Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Re: dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this! (possible Bug on Delete)

2009-06-23 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 22 June 2009 02:56:17 pm Jan de Groot wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 14:48 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: Huh??? Why wasn't nvidia_ecaejfdip9 deactivated. I have deleted the partition in cfdisk, tried to activate it (y) and deactivate it (n) and still it is there. Is

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-23 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 22 June 2009 03:05:29 pm David C. Rankin wrote: On Monday 22 June 2009 11:06:37 am David Rosenstrauch wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Devs: I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will disagree, but

Re: [arch-general] Presto for pacman?

2009-06-23 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 22 June 2009 03:09:14 am Allan McRae wrote: Magnus Therning wrote: Is there something similar to Yum Presto[1] for pacman? Would it be possible to do, or are there limitations in the package format that prevents it? /M [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Presto

Re: [arch-general] New Conflict on System Upgrade - license? pear? vi?

2009-06-23 Thread Allan McRae
David C. Rankin wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2009 06:55:24 pm Thomas Bächler wrote: David C. Rankin schrieb: Listmates, Here are some strange conflicts found during an attempted system update. Thankfully they are limited to the license package, pear and vi: (269/269) checking for

Re: [arch-general] Presto for pacman?

2009-06-23 Thread Xavier
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, David C. Rankindrankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Excellent,        Two thoughts. (1) delta rpms are great for download size, but computationally expensive on the client side for reinstalls or multiple machine updates, so (2) if possible, can an option

Re: [arch-general] Presto for pacman?

2009-06-23 Thread Maik Beckmann
Xavier schrieb am Dienstag 23 Juni 2009 um 09:47: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, David C. Rankindrankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Excellent, Two thoughts. (1) delta rpms are great for download size, but computationally expensive on the client side for reinstalls or multiple

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-23 Thread Xavier
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:06 PM, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Devs:        I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will disagree, but personally I wouldn't suggest upgrading your

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-23 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:14 +0200, Xavier wrote: The only problem is that you can not always upgrade just one package. Sometimes you also need to upgrade a set of related packages. And in case of big rebuild, that set might be the whole testing repo. As long as you are skilled enough to

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-23 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Jan de Grootj...@jgc.homeip.net wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:14 +0200, Xavier wrote: The only problem is that you can not always upgrade just one package. Sometimes you also need to upgrade a set of related packages. And in case of big rebuild, that set

Re: [arch-general] Presto for pacman?

2009-06-23 Thread Andrei Thorp
Excellent, Two thoughts. (1) delta rpms are great for download size, but computationally expensive on the client side for reinstalls or multiple machine updates, so (2) if possible, can an option be retained to enable/disable use of deltarpms for folks that would like to have

Re: [arch-general] Presto for pacman?

2009-06-23 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 08:34:53 am Andrei Thorp wrote: Excellent, Two thoughts. (1) delta rpms are great for download size, but computationally expensive on the client side for reinstalls or multiple machine updates, so (2) if possible, can an option be retained to

[arch-general] AUR Search

2009-06-23 Thread Andrei Thorp
Hello there! Today, I'd like to be all complainy about the AUR search feature. I haven't really looked around, but are there plans to improve it? Or is the solution just use google with site://? It seems to be kind of bad at finding stuff. Some examples: - Can't search by description (well, it

Re: [arch-general] Presto for pacman?

2009-06-23 Thread Andrei Thorp
Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of Tue Jun 23 16:49:13 -0400 2009: On Tuesday 23 June 2009 08:34:53 am Andrei Thorp wrote: Excellent, Two thoughts. (1) delta rpms are great for download size, but computationally expensive on the client side for reinstalls or multiple

[arch-general] 2.6.30 kernel

2009-06-23 Thread Baho Utot
I have completed to setup my new 64-bit system. This new kernel solved some slow down in the open source radeonhd grapihcs driver as it is on par with the open source ati driver... large improvement. I am now going to install the 32-bit arch version on this machine also. I have looked into

[arch-general] HELP: dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing - Possible Bug: All Partitions are GONE??

