Re: [arch-general] [archboot] looking for 2012.08 beta testers
On 08/01/2012 08:28 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi, > please drop me an answer if you are interest in testing the next > archboot release. > > Thanks > greetings > tpowa > sure signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Cannot upgrade.
On 02/15/2012 10:18 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On 02/14/12 at 11:49pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> The pacman upgrade didn't cause trouble here. When I run pacman -Syu the >> first time, only pacman was shown. Directly after installing it I run >> pacman -Syu again and there where 5 targets. >> >> # ntpdate ntp.favey.ch >> 14 Feb 23:34:30 >> # pacman -Syu >> :: Synchronizing package databases... >> core >> extra >> community >> multilib >> archaudio-production is up to date >> archaudio-preview is up to date >> kxstudio-free >> kxstudio-free is up to date >> kxstudio-non-fre >> kxstudio-non-free is up to date >> arch-fonts is up to date >> archaudio-nightly is up to date >> archaudio-experimental is up to date > Dude, what are these extra repos for? Can you tell me how to include them in > my > pacman.conf? > Thanks. One REALLY has to wonder about the wisdom of a statment like that.. What are those repos for... i want them.. REALLY?? why would you want them/need to know how to include them if you have no idea what they are for. Just my 2 cents signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.2-1
On 01/06/2012 01:39 PM, Laurent Carlier wrote: > 2012/1/5 Tobias Powalowski > >> Hi guys, >> please signoff 3.2 series for both arches. >> >> Upstream >> changes: >> http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges >> >> greetings >> tpowa >> -- >> Tobias Powalowski >> Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) >> http://www.archlinux.org >> tp...@archlinux.org >> >> > No sign off here, wifi on my laptop doesn't work anymore. > > It seem the driver brcmsmac (chipset broadcom) isn't available, reverting > to 3.1.6 fixes the problem. > > ++ > I don't have/use it (brcmsmac) so can't verify; but was just reading this an hour or so before read your mail.. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27844? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] reiserfsprogs 3.6.21-4
On 11/18/2011 12:46 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > hi all, > > there is a simple rebuild waiting for signoffs in testing. As this > packages does not have a single signoff since two weeks I am calling out > to everybody (Dev, TU and users) using it. Just let me know if the > package still does its intended job. > > Greetings, > > Pierre > reiserfstune, reiserfsck and resize_reiserfs work as expected here. Signoff both archs JB signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] moving cups 1.5.0 to extra
On 09/01/2011 11:48 PM, Andreas Radke wrote: > New cups is sitting in testing now for some time. No bug reports so > far. It works fine for me. Any objections moving this to extra? > > -Andy > works flawlessly here also (x86_64) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] b43-fwcutter-015
On 08/30/2011 12:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > bump to latest version. > Please signoff both arches, > > greetings > tpowa Signoff x64_64 Still extracts/installs as expected. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.88-1
On 08/22/2011 01:41 AM, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Dave Reisner > wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:13:45PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.88-1 are in testing for upstream >>> update. Please test and signoff. >>> >>> Eric >> >> I can still boot. Signoff x86_64. >> >> dave >> > > Bump. Anyone for i686? > Signoff i686 since no one else will. :D
Re: [arch-general] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.87-1
On 08/13/2011 04:35 PM, Eric Bélanger wrote: > Hi, > > device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.87-1 are now in testing for an upstream > update. Please test and signoff. Signoffs from users are welcomed. > > Thanks, > Eric > Re-build, Re-booted, Re-porting all well. Signoff X86_64
Re: [arch-general] mpop & msmtp
On 08/02/2011 06:30 AM, Bastien Dejean wrote: > Dwight Schauer a écrit : > >>> On 02/08/11 18:52, Bastien Dejean wrote: Why is there an official arch pkg for msmtp but not for mpop? >> Because something like fetchmail does the same thing as mpop? > > It seems there are plenty reasons to prefer mpop over fetchmail: > http://mpop.sourceforge.net/comparison.html > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6917
Re: [arch-general] extra/libkipi conflicts with Trinity libkipi - How? (one is in /usr one in /opt/kde)
On 08/01/2011 02:13 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
> The kde4 updates today conflict with Trinity libkipi. I can't figure
> out why?
