[arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread XeCycle
Hello, On yet another -Syu this morning I was asked whether to replace erlang-nox by erlang. Are we dropping the -nox variant? I'm using -nox for I don't need GUI in erlang now; also wxgtk pulls in gstreamer as a dependency, which I don't like. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics and

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.06.2013 05:18, schrieb Anatol Pomozov: sync is not a workaround, it is a right solution. You are wrong. Under the hood copying in linux works following way. Every time you read something from disk the file information will stay cached in memory region called buffer cache. That is true

Re: [arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:16 AM, XeCycle xecy...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On yet another -Syu this morning I was asked whether to replace erlang-nox by erlang. Are we dropping the -nox variant? I'm using -nox for I don't need GUI in erlang now; also wxgtk pulls in gstreamer as a

Re: [arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread XeCycle
Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com writes: [...] It's still here: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=q=erlang-noxmaintainer=flagged= I'm aware of this --- but it's older than `erlang'. And `erlang' stated it will replace `erlang-nox', so I'm wondering about this. -- Carl Lei

Re: [arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:56 AM, XeCycle xecy...@gmail.com wrote: Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com writes: [...] It's still here: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=q=erlang-noxmaintainer=flagged= I'm aware of this --- but it's older than `erlang'. And `erlang' stated it

Re: [arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread XeCycle
Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com writes: [...] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/erlang-nox/ Provides: erlang Conflicts: erlang Reverse Conflicts: erlang You install one or the other: erlang conflicts with erlang-nox and vice versa. Yeah I know these; I'm just

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi, I always unmount my devices before unplugging, but I found out that after writing a lot of data to a slow device (SD card in my case), umount or udiskie-umount would block for a long time, then exit with some weird error message and the data would have not been correctly written. I

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 10.06.2013 05:18, schrieb Anatol Pomozov: sync is not a workaround, it is a right solution. You are wrong. Under the hood copying in linux works following way. Every time you read something from disk the file information will stay cached in

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] /bin/false exited with status 1

2013-06-10 Thread John Briggs
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 09:30:03AM +0100, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote: On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Leonidas Spyropoulos artafi...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Any other suggestion from someone ? It is my intention

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Alfredo Palhares
Excerpts from Pedro Emílio Machado de Brito's message of Mon Jun 10 02:53:22 +0200 2013: I've been having this sort of problems with removable storage lately (copying multiple GBs of songs in a few seconds, except not really). The workaround I found out is to run the sync command after

Re: [arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread XeCycle
Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com writes: Hi, erlang-nox maintainer (and erlang co-maintainer) here. I'm trying to make it so that only erlang-nox is needed for erlang server packages, while erlang can be installed for those who doesn't care about the extra disk space requirements (and

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09-06-2013 22:23, Alfredo Palhares wrote: Hello, So I was creating a archlinux usb bootable drive: [root@masterkorp-laptop Downloads]# dd bs=4M if=archlinux-2013.06.01-dual.iso of=/dev/sdb 130+1 records in 130+1 records out 548405248 bytes (548 MB) copied, 0.964976 s, 568 MB/s I

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Alfredo Palhares
Hello, It would be good to know which usb drive we are talking about, if it has any features such as U3 or if it was an offer and came with publicity materials or something like that. It an old arse pen drive, but I tried with several devices, the problem is common to them. On another note,

[arch-general] uml_utilities dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread Brock Zheng
Hi, all I found that uml_utilities vanished in the repo. It can't be found in core/extra/communit repo, and also AUR . I need the command tunctl to install tap0 NIC, which is used to setup my qemu virtual machine. Any comment? -- Brock Zheng goodme...@gmail.com 郑 祎 Software

Re: [arch-general] uml_utilities dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-06-10 23:16:02 +0800] Brock Zheng: I found that uml_utilities vanished in the repo. It can't be found in core/extra/communit repo, and also AUR . Next time, please do a simple search before putting questions to this list you could have easily answered yourself...

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Anatol Pomozov
Hi On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.orgwrote: Am 10.06.2013 05:18, schrieb Anatol Pomozov: sync is not a workaround, it is a right solution. You are wrong. Under the hood copying in linux works following way. Every time you read something from disk the