Re: [arch-general] pkgstats api

2016-09-18 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ntend. Unfortunately there is no API atm. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] [ArchWiki] Why isn't MediaWiki upgraded to 1.23?

2014-10-10 Thread Pierre Schmitz
. Btw: the 1.22 branch is still maintained; so no need to worry here. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Docked Lenovo T540p Not Recognizing Dual Monitors

2014-06-28 Thread Pierre Schmitz
http://airlied.livejournal.com/79388.html -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Heartbleed-bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 up to 1.0.1f

2014-04-08 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ble especially since we are not among the fortunate distros and companies that were notified beforehand. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Upgrading Apache to 2.4

2014-03-11 Thread Pierre Schmitz
u know if it is necessary to rebuilt all the php packages or > only the php-apache? > Thanks in advance. > > A question, i saw some references [1] that the apache MPM can be > "dinamically" changed. Is it true in Arch? > > > [1] http://kb.parallels.com/en/113007 You need to recompile the whole PHP package and all external modules like xcache etc.. Note that there is a good chance you run into issues with esp. modules. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Move from libjpeg-turbo to mozjpeg

2014-03-08 Thread Pierre Schmitz
It'd be better if they'd push their changes upstream. I don't see any point in forking here. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] nginx in a linux container

2014-02-23 Thread Pierre Schmitz
o such file or directory > <<<<< ??? There is a typo hhtp instead of http. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Pierre Schmitz
needs to actually implement this then) Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Donate to Arch Linux

2013-09-26 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Been Far Even as Decided to Use > Even Go Want to do Look More Like? > > cheers! > mar77i Interesting, I thought I made that clear. These donations are only used to pay for the server that power archlinux.de and related services. If you donate through SPI this money is used to pay the bills for the archlinux.org-Server. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Arch handbook as PDF

2013-02-13 Thread Pierre Schmitz
wrote a book about the Arch installation. It's available as PDF and in German: http://www.schreibdichte.de/download/ Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Winter Cleanup of [community]

2013-01-19 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ed at this page: > https://www.archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ Be careful, this list does not contain makedepends. So don't blindly remove those packages. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Secure Boot Support

2012-12-05 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Security-wise this would also be much saner. But Thomas is right: this has to be implemented and tested by those who own such hardware; which at this time we don't. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Still no word on Apache httpd 2.4

2012-10-26 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am 26.10.2012 13:58, schrieb Florian Pritz: > Some modules aren't compatible with 2.4. Around a month ago I heard at > least mod_php and mod_fastcgi are having problems, but I don't know if > those have been fixed yet. PHP supports Apache 2.4 since March. -- Pierre Schm

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Pierre Schmitz
is on a regular basis when they ask for help on forums or our bug tracker. Back to topic: the Arch installation will never get a lot easier as it is now. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] talking arch disk and instructions were both outdated here

2012-07-28 Thread Pierre Schmitz
king archlinux I > have no longer finds grub to install it. Chris Brannon just released a new iso of the talking arch system: http://the-brannons.com/tarch/ Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Arch install scripts : feedback and questions.

2012-07-18 Thread Pierre Schmitz
f before first reboot ? > > Thanks for your kind answers. grub 2 is currently in testing. Once this moves to core and grub1 will get removed from the repo we will include it for the next iso. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Why Multiple Forums for different issues? Arch Linux/ARM?

2012-07-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
y working on such a port. Back to topic: I see how users might get confused by naming and logos. The same happens with archlinuxppc.org. But I'd rather not have a strict policy about trademark use and enforcing it (see how the Debian/Mozilla -> Iceweasel/Firefox issue did any good). Maybe we can encourage the arm people to work more closely with us though. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

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

2012-07-02 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ld be named. However, one could switch to the two or three letter naming standard which hopefully would be less controversial. It would also be less human readable, but at least one would keep it technically valid. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Location of sample websites

2012-06-08 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ything into /srv (it's kind of a /home for services; see FHS). If it does it is a bug that should be reported. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ch should follow suit or require instead that Secure > Boot is disabled? No. 1) Do not buy locked down hardware if possible. 2) On x86 you should be able to disable secure boot or put our signing key in there. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up orphaned packages

2012-03-04 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am 24.02.2012 16:45, schrieb Bartłomiej Piotrowski: > On 02/24/2012 04:19 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> * If a TU wants to maintain an orphan that is currently in [extra], >> please let us know. > > Then if you could move following packages to [community], I'd be gla

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up orphaned packages

2012-03-04 Thread Pierre Schmitz
re still orphan and are not a dep or makedep of any package in core/extra. Greetigns, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel config change in testing

2012-02-21 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am 21.02.2012 19:49, schrieb Keshav P R: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 23:08, Tobias Powalowski > wrote: >> Hi >> new kernel in testing has: >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25341 >> - ext4 manages now ext2/ext3 and ext4 >> >> Please report if any issues happen, here all went fine on all machines. >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] broken PKGDEST?

