Re: [arch-general] Keyboard (special funcs) in Gnome3

2012-10-24 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 24 Oct 2012 09:31 -0300, Héctor Herrera wrote: Well, I have installed the package you suggested, but sadly I still don't control the volume with my multimedia keys. And I dunno what to do. I assume that I'll have to configure by my hand in /usr/include/X11, isn't it? For the record,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot

2012-09-22 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 22 Sep 2012 15:06 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 22.09.2012 10:07, schrieb Heiko Baums: Am Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:09:02 +0900 schrieb Zhengyu Xu xzy3...@gmail.com: After updating systemd to 191-1 in testing repo, I had following messages during booting and the process was stuck

Re: [arch-general] Country Name (ISO-3116) Issues

2012-07-02 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 02 Jul 2012 19:28 +1200, Jason Ryan wrote: On 02/07/12 at 07:20am, Zero Cho wrote: Thanks for your support. You're right. This is not intended to be a political debate, so I have been using a neutral word, Taiwan, rather than other more official but sensitive, less common name.

Re: [arch-general] Country Name (ISO-3116) Issues

2012-07-01 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 01 Jul 2012 23:08 +0800, Zero, Chien-An Cho wrote: Hello, First of all, I am sorry to bring political issues to here. I have been using ArchLinux for years, deployed on many servers, though I'm not joining the community until now. The recent changes to the ArchLinux webpages (ex.

Re: [arch-general] Country Name (ISO-3116) Issues

2012-07-01 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 01 Jul 2012 21:23 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Sun 01 Jul 2012 23:08 +0800, Zero, Chien-An Cho wrote: Hello, First of all, I am sorry to bring political issues to here. I have been using ArchLinux for years

Re: [arch-general] NAS drive revisited

2012-05-20 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 20 May 2012 21:58 +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: I am still not able to write to my external NAS drive an iomega home media drive You just can't write? If you can mount but can't write, then you have the wrong permissions on the drive and/or uid/gid mixups, depending on how you want it set up.

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 11:45 +, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:27 AM, XeCycle xecy...@gmail.com wrote: I use pulseaudio on my laptop.  I start it by `start-pulseaudio-x11` in something like .xinitrc (I use a standalone wm with lxdm).  When I resume from pm-suspend, the

Re: [arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

2011-11-21 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 21 Nov 2011 22:36 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Bernardo Barros's message of 2011-11-20 00:06:05 +0100: text files opening automatically with wine is really a VERY annoying thing... This is pretty clearly a DE issue. Are you all using the same DE or is this common

Re: [arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.

2011-08-26 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 27 Aug 2011 09:12 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: Hi, My system tends to slow down a lot when I copy files to and from a pen drive or even from one hard disk to another. Even my mouse cursor slows down. The system becomes almost unusable. I more than enough RAM and I am using a tiling

Re: [arch-general] replacement for clyde

2011-08-20 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 19 Aug 2011 10:43 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: 2011/8/19 Cédric Girard girard.ced...@gmail.com: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Thomas Dziedzic gos...@gmail.com wrote: I've used yaourt for a couple of years now. It has always worked for me for the most part, and having a common

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support

2011-07-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 16 Jul 2011 15:47 -0500, Peggy Wilkins wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ionut Biru ib...@archlinux.org wrote: On 07/16/2011 08:06 PM, Peggy Wilkins wrote: The annoucement suggests that a major reason for dropping support is that it is confusing to end users.  An easy

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless interface you want to use (also possible

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 20 Jun 2011 03:34 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: On 2011/6/20 Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used

Re: [arch-general] Drop non-free ?! (Was: Commit in ffmpeg/trunk)

2011-05-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 07 May 2011 18:32 +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: On 05/07/2011 06:28 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Ionut Biru wrote: drop nonfree stuff, fix headers Modified: PKGBUILD === --- PKGBUILD2011-05-07 11:29:11 UTC (rev

Re: [arch-general] Drop non-free ?! (Was: Commit in ffmpeg/trunk)

2011-05-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 07 May 2011 18:18 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: On Sat, 7 May 2011 12:05:21 -0400, Loui Chang wrote: On Sat 07 May 2011 18:32 +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: On 05/07/2011 06:28 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Is faac support in ffmpeg causing trouble to other applications or was changed

