Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] final leg of /lib removal

2012-07-04 Thread Linas
On 04/07/12 00:43, Dave Reisner wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:42:09AM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On the flip side, most custom kernel users should be more savvy than the average, do I don't see much of a problem. I maintain two aur kennels, shall I implement the move now (seems like it'd work

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-10 Thread Linas
Ng Oon-Ee wrote: Dedicated to the relatively-closed and more-constrained version of whats in the repos. Sure =) The distros have jumped fast, but I'm wondering about the Windows users of openoffice, seems to me none of them would try libreoffice just because its there (and frankly the

Re: [arch-general] Build in clean chroot

2011-03-10 Thread Linas
Baho Utot wrote: This gives me an error /build/PKGBUILD: line 25: cd: /trinity.source/kdepim: Too many levels of symbolic links I want to symlink the svn repo to inside the chroot so when makechrootpkg -c -r chrootdir creates the clean copy it doesn't have to copy the entire svn source

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37.3-1

2011-03-10 Thread Linas
Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, - bump to latest version greetings tpowa X still broken :(

Re: [arch-general] Arduino 64 Wiki page

2010-12-21 Thread Linas
Ivan S. Freitas wrote: I would be grateful for feedback to help improve the quality of the document and if possible help testing that my experience was not a fluke. After adding the user in the uucp group, is rebooting really necessary? I think that a logout/login would be enough. Even a

Re: [arch-general] [core/filesystem 2010.10-1 - 2010.12-1] breaks makepkg and firefox

2010-12-21 Thread Linas
Martín Cigorraga escribió: Thanks for your quick answer. @cantabile, @Dave Since I didn't upgraded core/filesystem package I have no issues with makepkg and FF. In fact I already installed Dropbox by downloading the PKGBUILD and the rest of the files and running makepkg as usual and even

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-19 Thread Linas
Christian Larsson wrote: I know it doesn't adress the problem with flash, but are a side note. Most of us only use flash in order to view flash videos, an most of the time we also would like to download them. For this ytmp ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40172) is a great

Re: [arch-general] Licensing of Arch Wiki content

2010-06-17 Thread Linas
Ananda Samaddar wrote: I notice it's all under GFDL 1.2. I'm wanting to use a Gentoo doc for the Arch Security stuff but it's under a CC-SA attribution license which is incompatible with GFDL. Would it be possible to allow Wiki content under a CC licenses? I can't see it being too

Re: [arch-general] BASH no longer does 'for i in $(ls); do ls $i; done'??

2010-05-18 Thread Linas
David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I'm usually quite good at one-liners, but my simple ones no longer work in Arch. Same cli works fine in suse. What have I messed up? To wit: What could keep the simple cli from working on Arch? I know this stuff worked before updates this

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-29 Thread Linas
Ng Oon-Ee wrote: Under which circunstances would you envision the need to trust an old, compromised signature? New install, dev for a coupl of [extra] packages has already left the team. Having to recompile everytime a dev leaves the team is additional (unnecessary) hassle IMO,

Re: [arch-general] A peculiar LDAP setup

2010-04-26 Thread Linas
Piyush P Kurur wrote: Hi, We have configured a set of machines to authenticate against an LDAP database. For some machines we do not want the users to login via their normal shell but some custom program runs for them. For example if some one tries to login to the smtp server via ssh,

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

2010-04-13 Thread Linas
Seems my message didn't get through. It was just doing rc() { /etc/rc.d/$*; } And to get completion, complete -o filenames -W $(cd /etc/rc.d/ echo *) rc That requires a relogin / sourcing the profile again to update the completion (could be avoided with another function) but it's neat and

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Linas
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:12:15PM +0200, Linas wrote: If your main problem is to create playlists for a recursive music tree, I guess that this would work with pretty much all players: find /path/to/music music-list.m3u $PLAYER music-list.m3u

Re: [arch-general] Issue with man

2010-03-24 Thread Linas
Damien Churchill wrote: I've got a rather confusing issue with man. Whenever I try and view a man page I just end up with a blank screen. http://www.imagebam.com/image/41dd5973332829 This occurs for any page, even for local ones. I was wondering if anyone would be able to shed any light on

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-18 Thread Linas
On 18/03/10 12:52, Mauro Santos wrote: On 03/18/2010 09:10 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: 0xf, 5, Who cares which it's called? As long as it contains the logical partitions... But the ending sector thing will bug me if I don't fix it. So for my piece of mind I'm gonna have to do

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-17 Thread Linas
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Any way I only mention it because When I got around to installing Arch on one of the two partitions I recovered from Sabayon, I skipped the installation step of letting cfdisk touch my partitions and simply selected the partition I previously prepared for it with

[arch-general] Package signing (was: Arch Linux security is still poor)

2010-03-16 Thread Linas
I had already this email draft in my head, but Ananda 'Arch Linux security is still poor' thread, on which the point was also brought up, moved me to really write it. First off, there's an implicit level of trust on the package software, no matter which OS you use. When using Windows, you

Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!

2010-03-15 Thread Linas
Peter Cannon wrote: pacman -Si xfce|less and looked for a package that might get me to a minimal desktop I could work with. I thought maybe xfdesktop... pacman -S xfdesktop Why have you done this? If you look at the 'man' page you will see http://linux.die.net/man/1/xfdesktop

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-13 Thread Linas
Xavier Chantry wrote: The tiny size of the reopen textbox does not give a lot of freedom for justifications either. I think this is completely missing the point though. I don't understand why Dan is the only developer who sees that it sometimes makes sense to provide additional information on

Re: [arch-general] RAID Configuration Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread Linas
Carlos Mennens wrote: Yes I am very familiar with that Wiki article but find Swap on RAID is useless, no? For my scenario I was going to do the following and please correct me if you think this is wrong: It is useful if you want to continue running the system even with a failed disk

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2

2010-03-10 Thread Linas
Byron Clark wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Byron Clark wrote: if pidof sshd | grep -q $(cat /var/run/sshd.pid); then echo pid in /var/run/sshd.pid is valid else echo invalid pid fi Ignore that, it isn't entirely safe. You may want grep -q ^$(cat

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2

2010-03-10 Thread Linas
Byron Clark wrote: Unfortunately that only works if there is only one sshd process returned by pidof. Here's the case I'm worried about: /var/run/sshd.pid: 343 pidof sshd: 3433 And the case where add ^$ around the pid breaks: /var/run/sshd.pid: 343 pidof sshd: 343 2452 2453 Yes

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-04 Thread Linas
Aaron Griffin wrote: However, this is a mailing list. Not everyone is aware of the state of the list at any given time. It's best to bottom post and only reference relevant material so that even someone coming upon the 15th email in a chain is able to read just that email and understand it for