Re: [arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-19 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:22:40 +0200 Thomas Bächler wrote: > As I said, Dieter will be the most competent to help here You and Gerhard said it all. I only want to add: even though the manual/workaround-method that Thomas explained may work (the mountpoints are prefixed by '/mnt' btw, so '/mnt/bo

Re: [arch-general] nvidia card - fans are really cranked up after the latest driver update a week or so ago

2009-08-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:15:20 +0200 RedShift wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Has anyone else noticed fan speed increases > > on your NV cards here lately? If so, any solutions?? > > I suggest you take it up with nvidia, as only they have access to the > source code. Nothing much we can do abou

[arch-general] bluetooth pairing with cellphone

2009-08-24 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
hey dudes. I fail (sort of) at pairing my pc with my phone via bluetooth. (sony ericsson k810i, pc uses broadcom dongle) I have a system where everything is up to date, bluez is installed etc. the configs are all pretty much default. I did need to enable HID2HCI_ENABLE="true" in /etc/conf.d/blueto

Re: [arch-general] bluetooth pairing with cellphone

2009-08-24 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:19:57 +0200 vlad wrote: > hello dieter, > > try phonetooth from AUR. works great with my 610i. > > Thanks for the idea. But i'm trying to avoid any additional apps. I mean, it _should_ work with bluez-simple-agent. and obexfs kicks the ass of any tool such as phoneto

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 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 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

[arch-general] server with an encrypted non-root disk

2009-08-27 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi, I have a little server at home which has an encrypted disk mounted at /home/media/1tbdisk I added it to crypttab and the decrypted dm device to fstab, but i have the following problems: 1) the keymap upon luksOpen is qwerty, even though i have my keymap set in rc.conf and added 'keymap'

Re: [arch-general] An evil idea --- use Git to manage the repositories

2009-09-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:35:12 +0800 goodme...@gmail.com wrote: > Is it possible? > > advantage: >1 The mirrors do not need download the total new pkgs if it just > updated several files. rsync does this too >2 old versions of package can be retrived. YAGNI >3 GIT is fast. r

Re: [arch-general] split packages documentation

2009-09-05 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
According to On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 16:40:40 +0200 "Ali H. Caliskan" wrote: man bash > Bash can handle array of arrays, dependening on how you implement it. I'm > not that useful in that manner, since I've applied on python. > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Daenyth Blank > > > wrote: >

Re: [arch-general] btrfs supported on archlinux

2009-09-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 08:20:42 +0200 Alexander Duscheleit wrote: > You shouldn't [want to] create one from the installation media > at this time, since it's not sane to install anything on it unless > you are a btrfs developer/tester (in which case you are also capable > enough to work around this ;

Re: [arch-general] Assisting Chriss or adopting his CD as a separait project for Arch blind Users

2009-09-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:30:00 -0600 Keith Hinton wrote: > Hi, > As one of Chris Branon's friends, and as one who has submitted > valuable feedback, I'd like to see Chrisses CD get more support from > the Arch team leads, etc. I'ld like that too. The reason I didn't do much here is pure lack of tim

Re: [arch-general] Can't ssh to vServer running ArchLinux

2009-09-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:45:21 +0200 Johannes Held wrote: > Chris Bannister : > > Proabbly initab is set wrong, what was updated? > That can be. I don't know what's been updated. That update was one or two > weeks > ago. Unfortunately I don't know exactly what packages are updated - but I bet > it

[arch-general] Incorrect downloads page (WAS ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues)

2009-09-17 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:06:41 +0300 "Ciprian Dorin, Craciun" wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Tom K wrote: > > Why are you using 2009.02? 2009.08 was released last month. > > > > T. > > Sorry. I'm using 2009.08. > > But when I've posted on the mailing list I've looked on > www

Re: [arch-general] Incorrect downloads page (WAS ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues)

2009-09-17 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:00:48 +0200 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:52:24 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > > Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:47:52 schrieb Aaron Griffin: > > > If someone has a chance, can you release this live? > > > > done > > Well, some links are wrong;

