[arch-general] In defense of pacman.static

2009-08-05 Thread Piyush P Kurur
Hi, This is my first posting on Arch-general. I am one of the recent converts to the Arch religion from the Debian religion. I am writing this in defense of the pacman.static package from archlinuxfr site. I have been running for Arch on a server, a laptop and an eeepc box for a while.

Re: [arch-general] soundcard order is not maintained after recent updates

2009-08-05 Thread Partha Chowdhury
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:15:27PM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 16:51, wrote: > > i have two soundcards. one is creative soundblaster live and the other > > is onboard nvidia soundcard. the kernel modules are snd-emu10k1x and > > snd-hda-intel respectively. Before the rece

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] How the use of "provides" can damage the dependency tree

2009-08-05 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Sonntag 02 August 2009 22:16:06 schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi: > >> Allan McRae wrote: >> >>> Pierre Schmitz wrote: >>> Am Sonntag 02 August 2009 11:26:51 schrieb Roman Kyrylych: > Okay, then how we currently check that subversion ne

Re: [arch-general] autofs orphaned

2009-08-05 Thread JM
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > JM wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have been using autofs with my local and remote filesystems for some >> time. With an update to version 5.0 numerous bugs were introduced >> forcing many users, including me, to downgrade. On May 2nd, Andrea >> Scra

Re: [arch-general] soundcard order is not maintained after recent updates

2009-08-05 Thread Roman Kyrylych
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 16:51, wrote: > i have two soundcards. one is creative soundblaster live and the other > is onboard nvidia soundcard. the kernel modules are snd-emu10k1x and > snd-hda-intel respectively. Before the recent updates i used to put > snd-emu10k1x before snd-hda-intel in /etc/rc.

[arch-general] no lzma man

2009-08-05 Thread Caleb Cushing
man lzma doesn't come up with anything although other lz* tools refer to an lzma man page -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

[arch-general] soundcard order is not maintained after recent updates

2009-08-05 Thread kira . laucas
i have two soundcards. one is creative soundblaster live and the other is onboard nvidia soundcard. the kernel modules are snd-emu10k1x and snd-hda-intel respectively. Before the recent updates i used to put snd-emu10k1x before snd-hda-intel in /etc/rc.conf in the MODULES array to force the soundb

Re: [arch-general] autofs orphaned

2009-08-05 Thread Allan McRae
JM wrote: Hello, I have been using autofs with my local and remote filesystems for some time. With an update to version 5.0 numerous bugs were introduced forcing many users, including me, to downgrade. On May 2nd, Andrea Scrapino who was the autofs maintainer at the time, orphaned the package an

[arch-general] autofs orphaned

2009-08-05 Thread JM
Hello, I have been using autofs with my local and remote filesystems for some time. With an update to version 5.0 numerous bugs were introduced forcing many users, including me, to downgrade. On May 2nd, Andrea Scrapino who was the autofs maintainer at the time, orphaned the package and asked on a

Re: [arch-general] What up with the mirrors? Errors using the .pacnew mirrorlist

2009-08-05 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
http://www.archlinux.org/news/456/ On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM, David C. > Rankin wrote: > > Err, OK, > > > >So I just need to comment out the kde-unstable entries in > pacman.conf, right? > > Or just delete them. As far as I know,