[arch-general] Manager Duplicates in /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2010-07-16 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I've updated my find duplicates script to work with the .xz packages. There are actually 2 scripts involved: 'fduparch.sh' is the wrapper script that just sets the directories and options for the actual duplicate finding script 'fduppkg'. In its current configuration fduparch

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-16 Thread Ivan S. Freitas
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Legioner wrote: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman > > In pacman.conf: > > IgnorePkg=name > IgnoreGroup=name If I interpreted correctly this will not work as OP wants. (the kernel won't be upgraded this way). Besides extracting and copying manually, I d

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-16 Thread Legioner
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman In pacman.conf: IgnorePkg=name IgnoreGroup=name Reply Header Subject:[arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel Author: Madhurya Kakati Date: 17th July 2010 06:27 Hi, Whil

[arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-16 Thread Madhurya Kakati
Hi, While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with the new one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new entries for new kernel in menu.lst while keeping old entries intact?

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-16 Thread Jordan Windsor
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:25 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 07/16/2010 09:52 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> Guys, >> >> I have a strange problem. ctrl+c is completely broken on my system. It >> won't >> cancel Jack Schit. It is the strangest thing I've seen. I apologize if >> there is >> some a

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/16/2010 09:52 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I have a strange problem. ctrl+c is completely broken on my system. It won't cancel Jack Schit. It is the strangest thing I've seen. I apologize if there is some archain Arch notice on this I apologize, I've missed it. This is easy to test. J

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:49 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 07/17/2010 12:01 AM, Corey Johns wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Thomas Dziedzic >>  wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:52 PM, David C. Rankin >>>  wrote: Guys,        I have a strange problem. c

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/17/2010 12:01 AM, Corey Johns wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:52 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I have a strange problem. ctrl+c is completely broken on my system. It won't cancel Jack Schit. It is the strangest th

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-16 Thread Corey Johns
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:52 PM, David C. Rankin > wrote: > > Guys, > > > >I have a strange problem. ctrl+c is completely broken on my > system. > > It won't cancel Jack Schit. It is the strangest thing I've seen. I > apologize >

Re: [arch-general] Tracking down ATI/Compiz Bug in 2.6.34 kernels (looks like gpu init in 2.6.34)

2010-07-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/15/2010 02:15 PM, Martín Cigorraga wrote: Hi Dave, as usual reader of Arch's lists I've been following your issue and while I don't have sufficient knowledge nor enough skill with Arch to help you I second your thought the issue must reside somewhere kernel/KMS/catalyst module: currently I

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:52 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        I have a strange problem. ctrl+c is completely broken on my system. > It won't cancel Jack Schit. It is the strangest thing I've seen. I apologize > if there is some archain Arch notice on this I apologize, I've missed it.

[arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-16 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I have a strange problem. ctrl+c is completely broken on my system. It won't cancel Jack Schit. It is the strangest thing I've seen. I apologize if there is some archain Arch notice on this I apologize, I've missed it. This is easy to test. Just to 'ping anywhere' and then try and kil

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Anyone using lilo?

2010-07-16 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Dale Blount wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 15:29 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Roman has flagged my lilo packages.  Lilo developpement is now active >> and lilo 23.0 was released.  Unfortunately, my only system using lilo >> is no longer working.  Is the

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] gdisk patches

2010-07-16 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 07/17/2010 01:23 AM, Mark Pustjens wrote: On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 07/16/2010 10:11 PM, Mark Pustjens wrote: Hi List, Below a patch wich fixes two bugs in the gdisk package. They have been submitted uptream but not yet been accepted. then we don't need them if upstream d

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] gdisk patches

2010-07-16 Thread Mark Pustjens
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 07/16/2010 10:11 PM, Mark Pustjens wrote: Hi List, Below a patch wich fixes two bugs in the gdisk package. They have been submitted uptream but not yet been accepted. then we don't need them if upstream did that They didn't do anything :) Submit

Re: [arch-general] Tasks for newbie at online bug squashing (during Archcon)?

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Mathias Huber wrote: > Hi, > >>> I've seen there will be an online bug squashing with Archers worldwide >>> during Archcon on July 22 and 23 >>> . >>> >>> I've set some time apart to join the fun. However, I am an Ar

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] gdisk patches

2010-07-16 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 07/16/2010 10:11 PM, Mark Pustjens wrote: Hi List, Below a patch wich fixes two bugs in the gdisk package. They have been submitted uptream but not yet been accepted. then we don't need them if upstream did that -- Ionuț

Re: [arch-general] Tasks for newbie at online bug squashing (during Archcon)?

2010-07-16 Thread Mathias Huber
Hi, I've seen there will be an online bug squashing with Archers worldwide during Archcon on July 22 and 23 . I've set some time apart to join the fun. However, I am an Arch newbie, though long standing Linux user. What will there be for me to do

[arch-general] [PATCH] gdisk patches

2010-07-16 Thread Mark Pustjens
Hi List, Below a patch wich fixes two bugs in the gdisk package. They have been submitted uptream but not yet been accepted. The first bug fixed is that partition attributes are read/stored backwards. The second bug fixed is that when changing an undefined attribute no longer junk is displayed

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 45/48] Sleep instead of rebooting or shutting down when debugging initscripts

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: > --- > functions |2 +- > rc.shutdown |3 +++ > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/functions b/functions > index f1dce8a..2c80a59 100644 > --- a/functions > +++ b/functions > @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ > > # width: >

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 44/48] Save error messages to /dev/tty9.

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: > --- > functions |4 > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/functions b/functions > index 9ec8b5e..f1dce8a 100644 > --- a/functions > +++ b/functions > @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ > > # width: > > +grep -q initdebug &&

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 43/48] Add a PKGBUILD for building initscripts-git for testing.

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: > This builds straight out of a git checkout. > --- > PKGBUILD | 23 +++ > 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD > new file mode 100644 > index 000..79b3403 > --- /dev/null > ++

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 42/48] Load conf files in a loop instead of one at a time.

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: > --- > network | 11 +++ > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/network b/network > index 977e81e..242acc3 100755 > --- a/network > +++ b/network > @@ -3,14 +3,9 @@ > . /etc/rc.conf > . /etc/rc.d/functions >

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 39/48] Flatten adding persistent rules.

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: > --- > rc.sysinit | 16 ++-- > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit > index c6ed35f..ac32fca 100755 > --- a/rc.sysinit > +++ b/rc.sysinit > @@ -342,16 +342,12 @@ fi > set_consolefont

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 38/48] Bashify locale setting.

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
This patch should be split into two: Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: > diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit > index 5842a57..c6ed35f 100755 > --- a/rc.sysinit > +++ b/rc.sysinit > @@ -303,12 +303,12 @@ status "Updating Module Dependencies" /sbin/depmod -A > : >| /etc/profile.d/locale

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 35/48] find has a builtin delete action. Use it instead of exec'ing rm.

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: > --- > rc.sysinit |2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit > index 319ea60..037a9f2 100755 > --- a/rc.sysinit > +++ b/rc.sysinit > @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ stat_busy "Removing Leftover Files" >

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 33/48] Bashified fscking.

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: > --- > rc.sysinit | 11 +-- > 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) This is one of those patches with no logic changes and just sh->bash conversion that should be part of the big one. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

[arch-general] bbs.archlinux.org is now switched to https only!

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
I just performed the switch to https only on bbs! I also adjusted some internal URLs, so all files will be properly fetched via https directly. http is redirected automatically. Note that the navbar links on Archweb and all other sites still point to http, but that is redirected automatically. The