Re: [arch-general] Audio cd ripper

2009-09-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
Fabian Schölzel schrieb: 2009/9/4 Thomas Bächler : There is an awesome and easy converter in KDE (already in KDE3), but it's invisible since KDE4 (they forgot to add a UI that appears when you insert a CD). Fire up konqueror or dolphin, enter "audiocd:/" into the URL field an

Re: [arch-general] Audio cd ripper

2009-09-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
o...@larstennstedt.de schrieb: Hello, I am searching for an audio cd ripper for my Arch Linux box and have some questions about that. 1.) K3B fails to encode to mp3 (lame) on my computer maybe because of being an alpha version. Encoding to ogg works fine. Can anyone confirm this behaviour? 2.)

Re: [arch-general] since the fglrx legacy driver is now static - any will to make a run at getting it to work?

2009-09-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
David C. Rankin schrieb: Now with the driver static, I wonder if it might not be worth looking into to see if it is even feasable to try and make it work with the current arch setup. That doesn't change anything. The driver is incompatible with the current Xorg ABI - and if it isn't, be sure

Re: [arch-general] An evil idea --- use Git to manage the repositories

2009-09-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
goodme...@gmail.com schrieb: Is it possible? advantage: 1 The mirrors do not need download the total new pkgs if it just updated several files. 2 old versions of package can be retrived. 3 GIT is fast. 4 It seems cool! dis-advantage: 1 It is a torture of GIT 2

Re: [arch-general] A little weirdness at boot time

2009-09-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
JM schrieb: There appears to be an optional udev rule to sort this out (/etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules.optional). Since I removed the ".optional" from the filename I am no longer experiencing this issue. However, this file is not described in the wiki and no one at #archlinux

Re: [arch-general] A little weirdness at boot time

2009-08-31 Thread Thomas Bächler
Tom K schrieb: SImplest, most Arch-like solution is to load the modules in the required order in the rc.conf MODULES array. I hope that's what you mean by "manually". :) With the asynchronous "trigger && load MODULES=() && settle", there is no way anymore to ensure module loading order! You

Re: [arch-general] Problem with udev 145?

2009-08-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sebastian Schwarz schrieb: As I had nowhere enough space to backup the hard drive and recreate the LUKS volume I was desperate enough to use the dd method Karel Zak mentioned in his second post: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1 seek=1080 count=2 conv=notrunc It worked just fine on the (f

Re: [arch-general] Problem with udev 145?

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sebastian Schwarz schrieb: On 2009-08-29 at 14:26 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: So we narrowed the problem down. Does cryptsetup luksDump show the UUID for both of them. And cryptsetup luksUUID? I'll have to look into blkid and see why it fails. Yes, both luksDump and luksUUID show the

Re: [arch-general] Problem with udev 145?

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sebastian Schwarz schrieb: On 2009-08-29 at 13:52 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Can't see anything here. Can you call blkid /dev/sdb1 (or whetever the partition is)? The following command for the partition in question did not output anything: $ blkid /dev/sdc1 Yes, I am sure this i

Re: [arch-general] Problem with udev 145?

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sebastian Schwarz schrieb: I forgot to mention that I do not use any custom udev rules. Just Arch's defaults. On 2009-08-29 at 01:43 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: It's an external drive for you, so can you run: udevadm --kernel --udev --env and then plug it in? Maybe we can find the

Re: [arch-general] Problem with udev 145?