2012-02-14 Thread Pierre Schmitz
onfig? Why don't you just use the archbuild aliases (testing-x86_64-build etc.) for your packages? -- Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Xorg 1.12 moves soon to testing for stabilization phase

2012-02-12 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ark as on every major Xorg release for a >> while. >> > > Are nvidia beta drivers being built with this release ? I think I will do > an IgnoreGroup = Xorg for some days ;) Yes, nvidia drivers are in the same repos. -- Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Dependency: pyalpm: requires pacman<3.6 (workaround install pyalpm?)

2012-01-17 Thread Pierre Schmitz
alpm, update > pacman, update pyalpm if available: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1042280#p1042280 The best way is to add pyalpm to SyncFirst in pacman.conf and just run -Syu. -- Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-15 Thread Pierre Schmitz
age to ram first as everything is in a giant initramfs. No wonder it wont work with 256MB of RAM. -- Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-15 Thread Pierre Schmitz
of RAM; even though such a system wont be of much use these days. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-21 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ot about this. See my comment at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8585#comment47567 With btrfs this might be possible to implement in a clean and sane way. And as I said back then: This feature does not really belong in a package manager; even though ti could trigger snapshot creation etc. -- Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com

[arch-general] [signoff] reiserfsprogs 3.6.21-4

2011-11-17 Thread Pierre Schmitz
hi all, there is a simple rebuild waiting for signoffs in testing. As this packages does not have a single signoff since two weeks I am calling out to everybody (Dev, TU and users) using it. Just let me know if the package still does its intended job. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0.6-2

2011-10-08 Thread Pierre Schmitz
emand governor. On the other hand I have seen cheap notebooks which will overheat easily if you don't clock down the cpu most of the time. I think Thomas was concerned about p4-clockmod. But this isn't a real clock scaling driver anyway; so shouldn't be used with cpufreq. In short: the us

Re: [arch-general] Kernel.org compromised. Are Arch users safe?

2011-09-01 Thread Pierre Schmitz
t know if there were some in the past. But this is in no way different than using any other mirror; in general using any Arch mirror is insecure. That's why some smart people are working hard on package signing. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] PHP: Dropping Suhosin patch and PEAR

2011-08-18 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:32:15 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, > > The recent PHP 5.3.7 packages will be shipped without the Suhosin patch > and there also wont be a PEAR package. > > While I like the suhosin project I have to assume that this is stalled > at best. Ther

[arch-general] PHP: Dropping Suhosin patch and PEAR

2011-08-18 Thread Pierre Schmitz
file might be a good start: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=php-pear.git;a=blob;f=php-pear.spec Greetings, Pierre *) https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18568 http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=6154 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50509 https://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=17067 -- Pierre

Re: [arch-general] Installation images in need of an update?

2011-06-04 Thread Pierre Schmitz
plans to update it? > > Regards, > JM Have a look at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119203 -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Status of kernel26-2.6.39-1 in [testing]?

2011-05-21 Thread Pierre Schmitz
hould report it on the tracker. Otherwise your concern might be lost. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] makepkg openjd & ca-certificates-java

2011-05-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
nks, Technically openjdk does not depend on ca-certificates-java. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Pruning the bugtracker

2011-05-08 Thread Pierre Schmitz
600 open bugs. Instead of reviewing each of them we could look for a way to automatically close quite old bugs and ask the reporter to request a re-open if the bug is still valid. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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

2011-05-07 Thread Pierre Schmitz
patent license violation notice or something? > > What is Arch's official policies when it comes to patents? > It could have some widespread implications for the distro. > > Or the distro could purchase or otherwise aquire licenses to all claimed > patents... ha... ha... Licenses and patents are different things. Some stuff cannot legally distributed and we respect that. This is usually proprietary/non-free software or packages like the Microsoft fonts. (Wasn't there also some mplayer codec pack that included some Windows dlls?) On the other hand there are software patents valid in some countries which apply also to a completely free implementation. This means there are a bunch of packages which you are not allowed to use in the US for example even though they are licensed under e.g. the GPL. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Status of dcron

