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[arch-general] Strange stuff in kernel26-2.6.24-2
by Karolina Lindqvist 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

There is some strange stuff going on in the newest kernel. i.e. it did not work, so I had to go back to the previous one. First it booted, but then console escape characters (colour) did not work, and sound with snd_via82xx did not either. Then when I rebooted, it crashes every time in the udev/usb code. I have AMD i686 with VIA chipset. I see that it is in testing, so maybe it should remain there.

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[arch-general] Searching reference server for mirror checking
by Gerhard Brauer 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hello, i'm working on a script to check the sync status of the mirrors. Actually i use ftp.archlinux.org as a reference but Pierre Schmitz point to me that this is also only a mirror which must not be in sync. So is there a server (ftp or http) from where i could get the mtime, size and the repository db file as a reference? Pierre told me that he could run this script on his server, but for testing and bugfixing ;-) i need a reliable source. At the moment it seems i got too many false positives... Gerhard -- Never use a running system...

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[arch-general] Appletouch/Synaptics on MacBook 3,1
by CiM-9 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Hy there. I'm using since a few days Arch Linux on my MacBook 3.1. I'd like to use the advanced features of the Synaptics-XOrg-Driver, but I can't. Reason: appletouch identification changed from MacBook 3 to MacBook 3.1. The gentoo-wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/Macbook#Touchpad) provides a patch to fix this issue, but I just don't know how to apply this. I'd be realy glad about some help. Regards, Chris

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[arch-general] Who is confused, pacman or me?
by Neil Darlow 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

Hi, I did a pacman -Syu this morning and it warned me that: local etracer-0.35-6 is newer than etracer-0.4-1 I'm not sure how that came about. Is this a pacman or pkgbuild problem? My system is i686. Regards, Neil Darlow

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[arch-general] ghc x86_64 missing OpenGL?
by sam lee 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hi. >From the web page of ghc package, http://archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=ghc, it does include OpenGL bindings. However, on x86_64, ghc has different maintainer and it seems to use different PKGBUILD. Is this intentional? Any plans for including all of extralibs (which includes OpenGL bindings) into ghc package for x86_64 ? Or, make ghc-extralibs as a separate package? Thank you. Sam Lee.

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[arch-general] Repo Filename Search?
by Kevin Monceaux 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Arch Enthusiasts, Does Arch Linux have a utility to search for packages that provide a particular file? I came across qfile via the wiki and tried it but can't seem to get it to work. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!

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[arch-general] makepkg not stripping bin/libs
by Mark Constable 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

makegpkg 3.1.1 line ~752 has this... find {,usr/{,local/},opt/}{bin,lib,sbin} -type f and I can't see how that will ever work, and it doesn't for me, however this does work (for me)... find -regex ".+/bin/.+" -o -regex ".+/lib/.+" -o -regex ".+/sbin/.+" -type f I recently rebuilt kdemod4 and it ended up being 1.9Gb whereas it should have been around >400Mb. --markc

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[arch-general] Pacman-3.1.1-1 not reading 'provides' field
by Ravi Desai 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Hey, I'm using pacman-3.1.1-1 from testing, and have installed kdemod-4.0. I'm not able to install lyx since lyx requires qt and asks for qtmod to be removed. However, 'pacman -Qi qtmod' has the following --- Provides : qt 4.3.3 --- How do I solve this problem? Is it a bug? Should I file a bug report? I looked at bugs.archlinux.org, but couldn't find anything similar. Thanks, Ravster

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Updating 'man'
by Grigorios Bouzakis 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:19:19AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > LESSCHARSET > > But that only affects less, and not man pages. It's a fine line, but I > know at least a few people that don't use less as their MANPAGER Those people should. If color is the reason for using most, see http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/572-less-colors-for-man-pages.html I have added that to the Wiki too: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Post_Installation_Tips#Getting_a_colore… Less is much more powerful than most. Greg

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[arch-general] Does pacman support "noarch" now?
by 甘露 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

All fonts do not need a "i686" or "x86_64" option but in my memory pacman doesn't support noarch, which makes PKGBUILDs for fonts unable to compile without a unnecessary line. Thanks.

