Re: [arch-general] Update delayed for more of two months, Lyx v2.1.4

2016-06-07 Thread Xavier Corredor Llano via arch-general
Hi guys, Again the maintainer of Lyx [1] is so delay for update this package, here [2] is the pkgbuild updated and tested, can any TUs update this? Thanks [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/lyx/ [2]: PKGBUILD[1] -- Xavier Corredor Llano On Saturday, 24 October 2015 11

[arch-general] Update delayed for more of two months, Lyx v2.1.4

2015-10-23 Thread Xavier Corredor Llano
be he is busy) I tested for more of two months and this release work fine, I would like to be the maintainer of this package but I am not TU. Regards [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/lyx/ [2] http://www.lyx.org/News -- Xavier Corredor Llano -- Forwarded Me

[arch-general] aur xfce4-dev

2011-11-14 Thread Xavier D.
Hello, Due to a lack of time, I'll orphan all the xfce4-dev aur packages this evening. If someone is interested in adopting them. Tcho

Re: [arch-general] Recently orphaned [community] packages, TUs should take a look if they might be interested in adopting them.

2011-09-27 Thread Xavier D.
Hello, If no TU interested in celt, I'm interested to maintain it in AUR. On 09/26/2011 11:19 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: Hi, I recently went over all my packages in community, and have decided to orphan the following due to lack of interest and because I haven't used them in a long time celt

Re: [arch-general] Xfce 4.8 thunar/ristretto issues

2011-01-18 Thread Xavier D.
Hey, You have to start tumbler for your thumbnails (/usr/lib/tumbler-1/tumblerd). Concerning ristretto, if you click on one image it only opens the image and not the entire folder. You can also change this behavior in the preferences and select "Open entire folder on startup". BRs, On 01/18/

Re: [arch-general] lcms - needs upgrade because of security

2010-08-14 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Kurt J. Bosch wrote: > Am 2010-08-14 21:48, schrieb Laurent Carlier: >> >> You should fill a bugreport as there is security issues >> > No. Last time I did this it was rejected - > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10679 That reject was plain wrong, we should encoura

Re: [arch-general] nfs problem

2010-07-19 Thread Xavier
And what if you allow ALL access to the server for the client and to the client for the server ? On 07/17/2010 04:57 PM, Lars Tennstedt wrote: Hello, I tried to set up a nfs server and a nfs client in my network. I followed the instructions from the arch linux wiki. The server's ip address

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

2010-06-13 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > This is the reason why we need package signing for Pacman.  I'm aware > that some progress has been made and it's being worked on.  Are there > any updates? > It's all there : http://projects.archlinux.org/users/allan/pacman.git/log/?h=

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Check all checksum types

2010-06-08 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Kazuo Teramoto wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Allan McRae wrote: >> Check every checksum that makepkg supports rather than only md5sums. >> Fixes FS#17168. >> >> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae >> --- >> >> I am sure there has to be some way to loop through a

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

2010-06-05 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:36 AM, xenof0nt wrote: > > Sorry there is no other alternative. The only solution is Shaman2 but > currently is in Alpha stage. That means it is highly unstable and dangerous > for your system. > Arch will never provide a graphical tool for pacman. > So if you can't live w

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

2010-05-27 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > 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 fee

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

2010-05-27 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote: > Then, if you want to do something about it, just go ahead and talk > with these people Joerg kindly mentioned. > Ask them whether they agree or disagree with Eben's interpretation > that GPL compliance on mkisofs i

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, wrote: > > Looking at the xrun statistics in function of audio period size, > it looks like current nouveau is blocking audio (either by dis- > abling interrupts, or by locking a shared HW resource) for about > 3-4 ms. *No* driver today should ever do that - it's

Re: [arch-general] Burning From Command Line

2010-05-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:32 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > > at the possibility of playing devils advocate, i don't see anything > outrageous by Jeorg's claims... even after reading the full 40+ > messages twice and the "yay" thread started afterwards. > Sorry to inform you that you did not rea

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

2010-05-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: > >> [about time we changed the subject] >> >> Joerg, >> >> Even given you are correct about licensing terms (which I do not care to >> dispute), currently all risk lies on the distributor.  Given many >> distributions h

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote: > > Also note the first item about latency on this page : > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo > Ah now I remember where this latency TODO came from, there actually was one report about bad latency earlier that month (feb

