Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-12 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > > But just closing a bug should not be done. There's usually a reason why > a bug is reported even if it's invalid. Seriously, present some examples here, this talking in the abstract is stupid. We're all grown ups, no one is going to have the

Re: [arch-general] Customising arch iso

2010-03-12 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > you could also try a netinstall cd and enable the testing repository > in /tmp/pacman.conf.  IIRC aif (the installer) uses pacman with that > config file, so it might just work, although i never tried it myself. > if you are not afraid of

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH (dbscripts)] Fix permissions of incoming packages.

2010-03-09 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On Wednesday 10 March 2010 02:15:32 Dan McGee wrote: >> Inline them; that way they can be reviewed. >> >> -Dan > From 7a5c0584a3ad2fcf14659f5028534887bf929cf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Andrea Scarpino >

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH (dbscripts)] Fix permissions of incoming packages.

2010-03-09 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On Wednesday 10 March 2010 01:12:22 Daenyth Blank wrote: >> I doubt that running find is needed, just run chmod directly on the >> files being uploaded by commitpkg, or have repo-add chmod the >> individual files (it's running as root right?

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-03-09 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 09.03.2010 14:37, Ionut Biru wrote: >> On 03/09/2010 03:17 PM, Florian Pritz wrote: >>> On 09.03.2010 02:20, keenerd wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:13:38 -0600, Dan McGee  wrote >>>>>

Re: [arch-general] Resigning as a Bug Wrangler

2010-03-08 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Hello all, my free time is over to stay in the bugtracker in this year. > > In few days, I will start a new caeer "math professor", I am really very > happy because it's something I always wanted to study, and beyond that, I > really

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-03-08 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:20 PM, keenerd wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:13:38 -0600, Dan McGee wrote >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:09 PM, keenerd wrote: >> > There does not seem to be a documented "standard rsync" command for >> > the mirrors to use, so

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-03-08 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:09 PM, keenerd wrote: > There does not seem to be a documented "standard rsync" command for > the mirrors to use, so I'm making all sorts of wild assumptions about > what a mirror's rsync is doing. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Local_Mirror#The_synchronization_scrip

Re: [arch-general] can't register for Arch forums

2010-03-04 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 05/03/10 11:03, Andreas Wagner wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am thoroughly enjoying using arch linux so I have tried to register >> for the Arch forums. I have tried several times but I get the message: >> >> "Bots are unwelcome here. The door

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer wrote: > I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the > web.  Here's my question:  in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such > as: > >  NoExtract = usr/share/man/man1/mkisofs* >  NoExtract = etc/logrotate.d/* > > or: > >  N

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 11.02.2010 18:47, schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel: >> # pacman -S testing/mkinitcpio >> resolving dependencies... >> looking for inter-conflicts... >> >> Targets (2): mkinitcpio-busybox-1.15.3-4  mkinitcpio-0.5.99.5-1 >> >> Total Download

Re: [arch-general] pacman message: "too much happens::" ...

2010-02-05 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:08 PM, clemens fischer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm updating the pacman database about once a day.  For the last few > days I always get this message: > >  "too much happens:: Synchronizing package databases..." > > but everything works fine.  I checked usr/bin/pacman, > /usr/lib/

Re: [arch-general] AUR / Official Repo version problem

2010-02-05 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Brendan Long wrote: > On 02/05/2010 12:56 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: >> >> On 02/05/2010 09:51 PM, Brendan Long wrote: >>> >>> So I've been having a strange problem on my computer with updates. The >>> xulrunner package in the official repos didn't want to update because

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-01 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Well, Arch is rolling release distro, I agree. Arch rocks. But only one > thing. pacman should support installing multiple kernels. Developers need > not maintain the old version. Let it be in the cache of the user. But pacman > should n