2009-08-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sebastian Schwarz schrieb: I can also confirm this. I have exactly the same problem here. One of my two external encrypted USB drives doesn't have a /dev/disk/by-uuid symlink with udev-145-1. However all other /dev/disk/by-* links for this drive are present. It is always the same drive that i

Re: [arch-general] 404 on 'view svn entries' in package details on archlinux.rog

2009-08-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
solsTiCe d'Hiver schrieb: hello, when you click on 'View svn entries' on quite a few package in details on archlinux.org, you end up on 404 page. is it a side effect of the massive package deletion reported some time ago ? is it another quirk or hiccup, or server migration ? This is due to ar

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gerhard Brauer schrieb: Neat! Or the percentage of our roadmap to world domination (BTW: i always missed this in Roadmap on Flyspray) It's not nearly complete. Right now, Arch runs on a very small percentage of computers world-wide. We need at least 20% until we can inject our world-domi

Re: [arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
David C. Rankin schrieb: > How do you handle the situation where you are running the nvidia driver on the normal kernel and then boot to the lts kernel? The kernel boots fine, but X is dead, presumably because the nvidia driver isn't compiled against that kernel and laughs when you tell it to

Re: [arch-general] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Patrick Brisbin schrieb: A while back i wrote a similar script which extracts the .PKGINFO file from each package in one's cache. slow, but I think this is a more accurate way to compare versions. We had that discussion on arch-dev-public a while ago. makepkg always puts .PKGINFO to the beginn

Re: [arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Partha Chowdhury schrieb: i cannot find ifup and ifdown in any of the paths- not as a normal user nor as root user. only command i can use is ifconfig. so i was wondering which package provides these two binaries ? alias ifup='/etc/rc.d/network ifup' alias ifdown='/etc/rc.d/network ifdown' Th

Re: [arch-general] bluetooth pairing with cellphone

2009-08-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Dieter Plaetinck schrieb: I have a system where everything is up to date, bluez is installed etc. the configs are all pretty much default. I did need to enable HID2HCI_ENABLE="true" in /etc/conf.d/bluetooth otherwise the bluetoothd daemon would abort immediately after startup ( ? ) Your blueto

Re: [arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Thomas Bächler schrieb: As you seem to be good with Linux and Arch, you can try the following: - Boot the Arch install CD, partition everything as you like it and mount it manually before even launching /arch/setup - Skip all "mount partitions" steps in /arch/setup and simply proce

Re: [arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
richard terry schrieb: I tried to ask this a couple of days ago and for some reason it ended up as a flame war about chakra between people I don't even know and I'm not sure what triggered it, so I'll try again. Sorry about that, it happens. However, this post has more details about what exact

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Nathan K. Bathory schrieb: On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:10:27 +0200 "Ali H. Caliskan" wrote: ...says the "sweet talker" who knows what he talks about. Why don't you patch your fracking mount as you patch the PKGBUILDS! please, please don't disrupt this list with your negativity... i have personall

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ali H. Caliskan schrieb: ...says the "sweet talker" who knows what he talks about. Why don't you patch your fracking mount as you patch the PKGBUILDS! If there was in fact something broken, you could tell me what it is. But you don't do that, you are simply trolling, that's it. So, what sho

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ali H. Caliskan schrieb: Well, I'm not a Chakra or kde user but I can say that I quite familiar with the PKGBUILDS of core and extra packages, and needless to say, it's not always consistent most of the times. So stop blaming others and work your ass off when required! Very polite of you. Let m

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
richard terry schrieb: 1) the libjepg.7 vs 62 problem - I've exhaustively tried every solution over the last few hours on the forums and cannot get kmail to work - loads but 'poof; up in smoke once the gui appears On a fresh install, there is no issue with libjpeg at all, there's just the .so.

Re: [arch-general] What happens with extra?

2009-08-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Thomas Bächler schrieb: Sergej Pupykin schrieb: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/ has ~140 packages This is known and should be fixed soon. Sadly, it takes a while until everything is rsynced again. Okay, we just found out WHY exactly those packages got removed (an error in our

Re: [arch-general] What happens with extra?

2009-08-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sergej Pupykin schrieb: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/ has ~140 packages This is known and should be fixed soon. Sadly, it takes a while until everything is rsynced again. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Latest updates messed up kdemod3 libjpeg.so.62?

