Re: [arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
Allan McRae [2010.10.22 1028 +1000]: > makepkg uses pacman with the -T flag to test whether a package > installed. That is supposed to be dead quiet. Of course if you > used the --debug flag you would see the message you are after... Fair enough. In particular, I can see why printing an error m

Re: [arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Allan McRae
On 22/10/10 10:12, Norbert Zeh wrote: Norbert Zeh [2010.10.21 1946 -0300]: Norbert Zeh [2010.10.21 1857 -0300]: Ionuț Bîru [2010.10.22 0017 +0300]: On 10/22/2010 12:07 AM, Norbert Zeh wrote: Hi folks, I am running a 32-bit chroot on my 64-bit system, and I'm trying to build a few packages fr

Re: [arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
Norbert Zeh [2010.10.21 1946 -0300]: > Norbert Zeh [2010.10.21 1857 -0300]: > > Ionuț Bîru [2010.10.22 0017 +0300]: > > > On 10/22/2010 12:07 AM, Norbert Zeh wrote: > > > >Hi folks, > > > > > > > >I am running a 32-bit chroot on my 64-bit system, and I'm trying to > > > >build a few packages from A

Re: [arch-general] Question about installing libraries

2010-10-21 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:26:37AM +0200, Christian wrote: > Many thanks, will have a look. > But lets say I can't find a particular library and I only have a .deb file > with it, what to do then? You can write a PKGBUILD that automates the process of unpacking the ".deb" package and installing t

Re: [arch-general] Question about installing libraries

2010-10-21 Thread Christian
Hi, On 2010-10-22 at 09:32 Allan McRae wrote: >On 22/10/10 08:42, Christian wrote: >> For example, I now need to use pygame1.8 and there is 1.9 in the arch >> repository. > >As an aside, most things that work with pygame-1.8 also work with 1.9... > >Allan How is it with python2.5 then?

Re: [arch-general] Question about installing libraries

2010-10-21 Thread Allan McRae
On 22/10/10 08:42, Christian wrote: For example, I now need to use pygame1.8 and there is 1.9 in the arch repository. As an aside, most things that work with pygame-1.8 also work with 1.9... Allan

Re: [arch-general] Question about installing libraries

2010-10-21 Thread Christian
Hi, On 2010-10-22 at 02:20 Evangelos Foutras wrote: >On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Christian wrote: >> OK, but let's say I need some other older library how to search the svn >> for that? > >Find the package you're interested in from >http://www.archlinux.org/packages/ and click on it. At th

Re: [arch-general] Question about installing libraries

2010-10-21 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Christian wrote: > OK, but let's say I need some other older library how to search the svn > for that? Find the package you're interested in from http://www.archlinux.org/packages/ and click on it. At the right side of the package page, you'll see a link named "SV

Re: [arch-general] Question about installing libraries

2010-10-21 Thread Christian
Hello, On 2010-10-22 01:02, Evangelos Foutras wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Christian wrote: So my question is if I get a such package, may I just extract it, unpack the data.tar.gz and copy the libraries into /usr/lib? For example, I now need to use pygame1.8 and there is 1.9 in the

Re: [arch-general] Question about installing libraries

2010-10-21 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Christian wrote: > So my question is if I get a such package, may I just extract it, unpack the > data.tar.gz and copy the libraries into /usr/lib? > For example, I now need to use pygame1.8 and there is 1.9 in the arch > repository. > What do you think? You reall

Re: [arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
Norbert Zeh [2010.10.21 1857 -0300]: > Ionuț Bîru [2010.10.22 0017 +0300]: > > On 10/22/2010 12:07 AM, Norbert Zeh wrote: > > >Hi folks, > > > > > >I am running a 32-bit chroot on my 64-bit system, and I'm trying to > > >build a few packages from AUR inside the 32-bit chroot. When I run > > >makep

[arch-general] Question about installing libraries

2010-10-21 Thread Christian
Hi all, I am learning and learning more in Arch linux, but I have a question. There are a few programs that I use and I am not able to find all the dependencies in the Arch repositories, and some of th elibraries are a little old and the developers have .deb packages for them. So my question is

Re: [arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
Ionuț Bîru [2010.10.22 0017 +0300]: > On 10/22/2010 12:07 AM, Norbert Zeh wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > >I am running a 32-bit chroot on my 64-bit system, and I'm trying to > >build a few packages from AUR inside the 32-bit chroot. When I run > >makepkg inside the chroot, it complains about dependenci

Re: [arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Thursday 21 October 2010 23:07:18 Norbert Zeh wrote: > I am running a 32-bit chroot on my 64-bit system, and I'm trying to > build a few packages from AUR inside the 32-bit chroot. When I run > makepkg inside the chroot, it complains about dependencies not being > satisfied, even though the dep

Re: [arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 10/22/2010 12:07 AM, Norbert Zeh wrote: Hi folks, I am running a 32-bit chroot on my 64-bit system, and I'm trying to build a few packages from AUR inside the 32-bit chroot. When I run makepkg inside the chroot, it complains about dependencies not being satisfied, even though the dependencie