Re: [arch-general] Incorrect downloads page (WAS ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues)

2009-09-17 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:37:09 -0500 Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:00:48 +0200 > > Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > > >> Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 17:52:24 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:

[arch-general] easily comparing (AUR) pkgbuilds against ABS

2009-09-23 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
It would be nice if it was easily possible to compare a pkgbuild against a corresponding 'official' pkgbuild (from ABS). disclaimer: i haven't thought this through so here are some ideas. consider this a brainstorm - on AUR, many packages are customized versions (patches, vcs versions, alternat

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:16:04 -0500 Aaron Griffin wrote: > So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is > saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. > > What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered > "the best" now-a-days? What kinds of net

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:47:24 +0300 Roman Kyrylych wrote: > 2009/10/2 Sergej Pupykin : > > Hi, > > > > I want to discuss using /srv directory in packages > > > > (For reference: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16410) > > > > Of course I can easy sed and rebuild all my web packages, but I > > want to

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:58:19 +0200 Firmicus wrote: > Roman Kyrylych a écrit : > > Yes, packaging a webapp is nice for automatic upgrading with pacman, > > but users can have multiple web servers with multiple vhosts > > in /srv, so often installing something there won't make it working > > anyway

Re: [arch-general] vi problems

2009-10-15 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:11:00 +0200 Øyvind Heggstad wrote: > So you have to use 'hjkl' and so on. (which you should use anyway) only on crappy (or 'suboptimal' for the political correct) keyboard layouts. Dieter

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:33:12 +0100 Arvid Picciani wrote: > hollun...@gmx.at wrote: > > > The problem is that the Desktop Environments, GNOME and KDE, in > > their quest for "integrated desktop experience" push more and more > > stuff that's really only useful to those DEs deeper and deeper into

Re: [arch-general] Audio on Linux, was: We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:08:00 +0100 wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:52:28 -0500 > Aaron Griffin wrote: > > > > But honestly, I can see the mess, and from what I know I'd say the > > > problem stems from alsa being too difficult to use. The alsa > > > developers hide (from a bombardment of user q

Re: [arch-general] Encrypting remote system

2009-11-01 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:19:46 + Magnus Therning wrote: > On 01/11/09 15:06, Karol Babioch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm wondering whether there is a possibility to encrypt a remote > > system using Arch Linux? I have installed Arch on a remote server, > > and don't like the idea that anyone with

Re: [arch-general] Segmentation fault in X after last upgrade

2009-11-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:18:53 +0100 Xavier wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Tobias Powalowski > wrote: > > Before using vesa driver you should at least give nouveau and nv > > driver a shot. > > Both lack on 3D support but for 2D operations they should work fine. > > Nouveau has nice kms s

Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900??

2009-11-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:31:20 -0600 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > Listmates, > > New drive for my laptop so I dedicated it to Arch. Net install with > 2009.08 went fine (although there really should be a warning when you > leave install WITHOUT configuring the bootloader). [the /arch/setup > menu aut

Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900??

2009-11-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:17:38 -0600 Dan McGee wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:31:20 -0600 > > "David C. Rankin" wrote: > > > >> Listmates, > >> > >> New drive for my laptop

Re: [arch-general] programmable API for flyspray?

2009-11-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:42:43 -0600 Chris Brannon wrote: > Daenyth Blank wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 16:16, Chris Brannon > > wrote: > > > Is there any way to access bugs.archlinux.org programmatically? > > > =C2=A0I'd= > > love > > > to be able to manipulate it from the shell. > > > Coul

Re: [arch-general] ?rch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:18:12 +0100 Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > You will probably see the > opposite of what you saw in the VMs. Especially for video encoding, > x86_64 will be noticeably faster. why is that?

[arch-general] old firewire stack?

