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

[arch-general] ImportError: libssl.so.0.9.8: -- do I just rebuild the AUR packages?
by David C. Rankin 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

Guys, After the latest openssl updates, the AUR packages for createrepo and repoview are failing. I know it must be the result of the openssl changes. My question is, "in situations like this do I just try rebuilding the AUR packages, or does the maintainer have to make updates to accommodate the changes?" The errors received are: Checking for presence of sqlite metadata in /home/backup/rpms/factory_11.0 sqlite metadata tables found --> updating Update of metadata (sqlite) --> Failed Signing the repository after update... OK Updating/Creating repoview index and HTML pages... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 26, in <module> import rpm File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpm/__init__.py", line 7, in <module> from _rpm import * ImportError: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory gpg: no default secret key: bad passphrase gpg: signing failed: bad passphrase Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/repoview", line 46, in <module> from rpmUtils.miscutils import compareEVR File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.py", line 18, in <module> of which: "ImportError: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" seems to be the primary error. I am not familiar enough with openssl to know if this can be cured by a simple rebuild, a symlink, or whether the openssl changes were significant enough to require a reworking of the AUR package by the maintainer. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] ed-1.4-2
by Ray Kohler 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Add "sh" dep to ensure availability for install script, compress info pages. > > Signoff both, > Allan How about handling http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18718 (remove ed and bin86 from base-devel)?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] xorg-server 1.8 repository
by Ray Kohler 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> wrote: > Things todo before this merges to extra: > - Fix xf86-video-siliconmotion, xf86-video-unichrome, xf86-video-nouveau I'm curious as to what this means. In particular, what's broken with nouveau? Does it not compile, or not work properly? And is this with the source snapshot in [extra], or some newer version?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] gcc-4.5 toolchain rebuild
by Emmanuel Benisty 17 Apr '10

17 Apr '10

Hi, On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > The gcc-4.5 toolchain rebuild is in [testing]. Here is a summary of the > changes I made: > > gcc-4.5.0-1: > upstream update > add new deps (libmpc, libelf) > enable link time optimization > tidy up configure > add c89 and c99 launcher scripts (POSIX compatibility) Just out of curiosity, what is the plan regarding this issue (quoted from the gcc changelog): On x86 targets, code containing floating-point calculations may run significantly slower when compiled with GCC 4.5 in strict C99 conformance mode than they did with earlier GCC versions. This is due to stricter standard conformance of the compiler and can be avoided by using the option -fexcess-precision=fast; Thanks.

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[arch-general] package search shows duplicate ca-certificates package in [testing]
by Ray Kohler 17 Apr '10

17 Apr '10

Ever since the openssl rebuilds moved out of testing, the package search webapp shows an extra copy of ca-certificates in [testing] at the same version of the one in [core] now. This package doesn't really exist in the [testing] DB and there isn't an SVN entry for it in testing-any either. What's going on here? Is it a bug in the package search that I should file in flyspray?

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[arch-general] How to get permanent network devices?
by Dominik Schips 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Hello, I have three network devices (eth0, eth1 and eth2) in my system. Currently I use the networkmanager (Gnome) to configure my LAN connection. It is working good. My problem is that every reboot the device names are changing so somtimes my LAN device is eth0 next reboot it is eth2 ..... I think this is done by udev. Can someone explain me how to get permanent device names every boot? I want to have eth0 as my normal LAN device, eth1 as a bridge device for KVM VMs and eth2 as bridge device connected to my DMZ for VMs. With virt-manager I can setup these bridges but if the device name changes every boot it is unpossible to use. Any ideas or advices for me? -- Best regards Dominik Schips

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[arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing
by David C. Rankin 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Guys, One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and stopping processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse did was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming convention of rc<init script name>. So, for example, instead of having to type: /etc/rc.d/postfix the shortcut was simply rcpostfix I have normally seen the sym-link shortcuts placed in /usr/sbin, but /usr/local/sbin works fine as well. The convenience is addictive. If you manage your box from the command line or want to, then you can give this setup a testdrive. You can create the sym-links very easily with the following cut and pasted to the command line (as root - all on one line): for i in $(ls /etc/rc.d); do [[ -e /etc/rc.d/$i ]] && [[ ! -h /usr/local/sbin/$i ]] && ln -sv /etc/rc.d/$i /usr/local/sbin/rc${i}; done You need to make sure /usr/local/sbin is in root's path to use the rc-commands without having to type the full path each time (that would defeat any convenience). You can quickly check to see if /usr/local/sbin is in root's path by logging in, or su'ing, to the root account and pasting the next line into the command line: set | grep \/usr\/local\/sbin If you get an answer, your fine, if you get nothing, then, as root, add /usr/local/sbin to the path with: PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin EXPORT PATH you can make the path permanent by adding to, or creating /root/.bashrc with the following: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin I know most of you know all this, but this was written with additional detail to help those who may not make much use of the command line now, but may be interested in learning more about the control it offers. Remember, you can do some things some of the time from within various guis, but you can do ALL things ALL OF THE TIME, from the command line. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] First Time Using AUR
by Carlos Mennens 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not clear on: Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is simply a directory where the package will be made or "built" and can be any directory. Examples of commonly used directories are: ~/builds Now when I create the "~/builds" directory, does it matter if I do this in a regular user's home directory or in 'roots'? It is not very clear and I don't want to break anything or improperly build a package from AUR.

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[arch-general] Repo mirrors
by Florian Pritz 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

I've changed the mirror script from the wiki so mirror admins can run it every minute without huge additional load. This will help a lot to reduce update delays now and even further when we have multiple tiers (don't know how mucht that works already). I've already described it somewhere, but for those who don't know it yet: The script fetches an md5 sum of checksums of the repos (core, extra, testing, community). If the first checksum is different then the one locally generated on the mirror, it will check those for every repo. If they are also different it will rsync as needed. HTTP requests are used to fetch the checksums because most mirrors already have HTTP servers running and because they are cheap. I've also created a patch for db-scripts to generate the md5sums for the master server. As I don't have a repo set up this patch is untested (it's the same code as in the mirrorscript though). Once this is merged on the master we can start to tell mirror admins to use the new mirrorscript which can be found at http://karif.server-speed.net/~flo/tmp/mirrorsync.sh.txt C&C welcome :)

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[arch-general] VirtualBox
by Carlos Mennens 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

I am really needing to install VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads) on my Arch 64-bit machine. I noticed that there is obviously no official download for Arch specifically on their site. I then checked Pacman and it appears there is only a OSE (Open Source Addition) available for 32-bit (i686) systems only. My question is if I download the file from the vendor's site I linked above, can I simply not just install that manually on my Arch Linux 64-bit system or will I run into problems? The package I downloaded was called "VirtualBox-3.1.6-59338-Linux_amd64.run" which I assume is just a self contained installer with all the necessary downloads and required files. I am just trying to figure out that best solution for installing VirtualBox (PUEL) but if I have to, I can even deal with using the less-featured version (Open Source Edition) if it was available via Pacman... Thanks for any help / info! -Carlos

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