Re: [arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-19 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 19:05 +1000 schrieb richard terry: > with the /arch/setup program I tried auto to do the whole drive (it was a > brand new seagate 500gig HDD) > no action, just sat there. > > I tried using CFDISK > create partitions > then the setting the mount points > didn't recogn

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

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

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

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

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

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

[arch-general] [kernel26 >= .30 + e100] Slow ethernet

2009-09-22 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hi, since 2.6.30.x (i could not exactly say if also with the latest 2.6.29.x) stock kernels i have a terrible slow ethernet transfer rate on my old Thinkpad T22 (Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 SP, module e100). Normal transfer rate ex. to a mirror is for me ~700Kb/s but i got only ~80-90 Kb/s. And a

Re: [arch-general] Xorg 1.9 - This traing is going to hell.

2010-09-30 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 07:51:23PM +0400, Fess wrote: > Well, i think, i should say some words. > But some of you will say that i'm "out of line". > So, i'll just dicribe details of the update. I also have problems with XOrg 1.9 on my old Thinkpad T22 (savage video chip). With the new version i co

[arch-general] [rc.d/network] Integrate wpa_supplicant as wireless framework?

2010-11-09 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hi, our current default wireless framework in base /e/rc.d/network script is iwconfig (Open/WEP only). I like to integrate wpa_supplicant as easy as we could use iwconfig ATM. iwconfig is a useless framework in most user environments in these days (most AP's have a stronger encryption than WEP'),

Re: [arch-general] [rc.d/network] Integrate wpa_supplicant as wireless framework?

2010-11-16 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:42:16PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 09.11.2010 14:55, schrieb Gerhard Brauer: > > Hi, > > Hi Gerhard, it is nice to hear from you after such a long time :) Yeah, no more R.I.P (rest in pieces), or: "Auferstanden aus Ruinen..." ;-) &

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] consolekit dependencies?

2012-10-13 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Sorry for maybe double-posting, fist sent with wrong from-address ;-) On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 04:34:04PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > Most (all?) of our login manager still depend on consolekit. However, > > since consolekit support wil

[arch-general] Change kernel version or module dir at bootprompt?

2007-11-30 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, i've searched a while and found nothing. And AFAIK there isnt't an chance to do this. But maybe one of you know a trick, a magic... Is it possible to change either the kernel version (what uname -r says) or the location of the kernel modul dir at boottime? I think about an easy solution t

[arch-general] firefox-i18n

2007-12-01 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, thanks for fixing firefox (#8780). Could someone of the DEVs also build a fixed package of firefox-i18n (#8786)? Bye Gerhard -- HAL is running Windows...

Re: [arch-general] Change kernel version or module dir at bootprompt?

2007-12-01 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Gruesse! * Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [01.12.07 11:11]: Oh, i miss Jame's mail, so in answer you. > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 05:05:46PM +1100, James Rayner wrote: > > the kernel version is also embedded into the individual modules, so you'd > > have to modify the kernel and every module

Re: [arch-general] firefox-i18n

2007-12-01 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Gruesse! * Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [01.12.07 16:00]: > Gerhard Brauer schrieb: > > Hello, > > > > thanks for fixing firefox (#8780). > > > > Could someone of the DEVs also build a fixed package of firefox-i18n > > (#

Re: [arch-general] Change kernel version or module dir at?bootprompt?

2007-12-02 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Gruesse! * Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [02.12.07 10:20]: > > Why you jsut don't use the installation ISO kernel and initrd? > you get everything to rescue from it and it includes everything. > no hacks at all only enter it in your grub. > you can also boot into your existing s

Re: [arch-general] Change kernel version or module dir?at?bootprompt?

2007-12-02 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Gruesse! * Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [02.12.07 16:06]: > > i meant that you install the kernel from the ISO in combination with the > initrd. > that it is available on the disk and not that you need to boot the cd itself. At the risk that i misunderstand this, but: At the

Re: [arch-general] Change kernel version or module?dir?at?bootprompt?

