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

[arch-general] "date" C++ library packaging
by Brett Cornwall 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Waybar [1] just had an update where it pulled in a project called "date" [2]. I'm hesitant to package this under the name "date" since GNU coreutils shares a binary with that name. But this isn't a totally obscure library. Should I persuade upstream to change the name? Should I package it under another name? Or should I lay claim to the unused "date" package name and go on with my life? [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/waybar/ [2] https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date

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[arch-general] Status of WPA3
by Bjoern Franke 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Hi, recently AVM provided a beta-Firmware for Fritzboxes which support WPA3. Unfortunately, our wpa_supplicant seems not be capable of WPA3: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57413 When setting explicitly WPA3 in NetworkManager, my laptop is unable to connect to my WPA2/WPA3-wifi. I assume it is caused by the missing SAE support, or do I miss something? The assumption is caused by https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/issues/9 Best Regards Bjoern

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[arch-general] Pacman update: new package breaks many dependencies, how to cope
by Jeanette C. 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

Hey hey, I just tried to update my system. Admittedly, I probably left it a little too long. Now xorgproto apparently breas a lot of dependencies. This includes dmxproto and xproto, which in turn are required by other packages like libgmx or libxfont. It there an "automated" method of dealing with this kind of dependency breakage? I dare not try this by hand. I don't know how many other packages would be affected by this. Best wishes and many thanks, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c ... About some useless information, Supposed to fire my imagination <3 (Britney Spears)

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Re: [arch-general] omega won't build
by Jude DaShiell 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

Correction, it was the ncurses-5-compat package with the missing gpg key not ncurses-6. I found that out by ignoring all gpg checks and the other thing with pikaur is it didn't keep the gpg key that was unknown on the screen long enough for me to check with gpg2 and possibly import it. --

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[arch-general] omega won't build
by Jude DaShiell 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

the reason omega won't build will effect every package that has ncurses 6 as a dependency since the ncurses 6 public gpg key is unknown. I could ignore the key for now, but this isn't the best security practice on my part so I aborted the build for now. --

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