Re: [arch-general] [arch-notifications] Orphan Extra package [snes9x] marked out-of-date

2010-01-13 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 06:29, Arch Website Notification wrote: > > * Note: this is an automated message > > @gmail.com wants to notify you that the following package may be out > of date: > >    Package Name: snes9x >    Architecture: i686 >    Repository:   Extra >    (http://www.archlinux.org/p

[arch-general] Yet another step toward Arch evil plan

2010-01-13 Thread ianux
Hello archers, I just want to let you know that the french hosting service OVH now provide Arch among many others distro. Reference : http://www.ovh.com/fr/items/distributions/archlinux.xml?sort=gnu Here is a (attempt at) translation : « Arch Linux distribution, lightweight and fast, which pur

Re: [arch-general] Yet another step toward Arch evil plan

2010-01-13 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:51, ianux wrote: > They provide ArchLinux 2009.08 in both 32 and 64 bit with > their own kernel with grsecurity (2.6.31.5-grs) How well does this integrate? Arch doesn't have any officially-endorsed grsecurity kernel. Does it require userspace modifications? Have they su

Re: [arch-general] Yet another step toward Arch evil plan

2010-01-13 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:00 -0500, "Daenyth Blank" wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:51, ianux wrote: > > They provide ArchLinux 2009.08 in both 32 and 64 bit with > > their own kernel with grsecurity (2.6.31.5-grs) > How well does this integrate? Arch doesn't have any > officially-endorsed grsec

Re: [arch-general] Yet another step toward Arch evil plan

2010-01-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.01.2010 14:31, schrieb James Rayner: >>> They provide ArchLinux 2009.08 in both 32 and 64 bit with >>> their own kernel with grsecurity (2.6.31.5-grs) >> How well does this integrate? Arch doesn't have any >> officially-endorsed grsecurity kernel. Does it require userspace >> modifications? H

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

2010-01-13 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Alexander Duscheleit wrote: > I didn't know, where to put a proper reply in this thread, because > basically you are all doing the same mistake. I will just outline the > procedure here briefly and then explain where it all went wrong :) > > 1 - cfdisk  # the setti

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-13 Thread Christos Nouskas
Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 07.01.2010 18:26, schrieb David C. Rankin: > > the create the filesystem. With ext4 now available, is there any > > reason I shouldn't go ahead and create the filesystem as ext4? It > Delayed allocation might lead to data loss of recently created or > overwritten files i

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

2010-01-13 Thread Guus Snijders
On 12-01-10 19:32, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Guus Snijders wrote: On 12-01-10 06:27, Loui Chang wrote: [top posting& trimming ] I think part of the problem is that some email clients like gmail webmail help persist the bad behaviour. They default with top postin

Re: [arch-general] gmail and mailing list

2010-01-13 Thread Mauro Santos
On 01/13/2010 02:19 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Wednesday 13 January 2010 01:55:40 Patrick Brisbin wrote: >> I've mine set to yes as well but I still don't get my own posts. Oh well, >> mutt to the rescue again: >> >> # cc myself when replying to an ML >> # note: with this, you can't :

Re: [arch-general] Yet another step toward Arch evil plan

2010-01-13 Thread Alexander Duscheleit
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:38:45 +0100 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 13.01.2010 14:31, schrieb James Rayner: > >>> They provide ArchLinux 2009.08 in both 32 and 64 bit with > >>> their own kernel with grsecurity (2.6.31.5-grs) > >> How well does this integrate? Arch doesn't have any > >> officially-endo

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

2010-01-13 Thread Alexander Duscheleit
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:49:40 -0500 Baho Utot wrote: > [...] > > > > All your tries with the "new methos" thus just failed, because you > > copied /etc/mdadm.conf too late, and it was never added to the > > initrd file. Mdadm inside the ramfs just never knew what to look > > for. > > > > Only if

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

2010-01-13 Thread Alexander Duscheleit
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:05:04 -0500 Carlos Williams wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Alexander Duscheleit > wrote: > > I didn't know, where to put a proper reply in this thread, because > > basically you are all doing the same mistake. I will just outline > > the procedure here briefly a

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

2010-01-13 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Mittwoch 13 Januar 2010 schrieb Alexander Duscheleit: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:05:04 -0500 > > Carlos Williams wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Alexander Duscheleit > > > > wrote: > > > I didn't know, where to put a proper reply in this thread, because > > > basically you are all d

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

2010-01-13 Thread Carlos Williams
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. > > Could some releng shine light on this, please? I completely agree.

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] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

2010-01-13 Thread Carlos Williams
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Xavier wrote: > Where is the link to the bug report ? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17827

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

2010-01-13 Thread Baho Utot
Alexander Duscheleit wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:49:40 -0500 Baho Utot wrote: [putolin] Notice no initrd in the above I'm not entirely sure, *how* the system manages to find raid-members and assembles them in this cases. A while ago there was a kernel-level raid auto detection which

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

2010-01-13 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:22:30 -0500 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. >

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

2010-01-13 Thread Alexander Duscheleit
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:58:34 +0100 Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:22:30 -0500 > 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

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-13 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 21:57:04 Christos Nouskas wrote: > Kind of late response, but I strongly agree with Thomas. I've had my > share of truncated files after unclean shutdowns (every single time), some > kernel modules being among the victims. If you decide to decide to use > ext4, then it

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] rp-pppoe-3.10-2

2010-01-13 Thread GTR
The new configuration file shows: # Linux kernel-mode plugin for pppd. If you want to try the kernel-mode # plugin, use LINUX_PLUGIN=/usr/lib/rp-pppoe/ rp-pppoe.so/etc/ppp/plugins/rp-pppoe.so the old path hasn't been removed from comment line.