2007-12-02 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Gruesse! * Pierre Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [02.12.07 19:49]: > Am Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2007 19:41:21 schrieb Gerhard Brauer: > > At the moment i could do this, Kernel on ISO is 2.6.22. But when 2.6.23 > > reaches the ISO, we have the same problem as now: a collis

Re: [arch-general] firefox-i18n

2007-12-03 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Gruesse! * Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [01.12.07 16:00]: > Gerhard Brauer schrieb: > > > > Could someone of the DEVs also build a fixed package of firefox-i18n > > (#8786)? > > I am really confused about that, alex seems to have changed the path

[arch-general] FTP-ISO 2007.08-2 Bug (wrong PATH for root)

2007-12-03 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, a user of archlinux.de have point me to problems with his install from current ftp-iso. Many commands (reboot, adduser) were not found. I've tested it here and see that after the installation root has a silly PATH. There is for ex. /usr/gnu/bin but not /sbin or /usr/sbin. At the moment i

Re: [arch-general] FTP-ISO 2007.08-2 Bug (wrong PATH for root)

2007-12-03 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Gruesse! * Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [04.12.07 02:04]: > On Dec 3, 2007 6:41 PM, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've tested it here and see that after the installation root has a silly > > PATH. There is for ex. /

[arch-general] Kernel OOPS with AVM fwlanusb

2007-12-22 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, i have a AVM wlan usb stick for testing, usb id 057C:6201. I try the avm linux driver with kernel 2.6.23.12-2. Build and modprobe is ok, inserting the stick gaves after a long period of waiting the wlan0 device. iwpriv wlan0 work, iwconfig stopped with a segfault and a oops. I'm not a kern

Re: [arch-general] Kernel OOPS with AVM fwlanusb

2007-12-22 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Gruesse! * Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [22.12.07 15:05]: > If @tpowa reads this: > if see strcopy in trap, could this be something similar we have had with > avm fritz card and the objcopy-Patches? > Thank you for having a look at this! Ok, i solved it. It was

[arch-general] Mirror out of sync [tu.chemnitz.de]

2008-01-06 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, One german mirror, tu.chemnitz.de, is not synced since 12.12.2007. Bye Gerhard -- Bundestrojaner - wir sind die Guten! Nur echt mit 52 Verfassungsbruechen!

Re: [arch-general] Mirror out of sync [tu.chemnitz.de]

2008-01-25 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Gruesse! * Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [09.01.08 13:42]: > 2008/1/6, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > > > One german mirror, tu.chemnitz.de, is not synced since 12.12.2007. > > > > Actually, since 14-Dec-2007 (date o

[arch-general] Searching reference server for mirror checking

2008-01-27 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, i'm working on a script to check the sync status of the mirrors. Actually i use ftp.archlinux.org as a reference but Pierre Schmitz point to me that this is also only a mirror which must not be in sync. So is there a server (ftp or http) from where i could get the mtime, size and the repos

Re: [arch-general] Searching reference server for mirror checking

2008-01-27 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Gruesse! * eliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [27.01.08 23:22]: > On 1/27/08, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So is there a server (ftp or http) from where i could get the mtime, > > size and the repository db file as a reference? > >

Re: [arch-general] Searching reference server for mirror checking

2008-01-28 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello! Ok, i'am 99% ready with the script (mostly output and "internally cleaning"). I put the output as txt attachement in this mail. Short: Overall Status -- Mirrors tested. : 49 Mirrors with connection problems... : 2 Mirror with data col

Re: [arch-general] Searching reference server for mirror checking

2008-01-28 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello! * eliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [28.01.08 17:19]: > > I think it would be a very nice thing to have someone run > periodically, and maybe send reports to the dev team I think we on archlinux.de could do this. I'll talk with Pierre next time about that. Another question , i assume

Re: [arch-general] Mirror out of sync [tu.chemnitz.de]

2008-01-30 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello! * eliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [25.01.08 17:56]: > > Please file a ticket on the bugtracker, so we can address the issue. Ok, i filed some bugreports for the most conspicuous mirrors i checked. #9390-9394 in pacman flyspray section. Gerhard -- rm -rf DOESN'T mean: read mail -

Re: [arch-general] [mirror] mirror sync and reachability issues

2008-02-04 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello! * Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [02.02.08 17:29]: > > 9439 sticks out as rather big as it is two of our mirrors in the > Netherlands, so I'd appreciate any feedback on that one. The Netherlands are back & rock'n roll Pierre and i have put a status site on archlinux.de where yo

Re: [arch-general] Mirror out of sync?