Re: [arch-general] Drop non-free ?! (Was: Commit in ffmpeg/trunk)

2011-05-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 07 May 2011 11:24 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: a bit of a divergence ... but as i think about next-gen packaging quite a bit i've often considered if a most advanced distribution system would negate issues like this ... for example, what if a nonfree package _knew_ it was nonfree,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 29 Apr 2011 23:00 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:41 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net wrote: Can someone pls clarify what exactly is broken about localtime?  I've been using it for years without any (noticable) issue.  I'll be happy to switch over if I

Re: [arch-general] Printer driver

2011-04-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 28 Apr 2011 22:50 +0200, Maciej Sobkowski wrote: I want to install driver for my Brother DCP-J315W printer. I've downloaded driver files from brother's site, since there is no package, neither in repo nor in aur. It was in deb format, also rpm available. The driver is split into two

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-21 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:46 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 02:32:42AM -0400, Kaiting Chen wrote: So what's the status here? I pulled cronie into [community-testing] a couple of days ago and will probably merge it into [community] soon. So that's the one I vote. But

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] ncurses-5.8-1

2011-02-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 27 Feb 2011 12:01 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 27/02/11 10:40, Allan McRae wrote: Major upstream update. Test well. There is no soname bump, but experience tells me that some rebuilds will probably be

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package

2011-02-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 09 Feb 2011 11:23 -0500, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: Hi, I was looking at FS#20778 and was wondering what we should do with it. While it is true that the traditional vi is buggy and not user friendly. It does not seems that BusyBox is a good alternative. There are options here:

Re: [arch-general] Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-22 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 22 Jan 2011 06:23 -0500, hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_h...@lavabit.com wrote: Can someone stop him from spamming our inboxes ? Meeku: our means the whole mailing list. You should have used the word my and if you are a closet

Re: [arch-general] unable to install anything via yaourt

2011-01-01 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 08:00 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:53 AM, jesse jaara jesse.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Does xz work alone? On 2.1.2011 4.21, Madhurya Kakati mkakati2...@gmail.com wrote: i ran pacman -Syu and system is fully updated. On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at

Re: [arch-general] unable to install anything via yaourt

2011-01-01 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 08:12 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Sun 02 Jan 2011 08:00 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:53 AM, jesse jaara jesse.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Does xz work alone

Re: [arch-general] unable to install anything via yaourt

2011-01-01 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 04:51 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Sat, 1 Jan 2011 22:17:11 -0500 schrieb Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com: If you're having problems using yaourt to try to install from [unsupported], or any repo, then you're probably having a problem with yaourt, not the repos

Re: [arch-general] We want to help

2010-12-15 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 14 Dec 2010 09:54 -0200, Tomás Acauan Schertel wrote: The Brazilian Arch Linux Community wants to help Arch Linux project, working on bug reports and feature requests. As first task, we plan to help conclude the development of AUR version 2. We don't have lots of developers, but we

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 20:12 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 19:12:05 +0100 schrieb Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de: This is a proper solution without making core a big monster again. greetings Adding all filesystem tools to [core] won't make it a big monster. ;-) I'm not so

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 18:30 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:26:00 +0100 schrieb Pierre Schmitz pie...@archlinux.de: I second this. If the reason for moving a package to core is that the installer cannot handle it otherwise the installer needs to be fixed. The question is

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-12-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 06 Dec 2010 10:27 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: Scroll CLEAR down to the bottom for my response. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:02:27PM -0400, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: Really please, please don't top post. http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/ Who cares! it takes too long to scroll

Re: [arch-general] Changing subject line - Was: Python 3 Rationale?

2010-12-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 06 Dec 2010 23:24 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Top posting vs. going off topic without changing subject lines. I'm not sure which is worse... Bottom posting in Gmail is a pain in the ass. --Kaiting. Get a better

Re: [arch-general] what happened to nut (network-ups-tools)?

2010-11-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 29 Nov 2010 20:03 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: Where did nut go? I just checked and network-ups-tools is no longer available. Did it change names? I must have missed it. Thanks. David, is it really that hard to do a few searches before asking?

Re: [arch-general] what happened to nut (network-ups-tools)?

