that Bash has been written for bashing. Just try not to take everything so seriously... -- R

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > i've got nothing to back this up, but i'm guessing this one is going > to be a little trickier ... mainly because there are multiple packages > that are *expected* to exist in /bin. `bash` (sh) and `coreutils` are > the two major ones

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Antoine Jardin
I'd like to know how many "basic unskilled" users have noticed when fedora moved to systemd ? That should be a good way to inform the community about this technical switch. Best, Antoine 2012/7/26 Ralf Mardorf : > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:31 +0200, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: >> On 26 July 2012 12

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:45:28PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > "Never change a winning team" as long as your alternative for sure does > improve the computer usage for everybody. I assume you wanted to say "unless" instead of "as long as". First off, "everybody" is not Arch Linux' target demogra

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > DISCLAIMER: I support systemd but haven't switched to it yet, because I > haven't had time till now, and also because I have some concerns. I like > the ease-of-use that systems like PA/Systemd brings but I sincerely > appreciate issues lik

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:52 +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: [snip] Fair play. So we've got Arch for experts and Ubuntu using Unity for idiots, but no Linux for averaged people?! I'm kidding! For good reasons I still recommend Ubuntu/Debian and Arch, depending to the users needs. Until now everything

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:48 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> those are bash scripts > > Exactly, but what is better when we need to use irrational cryptic text > files to set up or Linux, instead of easy to understand bash scrips? I don't understa

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:59:29PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:31 +0200, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: > > On 26 July 2012 12:07, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I don't claim to be an expert, I already mentioned that I'm a dummy. So > > > again: Is Linux in the future for experts

[arch-general] NetworkManager losing connection related to kernel 3.5 ?

2012-07-26 Thread fredbezies
Hello. I faced a weird bug a few minutes ago. Networkmanager (testing one) lost connection. Restarting it : no more connection either. Got this in /var/log/errors.log Jul 26 13:09:55 localhost NetworkManager[655]: start_monitor: assertion `priv->pid > 0' failed Jul 26 13:20:21 localhost NetworkM

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 13:19 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > This is not true. You only need to specify either Before= or After=, > not both. The reason that both exist, is that you should have the > choice of which .service file to add the dependency. And step by step it becomes easier to understand

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> I still believe that there should be a script/program which can output >> all the configurations from different file onto the terminal describing the >> currently configured boot process. > > > I nice perhaps ncurses gui or any config dis

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 26 Jul 2012 12:50:47 Tom Gundersen wrote: > I don't think we will ever manage to get rid of /opt. However, if we > were to follow brainworker's renaming scheme I'd suggest > > /opt to /crap > > Should make it clear what kind of packages belong there ;-) ;-) -- Jayesh Badwaik stop h

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > For example, how should (others and) I know that just "Before" or > "After" is needed? By reading the manpage: "If a unit foo.service contains a setting Before=bar.service and both units are being started, bar.service's start-up is delayed un

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 13:29 +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: > Arch Linux is one of the "less painful" distributions, as you rightly put it. > Let's keep it that way, along with the "early adopter" spirit. I promised to be quiet, forgive me for replying again, in this case I've to apologize, since Ar

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Christian Hesse
Christian Hesse on Thu, 2012/07/26 12:46: > Christian Hesse on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:27: > > Rodrigo Rivas on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:18: > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Why will /opt have to go? > > > > > > > > > > Well, then: > > > > > > /opt ->

[arch-general] [off-list] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 13:53 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > For example, how should (others and) I know that just "Before" or > > "After" is needed? > > By reading the manpage: "If a unit foo.service contains a setting > Before=bar.service

Re: [arch-general] [off-list] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 14:03 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 13:53 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf > > wrote: > > > For example, how should (others and) I know that just "Before" or > > > "After" is needed? > > > > By reading the man

[arch-general] Re: My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-26 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 26/07/12, Heiko Baums wrote: > Principally right again. But I have a problem with booting daemons in > parallel, on Gentoo as well as on Arch. Made several problems. But I > can't tell anymore which. So I prefer booting in serial, even if it's > slower. Right. It's not much surprising that Ge

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 26 jul. 2012 10:56 schreef "Rodrigo Rivas" het volgende: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jayesh Badwaik < jayesh.badwai...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > > Well, then: > > > > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > > > No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-suppli

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> "systemctl list-unit-files" gives a very nice and quick overview. > Otherwise you can use "tree /etc/systemd/system" if that is what you > prefer. I don't see the point of doing that, but if that's what floats > your boat, it should give you the same information without the use of > a tool. The

Re: [arch-general] How do you extract version from pacman?

2012-07-26 Thread Karol Blazewicz
>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> > Perhaps it may be nice to have a pacman flag to obtain just the >> > version string. I'll file a feature request, but before that anyone >> > has an comments on why it would be useless or a bad idea? Use expac: $ expac %v -S virtualbox 4.