2009-11-14 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi, according to http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/troubleshooting-and-common-problems/troubleshooting-firewire-capture we are using an old firewire stack. I'm having big problems with DV-video (firewire) stuff ( see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=655692 ) and I was wondering if the n

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-17 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:01:31 -0800 Myles Green wrote: > I've been using Claws-Mail [1] since forever and have been happily > using it with Gmail as well as my ISP account. > > [1] http://claws-mail.org/ claws is cool indeed. i like the ability to view html mail (for newsletters and such). i j

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-17 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:46:15 +0100 Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > claws is cool indeed. i like the ability to view html mail (for > newsletters and such). i just hoped it was more configurable > (e.g. per-account keybindings so i could have single-key keybindings > to delete mails wh

Re: [arch-general] usable browser?

2009-11-27 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:38:18 +0100 Arvid Picciani wrote: > webkit based browsers can't render half of the > internet properly. i wonder if somone cloned chromiums webkit thing > and made a brwoser of it? uzbl is quite decent, i wish they'd use > chromes rendering. can you give some examples o

Re: [arch-general] usable browser?

2009-11-28 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:05:11 -0800 Tobias Kieslich wrote: > Don't jump to conclusions here. Inspecting the headers (..) yes this a known issue. libsoup doesn't support compression, and some sites send out gzipped content when they shouldn't. So lxde.org and others cannot be used on webkitGtk bas

Re: [arch-general] usable browser?

2009-11-30 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:30:47 -0200 "Armando M. Baratti" wrote: > Strange, Midori (webkit based) works fine with http://www.lxde.org/ > here. Are you talking about some specific part of the site? > Or Midori has something other webkit based browsers don't? > > Using libsoup 2.28.1-1. > > > Arma

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

2009-12-03 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:32:46 + Pierre Chapuis wrote: > There is indeed a D-Bus protocol [1], and I don't see why anybody > would be against that, because a protocol is a written document and > not a piece of software: it doesn't enforce an implementation. > protocols can be bloated and or b

[arch-general] lastsync file on mirrors

2009-12-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
is it just me or did the lastsync format change? IIRC the lastsync file was 1 file in the root of the repo, with the date in it in string format. now the lastsync files are like so: /{core,extra,testing,...}/os/{i686,x86_64}/lastsync each containing a unix timestamp. note: no lastsyncfile for any

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:29:03 +1100 "James Rayner" wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:40 +0200, "Hussam Al-Tayeb" > wrote: > > The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as > > follows. Let's say a package called package1 installs some extra > > binaries or plugins. Those extra not so

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-17 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:49:15 -0600 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > The article reads: > > > Nevertheless, as a method of testing this exciting > distro, the "Archiso-live way" is a great time-saver. > did that guy actually say that point and click visual installers are a time *saver* ?? is he out

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-17 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:33:22 -0500 Denis Kobozev wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > did that guy actually say that point and click visual installers > > are a time *saver* ?? is he out of his mind? > > It seems that most reviews

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-17 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:40:03 -0700 Brendan Long wrote: > Isn't the Arch installer always graphical, with a menu and stuff? > Just because you use your keyboard instead of a mouse and it doesn't > use X doesn't really make it any less user-friendly does it? no. it can also do fully automated ins

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-18 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
1) > This begs the question: does arch really want users who can't get > through the current installer? Isn't the user base Arch Linux is > catering to one that /should/ understand this? definitely. in fact, i think our current interactive installer is already too complicated/userfriendly. there

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-18 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:58:54 -0500 Denis Kobozev wrote: > Dieter, is it possible to resize existing partitions via PARTITIONS > variable in the config file? don't think so. it's meant to make new ones. > What kind of error do you get if you put > incorrect values there? You'll get an error th

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-19 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:43:17 +0100 Frédéric Perrin wrote: > You've never installed Debian/Ubuntu with a preseed.cfg file that > answer all the questions for you (or, at your option, as many or as > few questions as you wish)? You've never used FAI (Fully Automated > Installed) either? (Well, I ha

