Re: Keeping desktop PC and laptop in sync

2022-10-31 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 31/10/2022 15:24, Óscar García Amor wrote: Syncthing Plus one for Syncthing. It works well. I use it across a set of around 10 devices, and, as an example of larger-scale use, Chaotic-AUR uses it for mirror synchronisation.

Re: Proposal: Do not remove a package from the AUR until it is available in a stable repository

2022-10-28 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 28/10/2022 08:00, Óscar García Amor wrote: IMHO, I think it would be better to leave the packages in the AUR until they reach the stable repositories to avoid possible confusion. How would you deal with the potential for diverging changes, i.e. the AUR maintainer continues to make changes

Re: [arch-general] egrep error after update

2022-09-16 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 10/09/2022 22:48, pete via arch-general wrote: egrep is obsolescent I learned a new word; "obsolescent" means "in the process of becoming obsolete". Good stuff.

Re: [arch-general] Fixed (hopefully)

2022-08-19 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 19/08/2022 15:44, Andy Pieters via arch-general wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 14:28, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: Can highly recommend 2FA/MFA. As long as you remember, it is meant to complement security, not make unsafe passwords

Re: [arch-general] Fixed (hopefully)

2022-08-19 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 19/08/2022 14:11, Randy DuCharme via arch-general wrote: No idea what's going on with my Google email account these days but - it is what it is Can highly recommend 2FA/MFA. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Python nightmare

2022-08-19 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 19/08/2022 10:12, Bjoern Franke via arch-general wrote: Hi, My guess is this isn't the real Randall DuCharme, visible on LinkedIn and in previous years on Arch's mailing lists.  CC-ing ‘Randy DuCharme ’ is also odd. That's caused by DMARC munging of mailman, you should see the same e.g.

Re: [arch-general] ZFS in repos?

2022-07-25 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 23/07/2022 21:11, Piscium via arch-general wrote: ZFS is in AUR. I wonder what is the reason why it is not moved to the Arch repos? The zfs-linux package has 250 votes, the zfs-dkms has 137, and the zfs-linux-lts has 70. I am aware about the possible license incompatibility between the kernel

Re: [arch-general] Linux 5.18.8 - VirtualBox dkms - /usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found

2022-07-04 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 03/07/2022 08:53, Piscium via arch-general wrote: On Sun, 3 Jul 2022 at 07:34, David C. Rankin via arch-general > What about the symlink discussed in the bbs topic? The symlink worked for me. As noted in the bug report and the forum thread the symlink hides the error but is not a fix, as "

Re: [arch-general] not able to execute commands on tty

2022-04-25 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 25/04/2022 16:57, Frank via arch-general wrote: export PATH="$(PATH) Including the value in parentheses is attempting to run the value of $PATH as a command; that in turn is failing, and likely setting PATH to an empty value, breaking $PATH for subsequent calls. OpenPGP_signature Descrip

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] RFC: Forbid dummy packages from AUR

2022-03-24 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 24/03/2022 07:39, Óscar García Amor via arch-general wrote: But why? > > I don't quite understand why this should be banned. It's essentially the equivalent of installing a package then -Rdd a dependency. Would that process be encouraged in other situations? as described in the RFC, has a

Re: [arch-general] Atheros AR9462 - kernel upgrade warning

2022-03-19 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 19/03/2022 13:10, Danila Kiver via arch-general wrote: Rolling back to linux-5.16.3 worked well for me. Does the issue appear in linux-lts (or 5.10 or 5.4)? Has anyone bisected this yet? OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Power Management on Thinkpad W530

2022-02-13 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 13/02/2022 14:03, naicam|ne via arch-general wrote: This decrease in life happened quickly but it was in terms of a couple of weeks, not a couple of days. I couldn't say how many cycles it's been through. I bought the laptop refurbished, and I dont know the condition of the battery at that t

