October 2009 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Commits mailing list in Gmane
by A Rojas 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hi, Is the arch-commits mailing list subscribed in gmane? I can only find arch- announce, devel and general. If it's not, would it be possible to subscribe it? I find it much more convenient to be able to read the lists in Knode.

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[arch-general] packages deleted from db but still on repos
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

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[arch-general] Arch Linux installation only with pacman
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Hello all! I remember looking at the installation script about one year ago, and all it had done (to install the base packages), was to use pacman. Now if I try to use the same procedure now (or what I remember from it), I get a lot of errors from the install hooks (script-lets). I've tried to install them once without by disabling scriptlets, and then once more by using them, but the errors are still there. So my question is: how can I install Arch Linux now, by having only a static built pacman? (I want to use this for an automated installation procedure for virtual machines.) (I think I've tried the procedure on the Wiki page with the same outcome.) Thanks, Ciprian Craciun. P.S.: Maybe it's Ok to have those scriptlet errors?

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[arch-general] Xorg 7.5 hits testing
by Andreas Radke 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

I've built the new Xorg 7.5 based on xorg-server 1.7.1rc1 and Mesa 7.6. Some very old drivers have been dropped because they are no more developed and won't build anymore. I hope I have updated all essential parts. Some Xorg fonts related packages still need a bump. Mesa 7.6 is built right now plain upstream. This means Gallium 3d stack for Nouveau and Intel. For Intel we might go back to old way DRI when we can't solve some existing issues. Radeon is built the old DRI way. Let's pray the update goes smooth. So far only Jan has played with Intel drivers. We will probably need some time until all important regressions and bugs have been solved. Good luck. -Andy

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[arch-general] Warning: dbmail is broken
by Sergej Pupykin 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Hi, dbmail package built with old gmime and broken with last update. It does not compile with current gmime, so do not wait update soon. Please keep old gmime. I do not want to put old gmime to community. Also any links and patches appreciated)

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[arch-general] wrong size.
by kurrata 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

I noticed that my conky hard drive free space reading dropped from 50+GB free on /home to under 10GB. I did "du /home/martins/ --max-depth=1 -h" and it showed that "48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox" is eating up all the space. After that I did "du /home/martins/.VirtualBox/ -h" Output was this: 48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox/Machines/win_xp/Logs 48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox/Machines/win_xp 48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox/Machines 48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox/ This output is showing something very wrong and I checked all my files with thunar. all files were small with hidden files shown. My virtual disk files(.vdi) are stored on /mnt/extra(other hard drive). I used virtualbox earlier today so it did something most likely Any ideas what could be wrong?

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[arch-general] Updated PKGBUILD for conky to show hwmon information after kernel upgrade
by Partha Chowdhury 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

I am pasting/attaching updated PKGBUILD for conky with reference to this bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16584 PKGBUILD: # $Id: PKGBUILD 50303 2009-08-25 11:05:41Z giovanni $ # Maintainer: Giovanni Scafora <giovanni(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: James Rayner <james(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: Partha Chowdhury <kira.laucas(a)gmail.com> pkgname=conky pkgver=1.7.2 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="An advanced, highly configurable system monitor for X based on torsmo" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://conky.sourceforge.net/" license=('custom') replaces=('torsmo') depends=('alsa-lib' 'libxml2' 'curl' 'wireless_tools' 'libxft' 'glib2' 'libxdamage' 'imlib2') makedepends=('pkgconfig') source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/${pkgname}/${pkgname}/${pk… http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Enorsetto/%2Bjunk/conky/download/head%3A/fix_…) build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver} #Apply patch to make conky look in right place in /sys/class/hwmon/ patch -Np1 < ../../fix_hwmon_for_2.6.31.patch || return 1 ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --enable-wlan \ --enable-rss \ --enable-ibm \ --enable-imlib2 \ --disable-lua make || return 1 make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install install -D -m644 COPYING ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE } md5sums=('cf6f5d45d42ad68c618c00271813b80d' 'efb3e188cd3879fc7b5af51b59d553ec')

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD
by Baho Utot 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

I am constructing a PKGBUILD for a package and I know some of the variables have been depreciated Has $startdir been removed if so what is it new equiv. Thanks

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[arch-general] dd and bash_completion
by Thomas Göbel 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi all, i noticed that bash_completion and dd do not work together. Tiping dd if=/h<TAB> will not complete to if=/home. Without bash_completion everything works fine. Maybo someone knows how to fix this? Tom -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] Should samba be considered out-of-date?
by Ng Oon-Ee 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Currently samba has just been upped to 3.3.8. However the current 'stable' for samba according to their website is 3.4.2. As I'm sure the maintainer already knows about this, I'm wondering which of the changes in samba 3.4 (listed http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.4.0.html initially) is holding up adoption of the package. Is it (as I suppose) the changeover to tdbsam breaking current configs? My interest in this is that samba 3.4 has samba4 sources available which could potentially be used for a merged-build. Unfortunately the build process for samba (as seen in the samba 3.3 PKGBUILD) is really scary for me, so I'm hesitant to try it out, also I would have no way of knowing if any eventual samba 3.4 package would be able to replace samba 3.3 functionality. Basically this is something between a 'flag out-of-date' and a feature request.

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