Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Hector Martinez-Seara wrote: > Sometimes you simply need more space that the one available in /tmp. > In all my systems /tmp is in ram and as some machines have only 4Gb > memory the available space in /tmp is  about  2Gb only which is > sufficient for most of the

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread Mauro Santos
On 25-11-2011 07:46, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > ... however, i would consider it a bug for applications to > store *very* large files (exceeding 50-100M or so) in /tmp -- /var/tmp > would be more appropriate, even for ephemeral/transient files -- idk Just out of curiosity, why do you say that? I

[arch-general] Mounting drives via nautilus stopped working after update.

2011-11-25 Thread Madhurya Kakati
Hi, After a recent update, I am unable to mount any drives by clicking their names in nautilus side panel like I used to do before. I use awesome wm and start it via slim which itself is started via the inittab method. I have dbus installed and it starts up automatically at boot. Also in my .xinitr

Re: [arch-general] Mounting drives via nautilus stopped working after update.

2011-11-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > After a recent update, I am unable to mount any drives by clicking their > names in nautilus side panel like I used to do before. I use awesome wm and > start it via slim which itself is started via the inittab method. Are you able to repr

[arch-general] Localization issues (Attention Developers)

2011-11-25 Thread atilla ontas
Hi. I' m an experienced translator from Turkey. Contributing Arch turkish translations for a while. I have noticed today; some strings in pacman-scripts are very hard to translate. You see, Turkic languages are very differ from Latin origin languages; structure of sentence is almost reversed. So, u

Re: [arch-general] Localization issues (Attention Developers)

2011-11-25 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 11/25/2011 01:51 PM, atilla ontas wrote: > Hi. I' m an experienced translator from Turkey. Contributing Arch > turkish translations for a while. I have noticed today; some strings > in pacman-scripts are very hard to translate. You see, Turkic > languages are very differ from Latin origin langua

Re: [arch-general] Localization issues (Attention Developers)

2011-11-25 Thread atilla ontas
2011/11/25 Sven-Hendrik Haase : > Send this to pacman-dev to talk to the devs. > Thank you. Sorry for the mess. Message sent to pacman-dev

Re: [arch-general] Mounting drives via nautilus stopped working after update.

2011-11-25 Thread Madhurya Kakati
Well what I said is true. When I first started using arch I didn't mind when stuff broke. But now after setting up the OS according to my tastes I want it to stay as it is. So I want it to be stable. But I also don't want to sacrifice the freedom if using arch. And I made this my primary work OS an

[arch-general] console-kit session not activates properly

2011-11-25 Thread János Illés
Hi, I have a bit of a trouble with proper policy-kit settings. I’m running a standalone openbox session for desktop usage. For login I have a simple script in my .zprofile file, which will start the X server if I log in from the first virtual terminal (which is what I’m doing 99% of the time). if

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread clemens fischer
Gaetan Bisson wrote: > If that's easy then it shouldn't be too hard for you to open a bug > report on the tracker and submit a patch. Then what component does the actual extracting? Is it libfetch? That would be an upstream moving target, because it comes from netbsd. Do you guys accept patche

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread clemens fischer
Allan McRae wrote: > On 25/11/11 09:18, clemens fischer wrote: > >> would it be possible to let pacman, libalpm and libfetch honor the >> environment variable TMPDIR? > > File a bug report or at least post to the pacman-dev list. Then > relevant people might actually see your request. I'm not "r

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:18:43 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: > Hi, > > would it be possible to let pacman, libalpm and libfetch honor the > environment variable TMPDIR? > > I mean, this is stupid. Many people keep /tmp in RAM, on a tmpfs, and > make it big enough, but not too big, as it takes awa

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:55:55 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > Actually, what is stupid is keeping /tmp in RAM. It is an important dir, > where you might have an valuable info in case of a system crash. I could > never understand the logic behind this choice. Reducing disk i/o. Geert

Re: [arch-general] console-kit session not activates properly

2011-11-25 Thread Mauro Santos
On 25-11-2011 15:15, János Illés wrote: > Hi, > I have a bit of a trouble with proper policy-kit settings. I’m running > a standalone openbox session for desktop usage. For login I have a > simple script in my .zprofile file, which will start the X server if I > log in from the first virtual termin

Re: [arch-general] console-kit session not activates properly

2011-11-25 Thread Myra Nelson
2011/11/25 János Illés > Hi, > I have a bit of a trouble with proper policy-kit settings. I’m running > a standalone openbox session for desktop usage. For login I have a > simple script in my .zprofile file, which will start the X server if I > log in from the first virtual terminal (which is wh

Re: [arch-general] console-kit session not activates properly

2011-11-25 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:16:31 + Mauro Santos wrote: > On 25-11-2011 15:15, János Illés wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a bit of a trouble with proper policy-kit settings. I’m running > > a standalone openbox session for desktop usage. For login I have a > > simple script in my .zprofile file, which

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:07:18 +0100 Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:55:55 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > Actually, what is stupid is keeping /tmp in RAM. It is an important dir, > > where you might have an valuable info in case of a system crash. I could > > never understand th

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:07:18 +0100 > Geert Hendrickx wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:55:55 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: >> > Actually, what is stupid is keeping /tmp in RAM. It is an important dir, >> > where you might have an valuable i

Re: [arch-general] console-kit session not activates properly

2011-11-25 Thread Myra Nelson
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:25, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:16:31 + > Mauro Santos wrote: > > > On 25-11-2011 15:15, János Illés wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have a bit of a trouble with proper policy-kit settings. I’m running > > > a standalone openbox session for desktop usage.