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[arch-general] makepkg running as root
by richard terry 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Sometimes I build packages from AUR, and (obviously wrongly), do this as root. Today I got this message: ==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is a BAD idea and can cause permanent, catastrophic damage to your system. If you wish to run as root, please use the --asroot option. Can someone explain. Richard

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[arch-general] makepkg running as root
by richard terry 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:42:10 pm you wrote: > On Jan 21, 2008 9:33 PM, richard terry <rterry(a)gnumed.net> wrote: > > Sometimes I build packages from AUR, and (obviously wrongly), do this as > > root. > > > > Today I got this message: > > > > ==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is a BAD idea and can cause > > permanent, catastrophic damage to your system. If you > > wish to run as root, please use the --asroot option. > > > > Can someone explain. > > What's to explain that that message didn't already explain? Just what it could do to your system. See the attatched PKGBUILD (which I adapted from an old one in AuR) I tried to compile it as myself, and it crashed at the end of the build, (sorry didn't keep messages), saying something about not being able to write to some directory or other (ok, so I'm not a geek!!!). When I re-built it as root it worked fine. BTW, could you/someone checkout this PKGBUILD file and tell me what's wrong with the way I've adapted it (I'm assuming its not correct, though it works as I did it with no understanding of what I'm doing. Thanks. Richard

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[arch-general] Qt3 path setting, is it right?
by Neil Darlow 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Hi, I've been building bouml (from AUR) successfully until Qt4 arrived. Examining the build failure it appears that although QTDIR is correctly set for Qt3, the placement of QTDIR/bin at the end of PATH in qt3.sh results in Qt4's qmake taking precedence over that of Qt3. For bouml's build mechanism (no ./configure involved) this leads to qmake-generated files containing resource paths of Qt4. I've managed to get the build to work by placing QTDIR/bin at the head of PATH, using a sed command, but it's seems hackish to me. Is the sourcing of qt3.sh from /etc/profile.d a sensible idea? Would it be better provided as part of the qt3 package and sourced into the PKGBUILD's environment directly? And, surely, placing QTDIR/bin at the end of PATH is not a good idea? Regards, Neil Darlow

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[arch-general] KDE4 Anyone?
by Rodrigo Coacci 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

So have anyone got up and running with KDE4 on Arch? I know about kdemod testing, but they miss some dependencies (tapioca-qt, strigi...), so to do those by hand i'd prefer to do all myself :-P Also, any ideas on when we'll get KDE4 on extra or even testing? -- Cheers Rodrigo A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows. ~Linus Torvalds

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[arch-general] question about vlc package
by François Charette 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Today I needed to look at a video stream (with firefox) that required the vlc mozilla plugin. So I installed the vlc package but was surprised that it does not provide the plugin. The latter is in AUR/unsupported (as vlc-plugin) and requires building the whole beast just to have that one little .so file. Being a TU I could move vlc-plugin to community, but I first wanted to ask whether there is any compelling reason for not providing it with the vlc package in the first place? Thanks, F

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[arch-general] Subversion error?
by Loui 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hello! I don't know if this should go in flyspray because I'm using testing pkgs and such so I'll just write here. I think subversion needs to be rebuilt to link to the new Perl. I get an error when using git-svn /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/SVN/_Core/_Core.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr I built 1.4.6 it myself and it got past that error but I hit another one: Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme for 'http://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brlcad/brlcad' at /usr/bin/git-svn line 1043 I also removed subversion-neon.patch because a hunk failed... maybe it was needed? I don't know. I admit I don't really know what's going on. Can someone smarter than me help me out? Thanks!

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[arch-general] arch32 -> arch64 migration without reinstalling
by bardo 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Since I've already got a 32bit laptop, I was thinking of migrating my Core 2 Duo to arch64 (as a TU it would be really helpful for building new packages and helping the other packagers). Now, this desktop is my main system, so I'm not really happy with the idea of reinstalling and reconfiguring everything (given that, at this time, I have more than 1700 installed packages). So here's the idea: is it crazy to dump the package list, boot from a cd, change my mirrors in x86_64, change pacman's installation root to my mounted disks, reinstall the world and then check for *.pac*? Is there any risk I can't see in doing this? Thanks, Corrado

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[arch-general] FreeNX issues
by Sergey Manucharian 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi, Yesterday I've installed FeeNX for the first time. First of all I've found that "nxloadconfig" sets in LD_PRELOAD a path to libXrender.so.1.2, but the actual library is libXrender.so.1.2.2 and there is no corresponding link. Ok, this issue is fixed simply (but it's a bug, right?). Now when I run nxclient and get the remote desktop (xfce), I cannot run some programs, e.g. mc, mplayer - they just crash with segfault. Could somebody give me the direction to fix it? Any ideas? Thanks. Cheers, Sergey