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Baho Utot
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 04:48:30 PM Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Jayesh Badwaik > > wrote: [putolin] > Actually, re-reading that, I'm not sure you understand too much about > how initscripts work (and what they do) either. Not that I'm an expert > myself, but when you

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Baho Utot
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:56:37 AM Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > wrote: > > > Well, then: > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > > > No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for personal > > stuf

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Baho Utot
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 05:22:09 PM Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf > > wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:48 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > >> those are bash scripts > > > > Exactly, but what is better when we need to use irrational cryptic text > > files to set

[arch-general] Re: My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-26 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 25/07/12, Heiko Baums wrote: > And this is against UNIX philosophy and makes it like something > proprietary, at least it's anything else than comfortable. Why not just > using a simple text file where I can list every "service" that I want > to have started? systemd could easily read this fil

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Baho Utot
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:31:49 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 17:22 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf > > > > wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:48 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > >> those are bash scripts > > > > > > Exactly, but what

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > On Thursday, July 26, 2012 05:22:09 PM Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf >> >> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:48 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> >> those are bash scripts >> > >> > Exactly, but what is better whe

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Baho Utot
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:57:26 AM Dennis Herbrich wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:52:49AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:43 +0300, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > > > > > > wrote: [putolin] > > Sorry, what kind o

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Baho Utot
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:07:02 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 11:57 +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:52:49AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:43 +0300, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jayesh

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Baho Utot
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:50:47 PM Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > > wrote: > > Why will /opt have to go? > > I don't think we will ever manage to get rid of /opt. However, if we > were to follow brainworker's renaming scheme I'd suggest > > /opt to

[arch-general] Re: My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-26 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 25/07/12, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > If a service is not provided: > > - with SysVinit you have to write the whole script usually relying on > > whatever library the distribution provides (which tend to be > > error-prone); > > - with systemd, you just write a configuration file. > > > > We

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-26 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/2012 10:58 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > > i modified it for you here: http://dpaste.com/775539/plain/ > Thanks! This approach seems to be fruitful, and of the network daemons, only tor and freshclam are coming up without the network succ

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-26 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/2012 11:34 PM, Guillaume Brunerie wrote: > > It’s /bin/zsh. > Oh, this is an artifact from the fact I have so many scripts I copied over from whatever Debian-variant distribution I was using before. I have it sym-linked. - -- David Benfell

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-26 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/2012 03:36 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > The standard thing is to place it in /etc/systemd/system. However, > this will not start it on next boot. For that you should > "systemctl enable nonstandard-network.service" (which will create a > sym

[arch-general] Re: Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 26/07/12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 11:57 +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: > > > By the way ... > > ... is there the need to improve something that already works As I've already said, it does NOT work. Systems based on init scripts are BROKEN because some of them scripts won't

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-26 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:13 AM, David Benfell wrote: > > Even with all those dashes in front of every command, it exits with a > code and is plainly unhappy. Which I find mystifying. hmm, i'm not 100% sure either -- my guess is because the `add` commands are in fact failing (addr already added)

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-26 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/2012 07:49 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:13 AM, David Benfell > wrote: >> >> Even with all those dashes in front of every command, it exits >> with a code and is plainly unhappy. Which I find mystifying. > > hmm

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> i've got nothing to back this up, but i'm guessing this one is going >> to be a little trickier ... mainly because there are multiple packages >> that are *expected* to exist in

Re: [arch-general] Joining mp3's --> Floating point exceptionffmpeg

2012-07-26 Thread satisficer
On 2012-07-25, Nelson Marambio wrote: > for joining audio dramas (d/l from Amazon) which come along in > MP3-Format I use a short script > > mp3wrap tmp.mp3 *.mp3 > > Does anyone have an advice for me? For a quick, dirty, and temporary solution: I use `cat` to join mp3 files. I believe the hea

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Mike
On 26/07/12 16:35, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: The 26/07/12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 11:57 +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: By the way ... ... is there the need to improve something that already works As I've already said, it does NOT work. Systems based on init scripts are BROKEN

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Mike wrote: > On 26/07/12 16:35, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > >> The 26/07/12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 11:57 +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: >>> >>> By the way ... >>> ... is there the need to improve something that already works >>> >>

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Baho Utot
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:13:42 AM Nicholas MIller wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Mike wrote: > > On 26/07/12 16:35, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > >> The 26/07/12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 11:57 +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: > >>> > >>> By the way ... > >>> >

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-26 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:56 AM, David Benfell wrote: >> >> last command also fails. this is one reason i had the `link up` >> command at the end -- it always succeeds. >> >> what's wrong with delaying `link up` until the end? > > My understanding (/assumption/misconception?) was that one had to

Re: [arch-general] Systemd +1

2012-07-26 Thread Bjoern Franke
Am Mittwoch, den 25.07.2012, 20:42 +0100 schrieb Leonidas Spyropoulos: > Maybe it's just my idea but I think the system is somewhat faster on > the booting now. > > Just my opinion but as I see initscripts are abandoned and Archlinux > is a bleeding edge distro, it's natural solution to adopt sy

