Re: [arch-general] Bad Idea?

2010-03-11 Thread Brendan Long
On 03/09/2010 03:23 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: Is it a bad idea to install nVidia display drivers manually by downloading them from nvidia.com and installing it by hand...or should I use 'Pacman'? I read that I could mess up my system by manually installing packages and should always use

Re: [arch-general] Kopete and Yahoo

2010-03-11 Thread Ionut Biru
On 03/11/2010 06:53 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, Yahoo is not working with Kopete 1.0.0 Any ideas ? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18624 -- Ionut

[arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Allison
Morning, Since updating yesterday, all my php scripts that connect to a mysql database (whether local or over the network) stopped being able to connect. I had to append the port number to the host definition in the mysql connect function call to get them to work again. I have been unable to

Re: [arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 11/03/2010 12:23 μμ, Chris Allison wrote: Morning, Since updating yesterday, all my php scripts that connect to a mysql database (whether local or over the network) stopped being able to connect. I had to append the port number to the host definition in the mysql connect function call to get

Re: [arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Allison
On 11 March 2010 10:23, Chris Allison chris.charles.alli...@googlemail.comwrote: Morning, Since updating yesterday, all my php scripts that connect to a mysql database (whether local or over the network) stopped being able to connect. I had to append the port number to the host definition in

Re: [arch-general] Bad Idea?

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.03.2010 23:23, schrieb Carlos Mennens: Is it a bad idea to install nVidia display drivers manually by downloading them from nvidia.com and installing it by hand...or should I use 'Pacman'? I read that I could mess up my system by manually installing packages and should always use Pacman.

Re: [arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Allison
On 11 March 2010 10:30, Chris Allison chris.charles.alli...@googlemail.com wrote: On 11 March 2010 10:23, Chris Allison chris.charles.alli...@googlemail.com wrote: Morning, Since updating yesterday, all my php scripts that connect to a mysql database (whether local or over the network)

[arch-general] rsyncd pid file already exists

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Allison
Hi, rsync when run as a daemon from /etc/rc.d/rsyncd writes it's own pid file to /var/run/rsyncd.pid this conflicts with the start-stop script which also writes the pid file. I couldn't get rsync to start as a daemon after upgrading yesterday, without commenting out the line in the start-stop

Re: [arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 11:47:18 schrieb Chris Allison: This would appear to be an upstream bug/feature. Yes, see http://bugs.php.net/51242 -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

[arch-general] [Tool] rebuildorder.py: determines rebuild order of a list of packages.

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Pustjens
Hi List, Based on the rebuildorder script by Allen McRae (1) I've written a script which determines, given a list of packages, the order in which they should be built. A package x that depend on package y is always below y on the list, for any package y x depends on. This script can also

Re: [arch-general] [Tool] rebuildorder.py: determines rebuild order of a list of packages.

2010-03-11 Thread Ionut Biru
On 03/11/2010 02:55 PM, Mark Pustjens wrote: Hi List, Based on the rebuildorder script by Allen McRae (1) I've written a script which determines, given a list of packages, the order in which they should be built. A package x that depend on package y is always below y on the list, for any

Re: [arch-general] [Tool] rebuildorder.py: determines rebuild order of a list of packages.

2010-03-11 Thread Allan McRae
On 11/03/10 22:58, Ionut Biru wrote: On 03/11/2010 02:55 PM, Mark Pustjens wrote: Hi List, Based on the rebuildorder script by Allen McRae (1) I've written a script which determines, given a list of packages, the order in which they should be built. A package x that depend on package y is

[arch-general] .pyo files in twisted package

2010-03-11 Thread Nezmer
Hi, I don't know If this has been brought up before. The PKGBUILD includes --optimize=1. So .pyo files are included in the package and they conflict with existing ones. Is there a reason to do this for twisted specifically? Or did I miss a change in python packaging policies?

[arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, I need yum as a dependency to yum-createrepo, but the package is flagged as out-of-date in AUR. This is the first time I've run across an out of date package in something I needed to build so I don't have experience with the procedure after finding a package out of date. Do

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/11/2010 09:19 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, I need yum as a dependency to yum-createrepo, but the package is flagged as out-of-date in AUR. This is the first time I've run across an out of date package in something I needed to build so I don't have experience with the

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 09:41 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: On 03/11/2010 09:19 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, I need yum as a dependency to yum-createrepo, but the package is flagged as out-of-date in AUR. This is the first time I've run across an out of date package in

Re: [arch-general] .pyo files in twisted package

2010-03-11 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:08 +0200, Nezmer a...@nezmer.info wrote: Hi, I don't know If this has been brought up before. The PKGBUILD includes --optimize=1. So .pyo files are included in the package and they conflict with existing ones. Is there a reason to do this for twisted

[arch-general] Where to install python apps: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xyz??

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
Guy, I know nothing about python other than what it is. I need to install repoview-0.6.5 on my arch server, but I'm not sure where. Looking at the other python apps like cairo, FusionIcon, etc.. thay seem to be installed as a subdirectory to: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/11/2010 09:50 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: If all else fails, blame Allan. Oh, and tell the maintainer what failed. Gotcha! I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to the AUR package and sent Chris (the maintainer) an email telling him what I'd done. Hopefully he can move

Re: [arch-general] Where to install python apps: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xyz??