2011-05-02 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ly urgent. Note that the logrotate file > should not be installed if there continues to be a reference to > /var/log/crond.log in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf. I distribute it as > an example for users or distros who don't use dcron with syslog. Thanks for the hint. Just applied that to the package. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Status of dcron

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Schmitz
> These will all be pushed in the next couple of hours. Could you also tag the releases in git (maybe you just forgot to push them using git push --tags) -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New list: arch-projects

2011-03-28 Thread Pierre Schmitz
e would prefix the mails with the prject's name e.g. ([netcfg] or [devtools]). Otherwiese there is quite a chance that mails will get lost; especially if the traffic on that list increases. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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

2011-01-23 Thread Pierre Schmitz
to everybody else: Don't feed the trolls. This makes you as annoying as the troll himself and you might get banned as well. Have a nice day, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Please settle 'base' in 'depends' for all

2011-01-18 Thread Pierre Schmitz
assume that people have installed every package from the base group. This is different for packages from base-devel though. They don't need to be listed as makedepends. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-28 Thread Pierre Schmitz
lash will not f**k and lock your sound card. These problems are solved since years. I even made a test. Playing two flash videos, playing music through mplayer with alsa and starting an old game which uses oss. All this works just fine with plain alsa. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-11-26 Thread Pierre Schmitz
In general I don't see any need to use pulse-audio; except Gnome users who wont have any choice in future. But I guess some day it will just work without problems; atm pulse audio support is in early state in some apps. I am still happy to have my good old Soundblaster Live which does mi

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

2010-11-07 Thread Pierre Schmitz
on and get an answer almost for sure. > > Thorsten Let's not rush things: * Make sure that dcron is really a dead project and there is no chance for an update. Dropping a core package just because of one bug (which might get fixed) does not sound sane. * The crontab from dcron and fcron are not compatible. So fcron cannot be a simple drop-in repalcement * Some users might prefer dcron; simply replacing it is just not how we roll. People are free to install fcron if they like. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Python rebuild on its way to [testing]

2010-10-04 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ntionally. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] commitpkg: error out if ~/staging/$repo doesn't exist

2010-09-15 Thread Pierre Schmitz
o || abort > + rsync -p --chmod 'ug=rw,o=r' -c -h -L --progress $rsyncopts > --partial "${pkgfile}" -e ssh "$server:staging/$repo/$pkgfile" || > abort > done > archrelease $repo-${_arch} || abort > done Applied, th

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] Ignore empty lines when grepping host's mirrorlist

2010-09-11 Thread Pierre Schmitz
report. Otherwise there is a chance I just miss those patches. However, this mirror detections wasn't that great anyway. I am now using pacman to get the used mirror: http://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=db7a90ccd280a84bdbdef078ed766aa321ed317a This should always

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins

2010-09-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:57:18 +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:05:47 +0200, Pierre Schmitz >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:48:06 +1000, Allan McRae >>> wrote: >>>>

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ent removal. : D See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103987 The original article was just wrong and causing us problems. Feel free to add an improved one. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 4 .999.9beta_174_g41bc-1

2010-09-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:02:02 +0200, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 09.09.2010 11:55, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> this will hopefully the last update of xz for some time. :-) Maybe this >> is a sign for the final 5.0 version to be near. I am now using the (very >> strange) upstr

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins

2010-08-31 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ut some admin of sigurd needs to create the dir and adjust the rsync to gerolde. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] devtools: give a writable home to nobody for use in makechrootpkg

2010-08-23 Thread Pierre Schmitz
rmined by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_dir, so simply exporting a new HOME > environment variable in the PKGBUILD wasn't enough. I would say if a build or package function tries to write file in a user's home directory it should be considered broken and the PKGBUILD should be

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Large packages in repositories

2010-08-18 Thread Pierre Schmitz
re potential packages that would improve the user experience, their > size should not be the determining factor to their inclusion. > > -- Sven-Hendrik You need to keep in mind that's its not just the disk space that might cause problems here but traffic and especially bandwidth are. E.g. the our mainserver has about 10mbit/d bandwidth including mirroring, website etc.. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Fw: [arch-dev-public] [staging] repository: Let's give it a try!