Re: [arch-general] Method to redirect hidden config files in ~

2010-10-21 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:33 AM, meganox wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > >> awhile back, i believe it was on this list, there was some messages >> about cleaning up the . in your HOME folder... >> >> can someone point me in the right direction here?  i swear

[arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi folks, I am running a 32-bit chroot on my 64-bit system, and I'm trying to build a few packages from AUR inside the 32-bit chroot. When I run makepkg inside the chroot, it complains about dependencies not being satisfied, even though the dependencies are installed inside the chroot (and in the

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-10-21 Thread Rthoreau
Frédéric Perrin writes: > Le mercredi 20 à 22:47, Rthoreau a écrit : >> What would be ideal is to get Hunspell working if you follow the >> emacswiki I still do not have a valid Hunspell working on two operating >> systems. One being Arch, the other OpenIndiana so I had to resort back >> to aspe

Re: [arch-general] What's happening about libdjvu?

2010-10-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.10.2010 17:29, schrieb Dan McGee: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Right now, the delay between updating the package info and the file list >> can be (in the worst case) little over 24 hours. Given that our packages >> update and change frequently, I think we shou

Re: [arch-general] Method to redirect hidden config files in ~

2010-10-21 Thread meganox
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > awhile back, i believe it was on this list, there was some messages > about cleaning up the . in your HOME folder... > > can someone point me in the right direction here? i swear all i > needed to do was export the proper VARS but i can

Re: [arch-general] What's happening about libdjvu?

2010-10-21 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 21.10.2010 15:56, schrieb Auguste Pop: >> I noticed this by compiling the package myself... When I sent this >> mail, the web page was not updated and I saw an old list of files that >> did not contain the .so file. I should have tried i

Re: [arch-general] What's happening about libdjvu?

2010-10-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.10.2010 15:56, schrieb Auguste Pop: > I noticed this by compiling the package myself... When I sent this > mail, the web page was not updated and I saw an old list of files that > did not contain the .so file. I should have tried it first rather than > relying on a presumably delayed response

Re: [arch-general] What's happening about libdjvu?

2010-10-21 Thread Auguste Pop
libdjvu. > > This is false, the djvulibre package contains this library. > > -- next part -- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 262 bytes > Desc: OpenPGP digital signature >

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-10-21 Thread Cédric Girard
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Armando M. Baratti < ambaratti.lis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yes, off course I do. But I also realize that, besides Python isn't the > easiest platform to deploy to, specially when your customers aren't tech > savvy and have to make some adjustment or install some

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-10-21 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le mercredi 20 à 22:47, Rthoreau a écrit : > What would be ideal is to get Hunspell working if you follow the > emacswiki I still do not have a valid Hunspell working on two operating > systems. One being Arch, the other OpenIndiana so I had to resort back > to aspell for both. Is the problem tha

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-10-21 Thread Armando M. Baratti
Em 20-10-2010 13:21, Daenyth Blank escreveu: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:16, Armando M. Baratti wrote: Em 20-10-2010 05:24, Stefano Z. escreveu: anyone know if reportlab does work with python3 ? No, reportlab doesn't work with python3. Neither Django, nor Twisted. As well the modules belo

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-10-21 Thread Dr. Robert Marmorstein
Just a little story that is relevant to this discussion I ran into a problem with python and proprietary software earlier today, but was able (through much tribulaton) to work around it. Even after most open- source code is using python 3, a lot of proprietary stuff may still depend on pyth

Re: [arch-general] What's happening about libdjvu?

2010-10-21 Thread Allan McRae
On 21/10/10 21:38, Auguste Pop wrote: Hi, The package djvulibre now conflicts and provides libdjvu, and libdjvu disappeared from the repository. However, judging by the files they provide and the PKGBUILD cached in my abs directory, I don't think they are the same thing. djvulibre does not prov

Re: [arch-general] What's happening about libdjvu?

2010-10-21 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 10/21/2010 02:38 PM, Auguste Pop wrote: Hi, The package djvulibre now conflicts and provides libdjvu, and libdjvu disappeared from the repository. However, judging by the files they provide and the PKGBUILD cached in my abs directory, I don't think they are the same thing. djvulibre does not

Re: [arch-general] What's happening about libdjvu?

2010-10-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.10.2010 13:38, schrieb Auguste Pop: > For instance, > /usr/lib/evince/3/backends/libdjvudocument.so from evince package > links to /usr/lib/libdjvulibre.so.21, which would be removed if I > update the system to allow djvulibre to replace libdjvu. This is false, the djvulibre package contains

[arch-general] What's happening about libdjvu?

2010-10-21 Thread Auguste Pop
Hi, The package djvulibre now conflicts and provides libdjvu, and libdjvu disappeared from the repository. However, judging by the files they provide and the PKGBUILD cached in my abs directory, I don't think they are the same thing. djvulibre does not provide the dynamic linked library as libdjv