2008-02-19 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Gruesse! * David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am [14.02.08 23:30]: > Pierre Schmitz wrote: > >> Just for reference: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9561 > > Anyone know why they're out of sync, BTW? I've got only one response on my mails, and this mirror is already back. At the moment t

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] madwifi/madwifi-utils 0.9.4

2008-03-11 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 07:38:20AM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi > small bump of madwifi drivers > please signoff both arches > also users can signoff, no respond from any dev Could give a user signoff for i686 > greetings > tpowa -Gerhard -- MSCI = M$cro Soft Certificated Inst

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] madwifi/madwifi-utils 0.9.4.3382

2008-03-13 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:36:57PM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi > bump of madwifi drivers, back to trunk version > please signoff both arches > also users can signoff, no respond from any dev user signoff for i686 Tobias: i could also signoff pcmciautils 014-4 for i686. Do some base tests

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] pcmciautils

2008-03-13 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:27:59PM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi > fixed udev rules file to use load-modules.sh instead of plain modprobe. > signoff for both arches, please Sorry, don't have seen this mail... Could do a user signoff for i686 Do some base tests and overall my card works fine

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] madwifi/madwifi-utils 0.9.4.3382

2008-03-17 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:29:15PM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi > bump of madwifi drivers, back to trunk version > please signoff both arches > also users can signoff, no respond from any dev > > bump at least anyone? Again: user signoff for i686 > greetings > tpowa Gerhard -- Wir si

[arch-general] Grub and GPT partition labels

2008-03-17 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, are there any plans to prepare our grub with support for GPT partition labels? The grub version from current install ISO could not be installed on such a prepared harddisk: Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xee Good old lilo on the other side works like a charm ;-) There must be pa

Re: [arch-general] Grub and GPT partition labels

2008-03-18 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:18:48PM +0100, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > > There must be patches for grub to provide this (???) Ok, i've filed 2 feature request to maybe solve these problem. #9864, #9865 Gerhard -- Try rm -rf (_R_ead _M_ail _R_ealy _F_ast)

Re: [arch-general] Grub and GPT partition labels

2008-03-18 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:00:33AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, i've filed 2 feature request to maybe solve these problem. > > #9864, #9865 > > But, it looks like we

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.0.6-1

2008-03-18 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:31:22AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > New version with some bugs fixed. Please sign off (tested by me on x86_64). I have tested it on my luks encrypted laptop and on some loop device container which are also luks encrypted. I could boot my laptop ;-) and tested adding/d

[arch-general] Current FTP/HTTP install broken

2008-03-23 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, at the moment it seems that doing installation by ftp/http source is broken for the current ISOs 2007.08-2. We got several posts on archlinux.de and i see also on archlinux.org: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=345662 Also some new comments in old bugreport: http://bugs.archlinu

Re: [arch-general] Current FTP/HTTP install broken

2008-03-24 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 08:33:38AM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Montag, 24. März 2008 schrieb Dan McGee: > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Problems seems some missing filelists in some packages (ex. glibc)

Re: [arch-general] Current FTP/HTTP install broken

2008-03-24 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:25:27AM +0100, Xavier wrote: > > Ah well, I answered Dan privately because I found this confusing, but I > should have answered here probably :) Thanks for explanation. Maybe we should future place a hint on download page for the ftp iso when we run in a similar situat

Re: [arch-general] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 03:53:52AM -0500, Simo Leone wrote: > Hey everyone, I've tested it on varios machines, Scenic, Thinkpad, IBMs, VirtualBox > **I need feedback on the following regarding ISO bootup** > - Did the grub loader work as expected? Yes > - Did it pick up and load the module for y

Re: [arch-general] Current FTP/HTTP install broken

2008-03-28 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:18:09PM +0200, Ioannis Lazaridis wrote: > pacman -Sy pacman or download latest (2008-03) iso. Sorry, the email you replied stuck somewhere on my email provider, so it reached the list very late ;-) Gerhard -- Ich bin nicht die Signatur, ich putz' hier nur!

