[arch-general] new TalkingArch ISOs available!
Hi all, I'm proud to announce the latest edition of my TalkingArch project. TalkingArch consists of modified Arch Linux ISO images, customized for the blind. Both Speakup and Brltty are provided. Assuming that there are no issues with your sound card, your machine should start speaking as soon as TalkingArch finishes booting. While it is typically used to install Arch Linux, it also makes a handy rescue CD. You may obtain TalkingArch from my website: http://the-brannons.com/tarch/. TalkingArch is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Arch Linux. I created it for my own personal use, although I sincerely hope that others will enjoy it. TalkingArch comes with absolutely no warranty. If it breaks, I'm sorry about your bad luck! -- Chris
Re: [arch-general] Replace dcron once again?
Florian Pritz bluew...@server-speed.net writes: It doesn't seem like dcron is maintained very well [1], so I think we should consider switching. FS#18681 [2] is quite a critical bug in a crond when everyone expects jobs to run only once. I'm never too thrilled about such changes, especially when they require my manual intervention. Either way, it won't kill me. The multiple-run issue is critical. I've also noticed skipped runs. For example, on one system, cron.hourly was running once every other hour. It did that for several weeks. Has anyone else had a look at the dcron code? I've been looking at it, to no avail. -- Chris
Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?
David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com writes: If there is somewhere to turn for help when I run into build issues I can't solve, then I wouldn't mind picking up a couple of packages so they can be kept current. What nobody needs when trying to help is to be lambasted for not being able to solve those types of problems -- I sure don't need it. If you are interested in an orphaned package, just adopt it. If you encounter some insurmountable obstacle, and you cannot get help, then disown it. AUR package maintainership is a very weak commitment, as commitments go. In other words, you aren't married to your AUR packages. -- Chris
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The Great Python Rebuild of 2010 begins
Rémy Oudompheng remyoudomph...@gmail.com writes: I have generated the attached quick-and-dirty list of safe packages from the wiki. There could be false positives, of course. ===begin list=== *SNIP* jython Actually, this doesn't need a rebuild at all. jython doesn't rely on the C implementation of Python for anything. It made the rebuild list, because some of the files in its standard library start with #!/usr/bin/python lines. Should I just flag it as done? *SNIP* python-foolscap This one installs things under /usr/lib/python2.6, so it doesn't belong in this list. *SNIP REST* ===end list=== -- Chris pgpTRDdyAVM1O.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The Great Python Rebuild of 2010 begins
Any updates regarding the creation of a [community-staging] repository? +1. Most of my packages are rebuilt; I'm just waiting to push. -- Chris
