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

[arch-general] Migrating /var to a different partition
by Sri Krishna 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

Hi, I'm doing a clean install of Arch on a new computer, and during the install I'd already set aside 2GiB for the /var partition. Except I forgot to add it to fstab before I exited chroot, and booted into Arch and installed a DE etc. Now two days later I realize that Arch has already created a /var directory on the / partition. How do I migrate /var into the partition I'd originally created for it? Is it as simple as adding a line to fstab and rebooting? Thanks, Krishna

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[arch-general] rp-pppoe: requires ppp=2.4.6
by Thorsten Jolitz 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

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[arch-general] Gnome extensions and the extension site
by Magnus Therning 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

For a while now I get the following message when I visit https://extensions.gnome.org/: We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system, so some parts of the interface may be disabled. See our troubleshooting entry for more information. It was working a few months ago; since this is Arch it was quite a few updates ago ;) Now a couple of the extensions I like are out of date and I'd like to update them. I've looked at the "troubleshooting entry" but nothing there improves the situation. Are others seeing this, or am I alone? Any ideas of what I should check/modify to get it back to a working state? /M -- 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] vnstat's pacnew
by Ralf Mardorf 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

$ diff /etc/vnstat.conf /etc/vnstat.conf.pacnew 1c1 < # vnStat 1.11 config file --- > # vnStat 1.12 config file 5c5 < Interface "enp3s0" --- > Interface "eth0" [snip] 93c105 < LogFile "/var/log/vnstat.log" --- > LogFile "/var/log/vnstat/vnstat.log" 96c108 < PidFile "/var/run/vnstat.pid" --- > PidFile "/var/run/vnstat/vnstat.pid" Unlikely that on Arch Linux eth0 is more often used, than enp3s0. Does it makes any sense to place a log file into a directory? Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Installing texlive docs
by Thorsten Jolitz 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

Hi List, based on this page (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1253365) I tried to build a texlive-most-doc package: #+NAME: PKGBUILD #+BEGIN_SRC shell pkgname=texlive-most-doc pkgver=$(date +%Y%m%d) pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Most TeXLive documentation" url="http://tug.org/texlive/"; arch=('any') license=('unknown') optdepends=('texlive-bin: The texdoc program and some more documentation') makedepends=('wget') install=${pkgname}.install options=('!strip' '!purge') build() { wget -r -l inf -N -nH -nv --cut-dirs=3 -P "$srcdir/usr/share/" ftp://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc wget -r -l inf -N -nH -nv --cut-dirs=3 -P "$srcdir/usr/share/" ftp://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf/doc/asymptote wget -r -l inf -N -nH -nv --cut-dirs=3 -P "$srcdir/usr/share/" ftp://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf/doc/dvipng/dvipng.pdf wget -r -l inf -N -nH -nv --cut-dirs=3 -P "$srcdir/usr/share/" ftp://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf/doc/dvips/dvips.pdf wget -r -l inf -N -nH -nv --cut-dirs=3 -P "$srcdir/usr/share/" ftp://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf/doc/man wget -r -l inf -N -nH -nv --cut-dirs=3 -P "$srcdir/usr/share/" ftp://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf/doc/info wget -r -l inf -N -nH -nv --cut-dirs=3 -P "$srcdir/usr/share/" ftp://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf/doc/tetex wget -r -l inf -N -nH -nv --cut-dirs=3 -P "$srcdir/usr/share/" ftp://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf/doc/texlive wget -r -l inf -N -nH -nv --cut-dirs=3 -P "$srcdir/usr/share/" ftp://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf/doc/texworks wget -r -l inf -N -nH -nv --cut-dirs=3 -P "$srcdir/usr/share/" ftp://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf/doc/web2c/web2c.pdf wget -r -l inf -N -nH -nv --cut-dirs=3 -P "$srcdir/usr/share/" ftp://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf/doc/ttf2pk/ttf2tfm.txt wget -r -l inf -N -nH -nv --cut-dirs=3 -P "$srcdir/usr/share/" ftp://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf/doc/ttf2pk/ttf2pk.txt } package() { cp -rl "$srcdir"/* "$pkgdir" } #+END_SRC #+NAME: texlive-most-doc.install #+BEGIN_SRC shell post_install() { texhash } post_remove() { texhash } post_upgrade() { texhash } #+END_SRC and ended up with this directory structure: ,---- | /home/tj/abs/texlive-most-doc: | insgesamt 24 | drwxr-xr-x 4 tj tj 4096 31. Aug 03:20 . | drwxr-xr-x 9 tj tj 4096 31. Aug 03:07 .. | d--------- 2 tj tj 4096 31. Aug 03:20 pkg | -rw-r--r-- 1 tj tj 1835 31. Aug 03:15 PKGBUILD | drwxr-xr-x 3 tj tj 4096 31. Aug 03:20 src | -rw-r--r-- 1 tj tj 88 31. Aug 03:10 texlive-most-doc.install `---- and this error message (translated from German): ,---- | END --2014-08-31 06:55:01-- | TIME: 3h 34m 12s | DOWNLOADED: 31502 files, 1,5G in 50m 24s (516 KB/s) | Directory »»texlive/Contents/live/texmf/doc«« does not exist | | ==> ERROR: Error in build(). | Aborting ... `---- Now I have all the texlive doc files in /abs/texlive-most-doc/src, but not a package I can install via pacman -U, so I'm not quite sure how to proceed. Any hints would be welcome. -- cheers, Thorsten

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