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > Sadly audio performance / locks /latency seems to be not on graphics driver > developers > minds at all. It's definitely not their primary focus. But if you open a bug report saying "that commit greatly increased latency" and you can

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-25 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:32 AM, wrote: > > I don't mind having to tweak things, do a lot of configuration > manually, etc. etc., but I do expect things to work when they > go into core/extra, or at least have a fallback available. > There is none, AFAICS. > I don't know what you are saying. Ju

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-24 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:00 PM, wrote: > Hello all, > > over the past few months I have installed Arch on a number of > systems, all of them used for quite intensive audio work (think > of systems with > 1000 jack ports). All of them have worked > flawlessly, no latency problems even with the s

Re: [arch-general] Burning From Command Line

2010-05-24 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Rasmus Steinke wrote: > > Jörg has a point. While of course being biased about his pet cdrtools, > cdrkit is not on par with cdrtools in any way. > Those updates you mention more or less only consist of small fixes, no > progess at all in that package. > > The ONL

Re: [arch-general] Burning From Command Line

2010-05-22 Thread Xavier Chantry
2010/5/23 Ng Oon-Ee : > On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 23:07 -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote: >> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 22:49, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> > >> > What ? Is that really true ?!?!? State some link where it is officially >> > declared by the developers. >> Joerg is the author of the software he

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: AIF through proxy

2010-05-22 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > or write this to /etc/profile: > alias pacman='http_proxy=.. ftp_proxy=.. pacman' > I would suggest that last way, either an alias or shell function or shell wrapper.

Re: [arch-general] AIF through proxy

2010-05-22 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2010 02:04:41 +0200 > "Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" wrote: > >> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Dieter Plaetinck >> wrote: >> > On Fri, 21 May 2010 22:41:12 +0200 >> > "Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" wrote: >> > >> >> >> just give

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] phoronix: Is Arch faster than Ubuntu?

2010-05-19 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Dan McGee wrote: >> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Aaron Griffin >> wrote: >>> Came across my reader today >>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_arch_faster&num=1 >>> >>> Pretty

Re: [arch-general] vim runtime woes

2010-05-14 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: > The vim runtime that can be retrieved via rsync is outdated. > > Some of the patches modify the runtime, and some of these changes > (e.g. 394) are lost when the runtime is overwritten with the runtime > from rsync. > > Not using the runtime f

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD parser

2010-05-10 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 10/05/10 02:06, Loui Chang wrote: >> >> On Sun 09 May 2010 16:21 +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Allan McRae  wrote: >>>> >>>> Sourcing is d

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD parser

2010-05-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > > Yeah I've thought about this as well. Source packages could have a > similar format as binary packages with a .PKGINFO file to present the > metadata in an easily parsable format. > > You can read some of my incomplete brainstormings here: > ht

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD parser

2010-05-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > Sourcing is dangerous if the PKGBUILD is from an untrusted source.  It also > fails with package splitting... > Makes me wonder why pkgbuilds are written in bash. Sounds like a big design flaw. But it depends on what our needs are : 1) we do

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

2010-05-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:43 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        I have had vim and gvim installed side by side for 6 months+, today > during > update, pacman wanted to remove vim because it now conflicts with gvim. So I > removed gvim and updated. What is the conflict? Why a conflict n

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [toolchain] gcc 4.5 breakage

2010-05-06 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote: > > All this is probably unrelated to http://gcc.gnu.org/PR43987, but perhaps > it will save some time for someone, as your post about busybox helped me. > I'll wait for a new gcc package before reporting a gcc bug. > IMO you should report

Re: [arch-general] Firefox graphics licensed under MPL

2010-05-02 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 5:26 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu) wrote: > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote: >> Hi archers, >> >> If you believe the comment on Mozilla's bugtracker [1] and the change >> to the license file [2], the previously non-free Firefox graphics are >> now licensed under the MP

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > I know this is a silly reason, but this is the general trend I've observed > dealing with people in real life and on the internet. They fear from using > Linux because they think it has no GUI or it is bad. > Well that's not complete

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > That's the main aim for which I want to do this. By showing them the > screenshots which will look "awesome" to them, it may be possible to win > their minds. > This is the silliest reason I've ever heard for switching to Linux. Her

