Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoff kernel26-2.6.24.3-6

2008-03-26 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Wed 2008-03-26 16:46 , Jan de Groot wrote: > [...] > If patching is no longer allowed, get ready for a time where packages are > stuck in testing for ages because upstream broke it. Get ready to run a distro > that breaks your system on every pacman -Syu because upgrade paths are not > handled.

Re: [arch-general] [English] New Distro - Can't Read German

2008-03-31 Thread Alessio Bolognino
s point out, so you may have a bit more help when > troubleshooting problems, etc. Just as "de_DE" was available before, > "en_US" will still be available to most programs. Ze German Uber Alles! -- Alessio Bolognino Please send personal email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Publi

Re: [arch-general] [English] New Distro - Can't Read German

2008-04-01 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Tue 2008-04-01 09:22 , bardo wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ab morgen werden auch die Mailinglisten auf deutsch umgestellt. Ich > > schlage vor ihr lernt ohne Babelfish deutsch zu sprechen. > > Keine Gegenstände aus dem Fenster werfen!

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-07 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Mon 2008-04-07 00:07 , Thomas Bächler wrote: > RedShift schrieb: >> Thomas Bächler wrote: >>> I am hacking initscripts and can't quite decide on two issues: >>> >>> 1) I'd like to hardcode /dev/pts/ mounting in rc.sysinit. >> >> What's wrong with putting that in fstab? What if I don't want to ha

Re: [arch-general] Any place where changes in testing are announced?

2008-04-28 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Tue 2008-04-29 00:17 , Peter Galiovsky wrote: > [...] > I was just curious if there is any single place where, for example, > changelogs for packages can be found. > > Maybe it could be created automatically from SVN log messages. > > (Yeah, I know, I can implement it if I really want it.) Act

Re: [arch-general] Any place where changes in testing are announced?

2008-04-28 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Mon 2008-04-28 16:32 , Scott Horowitz wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Alessio Bolognino > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually there is the support for packages' changelog, but few maintainers > > write > > them. > > Wouldn't chan

Re: [arch-general] ClamAV should be update to 0.93

2008-05-04 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Sun 2008-05-04 12:47 , Tino Reichardt wrote: > * pyther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Tino Reichardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hello list, > > >> > > >> clamav should be updated. > > > > > > Why does the update of clamav take so long ? > > > > > > Should I build a new package ? > >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] policy on desktop files?

2008-05-08 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Thu 2008-05-08 10:06 , Ryan Sims wrote: > We needn't get bogged down in another "is this the ARCH WAY?!?!" > conversation here; I swear I don't want to. > I don't think it needs to be a policy decision. If > neither Arch nor upstream want to deal with .desktop files (and they > both seem to

Re: [arch-general] Problem installing webcam

2008-05-15 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Thu 2008-05-15 21:33 , Mordechai Peller wrote: > Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: >> well did you load the correct module then? > If the module isn't included in the kernel, probably not. Which module > should I have loaded? >> What's the output of lspci ? Err... not very useful. Anyway, your webcam

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to tranlate installer?

2008-05-19 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Mon 2008-05-19 11:22 , Justin Gx wrote: > gan lu wrote: > > I hope I can, or I will report a bug for tracking, thanks. > > > > Not being able to translate the installer into your language proper does > not qualify as a bug. It would be best if you left the bug tracker for > tracking serious, *

Re: [arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)

2008-05-22 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Thu 2008-05-22 11:09, Travis Willard wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Nigel Henry > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On my Fedora installs there is a GUI for stopping and starting services, and > > also the option of using chkconfig on the CLI. On my Debian installs, I > > installed sysv

[arch-general] Can we use the "Firefox" name?

2008-06-10 Thread Alessio Bolognino
There is a thing that I have never understood: we ship the Firefox package not branded, for the well known issues with the licensing of the artwork, and that's fine; but are we sure we can name that package "firefox" ? If you ask it to me, I think we can not: Mike Connor (a Mozilla guy :) said he

Re: [arch-general] Can we use the "Firefox" name?

2008-06-10 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Wed 2008-06-11 05:46, Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino wrote: > There is a thing that I have never understood: we ship the Firefox > package not branded, for the well known issues with the licensing of the > artwork, and that's fine; but are we sure we can name that package > "firefox" ? If you ask it

Re: [arch-general] Can we use the "Firefox" name?

2008-06-10 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Tue 2008-06-10 22:52, Dan McGee wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Alessio Bolognino > > [...] > > Sure we name our package firefox- after the binary named firefox > contained within. When they fix their build process to name the > unbranded binary differently,

Re: [arch-general] Can we use the "Firefox" name?

2008-06-11 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Wed 2008-06-11 18:05, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > I've a small dumb question. > Why not use official branded version when there are many licensing > problems? According to KISS and Arch philosophy (use upstream apps and > not to patch unless necessary) this should be a good way. But what happens i

Re: [arch-general] Can we use the "Firefox" name?

