On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:30:42 +0930
Ty wrote:
>
> On 22/06/2011, at 7:39 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
>
> > yuck.
> > if you just want to manage daemons running as your own user, su and
> > sudo shouldn't even be involved.
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Jun
yuck.
if you just want to manage daemons running as your own user, su and
sudo shouldn't even be involved.
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:05:35 +0100
Owain Sutton wrote:
> How about using /etc/rc.d/ scripts with 'su user' to start the
> program as the relevant user (as per the rtorrent wiki suggestion,
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:19:47 +0700
An Nguyen wrote:
> Try these guys
> supervisord
> daemontools
>
> :-)
those look neat. I wonder how they compare to each other and to
systemd (which is designed to deal with system- and user level
daemons as well)
Dieter
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:55:35 +0200
Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-06-11 02:22:56 +0200:
> > Hi Magnus,
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Magnus Therning
> > wrote:
> > > 1. As I read it, it's only blacklisting that's affected, is that
> > > c
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:53:31 +0300
Ionut Biru wrote:
> On 04/22/2011 07:23 AM, Heiko Baums wrote:
> > Am Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:07:35 -0400
> > schrieb Kaiting Chen:
> >
> >> First of all the cronie in [community-testing] is compiled with
> >> --enable-anacron. It installs not only an /etc/crontab b
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:02:04 +0200
Øyvind Heggstad wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:30:12 + (UTC)
> Leandro Costa via LinkedIn wrote:
>
> > LinkedIn
> > Leandro Costa requested to add you as a connection on
> > LinkedIn: --
> >
> > Gergely
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 06:45:29 -0400
Kaiting Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Dieter Plaetinck
> wrote:
>
> > > On the other hand this issue could be solved in a different way
> > > without any further discussions. There's a need for installing one
>
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 23:16:46 +0200
Heiko Baums wrote:
> On the other hand this issue could be solved in a different way
> without any further discussions. There's a need for installing one
> cron daemon, but no need for a default cron daemon. It's pretty the
> same issue as with the bootloaders. T
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 21:22:14 -0600
Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> I think that Arch would benefit from inducing SELinux as an option
> because it expands the venues available for Arch Linux systems, I
> also think that inclusion in base of SELinux requires a minimal
> amount of maintenance and SELinux is
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 20:23:21 -0400
Dave Reisner wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> A heads up for anyone using systemd, I've just pushed the latest tag
> to [community-testing]. It's going to be hanging out there until we at
> least see udev-167. More notably, there's been a fairly silly change
> [1] in place
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:06:57 -0400
David Campbell wrote:
> Excerpts from Dieter Plaetinck's message of 2011-03-27 10:01:35 -0400:
> > If I want to support GPT I will need decent utilities from upstream.
> > I know about parted and sgdisk but I need a toolset for:
> > - interactive partitioning
>
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:31:13 +0530
"KESHAV P.R." wrote:
> This is really question about users who do not care about what
> bootloader they have in their system and simply select the 1st one in
> the menu. Especially true in case of newbies (most of them).
I don't care if users break their instal
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:17:02 +0530
"KESHAV P.R." wrote:
> Hi all,
> I wanted to share my views on this whole discussion. Many
> people don't know the actual features and problems with individual
> boot-loaders.
>
> GRUB-Legacy
>
> - Kinda KISS (actually syslinux is more KISS)
> - Easy
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:40:58 +0100
Thomas Bächler wrote:
> We used to have lots of patches in the kernel (between 5 and 15), so a
> single -ARCH patch was created.
> Now, the number of patches is fairly small and I am thinking maybe we
> should go back to single patches.
>
> Optimally, we could
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:07:02 +0100
Cédric Girard wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Jan de Groot wrote:
>
> > The mailinglist was down also, so reporting it here doesn't help that
> > much.
> >
>
> Understood. Won't do it again. ;-)
>
is that the conlusion? if the website is down, do
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:26:08 -0600
Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Dieter Plaetinck
> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:58:19 -0600
> > Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> >
> > > But regardless, this should support the Arch style runle
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:58:19 -0600
Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> But regardless, this should support the Arch style runlevel.
maybe... in theory it's possible that in a month we switch to systemd as
official init system. this will probably not happen (soon), but just
saying.
