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

[arch-general] pacman version string regex?
by clemens fischer 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi, is there a regular expression describing the version comparison algorithm in pacman/lib/libalpm/package.c::alpm_pkg_vercmp()? I have a pacman wrapper (bash script) that needs to determine the package name to give to pacman given a directory name, because it is possible to give globs to filenames, but not to pacman. I cannot use "pacman -[QS]s <string>", because sometimes I want to glob just package names, not descriptions. So basically I don't want the actual version comparison, only the removal of the version suffix including our release number. clemens

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[arch-general] Outdated packages of Transmission and rubyripper
by Tuong Nguyen Manh 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

In May a user brought up that the packages of Transmission have been out of date for some time and submitted a new PKGBUILD which concluded in the packages being updated. But since then the packages haven't been updated. So once again these packages have been out of date for some time now. And again updating the version number and md5sums proves to be sufficient: # $Id$ # Maintainer: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk gmail com> pkgname=transmission-gtk pkgver=1.72 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client (GTK+ GUI)" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.transmissionbt.com/" license=('MIT') depends=('curl' 'libnotify' 'desktop-file-utils' 'hicolor-icon-theme') makedepends=('intltool') optdepends=('notification-daemon: Desktop notification support') replaces=('transmission') install=transmission-gtk.install source=(http://mirrors.m0k.org/transmission/files/transmission-$pkgver.tar.… md5sums=('4ebbb9d4c27a019f5aced926818be4fa') build() { cd "$srcdir/transmission-$pkgver" ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-wx --disable-cli --disable-daemon || return 1 make || return 1 make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install || return 1 # Remove web client rm -rf "$pkgdir/usr/share/transmission" || return 1 install -D -m644 COPYING "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/transmission-gtk/COPYING" || return 1 } # $Id$ # Maintainer: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk gmail com> pkgname=transmission-cli pkgver=1.72 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client (CLI tools, daemon and web client)" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.transmissionbt.com/" license=('MIT') depends=('curl') makedepends=('intltool') replaces=('transmission') backup=('etc/conf.d/transmissiond') install=transmission-cli.install source=(http://mirrors.m0k.org/transmission/files/transmission-$pkgver.tar.… transmissiond transmissiond.conf) md5sums=('4ebbb9d4c27a019f5aced926818be4fa' 'e2326d412e25b4449ff663a5d4015e1a' '7b019a710493ec4f8b54a1f528e1981d') build() { cd "$srcdir/transmission-$pkgver" ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-gtk --disable-wx || return 1 make || return 1 make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install || return 1 install -D -m755 "$srcdir/transmissiond" "$pkgdir/etc/rc.d/transmissiond" || return 1 install -D -m644 "$srcdir/transmissiond.conf" "$pkgdir/etc/conf.d/transmissiond" || return 1 install -D -m644 COPYING "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/transmission-cli/COPYING" || return 1 } Since an even longer time the rubyripper package hasn't been updated. Therefore I updated the version number and md5sum and additionally removed the oggenc patch since this has been fixed according to the developer: # $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.6 2008/12/12 00:13:21 pizzapunk Exp $ # Maintainer: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk gmail com> pkgname=rubyripper pkgver=0.5.5 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Secure audiodisc ripper" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/" license=('GPL3') depends=('ruby' 'cdparanoia' 'gtk2' 'hicolor-icon-theme') makedepends=('ruby-gettext') optdepends=('ruby-gettext: Internationalization support' 'ruby-gtk2: GTK+ GUI' 'cd-discid: Freedb support' 'eject: Eject support' 'lame: MP3 encoding support' 'vorbis-tools: Ogg Vorbis encoding support' 'flac: FLAC encoding support' 'wavegain: WAV ReplayGain support' 'mp3gain: MP3 ReplayGain support' 'vorbisgain: Ogg Vorbis ReplayGain support' 'normalize: Normalization support') install=rubyripper.install source=(http://rubyripper.googlecode.com/files/rubyripper-$pkgver.tar.bz2) md5sums=('45d5d85d2b528538b9d50243360f88cd') build() { cd "$srcdir/rubyripper-$pkgver" ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gtk2 --enable-cli --enable-lang-all || return 1 make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install || return 1 }

