Re: [arch-general] rubbish files in krb5

2021-07-05 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 7/5/21 9:31 PM, Yi Zheng via arch-general wrote: > pkgfile shows: > core/krb5 /usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.gz > core/krb5 /usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5.gz > > I'm sure that they are rubbish due to the small size.. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42 Mar 21 21:16 /usr/sh

Re: [arch-general] new "Total" line at bottom of =pacman -Syu=?

2021-07-04 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 7/4/21 11:41 PM, Greg Minshall via arch-general wrote: > hi. is this new "Total" line, when downloading for =pacman -Syu=, new? > > Total ( 58/390) 223.8 MiB 1414 KiB/s 20:59 > [###--] 11% > > > if so -- i find it v

Re: [arch-general] when keys are not updated

2021-06-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 6/23/21 11:01 AM, mikau--- via arch-general wrote: > On 2021-06-22 12:03, Jude DaShiell via arch-general wrote: >> It turns out installing archlinux-keyring fixed this problem.  I wasn't >> aware that package was missing from this system. > > I recently had a similar problem where an -Syu didn'

Re: [arch-general] when keys aren't updated

2021-06-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 6/21/21 11:36 PM, Jude DaShiell via arch-general wrote: > Pacman could do with a feature to bypass authors packages and keys so > those don't disrupt updates. They don't disrupt updates. The keys are updated via archlinux-keyring, or via an "Import this key?" prompt via WKD / the SKS pool. If

Re: [arch-general] archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html from Aug-2019

2021-06-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 6/7/21 5:43 AM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: > On 6/7/21 3:56 AM, Lone_Wolf via arch-general wrote: >> Maybe you could test with a console terminal like getty / agetty instead of a >> terminal emulator ? >> >> >> Try setting ParallelDownloads = 0  in pacman.conf . >> >> LW > > Good t

Re: [arch-general] How to enable Archlinux users to easily avoid Polkit?

2021-05-30 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 5/30/21 8:32 AM, Neven Sajko wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2021 at 02:51, Eli Schwartz via arch-general > wrote: >> /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.so directly >> links to libcolord and will fail to load if it is unavailable. But >> perhaps you used

Re: [arch-general] How to enable Archlinux users to easily avoid Polkit?

2021-05-29 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 5/29/21 7:11 AM, Neven Sajko via arch-general wrote: > Hi > > On my up-to-date Archlinux system, the only package that depends on > Polkit is Colord, which, in turn, is only depended on by GTK3. > > Forcefully removing the Polkit package (with pacman -R > --assume-installed polkit polkit), wor

Re: [arch-general] debian conversion tool

2021-04-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 4/27/21 7:22 PM, Jude DaShiell via arch-general wrote: > For this package archlinux conversion isn't necessary. > After installing dosemu2-git try: > git clone http://www.github.com/dosemu2/install-freedos > If you put that into ~/build cd build/install-freedos. > What I did was to run msudo mak

Re: [arch-general] makepkg nosuchoption succeeds. No complains, package gets built

2021-04-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 4/23/21 4:07 PM, u34--- via arch-general wrote: > I was expecting for > > makepkg nosuchoption > > to fail. And complain. Instead, it succeeds. The package seem to get > built. "nosuchoption" is not an --option flag, it is an operand. makepkg supports e.g. makepkg CFLAGS+=' -g' simila

Re: [arch-general] aom upgrade brakes funktionality of several video applications

2021-04-11 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 4/11/21 10:37 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier via arch-general wrote: > Am 11.04.21 um 16:19 schrieb Doug Newgard via arch-general: >> For those that aren't starting at all, check the binaries with lddtree (from >> the pax-utils package), see what's linked to the old version. > > O.K. here they are:

Re: [arch-general] libesmtp 1.0.6-7 does not link to openssl

2021-04-05 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 4/3/21 4:40 PM, SET via arch-general wrote: > Hello, > > I am having a weird issue with libesmtp : it does not use TLS, confirmed by > wireshark sniffing. > > The ASP repo was pulled, and here is the result of ./configure --prefix=/usr > : > > * > *** libESMTP featu

Re: [arch-general] definition of "orphan"

2021-03-16 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 3/16/21 1:19 PM, Matthias Bodenbinder via arch-general wrote: > Am Dienstag, dem 16.03.2021 um 12:47 -0300 schrieb Giancarlo Razzolini > via arch-general: >> The projects involved here, pacman, archweb and aurweb are all >> open source and can receive patches. > > I would suggest that the Arch

Re: [arch-general] On arch-dev-public: Chromium losing Sync support on March 15

2021-01-25 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 1/25/21 11:29 PM, Anatol Pomozov via arch-general wrote: Hi On the related topic. There is an interesting project that tries to remove Google-specific bits from the browser called ungoogled-chromium [1] and corresponding AUR package for it [2]. Taking the current situation into account and

Re: [arch-general] dracut roll-out plan?

2021-01-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 1/24/21 9:20 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos via arch-general wrote: On 23/01/21, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: There is no plan. Dracut is an optional alternative, because Arch is all about choice. People who like dracut are welcome to use it. According to Wiki you can test it and switch

Re: [arch-general] dracut roll-out plan?

2021-01-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 1/23/21 5:58 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: Archdevs, I see dracut is creeping into the system. Which I see as fine, SuSE has used dracut for a couple of years and it has proven to be quite robust. But I do have a question on roll-out and what will be required on the user's pa

Re: [arch-general] On arch-dev-public: Chromium losing Sync support on March 15

2021-01-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 1/19/21 7:28 PM, Javier via arch-general wrote: Actually, why not keeping it maintained without the "Sync Feature"?  Is it something most users make use of?  I use pretty much Firefox for everything, but I need to keep Chromium given some corporate web pages that only work on Chrome/Chromium

Re: [arch-general] python-dnspython flagged as outdated since 2020-11-19

2021-01-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 1/8/21 3:01 PM, Fun Ilrys via arch-general wrote: Hello World, Is there a plan to update the python-dnspython package ? It happened to be flagged as out of date since 2020-11-19. The actual version in the PyPI is 2.1.0. Does someone know how to contact the maintainers of those packages ? Th