> I do think that if it
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:36:51 +0100
didier gaumet wrote:
> The one reason of this problem I can think of is that being
> absent-minded, I forgot about somehow failing to upgrade properly to
> 2.6.37 after having *successfully* installed 2.6.33 from the iso.
>
> Please guys accept my apologies for
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 20:16:22 +0100
didier gaumet wrote:
> What puzzles me is to
> find a 2.6.37 kernel installed by this image: if I am not wrong, 2.6.37
> was out in 2011.01, eight months after the 2010.05 iso was out...
did you do a netinstall? that fetches the latest packages from the mirror..
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:58:23 +0100
Tom Willemsen wrote:
> > well I think it would be best to have a table that shows for each value of
> > each criterion, the last succesful state (if known)
> >
> > so, for example:
> >
> > criterion last known state
> > Arch:
> > - i686 OK on 201
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:44:22 +0100
Tom Willemsen wrote:
> Hey Dieter,
>
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 05:56:47PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > Hey Tom, what's the status?
> I'm very sorry, I haven't been able to get to it yet, I've only been
> able t
Hey Tom, what's the status?
If you have any questions, just let me know how I can help.
If you're not interested anymore, then let me know also, then I can search for
someone else :)
Dieter
anyone ever looked at http://netconf.alioth.debian.org/ ?
looks interesting. I know a bunch of us are working on network management
tools (like netcfg and replacements for it), but that one seems to have a good
philosophy and should be distro independent.
Dieter
Note that I've been talking with Tom on Fosdem, and we already
privately mailed about this.
In a mail he asked "why not let AIF create a textfile
automatically, then just submit that textfile to the webapp?"
I think that's a good idea:
- less manual work for the user.
- no webform needed (but we n
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:47:51 +0100
Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 10.02.2011 10:39, schrieb Tom Willemsen:
> > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 07:40:24PM -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote:
> >> Hey I might be able to do it. But it's not going to look pretty
> >> because I'm not a designer. --Kaiting.
> > How is this
Hi,
for Arch releng, we have recently started automatically building test builds
(http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/). These images are built from the archiso
and aif git repositories, and the current state of the repos.
The idea is that people can test these images, and once in a while, I will
p
I gave an AIF (related) talk at Fosdem this year.
For more info, video and slides:
http://dieter.plaetinck.be/can_we_build_a_simple_cross-distribution_installation_framework.html
Dieter
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:21:28 +0200
Ionuț Bîru wrote:
> On 01/25/2011 11:14 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote:
> > ti, 2011-01-25 kello 22:13 +0100, Grzegorz Rumiński kirjoitti:
> >
> >> Hi lads,
> >>
> >> Can I selectively install apackage from [testing] repo or do I
> >> have to uncomment it in pacma
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:32:16 +
Mauro Santos wrote:
> I guess they do (or they should, never tried it myself) and I also
> believe that they ask for the email's password before they can spam
> mail everyone.
> To add insult to injury some sites require (or used to require) an
> email address a
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:12:06 +
Peter Lewis wrote:
> It seems to be that
> either someone uploads their entire addressbook to a random website
> (doesn't seem like a clever idea) or else gives the website their
> email password (very bad idea).
It's probably the easiest way to invite your (le
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:36:45 +0100
Jelle van der Waa wrote:
> Secondly on the forums probably the trolls won't reply ;)
afaik forums contains more trolls then mailing list.
Dieter
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:16:34 +0100
Jan Steffens wrote:
> Arch's init system is completely ignorant of dependencies.
Depends on how you look at it, I guess.
I see the explicit ordering and backgrounding of daemons (done by the
user) in rc.conf as a (very crude) form of "dependency/parallelisation
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:20:58 +0100
Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 19.01.2011 08:08, schrieb Allan McRae:
> > If we want to be really pedantic about dependencies, we should list
> > _ALL_ dependencies and not remove the ones that are dependencies of
> > dependencies.
