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

[arch-general] Security updates & packages in testing
by Grigorios Bouzakis 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hi, there has been some security updates for packages in Core that have been upgraded and have been lying in Testing for a long while. The ones that come to mind are bzip2 and openssh but there might be more. Is there any reason those havent moved yet? As far as i can see bzip2 is missing some signoffs since April. One month+ is a lot of time for such packages to stay in Testing IMO. Someone should move them quick. Greg

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[arch-general] top posting
by Xavier 20 May '08

20 May '08

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html What about using a consistent style, at least for one given ML? arch-general is really painful to read sometimes. Thanks!

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[arch-general] Extremely stupid script I wrote for fun.
by eliott 20 May '08

20 May '08

I spent a few hours the other night fiddling around with metalinks and aria2. I came up with an extremely stupid script I wrote for fun. I recommend nobody use it. That being said.. here it is. :) http://code.cactuswax.net/git/?p=random.git;a=blob_plain;f=pacgobbler/pacgo… The only 'good' thing about it, is that it highlights how extensible pacman can be via the external-fetch mechanism. Go pacman!

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[arch-general] Coherence PKGBUILD problems
by Jon Kristian Nilsen 19 May '08

19 May '08

I am trying to create a package of Coherence, https://coherence.beebits.net/ The PKGBUILD, http://rafb.net/p/xT77RJ78.html The log from makepkg, http://rafb.net/p/QrfVDZ23.html The problem is that when installing the package it doesn't install the backends. If I install the newly create package 'pacman -U' it copies the dir Coherence.egg-info to '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Coherence-0.5.7-py2.5.egg-info' instead of '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/nose-0.10.1-py2.5.egg/EGG-INFO' I've tried alot of stuff in the PKGBUILD, like python setup.py install --root=$startdir/pkg || return 1 python setup.py build && python setup.py install --root=$startdir/pkg || return 1 python setup.py install || return 1 python setup.py install || return 1 Nothing seems to work, It's the same with stable too, I've also looked at other pkgbuilds and tried different stuff from them, no go. Any ideas? Cheers Jon Kristian

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[arch-general] Anyway to tranlate installer?
by gan lu 19 May '08

19 May '08

I hope I can, or I will report a bug for tracking, thanks.

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[arch-general] troubles with Brother HL-2040
by Ryan Sims 18 May '08

18 May '08

I just installed Arch on my print server at home; it had been running another distro and chugging along happily. It's got a Brother HL2040 attached to it via USB, and I use cups to share it around the network. Well, I got the server is up and running so I followed the instruction in the wiki[1] for installing the printer. Everything seems to have gone ok, the printer was detected and installed correctly, hooray. However, it doesn't print the test page (or anything else). When I ask it to print, the printer wakes up and starts spinning, thinks for a couple seconds, and then goes back to sleep. The cups logs seem to be clean, just some errors about DNSSD registration, which doesn't seem related. I'm working on trying alternative drivers, but nothing has helped so far. I know it's worked before; my desk is covered in paper it's printed, so I'm just doing something stupid. Help? -- Ryan W Sims

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[arch-general] Firefox 3 Beta 5 has No Print Margins tab
by Ralph Alvy 18 May '08

18 May '08

Unlike the Windows version, I find that the Linux version of Firefox 3 Beta 5 has No Print Margins tab. Anyone else confirm this? I downloaded it from the Mozilla website.

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[arch-general] unable to select ppp package when installing 2008.04-rc
by gan lu 18 May '08

18 May '08

I have tried once or twice, even if you select all four catogaries and all packages, I don't see ppp listed there. I don't check it one by one but by press P, so I don't know if anyone can confirm it too. It's in the CD though. PPP is import package for one using adsl connection etc.

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[arch-general] strange access permissions in /var/spool/mail
by Michael Krauss 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hello, while testing dma (Mail Transfer Agent from DragonflyBSD) on Arch Linux I stumbled on this: [mickraus@gandalf mickraus]\$ ls -la /var/spool/mail insgesamt 12 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 16. Mai 15:11 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 16. Mai 15:26 .. ---------- 1 mickraus users 201 16. Mai 15:11 mickraus Is it normal that a user has no access to his own mail box? I looked into postfix.install but it doesn't correct the file mode either. So what is the trick? Kind Regards, Michael Krauss

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[arch-general] Which version gets installed by pacman?
by Karolina Lindqvist 17 May '08

17 May '08

Can someone explain this to me: 1) Check available versions $ pacman -Si kdepim | grep Version Version : 3.5.9-2 Version : 3.5.9.20080501-0.1 Ok, which version is newest? $ vercmp '3.5.9-2' '3.5.9.20080501-0.1' -1 Hmmm $ vercmp usage: vercmp <ver1> <ver2> return values: < 0 : if ver1 < ver2 0 : if ver1 == ver2 > 0 : if ver1 > ver2 Ok, version 3.5.9.20080501-0.1 is newer, so try to install it: $ sudo pacman -S kdepim :: kdepim is in IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup. Install anyway? [Y/n] warning: kdepim-3.5.9-2 is up to date -- reinstalling resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets: kdepim-3.5.9-2 Total Download Size: 0,00 MB Total Installed Size: 20,52 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n $ Why did not pacman choose the newer version to install?

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