Re: [arch-general] Crisp Rendering Fonts

2010-04-29 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Michishige Kaito wrote: >> >> Anti-aliasing is turned off for >> small point sizes and turned on for larger sizes. >> >> Denis. >> > > I'd be very interested in finding out how this is controlled. Could you > point me at a resource on the topic? > http://wiki.arch

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] xorg-server 1.8 repository

2010-04-18 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 23:41 -0400, Ray Kohler wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: >> > Things todo before this merges to extra: >> > - Fix xf86-video-siliconmotion, xf86-video-unichrome, xf86-video-nouveau >> >> I'm

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] gcc-4.5 toolchain rebuild

2010-04-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: > Thanks for your reply Allan. > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Allan McRae wrote: >> On 17/04/10 00:03, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: >>> >>> Just out of curiosity, what is the plan regarding this issue (quoted >>> from the gcc changelog): >

Re: [arch-general] Update Error - :: sysprof-module: requires kernel26<2.6.33 (is this a wait on the mirrors thing?)

2010-04-11 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:16 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        Trying to update and I received: > > 05:15 nirvana:~/img/pics/portraits/dcr> pms -u > :: Synchronizing package databases... >  core is up to date >  extra is up to date >  community is up to date >  archlinuxfr is up to da

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:54 PM, bardo wrote: > 2010/4/9 David Rosenstrauch : >> * I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like this: >> expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1 line 8 of xfree86 >> >> >> W  T  F  ? ! ? > > Not sure it's the same problem, but I experienced somethin

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:05 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On Thu, April 8, 2010 9:51 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> So WTF?!?!?!?  Hal sees the keyboard.  And xev running inside the x >> session sees the keyboard.  SO WHY ON EARTH IS MY KEYBOARD STILL DEAD IN >> MY X SESSIONS?!?!?  AG

[arch-general] nvidia with latest Xorg

2010-04-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:35 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 04/07/2010 09:55 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> On 04/07/2010 10:46 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote: >>> Can you attach full Xorg log and config ? >> >> I'm not using any xorg config.  Log is at: >

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:59 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > Anybody have any ideas on this?  GUI is completely unusable on the server > until I solve this!  :-( > > I really have zero idea what's going on.  And it's a difficult thing to find > good specific search terms for, as there's been nume

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:32 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > I upgraded my extremely not-up-to-date server last night (523 packages > upgraded).  The upgrade generally went well, except for one significant > issue:  the keyboard is no longer working under Xorg.  It works fine in a > command line tt

Re: [arch-general] Getting X running on new install (Ionut Biru)

2010-03-31 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Alain Muls wrote: > > That is exactly what I did. I am not a beginner and have read quite some > articles about Arch and I am aware of the fact that I have to follow > carefully all steps in this installation process. So pleas bear with me and > hep me over this pr

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

2010-03-30 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:54:48 +0200 > schrieb Xavier Chantry : > >> 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 >

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

2010-03-30 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:22 +0800 > schrieb Ian-Xue Li : > >> As for MOC, I recommend cmus over MOC because it got more decoder over >> different types files. > > Well, just tried cmus. It's so complicated an unintuitive. If I need to > first

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

2010-03-30 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > Could somebody recommend another media player I could try that will let me > create temporary music lists on the fly by typing the path to a parent > dir containing multiple music directories??? > I don't know any music player tha

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grep-2.6.1-1

2010-03-29 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote: > > A very quick look at the git repo : > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=54d55bba41f2ff31682fe6523ef6f49b37a0e20f > > I just love these easy to browse web interface :) > 2.6.2 released which inclu

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grep-2.6.1-1

2010-03-29 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Andrea Scarpino > wrote: >> On Friday 26 March 2010 13:57:08 Allan McRae wrote: >>> Upstream bug fix release. >>> >>> Signoff both, >>> Allan >> I got a segfault when I do: >> $ grep -qrl --include "desc" "^pac

Re: [arch-general] gsfonts - package is updated?