2009-07-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Eric Bélanger schrieb: report that to Chakra. Looks like kdemod3 needs to be rebuilt against libjpeg 7. Reports about libjpeg+kdemod breakage have been coming in for a while. The SONAME bump was announced on arch-dev-public, then packages went to testing a week later, then the packages staye

Re: [arch-general] Cisco VPN config

2009-07-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ray Kohler schrieb: I usually recommend strongSwan (which is in AUR) for interoperability with Cisco concentrators. It works quite well, but it's not simple to set up initially. I still believe it to be the best technical solution, but it would be beyond me to explain how to do it, via email, and

Re: [arch-general] Cisco VPN config

2009-07-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Rafa Griman schrieb: I know it sucks, had to patch it and patch it again when I used openSUSE because it didn't work. AFAIK they have no 64 bit VPN client, they have no up to date Linux VPN client, ... I'm not a Cisco fan, but my company has Cisco gateways/firewalls/whatever and I have no voice

Re: [arch-general] Cisco VPN config

2009-07-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Rafa Griman schrieb: Got a Cisco VPN connection with my office, but can't manage to get it running. I've seen that there's a: - vpnc package: installed it, but it doesn't import the .pcf file, says it can't find the file. pcf2vnc /path/to/file.pcf Seems easy. When it says i

Re: [arch-general] Pacman version 2.98 or pacman 3.0

2009-07-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Baho Utot schrieb: If you look at what is required in pacman you get Pacman: depends=('bash' 'libarchive>=2.6.0' 'libdownload>=1.3' 'pacman-mirrorlist') pacman-mirrorlist is just one file which you could include in pacman if you wanted. The bash dependency is just for makepkg. libarchive:

Re: [arch-general] Pacman version 2.98 or pacman 3.0

2009-07-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Baho Utot schrieb: The current version just have too many dependencies to be able to use them. The older one only needs libtar,fakeroot and libdownload. THe new one requires somewhere around 10. But those pacman versions suck, seriously, they have so many annoying bugs that have been fixed i

Re: [arch-general] Pacman version 2.98 or pacman 3.0

2009-07-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Baho Utot schrieb: I need pacman 2.98 or 3.0 and the dependencies, either the PKGBUILDS or the binaries. I need this for an older system (distro) Is it still available? ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/pacman/ PKGBUILDs are probably in our old CVS, but it seems the cvs-arch tree (which was whe

[arch-general] [signoff] openvpn 2.1_rc19-2

2009-07-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Tested on x86_64, please sign off. Fixes: - Upstream URL was wrong: http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/openvpn/trunk/PKGBUILD?r1=47204&r2=47207 - Display of right configuration files on /etc/rc.d/openvpn stop: http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/openvpn/trunk/openvpn.rc?r1=47204&r2=47594 -

Re: [arch-general] Help: assigning bugs for these type of tickets

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi schrieb: What about orphaned packages? My current rule is assign to the latest packager or commiter, but what about if this removes himself from the assignement? Can be a FR o BR both are important, if nobody take it, should be reported to mailing list and moved to communit

[arch-general] [signoff] openvpn 2.1_rc19-1

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
Changes: - Updated to the 2.1 branch - Removed useless .install file - Moved plugins to /usr/lib/openvpn and made this the default plugin search path (i.e. plugins in that directory will be found when the plugin directive does is not an absolute path) - Moved example configuration to /usr/shar

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] dhclient-3.1.2p1

2009-07-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Daniel Isenmann schrieb: Yes I have removed. I have asked before on the dev-public but nobody answered. I will release a new pkgrel with added patch soon. Any other things about the patches I should know? I must have missed that. Isn't the 3.X version out of date anyway? Hasn't there been a dh

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] dhclient-3.1.2p1

2009-07-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Daniel Isenmann schrieb: Yes I have removed. I have asked before on the dev-public but nobody answered. I will release a new pkgrel with added patch soon. Any other things about the patches I should know? I must have missed that. Isn't the 3.X version out of date anyway? Hasn't there been a