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-01 Thread Dan McGee
2010/2/1 Nilesh Govindarajan : > On 02/01/2010 08:53 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 15:59 +0100, ludovic coues wrote: >>> >>> 2010/2/1 Emmanuel Benisty >>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > How to install multiple kernels using pacman

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-01-31 Thread Dan McGee
> We have a bit update today, and we see: The syncing process is not > really good. So I suggest to change the procedure mirrorsyncs are > done: We should have primary and secondary mirrors. When al.org is > updated, the sync process of the primary mirrors should be started via > ssh(or something s

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] Drastically reduce loading time of Todo lists

2010-01-30 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > Use Django's select_related() on the TodolistPkg QuerySet to avoid > making 4 database queries per package. This way we're making just one > query, regardless of the number of packages in the Todo list. > > Local testing with 1000 entrie

Re: [arch-general] One more tiny patch that should bring a massive performance boost :D

2010-01-25 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > Hello, > > During the recent libpng/libjpeg rebuilds, one thing that I noticed is > that (big) Todo lists are really slow to load. Turns out that the > current code is doing tons of simple queries (4 per package) which, > although are qu

Re: [arch-general] chsh, linux32 and $PATH

2010-01-24 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > I am trying to seamlessly run an x86_64 kernel on my i686 machine.  I have > enough aliases that most things work right (prefixing with linux32), but > bash can not handle setting e.g. "./configure" as an alias and there is > always something I

Re: [arch-general] Why is makepkg not using rc.d/functions?

2010-01-24 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Andres Perera wrote: > Is it strictly because it shouldn't depend on initscripts, or is there > another reason? makepkg is not Arch specific. That would quite clearly break that non-dependency. -Dan

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] pcmciautils-016-1

2010-01-24 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> Hi >> bump to latest version, please signoff. >> >> Changes to initcpio pcmcia hook were needed and added in git tree, >> on next mkinitcpio bump they will be included. >> - udev ru

Re: [arch-general] Mounting tmpfs on /dev. Why?

2010-01-24 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:14 PM, AlannY wrote: > Hi there. I'm newbie in Archlinux and I have another lame question. > > Recently, I've found that Arch mounts tmpfs on /dev. And, as you may see, > this makes big problem to some applications. Really? What type of problems? Because you will have muc

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-12 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Jim Pryor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:41:47PM -0600, Dan McGee wrote: >> > Very nice. When did you guys do that? >> >> Forever? It is in the initial git import from 2005, which is the >> beginnings of pacman 3.X: >> http

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-12 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Jim Pryor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:50:47PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> > pacman -Qii is your friend. >> >> This. >> pacman -Qii dcron will show you all the backup files that pacman will >> tak

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 11.01.2010 19:38, schrieb Aaron Griffin: >> If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in >> /etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be >> modified. Users are more than welcome to do what we don't intend

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cron

2010-01-05 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Jim Pryor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 09:52:45AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Aaron Griffin >> wrote: >> > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> Paul Mattal wrote: >> >>> >> >>> We've got several bugs rela

Re: [arch-general] Replies on arch-general to dev emails (was: Cron)

2010-01-04 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Jim Pryor > wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:52:38AM -0600, Dan McGee wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: >>> > >>> > I again an

[arch-general] Replies on arch-general to dev emails (was: Cron)

2010-01-04 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: > > I again answer to arch-general due to write permissions. > You realize you don't need to say this *every single time* you answer an email from arch-dev-public? We do this (restrict who can post to that list) quite on purpose, and this is the

Re: [arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?

2009-12-15 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On 15/12/2009, Giovanni Scafora wrote: >> 2009/12/15, Thomas Bächler : >>>  grep -qw "$governor" >>> sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors >>> || modprobe -q $mod >> >> Maybe a /  before sys/ is missing? >> grep -

Re: [arch-general] Problem updating system

2009-12-03 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Axel Müller wrote: > Am Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:41:05 +0530 schrieb Shridhar Daithankar: > >> Following is my /etc/pacman.conf >> --- [options] >> HoldPkg=pacman glibc >> SyncFirst=pacman >> >> [core] >> #Include=/

Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900??

