Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

2016-02-16 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 05:58:38PM +0100, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > Again... no "use case" apart from "I don't want to use systemd". That seems like a reasonable use case to me. My previous desktop box ran Arch. After setting it up Arch switched to systemd. When it came time to upgrade to a n

Re: [arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?

2010-05-25 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:13:00AM -0300, Rafael Beraldo wrote: > What nice ideas to prevent new installations...! I didn't know that it was > that easy to transfer a installation among different hardware. It's one of the many reasons I love Linux. I do a bit of distro hopping. I'm running OpenS

Re: [arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-12 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:08:37AM +0100, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > By the way, how do you search in the archives of the archlinux ML ? > especially on several months ? With Mutt's limit command. -- Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX What's the def

Re: [arch-general] AUR Release 1.5.0

2008-02-19 Thread Kevin Monceaux
-S, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Simo Leone wrote: I will be updating the AUR on main site sometime this evening. There might be intermittent downtime and maintenance messages, but downtime will be minimal. The new layout looks great. But, it appears to have broken the aurvote package. I just upda

[arch-general] Problem Reporting Question

2008-02-01 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Fellow Arch Enthusiasts, I noticed a problem with the ruby-python package in aur/community and added a comment to it. But, then I started wondering if I should have have flagged it as out of date or filed a bug instead. So, I thought I'd ask for future reference. The package isn't exactly

Re: [arch-general] New User(sort of) and a packaging question

2008-01-29 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Jason, On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Jason Chu wrote: Ok, this is probably going to take a little bit of fiddling. Let's get off the mailing list. Can you open a ticket in the bug tracker where we can talk about this more? Will do. Give me just a bit to register a bugtracker account. Kevin http:

Re: [arch-general] New User(sort of) and a packaging question

2008-01-29 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Jason, On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Jason Chu wrote: What does readelf -d /usr/bin/c3270 tell you? Namcap doesn't actually use ldd, it uses something faster and more accurate. I'm guessing it's the "Shared Library" section that important to namcap. readelf shows: 0x0001 (NEEDED)

Re: [arch-general] New User(sort of) and a packaging question

2008-01-29 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Jason, On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Jason Chu wrote: Ok, after building the PKGBUILD and running namcap on it, I got these messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a]$ namcap c3270-3.3.7p1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz c3270 W: Dependency included but already satisfied (ncurses) c3270 W: Dependency included but alre

Re: [arch-general] New User(sort of) and a packaging question

2008-01-29 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Jason, On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jason Chu wrote: Being the guy who wrote namcap, I'm pretty sure it doesn't do this at all. Can I get a copy of the PKGBUILD to test with? It sounds like it should be detecting these... I sent you a private e-mail with the PKGBUILD attached. Kevin http://www.Ra

Re: [arch-general] New User(sort of) and a packaging question

2008-01-28 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Travis Willard wrote: I think namcap ignores dependencies in the 'base' group, since everyone is expected to have base installed, maybe? I'm not 100% sure of its internals in this sense. That sounds like a reasonable possibility. To get an idea of whether it's more comm

Re: [arch-general] New User(sort of) and a packaging question

2008-01-28 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Travis Willard wrote: That's odd - it looks like it ought to depend on ncurses (and openssl?) at the very least. You can run pacman -Qo on those files to see what packages they belong to, and stick 'em in the deps. Well, it gets even stranger. I tried adding dependencies

Re: [arch-general] New User(sort of) and a packaging question

2008-01-28 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Travis Willard wrote: Build the package, then run namcap /path/to/pkgname-pkgver-pkgrel.pkg.tar.gz and it'll tell you. If you can't even build the package because of missing deps on your system, then check out the project's documentation - they're usually pretty good about

[arch-general] New User(sort of) and a packaging question

2008-01-28 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Fellow Arch Enthusiasts, I discovered Arch about a year ago, and loved it. I played around with it under VMware for a while, and even created a couple of packages for myself. At the time my hard drive really needed some reorganization/repartitioning before switching to another distribution.

Re: [arch-general] Repo Filename Search?

2008-01-25 Thread Kevin Monceaux
DR, On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, David Rosenstrauch wrote: If you're trying to search through your *installed* packages to find out which package owns a particular file on disk, you can use: pacman -Qo /the/file/name No, I was trying to search for packages that hadn't been installed yet that provi

[arch-general] Repo Filename Search?

2008-01-23 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Arch Enthusiasts, Does Arch Linux have a utility to search for packages that provide a particular file? I came across qfile via the wiki and tried it but can't seem to get it to work. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium e