Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-05-03 Thread Rohan Dhruva
On 5/4/06, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/3/06, Rohan Dhruva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dont compare with any distro, it just gives some people > > here a reason to bash ubuntu and canonical, and not talk > > about the point itself. > > It's rather obvious you're referring to m

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-05-03 Thread Attila
On Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2006 23:25 Aaron Griffin wrote: > For one, Ubuntu is backed by Canonical. People get paid. I don't. I > still have to work 9 to 5 like any other stiff, and have other > commitments. I know for a fact 90% of the current developers are the > same way. There's not enough time

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-05-03 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 5/3/06, Rohan Dhruva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dont compare with any distro, it just gives some people > here a reason to bash ubuntu and canonical, and not talk > about the point itself. It's rather obvious you're referring to me. Can you please point out where I "bashed" Ubuntu and Canoni

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-05-03 Thread Rohan Dhruva
Well, guys, imo, the only mistake that Hussam made is comparing to ubuntu -- because he is right, python was out of date from a month. Hussam, next time just say they are out of date, dont compare with any distro, it just gives some people here a reason to bash ubuntu and canonical, and not talk ab

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-05-03 Thread James
On 5/4/06, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, this thread has gone on for a really long time. > > TomK has the proper approach here. I get that some packages are out > of date. Big deal, it happens alot. I haven't updated quodlibet in > about 3 days. Oh noes! Wut will we doo! > > T

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-05-03 Thread randy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Griffin wrote: > Wow, this thread has gone on for a really long time. > > TomK has the proper approach here. I get that some packages are out > of date. Big deal, it happens alot. I haven't updated quodlibet in > about 3 days. Oh noes! Wut w

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-05-03 Thread Aaron Griffin
Wow, this thread has gone on for a really long time. TomK has the proper approach here. I get that some packages are out of date. Big deal, it happens alot. I haven't updated quodlibet in about 3 days. Oh noes! Wut will we doo! The fact of the matter is that this thread was started because of

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-05-01 Thread Attila
On Montag, 1. Mai 2006 22:54 Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > No just the .desktop files. kde associates media files by default to noatun, > kaboodle and juk all of which I don't use since I prefer > kaffeine/amarok/xmms I have spoken from doing this with the not working apps from kdeadmin. > A better s

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-05-01 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > No just the .desktop files. kde associates media files by default to noatun, > kaboodle and juk all of which I don't use since I prefer kaffeine/amarok/xmms > > A better solution would be to split kdemultimedia into two packages. > 1. kdemultimedia ( containing vanilla kd

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-05-01 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Monday 01 May 2006 11:25 am, Attila wrote: > On Sonntag, 30. April 2006 21:14 Damir Perisa wrote: > > maybe we can disable them then? wish in bugs.archlinux.org? > > I'm not an expert in this case but perhaps for a short solution it will be > enough to delete the certain *.desktop files to elima

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-05-01 Thread Attila
On Sonntag, 30. April 2006 21:14 Damir Perisa wrote: > maybe we can disable them then? wish in bugs.archlinux.org? I'm not an expert in this case but perhaps for a short solution it will be enough to delete the certain *.desktop files to elimate the presentation of this non necessary programs in

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-30 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sunday 30 April 2006 10:14 pm, Damir Perisa wrote: > Sunday 30 April 2006 20:35, Attila wrote: > | > The reason I'm asking as some part of kdeadmin ( kpackage , > | > knerworkconf and ksysv ) are useless in archlinux. > | > | Yes, in arch you don't need them and i never start them.-) > > may

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-30 Thread Damir Perisa
Sunday 30 April 2006 20:35, Attila wrote: | > The reason I'm asking as some part of kdeadmin ( kpackage , | > knerworkconf and ksysv ) are useless in archlinux. | | Yes, in arch you don't need them and i never start them.-) maybe we can disable them then? wish in bugs.archlinux.org? - D --

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-30 Thread Attila
On Samstag, 29. April 2006 21:22 Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > The reason I'm asking as some part of kdeadmin ( kpackage , knerworkconf and > ksysv ) are useless in archlinux. Yes, in arch you don't need them and i never start them.-) > Also, in kdemultimedia ( naotun , kmid and kaboodle ) can be dis

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-30 Thread Jason Chu
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:51:37 +0300 Hussam Al-Tayeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 30 April 2006 8:22 pm, Jason Chu wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:44:44 +0100 > > > > Tom K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > > > > On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:43 pm, Tom K wrote: > >

