Re: [arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

2015-07-15 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 16.07.2015 01:22, D C wrote: > I've actually posted a thread on the forums about this. For youtube you can > just use HTML5. To my best knowledge, it depends on the video / the compression algorithm used. For some videos on YouTube HTML5 works just fine, for some Videos you still need Flash.

Re: [arch-general] vps2arch - The fastest way to convert a VPS to Arch Linux!

2015-07-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello Timothy, On 02.07.2015 18:12, Timothy M. Redaelli wrote: > Hi, > I wrote a simple script that allows you to convert (almost) any VPS to > Arch Linux. interesting tool. I have added a simple entry about it to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_existing_Linux#Automated now.

Re: [arch-general] XMMS2 error in latest version with equalizer build

2015-07-01 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hi! On 01.07.2015 20:56, Storm Dragon wrote: > /usr/lib/xmms2/libxmms_equalizer.so: undefined symbol: iir Symbol iir is a function that is part of the XMMS source code coming in two flavors, both functions marked as inline: # fgrep -R " iir(" . src/plugins/equalizer/iir_sse.c:__inli

Re: [arch-general] Question on removing pacman keys (and adding new ones)

2015-06-24 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 25.06.2015 04:08, Eli Schwartz wrote: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman-key#Resetting_all_the_keys Excellent, thank you! Sebastian

[arch-general] Question on removing pacman keys (and adding new ones)

2015-06-24 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hi there! In relation to making virtual machine images of Arch I noticed that sharing images with pacman keys inside would enable two systems to present spoofed packages to the other unnoticed. True? It seems like a good idea to remove and re-add pacman keys specific to each system again, later.

Re: [arch-general] Generating Arch OpenStack images

2015-06-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hi! On 23.06.2015 17:41, Victor Dmitriyev wrote: > The cloud-init package has growpart module which apparently can resize > partitions. It uses gpart utility which is in official repositories or > growroot utility which is part of cloud-utils package [10]. Try it out. > It might actually be suffi

Re: [arch-general] Generating Arch OpenStack images

2015-06-22 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello Victor, On 21.06.2015 12:50, Victor Dmitriyev wrote: > Arch is highly configurable so it's assumed that you build a system for > your needs by yourself. in general: yes. However, the requirements on OpenStack images [6] are rather strict, e.g. a single partition with an ext3/4 file system

[arch-general] Generating Arch OpenStack images

2015-06-20 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hi! TL;DR: Bullet-style summary at the end. I registered for a closed beta account at CloudScale [1] a few weeks ago and noticed that they offer a number of Linux flavors: Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, .. but no Arch Linux. They use OpenStack with the official OpenStack images [2] of Debian, Ubuntu