[arch-general] Autofs5 does not mount Nfs4 exports automatically

2010-01-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
I have this problem for already about a year. hope someone can help me. See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79513 for detailed problem description. thanks. Dieter

Re: [arch-general] Tiny webserver to run as root

2010-01-03 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
maybe the tux webserver? it runs in kernelspace (!) so it's very fast, but if it crashes... Dieter

[arch-general] via vt6306 firewire card not recognized anymore

2010-01-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi, I'm glad the .32 kernel comes with the new firewire stack, so i can finally use dvgrab (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79856) well.. that's what i thought. this kernel does not recognize my pci firewire card with the via vt6306 chipset. (running all latest packages from core, not te

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

2010-01-13 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:22:30 -0500 Carlos Williams wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Alexander Duscheleit > wrote: > > I still think /arch/setup *should* generate this file itself if it > > detects software raids in use for the target. The wiki even seems to > > suggest, that it does. >

[arch-general] limited softraid support in AIF (WAS:Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?)

2010-01-14 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:07:18 +0100 Alexander Duscheleit wrote: > Would it be possible to just generate the relevant mdadm.conf during > the configure stage without providing further additional support? > People are used to run installation steps in sequence so this would > eliminate on source of

Re: [arch-general] limited softraid support in AIF (WAS:Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?)

2010-01-15 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:51:32 +0100 Alexander Duscheleit wrote: > (..) okay so long story short, you only want the mdadm.conf updating in AIF. there's a catch about your proposal though: - it's hard to parse fstab - you would only know the blockdevices after user configured fstab, which is afte

[arch-general] claws-mail vs sup (WAS: Quoting of E-mails)

2010-01-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:46:41 +0100 Philipp Überbacher wrote: > The only drawback right now is that sup is still > very young, it has its quirks. Never the less it's the best mail > client I've used so far (used only claws mail before), especially > when it comes to reading and searching and I don

Re: [arch-general] claws-mail vs sup (WAS: Quoting of E-mails)

2010-01-20 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:01:09 +0530 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 01/20/2010 08:44 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:46:41 +0100 > > Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > > >> The only drawback right now is that sup is still > >> very young,

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-01-31 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:24:22 +0100 Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > I didn't understand what you meant first time. I think I got it now. > If I understand it well you mean having all packages in one directory > on server and the repos would be differentiated by some text files or > symlinks. The differe

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-01-31 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:36:50 +0100 Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > No, what I meant was that difference between having package pool to > which packages are linked and sending some text file to all servers > saying "Hi, please move package foo-1.2.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz from > [testing] to [core]" which wou

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:06:35 -0500 Andrew Antle wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Hannes Rist wrote: > > Ionut Biru wrote: > >> > >> On 02/02/2010 07:53 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > > > There's also the problem that some mirrors (most of the ones > > I've tried) sync the p

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:27:14 -0500 Lee Burton wrote: > To make it "multi-tiered" and to reduce load on the primary mirror > could have slightly more intelligent polling than just checking one > upstream machine. > In this example Let: > Primary = Arch Primary Mirror/Mirrors (updated directly by th

Re: [arch-general] [patch] AIF, partition table compatibility with grub2.

2010-02-09 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:26:45 +0100 (CET) Mark Pustjens wrote: > Hi list, > > The attatched patch adds the `-D' option to the sfdisk call. > This causes some extra space to be saved for the MBR, which is needed > for grub2 in some cases. > > Please let me know what you think. > > Greetings/Groet

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-10 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:24:08 +0530 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 02/11/2010 11:54 AM, andrew james wrote: > > i think I am soon tired of thunderbird 3.. I could revert to vers > > 2 but why is the newer vers slow, laggy, semi-stallish? > > > > has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers 3? any sw

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Let's agree on a common coding style

2010-02-13 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:16:01 -0500 Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 15:12, Evangelos Foutras > wrote: > > For example, in a PKGBUILD I would write ${pkgname}_$pkgver, > > because _ can be part of a variable name, but I'd much rather > > prefer to use $pkgname-$pkgver, since hyphens

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Let's agree on a common coding style

2010-02-13 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:11:01 +0100 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 13.02.2010 21:57, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: > >>> For example, in a PKGBUILD I would write ${pkgname}_$pkgver, > >>> because _ can be part of a variable name, but I'd much rather > >>> prefe

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Let's agree on a common coding style

2010-02-13 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:10:08 -0600 Muhammed Uluyol wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > > > what do you mean context? it only depends on whether the first > > character after the variablename is a valid character in a > > varia

Re: [arch-general] [patch] AIF, partition table compatibility with grub2.