2009-11-04 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:31:20 -0600 > "David C. Rankin" wrote: > >> Listmates, >> >> New drive for my laptop so I dedicated it to Arch. Net install with >> 2009.08 went fine (although there really should be a warning when you >> leave instal

Re: [arch-general] Can't Install GRUB on a GPT Formatted Disk

2009-10-18 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Aaron Schaefer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Aaron Schaefer wrote: >> I'm trying to get GRUB installed on a pure GPT disk (I didn't know it >> was best to make a hybrid MBR/GPT), and it looks like a patch was >> added back in March 2008 for this >> (h

Re: [arch-general] Package "required by" doesn't look in AUR?

2009-10-07 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Phillip Smith wrote: > Example: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/fetchmail/ > > The etrn-poke package in the AUR requires fetchmail, however the page > above doesn't list that. Is the AUR not searched for packages that > depend on this package or is it a

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-10-06 Thread Dan McGee
2009/10/6 Sebastian Köhler : > > > Roman Kyrylych wrote: > >> LOL! How could I forget about this one? :-) > > > Actually I think it's kinda stupid that udev now needs 2.6.24  while the > official arch xen domu kernel in the "xen" package still is 2.6.18... 1. Remember the xen package is in [commun

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is > saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. > > What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered > "the best" now-a-days? What kinds of netboo

Re: [arch-general] lots of stale mirrors?

2009-09-21 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Ray Kohler wrote: > Following the community-deleting accident, a bunch of mirrors that are > usually up to date have only synced once, and are now 30+ hours out of > date. A bunch of other mirrors still haven't synced at all since > community was repaired, and are

Re: [arch-general] Incorrect downloads page (WAS ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues)

2009-09-17 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 09:57:44 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: >> For 2009.08 the downloads page was updated here and there.  now >> http://www.archlinux.org/download/ shows the old page with the 2009.02 >>  stuff >> >> anyone know how t

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.31-1

2009-09-12 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Dan McGee wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >>> Hi guys, >>> kernel 2.6.31 first test run ... >> >> Looking decent here. Noticed a few

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.31-1

2009-09-11 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> Hi guys, >> kernel 2.6.31 first test run ... > > Looking decent here. Noticed a few things: > > * new dmesg messages, not sure if they are of concern or

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.31-1

2009-09-10 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > kernel 2.6.31 first test run ... Looking decent here. Noticed a few things: * new dmesg messages, not sure if they are of concern or not: ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2]) processor LNXCPU:00: registered as cooling_d

Re: [arch-general] "hardware clock" on a VPS

2009-08-28 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Pierre Chapuis wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I was wondering if there's a means to specify, in rc.conf or somewhere else, > that you never want to set your hardware clock. > > That's because, on Xen-based VPS, the hardware clock is handled on the > hypervisor level,

Re: [arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

2009-08-25 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:38 PM, David C. > Rankin wrote: >> On Tuesday 25 August 2009 07:25:27 pm Pierre Schmitz wrote: >>> Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 01:49:52 schrieb David C. Rankin: >>> >         I'm glad to finally know what the problem

Re: [arch-general] Arch minimum kernel version (udev) and SliceHost

2009-08-10 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Pierre Chapuis wrote: > Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:29:02 -0500, > Dan McGee wrote on [arch-dev-public] : > >> Got a response from Slice: >> The following kernels are available for your slice to upgrade. Please >> let us know and we ca

Re: [arch-general] any packages on the repo are duplicated

2009-08-04 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 23:22, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> Am Dienstag 04 August 2009 22:13:37 schrieb Aaron Griffin: >>> 2009/8/4 Angel Velásquez : >>> > I am getting the e-mail of the rest of the mirrors admins to let them >>> > know about the i