>
> Why don't we just do the corr
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:08:27 +1000
Allan McRae wrote:
> On 19/01/11 15:19, Kaiting Chen wrote:
> > Okay everyone, every time I ask I get a different answer. According
> > to Dziedzic and Allan 'glibc' does *not* belong in 'depends'. Also
> > Dziedzic votes that *no* package in 'base' should be in
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:25:34 +1030
"Ty John (sand_man)" wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 08:46 +, Alex Matviychuk wrote:
> > LinkedIn
> >
> >
> >
> > General,
> >
> > I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.
> LOL major fail
Captain awesome!
Dieter
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:29:59 -0500
Daenyth Blank wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm happy to announce that after a far-too-long wait, the latest
> version of pkgtools is released! This version is a complete rewrite
> from the ground up. The slow parts have been rewritten in C for a huge
> speed increase,
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:52:03 -0500
Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
> Hello Community,
>
> Over the last few weeks I have been working on Syslinux support for
> the installer. With the help Thomas and Dieter I am nearing the
> completion of this project. As part of this project, I have written a
> script
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:46:24 +0100
Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> while testing new images, I get this:
> http://users.edpnet.be/dieter/vbox-or-kernel-or-mkinitcpio-bug.png
>
> the error messages show up in google results and seem to be bugs in
> the Linux swap code and/or drivers.
>
while testing new images, I get this:
http://users.edpnet.be/dieter/vbox-or-kernel-or-mkinitcpio-bug.png
the error messages show up in google results and seem to be bugs in the
Linux swap code and/or drivers.
interestingly, at first aif/dialog/mkinitcpio/find just keep running,
but after a while
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 08:56:24 -0500
Dave Reisner wrote:
> I highly doubt that this was _ever_ a question of size in the repos.
> More likely, It's a matter of time vs. gain for a small number of
> volunteers. If you're a user who knows that they want a particular
> exotic filesystem that isn't wide
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:30:03 +0100
Heiko Baums wrote:
> Also the netinstall iso can only install from [core] as
> far as I know.
not entirely correct, but that would be off-topic.
> But on the other hand every filesystem related package has to be
> removed from (base), while AIF should then be a
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:10:12 +0100
Thomas Bächler wrote:
> The problem is: If blkid finds more than one valid signature, it will
> not return anything, and we will mistakenly believe that there is no
> file system (and happily overwrite the drive). This part of
> initscripts is giving me a headac
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:06:10 -0500
Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
> Hello
>
> I want to add extlinux support in AIF. However, unlike grub, where
> grub-install takes care of everything, extlinux
> requires /boot/syslinux to be created and some files
> from /usr/lib/syslinux to be copied to /boot/sysli
FWIW:
I've gone through the archives and found multiple threads about our
cron discussions.
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2009-September/
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-January
(esp.
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-Ja
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:54:43 -0400
David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> I work near Penn Station.
>
> Let's take this off-list.
>
> DR
Allright, cool that there are some people interested in meeting up!
I will contact you guys off-list.
If anyone else would like to join some fellow Archers in NYC for
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:24:36 -0500
"David C. Rankin" wrote:
> Guys,
>
> For those that rely on OpenOffice, and for those that prepare
> the packages, it's official, OpenOffice forked as of Sept. 28, 2010.
> Here is the press release:
>
> http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_relea
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:20:29 +0530
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:05 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu)
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mike Sampson
> > wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, jesse jaara
> >> wrote:
> >>> Did anyone else revice some old maiöing list me
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:44:52 +0200
Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> Latest kernel is in testing,
> please signoff for both arches.
>
> greetings
> tpowa
Signoff i686 lvm/encrypt
this kernel fixes Alan's[1] big sata_sil breakage, making my system boot
again. ( see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:07:30 +0200
Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > Anyway, whats the rush? They will change eventually. There should
> > be no (or very few) $startdir/{src,pkg} in [core].
>
> As I already said at the beginning:
>
> > Although this isn't really significant... I was just curious :)
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:01:43 -0500
C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Philipp Überbacher
> wrote:
> > Excerpts from Dieter Plaetinck's message of 2010-09-08 21:47:40
> > +0200:
> >> anyone knows this? http://bugseverywhere.org/be/show/HomePage
> >>
> >> the concept looks
anyone knows this? http://bugseverywhere.org/be/show/HomePage
the concept looks great, although i don't know anything about the
implementation/usage.
other then the advantages they list, I think something like this can be
useful for downstream<->upstream communication. (ie someone reports a
bug i
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:52:12 +0800 (CST)
大熊 wrote:
> I use xbindkeys under kde4 (start xbindkeys with kde's autorun), add
> some hotkeys: win+a, win+c, win+h, win+j, ... When kde4.4, All are OK.