2010-11-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 29 Nov 2010 22:31 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: On 11/29/2010 09:11 PM, Loui Chang wrote: David, is it really that hard to do a few searches before asking? No, I did search for the package on the web-site. I just didn't think to search AUR. I hadn't heard of packages getting kicked

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-13 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 13 Nov 2010 15:23 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:46:30 +0100 schrieb Andrea Scarpino and...@archlinux.org: On Thursday 11 November 2010 22:54:36 Roman Kyrylych wrote: I adopted some (and edited the page). Nice, today we have 291 orphans packages in [extra] (they

Re: [arch-general] Replace dcron once again?

2010-11-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 12 Nov 2010 10:26 +0900, Alex Matviychuk wrote: Thanks to this thread I decided to look at both dcron and fcron. First google result for dcron led me to this: This is from a Linux From Scratch readme here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/dcron.txt Nice. The guy

Re: [arch-general] Te agregué como amigo en Faceboo k

2010-09-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 27 Sep 2010 22:12 +0100, Mauro Santos wrote: This is a message that will probably show up at least one more time because facebook will remind everyone that didn't create an account that they have been invited. Well, I followed the opt out links. Hopefully that works.

Re: [arch-general] Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wants to become the next person after U.S. Senator Ernie Chambers to sue God

2010-09-26 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 22 Sep 2010 23:18 -0600, Gary Wright wrote: ,.-'...``~., .,.-...-.,

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

2010-09-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 16 Sep 2010 16:53 +0200, Linus Eklöf wrote: What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. Gnash might not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free software. What's really sad is that so many sites rely on flash in the first place.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] inkscape finding a maintainer

2010-08-30 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 30 Aug 2010 19:24 +0200, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2010-08-30 19:54:44 +0300] Ionuț Bîru: Does anyone in our dev team uses inkscape like a daily bases and wants to maintain it? I use it about once a week or so; if you want inkscape to stay in [extra] I could maintain it. Now if Laurent

Re: [arch-general] 3 minutes and 12 seconds Youtube video of My Arch Linux

2010-08-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 29 Aug 2010 18:03 +0600, reflexing wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore enming...@lavabit.com wrote: I have just uploaded a Youtube video of my Arch Linux which was installed on an external 2.5 USB harddrive December last year (2009).

Re: [arch-general] Referencing $srcdir in PKGBUILD?

2010-08-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 17 Aug 2010 12:09 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:15:34 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org: grep your files in your package for $srcdir (the actual value...). If it is not in a config file or RPATH or the like, you can probably ignore it. I'm not

Re: [arch-general] Referencing $srcdir in PKGBUILD?

2010-08-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 17 Aug 2010 13:01 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Loui Chang's message of 2010-08-17 12:35:41 +0200: On Tue 17 Aug 2010 12:09 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:15:34 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org: grep your files in your package

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

2010-08-15 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 15 Aug 2010 06:33 -0700, mike rosset wrote: I use ~/.local/bin for user specific applications and scripts. ~/bin would create visible clutter to the home folder. -- Ape Lauri Niskanen That might work for you however in Jude's case being a blind user I would think he would want

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

2010-08-15 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 15 Aug 2010 07:08 -0700, mike rosset wrote: Someone unaware of dotfiles might miss them, but others (blind or sighted) should be able to access them without issue. And all of this has nothing to do with the orignal issue /usr/local. I only suggested using something in $HOME for user

Re: [arch-general] Shouldn't pacman restart dovecot after update?

2010-08-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 07 Aug 2010 20:04 -0600, Gary Wright wrote: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Sat 07 Aug 2010 01:26 +0200, Guus Snijders wrote: HTH, HAND What? HTH[1] HAND[2] [1] http://www.acronymfinder.com/HtH.html [2] http

Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)

2010-08-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 05 Aug 2010 22:51 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, You got a script for the gals too? :D I developed a script to help me read the output of pacman -Ss in 2 nicely formatted columns. The output of 'pacman -Ss srchterm' drives me nuts trying to read down the package names and

Re: [arch-general] makepkg patch - generate .SRCINFO file when running --source

2010-08-02 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 27 Jul 2010 15:25 +0200, vlad wrote: Here is a patch against makepkg from git which introduces a new function write_srcinfo(). This generates a file .SRCINFO - like the .PKGINFO one - when makepkg --source is run and then it is added to the src.tar.gz archive. I think having such a