2010-02-24 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:18:28 +0100 Jan de Groot wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 23:21 +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > Just poked around with grub2 and kvm, > > you really need the extra space, else it will fail to install. > > creating partitions with cfdisk will also leave this space. > >

Re: [arch-general] [patch] AIF, partition table compatibility with grub2.

2010-03-05 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:02:53 -0600 Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:18:28 +0100 > > Jan de Groot wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 23:21 +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > >&

Re: [arch-general] [patch] AIF, discover repos on iso.

2010-03-05 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:26:54 +0100 (CET) Mark Pustjens wrote: > Hi List, > > The attached patch fixes a TODO in lib-pacman of aif. > Instead of hardcoding that `core' is always available locally and > falling back to net for others, it now checks /src/ for repos. > > It assumes repos are stored

Re: [arch-general] grub2 and xfs seems not to work :(

2010-03-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 22:12:10 +0100 Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Freitag 05 März 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > > Hi guys, i'm just trying to get grub2 support in archboot's setup. > > > > Now i have found an irritating thing it seems it doesn't like xfs > > and the ususal xfs_freeze hack from

Re: [arch-general] Automatic LVM assembly - call for testers

2010-03-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:08:43 +0100 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Traditionally, LVM is assembled by running "vgchange -ay" manually. > That has several problems, especially if one of the physical volumes > is missing when the VG was supposed to be assembled. This has been > experienced by people who us

Re: [arch-general] grub2 and xfs seems not to work :(

2010-03-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:43:34 +0100 Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Freitag 05 März 2010 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 22:12:10 +0100 > > > > Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > > Am Freitag 05 März 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > > > > Hi

[arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Couldn't find any discussion about this, but what about we maintain our packages in git instead of svn? pros: 1) git is awesome 2) we don't need abs/rsync anymore. users can just read from git. 3) git network communication is more efficient then rsync (afaik) 4) users can check out older versions

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:18:26 +0800 Ray Rashif wrote: > On 07/03/2010, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 7. März 2010 12:03:08 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: > >> 2) svn->git migration is not trivial, since tools, the website, .. > >> will need to be adapted. &

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:49:01 +0100 Thomas Bächler wrote: > 1) We want to be able to see which PKGBUILD matches the package in the > repository. In SVN, we use copy - which is subversion's equivalent to > branching: By copying, you create a reference and all history of the > copied file is still t

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:49:22 +0800 Ray Rashif wrote: > It will work, no doubt. But the problem is this: > > svn co $url --depth empty # nothing > cd $dir > svn up $pkg > > ..against this: > > git clone $url # everything > cd $dir > git config core.sparsecheckout true > echo $pkg > .git/info/spa

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:51:30 +0100 Stefan Husmann wrote: > > 4) users can check out older versions of packages easily, with > > limited storage overhead. > Do you want to store binary packages in the git repo? Maybe I > misunderstand you. Checking out older PKGBUILDs would be doable in > svn als

Re: [arch-general] [*] Re: Building netboot images

2010-03-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 22:33:16 +0530 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > So you want to do a templated installation something like that of > kickstart availalbe in Fedora, Redhat and CentOS. > > It is possible using Arch Installation Framework but it is under > development and not meant for use in product

Re: [arch-general] [*] Re: Building netboot images

2010-03-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:07:07 +0530 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 22:33:16 +0530 > > Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > > >> So you want to do a templated installation something like th

