Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:32:20 -0600 schrieb "David C. Rankin" : > This is currently the state at opensuse and KDE and is a primary > reason for all the new Arch users and all the new users of xfce, > fluxbox and gnome. There also may be some other reasons for all the new Arch users. ;-) > Arch ha

Re: [arch-general] Something really wrong with yum-createrepo from AUR - doesn't work. [Solved - sort of]

2010-03-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/13/2010 04:08 PM, Loui Chang wrote: >> On 03/13/2010 01:57 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> The yum-createrepo package seems not to be the same as the >>> createrepo package that you normally see. Specifically executing >>> the yum-createrepo script with the help option discloses: >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-13 Thread Linas
Xavier Chantry wrote: The tiny size of the reopen textbox does not give a lot of freedom for justifications either. I think this is completely missing the point though. I don't understand why Dan is the only developer who sees that it sometimes makes sense to provide additional information on clo

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-13 Thread fons
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 04:32:20PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > This is currently the state at opensuse and KDE and is a primary reason for > all > the new Arch users and all the new users of xfce, fluxbox and gnome. > > We are all in this together. One of the things that makes a distro great

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

2010-03-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/13/2010 04:38 PM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > On 14/03/2010 12:10 πμ, David C. Rankin wrote: >> I did miss it, must have been tired. See my thread "Something >> really wrong with >> createrepo.." Looks like you pulled the development version into the >> AUR package >> which I can't get to

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

2010-03-13 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 14/03/2010 12:10 πμ, David C. Rankin wrote: I did miss it, must have been tired. See my thread "Something really wrong with createrepo.." Looks like you pulled the development version into the AUR package which I can't get to work. The stable version (4.11) works just fine, but has a

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/12/2010 06:20 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:39:05 +1000 > schrieb Allan McRae : > >> I really do not see the need. >> >> If a bug is wrongly closed -> request a reopen. >> If you just want to confirm a bug has been fixed, there is no need... >> we already closed the bug re

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

2010-03-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/13/2010 07:44 AM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > On 13/03/2010 11:27 πμ, David C. Rankin wrote: >> I don't know how I missed the repoview in AUR, I had to get about >> 6 packages >> from AUR to build 'yum-createrepo' and I could have sworn I checked for >> repoview, but I guess I didn't. > >

Re: [arch-general] Something really wrong with yum-createrepo from AUR - doesn't work. [Solved - sort of]

2010-03-13 Thread Loui Chang
> On 03/13/2010 01:57 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > > The yum-createrepo package seems not to be the same as the > > createrepo package that you normally see. Specifically executing > > the yum-createrepo script with the help option discloses: > > It's better if these things are docume

Re: [arch-general] Something really wrong with yum-createrepo from AUR - doesn't work. [Solved - sort of]

2010-03-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/13/2010 01:57 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > The yum-createrepo package seems not to be the same as the createrepo > package > that you normally see. Specifically executing the yum-createrepo script with > the > help option discloses: > > [13:35 nirvana:/home/backup/rpms] #

[arch-general] Something really wrong with yum-createrepo from AUR - doesn't work.

2010-03-13 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, The yum-createrepo package seems not to be the same as the createrepo package that you normally see. Specifically executing the yum-createrepo script with the help option discloses: [13:35 nirvana:/home/backup/rpms] # createrepo --help Usage: genpkgmetadata.py [options] Options:

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-13 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > I do not see all reopen requests, but the need to "beg" seems overstated... >  I do know that it is much, much easier to get a bug reopened if the request > is clear and well justified.  A large portion of reopen requests provide no > informa

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-13 Thread Allan McRae
On 13/03/10 22:55, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:58:24 +0100 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: Yes, there are sometimes situations where I wanted to add a more or less important comment to a bug reports but it was just closed. In the other hand I see the problems of never ending discussions

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

2010-03-13 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 13/03/2010 11:27 πμ, David C. Rankin wrote: I don't know how I missed the repoview in AUR, I had to get about 6 packages from AUR to build 'yum-createrepo' and I could have sworn I checked for repoview, but I guess I didn't. Did you not receive my reply [1]? I clearly state that I u

[arch-general] Hacking into HAL's mount process

2010-03-13 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
By default HAL adds the flush flag when USB devices are mounted... I think which is what making WRITEs slow. I want that HAL shouldn't add the flush flag. How to ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:58:24 +0100 schrieb Pierre Schmitz : > Yes, there are sometimes situations where I wanted to add a more or > less important comment to a bug reports but it was just closed. > > In the other hand I see the problems of never ending discussions and > flame wars. In other bug

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

2010-03-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/12/2010 03:06 PM, Øyvind Heggstad wrote: > You should use makepkg for it unless you are doing it in virtualenv. > > There already is a PKGBUILD for repoview in aur. > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35377 > Thanks Everyone, I don't know how I missed the repoview in AUR, I