> Few days ago I upgraded to kde4.5 , So something is wrong: When I
> just enter desktop, some keys( w
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:02:43 +1100
"joker-...@yandex.ru" wrote:
>
> What do you think about it? Need to be in Arch?
>
> During booting before starting daemons appears message:
>
> "Press I to enter interactive boot mode"
>
> Interactive boot allows to select action for each daemon such "start
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 09:58:15 +0100
Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 09:35, Dieter Plaetinck
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 11:23:49 +0300
> > jesse jaara wrote:
> >
> >> 2010/8/3 Magnus Therning
> >> >
> >>
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 11:23:49 +0300
jesse jaara wrote:
> 2010/8/3 Magnus Therning
> >
> > One way to solve it would be to add a fourth set of credentials :-)
> > For instance OpenID.
I never understood why there is a need for openid when there are client
ssl certificates. I never got why ssl cli
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:00:09 -0500
"David C. Rankin" wrote:
> Well sometimes the stupid ones among us don't always catch
> that dovecot is being updated when it is one of 73+ updates that take
> place. But we 'do' always catch the failure to copy to sent --
> later :p
>
> Seriously,
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:43:03 +0300
jesse jaara wrote:
> 2010/8/3 Martín Cigorraga
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > is possible to image my current Arch system into a USB pendrive and
> > use it from there?
> > Many thanks!
> >
> > Martín
> >
>
> It is possible you will have to reformat your pendrive to use
>
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:08:50 +0200
Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:31:47 +0200
> schrieb Pierre Chapuis :
>
> > Just for information, the opposite point of view recently came up on
> > the suckless mailing-list:
> > http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1007/5256.html
> >
> > I prefer Arch's
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:31:47 +0200
Pierre Chapuis wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:58:00 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:46:33 +0200
> > Heiko Baums wrote:
> >
> >> I don't think that nilfs-utils should be moved to the base group
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:46:33 +0200
Heiko Baums wrote:
> I don't think that nilfs-utils should be moved to the base group. I
> agree with moving it to [core] but not to base, because base is
> assumed to be installed on every computer and packages in the base
> group are usually not listed in the d
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:47:24 -0700
Alex Matviychuk wrote:
> I just spent some time setting up my new laptop with an SSD to use
> NILFS2 as its root filesystem and I'm very pleased with the
> performance.
>
> In an effort to get better support for NILFS2 in arch I've added a
> request to move nil
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:20:39 -0500
Victor Lowther wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Dieter Plaetinck
> wrote:
>
> > fwiw in AIF I do something similar (see
> > http://github.com/Dieterbe/aif/blob/master/src/core/libs/lib-blockdevices-filesystems.sh#L457
> >
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:48:45 +0700
Emmanuel Benisty wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Thomas Bächler
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I -Syu'd and rebooted all our servers, let me know if there are any
> > problems.
> >
> >
>
> no idea if it's related or if I missed something but abs'ing yes
fwiw in AIF I do something similar (see
http://github.com/Dieterbe/aif/blob/master/src/core/libs/lib-blockdevices-filesystems.sh#L457)
(but there i use a text file containing all mountpoints)
The interesting thing is, to find the order in which you should mount
or (or umount) blockdevices can be f
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:16:58 +0800
Ray Rashif wrote:
> On 27 June 2010 17:35, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > So, what?
> > we better include ppp and not wvdial?
>
> No, it will definitely help if it's included - you just have to make
> an exception and try to f
So, what?
we better include ppp and not wvdial?