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-09 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:04:50 -0600 Aaron Griffin wrote: > I agree with everyone else that's said it. This comes up often enough > but no one ever has a good workflow that works. I have seen nothing > proposed in this thread that is good. The ONLY thing gained is "oh > neat, it's in git". We lose q

Re: [arch-general] Resigning as a Bug Wrangler

2010-03-09 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:04:40 -0300 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > In few days, I will start a new caeer "math professor", I am really > very happy because it's something I always wanted to study, and > beyond that, I really like teaching. > Besides, I work as a teacher in a secondary school in e

Re: [arch-general] Customising arch iso

2010-03-12 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:49:36 + Damien Churchill wrote: > On 12 March 2010 10:56, Damien Churchill wrote: > > On 12 March 2010 10:54, Ionut Biru wrote: > >> > >> On 03/12/2010 12:51 PM, Damien Churchill wrote: > >>> > >>> I was just wondering if there are there any up to date > >>> instructi

Re: [arch-general] Customising arch iso

2010-03-12 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:17:07 + Damien Churchill wrote: > On 12 March 2010 12:14, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > you can also build your own iso's using archiso. > > it's pretty easy, although you need archiso from git and you must > > let it look in a repository

Re: [arch-general] Customising arch iso

2010-03-12 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:57:46 -0600 Dan McGee wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > you could also try a netinstall cd and enable the testing repository > > in /tmp/pacman.conf.  IIRC aif (the installer) uses pacman with that > > confi

Re: [arch-general] Xz, space savings and delta ... my findings

2010-04-01 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:54:56 +0100 Nathan Wayde wrote: > Comparing with the delta (between the original packages) which 5.3MB > it's not a whole lot while allowing more flexibility(IMHO). I don't see the point. with binary delta's you get smaller packages and getting the non-changed files "aga

Re: [arch-general] new netinstall image required ?

2010-04-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 18:38:34 +0200 f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > Hello all, > > I wanted to do a new install today, using netinstall > on an USB stick which has worked at least 5 times > before, the last time less than two weeks ago. > > Things failed in the 'Configure System' phase, seems > I

Re: [arch-general] new netinstall image required ?

2010-04-03 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:12:15 +0200 Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:57:10 +0200 > schrieb Dieter Plaetinck : > > > well, if you use the old 2009.8 images which has the old aif, it > > will indeed give problems when you install the latest packages > > (althoug

Re: [arch-general] new netinstall image required ?

2010-04-03 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 22:21:11 +0200 f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > I have another question. The next installs will be 3 clones: > identical HW, same packages and configuration, they will run > the same SW at the same time (three audio computation servers, > each taking care of 64 channels). Is there

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Release Question

2010-04-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
"release team" currently that means me. yes, i'm working on new images. see: http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2010-March/thread.html progress is rather slow, but there is not so much work anymore, so they'll come.. Dieter

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-14 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:03:50 -0500 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 04/13/2010 02:58 PM, Flavio Costa wrote: > > What about that: for i in $(ls -1 /etc/rc.d); do alias > > rc-$i="/etc/rc,d/$i"; done > > That's simple and dynamic, just insert it on your .bashrc ou > > /etc/bash.bashrc (global) > > >

Re: [arch-general] iso's

2010-05-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 02 May 2010 12:55:19 +0200 Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 02.05.2010 12:37, Allan McRae wrote: > > On 02/05/10 20:33, Caleb Cushing wrote: > >> why is it the new iso's never made the download page? > > > > Because they were testing builds and never released... > > Allan > > > > > > > Come

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-03 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
> in my opinion we need to let AIF/etc. integration mature along with > the FS itself. this way when BTRFS is marked "stable" the tools will > be ready as well and it will be a minor transition. I could not say it better myself. It always takes a while until the 'experimental' flag is removed in

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 5 May 2010 18:49:44 -0500 C Anthony Risinger wrote: > any other ideas besides rollbacks and an original snapshot that btrfs > could be used for? IIRC it supports data checksumming. about the whole snapshot/volume naming thing: do what you think is best. i cannot advise you because i don