2010-03-25 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Giovanni Scafora wrote: > Il 26/03/2010 00:02, Ng Oon-Ee ha scritto: >> >> Repository     : extra >> Name           : gsfonts >> Version        : 1.0.7pre44-1 >> Installed      : 8.11-5 >> URL            : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts/ >> >> I'm assumi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grep-2.6-1

2010-03-25 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > Upstream big update. > > Local changelog: >  - Removed the multibyte locale speed-up patch (and all the patches to fix > the issues it created...) as it is now included upstream. >  - Removed the other patches as it appears they are not being

Re: [arch-general] tmpfs

2010-03-25 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > This is definitely NOT SAFE! > > If you don't have /dev/shm, POSIX shared memory will use the same tmpfs > filesystem as /dev, which is currently limited to 10MB - POSIX shared > memory blocks might be much larger. > > As for removing /dev

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] dmraid-1.0.0rc16-3

2010-03-18 Thread Xavier Chantry
Tobias, did you receive the last mail from dmraid developer ? It seems we can solve this problem in a better way now with just a runtime option. And keep just the dynamic binary. I will see if I can get that running and working. Or do you still want to temporarily re-add static dmraid despites tha

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote: > Hi archers, > > It has been repeated a lot of times that doing piecemeal updates with > pacman -Sy pkgname is not a very good idea. What about ignoring > packages? Is it as dangerous? > > And a more general question: is it even theoretically

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

2010-03-15 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> 1) what allan said : >> A group could monitor security issues and file bugs to get the devs to >> fix them. > > Is there any evidence that this is actually needed? > No, Allan asked for some numbers, and I am curious too. > My impres

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

2010-03-15 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: > After a quick look at it I don't see much that would apply though.  Arch > doesn't have releases.  Arch follows upstream releases very closes (in some > cases even too closely ;-) > > So, if there is no need for backporting to a set of pac

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-13 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > I do not see all reopen requests, but the need to "beg" seems overstated... >  I do know that it is much, much easier to get a bug reopened if the request > is clear and well justified.  A large portion of reopen requests provide no > informa

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Allow comments on closed bugs?

2010-03-12 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 13/03/10 08:35, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> >> Does anyone have an opinion on this? >> >> In my eyes, I imagine the kind of people who want this feature simply >> wish to argue about the closing. I've had to deal with enough PM >> requests in t

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

2010-03-11 Thread Xavier Chantry
2010/3/11 David C. Rankin : > On 03/11/2010 09:50 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> If all else fails, blame Allan. Oh, and tell the maintainer what failed. >> > > Gotcha! > >        I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to the AUR package > and sent > Chris (the maintainer) an email telling hi

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-03-10 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > Not really... > > The problem is that pacman does not clean up packages installed as a > dependency for a package that are no longer needed due to an update which > removed that dep. > And by the way, we cannot be 100% sure that the 'no lon

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

2010-03-08 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > It seems like this is a "solution" that's looking for a problem to > happen. As far as I know, working with svn isn't a big deal and isn't > a problem. > Just a side-note : I discovered git svn today, it's really a blessing ! I very rarely ha

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

2010-03-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > The only way for this to actually happen would be for someone to set up a > git repo with a handful of packages and demonstrate that it works better > with the usual packaging workflow.  That is what was done with SVN and why > it was chosen wh

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

2010-03-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:14 PM, wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 02:49:01PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> The only viable solution I could think of is using one git repository >> per package - and that is just crazy. > > I wonder, is it really that crazy ? > > I've been looking into git as a

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

2010-03-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:51:30 +0100 > Stefan Husmann wrote: > >> > 4) users can check out older versions of packages easily, with >> > limited storage overhead. >> Do you want to store binary packages in the git repo? Maybe I >> misundersta

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-06 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: > > I use mutt with a nifty little binding that automagically jumps to the last > blank line in the file when it opens a message for reply :P > -- > Well with mutt you can use a decent text editor which will allow you do that

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-04 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Denis Kobozev wrote: > > Bottom posting shows its downside only when you recently joined a > mailing list, for example - you start receiving emails from threads > that have been going for a long time and you have no idea what people > are discussing. But if you're

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Versioned dependency fun...

2010-03-02 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 14:06:57 schrieb Dan McGee: >> > and here we have another reason to punish anybody using versioned >> > dependencies. ;-) (of course upstream needs to be hit, too) >> >> Blaming this on versioned deps is punishing th

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts hack-a-thon?

2010-03-02 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 09:39:19 schrieb Thomas Bächler: >> Personally, I would like to >> remove everything but basic ethernet support from initscripts (that >> would also include removing wireless, but some people were too strictly >> ag

Re: [arch-general] Archwiki - Installing with fake raid - really chopped up...

