February 2008 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Arch Linux Amazon EC2 images
by Jason Chu 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hey everyone, At work we're moving over to using Amazon EC2 and since we use arch for development, I've created arch images for everyone to be able to benefit from. Each one is labelled based on the date it was created. They are bare bones. The two ami names are 32bit: ami-3132d758 64bit: ami-903edbf9 Have fun with them! Jason

3 3

[arch-general] [mirror] mirror sync and reachability issues
by Dan McGee 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

We currently have a rash of mirror-related bugs that I wanted to draw your attention to, most of which have been filed on the pacman project. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9390 [Mirror] tu.chemnitz.de http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9391 [Mirror] ftp.nethat.com http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9392 [Mirror] archlinux.org.ru http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9393 [Mirror] ftp.icm.edu.pl http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9394 [Mirror] ftp.linux.kiev.ua http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9439 [Mirror-sync] ftp.nluug.nl, ftp.surfnet.nl I'm sending this to the dev & general lists to reach a broader audience and hopefully those who may know these mirror maintainers to see what is up. I've commented on most of the bugs with the actions I took with regards to the pacman mirrorlist, but there are others that may need to take action as well. 9439 sticks out as rather big as it is two of our mirrors in the Netherlands, so I'd appreciate any feedback on that one. Thanks a lot to Gerhard Brauer for looking into all our mirrors and finding those that are out of date or unreachable. -Dan

2 1

[arch-general] gcc-gcj, webplugin and java.security package
by Ondřej Kučera 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

Hello, I'm trying to make a certain applet (which is inside an internal company information system so unfortunately I can't provide a link) working on x86_64. I tried libgcjwebplugin from gcc-gcj and it starts loading the applet but then it prints the following error to stdout (and the applet doesn't work): java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre/lib/security/cacerts (No such file or directory) I think that this is quite weird, I thought that there would be a problem that the applet uses some Java features that aren't yet implemented in gcj/gnu classpath, but this seems to say that it just looks for some certificates in a really strange place - which could be a bug of gcj or a bug in the way how it's packaged in ArchLinux, I have no idea what is the case here. But anyway if I do "pacman -Ql gcc-gcj" the paths look very different from this one. If i try "locate cacerts" I get /opt/java/jre/lib/security/cacerts which of course belongs to jre package. So, does anyone have a clue if this might have some solution? I also attached the whole stacktrace if that could help. -- Cheers, Ondřej

2 2

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-pages 2.77-1
by Grigorios Bouzakis 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 03:59:19PM +0100, Andreas Radke wrote: > for arches in testing. please signoff. it uses the new location in > /usr/share/man. > > -Andy > is this bug report valid? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9440

2 1

[arch-general] Java applets in Arch64
by Ondřej Kučera 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

Hello, I need to be able to use java applets on my Arch64 box. From what I found on the wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_FAQ) it should work out of the box in Konqueror but unfortunately it isn't the case for me. I tried the following two pages containing applets, neither seems to work. http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/deployment/applet/getStarted.html http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/ I do have the java packages (both jre and jdk), I have java enabled in Konqueror, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to do something else. Truth to be told the best solution would be to have applets working in Firefox since since I need them working in an intranet web application that is not exactly 100% compatible with Konqueror, I'm afraid. Is there a working solution for Firefox? -- Cheers, Ondřej

5 5

[arch-general] Problem Reporting Question
by Kevin Monceaux 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Fellow Arch Enthusiasts, I noticed a problem with the ruby-python package in aur/community and added a comment to it. But, then I started wondering if I should have have flagged it as out of date or filed a bug instead. So, I thought I'd ask for future reference. The package isn't exactly out of date. It's built against the current version of the available sources according to the project's web site, although the sources don't appear to have been updated since 2005. The postgres.so library file included in the ruby-postgres binary package is linked against libpq.so.4. The current postgresql-libs package contains libpq.so.5, so the package just needs to be rebuilt to link against the current libs. Also, I got an error trying to download the source tarball from the source URL in the PKGBUILD file. The source tarball is available via the package's main website. Does Arch have a utility similar to Gentoo's revdep-rebuild utility that scans all the libraries/binaries on the system for missing dependencies? Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!

2 1

[arch-general] Domain: archlinux.eu
by Volker Glatz 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Hi there, I'm the owner of the domain www.archlinux.eu. I registered this domain in the sunrise period of dot-eu to avoid commercial usage or something else. Actually there is a redirection to archlinux.org. If the archlinux project is interested in this domain I'd like to spend it to the project. But if you think it is a good contribution to give my part back to the project I'm also willing to hold the domain anymore on my costs. If there is absolutely no interest in it, I'll give it free. Volker

2 1

[arch-general] Name change on crypto modules for kernel26-2.6.24?
by Neil Darlow 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Hi, I run encrypted swap on my i686 system and thought I would give kernel26-2.6.24 a try. During the encrypted swap setup phase of boot I noticed a couple of errors relating to loading of the aes and sha256 crypto modules. Too me, it looks like these modules have undergone a name change in 2.6.24. I think the required modules are actually being loaded but cryptsetup complains about missing modules. I don't see an updated cryptsetup in testing. Should there be one or am I way off-base here? Regards, Neil Darlow

2 3

[arch-general] Newbie Build xine-lib-1.1.10-1
by JaDa 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Here is my first Archlinux Package Build for i686 xine-lib-1.1.10-1 http://files.myopera.com/Jada0007/arch/xine-lib-1.1.10-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz well I think it is not perfect but someone can check it out too. Then how will be my tutor for the next few weeks? Teaching me a little how to build and work for Archlinux. Thx JaDa -- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

4 4