Re: [arch-general] console-kit session not activates properly

2011-11-25 Thread János Illés
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 18:25, Leonid Isaev wrote: > The sleep is needed to avoid a race condition: logout happens before the > policykit starts. What I don't understand is why ck doesn't complain about an > empty utmp entry? I though you have to keep your user logged in, so that "w" > returns som

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread clemens fischer
Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:07:18 +0100 > Geert Hendrickx <...> wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:55:55 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: >> >> > Actually, what is stupid is keeping /tmp in RAM. It is an important >> > dir, where you might have an valuable info in case of a system

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:57:22 +0100 Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:07:18 +0100 > > Geert Hendrickx wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:55:55 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > >> > Actually, what is stupid is keeping /tmp i

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread clemens fischer
clemens fischer wrote: > Gaetan Bisson wrote: > >> If that's easy then it shouldn't be too hard for you to open a bug >> report on the tracker and submit a patch. > > Then what component does the actual extracting? Is it libfetch? That > would be an upstream moving target, because it comes fro

[arch-general] Same on T520 (was: Application stability problems (kernel 3.1, Intel hardware))

2011-11-25 Thread Michał Piotr Gawron
I have identical symptoms after my recent upgrade, so I thought that I add my observations. I bought Lenovo T520 (90% intel based devices) and was migrating everything from old R61. I installed core version of newest Arch, setup ssh session between two notebooks and wanted to copy HDD contents, as

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread Myra Nelson
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:42, clemens fischer < ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> wrote: > clemens fischer wrote: > > > Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > > >> If that's easy then it shouldn't be too hard for you to open a bug > >> report on the tracker and submit a patch. > > > > Then what component doe

Re: [arch-general] Mounting drives via nautilus stopped working after update.

2011-11-25 Thread Clive Cooper
On 25 November 2011 15:12, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > Well what I said is true. When I first started using arch I didn't mind > when stuff broke. But now after setting up the OS according to my tastes I > want it to stay as it is. So I want it to be stable. But I also don't want > to sacrifice the f

Re: [arch-general] console-kit session not activates properly

2011-11-25 Thread Mauro Santos
On 25-11-2011 17:25, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:16:31 + > Mauro Santos wrote: > >> On 25-11-2011 15:15, János Illés wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I have a bit of a trouble with proper policy-kit settings. I’m running >>> a standalone openbox session for desktop usage. For login I have

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-25 Thread clemens fischer
Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > Now whenever a new package is installed. It will contain an XML file > containing description of the mimetype in the same manner. When the > package is installed, the file will be transferred to a folder. The > main file which contains the descriptions of the mime type will

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread Allan McRae
On 26/11/11 02:35, clemens fischer wrote: Allan McRae wrote: On 25/11/11 09:18, clemens fischer wrote: would it be possible to let pacman, libalpm and libfetch honor the environment variable TMPDIR? File a bug report or at least post to the pacman-dev list. Then relevant people might actua

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread Allan McRae
On 26/11/11 02:40, clemens fischer wrote: Gaetan Bisson wrote: If that's easy then it shouldn't be too hard for you to open a bug report on the tracker and submit a patch. Then what component does the actual extracting? Is it libfetch? That would be an upstream moving target, because it com

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 25-11-2011 07:46, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> >> ...  however, i would consider it a bug for applications to >> store *very* large files (exceeding 50-100M or so) in /tmp -- /var/tmp >> would be more appropriate, even for ephemeral/transie

[arch-general] Fwd: udev events and /usr not mounted

2011-11-25 Thread Myra Nelson
-- Forwarded message -- From: Myra Nelson Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 15:45 Subject: udev events and /usr not mounted To: General Discussion about Arch Linux No gripes, complaints, or rants, just a question about udev rules. This is one of those /usr not mounted things that's bro

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: udev events and /usr not mounted

2011-11-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.11.2011 23:44, schrieb Myra Nelson: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Myra Nelson > Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 15:45 > Subject: udev events and /usr not mounted > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > > > No gripes, complaints, or rants, just a question about udev rule

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: udev events and /usr not mounted

2011-11-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Myra Nelson wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Myra Nelson > Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 15:45 > Subject: udev events and /usr not mounted > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > > > No gripes, complaints, or rants, just a question about

[arch-general] ArchCon 2012

2011-11-25 Thread Albino Biasutti Neto
Hi peoples. The event ArchCon 2012, what date ? Curiosity, the event takes place only in a country/state ? Cheers, Albino Biasutti Neto

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-25 Thread clemens fischer
Myra Nelson wrote: > The .install files are contained in the package. I know. I wanted to know where they go before the entire package with all transactions is considered "done". The warning indicated that the first, preliminary extraction step went wrong. > Might I ask what you were compiling

[arch-general] [mkinitcpio] release 0.8.0

2011-11-25 Thread Dave Reisner
Hi all, I've tagged mkinitcpio 0.8.0, which came a little earlier than I would have liked, but there's still fun things to talk about. The major point of interest is the addition of fsck functionality. The logic in init is triggered by the addition of the 'fsck' install hook. If added after the a

Re: [arch-general] Same on T520

2011-11-25 Thread Damjan
On 25.11.2011 20:02, Michał Piotr Gawron wrote: > I have identical symptoms after my recent upgrade, so I thought that > I add my observations. > > I bought Lenovo T520 (90% intel based devices) and was migrating > everything from old R61. [ snip a list of problems ] Did you try upgrading the BIO

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-25 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Yeah. I too have my personal stuff for that. I have a script actually which uses a file and from that creates the default.list file which is then used by anyone who cares to use it (Firefox, KDE etc). But I am now tired of the custom stuff. I just wanted to explore. And XML seemed quiet universal i

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: udev events and /usr not mounted

2011-11-25 Thread Myra Nelson
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 17:21, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Myra Nelson > wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > > From: Myra Nelson > > Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 15:45 > > Subject: udev events and /usr not mounted > > To: General Discussion about Arch