2010-02-28 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:57 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > I don't know who does the wiki editing on the "Installing with Fake RAID" > page, > but a lot of the helpful information was deleted and it has been edited down > to > the point that it is confusing. > You seriously don't know

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1

2010-02-28 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 28/02/10 19:10, Roman Kyrylych wrote: >> >> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 16:46, Tobias Powalowski  wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys, >>> kernel 2.6.33 first test run ... >> >>> Enjoy have fun and give me feedback, >> >> I have Intel 965GM video and I get

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Samba package sizes

2010-02-27 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote: > Dan McGee (2010-02-26 19:09): >> Guys, does anyone else think this is getting out of hand? > <...> >> Seriously, 45 f-ing MB for samba? How can that be possible? > <...> > > Samba is growing up fast. > It is long known upstream ( http:/

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Fwd: FS#17503: [unzip] zsh completion missing for unzip patches

2010-02-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Thayer Williams wrote: > > Bumping this for feedback.  7z correctly unzips localized win32 zip > files, but bsdtar/unzip cannot.  Is that good enough to remove the > conflicting win32 patches from unzip? > Links to feature request for adding support to bsdtar / un

Re: [arch-general] powertop vs archlinux vs ubuntu

2010-02-21 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Stefano Z. wrote: > hi > > i've bought a new notebook (hp pavilion dm1-1150sl) and installed > archlinux. > i have see a strange thing with powertop, i'm running the vanilla arch > kernel26, > and i have see this behaviour: > Cn                Avg residency      

Re: [arch-general] Xscreensaver corrupts ext4 / partition

2010-02-21 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > Bad thing it's still kind of unknown how to solve or to work around > it.  Well, the work around is not to use xscreensaver, :-(.   I don't > remember if I can get xlockmore to lock when there's no activity... > Well, I'll have to look int

Re: [arch-general] new libdrm breaks nouveau

2010-02-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ray Kohler wrote: > > Downgrading libdrm makes X work again. Is this already being worked > on, or should I open a bug? If so, against which package, libdrm or > xf86-video-nouveau? > You need to upgrade and rebuild both xf86-video-nouveau and nouveau-drm. File a

Re: [arch-general] VIM history

2010-02-12 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> >> >> Or add the following to .vimrc or /etc/vimrc: >> runtime vimrc_example.vim >> to enable other features that you are probably used to > > Yeah this is a lot better :) > I started by just including it with runtime. But finally I

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Dan McGee wrote: > > I think we may have this fixed in pacman-git, but Nagy or Xavier would > know for sure... > That documentation from man PKGBUILD still applies, I don't think we ever considered it as a bug/problem : replaces (arr

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

2010-02-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Eric Bélanger wrote: > > One reason that it takes time to get signoffs for certain packages is > that we don't know if enough devs use it to get the required signoff. > For instance, I don't use openvpn. How many devs use openvpn? I don't > know and probably no-one

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-02-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 09/02/10 19:50, Xavier Chantry wrote: >> >> Anyway, care to explain what you are rewriting pacman for ? There are >> probably plenty of good reasons to do that, I am just curious to know >> if you have any:) &g

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-02-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Arvid Picciani wrote: > > if someone actually posts patches or other constructive stuff, please CC > me. We're rewriting pacman anyway and looking for a solution to handle > this mess in particular. > > Right now the only idea i got is versioned deps which is sort o

Re: [arch-general] KMS again with 2.6.33?

2010-02-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > > The point is that it moved to the staging tree now, where further > development will take place. After a while, there won't be an > out-of-tree version anymore because all development happens in the > official kernel git tree. > An example of

Re: [arch-general] KMS again with 2.6.33?

2010-02-08 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:52 +0100, Xavier Chantry wrote: >> It seems the question was not only about kms but also about dri2, >> which is needed to get 3d support with kms. >> >> About nouveau, ums was dropped f

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-02-08 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Jeff Horelick wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I have a suggestion to possibly make rebuilds a bit less painful (or >> non-existant). I think this is a good idea because it seems like right now, >> even before ther

Re: [arch-general] KMS again with 2.6.33?

