December 2014 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Building in docker?
by Magnus Therning 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

For various reasons I'm looking into not using `makechrootpkg` when building the 200+ packages I put into a non-official repo. Obviously it's important to keep the building environment separate from my ordinary system environment. Going to full virtualisation is definitely overkill and the only containers I know of are chroots and docker. Docker has some nice attributes, in particular no need for root access. However, I don't know a whole lot about it, so I wonder are there any aspects to it that makes it a bad choice for building packages? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee. -- Steve McConnell, Code Complete

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[arch-general] Smartcard troubles on Arch
by Mathias Huber 19 Mar '16

19 Mar '16

Dear Archers, I am trying to get my Gemalto USB Shell Token V2 (GPG-Smartcard-Reader in a USB-Stick) to work on Arch. I've set up Udev in the way I did successfully in Ubuntu 12.04.LTS. However, no success. I am still trying to figure out where the trouble lies. I can never see the card using gpg --card-status But sometimes I see its fields when using pcscs_scan. Possible culprits: pcscd, which sometimes gives errors, gpg's USB support? Has anyone had success in setting up this reader or similar smartcard readers? Or had similar troubles? I would love to hear from you. Best, Mathias

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[arch-general] Possibility of including xorg input patch
by Kirill Churin 26 Jul '15

26 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] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning
by Sebastiaan Lokhorst 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Hello everyone, Since more than a year now, fdisk (provided by util-linux) has had GPT support. This theoretically makes gdisk a duplicate of fdisk, and we could replace gdisk with fdisk. Now, I'm not asking to drop gdisk or anything like that, but in an effort to clean up the Beginners' guide of the Arch Wiki, we want to use a single partitioning tool for both MBR and GPT partitioning instructions.[1] util-linux fdisk is able to provide this functionality, but we are not completely sure if it is stable by now (it should be, I think). So, now my question: is there anyone who has had bad experiences with fdisk and GPT partitions, where gdisk was superior? Or any other objections why we should keep gdisk instructions in the Beginners' guide? Thanks! Sebastiaan [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Beginners%27_guide#remove_gdisk_i…

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[arch-general] FS#41424 - Virtualbox 4.3.14, USB doesn't work flawlessly
by Ralf Mardorf 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Hi, I experienced Virtualbox 4.3.14 x86_64 as broken, when I tried to sync an iPad2 with iTunes running on a XP SP3 guest. I only tested it with USB2 enabled, since it worked with 4.3.12. Usually I use the packages virtualbox, virtualbox-host-dkms, virtualbox-extension-pack and I add the guest additions, that fit to the used vbox version. Because I wasted much time with trying to use 4.3.14, I did an incomplete downgrade to 4.3.12 yet, since I'm short in time, but even with virtualbox 4.3.12-1 virtualbox-host-dkms 4.3.12-1 no extension pack, no USB2 and with wrong guest additions, version 4.3.14, I get rid of the issues. I will complete the downgrade on my machine ASAP and IMO the community packages should be downgraded for the repositories too. Do others experienced issues with Virtualbox 4.3.14 USB too? Since I'm short in time I only reported the bug to https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41424 I didn't find a related bug, just 4 completely other vbox bug reports. https://www.virtualbox.org/search?q=4.13.14&noquickjump=1&ticket=on results in "No matches found." https://www.virtualbox.org/search?q=usb&noquickjump=1&ticket=on gives tons of hits, no time to care about them right now Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Missing fonts in KeePass
by Sadika Sumanapala 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

Hi, Does anyone using KeePass missing/not showing fonts? There are missing fonts in some dialog boxes (file open dialog, font dialog :) I'm using kde plasma 5 and as I remember this issue started after installing plasma 5. Do you have any suggestions to fix this problem? Please check following links for screenshots: http://picpaste.com/snapshot14-qprqkpVO.png http://picpaste.com/snapshot15-7fDH86lX.png Thanks, Sadika

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[arch-general] makepkg as root
by Magnus Therning 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

I just noticed that `makepkg` no longer accepts '--asroot', does that mean there now is no way to convince `makepkg` to build despite being run as root? /M P.S. I am fully aware of the problems with building as root, but as I'm only building packages I'm myself creating, and doing it in a docker image, I feel I can live with the dangers... especially when it saves me some work in setting up docker images. -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus What gets measured, gets done. -- Tom Peters

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[arch-general] Could not receive my Bugtracker Activation Code
by Minh Nhut Duong 01 Jan '15

01 Jan '15

Hi, I registerd my Arch Linux Bugtracker account from this link https://bugs.archlinux.org/ but I cannot receive my activation code to complete registration. Anyone can help me resend my activation code to nhutdm at gmail dot com. Thanks,

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[arch-general] Trusted User application
by Jerome Leclanche 01 Jan '15

01 Jan '15

Hi list My name is Jerome Leclanche and this is my application for becoming an Arch Linux TU. Both Balló György and Sven-Hendrik Haase have encouraged me to apply, and Sven-Hendrik has agreed to sponsor me for the occasion. I am a French Python developer living in Stockholm. I work on FOSS both for my full-time job and in my free time, with my focus being on the LXQt project of which I am one of the lead developers (http://lxqt.org/). All my contributions are available on Github: https://github.com/jleclanche My main goal is of course to bring LXQt to [community]. I emailed Antonio Rojas about that a while back as he was also interested in this. I'm on my third year with Arch Linux and absolutely love the distro; been hanging around IRC and the community as jleclanche. This is my package list: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=jleclanche I have started the release process to get LXQt 0.9 out some time in January. I would really like to see it become available on Arch Linux at the same time =) Other than LXQt, I also maintain ruby-sass and its dependencies, which I would also like to move to [community] - although it is something I'd like to bring up with Anatol Pomozov first as he maintains a large array of Ruby packages himself already. I also saw that libfm and libfm-extra are currently orphaned there and since they are LXDE projects, I will happily pick them up. If any of you are going to FOSDEM, I will also be able to meet you there - I'd love to get to know the Arch community in person as well. Thanks for the great distribution and happy 2015 to everyone. I've kept this as terse as possible but I'll be happy to answer any questions. J. Leclanche

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[arch-general] depends vs. optdepends
by Troy Engel 31 Dec '14

31 Dec '14

So, I found 4 executable/binary files installed (out of thousands - good job guys) that fail a 'ldd' check (missing shared libraries). The packages in question mark the missing libraries as 'optdepends' so they never get installed - I filed 4 bug reports, all 4 got closed as "not a bug" by the same person. I disagree with this choice as I believe it's ignoring system integrity needlessly - 4 files are installed which knowingly do not *function* (cannot launch) at all. The person who closed it even wrote "So what? Non-functional executables are not an issue here, this is the point of optional dependencies." The wiki states "optdepends: An array of package names that are not needed for the software to function but provides additional features." OK, so per the wiki it's pretty clear - missing libs fail the function test. The man PKGBUILD states "optdepends (array) An array of packages (and accompanying reasons) that are not essential for base functionality, but may be necessary to make full use of the contents of this package." Per this, there is a huge grey area open to interpretation. It is my opinion this is a dangerous precedent to install binaries from an official package that are linked to shared libraries which are not required to be installed. I'm wondering why Arch considers it acceptable to just ignore the problem (which could be solved in all 4 cases by simply splitting the package for that binary and adding a proper depends). Thoughts? -te [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/43260 [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/43261 [3[ https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/43262 [4] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/43263

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