Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [prerelease] initscripts-2011.09.2-1

2011-09-29 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 30/09/11 00:00, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> Towards read only /etc: >> * /etc/profile.d/locale.sh is now a static file, rather than being >> generated on every boot (this means we need to use -f when updating) > Please do not encourage using -f

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:54:51PM +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > As a somewhat hackish workaround there's the gconf-no-polkit package in > AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41983 > Works well enough for me. I also need gconf for a single package only. Good tip, thanks. But I'd r

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:55:25PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > This makes no sense.  I don't mind if they use their own sticks > > on their own laptop. I do if they use it one this particular > > machine. > > This is surely a very uncommon scenario. It is easily solved by > tweaking the PK po

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Tavian Barnes
On 29 September 2011 06:55, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> >>> What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if >>> I understand correctly, is that udisks all

[arch-general] [signoff] nfs-utils 1.2.5-1

2011-09-29 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, please signoff nfs-utils, upstream release - enabled now libmount support https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26129 greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digi

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Fons Adriaensen's message of 2011-09-29 12:36:30 +0200: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > > What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if > > I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically > > at the m

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-29 12:35:56 +0200: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Philipp Überbacher > wrote: > > Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-28 20:55:30 +0200: > >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher > >> wrote: > >> > meanwhile and pro

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > >> What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if >> I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically >> at the machine to mount

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Fons Adriaensen's message of 2011-09-29 12:36:30 +0200: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > > What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if > > I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically > > at the m

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Martti Kühne
Well from what I know from my days back with $certainotherdistro, PK mounts local drives in /media and remote drives in ~/.gvfs . currently I use mount(8) manually, since I don't use a big DE nor filebrowser (IMO too many of them make use of stuff like this) and wouldn't make use of this additional

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if > I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically > at the machine to mount the usb drive, but not remote users. > > This makes sense for t

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-28 20:55:30 +0200: >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher >> wrote: >> > meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit >> > requires consolekit

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 22:52:42 +0200: > Am 28.09.2011 14:33, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: > > Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 13:14:06 +0200: > >> Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: > >>> Hi there, > >>> I use netcfg for my university wlan (edur

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-28 20:55:30 +0200: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher > wrote: > > meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit > > requires consolekit and both mean configuration and maintenance trouble. > > Just a qu

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Yet some Gnome/KDE desktop apps are able to mount even when > running for a normal user, when PK agrees (which in my eyes > is a subvertion of a policy set by the sysadmin). How do they > do this if neither 'mount' nor the syscalls used by

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:14:24PM -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Sep 28, 2011 3:53 PM, "Tom Gundersen" wrote: > > The way it works is that both the frontend (the unprivileged process, > > e.g. the GUI for setting your timezone) and the backend (the > > privileged process, e.g. the app th

Re: [arch-general] Enable FLTK Octave backend?

2011-09-29 Thread Stefano Avallone
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 16:43:59 Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Stefano Avallone wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I read in the Octave documentation [1] that a newer (than gnuplot) > > plotting capability is provided by the FLTK/OpenGL backend. This new > > backend is not av