2010-03-11 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 11/03/2010 06:27 μμ, David C. Rankin wrote: Guy, I know nothing about python other than what it is. I need to install repoview-0.6.5 on my arch server, but I'm not sure where. Looking at the other python apps like cairo, FusionIcon, etc.. thay seem to be installed as a subdirectory

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Xavier Chantry
2010/3/11 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: On 03/11/2010 09:50 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: If all else fails, blame Allan. Oh, and tell the maintainer what failed. Gotcha!        I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to the AUR package and sent Chris (the maintainer)

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Burlynn Corlew Jr
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Xavier Chantry chantry.xav...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/3/11 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: On 03/11/2010 09:50 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: If all else fails, blame Allan. Oh, and tell the maintainer what failed. Gotcha! I just posted

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:50, Burlynn Corlew Jr burl...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes pasting the pkgbuild in comments is the only solution, especially with lazy maintainers. If a maintainer does not respond to email in a week or so, mail aur-general and the TUs will orphan the package so someone

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
My primary complaint against flyspray is that it doesn't allow comments to be added after the bug is closed. The only way is by doing a request to reopen the bug, and even in that case your comment is not added to the comment list. Wouldn't this functionality remedy the closing bugs early

Re: [arch-general] rsyncd pid file already exists

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Chris Allison chris.charles.alli...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, rsync when run as a daemon from /etc/rc.d/rsyncd writes it's own pid file to /var/run/rsyncd.pid this conflicts with the start-stop script which also writes the pid file.  I couldn't get rsync to

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: My primary complaint against flyspray is that it doesn't allow comments to be added after the bug is closed. The only way is by doing a request to reopen the bug, and even in that case your comment is not added to the

Re: [arch-general] .pyo files in twisted package

2010-03-11 Thread Allan McRae
On 12/03/10 02:33, Nezmer wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 05:23:40PM +0100, Pierre Chapuis wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:08 +0200, Nezmera...@nezmer.info wrote: Hi, I don't know If this has been brought up before. The PKGBUILD includes --optimize=1. So .pyo files are included in the

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 11 Mar 2010 11:50 -0600, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Xavier Chantry chantry.xav...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/3/11 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to the AUR package and sent Chris (the

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:59:07 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com: Commenting on bugs after they are closed will just annoy the developer. If you have an issue with the fix or something, reopening is the right action. If you have information to add, then add it to the wiki, as

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:19:46 +0200 (GTB Standard Time) schrieb Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net: My primary complaint against flyspray is that it doesn't allow comments to be added after the bug is closed. The only way is by doing a request to reopen the bug, and even in that case your

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 14:59 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: My primary complaint against flyspray is that it doesn't allow comments to be added after the bug is closed. The only way is by doing a request to reopen the

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 16:57, Hussam Al-Tayeb ht990...@gmail.com wrote: You should consider moving to bugzilla. -1. I've used bugzilla, and the interface is absolutely horrible. Flyspray is much much better.

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Allan McRae
On 12/03/10 07:57, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 14:59 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Dimitrios Apostolouji...@gmx.net wrote: My primary complaint against flyspray is that it doesn't allow comments to be added after the bug is closed. The only way

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 16:45 -0500, Loui Chang wrote: On Thu 11 Mar 2010 11:50 -0600, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: Sometimes pasting the pkgbuild in comments is the only solution, especially with lazy maintainers. :/ I've used a share posted that way, and a copy and paste seemed to work fine.

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:49 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:59:07 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com: Commenting on bugs after they are closed will just annoy the developer. If you have an issue with the fix or something, reopening is the right action.

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/11/2010 11:44 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote: I figured I'd give it another week before I started blaming Allan :p You should probably have done the opposite : - in AUR comments, just quickly state what needs to be changed / fixed - in the email , include the proper attachments

[arch-general] Network UPS Tools - PKGBUILD changes - any timeframe?

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Just installed NUT on my box and it is still being compiled w/o and cgi support. Looks like the decision has been made on where to put the cgi files: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16554 Any timeframe for when the changes might take place? Right now, every time there is a

Re: [arch-general] Network UPS Tools - PKGBUILD changes - any timeframe?

2010-03-11 Thread Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)
On 03/11/10 at 05:26pm, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, Just installed NUT on my box and it is still being compiled w/o and cgi support. Looks like the decision has been made on where to put the cgi files: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16554 Any timeframe for when the changes

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
2010/3/11 Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:49 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:59:07 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com: Commenting on bugs after they are closed will just annoy the developer. If you have an issue with the fix or

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:58:12 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com: This sounds like throwing technology at a problem that basically boils down to a communication issue. Without specific examples, this isn't going to go anywhere, really. Would someone mind linking to the

Re: [arch-general] Network UPS Tools - PKGBUILD changes - any timeframe?

2010-03-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/11/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: As soon as someone submits an updated PKGBUILD that incorporates that feature? If you post an updated PKGBUILD on the bug, I'll be happy to update it and close another bug :P OK, Sounds fair. I'll change mine to put the