- Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

Should git be contained in base-devel group?
by Polarian 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hello, I do not know which mailing list to send this in but I have a question to bring up. After being brought up in the aur mailing list, I was wondering why is git not in the base-devel group, which contains all the tools needed for building PKGBUILDs, but cloning from the AUR (and a lot of PKGBUILDs) all use git, therefore wouldn't it make sense for this to be include in base-devel? Thanks, Polarian

2 2

update warnings
by Fons Adriaensen 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Hello, A full update gives me a number of warnings about dependency cycles. Can this be safely ignored, or is some special handling required ? TNX, -- FA

2 3

Suggest to use more long options arguments at /etc/makepkg.conf
by u34＠net9.ga 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

I think long command line options are more readable compared to short one. There fore, I suggest: --- a/makepkg.conf 2022-12-12 17:00:57.773722168 +0000 +++ b/makepkg.conf 2022-12-12 18:00:46.612320662 +0000 @@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ # #-- The download utilities that makepkg should use to acquire sources # Format: 'protocol::agent' -DLAGENTS=('file::/usr/bin/curl -qgC - -o %o %u' - 'ftp::/usr/bin/curl -qgfC - --ftp-pasv --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u' - 'http::/usr/bin/curl -qgb "" -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u' - 'https::/usr/bin/curl -qgb "" -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u' - 'rsync::/usr/bin/rsync --no-motd -z %u %o' +DLAGENTS=('file::/usr/bin/curl --disable --globoff --continue-at - --output %o %u' + 'ftp::/usr/bin/curl --disable --globoff --fail --continue-at - --ftp-pasv --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 --output %o %u' + 'http::/usr/bin/curl --disable --globoff --cookie "" --fail --location --continue-at - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 --output %o %u' + 'https::/usr/bin/curl --disable --globoff --cookie "" --fail --location --continue-at - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 --output %o %u' + 'rsync::/usr/bin/rsync --no-motd --compress %u %o' 'scp::/usr/bin/scp -C %u %o') # Other common tools: @@ -134,15 +134,15 @@ # COMPRESSION DEFAULTS ######################################################################### # -COMPRESSGZ=(gzip -c -f -n) -COMPRESSBZ2=(bzip2 -c -f) -COMPRESSXZ=(xz -c -z -) -COMPRESSZST=(zstd -c -z -q -) -COMPRESSLRZ=(lrzip -q) -COMPRESSLZO=(lzop -q) +COMPRESSGZ=(gzip --to-stdout --force --no-name) +COMPRESSBZ2=(bzip2 --stdout --force) +COMPRESSXZ=(xz --to-stdout --compress -) +COMPRESSZST=(zstd --stdout --compress --quiet -) +COMPRESSLRZ=(lrzip --quiet) +COMPRESSLZO=(lzop --quiet) COMPRESSZ=(compress -c -f) -COMPRESSLZ4=(lz4 -q) -COMPRESSLZ=(lzip -c -f) +COMPRESSLZ4=(lz4 --quiet) +COMPRESSLZ=(lzip --stdout --force) ######################################################################### # EXTENSION DEFAULTS -- u34

7 11

With a XferCommand, pacman -Sw doesn't download packages sig files
by u34＠net9.ga 03 Dec '22

03 Dec '22

With a XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl --socks5-hostname localhost:9451 --silent --show-error --continue-at - --fail-early --fail --output %o %u in pacman.conf, pacman -sync --downloadonly doesn't download packages sig files. Is it because I have not set up a proxy variable? Something else? The pkg.tar.zst is downloaded. Just the detached sig file does not. And there isn't any message to warn about it. Commenting out XferCommand makes the sig files downloaded as well. Manual download also succeed. -- u34

1 0

Documentation for Order of HOOKS array in mkinitcpio.conf?
by David C. Rankin 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

All, The wiki doesn't have ordering information for the HOOKS scripts, but the comments in mkinitcpio.conf says Ordering in important and cautions against changing from the default order. But, that doesn't account for additional script added that are not in the default HOOKS example. I updated HOOKS from a much earlier version of mkinitcpio.conf to match the new .pacnew file. There keyboard moved from after filesystems to just after blocks. Is there a reference that explains where each script should be placed aside for the note or two in the Common hooks section of the wiki? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

2 2

Using long options at example #XferCommand in /etc/pacman.conf
by u34＠net9.ga 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

As long options are more readable, I suggest to --- a/etc/pacman.conf 2022-11-27 12:31:42.955317302 +0000 +++ b/etc/pacman.conf 2022-11-27 12:43:57.878284493 +0000 @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ #GPGDir = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ #HookDir = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/ HoldPkg = pacman glibc -#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -L -C - -f -o %o %u -#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u +#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl --location --continue-at - --fail --output %o %u +#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp --continue --output-document %o %u #CleanMethod = KeepInstalled Architecture = auto I also suggest to add, or change, pacman.conf %o and %u to make it more descriptive. -- u34

1 0

[arch-general] Any package providing "ast" firmware?
by Javier 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

Hello ! Just as the "subject" indicates, any package providing "ast" firmware? On [1], I don't see it referenced, and "ast" is way too common for a quick search on the repos and AUR, :) Thanks ! -- Javier [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio#Possibly_missing_firmware_for_m…

4 4

poetry package broke - please help
by Genes Lists 24 Nov '22

24 Nov '22

After the last update of python-poetry-core to 1.4.0,and python-cleo to 2.0.0-1 : poetry is broken in 2 ways. These are triggered by running the command: poetry version xxx 1) missing dependency on python-rapidfuzz which leads to this error: File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cleo/_utils.py", line 8, in <module> from rapidfuzz.distance import Levenshtein ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'rapidfuzz' 2) After installing rapidfuzz, get this error which I haven't found a fix for from cleo.exceptions import CleoException ImportError: cannot import name 'CleoException' from 'cleo.exceptions' (/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cleo/exceptions/__init__.py) Thanks gene

2 5

Lock screen?
by ilpiko2 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Hi! It's a stupid question, i think, but: are there any developments for a lock screen for Arch, in differents DE? i used to use before Gnome, on Ubuntu and had it. Also KDE had it. Now use xfce and missing it. Is there any news or how long will we have to wait? Marco

4 4

linux 6.0.8: an openssl 1.1 -> openssl 3.0 issue?
by u34＠net9.ga 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

I have the follwoing while trying to make a custom 6.0.8-arch1 linux kernel: Installing modules... INSTALL kernel/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel.ko STRIP kernel/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel.ko SIGN kernel/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel.ko scripts/sign-file: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modinst:83: kernel/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel.ko] Error 127 make[1]: *** Deleting file 'kernel/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel.ko' make: *** [Makefile:1777: modules_install] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package_linux-custom(). Aborting... Indeed libcrypto.so.1.1 is from openssl 1.1, and there was a switch to openssl 3.0 at the beginning of November 2022. Also could be releveant: $ grep -C3 3.0 scripts/sign-file.c #include <openssl/engine.h> /* * OpenSSL 3.0 deprecates the OpenSSL's ENGINE API. * * Remove this if/when that API is no longer used */ -- u34

3 3