November 2020 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] ibus has been out-of-date for over a month
by Alex Henrie 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Dear Arch maintainers, ibus 1.5.23 was released at the end of last month,[1] but Arch is still on 1.5.22.[2] Could you please update the package? The new version supports compose rules that output multiple codepoints,[3] which I need to type certain Greek characters such as "ᾱ̈́". -Alex [1] https://github.com/ibus/ibus/releases [2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ibus/ [3] https://github.com/ibus/ibus/commit/b59f7f823b7b2051e4ca31834f9299a72f01b339

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[arch-general] "npm" package issues
by Greg Minshall 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

hi. [hope all are well, etc.] i use the npm package (for managing javascript packages). today i tried "pacman -Syu", and i got a number of errors about files under /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules that "exists in filesystem": ---- (182/182) checking for file conflicts error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) npm: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/meant/.github/workflows/ci.yml exists in filesystem npm: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/minimist/.travis.yml exists in filesystem ... (about minimist) ---- these are files that are not owned by the npm package. the relevant find command : find /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/ -exec pacman -Qo {} \; | : grep -v 'is owned by npm 6.14.8-1' shows two files in some sort of ./.bin/ directory ---- error: No package owns /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp error: No package owns /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/semver ---- and then a number in a small number of npm packages, namely in - meant (the .github subdirectory) - minimist (the whole directory, i think) - node-gyp (the whole directory) - semver (the whole directory) that are also in the "No package owns" state. note that [pacman -Syu] only complains about meant and minimist, not node-gyp or semver. first off, i wonder if anyone has ideas of how i ended up in this situation? i know that occasionally npm will exclaim, with enthusiasm, that a new, updated version, is available, and offer me a chance to update it. normally i don't run as root. but, if i had, in the past, sudo'd npm, and let it update itself, might *that* have produced this? then, second, i'm ignorant enough to not be sure what to do and am looking for advice. i can do [pacman --overwrite]. i could, i suppose (at what consequence?:) [pacman -R npm], then re-install. (though i assume i'd have the same problem, as pacman would presumably leave untouched the files not owned by npm.) i could just delete the offending files pacman complains about (meant/.github/..., and minimist/...). okay, thanks in advance for any thoughts. cheers, Greg

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[arch-general] USB flash installation medium in BIOS machines
by Juergen Werner 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Hi, I started working on my old Laptop again, which is a pre-EFI model and needed a live USB medium to do some repartitioning. I copied the current installation ISO to a USB flash. When I try to boot with it, I see the boot menu (which looks like systemd-boot menu) with only options for UEFI boot and EFI shell option. In the wiki it is mentioned, that BIOS boots are available throug syslinux: > Tip: The installation image uses systemd-boot for booting in UEFI mode and syslinux for booting in BIOS mode. [...] I tried 2 different USB drives and different USB ports. Am I missing something? Cheers, jotz

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[arch-general] Fail2Ban is not adding iptables rules
by Maykel Franco 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Hi, I have this script for iptables for my archlinux desktop: https://pastebin.com/SafhsKFt And when received external request access SSH error, fail2ban add rule but the rule not working. I think it has to do with the iptables script, but the fail2ban blocking rules add fine but don't ban. That could be happening?

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[arch-general] Arch Linux Support for Station P1, Station M1?
by Morne Ross 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Hi Firefly is looking for some developers to add Linux OS support for their devices and can give some free samples. They have the Station P1 RK3399 and Station M1 RK3328 and plan to also release a RK3568 device in a couple of weeks. http://stationpc.com/portal.php?mod=topic&topicid=2 http://stationpc.com/portal.php?mod=topic&topicid=7 Will it be possible for someone to build Arch Linux for it perhaps? The source code is also available for the devices and they already have Linux booting with 5.9 kernels. For further cooperation or help you can contact T-Chip, manufacturer of the Firefly devices. sgs(a)t-chip.com.cn You can send me the contact and shipping details then I can forward it to them for where the samples can be shipped too. If more than one person needs samples than I can also ask them. Regards Morne

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[arch-general] Makepkg: Incremental builds
by LuKaRo 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

Hi everyone, I'm currently building ungoogled-chromium from AUR, which is running for 6 hrs now on my 6-core i7-9750H laptop and almost done. However, I'm thinking about what happens when the next version will be released. From my understanding, when running git pull to fetch the latest version from AUR and afterwards makepkg -sri, the old binaries will be deleted prior to starting the build, which will probably require to build everything from scratch. Am I right? However, I'm sure that only parts of the source change between versions. Therefore, only parts of the binary files would need to be built again, which would dramatically decrease build time. Correct? How can I make use of incremental builds using makepkg? I'm aware of the -e switch, but that would skip the prepare function, which might be required as e.g. new patch files from AUR would need to be applied. Furthermore, the timestamps of the source files all seem to be set to the archival date. This would probably also require a full build, even if only parts of the source changed. Correct? If yes, is there a way to fix that? Having to spend 6-7 hrs of build time on each new release would make frequent updating impractical. Thanks in advance! LuKaRo

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[arch-general] suspend to RAM with home on NFS
by hw 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

Hi, how do you get suspend to RAM to work with home directories on NFS? Since I have /home mounted over NFS, suspending just freezes and I can only hold down the power button to turn the computer off.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] archlinux/base docker image will no longer be updated
by Óscar García Amor 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

I take this opportunity to comment that I maintain a clean Arch Linux image[1] (base and base-devel) builded[2] 1 and 15 of every month. It has some ideas of several repos (including the Official) to make it standard and tiny. Is published in GitHub[3] and any comment is welcomed. Greetings. [1]: https://hub.docker.com/r/ogarcia/archlinux [2]: https://circleci.com/gh/ogarcia/docker-archlinux [3]: https://github.com/ogarcia/docker-archlinux El dom., 1 nov. 2020 a las 8:34, Pierre Schmitz (<pierre(a)archlinux.de>) escribió: > > Hi all, > > as the archlinux/base image has been replaced by > https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/archlinux/archlinux I'll no > longer manually build this image alongside the ISO image release. I > guess it would be best to remove the repository so people will not > silently keep using an outdated image. > > Greetings, > > Pierre -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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