November 2010 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36-3
by Tobias Powalowski 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.36 series for both arches and give feedback if real issues arise. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Features included: - Tomoyo support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21533 - Apparmor support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21533 - Build RTC support into kernel: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21137 - changed cpu support to 64 on x86_64 - added hugetables support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20862 - disabled RDS modules due to security concerns: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21510 - pcieaspm enabled greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] glibc-2.12.1-4
by Jan Steffens 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 03/11/10 12:50, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> On 26/10/10 11:38, Allan McRae wrote: >>> >>> Another day, another glibc... >>> >>> This adjusts the static linking fix. The one previously used is a more >>> correct fix but appears incomplete. I have replaced this by a hack fix >>> that Fedora uses. >>> >>> I will leave this in [testing] a while. My concern is the previous patch >>> apparently fixed a bunch of segfault bugs in glibc and I am hoping that >>> these do not get reintroduced. >>> >>> If only upstream made a proper fix for this. Saying upstream is doing >>> not much about this bug would imply that they are doing something... >>> >> >> OK, things seem fine for this so I think it is time for this to move. >> Signoff away! >> > > I said... Signoff away! :P > Signoff i686, x86_64

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[arch-general] Radeon HD 5xxx
by Andrew Allen Barkley 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

I am now an owner of a Radeon HD 5870. But... lspci reports it as: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 6898 I am running testing. Also, the feature matrix linked to by the ATI page on the wiki indicates that HD 5xxx cards are supported by xf86-video-ati, as does the wiki. What's the situation on this? -- Cordialement, Andrew Allen Barkley () /\ against html e-mail against proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org

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[arch-general] gnome-power-manager users - does pm-suspend run?
by Ng Oon-Ee 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Hi all, I don't actually recall when this started happening, but somewhere along the line g-p-m started directly performing a suspend without going through the pm-suspend script. I have some scripts in /etc/pm/sleep.d that are run when I do 'sudo pm-suspend', but aren't run when I do a suspend from g-p-m (for example pressing the 'suspend' button on my laptop). Searching our wiki, forums and the interwebz gives the following:- 1. Member of 'power' group - this is hal-related, in gnome 2.32 is it still required? Regardly, starting /etc/rc.d/hal doesn't seem to help. And I AM in the 'power' group anyway. 2. Check /var/log/pm-suspend.log - This just starts with 'Failed.' without any explanation. It then shows the last four resume scripts (01laptop-mode,01grub,00powersave,00logging) being executed successfully. The next in line is 11netcfg, but disabling that doesn't help anything. Anything else that I've missed? I do have 'hibernate-script' installed, but I don't think its even possible to get g-p-m to use it. The dbus command in the wiki to run suspend has the same effect as g-p-m, ie. does not run pm-suspend.

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[arch-general] [PATCH] add upgpkg
by Florian Pritz 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)xssn.at> --- upgpkg | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100755 upgpkg diff --git a/upgpkg b/upgpkg new file mode 100755 index 0000000..7966ac3 --- /dev/null +++ b/upgpkg @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +#!/bin/bash + +# upgpkg: Upgrades package versions in PKGBUILD and starts build. +# Author: Abhishek Dasgupta <abhidg(a)gmail.com> +# Thanks to cactus, profjim and daenyth for all the sed help! +# Edited: Florian Pritz <flo(a)xinu.at> + +# I place this script in the public domain. + +VERSION=0.2 + +die() { + local message="$1" + shift + printf "$(gettext "Error: $message")\n" "$@" + exit 1 +} + +if [ -z "$1" ]; then + echo "upgpkg $VERSION" + printf "$(gettext "usage: upgpkg newver")\n" + exit 2 +fi + +# Main code follows + +[ ! -f PKGBUILD ] && die "No \"%s\" in %s" "PKGBUILD" "$PWD" + +sed -ri '/(md5sums|sha[0-9]+sums)[ ]?\=/{:a; /\)/d; N; ba;}' PKGBUILD || die "Could not bump pkgver" +source PKGBUILD + +if [ $(vercmp $1 $pkgver) -gt 0 ]; then + sed -i "s/pkgver=.*$/pkgver=$1/g" PKGBUILD + sed -i "s/pkgrel=.*$/pkgrel=1/g" PKGBUILD + makepkg -g >> PKGBUILD +else + die "New version (%s) older or equal to current %s" "$1" "$pkgver" +fi + +if [ -x "rebuild" ]; then + ./rebuild +else + makepkg +fi -- 1.7.3.2

