[arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-21 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hi, After true multilib support came for arch, I reformatted / as jfs to install arch64. But somehow, I feel my system is slow (in spite of regular fscks on every ten mounts and using deadline scheduler) as compared to arch32 & ext4. I'm thinking of using btrfs on /, is it stable to the extent tha

Re: [arch-general] Old "news"

2010-09-21 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:05 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mike Sampson wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, jesse jaara wrote: >>> Did anyone else revice some old maiöing list messages i got few about >>> xorg1.8 miving to extra and announment if 2010.5 install

Re: [arch-general] Old "news"

2010-09-21 Thread Gan Lu
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mike Sampson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, jesse jaara wrote: >> Did anyone else revice some old maiöing list messages i got few about >> xorg1.8 miving to extra and announment if 2010.5 install meedia and some >> others >> > > Yeah, me too. My RSS rea

Re: [arch-general] Old "news"

2010-09-21 Thread Mike Sampson
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, jesse jaara wrote: > Did anyone else revice some old maiöing list messages i got few about > xorg1.8 miving to extra and announment if 2010.5 install meedia and some > others > Yeah, me too. Mike

[arch-general] Old "news"

2010-09-21 Thread jesse jaara
Did anyone else revice some old maiöing list messages i got few about xorg1.8 miving to extra and announment if 2010.5 install meedia and some others

[arch-general] speeding up udev (from wiki)

2010-09-21 Thread Matthew Monaco
Are a lot of you using (or not using) the suggestions from the "Speeding up Udev" article? I just tried it by replacing all occurrences of load-modules.sh in /etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules and /lib/udev/rules.d/*.rules with modprobe itself, and implemented blacklisting by adding install MODNAME /bi

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-21 Thread Mario Figueiredo
On 21-09-2010 23:17, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: On 09/21/2010 04:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I've seen recent "Request to Ophan package XYZ" posts, and I've found some fairly large AUR packages that are orphaned (like RPM5). But, how do AUR packages get new maintainers? Does somebo

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-21 Thread Ivan S. Freitas
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR >> >> Really dude? You've been using arch for how long and still have these >> elementary questions? I think that was not the OP question (considering his long time participation in the community), but something like "Is there any policy to take care of

Re: [arch-general] Any special reason for /etc/shadow.pacnew, or just normal pacman behavior.

2010-09-21 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/21/2010 04:02 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I always diff any new .pacnew files when they are created during an update. Today I got /etc/shadow.pacnew which was a little surprising given that replacing shadow would be bad. The diff showed that the .pacnew entries were already i

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-21 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On 09/21/2010 06:17 PM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: On 09/21/2010 04:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I've seen recent "Request to Ophan package XYZ" posts, and I've found some fairly large AUR packages that are orphaned (like RPM5). But, how do AUR packages get new maintainers? Does som

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-21 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On 09/21/2010 04:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I've seen recent "Request to Ophan package XYZ" posts, and I've found some fairly large AUR packages that are orphaned (like RPM5). But, how do AUR packages get new maintainers? Does somebody monitor the orphans and then divvy them o

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-21 Thread Stefan Erik Wilkens
Hello David, If you're logged in to the AUR, any package with an orphan status will have an "Adopt Packages" button on its page. 2010/9/21 David C. Rankin : > Guys, > >        I've seen recent "Request to Ophan package XYZ" posts, and I've found > some > fairly large AUR packages that are orphan

[arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I've seen recent "Request to Ophan package XYZ" posts, and I've found some fairly large AUR packages that are orphaned (like RPM5). But, how do AUR packages get new maintainers? Does somebody monitor the orphans and then divvy them out among those with write privileges in AUR or doe

Re: [arch-general] Any special reason for /etc/shadow.pacnew, or just normal pacman behavior.

2010-09-21 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 16:02, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        I always diff any new .pacnew files when they are created during an > update. See "man pacman", under HANDLING CONFIG FILES. It explains the behavior in detail.

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.5-1

2010-09-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:44:52 +0200 Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Latest kernel is in testing, > please signoff for both arches. > > greetings > tpowa Signoff i686 lvm/encrypt this kernel fixes Alan's[1] big sata_sil breakage, making my system boot again. ( see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug

[arch-general] Any special reason for /etc/shadow.pacnew, or just normal pacman behavior.

2010-09-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I always diff any new .pacnew files when they are created during an update. Today I got /etc/shadow.pacnew which was a little surprising given that replacing shadow would be bad. The diff showed that the .pacnew entries were already in shadow (except for the root password of course)

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.5-1

2010-09-21 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 09/21/2010 04:44 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa signoff x86_64 -- Ionuț

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.5-1

2010-09-21 Thread J. W. Birdsong
On 09/21/10 at 03:44pm, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Latest kernel is in testing, > please signoff for both arches. > > greetings > tpowa > -- > Tobias > Powalowski > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer > (tpowa) > http://www.archlinux.org > tp...@archlinux.org > Sign off x84_64 w/ Encrypted

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.5-1

2010-09-21 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches. 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.

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.22-1

2010-09-21 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches. 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.

[arch-general] Local Mirror - Wiki Article

2010-09-21 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
Since the other thread is huge and hard to follow, I am creating a new thread. I would like to use this thread to talk strictly about the Local Mirror wiki article. I have updated the wiki article to reflect the new pool directory. Currently there are some packages that are in pool/ while others a

Re: [arch-general] Repo Structure - Pool Dir

2010-09-21 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 09/21/2010 01:31 PM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: Hello. Currently I see that there are some packages in /archlinux/extra/os/i686/ and some symlinks to ../../../pool/packages/. I was hoping a dev would be able to answer the following the questions? Eventually, will all packages (from core/extra/

[arch-general] Repo Structure - Pool Dir

2010-09-21 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
Hello. Currently I see that there are some packages in /archlinux/extra/os/i686/ and some symlinks to ../../../pool/packages/. I was hoping a dev would be able to answer the following the questions? Eventually, will all packages (from core/extra/community) end up in pool? Repos like multilib