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

2010-09-18 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On 09/18/2010 05:44 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 02:50:17PM -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: which seems an appropriate question, given the circumstances of removal; if the only reason was to discourage the creation of local mirrors... well, to me at least, that seem

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-18 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Like I've written on the arch-multilib mailing list I'd prefer to > having flashplugin in [multilib] renamed to lib32-flashplugin or > bin32-flashplugin and the new 64 bit version added to [extra] as > flashplugin at least if the new 64 bit ver

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

2010-09-18 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 14:50 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > > could a script be created that simply spreads the load to _all_ the > official mirrors? the DB files could be pulled from archlinux.org, > but the packages could be retrieved from all mirrors in parallel... Archlinux.org is just an

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

2010-09-18 Thread fons
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 02:50:17PM -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > which seems an appropriate question, given the circumstances of > removal; if the only reason was to discourage the creation of local > mirrors... well, to me at least, that seems a poor reason. > > i sympathize with some of th

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

2010-09-18 Thread C Anthony Risinger
2010/9/18 Stefan Erik Wilkens : > 2010/9/18 Guus Snijders : >> On 17-09-10 09:34, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote: >>> >>> Well then the situation is rather simple, isn't it. >>> >>> If the amount of traffic a private local mirror generates for the >>> official mirror is greater than the amount of traffi

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-2.6.35.4-2 - Hey! No more hang on boot on module load -- cool.

2010-09-18 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/18/2010 10:47 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: What problems where you experiencing? Im having similar issues. Chris, I have had a number of lock-on-boot issues with the past few kernels on both my laptop and test server. The information is scatters over a several month period of time on th

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

2010-09-18 Thread Stefan Erik Wilkens
2010/9/18 Guus Snijders : > On 17-09-10 09:34, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote: >> >> Well then the situation is rather simple, isn't it. >> >> If the amount of traffic a private local mirror generates for the >> official mirror is greater than the amount of traffic that any local >> clients (excluding a

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

2010-09-18 Thread Guus Snijders
On 17-09-10 09:34, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote: Well then the situation is rather simple, isn't it. If the amount of traffic a private local mirror generates for the official mirror is greater than the amount of traffic that any local clients (excluding any "other purposes" unrelated to the sync p

[arch-general] How to detect when a package is removed from a group in pacman

2010-09-18 Thread F B
Hi, recently bin86 was removed from base-devel group but the unique way I know to see this change is manually reading the pkg changelog in the arch site. The problem is simple, how to detect this change in pacman? For example, after a gnome upgrade, if a new package is added to gnome group I can

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-2.6.35.4-2 - Hey! No more hang on boot on module load -- cool.

2010-09-18 Thread Chris Bannister
What problems where you experiencing? Im having similar issues. On 18 September 2010 04:10, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        Just dropping a line to let you know that I haven't had a > hang-on-boot with kernel26-2.6.35.4-2. That's great. I'll keep you posted, > but it looks like the issu