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[arch-general] file 4.25-1 doesn't recognize PNG image files
by Alessandro Doro 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

I've found that the new version of 'file' (4.25-1, i686) recognizes png files as data. The previous version (4.24-1) is ok. This is an upstream bug (reproduced building the package in a five year old suse system) related to the changes in the magic file. I've not digged in the code of the program so I don't know how/where the problem arises. I fixed the bug patching the source file magic/Magdir/images (see attachment) and rebuilding magic.mgc. Please, someone let me know if this is the right place for this kind of messages or if I should open a new task on Flyspray.

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[arch-general] Web package directory structure
by Sergej Pupykin 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Hi, I have a bug #10920 (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10920). Pierre advises (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=393437#p393437) to move php stuff into /usr/share, but Web stuff includes .htaccess, configs and other editable files, site generated data, etc, so after installing it, user should create many symlinks in document root or do something else according to hier(7). These packages need reworking (for example debian php packages install php-files into /etc, /usr, /var and create symlinks). Is it Arch way too? Before start this work, I want to make rules for web packages. So please post your opinions here...

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[arch-general] String freeze for 3.2 release
by Dan McGee 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Allan has finally bugged me enough that its time for our pacman codebase to see the light and a new 3.2 release. So here is the call for the string freeze. I've CC-ed this to the Arch General list to see if anyone there is interested in helping out. PLEASE reply to the pacman-dev mailing list if you have questions or want to help out but are not sure how. Our pacman translation policy is outlined here. The important sections for translators are the introduction and up to (and including) pre-release updates. http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/translation-help.html As stated in the above document, PO files have been made available to translate: http://code.toofishes.net/pacman/po_files/ I would like to get the release out in 7 days or so, so the sooner the better for the translations. Languages we currently have: cs:Vojtěch Gondžala <vojtech.gondzala(a)gmail.com> de: Matthias Gorissen <matthias(a)archlinux.de> en_GB: Jeff Bailes <thepizzaking(a)gmail.com> es: Juan Pablo Gonzalez <jotapesan(a)gmail.com>, Imanol Celaya <ilcra1989(a)gmail.com> fr: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc(a)gmail.com> hu: Nagy Gabor <ngaba(a)bibl.u-szeged.hu> it: Giovanni Scafora <linuxmania(a)gmail.com> pl: Jaroslaw Swierczynski <swiergot(a)gmail.com> pt_BR: João Felipe Santos <jfsantos(a)archlinux-br.org> ru: Sergey Tereschenko <serg.partizan(a)gmail.com> tr: Samed Beyribey <beyribey(a)gmail.com> zh_CN: 甘露(Lu.Gan) <rhythm.gan(a)gmail.com> If you wish to help translate, but your language is already listed as handled by someone, please contact them at the above addresses. If the language is listed as "no current translator", then please reply to ALL on this message stating you are doing the translation so we do not have duplicated effort (although you are more than welcome to work in teams). Once you have updated or completed a translation, simply tar and gzip the files up and send them back to pacman-dev(a)archlinux.org with a [translation] prefix in the message. For those that are used to the old method of updating translations (GIT patches), those are still acceptable as well. Please prefix the patch with "translation:" so it can be picked out easily. Any questions should be answered if you reply to this email on the list. -Dan

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[arch-general] Bad url field in gmp PKGBUILD
by Gustavo A. Gómez Farhat 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

Hello. It seems that the url field of the gmp package is outdated -gives a 404 error-. The right link is http://gmplib.org/ Cheers, -- Gustavo Andrés Gómez Farhat

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Re: [arch-general] Lyx and texlive don't allow viewing the document as pdf, ps, or dvi
by Ravi Desai 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oh, I figured out what the problem was. /opt/texlive/bin was not included in the PATH, so I added it in /etc/profile, logged back in, the my files are showing perfectly. Thank you, Ravi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkh8/xQACgkQFPWImGkPaMLkIQCcDkk/ePHegXZJ4ClongXorQ0g ZXQAn34r5549wDBvSKSx757C4SNsKYIB =3OIt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] Lyx and texlive don't allow viewing the document as pdf, ps, or dvi
by Ravi Desai 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

Hello, I have installed lyx, and texlive (from community). I am now (I had tetex earlier and it was working fine) unable to view my documents by clicking View -> DVI or View -> PDF or by clicking the PDF, DVI, and PS buttons on the toolbar. I keep getting the error dialog box "File does not exist: /tmp/lyx_tmpdir[random letters and numbers]/lyx_tmpbuf0/foo.dvi" or "blah: blah/foo.pdf" or "blah: /blah/foo.ps". Does anyone know how I may solve this problem? I could go back to tetex, but I'd feel more satisfied with finding a solution to the problem, so here I am :) . Thank you ravster.

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[arch-general] pidgin bug?
by David Rosenstrauch 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Another one: Seems like the upgrade to pidgin 2.4.3 removed some functionality. In an IRC window, the list of users in the room used to appear in multiple colors, IIRC. Now they're all in the standard WM text color (white, in my case). Again, anyone know of a workaround, and/or an Arch or Pidgin bug report on this? Tnx, DR

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[arch-general] firefox 3 tabs bug?
by David Rosenstrauch 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Been having a weird issue with FF3. Thought I'd check here before filing a bug report either with Arch or Mozilla. I have FF configured with "New pages should be opened in: a new tab" (as opposed to a new window). However, as per the FF help, they do the "proper" thing and ignore this setting when a page requests to open a window of a specific size: "Tabs Preferences New pages should be opened in: This preference controls whether links from other applications or from web pages which request to open them in new windows are opened in a new window or a new tab in the most recent window. Note: If you have chosen to open pages in new tabs, Firefox will ignore this preference and will open a new window from a link if the page author specified that the new window should have a specific size, because some pages can only be displayed correctly at a specific size." This all worked perfectly in FF2. Pages were always opened in new tabs, with the exception of pages that wanted to open themselves in "dialog" style external windows of a particular size. However, this behavior is totally borked in FF3. FF3 no longer ignores the setting and opens a new window when a particular window size is requested. Instead, it *always* opens new pages in a new, even if they're intended to be dialogs. And even worse, after opening the page in a new tab, it then proceeds to resize the existing browser window to the size requested. This is obviously really irritating, as my browser window keeps getting resized on my, and I have to keep manually restoring it back to my preferred size. Anyone else seeing this? If so, know of a fix or a workaround? If not, anyone know if there's already a bug report open about this on Arch or Mozilla? Tnx, DR

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[arch-general] How to flag out of date for package in community
by 甘露(Lu Gan) 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

I can't find way to flag out of date for package in community, any suggestion? Thanks.

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[arch-general] firefox-i18n Dependency and package mainteiner contact
by raca 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

Hi, I don't how to contact the package maintainer of firefox-i18n so I write to here. This in order to correct the dependency from firefox=3.0 to firefox>=3.0 ( and firefox <=4.0 maybe). Other thing, how can generally someone contact the package maintainer? Cheers

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