[arch-general] xterm segfaults selecting true-type and unreadable - OK with fixed

2016-11-29 Thread David C. Rankin
All, I was cleaning up the default xterm look and feel with tweaks to ~/.Xresources. The primary goal was to get a good looking terminal to use in i3, etc.. as I'm having difficulty stomaching what kde has become -- meaning I'll have to do without my go-to konsole. I have xterm to my liking w

Re: [arch-general] On containers. WAS: Re: snapcraft.io ...

2016-11-29 Thread David C. Rankin
On 11/24/2016 08:19 AM, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote: > This whole sandboxing and containerisation idiocy is such a pain. Oh > look, the apps are not secure, the apps sometimes crash. But you know > what, let's take a high level approach, because we're such great > managers. Let's NOT make b

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Preparing OpenVPN 2.4.x - possible incompatible changes

2016-11-29 Thread Mauro Santos via arch-general
On 29-11-2016 17:00, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em novembro 29, 2016 14:38 Christian Hesse escreveu: >> >> We need root privileges at initialization phase, no? Privileges are >> dropped >> to nobody/nobody when initialization sequence completed. >> >> If we can make things work with non-root syst

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Preparing OpenVPN 2.4.x - possible incompatible changes

2016-11-29 Thread Damjan Georgievski via arch-general
>> I do not oppose using whatever upstream is deploying, if it's >> rationale. I just think that we could create a system user for >> openvpn, even if most users will deploy it using root. > > We need root privileges at initialization phase, no? Privileges are dropped > to nobody/nobody when initia

[arch-general] Analysis of ABI changes in the Linux kernel

2016-11-29 Thread Ponomarenko Andrey via arch-general
Hello, This is a tracker of ABI changes in the new upstream releases of the Linux kernel (defconfig, x86_64): https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/linux/ The tracker performs backward binary compatibility analysis of all public exported symbols and data types (declared in the ".ksymtab"

Re: [arch-general] GRUB doesn't boot Windows behind Secure Boot

2016-11-29 Thread David Phillips
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 01:13:10PM +0100, Giovanni Santini via arch-general wrote: > Good afternoon, Good evening, > > /ACPI(yadda)/PCI(yadda)/Sata(0,0,0)/HD(yaddayadda)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot)/File(bootmgfw.efi)/EndEntire > error: cannot load image. > > The strange thing is that disabling Se