I don't think we need any security team for Arch. New packages are
released within a week of their updates. GPG signing and md5sum
verification is a must though.
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On Monday 15 March 2010 15:44:35 Nathan Wayde wrote:
> On 13/03/10 03:05, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just wanted to share an interesting experience I had today.
> >
> > Check http://ghodechhap.net/btrfs.performance.txt
>
> Maybe you're looking for http://docs.python.org/library/f
On 03/15/2010 08:14 PM, Eric Bélanger wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
No idea if it is time for signoff yet, I have to check that with tpowa.
However, I put 2.6.31.1 in testing with these changes:
- Added a trivial patch to support my touchpad (selfish, I know
On 15/03/10 23:03, Xavier Chantry wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:
[..]
>>> 2) resume and finish the gpg work for pacman & friends
>>
>> Sure, that is worth doing. Is it really a task for a dedicated security
>> team?
>> It sounds more like a one-time thing for a
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:
>>
>> 1) what allan said :
>> A group could monitor security issues and file bugs to get the devs to
>> fix them.
>
> Is there any evidence that this is actually needed?
>
No, Allan asked for some numbers, and I am curious too.
> My impres
On 16/03/10 08:42, Magnus Therning wrote:
On 15/03/10 22:34, Xavier Chantry wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:
After a quick look at it I don't see much that would apply though. Arch
doesn't have releases. Arch follows upstream releases very closes (in some
cases
On 15/03/10 22:34, Xavier Chantry wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> After a quick look at it I don't see much that would apply though. Arch
>> doesn't have releases. Arch follows upstream releases very closes (in some
>> cases even too closely ;-)
>>
>> So, if
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:
> After a quick look at it I don't see much that would apply though. Arch
> doesn't have releases. Arch follows upstream releases very closes (in some
> cases even too closely ;-)
>
> So, if there is no need for backporting to a set of pac
On 15/03/10 22:03, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:56:32 -0700
> Thayer Williams wrote:
>>
>> No offence taken and FWIW a lot of people switch distros because of
>> one or two fundamental needs that aren't meant. This wouldn't be any
>> different.
>>
>> Look forward to hearing wha
On 15/03/10 21:43, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
[..]
> Would there be any enthusiasm for a dedicated security team? I feel
> strongly enough about it that if something can't be done then I'm switching
> to another distro. Despite the fact that I really like Arch, it's one
> deficiency is a pretty glarin
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:56:32 -0700
Thayer Williams wrote:
>
> No offence taken and FWIW a lot of people switch distros because of
> one or two fundamental needs that aren't meant. This wouldn't be any
> different.
>
> Look forward to hearing what you have to say...
I'd like to help get things
On 16/03/10 07:43, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:29:45 +1000
Allan McRae wrote:
As an aside, I would like to see some numbers on where we could
improve in this area. I have been following the CVE announcements
and several other distros security releases for the past few months
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Thayer Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Ananda Samaddar
> wrote:
>> Would there be any enthusiasm for a dedicated security team? I feel
>> strongly enough about it that if something can't be done then I'm
>> switching to another distro. Despite
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> Would there be any enthusiasm for a dedicated security team? I feel
> strongly enough about it that if something can't be done then I'm
> switching to another distro. Despite the fact that I really like Arch,
> it's one deficiency is a pre
On Tuesday 16 Mar 2010 2:59:45 am Allan McRae wrote:
>
> As an aside, I would like to see some numbers on where we could improve
> in this area. I have been following the CVE announcements and several
> other distros security releases for the past few months and from what I
> see, I believe Arc
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 17:43, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> Would there be any enthusiasm for a dedicated security team?
This has been proposed multiple times, but oddly enough no one who has
proposed it has ever taken any steps to make it happen...
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:29:45 +1000
Allan McRae wrote:
>
> As an aside, I would like to see some numbers on where we could
> improve in this area. I have been following the CVE announcements
> and several other distros security releases for the past few months
> and from what I see, I believe Arc
On 16/03/10 06:37, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Am Montag, 15. März 2010 20:54:03 schrieb Ananda Samaddar:
The reason I'm asking is I want to know to whom I address my proposals
when they are finished.
Simple: File a bug report or feature reques
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 19:32, Daenyth Blank
> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:14, Thanos Zygouris
> wrote:
> > But when i changed my $LANG from en_US.utf8 to C, twm worked!
> Is en_US.utf8 uncommented in locale.gen and have you rebuilt locales?
>
Yes. (The command is locale-gen,right?)
Packages are NOT in testing (as 2.6.33 is there), but available from
http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kernel26/
Please sign off.
