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

[arch-general] (no subject)
by Agus Setiawan 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

-- Regards, Agus Setiawan http://mysetiawan.net

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[arch-general] Azureus
by Ondřej Kučera 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

Hello, does anybody know what the deal is/plans are with the azureus package? It hasn't been updated for more than 7 months and it has been flagged out of date for a couple of months now too (as far as I remember). If the devs are not interested in maintaining it, shouldn't it be moved either to community or to unsupported where perhaps someone would pick it up and update the PKBGUILD? Ondřej -- Cheers Ondřej Kučera

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[arch-general] network manager cannot connect to AP with a hidden ssid
by metin 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

any ideas?

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[arch-general] resurrecting srcpac
by Michael Klier 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi Archers, in the past weeks there was a little discussion in the forums about the purpose of ABS vs. AUR and when to use which of both tools. Srcpac was mentioned as being the right tool to install customized packages from the already existing PKGBUILDs in the ABS tree. However, srcpac didn't work since abs.conf moved and other minor things that changed (makepkg doesn't like to be used by root etc.). I took to opportunity to fetch the srcpac git repo and get it working again, because I think it makes a good addition to ABS + pacman. Instead of sending a bunch of patches I've setup a public git repo where you can fetch it and give it a testrun if you like (I can send patches too if required): http://dev.chimeric.de/git/srcpac.git I've also changed a couple of things. These are merely suggestions, which are of course disputable ;). I completely dropped the srcpac.conf in favour of another approach. srcpac now looks for config files in /etc/srcpac.d/<pkgname>. You have one config file per package. These files contain only sed expressions (they're just simple sed script files) and have to be named exactly like the corresponding folder (package) in the ABS tree ie. "python-doc", or "most". IMHO this is much more clear (KISS if you like) than having one config file containing stuff like "pythonXdoc=('#sedexpr#' '#sedexpr#')" which gets really messy when you change lots of things. Another possibility would be to keep the modified PKGBUILDs in /var/srcpac/<repo>/<pkgname>/PKBUILD and completely drop sed, though I think the sed approach requires less work. Because makepkg doesn't like to be run as root there were also some implications for building packages. To resolve them I decided to use a new user named srcpac and a dedicated build directory /var/srcpac in which the packages are build instead of building directly in the ABS tree. srcpac will drop privileges for the build process to this user. I also had to introduce a little perl dependency :( (just a oneliner) to be able to sanitize packages names from urls. The bash expression which was originally used didn't work anymore and the suggested fix in FS#8434 worked only partly and not for all packages. However, I failed to get the thing right in sed, thus the perl oneliner. If someone has an idea I'd greatly appreciate it (see get_pkgname()) (examples of packages which fail with the fix suggested in the bug report, because they're versioning scheme is a little different, are feh and most). Instead of using makepkg -i to install the newly build packages on the fly, srcpac uses pacman -U now, this way it's now possible to specify a different target root directory when build packages from source (this was marked as missing feature). From the test I've run up to now everything _seems_ to work as expected, but it would'nt harm if someone else who's interested in this could give it a try :). If you plan to try it you have to do the following things before running it (I can provide a PKGBUILD if needed): - add a new user 'srcpac' - create /var/srcpac and grand permissions for srcpac That's it, what do you think about it? I am open for suggestions in any direction (+thx for reading this rather lenghty mail ;)). Best Regards + TIA for any feedback, Michael PS.: The original srcpac.conf is still in the repo, and I haven't touched the manpage in advance. -- Michael Klier

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[arch-general] Eclipse won't start any more
by Juergen Starek 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hello everybody, a few days ago, my Eclipse installation (which had worked fine for some months before that) stopped working. Eclipse will start, but only to the end of its initialization routine. The splash screen does not disappear. I realize this is no Eclipse support list, and hence will just point to my more detailed error description on Eclipse's newsgroups [1]. However, I'm out of ideas at the moment regarding possible causes for that error. So I'd like to ask here whether anyone thinks that any updates to Arch that appeared in the last three weeks or so might cause problems with Java programs in general, or more specifically with SWT. Perhaps someone even noticed the same problem? I'd be thankful for all hints. Regards, Jürgen [1] http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php? id=23901&group=eclipse.newcomer

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[arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)
by Nigel Henry 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

On my Fedora installs there is a GUI for stopping and starting services, and also the option of using chkconfig on the CLI. On my Debian installs, I installed sysv-rc-conf, which runs on the CLI, and allows you to stop and start services. Is there anything similar that I could use on my Archlinux install? Thanks for any help. Nigel.

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[arch-general] poll: udev uevents settle wait time
by Dimitrios Apostolou 31 May '08

31 May '08

Hello list, I have recently seen the new feature of the initscripts, where the waiting time for uevents settling is being reported. So since we are all interested in booting speed, what are the times being reported for your computer? Let me start with a P3 800MHz I have running arch. Normal wait time: ~11.5s acpi=off wait time: ~5s What about yours? Dimitris

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[arch-general] Kernel upgrades question, as can't revert to earlier kernel
by Nigel Henry 30 May '08

30 May '08

I've noticed for some time now that some distros are upgrading the current running kernel, rather than installing a new kernel version, which if there are problems with the new kernel, you could boot the earlier kernel, which you know was working ok. I'm currently updating my Don't Panic install, and there is a kernel update to 2.6.25.4-1 , and 21% done so far. Is there some way that this latest kernel version can be installed as a new kernel, and leave the existing one alone? I don't like this way of updating the kernel, as you have no way of booting to the earlier one if the latest version is problematic. 26% done now. Nigel.

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Re: [arch-general] netcfg and atheros or where to set the ap mac
by dennisjperkins＠comcast.net 30 May '08

30 May '08

I have the same problem. I haven't traced the problem to the source yet but to get a wireless connection, I need to do "iwpriv authmode 2" on the command line, then kill and restart dhcpcd for ath0. I have an older laptop with an Atheros chip, and it doesn't seem to need this step for some reason. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Arvid Ephraim Picciani <aep(a)ibcsolutions.de> > Hi, > netcfg is quite what i need for my laptop. unfortunatly i can't get it to > work with the built in atheros card. The errror is "wireless association > failed". > Well obviously atheros doesnt associate automaticly. you have to do it > manually. not a problem, i just set an ap via iwconfig and it works. > netcfg has an option IWOPTS. the docs claim this will be passed to iwconfig. > unfiortunatly that is not the case. > > so where can i set the ap? > > -- > best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen > Arvid Ephraim Picciani >

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[arch-general] iproute and linux-atm
by Michal Soltys 29 May '08

29 May '08

Hello It's pretty minor thing actually - still, since linux-atm is in core, iproute can benefit a bit from it, as atm qdisc requires it. So - linux-atm could be added as dependency to iproute2. Cheers

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