2010-08-11 Thread Pierre Schmitz
(it's still a beta, hence the quotes) access to Testing. > Meanwhile developers would separate packaging from Testing, > considerably giving them a lot more control over what users can access > from Testing. Staging is not a new repo/layer between the developer and testing. It's just meant to be a temporary storage for rebuilds. The current dev. cycle wont be affected. So we'll still have: dev->extra dev->testing->core -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [staging] repository: Let's give it a try!

2010-08-11 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:40:56 +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Dan McGee wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Evangelos Foutras >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >>>> Let me underl

Re: [arch-general] Unificate login credentials in Arch's website

2010-08-03 Thread Pierre Schmitz
s at archlinux.org would just involve a small config change. However: the migration is most likely unsolvable. People might have registered different accounts on wiki or forums; or different people have registered the same account the first on the wiki the other one on the forums etc. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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

2010-07-03 Thread Pierre Schmitz
aiting 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* content under CC. But switching all *existing* content to > CC might be a problem. Maybe not. Wikipedia did the same; see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.34-2

2010-06-20 Thread Pierre Schmitz
new tcp options FS#19604 (tpowa) > Enable devtmpfs > Add makedepends to build kernel26-{manpages,docs} properly > Fix makepkg -R > > Please sign off. signed-off x86_64 -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Package signing for the umpteenth time (was Re: unrealircd 3.2.8.1-2 contains backdoor)

2010-06-15 Thread Pierre Schmitz
It's the other way round: signing the DB is important while signing single packages is not (but should still be done for some reasons). If the DB is not signed I could simply add additional packages or replace packages. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Google Chrome

2010-05-28 Thread Pierre Schmitz
graded. >>> >>> -- >>> Ionut >>> >> may i please know what the reason is?? > > building against shared libs I tried to build chromium today, but the resulting binary just segfaults. (probably due to bugs in gcc 4.5) -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-2 (and aufs2)

2010-05-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
bably occurred > before this. > I'll retest when I have time.. > Anybody else experiencing this? > > Thanks and have a nice day > Mark I noticed the same. But this is caused by the mkinitcpio update and not the kernel. In my case "logo.nologo" in the kernel parameter line was causing this. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Redefining [testing] and a new [staging] repo

2010-05-07 Thread Pierre Schmitz
or keep their testing repo for this. I guess it wont be needed most of the time; most packages that would induce rebuilds should be in core and extra. But even if if they would like to have their own staging repo it would be easy to implement. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-2 (and aufs2)

2010-05-02 Thread Pierre Schmitz
aufs would be nice; especially if you use archiso. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-28 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Why not just use openssl instead of gpg then? You have a root cert which sings the individual pub keys of every dev. To verify the packages users just have to trust the root cert. This does even support some kind of revoke etc.. (you could even sign the root cert by an external entity like cacert to make it even more secure. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Pierre Schmitz
add more of the log before and after what you already posted. Andy what is about the system update after the pacman update which did not pull in any new packages. Did you switch mirrors? Did you anything else to pacman you didn't tell us so far? ;-) -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Repo mirrors

2010-04-14 Thread Pierre Schmitz
we might even implement your approach here without a http master and the need to locally store data. In short: we should keep it simple. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssl, heimdal and icu rebuilds

2010-04-08 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:42:29 +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > On 09/04/10 01:20, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:37:13 +0200, Pierre Schmitz >> wrote: >>> The move is in progress...please don't touch anything while we are still >>> on it. :-)

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Release Question

2010-04-07 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ng similar. Or some day we had changed the repo layout etc.. In general Arch is moving to fast to keep old isos and install working. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Release Question

2010-04-07 Thread Pierre Schmitz
it first) due to the switch to xz compressed packages. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] The libgmp update

2010-03-27 Thread Pierre Schmitz
rs, > Hilton No, it's the other way round. Using versioned deps is just wrong. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] HTML5, Youtube and chromium-browser

2010-03-20 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ta%20updates and http://omahaproxy.appspot.com/ The "releases" you are talking about are just snapshots which are tagged by a bot. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] HTML5, Youtube and chromium-browser

2010-03-20 Thread Pierre Schmitz
mention Arch at all. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] HTML5, Youtube and chromium-browser

2010-03-20 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Samstag, 20. März 2010 16:50:14 schrieb Gaurish Sharma: > Anyone managed to get youtube videos working in HTML5/h.264 format on > chromium browser? Don't use those broken packages from the AUR. Just run "pacman -S chromium" and it will just work. --

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....

2010-03-16 Thread Pierre Schmitz
have seen those discussions during the last 6 years and none of them ever lead into a working implementation. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....