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Montag, 15. März 2010 20:54:03 schrieb Ananda Samaddar:
>> The reason I'm asking is I want to know to whom I address my proposals
>> when they are finished.
>
> Simple: File a bug report or feature request at bugs.archlinux.org. No idea
>
Am Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:33:48 -0600
schrieb Aaron Griffin :
> Mr Heiko, I know you feel you have a vested interest in this topic,
> but you're just adding useless noise to the discussion. This is quite
> ironic as this is EXACTLY what you claim will not happen were we to
> allow comments on closed
Am Montag, 15. März 2010 20:54:03 schrieb Ananda Samaddar:
> The reason I'm asking is I want to know to whom I address my proposals
> when they are finished.
Simple: File a bug report or feature request at bugs.archlinux.org. No idea
what your "proposals" are about but you should make sure they o
Further to my previous email a while back I've started work on some
proposals that I'd like to pitch to the Arch community and the powers
that be. They aren't finished yet but should be soon. The thing is
I'm not really aware of the 'chain of command' in Arch. Aaron Griffin,
are you the 'benevol
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Guus Snijders wrote:
> On 15-03-10 14:07, Jeffrey Parke wrote:
>
> [installing XFCE, xorg]
>
>
> Have you read the beginners guide? It's a great help for times like
>> these, I'll post it below. Well what you wanna do now is to install the
>> xorg group (pacman
Peter Cannon wrote:
pacman -Si xfce|less
and looked for a package that might get me to a minimal desktop I could work
with.
I thought maybe xfdesktop...
pacman -S xfdesktop
Why have you done this? If you look at the 'man' page you will see
http://linux.die.net/man/1/xfdesktop
xfdesktop
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:14, Thanos Zygouris
wrote:
> But when i changed my $LANG from en_US.utf8 to C, twm worked!
Is en_US.utf8 uncommented in locale.gen and have you rebuilt locales?
On 15-03-10 14:07, Jeffrey Parke wrote:
[installing XFCE, xorg]
Have you read the beginners guide? It's a great help for times like
these, I'll post it below. Well what you wanna do now is to install the
xorg group (pacman -S xorg) then the xfce group (pacman -S xfce4). Then
move the .xinitrc f
Hello listmates,
Here is a problem i encountered:
twm doesn't start...i got this message instead:
/usr/bin/twm: unable to open fontset
I tried almost all the fonts xfontsel showed me, including "fixed",
"terminal", "terminus", but with no success...
But when i changed my $LANG from en_US.utf8 t
There is already an arch-general thread about this topic. This one was
intended to gauge the opinions of the _developers_ (hence the reason
it was on the dev list).
I am all for keeping things open, but polluting things with arguments
from outside is just making this harder. And now this discussio
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> Hello, I've been using various Linux distros for a while now. I just
> decided to give Arch Linux a try. But I'm a little bit lost. I'm used to
> distros like Xubuntu, PCLinuxOS, OpenSuSE, etc... Where I don't need to
> personally understand what order I need to ins
Hi,
On 03/15/10 07:19, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
When pacman reports an error, listing just one line number like that,
does it stop processing. Or does the fact that there was only one error
(about icons I think) mean that everything else in the package installed
successfully???
I don't kn
On 03/15/2010 01:19 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
Hello, I've been using various Linux distros for a while now. I just
decided to give Arch Linux a try. But I'm a little bit lost. I'm used to
distros like Xubuntu, PCLinuxOS, OpenSuSE, etc... Where I don't need to
personally understand what or
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:19:25 -0400
>
> Could some nice Arch user point me at enough step by step
> instructions so that I can get enough of a gui up to use a browser
> like firefox so I can try to find solutions via the web while Arch is
> actually running???
>
> Please!
>
The wiki is your frie
On 15 March 2010 06:19, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
>
>
> Could some nice Arch user point me at enough step by step instructions so
> that I can get enough of a gui up to use a browser like firefox so I can
> try to find solutions via the web while Arch is actually running???
>
http://wiki.arch
Hello, I've been using various Linux distros for a while now. I just
decided to give Arch Linux a try. But I'm a little bit lost. I'm used to
distros like Xubuntu, PCLinuxOS, OpenSuSE, etc... Where I don't need to
personally understand what order I need to install which packages to get
at least o
On 13/03/10 03:05, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
Hi,
Just wanted to share an interesting experience I had today.
Check http://ghodechhap.net/btrfs.performance.txt
Maybe you're looking for http://docs.python.org/library/filecmp.html
One cannot help but think that you took a disk-bound process an
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