February 2015 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] "sc" in [community]?
by Ido Rosen 15 Feb '15

15 Feb '15

Happy new year, Would anyone like to bring the venerable UNIX spreadsheet program "sc" into [community]? I'm maintaining it in AUR currently. Many other distros support it. :-) Ido

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD: replaces array in split packages
by Jakub Klinkovský 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hello, I'm writing a script [1] to update package links on ArchWiki. The script also gives hints on broken/outdated package, e.g. for 'mesa-dri` the hint is "replaced by 'mesa'" (with an appropriate link to the 'mesa' package). I've chosen to only look into the 'replaces' array of the packages, because unlike 'provides', a package can be replaced only by one other package, whereas multiple packages can "provide" the same package. Or at least I thought so - it appears that both qemu and libcacard have qemu-kvm in their 'replaces' array. In this case, it's because qemu is a split package (qemu + libcacard) and the replaces array is defined globally in the PKGBUILD, not per-package. Is this a bug or was my assumption about the 'replaces' array wrong? How would pacman handle the situation where qemu-kvm is supposed to be replaced by libcacard and/or qemu? Thanks for answers, Jakub Klinkovský (Lahwaacz) [1]: https://github.com/lahwaacz/wiki-scripts/blob/master/update-package-templat…

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[arch-general] Key "A6234074498E9CEE" could not be looked up remotely
by Viktor Garske 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

Hello, I've got a problem with pacman: when I try to upgrade the system pacman writes "key "A6234074498E9CEE" could not be looked up remotely". Then I looked into this forum thread (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1501915#p1501915). I tried the workaround but "pacman-key --refresh-keys" returned (after a long time): gpg: Refresh vom Schlüsselserver fehlgeschlagen: Dateiende ==> FEHLER: Ein spezifizierter lokaler Schlüssel konnte nicht vom Schlüssel-Server aktualisiert werden. (it means:) gpg: refresh failed from the key server: end of file ==> ERROR: a specified local key could not be refreshed by the key server. Do you have any solutions? -- Viktor

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[arch-general] [extra] package depending on [community] package
by Oon-Ee Ng 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

Wasn't there a guideline somewhere against this? Should I raise bugs when I see this is taking place? Specific example that I just noticed is mpd, because libnfs in community updated. Of course, mpd was updated within 12 hours or so, and I understand packages are mostly best maintained by those who actually know/care about the project, hence I just want to ask the question, is this considered a bug or not?

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[arch-general] pacman security when importing new keys?
by Manuel Reimer 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Hello, today, pacman asked me to import a new signature key. So far this was done "automatically" using a keys-package, which, itself, was signed with a trusted key. How is the new mechanism secured? Is the new way, to bring keys to users, prone to MITM attacks? Thanks in advance. Manuel

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[arch-general] error: key "A6234074498E9CEE" could not be looked up remotely
by mick 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

The last few days when I try to update (pacman -Syyu) I get the following:- (29/29) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100% downloading required keys... error: key "A6234074498E9CEE" could not be looked up remotely error: required key missing from keyring error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. how do I fix it??

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[arch-general] NFS won't start since 2015-2-11 update (solved)
by Rodrigo Rivas 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Do # systemctl enable rpcbind.service and reboot or `systemctl restart nfs-utils`. It seems that the before rpcbind-0.2.2 this service were preset to "enabled" but this is no longer the case, so it will default to "disabled". Just my €0.02. -- Rodrigo

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[arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning
by Sebastiaan Lokhorst 11 Feb '15

11 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] broken locale after glibc upgrade
by arnaud gaboury 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

After a recent upgrade, my locale was broken. Here is extract from pacman.log: [2015-02-11 08:19] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2015-02-11 08:19] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2015-02-11 08:19] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2015-02-11 08:20] [ALPM] transaction started [2015-02-11 08:20] [ALPM] transaction failed [2015-02-11 08:21] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2015-02-11 08:21] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2015-02-11 08:21] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2015-02-11 08:21] [ALPM] transaction started [2015-02-11 08:22] [ALPM] upgraded linux-api-headers (3.18.1-1 -> 3.18.5-1) [2015-02-11 08:22] [ALPM] upgraded glibc (2.20-6 -> 2.21-2) [2015-02-11 08:22] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generating locales... [2015-02-11 08:22] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generation complete. I had to manually edit /etc/locale.gen, uncomment the needed locales, then run locale-gen to fix this issue. Any idea about what happened ? -- google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

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[arch-general] Running Arch linux on a headless ppc GNU/Linux box?
by Csányi Pál 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Hi, I have a headless PowerPC box called Bubba Two. Could one install on it the Arch linux system? I'm running on it now a Debian Wheezy GNU/Linux system. $ uname -a Linux b2 3.2.62-1 #1 Mon Aug 25 04:22:40 UTC 2014 ppc GNU/Linux -- Regards from Pal

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