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[arch-general] APM and GNOME
by Rafael Beraldo 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

Hello people, A few months ago I wrote about my hard disk, which was making a strange noise due to excessive head parking. I just added hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda to /etc/rc.local and the problem was gone. Then I found out that whenever I used gnome-power-manager it would set the APM to 1 if the power source is the battery. I didn't find a way to instruct it to leave the APM setting alone, so I avoided using it. Recently I installed GNOME in my box and noticed that even if I disable gnome-power-manager at startup, some piece of GNOME is still setting APM to 1 when the netbook is on the battery. I don't use laptop-mode-tools nor is acpid running which brings me the question: what is messing up with APM? How can I tell GNOME and gnome-power-manager not to change its settings? Thank you, -- Rafael Beraldo http://devio.us/~rberaldo/

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[arch-general] package xboard long outdated, new pkgbuild attached
by Auguste Pop 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

Hi, The xboard package in extra has been long outdated and orphaned. I have attached my own PKGBUILD which includes an .desktop file to ease the use. Can any maintainer just update it? Thank you for your kind attention. Best Regards,

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[arch-general] Open Office-dev is Broken
by Steve Holmes 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Since db was upgraded to version 5, openoffice-dev no longer works. It is looking for shared library libdb-4.8. Shouldn't the OOo package be rebuilt?

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 73, Issue 6
by Auguste Pop 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hi, the src archive is attached. I will copy-paste the files bellow in case the attached file can not be properly received. However, the hash may be different. $ cat PKGBUILD # Contributor: Jason Chu <jason(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: Tom Newsom <Jeepster(a)gmx.co.uk> # Contributor: Auguste <auguste(a)gmail.com> pkgname=xboard pkgver=4.4.4 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A graphical user interfaces for chess" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/" license=('GPL3') depends=('libxaw' 'gnuchess' 'texinfo') install=$pkgname.install source=(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$pkgname/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz ${pkgname}.install ${pkgname}.desktop) md5sums=('06a2d921650718ea272e7c0ec957dccc' '5fb37acdeb9e6a80ddef0fb056519cd6' '1d9d4a7864465a703fe4a215e83f4806') build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}" sed -i 's/fairymax/gnuchess/' xboard.h ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man make } package() { install -m 755 -D ${srcdir}/${pkgname}.desktop \ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}" make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install } $ cat xboard.install post_install() { install-info usr/share/info/xboard.info.gz usr/share/info/dir 2> /dev/null if [ -e /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache ] then /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache -fq /usr/share/icons/hicolor fi } post_upgrade() { post_install $1 } pre_remove() { install-info --delete usr/share/info/xboard.info.gz usr/share/info/dir 2> /dev/null if [ -e /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache ] then /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache -fq /usr/share/icons/hicolor fi } $ cat xboard.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Version=1.0 Name=XBoard Comment=An X Window System graphical chessboard Exec=xboard Icon=xboard Terminal=false Categories=Game;BoardGame > Message: 9 > Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 12:09:33 +0100 > From: Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] package xboard long outdated, new pkgbuild > attached > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTim4RCXsLPWVRs_Mr7f6sSsmzFnyKeg1T3jyRyVf(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 5 November 2010 03:21, Auguste Pop <auguste(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The xboard package in extra has been long outdated and orphaned. I >> have attached my own PKGBUILD which includes an .desktop file to ease >> the use. >> >> Can any maintainer just update it? >> >> Thank you for your kind attention. >> >> Best Regards, >> > > Hello Auguste, > > No PKGBUILD on your email :) > > -- > Guillaume > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > arch-general mailing list > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general > > > End of arch-general Digest, Vol 73, Issue 6 > ******************************************* >

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] away Nov. 15-23 (to NYC)
by Matthew Monaco 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

On 10/27/2010 04:55 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > Nov. 15-23 I'll be away (I'll be in NY city) > > If any Arch dev/user is in the area during that time, let me know, we > could hook up. > > Dieter > I work in Rockefeller Center (49th and 6th). Anyone else?

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