Re: Pacman lite?

2025-05-17 Thread Edward Toroshchyn
pacman is open source, so of course you can change it however you want. Without knowing more about the problem you're solving it's hard to give a more specific advice. If you're want a minimalistic OS and/or package manager, have you looked at Alpine? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Stop makepkg from running gpg on .sig files

2025-05-04 Thread Edward Toroshchyn
My bad, sorry! Out of curiosity, I checked the source code for makepkg, and it looks like the only other way is to use the --skippgpcheck flag. (Curiously, the test for signature files checks the entire URL, not just the path name, so if you add a question mark to the URL, this also bypasses the

Re: Stop makepkg from running gpg on .sig files

2025-05-03 Thread Edward Toroshchyn
Basti, Have you tried renaming the file? e.g. source=('package_sig.txt::http://wherever/package.sig') -- Edward signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Wayland performance issues after upgrading linux and nvidia

2024-10-02 Thread Edward Toroshchyn
All, Just wanted to drop a short FYI here, in case you've also encountered issues running Wayland after updating linux (6.10.10.arch1-1 -> 6.11.1.arch1-1) and nvidia (560.35.03-6 -> 560.35.03-9). For me, downgrading helped: # cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg/; pacman -U nvidia-560.35.03-3-x86_64.pkg.t

Password security (was: Changed password on Arch, now ssh cannot connect - "Connection refused")

2024-08-29 Thread Edward Toroshchyn
All, Sorry for hijacking the thread, just want to make a small correction. On 29/08/2024 10:53, David C. Rankin wrote: > I changed my password [...] (as you should do > every so often). It is no longer recommended to enforce any periodic password changes. See, e.g. NIST recommendation[1]: >

Re: /usr/bin/tqdm in filesystem NOT owned by any package? (python tqdm)

2024-08-11 Thread Edward Toroshchyn
All, I would like to defend Python a little bit here. On Sunday, August 11th, 2024 at 02:48, David C. Rankin wrote: > I hate that insecure python software supply-chain. In my opinion, it is the responsibility of the system administrator to avoid installing software other than by using the pack

Re: JDK/JRE and older Java versions

2024-07-01 Thread Edward Toroshchyn
Peter, I understand you don't have much experience with Docker, and you totally don't have to use it, especially if you don't plan to use it for more advanced purposes, such as actual deployment of your production envs. You could just download the binary archives with the JDK and JRE versions you

Re: How to start mplayer with radio (.pls) url over ssh and have it play?

2024-07-01 Thread Edward Toroshchyn
David, Try the following. Use `aplay -l` to find the hardware ID which you want to use, e.g. in my case I want to use card number 2: ``` card 2: prime [Dr.DAC prime], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ``` Then run `alsamixer -c 2` (2 is the card numbe

Re: JDK/JRE and older Java versions

2024-06-22 Thread Edward Toroshchyn
Peter, I apologise for giving you tangential (and unsolicited) advice instead of helping you with your problem, however :) Have you tried Docker? As a developer myself, I find Docker to be invaluable. Basically, you can create an isolated environment with any toolchain in one command. This woul