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] dhclient-3.1.2p1

2009-07-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Daniel Isenmann schrieb: Please signoff both architectures. The new version fixes CVE-2009-0692 (https://www.isc.org/node/468). I have cleaned up the PKGBUILD and removes our patches. So please test it carefully and report any issue to the bugtracker or the ML. On works here on my PC, but it nee

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] vc/* -> tty* transition

2009-07-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Pierre Chapuis schrieb: That teaching might require breaking the system of those that don't follow simple rules such as read the output of Pacman. How can a user distinguish between important pacman output and the crap that is put everywherre? Moreover, I have modified /etc/inittab, and de

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] vc/* -> tty* transition

2009-07-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Allan McRae schrieb: First off, I don't like modifying config files. But, given I did this update and still managed to screw my system up when testing it with a reboot... So, the average advanced user won't even notice the problem, even you didn't (and you did get a .pacnew and a warning, di

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] vc/* -> tty* transition

2009-07-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Aaron Griffin schrieb: However, I must point out: odds are most people don't touch inittab, so the upgrade will do things as expected and the sed line will only do work a small subset of end users. You are wrong here. I would guess virtually any user touched it. And to be clear, I definitely

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] vc/* -> tty* transition

2009-07-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Matthew schrieb: What if the post_upgrade() message gives the users the sed command to run? Seems kind of pointless. Who cares about the users? Arch has been a distro that is made the way the developers want it, not the users. The users just reap the benefits of all the developers hard work.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] vc/* -> tty* transition

2009-07-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Aaron Griffin schrieb: Loui stated it very well. I also agree with Loui. We've always tried to avoid these automatic sed type things. I think a message and a news item should be enough It seems wrong to me to let so many people perform the same step by hand when we could have done it automat

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] vc/* -> tty* transition

2009-07-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Matthew schrieb: Although you are correct, I do not think automatically fixing the problem is a good solution here. First, I am not a big fan of the idea of package modifying a core file. Secondly what will happen when a user reinstalls the initscripts? If my memory holds me correctly the sed

Re: [arch-general] Perplexing libjpeg-related packaging issue

2009-07-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
bardo schrieb: 2009/7/15 bardo : Yes, i686, but just to be sure I checked on both arches, and I get the new version. The problem has been solved by switching repos. Could it be that mldonkey just linked to libjpeg.so, and readelf recurred to libjpeg.so.62, while the program said it didn't find

Re: [arch-general] Perplexing libjpeg-related packaging issue

2009-07-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
bardo schrieb: Hi guys. Yesterday I rebuild mldonkey since it depended on libjpeg. On x86_64 there are no problems, and everything works as expected; this is not the case for i686, where there's a strange problem: [r...@plafone ~]# ldd /usr/bin/mldonkey | grep libjpeg libjpeg.so.7 => /us

Re: [arch-general] [AUR-Server] lastsync file on aur.archlinux.org

2009-07-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gerhard Brauer schrieb: Hi, since 3-4 days i notice on mirrorchecking that for community repos the status file for indicate the last sync of the mirror switch temporary on some mirrors between actual(synced) and a out-of-sync period from ~16 days. It seems that only mirrors are affected which sny

Re: [arch-general] X server freeze on logout (WAS: Re: latest updates broke kde3, kde4, twm & console login ability)

2009-07-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Pierre Schmitz schrieb: On Tuesday 14 July 2009 15:43:58 Thomas Bächler wrote: Solve it by editing /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and adding TerminateServer=true to a [X-*-Core] section, then restart kdm. Maybe we should add this by default? Yes, I would strongly advise it. signature.asc

Re: [arch-general] About user signoffs

2009-07-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Denis A. Altoé Falqueto schrieb: Hi all. I would like to know how can we, common and lay users, give signoffs on the packages that we use in testing. I know that arch-public-dev is read only for non developpers and I would like to help too. Can we send the signoffs in this list? Yes please, do