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-30 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sunday 30 April 2006 8:22 pm, Jason Chu wrote: > On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:44:44 +0100 > > Tom K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > > > On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:43 pm, Tom K wrote: > > >> Rohan Dhruva wrote: > > >>> On 4/29/06, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-30 Thread Jason Chu
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:44:44 +0100 Tom K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > > On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:43 pm, Tom K wrote: > > > >> Rohan Dhruva wrote: > >> > >>> On 4/29/06, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > to most non-upgraded pkgs, there

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-30 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 13:58 +0530, Vinay S Shastry wrote: > Oi! > kdeadmin's kpackage etc _are_ being used by ppl like me.. > there are some packages that are easy to install from rpm.. say > staroffice - > the installer _needs_ rpm installed.. and having a frontend like > kpackage > makes it ve

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-30 Thread Tom K
Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > Last question. > How do I modify the PKGBUILD so that it will patch using the > file 'patch-v1.diff' after it uncompresses the source tarball? > Do I just add that under build() > patch -p0 < /path/to/patch-v1.diff > ? > > Yes, add the patch command to the build(). Yo

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-30 Thread Vinay S Shastry
On Sunday 30 April 2006 02:03, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > On Saturday 29 April 2006 10:48 pm, Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 22:22 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > > > The reason I'm asking as some part of kdeadmin ( kpackage , > > > knerworkconf and > > > ksysv ) are useless in archlin

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-30 Thread Philip Dillon-Thiselton
On 29/04/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2006 10:48 pm, Jan de Groot wrote:> On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 22:22 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:> > The reason I'm asking as some part of kdeadmin ( kpackage ,> > knerworkconf and > > ksysv ) are useless in archlinux.> > Also

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 29 April 2006 10:48 pm, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 22:22 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > > The reason I'm asking as some part of kdeadmin ( kpackage , > > knerworkconf and > > ksysv ) are useless in archlinux. > > Also, in kdemultimedia ( naotun , kmid and kaboodle ) ca

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Last question. How do I modify the PKGBUILD so that it will patch using the file 'patch-v1.diff' after it uncompresses the source tarball? Do I just add that under build() patch -p0 < /path/to/patch-v1.diff ? Also, how would I share my PKGBUILD for python 2.4.3 and tk/tcl 8.4.13 ? pgpF23sHPEbF

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 22:22 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > The reason I'm asking as some part of kdeadmin ( kpackage , > knerworkconf and > ksysv ) are useless in archlinux. > Also, in kdemultimedia ( naotun , kmid and kaboodle ) can be > disregarded if > kdemultimedia is split up because most o

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 29 April 2006 9:44 pm, Tom K wrote: > Yep, more than one package out of a tarball is possible. > > There's been discussion previously on splitting up KDE - do a search > here and on the forum for relevant threads. > > ___ > arch mailing list >

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Tom K
Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:43 pm, Tom K wrote: > >> Rohan Dhruva wrote: >> >>> On 4/29/06, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> to most non-upgraded pkgs, there is a reason, why they are not updated yet! >>> And the reason for

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Damir Perisa
Saturday 29 April 2006 19:04, Rohan Dhruva wrote: | On 4/29/06, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Saturday 29 April 2006 18:32, Rohan Dhruva wrote: | > | [...] Because no app would break, like in case of openssl. | > | > have you tried it? | | Yes. Just need to change the pkgver,

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:43 pm, Tom K wrote: > Rohan Dhruva wrote: > > On 4/29/06, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> to most non-upgraded pkgs, there is a reason, why they are not updated > >> yet! > > > > And the reason for not upgrading python since a month is ? Lazy devs ? > > Beca

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Rohan Dhruva
On 4/29/06, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saturday 29 April 2006 18:32, Rohan Dhruva wrote: > | [...] Because no app would break, like in case of openssl. > > have you tried it? Yes. Just need to change the pkgver, nothing else. It works perfect. Or atleast perfect for me, since I don

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Damir Perisa
Saturday 29 April 2006 18:32, Rohan Dhruva wrote: | [...] Because no app would break, like in case of openssl. have you tried it? - D -- We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. (Attributed to B.G., Gill Bates) pgprYBay0m5n8.pgp Description: PGP signature __

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Tom K
Rohan Dhruva wrote: > On 4/29/06, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> to most non-upgraded pkgs, there is a reason, why they are not updated >> yet! >> > > And the reason for not upgrading python since a month is ? Lazy devs ? > Because no app would break, like in case of openssl.