>
> :: libkipi and kdemod3-libkipi are in conflict. Remove kdemod3-libkipi?
> [y/N]
> error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
>
> Trinity 3.5.12 installs libkipi in /opt/kde, while KDE4
> (ABS-extra/libkipi) installs in /usr -- so why is pacman throwing a
> conflict?
>
> 15:03 providence:~> pmql kdemod3-libkipi
> /opt/
> /opt/kde/
> /opt/kde/include/
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/batchprogressdialog.h
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagecollection.h
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagecollectionselector.h
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagecollectionshared.h
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagedialog.h
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imageinfo.h
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imageinfoshared.h
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/interface.h
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/libkipi_export.h
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/plugin.h
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/pluginloader.h
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/uploadwidget.h
> /opt/kde/include/libkipi/version.h
> /opt/kde/lib/
> /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.la
> /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.so
> /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.so.0
> /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.so.0.1.1
> /opt/kde/lib/pkgconfig/
>
>
> [15:11 providence:/home/david/tmp/libkipi] # cat PKGBUILD
> # $Id: PKGBUILD 132586 2011-07-25 00:13:06Z andrea $
> # Maintainer: Andrea Scarpino
>
> pkgname=libkipi
> pkgver=4.7.0
>
> build() {
> cd "${srcdir}"
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake ../${pkgname}-${pkgver} \
> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
> make
> }
>
> [15:11 providence:/home/david/tmp/libkipi] # cat libkipi.install
> post_install() {
> xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor &> /dev/null
> }
>
>
> Anybody see where the conflict could be?
>
It not where it installs that conflicts... it's WHAT it installs...
from kdemod3-libkipi pkgbuild
conflicts=('libkipi')
looks like conflict to me.
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The need for /lib64 - testing please
On 06/30/2011 10:48 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi all, > > I was looking at the /lib64 folder and wondering what it is really > needed for... It just seems clutter to me on a pure x86_64 system (or > even with a multilib in lib32 folders like we have). As far as I can > tell, most things are perfectly fine without that folder and its two > symlinks. > > I would like some help testing removing this so I can get an idea of > what issues people run into. There is bound to be some software that > makes assumptions about /lib64 in its installation and I would like to > know (a) how widespread that issue is and (b) how hard it is to work > around. > > If you want to try it out, just remove the /lib64 folder (after making > sure it only has symlinks to ld-2.13.so and ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 in it. > Run your system as usual for a while and report any issues you come across. > > Thanks, > Allan > removed and anxious to see results. i DO have mutlilib enabled/used fwiw. JB
Re: [arch-general] Systemd! [WAS: arch-dev-public] Welcoming Dave Reisner to the dev staff
On 06/21/2011 04:33 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Dan McGee wrote: >> Please welcome Dave to our development team. He has been a frequent >> contributor (and reviewer of patches!) to Pacman, has been a TU for a >> little bit, and has taken initiative on a lot of >> initscripts/mkinitcpio/systemd type stuff. I think I've given him all >> the right permissions and such, and signed him up for the relevant >> mailing lists. >> >> -Dan >> > > Systemd to come? =) > Congrats.. Hell of an addition to Devs IMO
Re: [arch-general] how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/2011 08:06 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system following > instructions provided on this page 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ > GNOME#Base'. As you can see it reads: > > "Install the base GNOME desktop" > > # pacman -S gnome > > And then: "This is a meta-package; which is a group of packages. An > option will be given to install all or some of the packages in this > group." > > When I run the command above, the list of all files in group is displayed > and the only option given to me is to answer Y/N to install the entire > list of packages, that I would like to avoid. > > I've read through man pacman carefully a couple of times and I've not > found any option allowing to filter out undesirable file/s while > installing a group. Tried to search arch wiki without any success. > > Could anybody provide me with a hint here, please? > > > Best option RIGHT NOW is to pacman -Sg gnome and then manually pacman - -Suy pkgfoo pkgbar pkgyetanother of the ones you want from the list. A future update of pacman will (hopefully :D) re-introuduce/fix the group action for installing. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNNl70AAoJEFQ8wHCGr8hkUg8H+wQqSr3R4fjmHrm22Cy1pWm4 smLPKGrO3shdJjIRkKmTvVjBgTRoD5+7i7XReUjhe/bTXC808vjcR8xj9ajXqvT5 eDWdSXT/ANUJMp2Canc1d5mGFw9e59tp3UXOkqNNmI2xRQNbx/guNBtuqB1OEqRQ UUnbOzz2hAhddP21F9Uq5AD3mHl7kqjVe3ji9DAOEp3mPYcVZv1mtBD26ts6G9KE 9d7dSRg0KRDvnJMED+ikOpMhSsJRvellpmw2yt+hMPc2itSUrCso9dS2LuZ+wGA7 GoGI4YCHW3riuP8QP4NzGN0Q6lMGLKcJGbn8177s1W0eCt9v2+xaviySq0cAlF0= =Ac/R -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [arch-general] Ye Olde Package Manager
