Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 10:40:27AM -0600, Stephen Martin wrote: > If you want to use arch in a server environment, you should probably use your > own repo to be safe. > > Have a testing machine be on rolling release. When that machine is stable, > push its packages to a private repo and update you

Re: [arch-general] netctl provides wifi-menu which is unusable

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 06:10:39PM +0100, Nowaker wrote: > Guys, the goal of this "slanted ranting" (really?) is to propose a > good solution and make Arch better. Please refrain from implying that the current state needs being made better in the first place. This is exactly what we're trying to d

Re: [arch-general] broken system after today upgrade

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:21:12AM +0100, arnaud gaboury wrote: > I was thereafter happy to log into my system, with no kernel panic ! > I decided to reinstall all packages from the "broken" upgrade. > > Nevertheless, everything is not fine. Somme apps are broken, and do not > know why. I guess it

Re: [arch-general] Secure Boot Support

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 04:23:27PM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > But Thomas is right: this has to be implemented and tested by those who > own such hardware; which at this time we don't. Seems like a perfect opportunity to spend some hard-earned donation money on a test rig, no? Greetings, Den

[arch-general] Quoting mails like a boss (was: Re: IRC channel)

Thomas Rand wrote: [snipped irrelevant content] > I use gmail yet ooh I bottom post! *chuckles* And tomorrow we'll learn how to quote properly and how to modify a subject line, while we're on the topic of mail hygiene? And all that without undue sarcasm, but in a polite and helpful manner? Imposs

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:53:02AM -0400, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: > As far as ML noise goes, that's what killfiles and client-side filters > are for, no? People can (or at least should be able to) configure their > mailreaders to mute people or topics they want to mute. This. This so very much. We'

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:59:29PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:31 +0200, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: > > On 26 July 2012 12:07, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I don't claim to be an expert, I already mentioned that I'm a dummy. So > > > again: Is Linux in the future for experts

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:45:28PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > "Never change a winning team" as long as your alternative for sure does > improve the computer usage for everybody. I assume you wanted to say "unless" instead of "as long as". First off, "everybody" is not Arch Linux' target demogra

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:07:02PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't claim to be an expert, I already mentioned that I'm a dummy. So > again: Is Linux in the future for experts only? I'm at a loss what kind of answer you are expecting, nobody has any "right" or even the ability to answer such a

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:52:49AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:43 +0300, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > > wrote: > > > With respect to daemons, the BEFORE and AFTER in the service files is > > > redundant and though not like

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general]WIKI/pacman -Sy

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 03:56:25PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > On the *pacman WIKI*, there is a useful Warning: > **When installing packages, do *not* refresh the package list > without upgrading > the > system (i.e. |pacman -Sy /pac

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:36:17AM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > add this in my */etc/rc.local.shutdown*: > > |*echo "Copying LOGs..." > > now=`date +"%Y%m%d_%Hh%M"` > mkdir -p /logs_backup/$now > cp -Rp /var/log/* ~/backup/logs_backup/$now/* > > My ~ folder is on another HD. > > Will this scrip

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:31:49PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > On 06/19/2012 04:20 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > >On 06/19/2012 04:14 PM, gt wrote: > >>Can you please elaborate how you manage the regular updates, especially > >>kernel, udev, glibc etc. Do you hold back the upgrades to package

Re: [arch-general] Time for new release?

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:00:27PM +0200, Geoffroy PLANQUART wrote: > > > > However: Distributing a pacman keychain master key to more than one machine > > is > > rarely a sensible solution. If you actually want the very specific > > additional > > security checks offered by only allowing signed

Re: [arch-general] Time for new release?

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 09:25:25PM +0200, Geoffroy PLANQUART wrote: > I noticed that every time I set up a new VM, I have to manually run the > `pacman-key --init' and `pacman-key --populate archlinux'. > > Wouldn't it be time to set up a new installation release? Thus new users > wouldn't have to

[arch-general] Minecraft on x86_64 with OpenJDK7 (was: Re: [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?)

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:06:09AM +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:50:24AM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > Am 13.06.2012 21:57, schrieb Chris Sakalis: > > > Hello, > > > not a very important application, and there may be some workaroun

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:50:24AM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 13.06.2012 21:57, schrieb Chris Sakalis: > > Hello, > > not a very important application, and there may be some workarounds, > > but with openjdk7 Minecraft [1] fails to load the correct bundled > > libraries on 64bit. From the ex

Re: [arch-general] libusbx upgrade problem, conflicting with usbmuxd

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 10:09:44AM +0200, fredbezies wrote: > Got this : > > :: Remplacer libusb par testing/libusbx ? [O/n] o > [...] > > English version : > > Replace by testing / libusbx? [Y / n] y > [...] I've got nothing to say regarding the issue, but nevertheless: When reporting any prog

Re: [arch-general] makepkg is creating BOTH a /pkg and pkgusr on build??

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 07:54:27AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > OK, I'll check again for the package manipulating pkgdir, because I'm using > the standard package: > > package() { > msg "Packaging ${pkgname}-${pkgver}" > > cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver} > > make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install > } In

Re: [arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 08:04:27AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried setting up emacspeak and emacspeak needs two variables exported to > the user's .profile file in order to work. The EMACSPEAK_DIR variable > needs to point at the location of emacspeak and DTK_PROGRAM needs to point > at t

Re: [arch-general] Seemingly archlinux specific problem with logkeys

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 07:03:56AM -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote: > On 01/04/2012 06:33 AM, SanskritFritz wrote: > > I started a topic on the forum, but we didnt reach to any solution: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129528 > > > > In hope for a more competent audience, I repost my qu

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mounting linux partition with gid

On Thu, June 26, 2008 17:00, Ralph Alvy wrote: > How do I create a Linux data partition that's fully accessible to me, as > user, after boot? $ sudo chgrp -R Is that a trick question? *wondering* Dennis

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

On Wed, June 11, 2008 14:45, Dave Heistand wrote: > Hi, Greetings! > What I'm looking for is a way to see a diff of my package cache prior to > and just after syncing, i.e. what packages are out of date (which pacman > does show), what packages have been removed from the repositories since my > la

Re: [arch-general] GTK applications can not remember their last position

On Tue, June 10, 2008 10:32, Chris Bolton wrote: > if you go to that bug page, and follow the link to the upstream bug > report, apparently there's a patch that fixed. Unfortunately, I have no > idea how to apply that patch. can someone provide instructions? thanks. I uploaded a PKGBUILD integrati

Re: [arch-general] Closing bugreports too fast?

On Wed, April 30, 2008 13:41, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > It's not - more - an issue for me, I've learned my lesson ;-) (That is, > was Xavier mentioned in his answer). But i know 3 other tasks were the > user must be pointed: Look directly to #12345, the problem you ask about > is already fixed (and