Re: [arch-general] Removing HAL

2010-09-09 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 09/10/2010 08:07 AM, Галымжан Кожаев wrote: Hi list. Few days ago I've succesfully installed arch. It was booting really fast first time (i.e. without gnome, networkmanager, etc). After installing GNOME and some daemons, adding them to the rc.conf, the system now takes 30-40 seconds to load. I

[arch-general] why is sage-mathematics so huge?

2010-09-09 Thread Auguste Pop
Hi, I just noticed that there is a sage-mathematics package in community repository and tried to install it and found out that the package is really huge. I understand that sage is always shipped in a gigantic bundle, but the arch package is considerably larger than official packages provided for

Re: [arch-general] Removing HAL

2010-09-09 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 11:07 +0600, Галымжан Кожаев wrote: > Hi list. > Few days ago I've succesfully installed arch. It was booting really fast > first time (i.e. without gnome, networkmanager, etc). > After installing GNOME and some daemons, adding them to the rc.conf, the > system now takes 30-40

[arch-general] Removing HAL

2010-09-09 Thread Галымжан Кожаев
Hi list. Few days ago I've succesfully installed arch. It was booting really fast first time (i.e. without gnome, networkmanager, etc). After installing GNOME and some daemons, adding them to the rc.conf, the system now takes 30-40 seconds to load. I heard that HAL daemon takes a lot of time during

Re: [arch-general] IRC OPs

2010-09-09 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 09/09/2010 10:09 PM, Callum Scott wrote: HI, Is it possible an IRC OP can contact me off list? Cheers Callum sure, what's up? -- Ionuț

[arch-general] IRC OPs

2010-09-09 Thread Callum Scott
HI, Is it possible an IRC OP can contact me off list? Cheers Callum

[arch-general] [PATCH] Remove 'Add your preferred servers here' comments

2010-09-09 Thread Evangelos Foutras
These comments were removed from the default pacman.conf, so let's remove them from these default configuration files as well. --- pacman-extra.conf|5 - pacman-multilib.conf |6 -- pacman-staging.conf |7 --- pacman-testing.conf |5 - 4 files changed, 0 inser

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 1/2] kill_everything: Reduce number of -f tests

2010-09-09 Thread Victor Lowther
"Nathan Wayde" wrote: >On 09/09/10 16:19, Victor Lowther wrote: >> >> >> "Thomas Bächler" wrote: >> >>> Am 08.09.2010 06:16, schrieb Victor Lowther: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Dave Reisner >>> wrote: > Instead of checking for the existance of a file in >/var/run/daemons >>> on >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins

2010-09-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:57:18 +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:05:47 +0200, Pierre Schmitz >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:48:06 +1000, Allan McRae >>> wrote: Just a reminder for people to look at their pac

Re: [arch-general] Pacman's superslow

2010-09-09 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Okay, sorry about that. Here's the relevant stuff: uptime: 22:04:53 up 26 days, 17:16, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 Now it doesn't seem to touch even 1. free -m: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 512251260

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 1/2] kill_everything: Reduce number of -f tests

2010-09-09 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 09/09/10 16:19, Victor Lowther wrote: "Thomas Bächler" wrote: Am 08.09.2010 06:16, schrieb Victor Lowther: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: Instead of checking for the existance of a file in /var/run/daemons on every iteration, handle the null case by setting null

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins

2010-09-09 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:05:47 +0200, Pierre Schmitz > wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:48:06 +1000, Allan McRae >> wrote: >>> Just a reminder for people to look at their packages and rebuild them >>> for this.  We seem to of stalled majorly.

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 1/2] kill_everything: Reduce number of -f tests

2010-09-09 Thread Victor Lowther
"Thomas Bächler" wrote: >Am 08.09.2010 06:16, schrieb Victor Lowther: >> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Dave Reisner >wrote: >>> Instead of checking for the existance of a file in /var/run/daemons >on >>> every iteration, handle the null case by setting nullglob. The shopt >>> call is done i

Re: [arch-general] Pacman's superslow

2010-09-09 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Dan McGee wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan >> wrote: >>> I have an OpenVZ VPS running arch. >>> For some reason pacman is superslow, and I'm not allowed to create/use >>>

Re: [arch-general] Pacman's superslow

2010-09-09 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> I have an OpenVZ VPS running arch. >> For some reason pacman is superslow, and I'm not allowed to create/use >> loopback devices. >> pacman-optimize takes nearly 5 minutes per run, n

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-09 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 09/09/10 14:11, Pierre Schmitz wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:55:35 +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Fess wrote: Page "Local mirros" was removed from wiki by this reason: - It is generally frowned upon to create a local mirror due the bandwidth that is r

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:55:35 +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Fess wrote: >> Page "Local mirros" was removed from wiki by this reason: >> >> - >> It is generally frowned upon to create a local mirror due the bandwidth that >> is required. >> There is not a goo

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-09 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Fess wrote: > Page "Local mirros" was removed from wiki by this reason: > > - > It is generally frowned upon to create a local mirror due the bandwidth that > is required. > There is not a good reason to create a local mirror, since one of the > alternatives b

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 4 .999.9beta_174_g41bc-1

2010-09-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:02:02 +0200, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 09.09.2010 11:55, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> this will hopefully the last update of xz for some time. :-) Maybe this >> is a sign for the final 5.0 version to be near. I am now using the (very >> strange) upstream versioning scheme. > >

[arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-09 Thread Fess
Page "Local mirros" was removed from wiki by this reason: - It is generally frowned upon to create a local mirror due the bandwidth that is required. There is not a good reason to create a local mirror, since one of the alternatives below will likely meet your needs. - I think it's very

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1

2010-09-09 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
On 9 September 2010 13:02, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 09.09.2010 11:55, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> this will hopefully the last update of xz for some time. :-) Maybe this >> is a sign for the final 5.0 version to be near. I am now using the (very >> strange) upstream versioning scheme. > > That's jus

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1

2010-09-09 Thread Florian Pritz
On 09.09.2010 11:55, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > this will hopefully the last update of xz for some time. :-) Maybe this > is a sign for the final 5.0 version to be near. I am now using the (very > strange) upstream versioning scheme. That's just git describe. -- signoff x86_64 -- Florian Pritz --

Re: [arch-general] distributed bugtracking?

2010-09-09 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 22:48, Aaron Schaefer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: >> anyone knows this? http://bugseverywhere.org/be/show/HomePage >> >> the concept looks great, although i don't know anything about the >> implementation/usage. > > > There's quite a fe

[arch-general] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.3-1

2010-09-09 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi bump to latest version, please signoff both arches, thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?

2010-09-09 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 03:25 +0100, Mario Figueiredo wrote: > I confess I'm baffled as to why upstream did this change, why it was > needed and if it actually was needed. > I can't seem to find anything about it in the online changelog > either. > Seems something completely arbitrary. Or an oversi