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[arch-general] Fwd: arch-dev-public Digest, Vol 21, Issue 26
by Abdul Halim 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

Hi. Sorry for the late reply. Me was wondering on how to comment on the bluez status till Dieter Plaetinck mail to arch-general. Bluez in testing will cause a dependency issue for gnokii. Please refer to the following URL: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=55108 Maybe gnokii can't compile against the new bluez libraries. Hopefully my info is not old news. I am just helping out cause I use bluez frequently... :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <arch-dev-public-request(a)archlinux.org> Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM Subject: arch-dev-public Digest, Vol 21, Issue 26 To: arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org Message: 1 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:01:36 -0600 From: "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] bluez status? To: "Public mailing list for ArchLinux development" <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> Message-ID: <d64a48980811130901l594798a6s660f73adcc167895(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Jud <jud(a)judfilm.net> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:56:02 +0300 > "Roman Kyrylych" <roman.kyrylych(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2008/10/16 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com>: >> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Thayer Williams >> > <thayer(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Hugo Doria <hugodoria(a)gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Allan McRae >> >>> <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> >>>> Is anyone going to attempt this rebuild? This is holding up >> >>>> gnome which is holding up python which means I can't slack of at >> >>>> work doing rebuilds... I will do these if necessary but I have >> >>>> no way of testing any of these packages so it would be better if >> >>>> someone else did this. >> >>> >> >>> Same here. I do not have a way to test it. >> >>> >> >>> -- Hugo >> >>> >> >> >> >> I have no experience with the bluez stuff, but I do have bluetooth >> >> capability on my notebook and WinMo phone. I would be happy to test >> >> out any packages if we have a criteria to test against. >> > >> > Oh hey! My phone supports bluetooth too. I wonder what it'd take to >> > have it talk to my laptop... >> > >> >> Same here. >> I've setup myself to deal with bugs first though, >> but if noone will update it in a couple of days - I'll take a look at >> it and related gnome packages. >> >> -- >> Roman Kyrylych (????? ???????) > > Hi Devs, > > It's been sometime without any replies, would it possible for someone > to have ago at the Bluez packages please? > > If not, may I suggest that an open announcement be made for a new Dev > to take-over the Bluez packages and/or the Bluez packages be dropped to > the AUR for someone else to pickup the slack. Do we have anyone that regularly uses bluetooth and can test this?

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[arch-general] New udev rules
by Peter Lewis 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi folks, I'm new to posting here, but figured that it might be the place to ask about this kind of thing :-) I just bought a new printer/scanner - a Brother DCP-305C - and noticed that it's not included in the udev rules for sane (/etc/udev/rules.d/53-sane.rules), though quite a lot of similar models are. Basically the scanner wouldn't work until I added: # Brother DCP-350C ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="01d0", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes" So... how does one go about getting this included in the default ruleset? Is it an Arch thing or done upstream? Thanks in advance, Pete.

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[arch-general] Fifa: Flexible Installer Framework for Arch linux
by Dieter Plaetinck 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi all, at first I wanted to make an automated installer for Arch Linux (with scripts that specify all the specific aspects of the system). When starting to build this, I looked at the archboot scripts (/arch/setup and /arch/quickinst on the install cd) and noticed that I could re-use lots of code if it would have been split up more (eg I can't just source the useful functions in /arch/setup, I have to source the whole thing and hence, start the installer). So I started writing "Fifa: the Flexible Installer Framework for Arch linux" : http://github.com/Dieterbe/fifa It's designed to be a general, flexible framework for installations. It uses the concepts of 'phases' and 'workers'. There are 4 phases (preparation, basics, system, finish), which can each invoke workers (to get a package list, install packages, install boot loader etc etc). The workers and phases can be overridden by creating profiles. So the whole idea is you can create whatever installation procedure you like (prescripted, autodetection, interactive,...) and you can combine functionality from different profiles and you can reuse lots of code. Keep it mind it's still very, very early in development. It doesn't work yet, but if you look at the code you'll see the basic ideas (and the code is maybe simpler then the explanation). Right now I'm still working on better understanding the archboot scripts, refactoring that code to make it reusable and building an automated, prescripted installer for myself. ( Once the basics are working, it should actually be very simple to port the current archboot scripts to this system. )