2010-03-15 Thread Pierre Schmitz
should make sure they only address a single concrete issue. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

2010-03-11 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 11:47:18 schrieb Chris Allison: > This would appear to be an upstream bug/feature. Yes, see http://bugs.php.net/51242 -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officially?

2010-03-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
f you compress a pkgbuild with gz or xz. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Pierre Schmitz
fic dirs/files etc.. But I guess if someone would come up with a superior solution using git we would be quite happy. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-03 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ersion from the 3.5 branch and some hacks for the vuild system. See the kdelibs3 package for those. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - Arch needs to disable powerdevil suspend default -> very hard shutdown...

2010-02-03 Thread Pierre Schmitz
isable Kwin composite because it freezes system using broken dirver like my intel. I hope you get the idea. ;-) -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-01-31 Thread Pierre Schmitz
information which packages should be moved from [testing] > (that could be done by one text file). See my third suggestion. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-01-31 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ink to those packages from every repo. This would have reduce the amount of transfered data from several GB to a few KB in the current case. (also an dbscritps issue) dbscripts can be found at http://projects.archlinux.org/dbscripts.git/ Everybody could help implementing this and submit patches f

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

2010-01-29 Thread Pierre Schmitz
8 ?). > http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=1590# > > xps-m1530:~> bsdtar --version > bsdtar 2.7.902a - libarchive 2.7.902a > > 2.7 release does not work, at least on my system. > The development version is required. This is good new; afaik 2.8 should be releas

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

2010-01-29 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Ls since 10 > > years > > already. Adding more meta data is relatively simple. > > Implementing it in star has no use, as our package manager doesn't use > star but libarchive, the library that bsdtar is based on. This might be related: http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/

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

2010-01-29 Thread Pierre Schmitz
support storing those information (don't know if future versions support this) so one has to use install scripts to adjust the permissions after install. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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

2010-01-27 Thread Pierre Schmitz
used by Jörg himself and talking about a proof but not actually providing it does not help. PS: I wonder if this discussion will come to a conclusion before optical discs are obsolete. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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

2010-01-25 Thread Pierre Schmitz
r than licensing issues this is the simplest solution. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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

2010-01-25 Thread Pierre Schmitz
body should be free to replace cdrkit by cdrtools. Did anybody find a neutral and reliable statement about the license problem? I guess most of us are no lawyers. I don't see any problem in providing both if there are no licensing issues and we have maintainers for them. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] What ISO will load a kernel in an AMD K6 2/450?

2009-12-27 Thread Pierre Schmitz
preciated. The K6 is no i686 and Arch wont run on it. (OK, there was a port to i586; no idea if it's still active) -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [pkgstats] Patch to allow pkgstats t o submit info through a proxy (if this is setted on http_pr oxy)

2009-12-21 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:50:03 -0300, Angel Velásquez wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Pierre Schmitz > wrote: >> Am Montag 21 Dezember 2009 15:13:53 schrieb Angel Velásquez: >>> So, I decided to do a little patch to pkgstats, I've tested and now >>> it

Re: [arch-general] [pkgstats] Patch to allow pkgstats to submit info through a proxy (if this is setted on http_proxy)

2009-12-21 Thread Pierre Schmitz
the > proxy). That shouldn't be needed because curl reads the env vars itself (at least according to its man page) Btw: pkgstats not that usable atm. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] kde4/kmail slow - anybody else notice or is it just me?

2009-12-07 Thread Pierre Schmitz
his also relies on your imap server performance. I had used courier before and switched to dovecot which is a lot faster. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] archlinuxfr bad virtualbox_bin-3.0.10-1 package

2009-11-17 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Dienstag 17 November 2009 12:22:35 schrieb tuxce: > I'm uploading it right now, thanks for the information. > You know that redistribution of the binary package is not legal? (except you have got the permission from Sun of course) -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] dmraid-1.0.0.rc16-1

2009-11-02 Thread Pierre Schmitz
4 (using simple raid0; I think this also counts as one for device-mapper) -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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

2009-10-02 Thread Pierre Schmitz
ommend. -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...

2009-10-02 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Freitag 02 Oktober 2009 19:21:54 schrieb Aaron Griffin: > I believe +1 for a "use only lower case in pkgname" policy -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

Re: [arch-general] Incorrect downloads page (WAS ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues)

2009-09-17 Thread Pierre Schmitz
to gudrun (this sound funny somehow...) -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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