Re: [arch-general] Arch minimum kernel version (was: [signoff] udev-145-1)

2009-08-03 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Dan McGee wrote: > 2009/8/3 Angel Velásquez : >>> >>> I'll shoot an email to Slicehost on my behalf to see what kernels they >>> have available. What other VPS providers offer Arch? It isn't a tough >>> thi

[arch-general] Arch minimum kernel version (was: [signoff] udev-145-1)

2009-08-03 Thread Dan McGee
2009/8/3 Angel Velásquez : >> >> I'll shoot an email to Slicehost on my behalf to see what kernels they >> have available. What other VPS providers offer Arch? It isn't a tough >> thing to find out how much we can get away with here. >> >> -Dan >> > > I think SevenL networks (who provide services t

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-145-1

2009-08-02 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: >> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: >> >>> Tobias Powalowski wrote: >>> >>> Hi bump to latest udev version, please test it well. Has many new things included, which also dig in glib2 and libusb

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-26 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Will Siddall wrote: > I know this isn't particularly an arch question, but I know Arch > people are better off to ask then most. > > I'm in the process of upgrading my hard drive in my laptop but with > the amounts of customizations I've done to my setup, I don't wa

Re: [arch-general] Where can I find the "boot" log to find out what failed on boot?

2009-07-25 Thread Dan McGee
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:49 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > >        Seems like a simple question, but I've searched /var/log and can't > find a file that contains the boot history showing all the "fail" messages > during boot. For some reason after the latest update, my i686 box showe

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] vc/* -> tty* transition - round 2

2009-07-23 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Ronald van Haren wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Pierre Schmitz > > wrote: >> >>     On Thursday 23 July 2009 14:21:43 Allan McRae wrote: >>     > Allan McRae wrote: >>     > > A couple of

Re: [arch-general] e1000e 2.6.30.1 kernel massive packet loss

2009-07-10 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Caleb Cushing wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> You can try booting with the nomsi kernel option. If that helps (and if it >> doesn't), can you please open an upstream bug report? > > out of curiousity since I downgraded using pacman

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-23 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:14 +0200, Xavier wrote: >> The only problem is that you can not always upgrade just one package. >> Sometimes you also need to upgrade a set of related packages. >> And in case of big rebuild, that set might be the whol

Re: [arch-general] kde-unstable install - Round 2 - There is a BUG here...

2009-06-17 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:49 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > DR, List > >        Here is the situation after the difficulty I had installing > kde-unstable on > the x86_64 box where I finally just installed with '-f', I have the exact > setup on an i686 box where I am trying to install kde-unstable,

Re: [arch-general] bash remote host completion gone

2009-06-16 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, prad wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:05:51 -0400 > Daenyth Blank wrote: > >> Additionally, you probably want to delete any hashed lines so they can >> be regenerated later. >> > that did it! > > i tried what aaron suggested last night actually and just now, but it

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Assigning bugs proposal

2009-06-08 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Alessandro Doro wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 05:24:16PM -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: >> And done all posible renames of tasks to the form "[pkgname] the title". >> Bugtracker now looks much more orderly. and the function "Bug Reports" >> from package view

Re: [arch-general] File conflicts upgrading licenses

2009-06-07 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Zé Ninguém wrote: > Hi there. > I am having some file conflicts when upgrading the licenses package, and I > don't understand why? > Here is the error: > > resolving dependencies... > looking for inter-conflicts... > > Targets (1): licenses-2.5-1 > > Total Download S

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vim plugins updated

2009-06-01 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Henning Garus wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Dan McGee wrote: >> I just went though all the vim-* packages and updated them to the >> latest versions, as well as changed their install location to match >> the new vim layout. Please

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

2009-05-30 Thread Dan McGee
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:28, ludovic coues wrote: >> Maybe that a PKGBUILD runned solution, could allow to set some >> pacman's config for this. >> Like a field " auto-restart_daemon = 1", wich you can set to 0, if you >> don't want. Same