[arch-general] Installation: after first reboot ext3 superblock mount time in future

2008-03-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, i've noticed this meanwhile quiet often after many installations. Currently after a test with 2008.03-0.3, but also with older ISOs: After install and first reboot i got such fsck notice during rc: , | /dev/sda3: Superblock last mount time is in the future. FIXED | /dev/sda3 has gone

Re: [arch-general] Installation: after first reboot ext3 superblock mount time in future

2008-03-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > > This only appears if you set the HARDWWARECLOCK to UTC as far as i can > tell. Most times in virtual machines i leave it to localtime. But the hwclock of a vm comes from the host system (here it's set to UTC). > Even though

Re: [arch-general] Installation: after first reboot ext3 superblock mount time in future

2008-03-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:59:13AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Cause this is the *first* reboot after installation users will get a bad > > impression about Arch. > > Oh noes! We could

Re: [arch-general] Installation: after first reboot ext3 superblock mount time in future

2008-03-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 04:53:38PM +0100, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > > Maybe a little more technical discussion from those who care? Ok, i've done another test (at the moment i could reproduce it in virtualbox): I've started the installation on 18:01 localtime (here CET). ,

Re: [arch-general] Current FTP/HTTP install broken

2008-03-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 06:43:11PM +0100, Philippe Miron wrote: > > I just re-install Arch with a 2007 CD, I tried to use the FTP installation > and I couldn't get the package list from any server. (and my internet > connection was working..) I read the thread pretty face (maybe I miss the > bug

Re: [arch-general] Installation: after first reboot ext3 superblock mount time in future

2008-03-30 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, i've done a bit more testing. First i think it's not a bug in any package. It's only a mismatch between clock set on install machine and the timezone which is later set during config. 1. I guess there is absolut no problem on machines where the hardware clock is set to UTC by default. 2.

Re: [arch-general] Installation: after first reboot ext3?superblock mount time in future

2008-03-30 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 01:40:10PM +0200, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: > i vote for putting a) in the instalation guide so new users dont get scared > by > this (imo) non issue. You're right, it's not an real issue. Only a little annoying if you forget to set it correctly. I've last test somethi

Re: [arch-general] Installation: after first reboot ext3 superblock mount time in future

2008-03-30 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 05:17:18PM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > 2008/3/30, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Aha, it seems now I've got it. ;-) Yes, english isn't my mother language. I think, someone who reads my mails guess: Oh, a six year old child on list

Re: [arch-general] Installation: after first reboot ext3 superblock mount time in future

2008-03-31 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 07:58:21PM +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > tzdata/tzselect on ISOs: > Meanwhile (i wrote on other mail) i would prefer to handle it like km. > Maybe it could be combined with the km hint in /etc/motd. So you must > not "hurt" the installer, but it is

Re: [arch-general] 2008.04-RC Images are out

2008-04-15 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 02:04:37AM -0500, Simo Leone wrote: > Crosspostingissocool > http://www.archlinux.org/news/389/ > > Enjoy. Is there a bugreport for collect things for this RC (planned) Or should we/i report things here in this thread? I've found some minor things belong to locale/keymap/t

[arch-general] Closing bugreports too fast?

2008-04-30 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, i thought about a "trap" in which myself are also fallen sometimes: I look at the bugtracker to see if someone filed already a bugreport for a problem. But i don't find it cause it is already fixed and thereby marked as closed. And without using advandced search functions all searches are o

Re: [arch-general] Closing bugreports too fast?

2008-04-30 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:26:43PM +0300, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > On 4/30/08, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would never have thought that closing bug reports too fast would be a > problem to someone. IMHO you are making this seem like an issue when it &g

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

2008-05-04 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:05:31PM +0200, Alessio Bolognino wrote: > If you want to help someway, you could update the package, test it and > send the sources (PKGBUILD and other stuff) to the maintainer or maybe > even in this mailing list. Here is my PKGBUILD for 0.93. I have tested it on two se

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

2008-05-04 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 03:14:24PM +0200, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > when i try to use your PKGBUILD, i got this error Sorry, but the attached PKGBUILD is only a replacement for the one in the complete clamav makepkg-tarball. Get the complete clamav directory from abs (/var/abs/extra/clamav/) and

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

2008-05-04 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, as attachement the **complete** clamav dir 0.93 for makepkg. Tested on i686 Gerhard -- Bundestrojaner - wir sind die Guten! Nur echt mit 52 Verfassungsbruechen!