2008-06-11 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Wed 2008-06-11 11:28, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Alessio Bolognino > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed 2008-06-11 18:05, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > >> I've a small dumb question. > >> Why not use official bran

Re: [arch-general] Dealing with Info documentation

2008-06-13 Thread Alessio Bolognino
I recall a recent thread in arch-dev-public about a new policy about info docs; I think devs decided to include info docs in the new packages, but I'm not 100% sure. -- Alessio (molok) Bolognino Please send personal email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=ge

Re: [arch-general] ion3 policy

2008-06-18 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Wed 2008-06-18 22:59, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 00:10 +0400, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > > Hi, All! > > > > I forgot which decision was made about ion3 > > > > Can I add it into community if I'll update it quickly? > > If you get ill (yes, getting a real life is what we call ill

Re: [arch-general] Will Firefox 3 be brought into extra ?

2008-06-18 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Thu 2008-06-19 08:52, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: > FTR, 3.0rc2 is 3.0 IIRC 3.0rc3 is 3.0 -- Alessio (molok) Bolognino Please send personal email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint

Re: [arch-general] Will Firefox 3 be brought into extra ?

2008-06-18 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Wed 2008-06-18 21:39, Jeffrey Parke wrote: > Patrick Burroughs wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 19:04, Alessio Bolognino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Thu 2008-06-19 08:52, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: >>> >>>> FT

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] adding http user/group to filesystems

2008-06-23 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Mon 2008-06-23 18:48, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2008 16:59:30 Aaron Griffin wrote: > > I agree with Simo and Jan here. While we could easily take the "do it > > yourself" road, I always preferred the "sane defaults" side of Arch, > > myself. That is - install some crap an

Re: [arch-general] Firebug FF extension won't upgrade with FF3.0

2008-06-23 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Mon 2008-06-23 16:23, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Anyone else use the Firebug extension for Firefox? Seems like the old > version (1.05) isn't compatible with FF3.0. But I'm also unable to > upgrade to the new version (1.2.0b3). The extension home page > (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-U

Re: [arch-general] Firefox 3 on latest update of Don't Panic question

2008-06-23 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Mon 2008-06-23 23:23, Nigel Henry wrote: > I'm just about to update one of my 2 instances of Don't Panic. Firefox 3 is > going to be installed. I'd had problems playing a radio stream from a radio > station in the Channel Islands using Bon Echo, so downloaded and installed > another instance

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Multilib on Archlinux x86_64

2008-07-08 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Tue 2008-07-08 23:38, RedShift wrote: > Thomas Bächler wrote: > [...] >> Now, again, you gave me a list of ideological reasons not to do it, but >> where exactly is the point where this damages your "pure" system >> technically? > > It's about the technical purity. It's this that makes us dif

Re: [arch-general] Bad url field in gmp PKGBUILD

2008-07-15 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Tue 2008-07-15 17:43, Gustavo A. Gómez Farhat wrote: > Hello. It seems that the url field of the gmp package is outdated -gives a > 404 error-. The right link is http://gmplib.org/ It would be better to submit bug reports in the bug-tracker: http://bugs.archlinux.org In this way people can com

Re: [arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Wed 2008-07-30 17:18, Daenyth Blank wrote: > > The KDEmod repo is a possibility. A couple of things give me pause about > > using it though: 1) it's not really "stock" KDE packages; they're split > > into modules; they're heavily patched; etc., and > > Just to clarify, KDEmod uses only 2 patc

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

2008-08-29 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Fri 2008-08-29 23:42, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Freitag 29 August 2008 12:27:50 schrieb Thomas Bächler: > > - nano Do we really need another editor in base? Let's leave it in > > core, remove it from base. > > This might end up in a flamwar, but if we have to remove one editor I > would vote v

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

2008-08-30 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Sat 2008-08-30 17:52, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > lördagen den 30 augusti 2008 skrev Alessio Bolognino: > > > > This might end up in a flamwar, but if we have to remove one editor I > > > would vote vor vim and keep nano. [... more nonsense ] > > > >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Xorg-server 1.5RC6 enters testing

2008-08-31 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Sun 2008-08-31 20:37, Jan de Groot wrote: > Xorg-server 1.5RC6 (1.4.99.906) enters tesing. This version of > xorg-server includes input hotplugging using hal, better EXA support and > less memory usage. > Note that this version requires an upgrade of all videodrivers. > All videodrivers shipped

Re: [arch-general] Arch-Sheriff - A script to match NetBSD vulnerability database against Arch Linux packages

2008-09-11 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Thu 2008-09-11 14:48, Hugo Doria wrote: > Hi everyone, > [...] > And, please, tell me what you think about this. Any suggestion is welcome. You may want to remove the "dashed" border, it's fugly :) -- Alessio (molok) Bolognino pgpCqsDhYephA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] dependency problem in avahi package?

2008-10-21 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Tue 2008-10-21 16:46, Henri Häkkinen wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a dependency problem in the avahi package? Avahi got installed as a > dependency of VLC in my system and now I am geting this error message when > running `pkg-config --list-all`: > > Package qt-mt was not found in the pkg-confi