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-12 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Tobias Kieslich wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009, Magnus Therning wrote: And a quick guess, it looks like the new vim package puts its colors here: /usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/ Any reason the old /usr/share/vim/ shouldn't be on the default runtimepa

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-11 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Tobias Kieslich wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Finally, the new vi* packages are up. There will be a little migration >> pain. For optimal results, I recommend to "sudo rm /usr/bin/{view

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-11 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Tobias Kieslich wrote: > Hi, > > Finally, the new vi* packages are up. There will be a little migration > pain. For optimal results, I recommend to "sudo rm /usr/bin/{view/rview}" > before you run "sudo pacman -Syu" Any ideas? dmc...@galway ~ $ vim .vimrc Error de

Re: [arch-general] Running setserial from rc.local

2009-05-10 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Sergi Pons Freixes wrote: > With the new Xorg, I need to run the command: > > setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x0200 irq 5 autoconfig > > At every boot to get the stylus working in a Tablet PC. I have put the line in > /etc/rc.local, as it contains "all the things which

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-05 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:20 PM, wrote: > the current vi package is actually nvi, the purpose of that was to have a > smaller package for core that also would not stall any updates of vim/gvim > while vi sits in testing. > > Th vim package is not uglier then it used to be before, actually it's le

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] gcc-4.4.0 toolchain rebuild with query about gcc-gcj and related packages

2009-04-26 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 05:27, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Allan McRae schrieb: >>> >>> Hmmm...   I thought about bumping this to 2.6.18 this time round (based on >>> nothing better that when good kernel headers became available) but decided >>

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] gcc-4.4.0 toolchain rebuild with query about gcc-gcj and related packages

2009-04-25 Thread Dan McGee
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > Dan McGee wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Allan McRae wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>>

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] gcc-4.4.0 toolchain rebuild with query about gcc-gcj and related packages

2009-04-25 Thread Dan McGee
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The gcc-4.4.0 toolchain rebuild is now in [testing].  Here is a rough >> ChangeLog: > Awesome, Thanks > I will build some things in a chroot, to see how it behaves. >> >> glibc: >> > One note here,

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-17 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: Actually, I kinda don't have that option. I still seriously don't understand what this is about. Your bug was not a bug. Period. >>> >>> That bug is not the single event that prompted me to write this mail. >>> It has happened a

Re: [arch-general] Having trouble compileing a2ps

2009-02-01 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > Daenyth Blank wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 09:44, Baho Utot wrote: >> >>> >>> In file included from path-concat.c:30: >>> /usr/include/string.h:234: error: expected identifier or '(' before >>> 'void' >>> /usr/include/string.h:234: error:

Re: [arch-general] Error with makepkg installing dependency

2009-01-17 Thread Dan McGee
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Baho Utot wrote: > stefan-husm...@t-online.de wrote: >> >> -Original Message- >> >>> >>> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:23:28 +0100 >>> Subject: [arch-general] Error with makepkg installing dependency >>> From: Baho Utot >>> To: General Discusson about Arch Li

Re: [arch-general] Pointless to use non-md5 for makepkg INTEGRITY_CHECK

2009-01-13 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Aaron Schaefer wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Aaron Griffin >> wrote: What's pacman-dev protected from? >>> >>> I think he meant he wasn't subscribed :) >> >> I subscribed and sent the p

Re: [arch-general] Pointless to use non-md5 for makepkg INTEGRITY_CHECK

2009-01-12 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Aaron Schaefer wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Aaron Griffin >> wrote: >>> Haven't we been over this like a hundred times? md5sums are not used >>> for security. Not ever. Nope. Nada. >>> >>> We

Re: [arch-general] Pointless to use non-md5 for makepkg INTEGRITY_CHECK

2009-01-11 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Aaron Schaefer wrote: > At the request of the upstream developer, I was attempting to change > the md5sums in my tarsnap PKGBUILD > (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22963) to use sha256 > instead, and ran across a couple of issues. The way makepkg works, >

[arch-general] Pacman 3.2.2 string freeze

2009-01-02 Thread Dan McGee
String freeze for the pacman 3.2.2 release is now in effect. Our pacman translation policy is outlined here. The important sections for translators are the introduction and up to (and including) pre-release updates. http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/translation-help.html As stated in the above docum

Re: [arch-general] bug in pacman? or something else?

