Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Attila
At Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 02:13 Dan McGee wrote: > No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list- > does it make sense to do so? Instead this makes something easier i must say that this could be dangerous too because it could end in some strange questions in the supp

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer > wrote: >> I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the >> web.  Here's my question:  in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such >> as: >> >>  NoExtract = usr/share/man/m

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 02/17/2010 10:13 PM, Dan McGee wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer wrote: I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the web. Here's my question: in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such as: NoExtract = usr/share/man/man1/mkisofs* NoEx

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:13:26 -0600 schrieb Dan McGee : > No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list- > does it make sense to do so? Yes, because I usually edit many of the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications due to a missing menu editor in Xfce and a terrible menu

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Ray Rashif
On 18 February 2010 09:13, Dan McGee wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer > wrote: >> I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the >> web.  Here's my question:  in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such >> as: >> >>  NoExtract = usr/share/man/man1/mk

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer > wrote: >> I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the >> web.  Here's my question:  in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such >> as: >> >>  NoExtract = usr/share/man/m

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread fons
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:36:31PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > Isn't this what rfkill is for? > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill You're right: /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0/state controls the wifi device. Problem solved. Thanks ! -- FA O tu, che porte, cor

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer wrote: > I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the > web.  Here's my question:  in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such > as: > >  NoExtract = usr/share/man/man1/mkisofs* >  NoExtract = etc/logrotate.d/* > > or: > >  N

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread kludge
On 02/17/2010 06:03 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: >> is it safe to presume you installed acpi-eeepc-generic? because it has >> a configuration file that let's you customize every key combination. > > If that is a package name, no. Everything seems to work > without it, including e.g. the displa

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread fons
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:40:44PM -0600, kludge wrote: > On 02/17/2010 05:16 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > > Today I discovered one possible problem. > > > > The key combination 'Fn + F2' enables or disables the > > wireless network device. If you hit it accidentally there's > > no more wifi

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread fons
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:36:31PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > Isn't this what rfkill is for? > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill There are rfkill entries in /sys I'll try, but AFAIK rfkill is for bluetooth. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread kludge
On 02/17/2010 05:16 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > Today I discovered one possible problem. > > The key combination 'Fn + F2' enables or disables the > wireless network device. If you hit it accidentally there's > no more wifi. that's expected behavior, as indicated by the 'wifi' icon in blue

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:16 PM, wrote: > Hello all, > > A few days ago I installed Arch on an EEE-1000H. Things > work very well and I'm sort of impressed by how easy it > worked out to be (there were a few hickups but nothing > serious). > > Today I discovered one possible problem. > > The key

Re: [arch-general] new libdrm breaks nouveau

2010-02-17 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ray Kohler wrote: >> >> Downgrading libdrm makes X work again. Is this already being worked >> on, or should I open a bug? If so, against which package, libdrm or >> xf86-video-nouveau? >> > > You need to u

[arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread fons
Hello all, A few days ago I installed Arch on an EEE-1000H. Things work very well and I'm sort of impressed by how easy it worked out to be (there were a few hickups but nothing serious). Today I discovered one possible problem. The key combination 'Fn + F2' enables or disables the wireless netw

Re: [arch-general] new libdrm breaks nouveau

2010-02-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ray Kohler wrote: > > Downgrading libdrm makes X work again. Is this already being worked > on, or should I open a bug? If so, against which package, libdrm or > xf86-video-nouveau? > You need to upgrade and rebuild both xf86-video-nouveau and nouveau-drm. File a

[arch-general] new libdrm breaks nouveau

2010-02-17 Thread Ray Kohler
After upgrading to the just-released libdrm 2.4.18-1 (and the new xorg-server), I can no longer start X: drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:00.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: o

[arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread clemens fischer
I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the web. Here's my question: in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such as: NoExtract = usr/share/man/man1/mkisofs* NoExtract = etc/logrotate.d/* or: NoUpgrade = etc/cron.daily/logrotate etc/logrotate.* clemens

Re: [arch-general] Pacman Error: upgrading to same package version?again & again

2010-02-17 Thread clemens fischer
such problems in future. I've got this little script: # #! /bin/bash # /root/bin/arch-linux-local-dup-packages.sh _date: 20100217-2244_ iam="${0##*/}" match="${1}" ex=0 declare -A pkg_local pkg_local_dir="/var/lib/pacman/local" pk

[arch-general] howto trace userland startup

2010-02-17 Thread clemens fischer
se, and a missing declaration defaults to "only_info_pls.sh-!0", which dumps the trace into the current directory if its writable. clemens # /etc/rc.d/functions.d/only_info_pls.sh # _date: 20100217-2035_ # # to be sourced by bash(1). # see /etc/rc.conf # see /etc/rc.d/functions _iam=&q

Re: [arch-general] Kde upgrade ?phonon/qt?

2010-02-17 Thread Øyvind Heggstad
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:28:40 +0100 Michael Schaefer wrote: > On 17.02.2010 10:09, richard terry wrote: > > # pacman -Sy --asdeps qt > > error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy > > dependencies) :: qtscriptgenerator: requires phonon > > pacman -Rd qtscriptgenerator (and possibly a

Re: [arch-general] Kde upgrade ?phonon/qt?

2010-02-17 Thread Michael Schaefer
On 17.02.2010 10:09, richard terry wrote: > # pacman -Sy --asdeps qt > error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) > :: qtscriptgenerator: requires phonon pacman -Rd qtscriptgenerator (and possibly amarok) will do the job. regards michael

Re: [arch-general] Kde upgrade ?phonon/qt?

2010-02-17 Thread Manne Merak
On 02/17/2010 11:55 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 14:39:53 richard terry wrote: # pacman -Sy --asdeps qt :: qtscriptgenerator: requires phonon How about removing qtscriptgenerator before doing this? You can install it after your upgrade is complete. HTH

Re: [arch-general] unit test generator for shared C/C++ library API

2010-02-17 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Thanks, PKGBUILD is correct, except for the last line in the "install" section. I suppose script should be installed without ".pl" suffix: install $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/api-sanity-autotest.pl $pkgdir/usr/bin/api-sanity-autotest Brendan Long wrote: > I looked at the download to see how hard this

Re: [arch-general] Kde upgrade ?phonon/qt?

2010-02-17 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 14:39:53 richard terry wrote: > > # pacman -Sy --asdeps qt > :: qtscriptgenerator: requires phonon How about removing qtscriptgenerator before doing this? You can install it after your upgrade is complete. HTH -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [arch-general] Kde upgrade ?phonon/qt?

2010-02-17 Thread richard terry
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 16:40:52 you wrote: > On 17/02/10 15:31, richard terry wrote: > > :: phonon conflicts with qt. Remove qt? [Y/n] > > http://www.archlinux.org/news/483/ > Thanks, Yes I did read that before I posted. I can see no mention of this problem in that article, as you se