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[arch-general] Weird upgrade problem ??
by Niels Rasmussen 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi all I've just installed Arch linux again after 9 month with Ubuntu and several other distros (yeah, they all come back! :-)) I've followed "The Beginners Guide" and did everything as described. Anyway, I've got the system up and running, and now writing in X (openbox) from opera Mail. I've tried to install the nvidia-71xx driver because I know it supports my VideoCard Geforce 6600GT. But apparently it doesn't work, so I uninstalled it, reinstalled libgl, did a depmod -a and rebooted. Now in X I can install programs just fine with pacman but pacman -Syu results in some strange errors I havn't seen before. Here goes: bash-3.2# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra 412,9K 1535,6K/s 00:00:00 [########################################################] 100% community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (59): bash-3.2.039-3 texinfo-4.13a-1 m4-1.4.12-1 autoconf-2.63-1 binutils-2.18-9 bzip2-1.0.5-3 openssl-0.9.8i-1 run-parts-2.30-1 ca-certificates-20080809-4 cracklib-2.8.13-1 e2fsprogs-1.41.3-2 popt-1.14-1 cryptsetup-1.0.6-2 dhcpcd-4.0.3-1 dialog-1.1_20080819-1 ed-1.1-2 filesystem-2008.07-1 fakeroot-1.10.1-1 file-4.26-1 flex-2.5.35-1 gmp-4.2.4-1.1 mpfr-2.3.2-2 gcc-4.3.2-1 gettext-0.17-2 grub-0.97-13 hdparm-8.9-1 hwdetect-0.9.1-2 util-linux-ng-2.14-1 udev-130-1 initscripts-2008.09-2 iputils-20071127-2 jfsutils-1.1.13-1 klibc-1.5.14-1 klibc-extras-2.5-1 klibc-kbd-1.15.20080312-7 klibc-module-init-tools-3.4-2 klibc-udev-130-1 libtool-2.2.6a-1 logrotate-3.7.7-3 man-pages-3.11-1 mdadm-2.6.7-1 mlocate-0.21-1 module-init-tools-3.4-1 nano-2.0.9-1 pam-1.0.2-2 pciutils-3.0.2-1 pcmciautils-015-2 perl-5.10.0-4 procinfo-19-3 procps-3.2.7-5 psmisc-22.6-2 rp-pppoe-3.10-1 sdparm-1.03-1 shadow-4.1.2.1-2 tzdata-2008h-1 vi-7.2.25-1 wget-1.11.4-1 which-2.20-1 xfsprogs-2.10.1-1 Total Download Size: 0,00 MB Total Installed Size: 250,03 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... (59/59) checking for file conflicts [########################################################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/Kbuild exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/a.out.h exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/acpi.h exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/agp.h exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/alternative-asm.h exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/alternative.h exists in filesystem === SNIP === Anyone knows what this is about ?? It is the first time I have experienced problems in Arch Linux. -- /Niels Registered Linux User #133791 Get counted at http://counter.li.org

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[arch-general] Arch USB Drive
by Aaron Griffin 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Got this in the mail today, so I thought I'd share a blurry picture with you all 8) http://flickr.com/photos/phrakture/3029993921/

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[arch-general] 22 fan site
by Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

http://ruger22.com/newpages/newindex.htm

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Re: [arch-general] 22 fan site
by timetrap＠gmail.com 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

I thought that mailing lists and personal productivity were mutually exclusive. ------Original Message------ From: RedShift Sender: arch-general-bounces(a)archlinux.org To: General Discusson about Arch Linux ReplyTo: General Discusson about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] 22 fan site Sent: Nov 14, 2008 05:52 Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote: > http://ruger22.com/newpages/newindex.htm You cost me 5 minutes of my productivity, I'm invoicing you for that! ;-) Glenn

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.27.6-1
by Tobias Powalowski 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version please signoff for both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] bitlbee *very* out-of-date
by kludge 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

hola, i'm currently rebuilding bitlbee to version 1.2.3 with a modified PKGBUILD from abs. the package in [extra] is only at version 1.0.4. it was last update two months ago today; that's six days *after* the current version was released upstream! for a while, there was no listed maintainer. then it was simo. now it's jeff mickey. i don't know how to find jeff, and over on the forum, it was suggested i post here. so... who's maintaining bitlbee, and you wanna roll up an updated package? many thanks! yrs, kludge

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[arch-general] php5.2.6 and iconv support failure
by Adam Stokes 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

iconv support does not seem to be complete in this package : Sample code : <?php echo iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", "This is a test."); ?> php -i : Configure Command => './configure' '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc/php' '--with-layout=GNU' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/php' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php/conf.d' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--disable-debug' '--disable-rpath' '--disable-static' '--enable-shared' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--disable-cgi' '--with-readline' '--enable-pcntl' '--with-pear=/usr/share/pear' '--with-openssl=shared' '--with-zlib=shared' '--enable-bcmath=shared' '--with-bz2=shared' '--enable-calendar=shared' '--with-curl=shared' '--enable-dba=shared' '--without-db2' '--without-db3' '--with-db4=shared' '--with-gdbm=shared' '--enable-dbase=shared' '--enable-exif=shared' '--enable-ftp=shared' '--with-gd=shared' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-jpeg-dir=shared,/usr' '--with-png-dir=shared,/usr' '--with-gettext=shared' '--with-imap=shared' '--with-imap-ssl=shared' '--with-ldap=shared' '--enable-mbstring=shared' '--with-mcrypt=shared' '--with-mysql=shared' '--with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock' '--with-mysql=shared' '--with-mysqli=shared' '--with-ncurses=shared' '--with-unixODBC=shared,/usr' '--enable-pdo=shared' '--with-pdo-mysql=shared' '--with-pdo-sqlite=shared' '--with-pdo-odbc=shared,unixODBC,/usr' '--with-pdo-pgsql=shared' '--with-sqlite=shared' '--with-pgsql=shared' '--enable-shmop=shared' '--with-snmp=shared' '--enable-soap=shared' '--enable-sqlite-utf8=shared' '--enable-sysvmsg=shared' '--enable-sysvsem=shared' '--enable-sysvshm=shared' '--with-tidy=shared' '--with-xsl=shared' '--enable-zip=shared' '--enable-posix=shared' '--enable-sockets=shared' '--enable-xml' '--with-ttf=shared' '--enable-session=shared' '--with-regex=php' '--with-pcre-regex=/usr' '--enable-mbstring=all' '--enable-mbregex' '--enable-json=shared' '--with-iconv=shared' '--with-xmlrpc=shared' '--with-pspell=shared' '--with-freetype-dir=shared,/usr' '--with-mime-magic=shared' -- is it a configuration issue on my end or are we missing something during buildtime? thanks -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes(a)gmail.com )

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