2008-12-13 Thread Dan McGee
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Sentinel wrote: > Hello, > > Is this a bug, or pacman can not correctly figure out the version of > heimdal? Or maybe I am missing something...? > > I installed wireshark but with a workaround. I edited the PKGBUILD end > deleted the heimdal dependency. As I have t

Re: [arch-general] wrong file permissions in /var/lib/pacman/local

2008-12-12 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Hubert Grzeskowiak wrote: > Aaron Griffin schrieb: >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Hubert Grzeskowiak >> wrote: >>> Hubert Grzeskowiak schrieb: Aaron Griffin schrieb: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Hubert Grzeskowiak > wrote: >> Aaron Gri

Re: [arch-general] wrong file permissions in /var/lib/pacman/local

2008-12-11 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Hubert Grzeskowiak > wrote: >> Aaron Griffin schrieb: >>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Hubert Grzeskowiak >>> wrote: hi there, can it be, that the some dirs written to /var/lib/pacman/local/*

Re: [arch-general] Welcome Geoffroy Carrier!

2008-12-05 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Geoffroy Carrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many thanks to all of you. > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 18:12, Thayer Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Welcome aboard, Geoffroy! Is it pronounced JEFF-roy, jeff-ROY or neither? > > On this particular concern, let me

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-12-04 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Wed, 3 Dec 2008 19:40:59 -0600 > schrieb "Dan McGee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> So where do we stand on all of this? As I showed above, the makepkg >> and repo-add pieces ar

Re: [arch-general] x hotplugging probs

2008-12-01 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If anyone has a setup that he needed input hotplugging for, I'd be very >> interested to hear, because I cannot think of one. > > Hah, thanks Tho

Re: [arch-general] Custom repository

2008-11-28 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Loui Chang schrieb: >> >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 09:13:55AM -0500, Baho Utot wrote: >>> >>> I created a custom package repository to hold arch packages compiled >>> locally. I compile a newer package from abs then I have

Re: [arch-general] [.hu ftp mirror issue] unable (access denied) to rsync from rsync://rsync.archlinux.org/ftp/

2008-11-22 Thread Dan McGee
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Gergely TAMAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Sorry for spamming this list, but maybe someone here has an idea what is > going on ... > > - Forwarded message from Gergely TAMAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:32:51 +0100 > From: Gerg

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] memcached

2008-11-22 Thread Dan McGee
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dusty Phillips wrote: >> >> there's a lot of view based caching going on already, so just changing >> from locmem to memcached for caching should see a significant >> improvement. >> >> Dusty >> > > I don't understand th

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Rebuilding db-files to get information about optdepends

2008-11-21 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Loui Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:13:30AM -0800, Jason Chu wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Loui Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > How use

Re: [arch-general] Cannot log in to arch website

2008-11-14 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Daniel Diamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, it was for the forums. I was using the username that was listed in the > e-mail (I assume since it called me dldiamond that this was the username I > used, there are two that I go by and neither works). I tried pasti

Re: [arch-general] /arch/setup -> grub '#-*' marker in menu.lst

2008-11-12 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > seen in > http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=blob_plain;f=setup;hb=HEAD > : > # remove default entries by truncating file at our little tag (#-*) > sed -i -e '/#-\*/q' > > > Shouldn't it be: > sed -i

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [draft] pkgstats: contribution was never that easy

