Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and security - it needs some work

2010-02-02 Thread Robert Howard
I suppose my problem with all the Arch security/insecurity talk is that it assumes that Arch users are not more than capable of reading lists and discovering bug and holes in software that we use daily. I don't think there has ever been an issue with an Arch package that wasn't fixed as soon as ups

[arch-general] Server Space for Arch Downloads / AUR / ABS for small X additions the Arch Community might enjoy?

2010-02-02 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I have several good collections of miscellaneous kde themes, kdm/gdm themes, metacity, gtk-2, xcursors, etc.. that I would like to find how best to contribute them to the community. The color-schemes, gnome and kde layout are original and the are available from gnome-look, kde-look,

[arch-general] parted 2.1.1 busts mounting of USB volume of less than 4 GiB

2010-02-02 Thread Frederic Bezies
Hello. This morning, I was unable to get my USB key (4 GiB) to be read. After I downgrading to parted 1.9.0, all was working back. I opened bug 18137. Did anyone see this too ? Thanks for your answer ;) -- Frederic Bezies - fredbez...@gmail.com Weblog : http://frederic.bezies.free.fr/blog/

[arch-general] multiple i586 update segfaults during pacman -Syu on 2/2/10

2010-02-02 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, During update tonight, I received multiple segfaults during system update package installation. Given the kde44beta packages involved, I suspect kde will be dead. The full log is: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/pacman-updt-segfaults.log.bz2 The reported error summaries were:

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-02 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 02/03/2010 06:45 AM, Muhammed Uluyol wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: pacman should do what you said. keeping /boot/vmlinuz- instead of just /boot/vmlinuz Then arch will try to load modules for a newer kernel version and that WILL fail. I doesn't work an

Re: [arch-general] Setting global environment variable

2010-02-02 Thread Ty John
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:13:55 -0500 Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 17:11, Ty John wrote: > > Basically, I want to set and unset the variable when I connect and > > disconnect the VPN. > > The best way is probably to have a set of aliases in your bashrc that > run it and set the var

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
Looks really nice, Florian ;] I wouldn't dare to analyse the syntax, as I only know the basics, but the idea is pretty neat. -- Guilherme M. Nogueira "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

Re: [arch-general] i586 phonon/qt dependency conflict

2010-02-02 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/02/2010 04:32 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 02.02.2010 23:10, schrieb David C. Rankin: > > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-February/015269.html > I guess I could be helpful and actually respond with Pierre's post to save others a few clicks. Pierre provided the

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-02 Thread Muhammed Uluyol
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > pacman should do what you said. keeping /boot/vmlinuz- instead of > just /boot/vmlinuz > Then arch will try to load modules for a newer kernel version and that WILL fail. I doesn't work and isn't difficult to store a limited number of

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Florian Pritz
On 02/03/2010 01:16 AM, Florian Pritz wrote: > For those who are interested I've attached the current sync script. It > might change in future though. Seems it got lost :( http://karif.server-speed.net/~flo/tmp/mirrorsync.sh.txt -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewi...@server-speed.net

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Florian Pritz
I'm working on a mirrorscript that can be run as often as you want to. Even every minute. In short: The script fetches a md5sum of the databases and if one database has changed it will start rsync to resync that particular repo. The md5 it fetches is small, static and will cause nearly no load, bu

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Andre Ramaciotti
Damjan Georgievski writes: >>> >>> - download new packages >>> >>> - update db >>> >>> - delete old packages >>> >>> >>> >>> from http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror#how >>> ... >>> * MUST perform a 2-stage sync >>> ... >>> Rationale: if archive mirroring is done in a single stage, there will

Re: [arch-general] i586 phonon/qt dependency conflict

2010-02-02 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/02/2010 04:32 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 02.02.2010 23:10, schrieb David C. Rankin: >> Guys, >> >> Looks like there is a dependency conflict between qt and phonon with >> the latest >> packages. (note: below pms is an alias for 'pacman -Sy') Here is the issue: > > http://mailman.ar

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > >> >>> - download new packages > >> >>> - update db > >> >>> - delete old packages > >> ... > > I must be missing something.. isn't --delete-after good enough? > > you are missing the fact that it will download the database file > befor

[arch-general] [signoff] tcp_wrappers-7.6-11

2010-02-02 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, signoff for both arches please fixes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16048 #ipv6 support http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17502 #compile options greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.as