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[arch-general] AUR package version
by Manne Merak 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi, how do I know which AUR package to use if there are multiples? check last updated date? For example, there is amarok-svn and amarok2-svn, but amarok2-svn was last updated in beginning of Jun, amarok-svn yesterday. Manne

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[arch-general] Adopt tar.xz for official repo packaging ?
by b4283 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Corrently Archlinux uses a tar+gzip combination and it works nicely. But right now there's a stable lzma compression available using "tar Jcvf", which could create much smaller packages and still fast decompressions. (of course you need to have xz-utils) think about all the bandwidth that could be saved ! my little experiment shows kernel26-2.6.30-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz coreutils-7.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz tar.gz 35338866 (100%) 4853937 (100%) tar.xz 24892732 (70.4%) 1843592 (38.2%) i guess one of the major concerns is that tar & gzip is more common than xz. but since GNU is also packing their coreutils in xz packs, i guess that a good time to switch?

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[arch-general] firefox 3.5 no preferences
by Caleb Cushing 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

when I goto edit -> preferences the preferences are blank. anyone else have this problem? -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] modprobe changes
by Baho Utot 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

I am getting a message on boot that I need to change the modules line in rc.conf to the "new way" which is to put the conf file into modprobe.d. Is there any info on this? I have some modules I want to blacklist and some to load. Is the format the same as modprobe.conf? ( I presume ) I take it I can just add a file like this net-pf-10.conf that contains blacklist net-pf-10 Is that right ?

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[arch-general] 2 annoying bugs in kde
by Edgar Kalkowski 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hi list! I am using current KDE 4.2.4 from core and am experiencing these two little things that are not really disturbing but rather annoying: 1) Every time I quit okular it crashes and shows a crash message. A quick search of the web brought up that this was “a minor regression in kdelibs“ and should be fixed by now (sorry, I don’t remember the actual site I read this on). So my question is: Is anyone experiencing the same problem and has a fix? Or do we really just need to wait for an update of KDE? If so: Is an update planned or do we have to wait for 4.3 or 4.2.5? 2) Every time KDE starts up it shows (after a little while) the following message in a native X dialog: “Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.” If I click on “OK” or kill the message window X restarts. A web search on this one revealed nothing really helpful so now I’m just leaving the message window open on an unused desktop. When doing this everything seems to work normal and as expected. In fact “ps -elf | grep ksmserver” reveals that the specified program is indeed running. Does anyone get this error, too, and perhaps knows how to fix it? Thank you in advance! Edgar

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[arch-general] gnupg: requires readline>=6.0.00
by Caleb Cushing 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

readline 6 is still in testing but gnupg is in extra's maybe I just need to wait? is readline 6 about to move to extra's? extra/gnupg 1.4.9-4 GNU Privacy Guard - a PGP replacement tool -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] epiphany does not add url during ssl acceptance
by Adam Stokes 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Just curious if anyone else is running into this small problem? Basically when adding an exception to a unverified ssl site I have to manually put the url into the location text field rather than it populating automatically like firefox. Thanks

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [idea] global link database for all packages
by Loui Chang 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

On Thu 02 Jul 2009 01:29 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Loui Chang wrote: > >On Wed 01 Jul 2009 09:48 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >>On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Thomas Bächler<thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > >>>Allan McRae schrieb: > >>>>>>For example: > >>>>>>http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/i686/core.badfhs.txt > >>>>>Where does that come from? It's not in any package I know of. > >>>>> > >>>>rp-pppoe-3.10-1/files:etc/ppp/plugins/rp-pppoe.so > >>>That is stupid. ppp plugins are supposed to be in /usr/lib/pppd/$VERSION and > >>>the ppp package already contains the rp-pppoe plugin. Why does rp-pppoe > >>>install it again? Why do we even need rp-pppoe? > >>Good question - does anyone actually use it? > > > >http://www.archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics > >Eh. 72% of pkgstats users do. > > No, 28% know they don't want it even though it is in "base". > Slightly different... Hmm. It probably shouldn't be in base, but it should be available on the install CD.

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