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

2008-05-04 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, as attachement the **complete** clamav dir 0.93 for makepkg. Tested on i686 //Edit: forgot the attachement, grrr ;-) Gerhard -- Bundestrojaner - wir sind die Guten! Nur echt mit 52 Verfassungsbruechen! clamav.tar.gz Description: Binary data

[arch-general] Mirror: please remove locke.suu.edu

2008-05-13 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, mirror is down since March 30. Could someone assign the ticket #9678 to Dale or Eliott to kick this mirror? Regards Gerhard -- Don't drink and root!

Re: [arch-general] Mirror: please remove locke.suu.edu

2008-05-13 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:59:42AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could someone assign the ticket #9678 to Dale or Eliott to kick this > > mirror? > > Why not just, you know, comment on

[arch-general] AUR Tarball format (makepkg --source)

2008-06-25 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, is it possible to upload a package to AUR which is build with: makepkg --source ? I think not (package naming and no package subdir in tarball), but this were be a nice feature ;-) Regards Gerhard -- rm -rf DOESN'T mean: read mail -really fast

Re: [arch-general] AUR Tarball format (makepkg --source)

2008-06-25 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 06:24:00PM +0800, Callan Barrett wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > is it possible to upload a package to AUR which is build with: > > makepkg --source ? > > I think not (packag

[arch-general] Could not upload nxcomp package to AUR

2008-06-25 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, another question: I try to upload a package named nxcomp to AUR (Section lib), but it's revoked: You are not allowed to overwrite the nxcomp package. But i don't found such a package in AUR nor with pacman -Ss nxcomp. Any hints? Regards Gerhard -- MSCI = M$cro Soft Certificat

Re: [arch-general] Could not upload nxcomp package to AUR

2008-06-25 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:05:24PM +0800, Callan Barrett wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I try to upload a package named nxcomp to AUR (Section lib), but it's > > revoked: > > You are not allowed to overwri

Re: [arch-general] Need to mount 2nd SATA drive

2008-06-28 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 08:56:53AM -0700, Allie Daneman wrote: > I can't figure out how to mount my 2nd SATA drive...my primary disk is > mounted by uuid in my current fstab but disk 2 doesn't seem like it's > being found correctly. Can anyone help out...how do I figure out the > uuid of my 2nd dr

Re: [arch-general] community/mc-utf8 to extra/mc

2008-07-02 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:01:09PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Sergej Pupykin wrote: >> >> I see that mc with utf8 support is in extra now, so I delete mc-utf8 >> from community and ask someone who can do it: >> >> please reassign http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10376 to the new maintainer. > > Do y

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.26-1 and related module packages

2008-07-22 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:56:15PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > - madwifi is broken. Do we still need it? AFAIK, all chipsets should now > be supported by ath5k by now. Can a madwifi user please look at this > (Aaron, Dan?) My card doesn't work with ath5k, i've tested module from 2.6.25 and

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.26-1 and related module packages

2008-07-22 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 08:32:42PM -0400, Scott wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:36:14AM +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > > My card doesn't work with ath5k, i've tested module from 2.6.25 and now > > 2.6.26 from testing. > > > > ,[ lspci ] > > |

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.26-1 and related module packages

2008-07-23 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:36:14AM +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > > Providing further packages for madwifi seems difficult with >=2.6.26, or see > you any chance? Ok, i found a solution/patch for madwifi, this works now under 2.6.26. With ath5k i compiled latest wireless-compat and

Re: [arch-general] Sending files to printer question

2008-08-11 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:58:43AM +1000, richard terry wrote: > > I wondered if there was a command line utility to do the conversion. You could combine some nice tools Look at the tools: html2text and htmldoc First is an "simple" text parser without formatting. htmldoc is a complex tool which r

Re: [arch-general] Sending files to printer question

2008-08-11 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:40:30AM +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote: One mistake: > , > | wget -O - http://aur.archlinux.org/index.php | htmldoc --webpage -t ps - | > lp > ` Gerhard -- Ich: Wenn du wuesstest, was ich denke... Sie : Was waere dann? Ich: Viel Erde ueber dir...

