Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
I see, so I can continue upgrading the system. This time, I only want to upgrade the system, and rebuild the kernel. When I need other operations, I will backup all data first. I will continue posting, thank you! Renzhi Cao Email : rc...@mail.missouri.edu http://web.missouri.edu/~rcrg4/ ___

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 17:49 +, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) wrote: > > By the way, I am thinking the upgrading process will only influence > > the system, not my data partition. I still need suggestions, am I > > think that correct? Or lack of experience. > > Correct, but accidents happen, so _

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Ok, I have about 2T data there, I need to go by a external disk to back up the data, and then updating the system. Thank you so much! Renzhi Cao From: arch-general on behalf of Ralf Mardorf Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2014 11:56 AM To: arch-general@arc

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 17:49 +, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) wrote: > By the way, I am thinking the upgrading process will only influence > the system, not my data partition. I still need suggestions, am I > think that correct? Or lack of experience. Correct, but accidents happen, so _backup_ your

Re: [arch-general] Move from libjpeg-turbo to mozjpeg

2014-03-08 Thread N30N
> -1. > > mozjpeg offers slightly improved compression at the cost of up to > x10 increase in compression time (*). It may be something to > consider later if they manage to improve the speed although they > expect that it will always remain slower than libjpeg-turbo. As I quoted befo

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
I never think in this way, thank you so much, I like your idea. Now, I will first try to fix this computer, and I have another computer, now is in XP system, I plan to install a arch linux there :) Thank you! Renzhi Cao Email : rc...@mail.missouri.edu

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Dear Kinney: Thank you so much! I already learn a lot since my system crash. I would like to thank all people helping me or giving me any suggestions. If I choose re-install at the beginning based on the wiki instruction, I will not learn anything through that. I plan to try reinst

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 12:40 -0500, Kinney Baughman wrote: > you could already have a new box up and running, one that > you can be sure is trim and solid and you will not learn something useful, if you try to repair your broken install. You will learn what to do and forget what you learned, becau

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Kinney Baughman
On 03/08/2014 11:53 AM, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) wrote: Hi, I can reinstall the system any time, but I can learn more when trying to fix the problem. Thank you very much! Ah. Sorry. I didn't read this before I posted. But I will say this while I'm here. Yes. You can learn a lot by

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Kinney Baughman
On 03/08/2014 01:13 AM, Bigby James wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 03:56:28AM +, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) wrote: I plan to use : dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 2>&1 | grep GRUB dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 2>&1 | grep LILO to check the bootloader I have. I am really new to arch linux, but I

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Hi, I can reinstall the system any time, but I can learn more when trying to fix the problem. Thank you very much! Renzhi Cao Email : rc...@mail.missouri.edu From: arch-general on behalf of Bigby James Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2014 12:13 AM T

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-08 Thread Stephen Martin
If you want to use arch in a server environment, you should probably use your own repo to be safe. Have a testing machine be on rolling release. When that machine is stable, push its packages to a private repo and update your server via the private repo. > Thank guys for the reply! > > > On

Re: [arch-general] Move from libjpeg-turbo to mozjpeg

2014-03-08 Thread N30N
> I don't see any point in forking here. It's not just a one off patch, they are planning additional features and improvements (some of which are listed on the issue tracker). Also being on github lowers the barrier for contributions. So I think forking is understandable.

Re: [arch-general] Move from libjpeg-turbo to mozjpeg

2014-03-08 Thread N30N
> > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mozjpeg/ > > When you take the existing libjpeg-turbo PKGBUILD, change a few lines, > and remove the Contributor/Maintainer tags altogether, you're not > showing much respect for the community. Apologies, that was not my intentions (this has be corrected).

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD any way to create pkg-A & pkg-A-test that install w/o conflict

2014-03-08 Thread LoneVVolf
On 08-03-14 06:18, David C. Rankin wrote: All, Is it possible to create multiple packages that have different package names but are the same package (with different patches) and have them install without conflict? (for testing) Currently I'm testing systemd patches for pkg 'tde-tdebase'. I b

Re: [arch-general] Move from libjpeg-turbo to mozjpeg

2014-03-08 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am 08.03.2014 04:32, schrieb N30N: > Hi there, > > Mozilla have made a fork of the libjpeg-turbo package called mozjpeg, > which features improved encoding: > https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/03/05/introducing-the-mozjpeg-project/ > > I'd like to propose making the switch. The "library conf