Re: [arch-general] makepkg patch - generate .SRCINFO file when running --source

2010-08-02 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 02 Aug 2010 17:03 +0200, vlad wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:49:11AM -0400, Loui Chang wrote: On Tue 27 Jul 2010 15:25 +0200, vlad wrote: Here is a patch against makepkg from git which introduces a new function write_srcinfo(). This generates a file .SRCINFO - like

Re: [arch-general] mandriva beat us to a new version

2010-07-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 29 Jul 2010 10:05 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: of perl http://jquelin.blogspot.com/2010/07/perls-state-in-mandriva-cooker.html how embarrassing. Congrats to them! How's that embarrassing?

Re: [arch-general] perl-authen-sasl: local (2.1401-1) is newer than community (2.15-1)

2010-07-20 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 20 Jul 2010 17:14 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: This is what happens to me now # pacman -Syu ... :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: perl-authen-sasl: local (2.1401-1) is newer than community (2.15-1) I guess this happens because I have installed something from testing

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 10:42 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Victor Lowther victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: Oh, I do. I would just prefer to work with the package management framework, not work around it. I

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-30 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 30 Jun 2010 18:48 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Aaron Griffin's message of 2010-06-30 17:55:40 +0200: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 29 Jun 2010 09:27 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: Which is change the modelines? No thanks. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Bash_Coding_Style Neat. Where does the 132 columns come from?

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

2010-06-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 30 Jun 2010 00:15 +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:56:39 -0500 Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: I was also waiting for someone more knowledgeable with regards to the wiki. If it's my say-so you want, I don't see a problem with adding *additional*

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote: Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. why go this way instead of the

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 28 Jun 2010 09:13 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: On Jun 28, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 28 Jun 2010 10:03 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: Depends on what you define as Arch. I've heard that Arch is what you make of it. Hehe. I don't know if you could disqualify it from a difference of one file. For me, part

Re: [arch-general] Boost

2010-06-18 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 18 Jun 2010 11:52 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: On 18.06.2010 11:38, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 06/18/2010 09:30 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 18/06/10 16:24, Daniel Bumke wrote: Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back,

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 17 Jun 2010 21:19 +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: On 17/06/10 at 08:46pm, Ananda Samaddar wrote: On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and then reach a consensus. Arch Linux Security Task Force

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

2010-06-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 17 Jun 2010 21:42 +0100, 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

Re: [arch-general] Cannot install shaman from AUR

2010-06-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 05 Jun 2010 23:05 +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:36 AM, xenof0nt xenof...@gmail.com wrote: Arch will never provide a graphical tool for pacman. So if you can't live with this, then change to another distro Never say never. Just curious, where does that come

Re: [arch-general] change user and group in env in PKGBUILD

2010-06-03 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 03 Jun 2010 01:48 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: so i'm trying to update the oracle pkgbuild on AUR. oracle's installer won't run as root, but it thinks that it's running as root. how can I change this? I believe it is supposed to be run as the user and group that it gets installed as

Re: [arch-general] Games for Linux !

2010-05-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 28 May 2010 23:00 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: This mailing list is only for discussing problems. Besides we use arch-games repo ;) On 5/28/10, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: It seems there are lot of games for Linux we're not aware of because most of the times we

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay! - Was: Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 27 May 2010 14:43 +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: Dozens of people have contributed to the discussion, but no one actually cares about getting some clarifications ? I just don't get it. I feel like I did my part of the work already by getting a report from Eben, just to see Joerg accusing

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay! - Was: Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 27 May 2010 18:32 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: That would be nice and useful if people actually believed that there would be an end to this discussion. Anyways, it's been stated that licensing isn't really the issue any more. The fact is no Dev

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay! - Was: Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 27 May 2010 19:11 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 27.05.2010 17:52, schrieb Loui Chang: Anyways, it's been stated that licensing isn't really the issue any more. The fact is no Dev or TU is interested in maintaining cdrtools. Jörg has something to learn about how to deal

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay! - Was: Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 27 May 2010 14:41 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-January/010357.html http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-May/013557.html eh? more

Re: [arch-general] dualboot?