Re: [arch-general] Joining mp3's --> Floating point exceptionffmpeg

2012-07-26 Thread Nelson Marambio
Am 26.07.2012 17:52, schrieb satisficer: On 2012-07-25, Nelson Marambio wrote: for joining audio dramas (d/l from Amazon) which come along in MP3-Format I use a short script mp3wrap tmp.mp3 *.mp3 Does anyone have an advice for me? For a quick, dirty, and temporary solution: I use `cat` to

Re: [arch-general] Systemd +1

2012-07-26 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Bjoern Franke wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 25.07.2012, 20:42 +0100 schrieb Leonidas Spyropoulos: > >> Maybe it's just my idea but I think the system is somewhat faster on >> the booting now. >> >> Just my opinion but as I see initscripts are abandoned and Archlinux

[arch-general] cups 1.6.0 hitting testing

2012-07-26 Thread Andreas Radke
A major cups update hits testing. Cups has dropped native printer browsing support for Linux OS, you now need to run the avahi-daemon before you start cupsd. Make sure you also cleanup your cupds.conf. My server seems to print well. Clients can see the printers in the print dialog here. Please re

Re: [arch-general] cups 1.6.0 hitting testing

2012-07-26 Thread Frederic Bezies
On 26/07/2012 20:44, Andreas Radke wrote: [cups and cupsd.conf cleaning] My server seems to print well. Clients can see the printers in the print dialog here. Please report broken stuff you may find to our tracker or upstream. Is it normal to get the web managing page talking in japanese or ch

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-26 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Martin Cigorraga writes: > Ugly hacks are a fact in sysadmins life and it will not prevent me from > sleep > like a baby :) In fact, at some point you realize that while there are a lot of beautiful and clean systems, a lot of our entire computing stack is ugly hacks on top of ugly hacks ;) --

[arch-general] problems

2012-07-26 Thread Matias Hick
Hey, I'm trying to install courier-authlib but after installation it says "error: command failed to execute correctly". It looks like it's installed but I also have issues trying to start authdaemond (chown: invalid user: 'courier:courier'). For any reason, it's expecting to have the courier user c

Re: [arch-general] problems

2012-07-26 Thread Matias Hick
I'm sorry for the subject, I pressed send before finishing it :-P On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Matias Hick wrote: > Hey, > I'm trying to install courier-authlib but after installation it says > "error: command failed to execute correctly". > It looks like it's installed but I also have issue

[arch-general] problems installing package courier-authlib

2012-07-26 Thread Matias Hick
Hey, I'm trying to install courier-authlib but after installation it says "error: command failed to execute correctly". It looks like it's installed but I also have issues trying to start authdaemond (chown: invalid user: 'courier:courier'). For any reason, it's expecting to have the courier user c

Re: [arch-general] problems installing package courier-authlib

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 17:30 -0300, Matias Hick wrote: > It looks like it's installed It might be installed or not ;) pacman -Qi courier-authlib

Re: [arch-general] problems installing package courier-authlib

2012-07-26 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 07/26/2012 10:30 PM, Matias Hick wrote: > Hey, > I'm trying to install courier-authlib but after installation it says > "error: command failed to execute correctly". > It looks like it's installed but I also have issues trying to start > authdaemond (chown: invalid user: 'courier:courier'). > Fo

Re: [arch-general] cups 1.6.0 hitting testing

2012-07-26 Thread Andreas Radke
Am Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:05:54 +0200 schrieb Frederic Bezies : > On 26/07/2012 20:44, Andreas Radke wrote: > [cups and cupsd.conf cleaning] > > > > My server seems to print well. Clients can see the printers in the > > print dialog here. Please report broken stuff you may find to our > > tracker or

Re: [arch-general] problems installing package courier-authlib

2012-07-26 Thread Matias Hick
Do you know any guide to configure postfix with dovecot? Thanks for the advise. I'll do some research about it. On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 07/26/2012 10:30 PM, Matias Hick wrote: > > Hey, > > I'm trying to install courier-authlib but after installation it says

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 05:22:09PM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Yeah, because key=value pairs are more complicated then, you know, a > programming language? Apples and oranges. What you read in a bash script is what actually gets executed. And this is being done by a tool that is not specific for

Re: [arch-general] problems installing package courier-authlib

2012-07-26 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 07/26/2012 10:52 PM, Matias Hick wrote: > Do you know any guide to configure postfix with dovecot? > Thanks for the advise. I'll do some research about it. > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > >> On 07/26/2012 10:30 PM, Matias Hick wrote: >>> Hey, >>> I'm trying to in

Re: [arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-26 Thread brainworker
>> 3) instead of LOCALIZATION section I should specify timezone in >> /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime. And again the same question. Why? > > /etc/timezone is not used by initscripts, don't know what the benefit of > that one is. What matters is /etc/localtime. >From https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind

  1   2   >