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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead
by Genes Lists 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

On Sat, 2016-07-02 at 09:16 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > This sounds like the Fedora policy where packages have to surpass a > certain karma level to move into the main repositories. I'm not sure > who gets to vote for that though. > > A I would suggest allowing any Arch user vote yay or nay (with comments) - I believe this is what fedora did - only requirement was to be a registered user of the website. I don't imagine significantly more information will be obtained beyond the issues raised now in the mail list and forum. However, it does have the advantage of putting it in a single place for the packager. gene

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[arch-general] New TeXLive 2016 packages in [testing]
by Rémy Oudompheng 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

Hello, I have published new TeXLive packages for the 2016 release in [testing]. The structure of the packages has been left unchanged (e.g. no introduction of pacman hooks). Feel free to test them and notify me of any problem or weirdness. Cheers, Rémy.

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[arch-general] Discussion about optional dependencies from arch-dev-public
by Óscar García Amor 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hi. I write my two cents here cause I cannot post in arch-dev-public. The main problem of add "qt5-x11extras" as dependency is that it add a lot of more dependencies. Take note that virtualbox can run as server and, in this case, you not need to install the gui. You can run it in a machine without X. Maybe the solution is split it in two packages, virtualbox (for gui) an virtualbox-server. What you think? Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] [Classroom] Git for Gits
by fsckd 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hello, If you are interested in starting with Git, there will soon be a class for beginners called "Git for Gits", taught by polyzen and meskarune, on Saturday, 16th July, at 16:00 UTC. It will be held in the IRC channel #archlinux-classroom on the freenode network. The class will cover the basics of creating and using a Git repository. Git is used by many FOSS projects to manage code. It is used extensively in Arch Linux, such as on the AUR. You can also use it to track dotfiles, configuration, blog posts, college essays, and any textual data (and even non-textual). The class is also a workshop where you will get a chance to play around with a Git repository. Please visit the following web page to sign up. You will need to make an SSH key. Directions are on the page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Classroom/git_2016 polyzen is a lactose intolerant Linux Professional. He has been using Linux for about 5 years, and switched to Arch Linux over 3 years ago. meskarune is an artist, programmer, and sysadmin. She has contributed to FOSS for 16 years and been an Arch user for 9 years.

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[arch-general] Pacman doesn't optionally require fakeroot
by Bennett Piater 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hi, I have a quick question. Makepkg, which is provided by pacman, doesn't work without fakeroot. Is there a reason why pacman doesnt opdep on it? Cheers, Bennett -- GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808

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[arch-general] recent archlinux installation
by Jude DaShiell 17 Jul '16

17 Jul '16

I'm using lynx but am pretty sure this problem will happen no matter which browser I use. The browser when connecting to https::// type sites throws an ssl error because it can't get local issuer certificates. I have SSL_FILE in /etc/lynx.cfg pointed at /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certs.crt and I ran c_rehash on the system with no errors yet this situation continues. Is a package and/or configuration needed so these ssl errors may disappear? I had done archlinux installations earlier and never had this problem then. --

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[arch-general] texinfo, a dependency for libidn and libtasn1
by Damjan Georgievski 17 Jul '16

17 Jul '16

Do libidn and libtasn1 really require texinfo? makes texinfo uninstallable, but I don't need docs on this system. Does any of the "requiires" of texinfo[1] actualy require it? shouldn't it be an opt-depend? [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/texinfo/ -- damjan

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[arch-general] [Archboot] Custom created Archboot ISO won't boot on qemu OVMF EFI
by Alive 4ever 17 Jul '16