Re: [arch-general] Power Management on Thinkpad W530

2022-02-13 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 13/02/2022 13:30, naicam|ne via arch-general wrote: /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_full_design =  93600 [mWh] /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_full    =   1740 [mWh] /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_now =   1740 [mWh] /sys/class/power_

Re: [arch-general] Power Management on Thinkpad W530

2022-02-12 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 13/02/2022 02:04, naicam|ne via arch-general wrote: > I run LXDE, and the hardened kernel, 5.15.21 As I say, a more standard kernel would be worth trying, `linux` for 5.16 and `linux-lts` for 5.15. > I have tlp 1.5.0-4 tlp-rdw 1.5.0-4 acpi_call-dkms 1.2.2-1 and tp_smapi-dkms 0.43-4 install

Re: [arch-general] Power Management on Thinkpad 5W30

2022-02-12 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 13/02/2022 01:06, naicam|ne via arch-general wrote: I can't get power management working on my laptop. I might be missing something in the original post, but I can't see anything specific about what sort of problem you're having, or what indicates power management doesn't work. (Or how you

Re: [arch-general] git-annex-10.20220127-16: `GLIBC_2.34' not found

2022-02-12 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 12/02/2022 13:06, Jesús Ruiz via arch-general wrote: When I run any git-annex command using git-annex-10.20220127-16 I get: /usr/bin/git-annex: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /usr/bin/git-annex) The glibc version I have installed is 2.33-5, which is cur

Re: [arch-general] Mesa is splitting off legacy drivers from main

2021-12-05 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 06/12/2021 01:54, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: Dropping hardware support is a bad idea. Just to present the opposite side of the argument: there has to be some limit, though, for example i686? OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Introduction

2021-11-10 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 10/11/2021 23:21, Yosef Goldstein via arch-general wrote: Hi everyone I am Yosef from Israel. I am excited to be part of the Arch community. Welcome! OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] pacman: dvzrv.db 404 error (fwd)

2021-09-01 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 01/09/2021 15:34, Jeanette C. via arch-general wrote: error: failed to update dvzrv (failed to retrieve some files) Looking through the Unofficial User Repository wiki page [1], the only one listed with "dvzrv" is David Runge's realtime kernel repo [2] - is that one you have enabled? It lo

Re: [arch-general] xhci_hcd support broken [was: Bluetooth no more working after update]

2021-08-29 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 28/08/2021 15:52, Peter Nabbefeld via arch-general wrote: > Thank You for the pointer. The firmware module mentioned there is > related to renesas chipsets, while mine is an integrated intel chip: > ... > > So I'm still searching for a solution ... :( > Certain devices require firmware. If y

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

2021-06-01 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 01/06/2021 23:15, Yash Karandikar via arch-general wrote: My guess is that they'll update that once pacman 6 hits stable. pacman=6.0.0-2 is already in stable. ;) OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] debian conversion tool?

2021-05-03 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 03/05/2021 17:52, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote: > dosemu is in the repos. Oh, also, dosemu2-git is in the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dosemu2-git) OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] debian conversion tool?

2021-05-03 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 27/04/2021 17:22, Jude DaShiell via arch-general wrote: > install-dosemu-master.zip can be built with debian. > When it is, those using dosemu2.deb can install many snearly standard dos > utilities that work inside of dosemu2. Unfortunately the source code > inside that package is debian only

Re: [arch-general] snapcraft

2021-03-19 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 19/03/2021 10:25, Zero via arch-general wrote: I am looking at the package Joplin to keep my notes in. Joplin is in the AUR and I assume I can build it but then I need to update it manually when new versions appear. The advantage of having it updated through Pacman or maybe Snapcraft is t

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio

2021-02-20 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general
On 20/02/2021 16:17, NicoHood via arch-general wrote: > I was also wondering what gives the best speed. I got a boot partition > with 250mb, wouldn't it make sense to use CAT aka no compression? It's a balance between CPU usage and disk IO. cat requires more data to be read from disk, zstd requir