2010-05-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 27 May 2010 16:42 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 05/27/2010 04:21 PM, Stefan Husmann wrote: python is no requirement for Arch Linux itself. If you do not like it, just do not install it. Isn't pacman written in python? That would make python a requirement for Arch then, right?

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay!

2010-05-26 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 26 May 2010 21:59 +0530, Piyush P Kurur wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:06:36AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: I do not speak for the other Arch developers, but the reason why I will not officially package

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD parser

2010-05-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 10 May 2010 09:23 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 10/05/10 02:06, Loui Chang wrote: On Sun 09 May 2010 16:21 +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: But I just had an idea now, if we're thinking about AUR use case : makepkg --source could generate a suitable and parsable file providing all

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD parser

2010-05-09 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 09 May 2010 16:21 +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Sourcing is dangerous if the PKGBUILD is from an untrusted source.  It also fails with package splitting... But I just had an idea now, if we're thinking about AUR

Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?

2010-05-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 07 May 2010 10:01 -0500, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:57 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: On 05/07/2010 09:48 AM, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Johannes Held m...@hehejo.de wrote:

Re: [arch-general] about arch

2010-05-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 06 May 2010 18:08 +0900, Juan Diego Tascón wrote: I was reading the about page (http://www.archlinux.org/about/) in the archlinux website and I noticed that this line is a little outdated: Arch also offers an [unsupported] section in the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR), which contains

Re: [arch-general] Raising identical task against multiple packages?

2010-04-24 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 24 Apr 2010 11:06 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: Is there a way to raise an identical task against multiple packages in FlySpray? I'd like to raise a task against all binary haskell-* packages, but I'd rather like to avoid wearing out my mouse doing it ;-) Open one task and list all

Re: [arch-general] Raising identical task against multiple packages?

2010-04-24 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 24 Apr 2010 20:21 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: On 24/04/10 15:47, Loui Chang wrote: On Sat 24 Apr 2010 11:06 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: Is there a way to raise an identical task against multiple packages in FlySpray? I'd like to raise a task against all binary haskell

Re: [arch-general] what is this supposed to mean ?

2010-04-21 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 21 Apr 2010 23:49 +0200, Matěj Týč wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 00:28 +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: Please see the front page news. There are instructions regarding the CUPS update. :) And I also think that it is not feasible to have to take a look at the frontpage if you upgrade

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

2010-03-30 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 30 Mar 2010 19:26 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: schrieb Xavier Chantry chantry.xav...@gmail.com: Heh cmus is probably my preferred player now so I ought to defend it. Too complicated, seriously ? The only command I ever need is the initial one to add my music directory :

Re: [arch-general] on rolling release / reinstallation

2010-03-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 17 Mar 2010 16:01 -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: So I'm guessing that these workarounds happen whenever a pacman -Syu leads to breaking something... (Which means that I probably should only do an pacman -Syu when A) I've got time to test all my stuff. AND B) I've got time to look

Re: [arch-general] Something really wrong with yum-createrepo from AUR - doesn't work. [Solved - sort of]

2010-03-13 Thread Loui Chang
On 03/13/2010 01:57 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: The yum-createrepo package seems not to be the same as the createrepo package that you normally see. Specifically executing the yum-createrepo script with the help option discloses: It's better if these things are documented on

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-12 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 12 Mar 2010 09:34 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: Commenting on closed bugs is not doable in Flyspray. More-over, I think it is a bad idea. The only reason people want commenting on closed bugs is so that they can argue with the developers - give reasons why the bug shouldn't be closed.

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-12 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 12 Mar 2010 13:28 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: But just closing a bug should not be done. There's usually a reason why a bug is reported even if it's invalid. Seriously, present some examples here, this talking in

Re: [arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-12 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 12 Mar 2010 14:11 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Fri 12 Mar 2010 13:28 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: But just closing a bug should not be done

Re: [arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

2010-03-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 11 Mar 2010 11:50 -0600, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Xavier Chantry chantry.xav...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/3/11 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to the AUR package and sent Chris (the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Clean up the base group

2010-02-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 28 Feb 2010 01:59 +0530, Gaurish Sharma wrote: rp-pppoe should not be removed, Its very handy and easy to use tool. It was using it this tool I was able to connect the internet in ArchLinux. without it I won't be able to install arch. the alternative ppp is hard to configure. Rp-pppoe

Re: [arch-general] How to obtain development headers for package

2010-02-23 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 23 Feb 2010 23:11 +, Michishige Kaito wrote: Maybe I'm just not understanding how Arch works, so please forgive my ignorance. I come from ubuntu, and there you get development headers for most packages by following the naming convention, which is package-dev. A quick apt-cache

Re: [arch-general] [patch] AIF, discover repos on iso.

