Re: [arch-general] (for Vesa and other Arch Devs on the list) Re: GHC 7.4.1 or HP 2011.4.0.0??

2012-02-05 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: > This was mainly directed to the Arch Devs on the list, and especially > Vesa since he's putting in most of the work on GHC as found in > [extra]. > > We've already discussed the question of whether we should keep HP in > Arch.  *I* think the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WARNING: openntpd upgrade breaks openssh on next restart

2009-11-02 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > Correction: the latest openssh package (3.5p1-2) > works around missing /var/empty by creating it in rc.d daemon. Ah yes, good. I did notice the thread elsewhere, just thought I'll emphasize a bit to lower the number of broken headless op

[arch-general] WARNING: openntpd upgrade breaks openssh on next restart

2009-11-01 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
Hey, I made a screwup on the openntpd package which nastily reveals a weakness in openssh and filesystems. I moved away from using /var/empty/ as a privsep directory, and removed the directory from the package. But since it's empty, it got removed from the system as well in the upgrade. So if you

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
> So basically, where are we at? > KDE 3.5 is Windows XP > KDE 4.3 is Windows Vista > ??? is Windows 7 awesome is Windows 1 --vk

Re: [arch-general] Acer Aspire One Instalation Issues

2009-02-15 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Chris Wilson wrote: > Hey all > > I'm having a major issue with the installation on my Aspire One. I've used > unetbootin to create the USB startup disk and I've succesfully booted from > it, but a few seconds into the startup process, I get the following: You don

Re: [arch-general] Staic libraries

2009-01-25 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Now, there are /usr/lib/libmng.a /usr/lib/libpng.a /usr/lib/libjpeg.a > /usr/lib/libz.a /usr/lib/liblcms.a /usr/lib/libm.a files on my > ArchLinux but there's no /usr/lib/libfreetype.a static library. > > In http://bugs.archlinux.org/tas

Re: [arch-general] Moonlight 1.0

2009-01-23 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto wrote: > > Funny you say that... Looking over the Moonlight homepage, there is > the Microsoft covenant for not sueing who uses it. The first paragraph > is very "interesting": > > http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moon

Re: [arch-general] Moonlight 1.0

2009-01-22 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Amanai wrote: > The final Version from Moonlight 1.0 released on January 20th. Will this be > avaible in the Archlinux repo's extra? > > http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/ > > Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix > systems. I

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WICD, up for grabs

2009-01-07 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:35:14AM +0200, Vesa Kaihlavirta wrote: >> >> I talked with Angel on IRC and we decided to work on wicd together and >> keep it in extra for now. Angel, do you concur? >> >> And

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28-1

2009-01-01 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: > - bump to latest major version > - atl2 moved into mainline kernel > - wlan-ng26 moved into staging directory of kernel development > - for the cool stuff please refer to: > http://ke

Re: [arch-general] Welcome Geoffroy Carrier!

2008-12-07 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to wish a warm welcome to our new developer and bluetooth > maintainer, Geoffroy Carrier (gcarrier) Bienvenue, monsieur Carrier! --vk

[arch-general] Dropping lots of packages

2008-06-16 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
(Answering to Simo Leone's packagedrops in arch-dev-public) > darcs > ghc > happy I can take these to community, although I think ghc should really be in extra. --vk