Re: [arch-general] i586 phonon/qt dependency conflict

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.02.2010 23:10, schrieb David C. Rankin: > Guys, > > Looks like there is a dependency conflict between qt and phonon with > the latest > packages. (note: below pms is an alias for 'pacman -Sy') Here is the issue: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-February/015

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.02.2010 22:51, schrieb Uli Armbruster: > I use your kill-klibc repo on i686 and I just want to confirm, that it works > with > > % cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf > MODULES="" > HOOKS="base udev pata uresume filesystems" Just out of curiosity, where's the uresume hook from, which package? > No p

[arch-general] i586 phonon/qt dependency conflict

2010-02-02 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Looks like there is a dependency conflict between qt and phonon with the latest packages. (note: below pms is an alias for 'pacman -Sy') Here is the issue: 16:07 dcrgx2:~> pms -u :: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed retrieving file 'testing.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.gi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-02 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Thomas Bächler [02.02.2010 19:13]: > Am 24.01.2010 18:05, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > > Quoted from http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17298 (which is also to be > > used for feedback, besides the threads on these mailing lists): > > > > So, now something can be tested. I recommend using it in conjun

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>> >>> - download new packages >> >>> - update db >> >>> - delete old packages >> >>> >> >> from http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror#how >> ... >> * MUST perform a 2-stage sync >> ... >> Rationale: if archive mirroring is done in a single stage, there will >> be periods of time >> during which t

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread tuxce
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:32:20 +0100 Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:06:35 -0500 > Andrew Antle wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Hannes Rist > > wrote: > > > Ionut Biru wrote: > > >> > > >> On 02/02/2010 07:53 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > > > > > There's a

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:06:35 -0500 Andrew Antle wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Hannes Rist wrote: > > Ionut Biru wrote: > >> > >> On 02/02/2010 07:53 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > > > There's also the problem that some mirrors (most of the ones > > I've tried) sync the p

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Antle
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Hannes Rist wrote: > Ionut Biru wrote: >> >> On 02/02/2010 07:53 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > There's also the problem that some mirrors (most of the ones I've > tried) sync the package database before syncing all the packages. Actually, s

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Hannes Rist
Ionut Biru wrote: On 02/02/2010 07:53 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: There's also the problem that some mirrors (most of the ones I've tried) sync the package database before syncing all the packages. Actually, syncing the db last is not going to improve things: if some packages get deleted, th

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-02 Thread Attila
At Montag, 1. Februar 2010 23:45 Muhammed Uluyol wrote: > cp `ls -1 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel26-2.6* | tail -n 1` ./ > > Is it really that hard? You have over read that i don't have this problem because i have own kernel packages (one optimzed which includes the BFS Scheduler and one stable)

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Ionut Biru
On 02/02/2010 07:53 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: There's also the problem that some mirrors (most of the ones I've tried) sync the package database before syncing all the packages. Actually, syncing the db last is not going to improve things: if some packages get deleted, they won't be found w

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>> There's also the problem that some mirrors (most of the ones I've >> tried) sync the package database before syncing all the packages. > > Actually, syncing the db last is not going to improve things: if some > packages get deleted, they won't be found when updating against the > old db. - down

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-02 Thread Attila
At Montag, 1. Februar 2010 23:57 Heiko Baums wrote: > It's contrary because these cases are so seldom it would make too much > work to keep and maintain several older versions and it would cost much > more disk space and traffic on the mirrors. +1 I speak about this seldom cases and the only one

Re: [arch-general] Recent update to php-apache breaks LAMP stack.

2010-02-02 Thread Owain Sutton
On 02/02/10 15:11, Mark Foxwell wrote: I'd recently updated php, mysql, and php-apache packages to following versions: php 5.3.1-4 mysql 5.1.43-1 php-apache 5.3.1-4 After update my existing webapps started showing error: Unable to connect to database, with nothing changed on the webapps side.

Re: [arch-general] Recent update to php-apache breaks LAMP stack.