Dieter
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:22:39 -0600
jwbirdsong wrote:
> On 06/25/2010 11:54 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Recently I've been going to my friends' house and installing arch
> > on their boxes. Some of them had high speed wireless dialup
> > internet (3.1 megabytes/s is the max) w
On Sat, 22 May 2010 12:51:39 +0200
"Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" wrote:
> now i only wonder what would be the best way and place to save these
> variables in the installed system ?
are you saying the target system should always use the proxies, for all
users?
maybe write the variables into /etc/profi
On Sat, 22 May 2010 02:04:41 +0200
"Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Dieter Plaetinck
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 May 2010 22:41:12 +0200
> > "Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" wrote:
> >
> >> &g
On Fri, 21 May 2010 22:41:12 +0200
"Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" wrote:
> >> just gives me the usage info, without any
> >> errors... and also the "Invalid URL scheme" errors that i see in
> >> tty7 are nowhere to find in /var/log/*
> >
> > what i would do in a case like this is just monitor the outpu
On Fri, 21 May 2010 22:19:18 +0200
"Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" wrote:
> Hello Arch,
>
> is anyone using the arch installer with squid proxy ?
> (or any other cache proxy)
>
> i'm again so close my goal that it makes me nervous :)
>
> - squid installed on the host machine, 192.168.0.35:3128
> - vb
On Mon, 17 May 2010 23:55:57 +0200
Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 17.05.2010 23:36, schrieb Fons Adriaensen:
> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 05:17:28PM +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> >
> >> I built new images, dated 2010.05.16 (aka "final final images" ;))
>
On Mon, 17 May 2010 00:25:24 +0200
Dries De Smet wrote:
> I'm sorry if I caused anyone work over this, but I must have been
> sleepy, I saw the link to the images, downloaded the first netinstall
> I saw & tested it, not realising it was the new image, but the one
> from april :-( .
>
> Feel a b
On Sun, 16 May 2010 20:12:32 +0200
Karol Babioch wrote:
> On Sunday 16 May 2010 17:17:28 Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > So right now, these two things are needed:
> > * confirmation that archlinux-2010.05.16-core-x86_64.iso boots fine.
> > * confirmation that wireless cards are
On Sun, 16 May 2010 23:28:24 +0800
Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> Would like to help testing it out, but my weekend internet (home
> connection) sucks, and by the time I get into the office it may be
> done already. In any case, if that doesn't happen I'll try to get the
> last two things confirmed.
>
> By
Okay guys,
props to Thomas for finding out the problem with the initialization of
wireless cards.
I built new images, dated 2010.05.16 (aka "final final images" ;)) in
which this should be fixed, and which also come with updated core
packages, most notably kernel26-2.6.33.4-1
http://build.archl
On Sun, 16 May 2010 10:41:39 +0200
Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 2010 10:22:30 +0200
> Michael Towers wrote:
>
> > 2010/5/15 Dries De Smet :
> > > archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-i686.iso , installed on asus 1005
> > > HA, from usb stick, everyth
On Sun, 16 May 2010 10:22:30 +0200
Michael Towers wrote:
> 2010/5/15 Dries De Smet :
> > archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-i686.iso , installed on asus 1005
> > HA, from usb stick, everything went fine. Just didn't detect
> > wireless with kernel 2.6.32, but that's solved after updating.
> >
>
> A
On Sat, 15 May 2010 10:04:40 +0300
Dmitry Korzhevin wrote:
> 14.05.2010 18:16, Dieter Plaetinck пишет:
> > new images are done.
> > version: 2010.05.13
> >
> > these are the images I want to rename to an official 2010.05 release
> > after testing.
> &
new images are done.
version: 2010.05.13
these are the images I want to rename to an official 2010.05 release
after testing.
http://build.archlinux.org/isos/Changelog
http://build.archlinux.org/isos/
how should they be tested?
for every file, that is:
archlinux-2010.05.13-core-dual.iso
archlin
On Sat, 08 May 2010 11:50:27 +0200
Mathieu Pasquet wrote:
> On 07/05/2010 21:53, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> >> > Archlinux have rolling releases. You can use *netinstall*.iso for
> >> > installing new software or just do `pacman -Syu` after install.
>
> I second
On Sun, 02 May 2010 17:49:13 +0200
Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> This new kernel just exports some additional symbols for aufs2 which
> was updated to a new snapshot. This should hopefully fix some issues
> with the .33 kernel and aufs. Related aufs packages are: aufs2
> 2.6.33_20100425-2 and aufs2-uti
On Fri, 7 May 2010 08:42:39 +0300
Nick Stepa wrote:
> Archlinux have rolling releases. You can use *netinstall*.iso for
> installing new software or just do `pacman -Syu` after install.
updated images are good for support of new hardware, filesystems, ..
