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

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vacation Nov 7th - 14th
by Evangelos Foutras 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

(I couldn't reply to arch-dev-public, so I'm forwarding my message to arch-general.) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] Vacation Nov 7th - 14th Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:33:26 +0200 From: Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis(a)gmail.com> To: Public mailing list for Arch Linux development <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> References: <d64a48980911020949v35fc468cq8dd10afa9efe7f06(a)mail.gmail.com> <4AEF1DEA.5080902(a)archlinux.org> Thomas Bächler wrote: > Aaron Griffin schrieb: >> But, if you need anything, I'm fairly certain you guys can handle it. >> All of you doing admin type work seem competent enough to deal with >> anything that comes up, so I will not have anything to worry about. > > Anything except the current hard drive failure, but I guess you > settled the funds issue already today. Have a nice week. Does this mean that RAID 1 is used and one of the two drives failed? :) Also, is there a page describing the current Arch server(s) setup? I remember reading something about Xen being used and I'd be interested in knowing more. I understand this information is only useful to the admins, but I'm curious.

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[arch-general] Encrypting remote system
by Karol Babioch 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi, I'm wondering whether there is a possibility to encrypt a remote system using Arch Linux? I have installed Arch on a remote server, and don't like the idea that anyone with physical access to my system has access to my data. So is there something I can do about it? Using dm-crypt (with luks) doesn't work at all, as I can't input the passphrase when I reboot my system, the technician would really hate me if I ask them to attach a remote console each time I reboot my system. So is there anything I can do? -- Best regards, Karol Babioch <karol(a)babioch.de>

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[arch-general] libtorrent-rasterbar
by Damien Churchill 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I've attached an updated PKGBUILD (just a simple version and md5sum update) for the libtorrent-rasterbar package. The upcoming Deluge 1.2 release depends on libtorrent-rasterbar >= 0.14.5 so I thought I'd assist a little there. Damien

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[arch-general] editors graphic, video new (to archlinux) encoder decoder theora
by andrew james 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

news at 2009 09 http://theora.org/news/ the library encoder decoder theora version 1.1 was rewritten. It is "largely an improvement to the Theora encoder <http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/09/theora-1-1-released/>" this library is old in the repository arch also, ffmpeg2theora, "A simple converter to create Ogg Theora files", is a binary that (I know slightly) depends to the library is old in the repository arch. ffmpeg2theora-0.25 'use new libtheora 1.1' http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/index.html I am inexperienced with package management, for example the maintainers may know a conflicts or insecurity that is the reason to serve the old. However, this news is relevant. I will continue to act as a reporter to improve the quality of our community. andrew

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[arch-general] Nouveau doesn't get loaded without config file?
by Magnus Therning 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I had some problems with my Xorg nv driver this morning, and people suggested I switch to the nouveau driver instead. When trying it X didn't seem to notice that it's available. Do I really need to have an X configuration file in order to use it? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff. Due to lack of hardware also users can signoff. Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. One thing i observed, when using a custom /etc/mdadm.conf file our rc.sysinit will run mdadm --assemble --scan, which will always give exit code 2, due to devices busy. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] dmraid-1.0.0.rc16-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff. Due to lack of hardware also users can signoff. Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] samba 3.4.x
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi guys and users, bumped to new samba 3.4.x series, i only use it very rudimentary. It's a major version upgrade, please give me a signoff on it. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [transcode] Updated PKGBUILD
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

* Update PKGBUILD for transcode to 1.1.5 * Removed already satisfied deps: libdv, libtheora, libxml2, xvidcore * Removed unused dep: libmpeg2 * Update versioned deps. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D Index: transcode/trunk/PKGBUILD =================================================================== --- transcode/trunk/PKGBUILD (revision 57755) +++ transcode/trunk/PKGBUILD (working copy) @@ -1,22 +1,24 @@ # $Id$ # Contributor: Sarah Hay <sarahhay(a)mb.sympatico.ca> -# Maintainer: roberto <roberto(a)archlinux.org> +# Contributor: roberto <roberto(a)archlinux.org> pkgname=transcode _sripver=0.3-4 -pkgver=1.1.4 +pkgver=1.1.5 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A video/DVD ripper and encoder for the terminal/console." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://tcforge.berlios.de/" license=('GPL') -depends=('imagemagick>=6.5.1.9' 'lzo2' 'libdv' 'libdvdread>=4.1.3' 'ffmpeg>=0.5' 'mjpegtools' 'xvidcore' 'libmpeg2' 'libtheora' 'libxaw' 'x264>=20090416' 'libxml2' 'libxv' 'a52dec' 'alsa-lib') +depends=('imagemagick>=6.5.6.10' 'lzo2' 'libdvdread>=4.1.3' 'ffmpeg>=0.5' 'mjpegtools' 'libxaw' 'libxv' 'a52dec' 'alsa-lib') makedepends=('nasm' 'pkgconfig') options=(!libtool !makeflags) source=(http://download2.berlios.de/tcforge/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2 \ http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/subtitleripper/subtitleripper-…) -md5sums=('6ba277fde95c26d217a88bbe5e6dd994' 'c0bd49a88f667c68c4430ad25bbed510') -sha1sums=('3d08f67c047b1b498a4a5183ad164c0641fcbc00' 'd93ff3578dd5f722c8f4ef16bc0903eec5781a0d') +md5sums=('41ac6b1c0fe30f3aab286e771fc31b9e' + 'c0bd49a88f667c68c4430ad25bbed510') +sha1sums=('48c36e06ca0cd1cdc1a9c6a241e231f896eefd26' + 'd93ff3578dd5f722c8f4ef16bc0903eec5781a0d') build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"

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[arch-general] WARNING: openntpd upgrade breaks openssh on next restart
by Vesa Kaihlavirta 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hey, I made a screwup on the openntpd package which nastily reveals a weakness in openssh and filesystems. I moved away from using /var/empty/ as a privsep directory, and removed the directory from the package. But since it's empty, it got removed from the system as well in the upgrade. So if you're using openntpd and openssh, BE EXTRA CAREFUL with your next upgrade. openssh does not start if /var/empty/ is not there. Quick fix: after doing pacman -Suy, do mkdir /var/empty as root. Longer fix: openssh, or perhaps the filesystems package should create /var/empty/ and put a hidden file in it so idiots like me won't cause accidents in the future. --vk

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