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Foxwell
I'd recently updated php, mysql, and php-apache packages to following versions: php 5.3.1-4 mysql 5.1.43-1 php-apache 5.3.1-4 After update my existing webapps started showing error: Unable to connect to database, with nothing changed on the webapps side. After assuming that recent update cause

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.1

2010-02-02 Thread bardo
2010/2/2 bardo : > I could reboot and run xfs_check in my virtual machine, the core > functionalities seem to be ok. Heh... this meant a 'signoff i686' =P

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.1

2010-02-02 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Tobias Powalowski [31.01.2010 09:42]: > Hi bump to latest version, > xfsprogs-3.1.1 (29 January 2010) > - Fix various blkid topology support problems in mkfs.xfs. > - Fix various build warnings. > - Add automatic build dependency calculations. > - Cleaner build system out

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit - tone it down

2010-02-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gaurish Sharma wrote: > Hi, > On the Wiki, Add a small note about cdrtools. proposing it as > alternate over cdkit.so let the user decide: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CD_Burning_Tips Just a note: cdrecord has a more complete CDRWIN CUE support than cdrdao. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schil

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-02 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > > Urmm..if it is so important, Arch gives you the power to roll your own > kernel. Heck, I don't even have a fallback, because I don't need it. > Like Fons, I have an RT kernel, and a normal kernel. Either acts as a > backup of the other, since n

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-02 Thread ludovic coues
There is no rescue shell for when the kernel is broken ? I remember having broken archlinux 3 times, mostly the graphical interface. I have installed only one time archlinux. No need to reinstall to fix it. By the way, I'm fine with the way kernel are handled. And I doesn't understand why we shoul

Re: [arch-general] Recent update to php-apache breaks LAMP stack.

2010-02-02 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 02/02/2010 04:14 PM, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: Hi, I'd recently updated php, mysql, and php-apache packages to following versions: php 5.3.1-4 mysql 5.1.43-1 php-apache 5.3.1-4 After update my existing webapps started showing error: Unable to connect to database, with nothing changed on the weba

Re: [arch-general] Recent update to php-apache breaks LAMP stack.

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.02.2010 11:44, schrieb Ashish SHUKLA: > I'd recently updated php, mysql, and php-apache packages to following > versions: > > php 5.3.1-4 > mysql 5.1.43-1 > php-apache 5.3.1-4 > > After update my existing webapps started showing error: Unable to connect to > database, with nothing changed

Re: [arch-general] Recent update to php-apache breaks LAMP stack.

2010-02-02 Thread Angel Velásquez
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Hi, > > I'd recently updated php, mysql, and php-apache packages to following > versions: > > php 5.3.1-4 > mysql 5.1.43-1 > php-apache 5.3.1-4 > > After update my existing webapps started showing error: Unable to connect to > database, with

[arch-general] Recent update to php-apache breaks LAMP stack.

2010-02-02 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Hi, I'd recently updated php, mysql, and php-apache packages to following versions: php 5.3.1-4 mysql 5.1.43-1 php-apache 5.3.1-4 After update my existing webapps started showing error: Unable to connect to database, with nothing changed on the webapps side. After assuming that recent update cau

Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-02 Thread Nick Stepa
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:30:47AM +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 02/01/2010 05:41 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > >On 01/02/10 21:57, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > >>On Monday 01 February 2010 16:09:08 solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > >>>prelink modifies binary and library to ... prelink ;-) them. during

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.1

2010-02-02 Thread bardo
2010/2/2 Tobias Powalowski : >> please signoff both arches, > Paul? Or anyone else? I could reboot and run xfs_check in my virtual machine, the core functionalities seem to be ok. Corrado

Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-02 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
> Well, I'm bumping this thread, but I have a doubt. When we run prelink, > prelinking is permanent or has to be done at every boot ? > prelink is not a daemon. prelink changes your file on disk permanently. So no need to run it at every boot. but as arch is a rolling release, you install new pac

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread hollunder
Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of 2010-02-02 09:24:47 +0100: > On 02/02/10 18:09, Benoit Favre wrote: > > In any case, there should be more communication towards users about > > what's really going on. > > Like posting a message saying not to update on the front page? That > would have been

[arch-general] sysinit fsck problem

2010-02-02 Thread Tom
Maybe you remember I was going on about faulty initscripts a while back, specifically that I was being forced through a 'forced fsck' even though I pressed control-c. > Maybe fsck doesn't return 32 as it's supposed to. You can verify this > by adding `echo fsck returned ${fsckret}' inside that cod

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Allan McRae
On 02/02/10 18:09, Benoit Favre wrote: In any case, there should be more communication towards users about what's really going on. Like posting a message saying not to update on the front page? That would have been nice... Allan

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-02 Thread Benoit Favre
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > There's also the problem that some mirrors (most of the ones I've > tried) sync the package database before syncing all the packages. Actually, syncing the db last is not going to improve things: if some packages get deleted, they won't