[arch-general] (groff+)ghostscript/us letter/paper size problems

2009-11-08 Thread Mike Bishop
I have just spent a happy hour PULLING MY HAIR OUT over misformatted troff documents on my printers ... which printed perfectly several months ago. The problem is that recent versions of ghostscript will (often) assume a4 paper size, regardless of /etc/paper. This applies after ghostscript 8.6

[arch-general] [wlan-ng26-utils] should be removed from repos.

2009-11-08 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Hello There is an open issue: FS#12979 - [wlan-ng26-utils] doesn't build from ABS [#1] An acording to upstream: http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-announce/2009-August/000102.html "With prism2_usb in the mainline kernel for a couple of releases now, the mainline kernel now support

[arch-general] kde4 kleopatra dependency missing when installed

2009-11-08 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Just a note. When you install kde4, the kleopatra certificate is installed without the needed dependency 'dirmngr'. When you first run kleopatra, you will get the error. Do you want me to open a ticket, or is this email enough? Let me know. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Re: [arch-general] Trouble with RaLink RT2561/RT61

2009-11-08 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Bram Schoenmakers (2009-11-08 22:05): > Hello, > > >From time to time, my network shows some poor performance. My 64 bit > Arch Linux box is connected with a wireless connections with a RaLink > RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI, the system is up-to-date. The symptoms are: <..> > Could it be a driver issue?

[arch-general] Trouble with RaLink RT2561/RT61

2009-11-08 Thread Bram Schoenmakers
Hello, >From time to time, my network shows some poor performance. My 64 bit Arch Linux box is connected with a wireless connections with a RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI, the system is up-to-date. The symptoms are: * Looking up a website takes very long, or it will never load at all. Only in Chr

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Priit Kivisoo schrieb: Neither selinux nor ACL have anything to do with this options. Read man 5 attr. "They are often used to provide additional functionality to a filesystem - for example, additional security features such as Access Control Lists (ACLs) may be implemented using extended attr

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Priit Kivisoo
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Priit Kivisoo schrieb: > > I just got a little worried though. Is there any reason for user_xattr not >>> being enabled by default? >>> >>> >> I think it's because Arch doesn't use SELinux by default, as it's mostly >> for >> ACLs. >> > > N

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
André Ramaciotti da Silva schrieb: I'm sorry, I think I wasn't very clear in my question. It isn't the default in Arch Linux because it isn't the default upstream, Probably because we just set "defaults" in fstab and let the user worry about the rest. but why it isn't the default upstream?

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Priit Kivisoo schrieb: I just got a little worried though. Is there any reason for user_xattr not being enabled by default? I think it's because Arch doesn't use SELinux by default, as it's mostly for ACLs. Neither selinux nor ACL have anything to do with this options. Read man 5 attr.

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:23:11PM +0200, Priit Kivisoo wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:14 PM, André Ramaciotti da Silva < > andre.ramacio...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thank you Thomas and Xavier. > > > > I just got a little worried though. Is there any reason for user_xattr not > > being enabled

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
André Ramaciotti da Silva schrieb: Thank you Thomas and Xavier. I just got a little worried though. Is there any reason for user_xattr not being enabled by default? Not sure, you may ask the ext2/3/4 developers. I usually enable it on /home, but not on other partitions. IIRC, SuSE enables it

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Priit Kivisoo
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:14 PM, André Ramaciotti da Silva < andre.ramacio...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Thomas and Xavier. > > I just got a little worried though. Is there any reason for user_xattr not > being enabled by default? > I think it's because Arch doesn't use SELinux by default, as i

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
Thank you Thomas and Xavier. I just got a little worried though. Is there any reason for user_xattr not being enabled by default?

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
André Ramaciotti da Silva schrieb: The problem is: I can't use them at all. I'm using the default kernel, which, according to /proc/config.gz has: CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y and I'm using ext4, evidently. I've tried doing the following: $ echo 'asd' > test $ attr -s user.author -V andre test attr

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Xavier
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:25 PM, André Ramaciotti da Silva wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm thinking of different ways to organize my files and xattrs seem a > nice, standardized way to do so (don't ask me exactly what I'm trying to > do, for I only have a slight idea). > > The problem is: I can't use them

[arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
Hi all, I'm thinking of different ways to organize my files and xattrs seem a nice, standardized way to do so (don't ask me exactly what I'm trying to do, for I only have a slight idea). The problem is: I can't use them at all. I'm using the default kernel, which, according to /proc/config.gz has

Re: [arch-general] kde3 sources available anymore & missing garbage collector

2009-11-08 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/08/2009 12:42 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I don't know if the kde3 sources still live on a server some where, but I would be interested in finding them. I still have all the PKGBUILD files for the kde3 install, but I need a few sources. kpdf for starters, and there are a couple mor

Re: [arch-general] kde3 sources available anymore & missing garbage collector

2009-11-08 Thread Byron Clark
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:42:31PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > Also, I successfully built quanta from AUR -- works fine, but I was unable to > build pdftk due to missing dependencies: > > gcc-gcj package not found, searching for group... > error: 'gcc-gcj': not found in sync db > ==> ERROR: P

Re: [arch-general] programmable API for flyspray?

2009-11-08 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:42:43 -0600 Chris Brannon wrote: > Daenyth Blank wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 16:16, Chris Brannon > > wrote: > > > Is there any way to access bugs.archlinux.org programmatically? > > > =C2=A0I'd= > > love > > > to be able to manipulate it from the shell. > > > Coul