Re: [arch-general] 32bit chroot in 64bit guest

2009-07-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
bardo schrieb: I've got some packages to upgrade for both arches and I was wondering if it's possible to run a non-native chroot and stop resorting to virtual machines. Given that i686 binaries should be runnable on an x86_64 guest, i just used mkarchroot with an i686-configured pacman.conf, but

[arch-general] X server freeze on logout (WAS: Re: latest updates broke kde3, kde4, twm & console login ability)

2009-07-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Rafa Griman schrieb: I'm also having issues with my intel gfx card on 3 laptops (Dell Latitude D610, MSI Wind and Acer ONE netbooks). When you hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 you get a VT but when you hit Alt+F7 you don't get the X (KDE 4.2 stable in my case) session back. This happens on all 3 laptops with In

Re: [arch-general] libreadline.so issues

2009-07-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
bardo schrieb: 2009/7/14 Vincent Van Houtte : I had the same problem after installing firefox without updating the whole system. Only core, extra, community in use - no testing... Your mirror probably synced while the move was in progress, this is called bad luck ;) Anyway, selective upgrades

Re: [arch-general] licenses-2.4-1 ==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

2009-07-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Baho Utot schrieb: For X86_64 Might be nice if you posted which file actually failed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] e1000e 2.6.30.1 kernel massive packet loss

2009-07-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Caleb Cushing schrieb: my router doesn't provide my dns I have a dns server running locally (which is why dhcpcd isn't supposed to overwrite resolv.conf). the fact that the packet loss immediately went away when I downgraded and I didn't have a problem until I actually loaded the new kernel. (my

Re: [arch-general] e1000e 2.6.30.1 kernel massive packet loss

2009-07-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Caleb Cushing schrieb: in addition to my resolv.conf issues. I notice a severe packet loss 20-30% between me an my local router. downgrading to the 2.6.30.0-5 kernel seems to fix it. anyone aware of driver problems with the e1000e driver in that kernel? The only upstream change between 2.6.30

[arch-general] [signoff] iwlwifi-4965-ucode 228.61.2.24-1

2009-07-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
New upstream release, please test and sign off. I also remove the ABI version 1 ucode, which should not be needed anymore with recent kernels. This is the original E-Mail from the Intel wifi mailing list: Version 228.61.2.24 of uCode for Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN is now available for dow

Re: [arch-general] makepkg security

2009-07-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Aaron Griffin schrieb: I agree. The question is not about makepkg security, but about sudo security. And frankly, sudo is a security desaster in its default configuration. Any suggestions for changing / shipping a better default config file? I know little about the security implications of this

Re: [arch-general] makepkg security

2009-07-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Aaron Griffin schrieb: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Square wrote: I noticed this in my typical routine when installing AUR packages. 'makepkg -sic' is the typical command I use, and most of the time if dependencies are installed before building sudo doesn't time out before the install - mea

Re: [arch-general] Are base packages assumed?

2009-07-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Zé Ninguém schrieb: Hi there. I was wondering if base or base-devel packages should go in a package dependency list or not? What is the current policy about that? I noticed that the instructions to build a clean chroot tell to install base, base-devel and sudo, but does that means the package sh

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [idea] global link database for all packages

2009-07-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
James Rayner schrieb: There's some vague support, though I have no idea how well/if it still works. Nor is it documented well. btw, I've been meaning to contact you to work out some way to make autowifi and netcfg work well together. Haha, I have a very good idea on how to do it, but not the t

Re: [arch-general] Adopt tar.xz for official repo packaging ?

2009-07-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Pierre Schmitz schrieb: On Friday 03 July 2009 16:02:38 Thomas Bächler wrote: Our db scripts and devtools always assume .tar.gz though, this is also easy to change. Patches are already in git. But atm it does only support one compression method at once. So we either need a patch to allow

Re: [arch-general] Adopt tar.xz for official repo packaging ?

