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[arch-general] Revisit official SELinux support
by Karol Babioch 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Hi, I'm wondering whether there was ever an actual discussion regarding the SELinux support within Arch. I could only find a bug report from September 2012 (see [1]), which was closed by Dave Reisner with kind of a lame comment: "A million times no.". After having dealt with SELinux on a couple of occasions I think that it is real security enhancement worth the initial hassle of setting it up properly (at least in a server environment). Looking into the support for SELinux in Arch I think it is way too messy to be actually used in practice (see [2]). I wouldn't go so far to suggest to enable SELinux by default as proposed in the bug report mentioned above, but I think it would actually make sense to support it - more or less - officially. I'm thinking about a model similar to the one implemented by Debian (see [3]). It basically comes down to installing some default policies and enabling SELinux by running a script. This would, however, require at least the stock kernel to have support for SELinux built-in by default. Are there any technical reasons for this not being the case already? I don't want this to become a discussion about the pros and cons of SELinux (on a desktop system) in general. I'm just wondering whether it would be feasible to implement "official" support for SELinux within Arch. So, if possible, please keep it technical. Best regards, Karol Babioch [1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31448 [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SELinux [3]: https://wiki.debian.org/SELinux/Setup

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[arch-general] mplayer2 deprecation
by kendell clark 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

hi all Since mplayer2 has been deprecated and moved to the aur, i've been trying to find another console video player that will play videos in full screen. I've tried mplayer and mpv, neither of which seem tow work. Browsing the arch wiki, I see I need kms enabled, so have set radeon.modeset=1 in my grub config file, and added radeon to the modules section of mkinitcpio.conf. After this, videos play, but only after adding fbdev2 to mplayer's config file, and only in a small box on screen, it won't stretch. Can anyone help me find a video player that will work? I have vlc for x, but I don't launch x that often. For now, I've used downgrade to install mplayer2 and it's old version of libquvi. I'll attach my .mplayer/config file for reference. Please note that when I'm using mplayer2, I don't select a video driver, mplayer picks the one that works, so I'm not at all sure which one ut's using. My system has an ati radeon hd4200 graphics card with the xf86-vide-ati package for x. I have no special configuration in x, I simply installed x, xfce, and x vlc, and the videos played. I hope this helps. Thanks Kendell clark

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[arch-general] Wacom CTL480S support
by J. ~marahin M. 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Heyah. I've got an simple question: how does Arch stand with the support for Wacom graphic tablets? Especially the CTL480S version. As I lurked through the forums, it might not be supported in the Kernel yet (~ src: linuxwacom), but they also said that it should've been granted support in mid-october. So my question is - how does it really look right now (and does anyone have *any* experience with that particular model)? My first mail to the list also. ;-) Have a nice day! -- *Humanitee.pl - Hosting dla Ciebie!* <http://humanitee.pl/> Marahin ~ Homespace <http://marahin.pl/> Projectspace (3lab) <http://3lab.re/> Twitter <http://twitter.com/3labMarahin>

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[arch-general] fsck.f2fs and systemd
by Simon Perry 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

Hey all, I've been experimenting with f2fs, and see that the latest version of f2fs-tools now includes an actual fsck tool (not an exit 0 bash script). See below for the output I get from systemd when it tries to run fsck.f2fs on the root filesystem. Anyway, my questions are: - Is there any way to override how systemd does its fsck? I've tried poking around and overriding systemd-fsck-root.service and systemd-fsck@.service to no avail. Any advice on this? - Should systemd always expect an fsck tool to accept that the "-a" arg works, therefore an issue for f2fs-tools upstream, or should systemd be aware of this (therefore an upstream issue for systemd). Any hints / advice appreciated. Cheers. systemd-fsck[198]: fsck.f2fs: invalid option -- 'a' systemd-fsck[198]: Error: Unknown option ? systemd-fsck[198]: Usage: fsck.f2fs [options] device systemd-fsck[198]: [options]: systemd-fsck[198]: -d debug level [default:0] -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

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[arch-general] Revisit official SELinux support
by Pablo Lezaeta Reyes 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

I noticed that you guys are discusing about SeLinux, so I find a link, maybe can by helpful in a minimal way or in the way [1] http://www.jamesthebard.net/site/archlinux-selinux-and-you-a-trip-down-the-… -- *Pablo Lezaeta*.

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[arch-general] OBS or other package build server?
by Magnus Therning 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

I've once again lost access to the server I use to build [haskell-core], this time it's entirely my own doing :( So I'm once again looking around to see if there are any generally available build servers, but the only one I find is OBS[1] (in particular OpenSUSE's server[2]). Does anyone on the list have experience of using OBS for building packages for Arch Linux? Would OBS scale to building and maintaining about 200 Arch Linux packages? Are there any other options out there? /M [1]: http://openbuildservice.org/ [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_Service -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Don't worry about other people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken, IBM Engineer

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[arch-general] Static libs
by Carsten Mattner 29 Oct '13

29 Oct '13

Is there still a way to statically link libraries where the recent change to remove the .a files has been completed?

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[arch-general] Replacing journal completely with syslog-ng
by Dimitris Zervas 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

I have to say that I really hate journalctl. But apart from that, I need syslog. Journalctl requires too much resources (I have a 512MB KVM) and some times it kicks the server out of memory. Also, there is nearly no way to parse its logs with any log analyzers, you have to do it the hackish way with "journalctl -o export" which is very heavyweight and requires a whole shell process to do so. I just want to completely disable journalctl and use syslog-ng like the good old days. Any help on how to do that? I did my h/w (googled it) but I got no helpful results... Any help appreciated! :)

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[arch-general] Abiword package
by Giovanni Scafora 27 Oct '13

27 Oct '13

Hi there, I am no longer interested in maintaining the abiword package. Is there anyone who wants to keep it?

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[arch-general] A little script to deploy dot files
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 26 Oct '13

26 Oct '13

[Inspired by tomd123@bbs.archlinux.org](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134622), I have wrote a small script to deploy the dotfiles acrossing viarous hosts, may be you guys are interested to have a look. Github: https://github.com/techlivezheng/dotploy Thoughts and advices are very welcome, cause my bash skills are still need much improving, there must be some ugly workaround. Regards, Techlive Zheng

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