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On 01/16/2011 12:43 PM, Brendan Long wrote:
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> In general, if I need to make a package, I copy
> a random PKGBUILD from abs, change the top couple lines, and then set
> the build section to:
>
Now sure why you would copy a existing (possibly O.O.D.) PKGBUILD when
you have options like newpkg OR just copy
/usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD{-*}.proto that fits your needs.
Just my whinny, unasked for observation/comments.
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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] reiserfsprogs-3.6.21-3
On 12/19/2010 05:31 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 04/12/10 22:34, Allan McRae wrote: >> Rebuild and tidy of old package. >> >> Signoff both, >> Allan >> > > > Anyone. User signoffs are all good too. > > reiserfstune and reiserfsck still work fine here... Signoff both archs
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.73-1
On 09/06/2010 01:47 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 06.09.2010 21:30, schrieb jwbirdsong: >> On 09/06/2010 11:29 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >>> Upstream update, please sign off. >>> >> >> Can still boot to my LVM root so signoff x86_64. > > Did you recreate your initramfs for the test? > Yes I did, sorry should have included that.
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.73-1
On 09/06/2010 11:29 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Upstream update, please sign off. > Can still boot to my LVM root so signoff x86_64.
Re: [arch-general] Inclusion of wvdial in the ISO
On 06/25/2010 11:54 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, Recently I've been going to my friends' house and installing arch on their boxes. Some of them had high speed wireless dialup internet (3.1 megabytes/s is the max) which required wvdial, so I had to carry wvdial's package in another pen drive. It would be nice if wvdial was included in the ISO, so such people can have the latest system if they conduct an FTP install. Maybe CC a copy of this to the arch-releng ML. Oh wait I just did. And perhaps add a feature request to the Release Eng bug tracker/
Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra
On 06/20/2010 09:13 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 21/06/10 13:04, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 06/21/2010 02:31 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke wrote: Andreas Radke wrote: This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. After upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored. Documentation about this change can be found on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 Nvidia-173xx and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ ___ arch-announce mailing list arch-annou...@archlinux.org http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ? Not for X. You may still need it for other things... Allan Most notabaly KDE and Thunar
Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?
On 06/16/2010 10:06 AM, Nicky726 wrote: Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:17:44 +0200 From: ?yvind Heggstad On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:47:16 +0530 Gaurish Sharma wrote: Hi, I think Nvidia still does not work with 1.8 Regards, Gaurish Sharma The last I heard was that the devs are waiting for the legazy nvidia drivers to be updated. (nvidia-173xx/96xx) Uh... to hell with nvidia, there is nouveau... and if I remember correctly noone did wait for the catalyst. no offence ment, just the blob and stuff... Nicky Ignore my previous post... I should have look at the legacy drives which is < 1% My bad.
Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?
On 06/16/2010 10:06 AM, Nicky726 wrote: Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:17:44 +0200 From: ?yvind Heggstad On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:47:16 +0530 Gaurish Sharma wrote: Hi, I think Nvidia still does not work with 1.8 Regards, Gaurish Sharma The last I heard was that the devs are waiting for the legazy nvidia drivers to be updated. (nvidia-173xx/96xx) Uh... to hell with nvidia, there is nouveau... and if I remember correctly noone did wait for the catalyst. no offence ment, just the blob and stuff... Nicky According to pkgstats extra/nvidia is used by 55.52% of submitting users. Pretty large group to discount out of hand IMHO.