2010-02-08 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > It will be supported as .33 will ship kms. > Right now .32 supports kms for ati and intel cards, nouveau is optional. > It seems the question was not only about kms but also about dri2, which is needed to get 3d support with kms. About

[arch-general] Eben Moglen's view on mkisofs GPL (non-)compliance

2010-02-07 Thread Xavier Chantry
I also hope this helps somehow. -- Forwarded message -- From: Karl Berry via RT Date: Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:42 AM Subject: [gnu.org #544172] Fwd: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit To: chantry.xav...@gmail.com Hello Xavier, Eben just sent me this

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-02 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > > Urmm..if it is so important, Arch gives you the power to roll your own > kernel. Heck, I don't even have a fallback, because I don't need it. > Like Fons, I have an RT kernel, and a normal kernel. Either acts as a > backup of the other, since n

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] exim maintainer wanted

2010-02-01 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 01/02/10 13:08, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> exim has no maintainer and I have been assigned a bug for it as the last >> person to rebuild it (db-4.8 rebuild). I do not use it and have no >> intentions of fixing the bug. Does anybody want to be

Re: [arch-general] core/linux-api-headers?

2010-02-01 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Brendan Long wrote: > Sounds like the real problem is pacman's message then. My suggestion: > change "package x has been replaced by package y" to "package x has been > renamed package y". > fork/alternative != rename The term 'replace' is more general than a ren

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-01 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:59 PM, ludovic coues wrote: >> >> WAIT WHAT? >> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/kernel26-lts/ >> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/kernel26-lts/ >> > > lts is not for everyday desktop usage. > Who said anything about desktop usage ? It is useful fo

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

2010-01-29 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Finally some interesting discussion came out of this. I am not an expert on > linux capability support, but Thomas has posted two blog entries about this in > Arch: http://archlinux.me/brain0/2009/07/28/using-posix-capabilities-in-linux- > p

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

2010-01-27 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:19 +0100, stefan-husm...@t-online.de wrote: >> Hello, >> >> the only reason I did not move cdrtools to community was that license >> reason.  So if that is no showstopper anymore, I can maintain it. >> >> Regards Stef

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

2010-01-27 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:45 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Just to make it clear: >>> >>> There is not a single claim from a lawyer that confirms the claims >>> from >>> the hostile

[arch-general] PulseAudio

2010-01-26 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > If you want to read up on the different sound components, just do a > google search. There's tons of articles out there, some very good, > mostly a bit crap. Lennart Pottering (dev for Pulse) has a > particularly good one I recall. Most on Arc

Re: [arch-general] Xscreensaver corrupts ext4 / partition

2010-01-25 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Thayer Williams wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Javier Vasquez > wrote: >>  Bad thing that xscreensaver corrupted / so that it couldn't be >> unlocked, and under console there was no way to loging, some misplaced >> inodes or something... >> >> Hard reb

Re: [arch-general] problem with video driver ?

2010-01-25 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:46 PM, wrote: > > Meanwhile I installed nouveau. The only difference I notice > is that now the 'visual bell' in xterm has become very slow > as well (to the point of being unusable), also locally. > I suspect you did not install it properly and were running in noaccel

Re: [arch-general] problem with video driver ?

2010-01-24 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:04 AM, wrote: > > It is the 'ssh -X zita2 emacs' that is very slow. > Running emacs locally is perfectly OK. > The previous install was F9, it used nv, and > the same 'ssh -X zita2 emacs' worked perfectly. > Nothing has changed on zita2. > > As far as I can see, the Arch

Re: [arch-general] problem with video driver ?

2010-01-24 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:50 PM, wrote: > Hello all, > > Today I installed Arch on my desktop which previously had Fedora. > All works well except > >  ssh -X zita2 emacs > > where zita2 is my laptop. > > It works, but it is ex tre me ly slow, I can count > the lines being displayed when scrolli

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

2010-01-20 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Steve Holmes > wrote: >> Actually when you think about it, most blogs are all in reverse >> chronical order which to me is the same thing as top-posting and >> nobody seems to complain about that concept. >

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: > > Often times it's the user configuration files that mess up a system, > so keep that in mind unless you're really confident it's all in the > packages themselves. > > And if you're thinking of reinstalling a la pacman -S $(comm -3 > <(pacman -Q

Re: [arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

2010-01-13 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Alexander Duscheleit > wrote: >> I still think /arch/setup *should* generate this file itself if it >> detects software raids in use for the target. The wiki even seems to >> suggest, that it does. >> >> Co

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

2010-01-12 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Aaron Griffin 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 to do what we don't

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