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[arch-general] Why did kernel packaging become slow?
by Abderrahman Najjar 08 May '16

08 May '16

The kernel package (linux) is constantly out of date, both in Testing & Core. Whenever a version is pushed in kernel.org, the previous stable will be still in testing. And then the (old) stable version gets pushed to core, and the next one in testing will be already old (because it's the latest stable). Such as the case right now (Core=4.5.1, testing=4.5.2. Stable on kernel.org=4.5.3) Is there a reason for such delay?

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[arch-general] x220 external mic
by Carsten Mattner 07 May '16

07 May '16

This is a question for those who have or still are using a Thinkpad x220. I've been trying to get an external 3.5mm headphone+mic combo to work in a way that the mic is picked up, but so far nothing fixed it and I cannot find anything relevant on the internet. I've tried enable/disabling the mic i/o port in BIOS, but I'm fairly certain that the setting is just for the built-in mic under the monitor and not anything connected via the a combo inline external device. Any hints what I can try? I've tried with ALSA and ALSA plus PulseAudio and never been able to see any device that would pick up sound.

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[arch-general] Xfce4 cut and paste problems
by pete nikolic 07 May '16

07 May '16

Evening all . Long time no post (long time no linux ) having had some health problems i am now getting back into sorting this machine out (it went bang some time ago and has been completely rebuilt Installed my favorite distro Arch Linux but found i could not get on with the new incarnation of KDE plasma 5 so installed Xfce4 which is fine quick apart from the cut & paste issues i have tried everything i have read on the Wiki and anything else i can find to no effect can someone please give me a few pointers to fix this one issue that is a big problem for me Thanks in advance a now somewhat healthier Pete .

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[arch-general] truecrypt 1:7.1a-3 is broken now for five month
by Wulf Richartz 07 May '16

07 May '16

Hello devs and list, truecrypt 1:7.1a-3 is broken now for five month since the gcc ABI change and recompilation of truecrypt. Corresponding bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47325 It would be fine, if there will be a "solution" for this package in the repository Extra, maybe going back to 1:7.1a-2? regards Wulf

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[arch-general] Why isn't RetroArch in the Arch repos?
by Diego Viola 03 May '16

03 May '16

Any reasons?

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[arch-general] Pacpartial: some support for partial upgrades
by Tom M 02 May '16

02 May '16

Hi list, For a while I have been working on and testing pacpartial, a small program of my own creation which aims to allow some degree of partial upgrades on Arch. It attempts to find and update a "stale" tree of packages related to a given one, to minimise breaks. Currently it is a massive hack (Python calling pacman & pactree) but it works well from my usage. I would love to use libalpm but cannot find documentation! :) Any tests, thoughts and comments are appreciated. https://github.com/tmewett/pacpartial Thanks, Tom M

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[arch-general] Announcing [atom] repository
by Nicola Squartini 02 May '16

02 May '16

Users of GitHub's Atom editor might be interested in adding my unofficial [atom] repository to their pacman.conf: https://github.com/tensor5/arch-atom https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#atom It consists of three packages: atom, electron and apm. It's been available for several months now, it's used by many people, and I consider it stable. Packages follow Arch's guidelines and have no namcap errors. The main feature is that is entirely compiled from source, while the other atom packages in AUR, although they don't explicitly include the suffix "-bin", download a pre-compiled distribution of Electron, which is the heart of Atom. The other feature, which sets it apart from upstream and AUR, is that Atom is split from, and requires Electron. This allows to reuse Electron separately as foundation for other desktop applications. I would be happy if Atom gets promoted to [community] in the future, and if it does I volunteer for maintaining it. Enjoy.

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[arch-general] Win10 Upgrade makes ArchLinux inaccessible?
by Zachary Kline 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

Hi All, So my laptop upgraded to the latest version of Windows 10 recently, and this seems to have undone the hack of replacing the default bootx64.efi file. That is, the file is still SystemD’s boot loader, but somehow I’m back to only being able to boot Windows reliably. Has anyone else seen this particular frustration with an upgrade? I note that my laptop came with Windows 10, so this was just an incremental update as far as I now. Thanks for any ideas. This is kind of maddening. Best, Zack.

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[arch-general] [Berlin]ArchLinux User Group - May
by Akendo 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Hello everyone, I'm happy to announce[0] the next archlinux user group berlin meeting on May the 4th in the c-base[1]. We'll start around 20:00. This time we'll have two presentations: - "Archlinux package creation and AUR upload"Archlinux package creation and AUR upload" from XenGi - "Lightweight pro-audio setup using Arch Linux" from Dave Feel free to subscribe[2] to our mailing list or send us a message on twitter[3]. [0]https://archlinux.berlin/announcement-next-user-group-meeting-may/ [1]http://www.meetup.com/de-DE/archlinux-usergroup-berlin/events/230551623/ [2]https://mail.akendo.eu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/archlinux-berlin [3]https://twitter.com/ArchlinuxBerlin

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[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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