Re: [arch-general] Replace dcron once again?

2010-11-12 Thread Ian-Xue Li
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 06:12:36AM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: There's probably one thing that could be changed in the fcron package to reduce the size. The complete documentation is in English as well as in French. Nothing against France, but the French documentation could probably be removed

Re: [arch-general] Replace dcron once again?

2010-11-12 Thread Allan McRae
Surely someone can run a git bisect on this issue. It is a reasonably new occurrence. Or are we just going to switch software every time a bug is found... Allan

Re: [arch-general] Replace dcron once again?

2010-11-12 Thread Dan McGee
On Friday, November 12, 2010, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Surely someone can run a git bisect on this issue.  It is a reasonably new occurrence. Or are we just going to switch software every time a bug is found... But I want my bikeshed to be red!

Re: [arch-general] Replace dcron once again?

2010-11-12 Thread Alexander Duscheleit
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:19:18 +1000 Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Surely someone can run a git bisect on this issue. It is a reasonably new occurrence. Or are we just going to switch software every time a bug is found... I guess the issue is, that most people wanted fcron all

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot

2010-11-12 Thread Øyvind Heggstad
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:12:24 +1000 joker-...@yandex.ru joker-...@yandex.ru wrote: Please tell me the best way to allow non root user to use halt, reboot, shutdown e t.c. May be set group power to this binaries? $ ls -l /sbin/halt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15152 2010-10-02 13:26 /sbin/halt

Re: [arch-general] Could python2 be breaking genpkgmetadata.py?

2010-11-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On 11/12/2010 12:47 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: Out of curiosity, David, I know you're on the ML quite often, how could you NOT realize all the python update emails and complaints going around? Err.. (sheepishly) -- python to me is a snake. So while I did see the emails about the python issues,

Re: [arch-general] Could python2 be breaking genpkgmetadata.py?

2010-11-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On 11/12/2010 11:44 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: But on how many packages? Just the ones that are breaking or is there some set of base packages I should backup and the do a 'perl -p -i -e s/bin\/python/bin\/python2/' on? Err.. It doesn't seem to be that simple. After changed the executable

Re: [arch-general] python3 thoughts

2010-11-12 Thread Auguste Pop
The transition is indeed smooth, as least for me. I am just worrying that maybe most python utilities will remain using python2 for a rather long time. Considering the incompatibility in the fundamental print function/statement, I seriously doubt the number of python2 packages that can run under

Re: [arch-general] Could python2 be breaking genpkgmetadata.py?

2010-11-12 Thread Auguste Pop
the package you mentioned is orphaned and marked out-of-date. i think you can simply adopt and update it. change the PYTHON variable in Makefile to python2 and several shebang lines in .py files may solve the breakage. of course, you need to change the dependency from python to python2. Date:

Re: [arch-general] Could python2 be breaking genpkgmetadata.py?

2010-11-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On 11/12/2010 12:52 PM, Auguste Pop wrote: the package you mentioned is orphaned and marked out-of-date. i think you can simply adopt and update it. change the PYTHON variable in Makefile to python2 and several shebang lines in .py files may solve the breakage. of course, you need to change

Re: [arch-general] python3 thoughts

2010-11-12 Thread Brendan Long
On 11/12/2010 11:46 AM, Auguste Pop wrote: Considering the incompatibility in the fundamental print function/statement, I seriously doubt the number of python2 packages that can run under python3 without any modification. But that's the easy part. 2to3 can automatically convert a lot of

Re: [arch-general] abs [WAS: arch-dev-public] Package maintainers wanted - heimdal, db, abs

2010-11-12 Thread csgeek
Somewhat related question I've seen a few places deploy git based build systems. funtoo (re-implementation of gentoo's portage but git based) and the arch based that was linked above. I'm just curious.. at some point wouldn't that just create excessive history that's not needed? Do you

Re: [arch-general] abs [WAS: arch-dev-public] Package maintainers wanted - heimdal, db, abs

2010-11-12 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM, csgeek csg...@archlinux.us wrote: Somewhat related question I've seen a few places deploy git based build systems. funtoo (re-implementation of gentoo's portage but git based) and the arch based that was linked above. I'm just curious.. at some point

Re: [arch-general] abs [WAS: arch-dev-public] Package maintainers wanted - heimdal, db, abs

2010-11-12 Thread Ray Rashif
On 13 November 2010 06:13, C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.me wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM, csgeek csg...@archlinux.us wrote: Somewhat related question I've seen a few places deploy git based build systems. funtoo (re-implementation of gentoo's portage but git based) and the

Re: [arch-general] Opencl/Cuda headers

2010-11-12 Thread Attila
At Freitag, 12. November 2010 18:34 Stéphane Gaudreault wrote in gmane.linux.arch.devel: It seems the Cuda/OpenCL/vdpau headers are back in nvidia-utils version 260.19.21-1. Stéphane is happy again :-) Sorry for the noise, I was misled by a post on the Nvidia forum. The changelog