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[arch-general] "The Canterbury Distribution"
by C Anthony Risinger 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

EDIT: ah jeez ... it's that damn time of year again. haha i always forget about the day of fools until i'm 3 seconds from spamming my gullibility to the world. sending anyway because i already wrote it ;-) C Anthony ------------------------------------------------------ so i sorta meandered to the debian.org homepage randomly, and was surprised to see this: [ it's a link, go ahead and click it :-) ] http://www.debian.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ "We are pleased to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community distributions formerly known as Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux. The target is to produce a really unified effort and be able to stand up in a combined effort against proprietary operating systems, to show off that the Free Software community is actually able to work together for a common goal instead of creating more diversity." ------------------------------------------------------ Features The Canterbury distribution will combine the best of the linux world to another game changer for the good of the users: Simple as Arch - technologically simple and bleeding edge. Stable as Debian - highly dependable. Malleable as Gentoo - you get what you really want. Live as Grml - readily usable. Openminded as openSUSE - broad and welcoming for everyone. ------------------------------------------------------ (2011-04-01) - Public Announce Today we came to the point where we feel comfortable to announce the joined effort to the general public. Please watch this space over the next days. ------------------------------------------------------ looks like it was announced today-ish (er tomorrow for me ...), so what i'm wondering if there is any kind of official affiliation here? did anyone here (particularly those close to development processes) know about this? at any rate, sounds pretty cool, should be a good thing. C Anthony

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[arch-general] AUR Program
by Heiher 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hello, I'm porting the ArchLinux to Loongson (mipsel) architecture. I want to make a AUR for users. Where can I download AUR program? Thanks! -- Best regards! Heiher

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[arch-general] A question regarding lxc
by Piyush P Kurur 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Can anyone please tell me whether my understanding of lxc is correct. Say I have lxc containers foo1, foo2 and bar1, bar2 such that (1) foo1 and foo2 have seperate file hiearchy and (2) bar1 and bar2 share /usr /bin/ (i.e. directories where executables and shared libraries are kept) via read only bind mount. I would expect that in configuration (2) for common shared libraries, only one copy would be loaded where as for (1) both will load its own versions of the shared library even if they are identical otherwise. Is that correct? The next question is what is the best way to check this out. Regards ppk

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[arch-general] Updating hylafax to 6.0.5 - strange error - need help? fchmod(int, __mode_t) throw ()’ throws different exceptions
by David C. Rankin 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Guys, I was working with hylafax in ABS on the 6.0.4 to 6.0.5 upgrade and I ran into a strange error related to "throws different exceptions": <snip> 86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -c Dispatcher.c++ In file included from Sys.h:34:0, from Dispatcher.c++:27: /usr/include/sys/stat.h:299:47: error: declaration of ‘int fchmod(int, __mode_t) throw ()’ throws different exceptions ../port.h:32:12: error: from previous declaration ‘int fchmod(int, mode_t)’ make[3]: *** [Dispatcher.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/david/arch/pkg/bld/hylafax/src/hylafax-6.0.5/libhylafax' make[2]: *** [default] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/arch/pkg/bld/hylafax/src/hylafax-6.0.5/libhylafax' make[1]: *** [dirs] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/arch/pkg/bld/hylafax/src/hylafax-6.0.5' make: *** [default] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... I'm getting better at sorting this stuff out, but exception handling problems are the exception... no pun intended. Any ideas? upstream issue? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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