17 Jul '16

Greetings Archboot Developers! (@tpowa) I am experimenting with manual Arch Boot creation. I created both x86_64 and i686 chroot with only base and archboot installed. I configured my locale by commenting 'en_US-UTF-8' line on /etc/locale.conf and launched 'locale-gen' to generate locale. Then I launched 'archboot-allinone.sh -t' on both chroot, which tooks a very long time. I moved the 'core-i686.tar' to x86_64 systemd-nspawn chroot. After that, I launched 'archboot-allinone.sh -g' which generates the images. I have successfully built the iso files, here are files generated from the build [code] # cd /var/local/x86_64_archboot/root # ls Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-dual.iso Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-x86_64-network.iso Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-dual-network.iso Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-x86_64-uefi.iso Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-dual-uefi-network.iso Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-x86_64-uefi-network.iso Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-i686.iso core-i686.tar Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-i686-network.iso core-x86_64.tar Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-x86_64.iso sha256sums.txt [/code] The non-uefi files boot fine with qemu-system-x86_64 bios mode (default mode). When I try to boot one of uefi iso, for example 'Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-x86_64-uefi-network.iso', using qemu-system-x86_64 with ovmf uefi firmware (-bios /usr/share/ovmf/ovmf_x86_64.bin), the qemu just refuses to boot. Launching EFI boot file directly on FS0:\EFI\grub\grubx64.efi comes up with 'error: unknown filesystem' and throws a rescue shell. 'lsmod' commands which should output all loaded modules throws 'unknown command'. I think grubx64.efi should be packed as standalone EFI image which contains all modules and grub.cfg loaded directly from memory. Launching EFI boot file FS0:\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI throws 'Unsupported' error. Launching kernel directly from EFI shell is also unsupported. The default Arch Linux kernel as far as I know can be launched from EFI shell. Maybe this is because Archboot uses a non uefi stub kernel? Launching FS0:\EFI\BOOT\loader.efi just throw a menu 'EFI Default Loader' and 'Reboot Into Firmware Interface'. This bootloader is similar to systemd-boot loader, but it's not able to find the other boot entries because there is no files on FS0:\loader\entries. I did not make any modification to the archboot profiles. Is manual workaround needed to enable EFI booting on Archboot? Is it just bug on archboot-uefi-cd.sh script? Note: The system I used to create archboot image boots from legacy bios mode. Thanks.

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[arch-general] chromeos chroagh buildinfo failure
by message 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

Readers, A bug using chroagh has been posted. Is there another way to use arch via chroot in a chromebook, ideally to replace the ubuntu installation? (https://github.com/drinkcat/chroagh/issues/121) chronos@localhost ~/Downloads/drinkcat-chroagh-18cc180 $ sudo sh -e installer/main.sh -r arch -t xfce WARNING: Your rootfs is writable. Signed boot verification cannot be enabled. If this is a surprise to you, you should do a full system recovery via USB. Installing arch-x86_64 chroot to /usr/local/chroots/arch Fetching repository packages list... Fetching core... ######################################################################## 100.0% Fetching community... ######################################################################## 100.0% Fetching extra... ######################################################################## 100.0% Downloading and extracting packages... Downloading and installing bash... ######################################################################## 100.0% tar: bash-4.3.046-1/depends: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors tar: bash-4.3.046-1/depends: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Downloading and installing gawk... ######################################################################## 100.0% Downloading and installing grep... ######################################################################## 100.0% tar: .BUILDINFO: Cannot open: File exists tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

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[arch-general] mandb errors bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request??
by David C. Rankin 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

All, I have noticed the mandb becoming corrupt several times over the past month. It usually straightens itself out, but this is the 3rd time I've encountered this problem in the past 60 days or so. The symptoms are man being unable to find installed pages, e.g. $ apropos ssh ssh: nothing appropriate. $ man mandb mandb: nothing appropriate. $ find /usr/share/man/ -type f -name "mandb*" /usr/share/man/it/man8/mandb.8.gz /usr/share/man/es/man8/mandb.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mandb.8.gz $ man 8 mandb (works fine) # mandb -t mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/pcredemo.3.gz: whatis parse for pcredemo(3) failed <snip> mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/wayland-util.c.3: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/wl_abort.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/wayland-server.h.3: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/wl_client_add_resource.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request <snip several hundred more> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/saslauthd.8.gz: whatis parse for saslauthd(8) failed mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/index.db: No such file or directory mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/ru.KOI8-R/index.db: No such file or directory mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/id/index.db: No such file or directory mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/de/index.db: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/jp/man1/cd-paranoia.1.gz: whatis parse for cd-paranoia(1) failed mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/jp/index.db: No such file or directory <snip ~30 more> Any idea what is causing the corruption? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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