Re: [arch-general] sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?

2010-09-09 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 03:25 +0100, Mario Figueiredo wrote: I confess I'm baffled as to why upstream did this change, why it was needed and if it actually was needed. I can't seem to find anything about it in the online changelog either. Seems something completely arbitrary. Or an oversight.

[arch-general] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.3-1

2010-09-09 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi bump to latest version, please signoff both arches, thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] distributed bugtracking?

2010-09-09 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 22:48, Aaron Schaefer aa...@elasticdog.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: anyone knows this? http://bugseverywhere.org/be/show/HomePage the concept looks great, although i don't know anything about the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1

2010-09-09 Thread Florian Pritz
On 09.09.2010 11:55, Pierre Schmitz wrote: this will hopefully the last update of xz for some time. :-) Maybe this is a sign for the final 5.0 version to be near. I am now using the (very strange) upstream versioning scheme. That's just git describe. tag-commits since tagged commit-last commit

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1

2010-09-09 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
On 9 September 2010 13:02, Florian Pritz bluew...@server-speed.net wrote: On 09.09.2010 11:55, Pierre Schmitz wrote: this will hopefully the last update of xz for some time. :-) Maybe this is a sign for the final 5.0 version to be near. I am now using the (very strange) upstream versioning

[arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-09 Thread Fess
Page Local mirros was removed from wiki by this reason: - It is generally frowned upon to create a local mirror due the bandwidth that is required. There is not a good reason to create a local mirror, since one of the alternatives below will likely meet your needs. - I think it's very

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 4 .999.9beta_174_g41bc-1

2010-09-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:02:02 +0200, Florian Pritz bluew...@server-speed.net wrote: On 09.09.2010 11:55, Pierre Schmitz wrote: this will hopefully the last update of xz for some time. :-) Maybe this is a sign for the final 5.0 version to be near. I am now using the (very strange) upstream

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-09 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Fess killall_hum...@lavabit.com wrote: Page Local mirros was removed from wiki by this reason: - It is generally frowned upon to create a local mirror due the bandwidth that is required. There is not a good reason to create a local mirror, since one of

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:55:35 +0300, Evangelos Foutras foutre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Fess killall_hum...@lavabit.com wrote: Page Local mirros was removed from wiki by this reason: - It is generally frowned upon to create a local mirror due the bandwidth that

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-09 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 09/09/10 14:11, Pierre Schmitz wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:55:35 +0300, Evangelos Foutras foutre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Fesskillall_hum...@lavabit.com wrote: Page Local mirros was removed from wiki by this reason: - It is generally frowned upon to create

Re: [arch-general] Pacman's superslow

2010-09-09 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: I have an OpenVZ VPS running arch. For some reason pacman is superslow, and I'm not allowed to create/use loopback devices. pacman-optimize takes

Re: [arch-general] Pacman's superslow

2010-09-09 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: I have an OpenVZ VPS running arch. For some reason pacman is superslow,

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 1/2] kill_everything: Reduce number of -f tests

2010-09-09 Thread Victor Lowther
Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 08.09.2010 06:16, schrieb Victor Lowther: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com wrote: Instead of checking for the existance of a file in /var/run/daemons on every iteration, handle the null case by setting nullglob.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The Great Python Rebuild of 2010 begins

2010-09-09 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Pierre Schmitz pie...@archlinux.de wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:05:47 +0200, Pierre Schmitz pie...@archlinux.de wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:48:06 +1000, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Just a reminder for people to look at their packages and rebuild

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 1/2] kill_everything: Reduce number of -f tests

2010-09-09 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 09/09/10 16:19, Victor Lowther wrote: Thomas Bächlertho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 08.09.2010 06:16, schrieb Victor Lowther: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Dave Reisnerd...@falconindy.com wrote: Instead of checking for the existance of a file in /var/run/daemons on every

Re: [arch-general] Pacman's superslow

2010-09-09 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Okay, sorry about that. Here's the relevant stuff: uptime: 22:04:53 up 26 days, 17:16, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 Now it doesn't seem to touch even 1. free -m: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 512251260

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The Great Python Rebuild of 2010 begins

2010-09-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:57:18 +0300, Evangelos Foutras foutre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Pierre Schmitz pie...@archlinux.de wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:05:47 +0200, Pierre Schmitz pie...@archlinux.de wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:48:06 +1000, Allan McRae

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 1/2] kill_everything: Reduce number of -f tests

2010-09-09 Thread Victor Lowther
Nathan Wayde kum...@konnichi.com wrote: On 09/09/10 16:19, Victor Lowther wrote: Thomas Bächlertho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 08.09.2010 06:16, schrieb Victor Lowther: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Dave Reisnerd...@falconindy.com wrote: Instead of checking for the existance of a

[arch-general] [PATCH] Remove 'Add your preferred servers here' comments

2010-09-09 Thread Evangelos Foutras
These comments were removed from the default pacman.conf, so let's remove them from these default configuration files as well. --- pacman-extra.conf|5 - pacman-multilib.conf |6 -- pacman-staging.conf |7 --- pacman-testing.conf |5 - 4 files changed, 0

[arch-general] IRC OPs

2010-09-09 Thread Callum Scott
HI, Is it possible an IRC OP can contact me off list? Cheers Callum

Re: [arch-general] IRC OPs

2010-09-09 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 09/09/2010 10:09 PM, Callum Scott wrote: HI, Is it possible an IRC OP can contact me off list? Cheers Callum sure, what's up? -- Ionuț

[arch-general] Removing HAL

2010-09-09 Thread Галымжан Кожаев
Hi list. Few days ago I've succesfully installed arch. It was booting really fast first time (i.e. without gnome, networkmanager, etc). After installing GNOME and some daemons, adding them to the rc.conf, the system now takes 30-40 seconds to load. I heard that HAL daemon takes a lot of time