Dieter
On Wed, 5 May 2010 18:49:44 -0500
C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> any other ideas besides rollbacks and an original snapshot that btrfs
> could be used for?
IIRC it supports data checksumming.
about the whole snapshot/volume naming thing: do what you think is best.
i cannot advise you because i don
> in my opinion we need to let AIF/etc. integration mature along with
> the FS itself. this way when BTRFS is marked "stable" the tools will
> be ready as well and it will be a minor transition.
I could not say it better myself.
It always takes a while until the 'experimental' flag is removed in
On Sun, 02 May 2010 12:55:19 +0200
Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> On 02.05.2010 12:37, Allan McRae wrote:
> > On 02/05/10 20:33, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> >> why is it the new iso's never made the download page?
> >
> > Because they were testing builds and never released...
> > Allan
> >
> >
> >
> Come
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:03:50 -0500
"David C. Rankin" wrote:
> On 04/13/2010 02:58 PM, Flavio Costa wrote:
> > What about that: for i in $(ls -1 /etc/rc.d); do alias
> > rc-$i="/etc/rc,d/$i"; done
> > That's simple and dynamic, just insert it on your .bashrc ou
> > /etc/bash.bashrc (global)
> >
>
"release team" currently that means me.
yes, i'm working on new images.
see:
http://build.archlinux.org/isos/
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2010-March/thread.html
progress is rather slow, but there is not so much work anymore, so
they'll come..
Dieter
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 22:21:11 +0200
f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
> I have another question. The next installs will be 3 clones:
> identical HW, same packages and configuration, they will run
> the same SW at the same time (three audio computation servers,
> each taking care of 64 channels). Is there
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:12:15 +0200
Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:57:10 +0200
> schrieb Dieter Plaetinck :
>
> > well, if you use the old 2009.8 images which has the old aif, it
> > will indeed give problems when you install the latest packages
> > (althoug
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 18:38:34 +0200
f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I wanted to do a new install today, using netinstall
> on an USB stick which has worked at least 5 times
> before, the last time less than two weeks ago.
>
> Things failed in the 'Configure System' phase, seems
> I
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:54:56 +0100
Nathan Wayde wrote:
> Comparing with the delta (between the original packages) which 5.3MB
> it's not a whole lot while allowing more flexibility(IMHO).
I don't see the point. with binary delta's you get smaller packages
and getting the non-changed files "aga
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:57:46 -0600
Dan McGee wrote:
> 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
> > confi
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:17:07 +
Damien Churchill wrote:
> On 12 March 2010 12:14, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > you can also build your own iso's using archiso.
> > it's pretty easy, although you need archiso from git and you must
> > let it look in a repository
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:49:36 +
Damien Churchill wrote:
> On 12 March 2010 10:56, Damien Churchill wrote:
> > On 12 March 2010 10:54, Ionut Biru wrote:
> >>
> >> On 03/12/2010 12:51 PM, Damien Churchill wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I was just wondering if there are there any up to date
> >>> instructi
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:04:50 -0600
Aaron Griffin wrote:
> I agree with everyone else that's said it. This comes up often enough
> but no one ever has a good workflow that works. I have seen nothing
> proposed in this thread that is good. The ONLY thing gained is "oh
> neat, it's in git". We lose q
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:04:40 -0300
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> 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 like teaching.
> Besides, I work as a teacher in a secondary school in e
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:07:07 +0530
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Dieter Plaetinck
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 22:33:16 +0530
> > Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> >
> >> So you want to do a templated installation something like th
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 22:33:16 +0530
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> So you want to do a templated installation something like that of
> kickstart availalbe in Fedora, Redhat and CentOS.
>
> It is possible using Arch Installation Framework but it is under
> development and not meant for use in product
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:51:30 +0100
Stefan Husmann wrote:
> > 4) users can check out older versions of packages easily, with
> > limited storage overhead.
> Do you want to store binary packages in the git repo? Maybe I
> misunderstand you. Checking out older PKGBUILDs would be doable in
> svn als
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