2009-07-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Nathan K. Bathory schrieb: read through the archived posts, i'm sure this was discussed already .. iirc the issue was with implementing this in libarchive and some licensing issues. Actually, pacman does support xz and lzma decompression (except one lzma/xz-related bug in libarchive which wil

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [idea] global link database for all packages

2009-07-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Damjan Georgievski schrieb: Now, rp-pppoe's /etc/ppp/plugins/rp-pppoe.so and ppp-2.4.4's /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4/rp-pppoe.so are doing the same thing, only the rp-pppoe version should be a bit newer and better. I dont have a clear overview of what the differences are (the ppp one is an older fork of

Re: [arch-general] modprobe changes

2009-07-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Damien Churchill schrieb: I've noticed an issue regarding mkinitcpio and the new modprobe changes that requires a symlink from /etc/modprobe.conf to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf in order for options for any modules you load in the initramfs to be applied, just incase this hasn't been reported ye

Re: [arch-general] modprobe changes

2009-07-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Aaron Griffin schrieb: I think you're mistaken. Our modprobe doesn't have any message of the sort, relating to Arch. The error you are seeing is due to a change in the way modprobe parses config files. It used to read /etc/modprobe.conf and/or /etc/modprobe.d/* - now it only reads /etc/modprobe.d

Re: [arch-general] gnupg: requires readline>=6.0.00

2009-07-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Caleb Cushing schrieb: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote: ok. core is still showing as 'up to date' for me so I'll just have to wait for that to resolve itself. this is annoying... core still isn't showing as not being up to date do the 'repo' updates come from the mirror

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [idea] global link database for all packages

2009-07-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Loui Chang schrieb: Some features of ppp include * works sometimes Haha, I've been using ppp and PPPoE for over 8 years (except the short period of time where I had a cheap router). `man rp-pppoe` My design goals for this PPPoE client were as follows, in descending order of importance

Re: [arch-general] Is it a bug ? (device-mapper PKGBUILD)

2009-07-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
nez...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi , I was looking at the device-mapper PKGBUILD . I'm not sure but the last line looks problematic : # fix device-mapper link bug ln -sf /lib/libdevmapper.so "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libdevmapper.so" || return 1 What If device-mapper is not yet installed in the system ? W

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [idea] global link database for all packages

2009-07-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Allan McRae schrieb: For example: http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/i686/core.badfhs.txt Where does that come from? It's not in any package I know of. rp-pppoe-3.10-1/files:etc/ppp/plugins/rp-pppoe.so That is stupid. ppp plugins are supposed to be in /usr/lib/pppd/$VERSION and the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [idea] global link database for all packages

2009-07-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi schrieb: Pierre Schmitz wrote: * Only extract files from /opt /lib /sbin /bin /usr/lib /usr/sbin /usr/bin This will be omit some ELF files that are outside these directories: For example: http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/i686/core.badfhs.txt Where does that

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Will Siddall schrieb: Alright, after looking up the mirror's list (http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html), I pointed to one of the more recently updated mirrors and ran the update. This worked. I can download and upgrade my system. When I set my mirrors list back, and re-synchroni

Re: [arch-general] New Conflict on System Upgrade - license? pear? vi?

2009-06-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
David C. Rankin schrieb: Listmates, Here are some strange conflicts found during an attempted system update. Thankfully they are limited to the license package, pear and vi: (269/269) checking for file conflicts [#] 100% error: c

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [announcement draft] New module-init-tools changes modprobe configuration file location

2009-06-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Grigorios Bouzakis schrieb: Just out of curiosity, why was that change made? Isnt it a bit incosistent to all other *.d's? pacman.conf isnt in pacman.d, logrotate.conf isnt in logrotate.d, rc.conf isnt in rc.d etc. Are there plans to move those too? In the past, they ignored /etc/modprobe.d whe

Re: [arch-general] bash 4.0 / readline 6.0 rebuilds

2009-06-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Aaron Griffin schrieb: I think I'm going to just put the core packages in testing and get some help with the extra packages. unless debian has pushed a new bash completion. I can pretty much guarantee some bash-completion breakage. some things just don't work right w/ bash 4 (I forget the specif

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
David C. Rankin schrieb: Your alternative is to use the radeonhd driver. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe your card is supported. The radeonhd driver is really making progress and is a very good open-Source driver. I use it with laptop running Arch. Heat is a bit of a problem on my laptop

Re: [arch-general] Demons shutdown before processes.

