March 2012 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] fsck on each boot?
by gt 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

I recently added the fsck hook to mkinitcpio.conf after seeing it being recommended in the forums. I don't have a separate /usr though. Anyway, now after every boot i see: performing fsck on <root-device> It shows up clean, and happens in a flash of a second. So my question is that is the hook supposed to perform fsck everytime? Earlier (without the hook), it used to happen only on unclean shutdowns. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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[arch-general] makepkg/PKGBUILD - handle same files provided by 2 non-dependent packages?
by David C. Rankin 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Guys, I need to know if makepkg/PKGBUILD can handle a check to see whether the same files provided by two different packages (which are not dependencies of each other) exist in the file system to prevent an installation failure due to conflicting files? The situation is this. Both tdesdk and tdesvn both provide: /opt/trinity/share/services/svn+file.protocol /opt/trinity/share/services/svn+http.protocol /opt/trinity/share/services/svn+https.protocol /opt/trinity/share/services/svn+ssh.protocol /opt/trinity/share/services/svn.protocol Since neither package is a dependency for the other, tdesvn needs to provide the files if tdesdk isn't installed and tdesdk needs to provide the files if tdesvn isn't installed, but avoid the conflict if both are installed. Is this possible? If they were dependencies of each other, then that would be an easy fix. If both were assured to be installed, that would also be an easy fix by rm'ing the files from one package or the other, but in the case when either or both can be installed -- How do you handle this?? Thanks for any ideas you have. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] Archlinux Package texlive-latexextra
by Rémy Oudompheng 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

Le 25 mars 2012 21:33, Hans-J. Schmid <hans-j.schmid(a)hans-jschmid.com> a écrit : > Dear Rémy, > > thanks a lot for supporting Archlinux and your brilliant work on maintaining > all these packages. > > I am having a quick question. I am just writing a CV and use the moderncv > package ( http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/) > which has been updated a few weeks ago. I would like to use one of the new > styles of moderncv. So are there any plans to update the texlive-latexextra > package which moderncv is a part of in the near future? > > Very kind regards and keep up the good work, > Hans-J. Hello, It can be done. You should mark the package out-of-date indicating if psosible what are the modules you are interested in. The process takes some time and I'm not sure if I can do it soon, but it's possible. Rémy.

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[arch-general] aria2c left a mess on system
by Jude DaShiell 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

I've now cleared it off, but what had happened was a download of an iso with a torrent file and afterwards the iso had a unique inode it couldn't be checked with md5sum because md5sum claimed it didn't exist. I didn't even try it with the asc file since md5sum didn't work. Also the file command couldn't find the iso file either. This was the case for both root and a user doing the checks and the file permissions were set to 640 for both the root and user accounts yet neither could check the file. I've had situations with aria2c where it has crashed and died with exceptions on this machine in the past too. After all of that aggravation, I cleared the whole mess off my system and am about to deep six aria2c for good measure. The original bittorrent is no better and in many ways worse so if I do anything with that type of download again I'll either have to find me a 3rd linux alternative that can run from the command line or just use free download manager on windows to get it done. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.2.13-1
by Tobias Powalowski 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

Hi guys, please signoff 3.2.13 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.3 is in [testing]. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Some synaptics multitouch functionality lost on upgrade
by Scott Lawrence 24 Mar '12

24 Mar '12

MacbookPro5,4. After an upgrade a few days ago, which included an update to xf86-input-synaptics-1.5.99.901-1, I've lost the ability to right click by clicking with two fingers. Interestingly, I can still right-click by /tapping/ with two fingers, and everything else is working unaffected (including two-finger scrolling). Any hints as to what triggered the change, and how to fix it? Various searches shed no light on this. Nothing interesting is in Xorg.0.log, xinput's output seems ordinary, and I don't see any options offered by synclient that would change this behaviour. Anywhere else to look? (I'm about to try enabling shmconfig and see what synclient -m gives.) (I'm not a fan of mtrack at all; I'd much rather get the input-synaptics stuff working properly again.) Thanks. -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.2.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 09:31:13 CET 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] arch chroot - makepkg.conf - Howto unset $PKGDEST, $SRCDEST, etc...
by David C. Rankin 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Guys, I experimented with different locations for PKGDEST, SRCDEST, etc. and now I just want to have the finished package left in the default directory where the PKGBUILD is located. However, when I comment out the PKGDEST, SRCDEST and SRCPKGDEST, the finished packages still show up in the last set PKGDEST directory. Where do I remove this information from the chroot cache so everything is reset to the default and finished packages are left in the original PKGBUILD directory? Also, do I have to edit both $CHROOT/root and $CHROOT/david, or just $CHROOT/david makepkg.conf? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] makechrootpkg -d goes in repo.db why not local.db consistent with DevWiki?
by David C. Rankin 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Guys, I have followed the DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot page closely for the trinity build and it has worked fine. For major rebuilds it has you create a local.db.tar.gz in /root/repo as a local repo. However, I was experimenting with makechrootpkg -d and it suggest it will add the package to the local /repo, but instead it creates /root/repo/repo.db. Why not local.db? Looking at the developer wiki and then looking at the help file for makechrootpkg: -d Add the package to a local db at /repo after building I expected both to be consistent. Is there a reason for the difference? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Anyone willing to share experiences running Arch on a current-gen MacBook Pro?
by Ankur Sethi 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Hi, I'm in the market for a high-end development + gaming machine (dual boot). I've been a Mac user for the last 4 years and I'm used to their hardware, so I'm naturally considering a MacBook Pro as one of my options. My old white MacBook from 2008 runs Arch very well, but can the newer unibody MacBook Pros run it? More specifically, I'm looking at the 2.4GHz model (MD322LL/A) on this page: http://www.apple.com/in/macbookpro/specs.html Here are some things I'm particulary worried about: 1. Does suspend/resume work? 2. Does WiFi work? Does it work even after you suspend/resume? 3. Can I boot the Arch installer from USB? This is a big one, since the optical drives in MacBooks _always_ fail after a few months of use. 4. Does multi-touch work? If not, is the trackpad at least usable without multi-touch support? 5. Does that AMD card play well with Linux? If not, is there a way to tell the machine to ignore the discrete GPU and always use Intel HD Graphics? 6. Does the keyboard backlight work? What about the ambient light sensors? Audio? Webcam? I know there are many guides for installing Arch on a Mac, and I've read a lot of them, but none of them go on to mention how pleasant (or unpleasant!) their long-term experience with Linux on Mac has been. Is it worth all the trouble? Is it usable for doing actual work? Do things randomly stop working if you upgrade your firmware? Do the Apple Store employees try to wipe your Linux partition when you take your machine in for repairs? Too many questions, I know. I've been saving up for a decent machine for a year now, so I'm naturally anxious about making the right choice :) -- Ankur Sethi

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[arch-general] Troubleshooting suspend
by Scott Lawrence 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

I'm trying to get suspend (with pm-utils) working on a MacbookPro5,4, and everytime I try to resume (after suspend-to-ram), I just get a black screen, with nothing working (typing the keys which should shut down doesn't shut down, so I assume everything's pretty much dead). The fan is on though, so it's not just shut down. After rebooting, I find that nothing was written to the log file after a message saying that suspend was succesfull. Any tips on how to troubleshoot this? I've tried everything that looks relevant on the wiki, but nothing fixed it, or even got it to the point of printing to logs. -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.2.12-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 19 17:50:01 CET 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

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