[arch-general] Rebuild davfs2 from extra please

2008-08-31 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, davfs2 from extra is outdated. PKGBUILD must also be modified. Currently davfs2 is broken. I attached a PKGBUILD in bugreport: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11285 Gerhard -- Die NASA brauchte 12 Jahre um einen Kugelschreiber zu entwickeln, der kopfueber, in der Schwerelosigkeit und unt

[arch-general] spamassassin 3.2.5-2

2008-09-04 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hi, does anyone knows why the package binaries (spamd, spamc) are now in /usr/bin/perlbin/vendor? On the previos version they were in /usr/bin. Bug? Feature? Gerhard -- Dont't drink and root!

Re: [arch-general] spamassassin 3.2.5-2

2008-09-04 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:38:10PM -0400, Eric Belanger wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > >> does anyone knows why the package binaries (spamd, spamc) are now in >> /usr/bin/perlbin/vendor? On the previos version they were in /usr/bin. > > It'

Re: [arch-general] probs. with easynews mirror

2008-09-27 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Freitag, den 26.09.2008, 13:20 -0400 schrieb David Rosenstrauch: > Anyone know the cause and/or who to contact over there to get it fixed? > It's usually a great mirror, and very reliable, and I use it as my > primary. This mirror is not reachable (ping, tracepath) since yesterday. It coul

[arch-general] dhcpcd config files

2008-10-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hi, i would like to push this FeatureRequest a little more: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11849 IMHO this could make our network scripts and dhcp more stable. Regards Gerhard

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Election Night

2008-11-05 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mittwoch 05 November 2008 11:26:28 schrieb RedShift: > Aaron "Hussein" Griffin wrote: > > So no one break the server tonight! Allan, I'm looking in your > > direction :) > > Obama has won. But the real challenge has yet to come. You mean: So that we can blame Barrack for further server breakage

[arch-general] [sqlite3] x86_64 version mismatch?

2008-11-22 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, in the extra.db.tar.gz on ftp.archlinux.org sqlite3 version for x86_64 is 3.6.6-1. But the binary is still /extra/os/x86_64/sqlite3-3.6.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz Seems that this version upgrade have done today (22.11) so could it be possible that ftp.archlinux.org mirrors have currently only

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:00:20 +0100 schrieb Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pierre Schmitz schrieb: > > The simplest solution would be if we sign the db files > > (automatically) on gerolde. Of course this is less secure than > > signing every single package by its packager; but on the other

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:24:19 -0600 schrieb "Aaron Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I talked to Dan about this briefly the other day. What we concluded > was that the most proper and secure way to do this is as follows: > * gerolde hosts a "developer keyring" > * developers sign their individual p

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:20:13 +0100 schrieb Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:24:19 -0600 > schrieb "Aaron Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > All we'd need is to patch repo-add to include signature data in the >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-30 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:54:34 +0100 schrieb Timm Preetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think ftp.archlinux.org can be pretty slow sometimes (compared to > near-by mirrors), so wouldn't it be equally sufficient to just fetch > the DB-checksum from archlinux.org? This is not possible cause mirrors sync ti

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-30 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:06:09 -0500 schrieb "Daenyth Blank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 06:56, solsTiCe d'Hiver > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i like the original idea of pierre. i had the same one ;-) > > I agree. We can talk until we're blue in the face about the "ideal" > w

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-30 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:09:04 +0100 schrieb vlad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > yes, i also thought about that. that's why i suggested to establish a > db file repository with a file retention of some days (mirrors > ususally sync every 2h-24h). ... > just my 2 cents. IMHO this could not be handled in

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] wpa_supplicant 0.5.11-1

2008-12-02 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:07:11 +0100 schrieb Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thomas Bächler schrieb: > > - Update 0.5.10->0.5.11 > > - Enabled dbus support (was already available on i686 in testing) > > > > The daemon and the gui are in testing for both architectures, > > please sign off. >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-12-04 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Wed, 3 Dec 2008 19:40:59 -0600 schrieb "Dan McGee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So where do we stand on all of this? As I showed above, the makepkg > and repo-add pieces are pretty much in place. We've done a decent > amount of work on the libalpm/pacman side of things, but it isn't > complete yet an