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Chris Bannister schrieb: This makes no sense. Why would you unload a driver on shutdown? There is no reason to do this. What do you mean? OSS removes itself from modules during the daemon shutdown. Maybe it does, but it makes no sense to do it. It only causes trouble (as you are describing

Re: [arch-general] Demons shutdown before processes.

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Chris Bannister schrieb: If my soundcard is in use when I shutdown (which it normally is with MPD because I just sudo halt and expect linux to shutdown), this causes OSS to fail to unload, which in turn can leave my /var partition mounted. Is there a specific reason it is done this way? This ma

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Kill old gcc versions

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Roman Kyrylych schrieb: Packages that are already built don't really need immediate fixing unless you build all your packages from source. There are always some packages that cannot be built with current gcc/glibc/kernel/other-deps, but they work because they were built already some time ago. Whe

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Kill old gcc versions

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Baho Utot schrieb: I can do thatif you can stand all the bug reports :) My script just finished and it found another 400+ that didn't build, that will take some time to go through to find the ones that didn't build because of gcc-4.4.0 errors :) You could collect them in one bugreport inst

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Kill old gcc versions

2009-06-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Baho Utot schrieb: -1 from me IMHO I would like it to see them stay in extra For example : imlib which has errors compiling with gcc-4.4.0 compiles fine with gcc-3.4 Every normal package can be fixed to compile with the latest gcc, th

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Kill old gcc versions

2009-06-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Biru Ionut schrieb: Jan de Groot wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 19:06 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Can we kill gcc3 and gcc34 from extra? We used to need them for qemu, but that's fixed, so they're useless. Objections? Move it to AUR. We don't need these anymore. virtualbox rec

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Magnus Therning schrieb: interesting, it did not work for me. in the /etc/syslog-ng.conf there was: group("log"); and syslog-ng ignored this setting, I changed it to: group(19); as specified in the man page and it works fine now. Yes, same here. There should be a bug raised I guess. If n

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Magnus Therning schrieb: Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group other than root:root? I'd like to make it possible for some users to read the logs in /var/log. Any good suggestion for an already existing group to use? I was thinking of either log or wheel, a

Re: [arch-general] resolution stuck at 640x480

2009-06-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
prad schrieb: this is on an older machine 450MHz with 128M ram and 3D rage card - working off an lcd monitor for whom i've had to set horizsync 30-35 vertrefresh 50-100 (or it tries to overshoot the monitor's capabilities and the screen locks up with an outofrange error for the horizsync. Ple

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
David C. Rankin schrieb: Remove binary modules from extra? Guys opinions on this? madwifi -> AUR # supported by ath5k and ath9k normally Tobias, I have 2 Toshiba laptops. In the past madwifi would not work with ath5k or ath9k and would only function with ath_pci. I haven't had tim

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Adam Lantos schrieb: Hi, I want to nominate a patch for arch 2.6.30 kernel, intel/KMS needs this patch for output detection to work properly: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel.git;a=commit;h=03d6069912babc07a3da20e715dd6a5dc8f0f867 See http://lists.freedesktop.org/arch

Re: [arch-general] Installing packages with different glibc

2009-06-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Jan de Groot schrieb: Usually glibc and libstdc++ are backwards compatible. ABI doesn't change so programs compiled against older versions will always work with newer libraries. It's about forward compatibility. If you compile a program with a newer libstdc++, it will often not work with an ol

Re: [arch-general] Installing packages with different glibc

2009-06-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi schrieb: Baho Utot wrote: Does it create complications if I install packages built with a newer glibc-2.10.1-2 on a system with an older glibc-2.9-7? Yes and no. Depending if the executable or library that is linked to glibc uses a symbol with declaring what version us

Re: [arch-general] Stolen Logo - (hijacked) What about monthly delivery of the Newsletter?