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux release Schedule

2010-05-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 7 May 2010 08:42:39 +0300 Nick Stepa wrote: > Archlinux have rolling releases. You can use *netinstall*.iso for > installing new software or just do `pacman -Syu` after install. updated images are good for support of new hardware, filesystems, .. Dieter

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-2 (and aufs2)

2010-05-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 02 May 2010 17:49:13 +0200 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > This new kernel just exports some additional symbols for aufs2 which > was updated to a new snapshot. This should hopefully fix some issues > with the .33 kernel and aufs. Related aufs packages are: aufs2 > 2.6.33_20100425-2 and aufs2-uti

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux release Schedule

2010-05-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 08 May 2010 11:50:27 +0200 Mathieu Pasquet wrote: > On 07/05/2010 21:53, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >> > Archlinux have rolling releases. You can use *netinstall*.iso for > >> > installing new software or just do `pacman -Syu` after install. > > I second

[arch-general] final release candidate images for testing

2010-05-14 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
new images are done. version: 2010.05.13 these are the images I want to rename to an official 2010.05 release after testing. http://build.archlinux.org/isos/Changelog http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ how should they be tested? for every file, that is: archlinux-2010.05.13-core-dual.iso archlin

Re: [arch-general] final release candidate images for testing

2010-05-15 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 15 May 2010 10:04:40 +0300 Dmitry Korzhevin wrote: > 14.05.2010 18:16, Dieter Plaetinck пишет: > > new images are done. > > version: 2010.05.13 > > > > these are the images I want to rename to an official 2010.05 release > > after testing. > &

Re: [arch-general] final release candidate images for testing

2010-05-16 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 16 May 2010 10:22:30 +0200 Michael Towers wrote: > 2010/5/15 Dries De Smet : > > archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-i686.iso , installed on asus 1005 > > HA, from usb stick, everything went fine. Just didn't detect > > wireless with kernel 2.6.32, but that's solved after updating. > > > > A

Re: [arch-general] final release candidate images for testing

2010-05-16 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 16 May 2010 10:41:39 +0200 Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Sun, 16 May 2010 10:22:30 +0200 > Michael Towers wrote: > > > 2010/5/15 Dries De Smet : > > > archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-i686.iso , installed on asus 1005 > > > HA, from usb stick, everyth

[arch-general] final final testing images

2010-05-16 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Okay guys, props to Thomas for finding out the problem with the initialization of wireless cards. I built new images, dated 2010.05.16 (aka "final final images" ;)) in which this should be fixed, and which also come with updated core packages, most notably kernel26-2.6.33.4-1 http://build.archl

Re: [arch-general] final final testing images

2010-05-16 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 16 May 2010 23:28:24 +0800 Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > Would like to help testing it out, but my weekend internet (home > connection) sucks, and by the time I get into the office it may be > done already. In any case, if that doesn't happen I'll try to get the > last two things confirmed. > > By

Re: [arch-general] final final testing images

2010-05-16 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 16 May 2010 20:12:32 +0200 Karol Babioch wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 17:17:28 Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > So right now, these two things are needed: > > * confirmation that archlinux-2010.05.16-core-x86_64.iso boots fine. > > * confirmation that wireless cards are

Re: [arch-general] final release candidate images for testing

2010-05-17 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 17 May 2010 00:25:24 +0200 Dries De Smet wrote: > I'm sorry if I caused anyone work over this, but I must have been > sleepy, I saw the link to the images, downloaded the first netinstall > I saw & tested it, not realising it was the new image, but the one > from april :-( . > > Feel a b

Re: [arch-general] final final testing images

2010-05-17 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 17 May 2010 23:55:57 +0200 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 17.05.2010 23:36, schrieb Fons Adriaensen: > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 05:17:28PM +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > > >> I built new images, dated 2010.05.16 (aka "final final images" ;)) >

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