[arch-general] Offer help for our ISO building

2008-12-04 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hi, i would like to offer my help to the ISO build and test procedure. I'm sure i have the time and skill to help on archiso and installer skripts. Currently i will look deeper to get the isolinux thing get running as a maybe alternative to grub-legacy. Also to get the keyboard/font selection and

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-12-04 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:08:42 -0600 schrieb "Dan McGee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, I would recommend checking out that GIT repo, taking a look at > that branch, and seeing what it currently does. > > -Dan Ok, i'll report better to pacman-dev ML Gerhard

[arch-general] mkinitcpio - Possible patch for ext4 autodetection

2008-12-27 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hi, i modified the auto-detection function for file-system modules to auto-detect a ext4 partition. The advantage of using blkid instead of klibc-package/bin/fstype is that blkid detects ext4 filesystems. I tried to rebuild klibc with kernel 2.6.28, but this failed. But maybe this could be a alter

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub with ext4 support

2008-12-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:30:33 +0100 schrieb "Ronald van Haren" : > I will check into the grub2 issue in that case. I've played around last days with grub2 (Version from extra and svn) for putting it as the ISO bootloader and with ext4 FS. - I could made a test ISO (archiso based, 2.6.28) with gru

Re: [arch-general] Slow startup of mc

2008-12-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:44:15 +0300 schrieb Sergej Pupykin : > It is bug-feature I think. > As I understand it is dns resolving problem. > mc try to resolve local ips. You may put it into /etc/hosts > > 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhost > 192.168.1.2myhostname > Yea

Re: [arch-general] grub2 and the ISOs (Was: Re: [arch-dev-public] grub with ext4 support)

2008-12-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:17:35 +0100 schrieb Thomas Bächler : > This is interesting: On many BIOSes, grub 0.x is unable to find the > CD drive and thus many people want us to use isolinux. Personally i prefer isolinux as a "better" solution for ISO bootloader, but grub's advantage is the grub shell

[arch-general] ftpd problem on ftp.archlinux.org?

2008-12-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hi, today i have several failed connections to ftp.archlinux.org --- [gerh...@tux1 ~]$ LANG=C wget ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz --2008-12-29 21:18:15-- ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz => `core.db.tar.gz.7' Resolving ftp.archlinux.org... 209.85.41

Re: [arch-general] what happens with rsync?

2009-01-03 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:36:01 +0300 schrieb Sergej Pupykin : > Hi, > > At least 2 mirrors do not update for a few days: > > - mir1.archlinuxfr.org > - mirrors.yandex.ru > > What happens? I could not see rsync lists, but there a quite more mirrors which stopped syncing. Cause the time when they

Re: [arch-general] xscreensaver broken?

2009-01-06 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:45:32 +0100 schrieb Frédéric Perrin : > Le Mardi 6 à 19:46, Guus Snijders a écrit : > > Well, removing glib didn't make a difference, so i tried recompiling > > it (with yaourt -Sb xscreensaver). > > > > But alas, compiling ended with: > > > > galaxy.c: In function 'draw_gal

Re: [arch-general] xscreensaver broken?

2009-01-07 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:40:00 +0100 schrieb "Guus Snijders" : > But later on i noticed some problems with other > apps, so i think it's a problem with my current installation. I'll try > a reinstall later this week. Have you checked if you use some no-default optimizations in makepkg.conf? Or if it

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28-3

2009-01-09 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:54:08 +0100 schrieb Thomas Bächler : > Aaron Griffin schrieb: > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Tobias Powalowski > > wrote: > >> Showstopper: > >> klibc needs to be fixed. It breaks compilation of tools. > > > > Could you be more specific? There was some talk on the kli

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28-3

2009-01-10 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:03:59 +0100 schrieb Gerhard Brauer : > Am Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:54:08 +0100 > schrieb Thomas Bächler : > > > Aaron Griffin schrieb: > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Tobias Powalowski > > > wrote: > > >> Showstopper: > >

[arch-general] 2.6.28 to core?

2009-01-14 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hello, seems that all stopper for 2.6.28 are solved. Are there any issues that causes 2.6.28 (and klibc, mkinitcpio) don't went to [core]? Without these the new ISO's couldn't be build... Regards Gerhard

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