2010-02-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 19 Feb 2010 22:26 +0100, Mark Pustjens wrote: The attached patch fixes a TODO in lib-pacman of aif. Instead of hardcoding that `core' is always available locally and falling back to net for others, it now checks /src/ for repos. It assumes repos are stored at /src/$repo/pkg/. All

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-25 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 25 Jan 2010 16:28 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Heiko Baums wrote: I don't know anything about the technical differences between cdrkit and cdrtools but http://cdrkit.org says: News 2009/10/11 Cdrkit 1.1.10 has been released. So the last stable release was not a year but only

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

2010-01-12 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 12 Jan 2010 19:28 +0100, Guus Snijders wrote: On 12-01-10 06:27, Loui Chang wrote: I think part of the problem is that some email clients like gmail webmail help persist the bad behaviour. They default with top posting replies and sending HTML emails. I have requested that they change

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 11 Jan 2010 13:54 -0500, Daenyth Blank wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 13:38, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in /etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be modified. Users are more than welcome

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

2010-01-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 11 Jan 2010 21:33 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: re-read the old stuff over and over again. Nothing annoys me more than haveing to page through five generations of past messages in a single thread to get all the way to the bottom just to have a single line of text say something like Thank

Re: [arch-general] Looks like an AUR (web interface) bug?

2010-01-03 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 04 Jan 2010 05:46 +0800, talki walki wrote: The following page of msort in AUR says Package details could not be found. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33319 While one can fetch the package info using the rpc interface: wget

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-18 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 18 Dec 2009 17:54 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: I agree with Dieter, that the install should be measured by speed and automation -- but long ago I realized that there a whole lot of other people out there that just don't think like me :p Don't misunderstand me. An interactive

Re: [arch-general] Single Person ISP?

2009-11-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 19 Nov 2009 00:44 -0700, Brendan Long wrote: So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, I have a phone

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Magazine

2009-11-04 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 02 Nov 2009 19:26 -0600, Daniel J Griffiths wrote: Loui Chang wrote: Hey guys. I'm just curious. What's going on with the magazine? Is there any intent to revive it? I know that I'd look forward to news/forum summaries at least if there isn't time for all the other stuff. Cheers

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-11-01 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 02 Nov 2009 00:06 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 05:57:34PM -0500, Trav wrote: Sent nomination for both muhammad.a.qa...@gmail.com and francz...@gmail.com! May I suggest to create a Google Group 'please-invite-me-to-google-wave' and then keep this all

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-10-31 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 31 Oct 2009 16:40 +0100, bardo wrote: 2009/10/31 Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de: And with Google!? I don't understand how one can be interested in letting Google read and use his/her personal e-mails, documents etc. I'm very careful about my privacy. My google account doesn't

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-10-31 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 01 Nov 2009 00:12 -0200, Hugo Yamashita wrote: Can you send my friend one too? He is also a Arch Linux user, but he is not in this list... hugo.takeo[at]gmail[dot]com Hey can everyone send invite requests directly to the person holding invites rather than to this mailing list? Thanks.

Re: [arch-general] Intel AG 4965

2009-10-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 16 Oct 2009 06:33 -0300, Alan Hoffmeister wrote: OK, I'll try when I get home... On my work i could connect whit a WEP wireless... Maybe some problem whit the wpa stuff? Att, Alan Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: I would suggest trying some lower level tools, like netcfg or even

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-14 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 14 Oct 2009 13:45 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:33:57 am Jan Spakula wrote: Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009: On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: I'm back already. The wiki page must be

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 02 Oct 2009 12:23 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Sergej Pupykin schrieb: Patching them is overkill, it would be an example of the unnecessary patching we do not want in Arch. I would keep them self-contained, no matter which solution will be used in the end. I wouldn't even have

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