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

[arch-general] Building in docker?
by Magnus Therning 27 Apr '16

27 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 18 Mar '16

18 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] Firefox display problem
by Francis Gerund 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Using Firefox to access http://cnn.com, photos show up, but often have a superimposed small, hollow rectangle in the center of each. The rectangles contain the characters "FI" above the characters "33". Is this a sign of some missing component from Firefox, or just an error at the cnn.com website? Or something else?

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[arch-general] Additional mouse (Lenovo N700) gesture binding
by Oon-Ee Ng 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

I just got the above bluetooth and/or wireless (dual-mode) mouse for my work, as the presenter laser looked pretty useful. 3 basic buttons (1, 2, 3) worked out of the box. So did the touch-scrolling (up/down). So I'm looking for advise for the remaining 3 inputs supported. This mouse has a 'Windows key' button and supports left/right swipe gestures (targeted at the new Windows side-screen gestures). Firstly, regarding the gestures, here's what I obtain from xinput test. I've also listed which keys these correspond to. Left swipe:- key press 22 Backspace key press 133 Super_L (left Windows key) key press 37 Control_L key release 22 Backspace key release 133 Super_L (left Windows key) key release 37 Control_L Right swipe:- key press 54 c key press 133 Super_L (left Windows key) key release 54 c key release 133 Super_L (left Windows key) This seems to correspond to pressing 3/2 key combos and releasing them in the same order. This seems to cause problems with xbindkeys and sxhkd (the only two key-binding daemons I've used before) as using the Super-c combo expects the Windows key to be pressed first, followed by the c key being pressed and released. How can I bind gestures to the above? Is it possible, for example, to bind keys to a specific input device (so for example I can bind to the letter c but only from the mouse, not from my keyboard)? Or something involving xmodmap? Thanks for your advise/help.

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[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] package bup marked out-of-date for several months
by David Kaylor 30 Jun '15

30 Jun '15

bup 0.27 was released upstream several months ago, package has been marked out-of-date since then, could one of the maintainers update?

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[arch-general] Why couldn't pacman resolve the dependency?
by Ralf Mardorf 30 Jun '15

30 Jun '15

Hi, the problem could be solved by installing the problematic dependency first, but why couldn't pacman -Syu not resolve the dependency? This is what happened: $ pacman -Si perl-cpanplus perl-package-constants Repository : community Name : perl-cpanplus Version : 0.9152-2 Depends On : perl perl-log-message perl-archive-extract perl-term-ui perl-log-message-simple perl-module-pluggable perl-object-accessor perl-package-constants Optional Deps : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Repository : community Name : perl-package-constants Version : 0.06-1 Depends On : perl Optional Deps : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None $ date;sudo pacman -Syu Sun Jun 28 17:44:01 CEST 2015 :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date archaudio-production is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: ardour: ignoring package upgrade (4.0-2 => 4.1-1) warning: audacity: local (2.1.0-2) is newer than extra (2.1.0-1) warning: clthreads: local (2.4.0-5) is newer than community (2.4.0-1) warning: gvfs: local (2013.08.18-1) is newer than extra (1.24.1-2) warning: hunspell-en: ignoring package upgrade (7.1-3 => 2015.05.18-4) warning: libfishsound: local (1.0.0-2) is newer than community (1.0.0-1) warning: linux-rt: ignoring package upgrade (4.0.4_rt1-1 => 4.0.5_rt4-1) warning: linux-rt-docs: ignoring package upgrade (4.0.4_rt1-1 => 4.0.5_rt4-1) warning: linux-rt-headers: ignoring package upgrade (4.0.4_rt1-1 => 4.0.5_rt4-1) warning: linux-rt-lts: ignoring package upgrade (3.10.61_rt65-1 => 3.18.16_rt13-1) warning: linux-rt-lts-docs: ignoring package upgrade (3.10.61_rt65-1 => 3.18.16_rt13-1) warning: linux-rt-lts-headers: ignoring package upgrade (3.10.61_rt65-1 => 3.18.16_rt13-1) warning: ignoring package replacement (mate-calc-1.8.0-2 => galculator-gtk2-2.1.3-3) warning: meterbridge: local (0.9.2-5) is newer than community (0.9.2-1) warning: pulseaudio: local (2013.08.18-1) is newer than extra (6.0-2) warning: sylpheed: local (3.4.2-20141124) is newer than community (3.4.2-1) warning: virtualbox: ignoring package upgrade (4.3.12-1 => 4.3.28-1) warning: virtualbox-guest-iso: ignoring package upgrade (4.3.12-1 => 4.3.28-1) warning: virtualbox-host-dkms: ignoring package upgrade (4.3.12-1 => 4.3.28-1) warning: zita-alsa-pcmi: ignoring package upgrade (0.2.0-1 => 0.2.0-2) warning: zita-resampler: ignoring package upgrade (1.3.0-2 => 1.3.0-3) resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: perl-cpanplus: requires perl-package-constants $ sudo pacman -S perl-package-constants resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) perl-package-constants-0.06-1 Total Download Size: 0.00 MiB Total Installed Size: 0.00 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages ... perl-package-constants-0.06-1-any 4.7 KiB 1581K/s 00:00 [--------------------------------------] 100% (1/1) checking keys in keyring [--------------------------------------] 100% (1/1) checking package integrity [--------------------------------------] 100% (1/1) loading package files [--------------------------------------] 100% (1/1) checking for file conflicts [--------------------------------------] 100% (1/1) checking available disk space [--------------------------------------] 100% (1/1) installing perl-package-constants [--------------------------------------] 100% $ date;sudo pacman -Syu Sun Jun 28 17:47:47 CEST 2015 :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date archaudio-production is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... [...] Packages (60) [...] Total Download Size: 47.35 MiB Total Installed Size: 251.29 MiB Net Upgrade Size: -1.47 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Question on removing pacman keys (and adding new ones)
by Sebastian Pipping 25 Jun '15