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
David C. Rankin schrieb: On Monday 08 June 2009 13:51:46 Loui Chang wrote: Cheers! On the topic of the Arch newsletter, it would be nice if it had the ability to be subscribed to and emailed each month to the subscriber list. http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce signa

Re: [arch-general] Building in clean chroot

2009-06-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Baho Utot schrieb: I keep getting these errors when building packages from extra Is there a way to "turn off" this or do I have to manually do this every time it rears its ugly head? Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... checking for file conflicts... error: failed to

Re: [arch-general] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14873

2009-05-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Magnus Therning schrieb: Allan McRae wrote: [..] As a general rule, you never should use $startdir in a PKGBUILD. Is that written down somewhere? It'd be nice to have a place to refer to when arguing some changes to PKGBUILDs. /M You can regularly refer to the prototypes in /usr/share/

Re: [arch-general] imlib2

2009-05-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Baho Utot schrieb: Building 1.4.2-2 i686 has a dependency for libungif pkgname=imlib2 pkgver=1.4.2 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="Library that does image file loading and saving as well as rendering, manipulation, arbitrary polygon support" url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/enlightenment/"; arch=('i686'

Re: [arch-general] KDE, Bluetooth and Wifi

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Andrea Scarpino schrieb: unluckily kbluetooth does not work with kde 4.2, still I have not a solution for this (gcarrier should works on this...). But I have a good news: I am using kde 4.3beta1 here and kbluetooth works for file transfer pc-phone and viceversa (which does not work on kde 4.2) bu

Re: [arch-general] KDE, Bluetooth and Wifi

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Manne Merak schrieb: So, I am new here, just installed ArchLinux on my work laptop. Had some issues with getting X and KDE4 up, but all fine now. KDE4 is different, I can see why some people dislike it - still needs that polished feeling that 3.5 had, but hey that will come with time. My bigges

Re: [arch-general] libnl 1.1-1 i686

2009-05-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Baho Utot schrieb: Source package URL gone => Making package: libnl 1.1-1 i686 (Mon May 25 18:31:16 UTC 2009) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Downloading libnl-1.1.tar.gz... --2009-05-25 18:31:17-- http://people.suug.ch/~

Re: [arch-general] libnl 1.1-1 i686

2009-05-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Baho Utot schrieb: Source package URL gone => Making package: libnl 1.1-1 i686 (Mon May 25 18:31:16 UTC 2009) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Downloading libnl-1.1.tar.gz... --2009-05-25 18:31:17-- http://people.suug.ch/~

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] testing repo clean-up

2009-05-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Grigorios Bouzakis schrieb: On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:52:15PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Tobias Powalowski schrieb: moved in lilo,openvpn,openswan and capi4k-utils to extra I'd like to keep openvpn in core. I'd even maintain it, but I use the openvpn 2.1 release candidates and

Re: [arch-general] Network Shutdown Prior to umount on cifs mounts hangs shutdown

2009-05-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Shridhar Daithankar schrieb: On Friday 22 May 2009 12:42:18 Biru Ionut wrote: Is there any way to move the network shutdown until after samba shares are unmounted in the shutdown sequence. Or conversely, move or add a samba/cifs shares unmount to the sequence at a time before the networ

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Jan de Groot schrieb: The only valid reason I see for closing a bug as upstream, is when upstream made a decision in the software which is reported as bug by the user. An example of this is excluding evince from the menus by using NoDisplay=True in the .desktop file. This bug is opened now and t

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0 )

2009-05-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Pierre Schmitz schrieb: I am just doing some very simple test right now. (default compression preset) core (x86_64) (decompress time) none552M gzip186M12s xz 121M17s I will add a test for extra later. Even though this might not be

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