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Arch Schwag
by Jaroslaw Swierczynski 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

They do ship to Europe but I'm not satisfied with their product quality. I bought a mug and a baseball jersey. While the mug is great, the printings on the jersey are poor and I would expect more from the material. -- Jaroslaw Swierczynski <swiergot(a)gmail.com> www.archlinux.org | www.juvepoland.com

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[arch-general] [translation] String freeze for pacman 3.1.1 release
by Dan McGee 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

We've weeded out a handful of bugs and issues since 3.1.0, so it is time to call for a string freeze for 3.1.1. I've CC-ed this to the Arch General list to see if we can get a helping hand with some of our currently neglected translations. As this list may not be quite as familiar with how everything works, PLEASE reply to the list or privately to me if you have questions or want to help out but are not sure how. Our pacman translation policy is outlined here. The important sections for translators are the introduction and up to (and including) pre-release updates. http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/translation-help.html As stated in the above document, PO files have been made available to translate: http://code.toofishes.net/pacman/po_files/ I would like to get the release out within the next 7 days, so the sooner the better for the translations. Languages we currently have: cs_CZ: Handled by Vojtěch Gondžala <vogo(a)seznam.cz> de: handled by Matthias Gorissen <matthias(a)archlinux.de> en_GB: Handled by Jeff Bailes <thepizzaking(a)gmail.com> es: status unknown, no current translator fr: Handled by Chantry Xavier <shiningxc(a)gmail.com> hu: Handled by Nagy Gabor <ngaba(a)bibl.u-szeged.hu> it: Handled by Giovanni Scafora <linuxmania(a)gmail.com> pl_PL: Work in progress by Mateusz Jedrasik <m.jedrasik(a)gmail.com> pt_BR: status unknown, no current translator ru_RU: status unknown, no current translator If you wish to help translate, but your language is already listed as handled by someone, please contact them at the above addresses. If the language is listed as "no current translator", then please reply to ALL on this message stating you are doing the translation so we do not have duplicated effort (although you are more than welcome to work in teams). Once you have updated or completed a translation, simply tar and gzip the files up and send them back to pacman-dev(a)archlinux.org with a [translation] prefix in the message. For those that are used to the old method of updating translations (GIT patches), those are still acceptable as well. Please prefix the patch with "translation:" so it can be picked out easily. HOWEVER, if at all possible, please do not needlessly update the line numbers in the code! It makes it much easier to see which translations have been changed and updated if line number changes are not 90% of the patch. The "translations" branch is located in my GIT repo; one of the following things will probably be of help. http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=shortlog;h=translations git remote add dan http://code.toofishes.net/gitprojects/pacman.git git checkout -b translations dan/translations -Dan

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[arch-general] New web page
by Carl Mueller 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

The new web page looks great! Congratulations to all involved. Carl Mueller

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[arch-general] Weird makepkg problem
by David Rosenstrauch 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi. I'm the maintainer for the todotxt package in the AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=7673) While I was trying to update the PKGBUILD today, something really peculiar happened. The todotxt source gets downloaded in a zip file format. But instead of unzipping the zip file to the src directory, for some reason makepkg is *copying* the zip to the src directory. Consequently, the PKGBUILD can't find the files it needs and fails. Anybody know what caused this (it wasn't always this way, as I've been maintaining this package for over a year now) and how to fix it? TIA, DR

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[arch-general] libdts + fglrx questions
by richard terry 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Every time I upgrade I get: ?replace libdts with libdca, and replace fglrx with catalyst. What's the difference, is it safe to say yes (especially to the video driver)? Thanks

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[arch-general] Problem with latest KDE update in testing
by Karolina Lindqvist 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Am I the only one who got problems after the latest KDE update (from testing)? I got crashes in nspluginviewer all the time. I solved it by building a new version of kdelibs/kdebase from CVS, which appears to have some bug-fixes. Karolina

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[arch-general] Comment box in flag package Out-of-date
by Karolina Lindqvist 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Is it possible to make the box for comment, in the flag package out-of-date, a little bit bigger? As it is now, it is hard to see what you write, if you want to explain your findings.

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