May 2013 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Possibility of including xorg input patch
by Kirill Churin 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Can this patch https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=33142 be applied to Arch's xorg? It solves famous problem https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865 with broken keyboard input for users who use multiple keyboard layouts without any noticeable side-effects. It's known this patch has been applied in Ubuntu. -- Kirill Churin Jabber: reflexing(a)reflexing.ru, ICQ: 8163230, Skype on demand.

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[arch-general] A little script to deploy dot files
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 26 Oct '13

26 Oct '13

[Inspired by tomd123@bbs.archlinux.org](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134622), I have wrote a small script to deploy the dotfiles acrossing viarous hosts, may be you guys are interested to have a look. Github: https://github.com/techlivezheng/dotploy Thoughts and advices are very welcome, cause my bash skills are still need much improving, there must be some ugly workaround. Regards, Techlive Zheng

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[arch-general] Systemd screen brightness
by Michael Nawrocki 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Hey everyone, I'm trying to get my laptop backlight keys (fn+f6/f7) to adjust the brightness of my toshiba laptop backlight. Previously, I had entered the following in my /etc/acpi/handler.sh to handle the acpi events generated when those keys were pressed: video/brightnessdown) echo $(($(cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness) -1)) > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness ;; video/brightnessup) echo $(($(cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness) +1)) > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness ;; However, as I am working on migrating to systemd, acpid no longer runs and hence does not handle these events. How can I write a similar handler into systemd? Thanks, Mike

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-notifications] Orphan Extra package [perl-net-server] marked out-of-date
by Florian Pritz 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

On 30.05.2013 23:18, Arch Website Notification wrote: > Insecure dependency in unlink while running with -T switch at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/Server/Daemonize.pm That has nothing to do with Net::Server, it's a bug in the code initially setting the variable used there. I have no idea why tainting behaviour seems to have changed with perl 5.18 (perldelta doesn't mention anything), but the only place I hit this problem was in spampd and there the variables were clearly tainted so I don't consider it a regression. If you are using that, please upgrade to the new version in AUR where I fixed those bugs. For more information about tainting please take a look at perlsec[1]. [1]: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html CC'ing arch-general since this might be interesting to someone.

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Re: [arch-general] Finishing the /usr move
by Karol Blazewicz 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-May/025026.html 3) Update your system: $ pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem $ pacman -Su It should say '#', not '$'.

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[arch-general] openssl cant find root certificate
by G. Schlisio 31 May '13

31 May '13

hi list, if i run wpa_supplicant on a eap-ttls network, it fails to set up tls properly: OpenSSL: tls_connection_ca_cert - Failed to load root certificates error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory where does openssl search these ca-certs, where do i get them from (obviously not from the ca-certificates package, this is installed and contains .crt instead of .pem). isnt this supposed to work without manual intervention? any help appreciated. thanks georg

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[arch-general] [signoff] syslinux-4.06-2
by Tobias Powalowski 31 May '13

31 May '13

Hi, please signoff syslinux-4.06-2 for the /usr/bin move. It will go direct to [core] repository, due to 5.01 sits in testing. Please download from here: https://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/syslinux/ thanks 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] Adding !staticlibs to our default makepkg.conf
by Hussam Al-Tayeb 29 May '13

29 May '13

On Wednesday 29 May 2013 11:31:11 Allan McRae wrote: > We discussed removing static libraries for most packages back in March [1]. > > Now makepkg for pacman-4.1 has an option "staticlibs" that automatically > removes them. Should I make that the default in our makepkg.conf? > > Allan > > > [1] > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024552.ht > ml Why not check first which applications build with --disable-static? A few packages like libpng, etc.. can be compiled with --disable-static which feels like a more neat approach then deleting the static libraries.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Finishing the /usr move
by Paul Gideon Dann 29 May '13

29 May '13

On Wednesday 29 May 2013 18:13:01 Allan McRae wrote: > Yes - /sbin, /usr/sbin and /bin will all point at /usr/bin. So > hardcoded paths will not matter. Only file locations will. Just a little curious: does someone know what the reason is that we're moving everything to /usr/bin instead of /bin? Is there any significant advantage nowadays to having a separate /usr? I can understand a separate /home, /srv, or /var far more... Paul

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[arch-general] Perl 5.18 in [testing]
by Florian Pritz 28 May '13

28 May '13

Hi, Perl 5.18, as any other new perl version, requires all modules that are not purely perl code to be rebuilt. We did that for all packages in our repos. For a list of upstream changes please refer to `man perldelta`. Since users probably installed some from AUR or with CPANPLUS::Dist::Arch, I wrote a script[1] that generates a local rebuild list. [1]: http://git.server-speed.net/bin/plain/find-broken-perl-packages.sh - raw.txt contains a list of files that generated an error - perl-modules.txt contains a list of modules the files belong to - perl-dists.txt contains a list of distributions - pacman.txt contains a list of pacman packages the files belong to Binaries linking with libperl.so will also need to be rebuilt. You can use lddd from devtools to find those. Please report any issue you encounter.

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