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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Git for the repos
by Lukas Fleischer 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:35:47AM -0300, Ángel Velásquez wrote: > 2011/8/24 Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)xinu.at>: > > So it came up in IRC again and I'll try to sum up the discussion: > > > > SVN checkouts tend to break, some people only use it for our repos and > > not anywhere else, it's slow. > > > > We agreed on one git repo per package because you can't do partial > > checkouts in git and you hardly need the history of all packages anyway. > > > > To keep track of released packages, dbscripts maintains it's own (git?) > > meta database which contains only the package version and pacman repo of > > the package. The version corresponds to a tag in the package's git repo. > > > > We can't use tags like "testing-i686" because you can't reuse tags in git. > > > > I'd like to hear some comments about this. > > > > -- > > Florian Pritz > > > > > > First I need to ask some questions (understant that I don't get why is > this getting proposed) > > Well, why are us needing of git? what goal we want to achieve? .. > > Devtools have some complications (X number of commits for package i.e) > but, this will change with git? how? .. it will git increase the speed > or the workflow of our devtools? why git, not hg, darcs or another > DVCS? Dan and me worked on some patches to reduce the number of commits recently [1], [2], [3] and devtools-git only commits twice per commitpkg invocation. First commit to push changes to trunk, second commit to release to the repositories. Note that this has some impacts on speed. This is mostly related to SVN and the way we need to create tags when releasing to the repositories with a single commit. I pointed that out in a separate thread on arch-projects [4] but I sadly didn't get any feedback yet. Maybe this should be considered, also. Not that I have a strong feeling about it. I just thought I should mention it. [1] http://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=8384ad84 [2] http://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=6ef4d5f3 [3] http://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=61010062 [4] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2011-August/001748.html

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Git for the repos
by Lukas Fleischer 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:41:50PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Andreas Radke <andyrtr(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > Am Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:53:55 +0200 > > schrieb Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)xinu.at>: > > > >> So it came up in IRC again and I'll try to sum up the discussion: > >> > >> SVN checkouts tend to break, some people only use it for our repos and > >> not anywhere else, it's slow. > > > > Latest devtools changes break some commits not copying files into the > > repos directories. > > > > There is a patch in arch-project ML to fix that. Pierre pushed that patch some hours ago [1], so this should be fixed with the next devtools release. [1] http://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=c2420902

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[arch-general] Unable to use tape drive
by Vitor Garcia 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Good morning. I have been trying to my Dell LTO-120 SCSI Tape Drive on Arch without success. I have tried to run $ modprobe st, but still, I have no /dev/st0 and neither /dev/nst0. dmesg | grep -i tape shows nothing too. Is there anything I'm missing here? Dell's user manual says that the drive should work out of the box on linux. Best regards, Vitor

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Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 Always in Fallback Mode
by Max Xie 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Sorry, but I can't understand what's 'top posting'... Is that to say I shouldn't post the mail before? Well, I've installed mesa-demos, and gnome says my Graphics is 'Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe'. 1) Umm, I've attached them in attachments. I don't know how to find what's wrong by reading the log... 2) I log into my user in text mode and type 'startx' to start gnome I used the latest core img for installation, I think the KMS should be enabled as default.. I'll try to follow the wiki to enable it during bootstrapping... ---- Mail by Max Xie

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[arch-general] replacement for clyde
by Gour-Gadadhara Dasa 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hello! Some months ago I switched my desktop from Arch to FreeBSD to experiment a bit. Soon I may buy a new netbook and I believe that with ATI graphic, Arch is better choice, but looking at forums yesterday I saw that both bauerbill & clyde are gone. :-( Considering that decent package manager is very vital part of OS's ecosystem, I wonder what would be decent replacment having e.g. clyde-like features? Before clyde I used yaourt (which now has C-back end, afaik), tried paktahn (which has some quirks) and now I see pacaur (with cower). What can you recommend so I can read more about it? Sincerely, Gour -- “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810

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[arch-general] Gnome 3 Always in Fallback Mode
by Max Xie 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hi, Sorry for my bad English. I've just bought a new computer about 1 month ago and I tried to install archlinux as second OS on it yesterday. But when I got everything done and started the Gnome, it took a minute and, started in Fallback Mode with a dialog box telling me maybe I have not got proper driver for the graphic card. It appeared just the first time I start Gnome, nerver I got that dialog box further, still in fallback mode. My graphic card is Intel HD 2000 integrated in CPU. I'm using xf86-video-intel as the driver. I can't check what's wrong. Thanks, ---- Mail by Max Xie

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.88-1
by jwbirdsong 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

On 08/22/2011 01:41 AM, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com> > wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:13:45PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.88-1 are in testing for upstream >>> update. Please test and signoff. >>> >>> Eric >> >> I can still boot. Signoff x86_64. >> >> dave >> > > Bump. Anyone for i686? > Signoff i686 since no one else will. :D

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[arch-general] Canon MP280 turboprint
by R7h0re4 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

I have a canon MP280 printer and am unable to print using turboprint, as well as a regular cups using gutenprint drivers or Turboprint drivers or the .ppd files downloaded from Canon's site. When I check the aur most of the packaged drivers are outdated and when I check the bug reports it seems that I am not alone in this respect. A few of the bug reports list something about 64 bit issues, I am also unable to compile some of the files from the Canon tar balls you can get from Canons site. When I check the cups error log file it gives me back end failures and list a few files, when I link the file nothing prints. This also applies to Turbo-print but does not give error messages in that program. Just wanted to know what other options I may need to pursue, the printer works with Debian 32 bit on a net-book, and of course Windows but it would be nice to get it working under Arch. R7h0re4

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[arch-general] Issues with Firefox 6 not starting after update
by Samuel Baldwin 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

The topic says it all. I recently pacman -Syu'd and firefox has refused to start after this. I've tried rolling back to firefox 4 (and xulrunner 2) but I just get an error about XPCOM not loading. Trying to start firefox 6 just yields hanging. I've tried running firefox with LD_DEBUG=all and I've uploaded it here: http://lusitania.logik.li/files/firefox.log . Any help would be appreciated. Pointers about how successfully rollback to firefox 4 are also an acceptable substitute. Thanks, -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

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Re: [arch-general] new TalkingArch ISOs available!
by Kyle 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

Getting it now. Thanks for the great work you put into this. ~Kyle Sent from my Wishdroid! :)

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