Re: [arch-general] Games for Linux !
On 05/28/2010 11:41 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: This mailing list is only for discussing problems. Besides we use arch-games repo ;) On 5/28/10, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi all, It seems there are lot of games for Linux we're not aware of because most of the times we stick to our distribution's repository. I remembered mario that I used to play on console about 8 years ago, so a Google search revealed megamario. All who wish to play games for entertainment check this - http://linux.softpedia.com/get/GAMES-ENTERTAINMENT/ This should suffice for normal gamers. For hard core gamers, it won't. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com Sorry then. There's one such repo too ?? I never knew that LOL having been using arch for almost eight months ! http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82380 http://archlinux-gaming.org/projects/gaming-repo/wiki/Mirrors
Re: [arch-general] testing xorg packages may not be nvidia friendly
On 05/13/2010 04:54 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:47 -0500, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Caleb Cushingwrote: I tried installing testing on a box running nvidia drivers that I have at school. X didn't come up. I don't know why and didn't really investigate (as I was really testing to see if my box at home had an env issue seems it does). using nvidia-173xx-utils -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com Nvidia has not released a driver for xorg 1.8 in regards to a legacy driver. The only one working so far afaik is the 'nvidia' driver itself. This is one thing preventing 1.8 moving out of testing. As well as nvidia-beta. Though that's not in the repos. Just for completeness. AUR's nvidia-beta== 195.36.24 (same as nvidia in testing)
Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?
On 05/09/2010 12:35 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 08/05/10 23:11, Matěj Týč wrote: What's wrong with that pacmatic functionality that shomehow tries to solve this, since it is not implemented in pacman? pacmantic's functionality is Arch specific while pacman is not. Message 29 in a thread that had the initial question answered in post #2... :) Touché Glad someone said it.
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] bridge-utils 1.4-3
On 04/24/2010 06:14 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 19/04/10 17:03, Allan McRae wrote: Last rebuild was over a year ago. Signoff both, Allan Anyone? User signoffs are fine. Signoff x86_64
Re: [arch-general] HAL depreciation
On 03/16/2010 10:54 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Ty John wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:08:22 +0530 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: USB mice have worked without hal for a long time. It's just hotplugging that won't work. Well, I recently copied /etc/group.pacnew to /etc/group which didn't have the hal and gdm groups. HAL didn't start, and when I started KDE (xinit startkde) or GDM or KDM, neither keyboard nor mouse worked. After adding hal group, it worked fine, since HAL started succesfully. But did you put it in your xorg.conf file? What to put ? in addition to what Ty posted there is also http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Get_All_Mouse_Buttons_Working that has some pointers
Re: [arch-general] groupmod / pam bug - Arch hit by http://bugs.gentoo.org/300790
On 03/01/2010 02:29 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 11:32:15AM -0700, jwbirdsong wrote: Patch shadow your self w/ aforementioned gentoo patch. works fine after building w/ the patch. (maybe a completely stupid question) Is there a systematic way to get the source version of an Arch package ? Searching AUR for '' turns up niente. Ciao, Also check out community/pkgtools which has pkgfile $ pkgfile -s /usr/sbin/groupmod core/shadow
Re: [arch-general] groupmod / pam bug - Arch hit by http://bugs.gentoo.org/300790
On 02/28/2010 03:23 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 02/28/2010 03:45 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, Two things "Wohoo, I'm free! - last home server moved to Arch!" and second, Arch has the same bug in the source of shadow src/groupmod.c that renders groupmod unusable with pam enabled: [15:23 nirvana:/home/david] # groupmod -g1060 david groupmod: Cannot determine your user name. [15:25 nirvana:/home/david] # groupmod -nskyline david groupmod: Cannot determine your user name. The gentoo guys have a patch to fix it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/300790 I apologize if this has already been brought to your attention. Let me know if you want me to open a ticket. Quick Question: How do we change group information while this bug is there? Do we disable pam or do we just edit /etc/group in the interim? Patch shadow your self w/ aforementioned gentoo patch. works fine after building w/ the patch.