2009-06-23 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 22 June 2009 05:30:20 pm Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: David, you can run dmraid -an after closing (e.g. unmounting) nvidia_ecaejfdip9, which ain't work now any more, because you already deleted the partition. It'll of course not reappear on reboot. dmsetup remove nvidia_ecaejfdip9

Re: [arch-general] AUR Search

2009-06-23 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Andrei Thorpgar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there! Today, I'd like to be all complainy about the AUR search feature. I haven't really looked around, but are there plans to improve it? Or is the solution just use google with site://? It seems to be kind of bad

[arch-general] Update to latest [kde-unstable] - It is looking good!, HAL/d-bus/PolicyKit Change?

2009-06-23 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, Couple of thoughts for this day. Latest updates come with the following praise and questions: (1) kde4.3 beta 2 (4.2.92svn984151-1) - Wow, much crisper, behaving ...well, like it should. Even with the radeonhd driver it feels better than (4.2.90 with fglrx on suse)! (2)

Re: [arch-general] AUR Search

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel J Griffiths
Andrei Thorp wrote: Hello there! Today, I'd like to be all complainy about the AUR search feature. I haven't really looked around, but are there plans to improve it? Or is the solution just use google with site://? It seems to be kind of bad at finding stuff. Some examples: - Can't search by

Re: [arch-general] 2.6.30 kernel

2009-06-23 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 23 Jun 2009 17:10 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: I have completed to setup my new 64-bit system. This new kernel solved some slow down in the open source radeonhd grapihcs driver as it is on par with the open source ati driver... large improvement. I am now going to install the 32-bit arch

Re: [arch-general] AUR Search

2009-06-23 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 23 Jun 2009 17:00 -0400, Andrei Thorp wrote: Today, I'd like to be all complainy about the AUR search feature. I haven't really looked around, but are there plans to improve it? Or is the solution just use google with site://? Good to hear someone's thinking about AUR. :D It seems to

Re: [arch-general] portable player, usb plugging/mounting problems

2009-06-23 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Sergey Manucharian serg...@rmico.comwrote: A friend of mine has such a player, and he has problems mounting it in Windows, but never in Linux :) Well.. I don't use windows, so I can't tell anything about that =P Thunar volman easily recognizes it, even if

Re: [arch-general] Holy Cow -- What happened to bash / vi??

2009-06-23 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: snip I get this new message: [00:08 archangel:/etc] # noc fstab bash: /usr/local/bin/noc: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Text file busy snip Text file busy?? It's a text file, it's not busy, it's either saved

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [announcement] kernel26 2.6.30 announcement draft

2009-06-23 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Andreas Radke a.ra...@arcor.de wrote: Am Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:54:01 +0200 schrieb Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de: Am Sonntag 21 Juni 2009 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: On Sunday 21 June 2009 22:38:25 Tobias Powalowski wrote: - added SCHED_DEBUG=y What

Re: [arch-general] portable player, usb plugging/mounting problems

2009-06-23 Thread Slash
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Guilherme M. Nogueirag.maionogue...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still looking for the awnswer. It shows it as being assigned to /dev/sdc. What's the output if you try to mount it manually? Does fdisk -l /dev/sdc show the partitions? Are you using rockbox? It's a pretty

Re: [arch-general] Update to latest [kde-unstable] - It is looking good!, HAL/d-bus/PolicyKit Change?

2009-06-23 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 23 Jun 2009 16:32 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Couple of thoughts for this day. Latest updates come with the following praise and questions: (1) kde4.3 beta 2 (4.2.92svn984151-1) - Wow, much crisper, behaving ...well, like it should. Even with the radeonhd

Re: [arch-general] HELP: dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing - Possible Bug: All Partitions are GONE??

2009-06-23 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 04:20:51 pm David C. Rankin wrote: big snip Now this is very scary looking. The sdb[5-8] and sdd[5-8] partitions are GONE?? (Bummer..) Obviously, I can no longer boot archlinux?? Listmates, Is there a way I can boot from the install media and then

Re: [arch-general] HELP: dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing - Possible Bug: All Partitions are GONE??

2009-06-23 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Mittwoch 24 Juni 2009 schrieb David C. Rankin: On Tuesday 23 June 2009 04:20:51 pm David C. Rankin wrote: big snip Now this is very scary looking. The sdb[5-8] and sdd[5-8] partitions are GONE?? (Bummer..) Obviously, I can no longer boot archlinux?? Listmates, Is there a