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Rohan Dhruva
On 4/29/06, Anders Bergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/29/06, Rohan Dhruva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, packages in arch are upgraded only by the dev team. > > So you're saying if I wrote a PKGBUILD for let's say Lua 5.1, and the > Lua package in Arch is at 5.0 I can't submit it to the ma

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Anders Bergh
On 4/29/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not, look in testing. > http://archlinux.org/packages.php?id=10859 > lua 5.1 Oooh, I didn't know, thanks! I thought I already was using testing, oh well. -- Anders ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.o

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Damir Perisa
Saturday 29 April 2006 17:05, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: | Ok thanks, I'll make packages for tcl, tk and python. After that, | where do I submit them + the respective PKGBUILDs for review? you can just tell everybody on the ML that they are ok in the new version and do not break anything. the main

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 29 April 2006 4:22 pm, Rohan Dhruva wrote: > On 4/29/06, Johannes Held <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > > would it be possible for me to package those programs and submit for > > review? > > No, packages in arch are upgraded only by the dev team. > > >[snip] > > S

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Damir Perisa
Saturday 29 April 2006 15:12, Johannes Held wrote: | Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: | > would it be possible for me to package those programs and submit | > for review? If yes, how? | > I haven't yet tried building archlinux packages yet as I have | > only been using arch for a month now. Before that,

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread James
On 4/30/06, Anders Bergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/29/06, Rohan Dhruva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, packages in arch are upgraded only by the dev team. > > So you're saying if I wrote a PKGBUILD for let's say Lua 5.1, and the > Lua package in Arch is at 5.0 I can't submit it to the ma

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Anders Bergh
On 4/29/06, Rohan Dhruva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, packages in arch are upgraded only by the dev team. So you're saying if I wrote a PKGBUILD for let's say Lua 5.1, and the Lua package in Arch is at 5.0 I can't submit it to the maintainers? Why not? I'm just wondering because to me it seem

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Rohan Dhruva
On 4/29/06, Johannes Held <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > would it be possible for me to package those programs and submit for review? No, packages in arch are upgraded only by the dev team. >[snip] > Simply use ABS. > do "abs" > then copy the whole direcory from /var/abs/..

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Johannes Held
Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > would it be possible for me to package those programs and submit for review? > If yes, how? > I haven't yet tried building archlinux packages yet as I have only been using > arch for a month now. Before that, I used to make a lot of rpm and deb > packages. Simply use AB

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
would it be possible for me to package those programs and submit for review? If yes, how? I haven't yet tried building archlinux packages yet as I have only been using arch for a month now. Before that, I used to make a lot of rpm and deb packages. pgp8tm6Nvf4zV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Tom K
Rohan Dhruva wrote: > On 4/29/06, Tom K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This comes up every now and then, and the answer is, as always, that the >> packages should be flagged out of date (python and openssl already are), >> and the devs will get to them when they get to them. If you're in a >> h

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Lim
On 4/29/06, Rohan Dhruva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Isnt it arch's motto to stay bleeding edge up to date ? > That would really depend on how u take the statement "We try to stay fairly bleeding edge, ..." - http://www.archlinux.org/about.php -jf _

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Rohan Dhruva
On 4/29/06, Tom K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This comes up every now and then, and the answer is, as always, that the > packages should be flagged out of date (python and openssl already are), > and the devs will get to them when they get to them. If you're in a > hurry, get the PKGBUILDs and any

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Damir Perisa
Saturday 29 April 2006 13:23, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: | Well, I don't want to create rivalry between distributions as | that's not really the spirit behind linux but I think we are | behind ubuntu in a couple of packages: | Both | Python 2.4.2 ( ubuntu has 2.4.3 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubu

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Lim
On 4/29/06, Tom K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This comes up every now and then, and the answer is, as always, that the > packages should be flagged out of date (python and openssl already are), > and the devs will get to them when they get to them. If you're in a > hurry, get the PKGBUILDs and a

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Tom K
Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > Well, I don't want to create rivalry between distributions as that's not > really the spirit behind linux but I think we are behind ubuntu in a couple > of packages: > Both > Python 2.4.2 ( ubuntu has 2.4.3 > http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python2.4/python

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Lim
i think if the packages are not too complicated, we could update the given PKGBUILDS to the latest version, and then pass them on to the maintainer to verify. That should help ease the workload on these guys a bit. -jf ___ arch mailing list arch@archlin

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Rohan Dhruva
On 4/29/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I don't want to create rivalry between distributions as that's not > really the spirit behind linux but I think we are behind ubuntu in a couple > of packages: > Both > Python 2.4.2 ( ubuntu has 2.4.3 I requested for python to be updat

[arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Well, I don't want to create rivalry between distributions as that's not really the spirit behind linux but I think we are behind ubuntu in a couple of packages: Both Python 2.4.2 ( ubuntu has 2.4.3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.3-0ubuntu4_i386.deb ) and