25 Jun '15

Hi there! In relation to making virtual machine images of Arch I noticed that sharing images with pacman keys inside would enable two systems to present spoofed packages to the other unnoticed. True? It seems like a good idea to remove and re-add pacman keys specific to each system again, later. I wonder how to best remove the system-specific keys (not secure deletion, just not breaking the system) and how (more than when) to re-add new ones to the existing system to get it back to fully functional. Any ideas? Many thanks in advance, best, Sebastian

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[arch-general] Generating Arch OpenStack images
by Sebastian Pipping 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

Hi! TL;DR: Bullet-style summary at the end. I registered for a closed beta account at CloudScale [1] a few weeks ago and noticed that they offer a number of Linux flavors: Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, .. but no Arch Linux. They use OpenStack with the official OpenStack images [2] of Debian, Ubuntu and so on. It seems there are no official OpenStack images for Arch. There are the ec2 images of Uplinklabs [3] but that's all I find on the net. I have been working on a tool called image-bootstrap [4] for a while, originally aimed at creating virtual machine images for Debian and Ubuntu. Recently, I have added Arch Linux support to image-bootstrap (and created an Arch equivalent of Debian's debootstrap [5] called "directory-bootstrap" in the process, same code base). Since today, when passing the --openstack option to image-boostrap, it does create bootable Arch OpenStack images. But there is something missing. When giving birth to a new virtual machine, an OpenStack image file [6] of say 1 GiB size is copied onto a say 50 GiB "disk", some kind of block device passed to a hypervisor. The original image was generated believing that the given hard disk was say 2 GiB in size, some fixed size, not the size that OpenStack is actually launching virtual machines with. To give access to the full disk space to users, OpenStack images are prepared to do the following: 1. During early boot (initramfs time), the one and only partition is enlarged to the full size of the disk. 2. during normal boot, cloud-init is running resize2fs to enlarge the ext4 root file system to the new size of that partition. It's a little crazy, but it works: the user hardly notices. In Debian, apart from cloud-init that magic is done by packages cloud-utils and cloud-initramfs-growroot of cloud-initramfs-tools [7]. While Arch does have cloud-init, I find cloud-utils in AUR only and no cloud-initramfs-growroot at all. I am looking for Arch developers to bring these to the Arch master repository. There is yet something else: Trust. Anyone can make images and upload them but who is going to trust the image if it is not signed by a person that they trust? There is a group of five people in the Arch master signing keys [8]. One of them created, signed and uploaded the archlinux-bootstrap-*.tar.gz files that users rely on. My hope is that one of these five is willing to use image-bootstrap [4] to create, sign and upload OpenStack images as well. Let me summarize: * Arch OpenStack images are in reach * cloud-utils and cloud-initramfs-growroot need packaging for the Arch master repository. Can you take over? * image-bootstrap (and directory-bootstrap) [4] can be of help with bootstrapping Arch Linux today. * I am looking for master signing key members interested in using image-bootstrap for OpenStack image generation. Please get in touch. * I welcome your thoughts and bug reports (no pull requests before discussion at the moment, please) Thanks for your attention. Best, Sebastian [1] https://www.cloudscale.ch/ [2] http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ch_obtaining_images.html [3] https://www.uplinklabs.net/projects/arch-linux-on-ec2/ [4] https://github.com/hartwork/image-bootstrap [5] https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap [6] http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ch_openstack_images.html [7] https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/cloud-initramfs-tools [8] https://www.archlinux.org/master-keys/

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[arch-general] :D
by Ralf Mardorf 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

This adds Pacman to the progression thingy ([######################################]): $ cat /etc/pacman.conf [snip] # Misc options [snip] Color ILoveCandy [snip] Get insulted if you mistype: $ sudo cat /etc/sudoers [sudo] password for rocketmouse: You type like i drive. [sudo] password for rocketmouse: [snip] Defaults insults [snip]

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