2008-11-06 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Loui Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:23:52AM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> here is an announcement draft based on Allan's proposal: >> >> >> Annoying bug you filed not fixed? Waiting on a package to be updated? >> If only the

Re: [arch-general] python 2.6 moving to extra

2008-11-02 Thread Dan McGee
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Rita Mäkelburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:40:49 -, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am moving python-2.6 and the associated rebuilds to [extra]. >> >> Allan >> >> > > Hello, > > now i cannot update the system, c

Re: [arch-general] Fifa: Flexible Installer Framework for Arch linux

2008-10-31 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 17:36 -0500, Aaron "Hussein" Griffin wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Aaron Hussein Griffin >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade problems

2008-10-23 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Louis Brazeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Raeven K.Bathory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> what happens if you remove the possibly corrupted cached file >> /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xextproto-7.0.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz >> > > The line : >

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade problems

2008-10-23 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Louis Brazeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can you run with --debug and show us the output? >> > > Aaron Griffin is trying to help me with my problem! I feel blessed :) > > The output of

Re: [arch-general] System upgrade fails

2008-10-17 Thread Dan McGee
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Manolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, i´ m getting this message when i try to upgrade my system (pacman > -Syu): > I have the system in spanish, so i write a translation of it: > > :: Starting full system upgrade... > resolving dependencies... > checking for

Re: [arch-general] Unable to build mplayer with dvdnav support

2008-10-06 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI, im trying to build mplayer with dvdnav support but havnt managed yet. > > Without --enable-dvdnav it will build but configure doesnt find dvdnav, with > it it fails to build with this error http://paste.pocoo.org/show/

Re: [arch-general] Arch-Sheriff - A script to match NetBSD vulnerability database against Arch Linux packages

2008-09-11 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Hugo Doria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea now is to create a way to notify a package maintainer about > the vulnerability and add a way to mark it as fixed in Arch. We also > want to create a login so the maintainers can mark all the > vulnerabilities that t

Re: [arch-general] Pacman 3.2.1 string freeze

2008-08-25 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/23 Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> String freeze for the pacman 3.2.1 release is now in effect. We have >> about 10 messages per language that are either fuzzy or new in this >>

[arch-general] Pacman 3.2.1 string freeze

2008-08-23 Thread Dan McGee
String freeze for the pacman 3.2.1 release is now in effect. We have about 10 messages per language that are either fuzzy or new in this release, so nothing too serious. I've made some of the easy updates myself for your convenience: "Description:" -> remove the space "None" -> remove the '\n' "dow

Re: [arch-general] rotate pacman log?

2008-08-07 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:42 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:38 PM, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I noticed that the pacman log doesn't get rotated. Seems like it should, >> > as >

Re: [arch-general] file 4.25-1 doesn't recognize PNG image files

2008-07-16 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Alessandro Doro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've found that the new version of 'file' (4.25-1, i686) recognizes png > files as data. > The previous version (4.24-1) is ok. > > This is an upstream bug (reproduced building the package in a five year > old suse system

[arch-general] String freeze for 3.2 release

2008-07-15 Thread Dan McGee
Allan has finally bugged me enough that its time for our pacman codebase to see the light and a new 3.2 release. So here is the call for the string freeze. I've CC-ed this to the Arch General list to see if anyone there is interested in helping out. PLEASE reply to the pacman-dev mailing list if y

Re: [arch-general] Will Firefox 3 be brought into extra ?

2008-06-18 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Loui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 03:24:50PM -0700, Allie Daneman wrote: >> Will Firefox 3 replace Firefox 2 in a future release ? > > It only came out yesterday and you're already questioning whether or not > it will be brought into extra. C

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Turkish Community Announcement

2008-06-12 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Alper KANAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey All, > > We, as the Turkish users of Arch Linux, have created our own community to > support, to translate, to develop our very beloved Linux distro on all > platforms. As our first gift to the community, we have translat

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