[arch-general] How to convert a 32-bit system to 64-bit?

2010-09-04 Thread Lauri Niskanen
I have a working 32-bit Arch Linux server. It's more like a testing playground than a production server. I decided to convert it to a 64-bit system. I could reinstall Arch, but is there any easier way to do the "upgrade"? I'd like to retain my list of applications, configuration and user files

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1

2010-08-21 Thread Lauri Niskanen
On 08/21/2010 06:17 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 18:51 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Lauri Niskanen wrote: On 08/21/2010 01:33 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: noob question: what does this signoff means? Basically it means that it works OK for

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1

2010-08-21 Thread Lauri Niskanen
On 08/21/2010 01:33 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: noob question: what does this signoff means? Basically it means that it works OK for you and you are willing to "sign off the declaration the package is OK and can be moved to [core]." Usually it's not used for packages from [extra] or [community

Re: [arch-general] /etc/profile PATH variable wrong

2010-08-15 Thread Lauri Niskanen
However in Judd's case I would think ~/bin would be better suited for user scripts unless he needs to use them system wide ie. as another user. since its much easier to edit save the files and does not require root privileges to modify Mike I use ~/.local/bin for user specific applications and

Re: [arch-general] Why does pacman 3.4 reacts so slow to SIGINT?

2010-07-08 Thread Lauri Niskanen
On 07/08/2010 06:02 PM, Lukas Grässlin wrote: I often use Ctrl+C when I forgot something and want to cancel the installations and I'm sure it reacts a lot slower than before. (Seen that on multiple machines) On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 07:22:00AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote: 2010/7/8 Lukas Grässlin: Hi

Re: [arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too long.

2010-06-26 Thread Lauri Niskanen
On 06/26/2010 11:11 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 26/06/10 17:43, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 06/26/2010 10:28 AM, Lauri Niskanen wrote: Hello, hi it is stable enough for Arch and 1.0.1 is just too out date. Please update vlc to 1.1.0 and Wine to 1.2-rc5. rc version doesn't belong in our off

Re: [arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too long.

2010-06-26 Thread Lauri Niskanen
On 06/26/2010 11:05 AM, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 06/26/2010 10:28 AM, Lauri Niskanen wrote: Hello, hi it is stable enough for Arch and 1.0.1 is just too out date. Please update vlc to 1.1.0 and Wine to 1.2-rc5. rc version

Re: [arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too long.

2010-06-26 Thread Lauri Niskanen
On 06/26/2010 10:30 AM, Lauri Niskanen wrote: Hello, usually Arch Linux have had very quick updates to packages when the upstream bumbed a version. However, I am slightly annoyed by the fact that VLC [1] and Wine [2] have been out-of-date for a long time. VLC 1.1.0 was released about a week

[arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too long.

2010-06-26 Thread Lauri Niskanen
Hello, usually Arch Linux have had very quick updates to packages when the upstream bumbed a version. However, I am slightly annoyed by the fact that VLC [1] and Wine [2] have been out-of-date for a long time. VLC 1.1.0 was released about a week ago and Wine 1.2-rc1 was released on 2010-05-21.

[arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too long.

2010-06-26 Thread Lauri Niskanen
Hello, usually Arch Linux have had very quick updates to packages when the upstream bumbed a version. However, I am slightly annoyed by the fact that VLC [1] and Wine [2] have been out-of-date for a long time. VLC 1.1.0 was released about a week ago and Wine 1.2-rc1 was released on 2010-05-2

Re: [arch-general] Is it possible to move Mumble to community repository?

2009-10-15 Thread Lauri Niskanen
2009/10/15 Thomas Bächler : > Lauri Niskanen schrieb: >> >> Hello, >> >> Mumble [1] is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat >> software. It has a stable version package on AUR [2]. Would it be >> possible to have Mumble in [community]? >&

[arch-general] Is it possible to move Mumble to community repository?

2009-10-15 Thread Lauri Niskanen
Hello, Mumble [1] is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software. It has a stable version package on AUR [2]. Would it be possible to have Mumble in [community]? Mumble is very popular application and it doesn't have any license issues [3]. It has 216 votes on AUR. Pkgstats repo