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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] TU Application / Looking for sponsor
by Laurent Carlier 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Le mercredi 25 août 2010 14:08:13, vous avez écrit : > Le mercredi 25 août 2010 13:30:35, Jakob Gruber a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to apply for the TU position, and as I don't have a sponsor yet > > it'd be great if somebody would be kind enough to take me on :) > > > > A little bit about myself: I'm 26 and I live close to Vienna, Austria. > > The past couple of years I've worked as a database developer / > > consultant, then as a C# programmer (with a couple of additional tasks > > like building and maintaining our SVN / Trac server). In my free time, > > I've also been playing around with C++ and Python. > > > > I've been using Arch for around 2 years. I haven't had much linux > > experience before that - if I remember correctly it was around 1-2 months > > of Ubuntu and Gentoo. I regularly lurk on the forums and maintain a few > > packages in AUR ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=schuay ). > > > > Generally, I'm mostly interested in maintaining games. However I'm more > > than willing to help out where it is needed. Out of my AUR packages, I'd > > consider taking > > > > firehol, > > me-tv > > and stone-soup > > > > to community. > > > > I have a decent pc (3ghz dual core, 6G ram) available to build for both > > i686 and x86_64. > > > > schuay > > Look at your packages, they are pretty well maintained except they should > be updated in regards to last pacman features (return 1 & missing > package() function) > > Searching a bit on the great internet, i've found some of your > contributions. > > I guess you got the ability to be a good TU. > > Let me be your Sponsor. > > Regards, > Laurent Carlier Also,.... Let the discussion period begin! and have fun!

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kde 4.5.0
by Marek Otahal 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

On Wednesday 18 of August 2010 11:37:55 Ronald van Haren wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:19:29 +0200, Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> > > > > wrote: > >> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:06 +0200, Ronald van Haren wrote: > >>> so far I've seen people reporting the following chipsets to be > >>> affected, but there may be others > >>> intel 910 > >>> intel 945 > >>> intel 965 > >>> ati 3450 > >> > >> Given the fact that AMD and Intel rule the IGP market, I would say yes. > > > > We would still need an announcement as for those who upgrade from > > previous versions this global configuration wont be effective. We should > > add to the announcement that people could disable composite by editing > > ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc (if they are no longer able to login) > > > > -- > > Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre > > you will be able to login, afaik this bug only shows up when changing > stuff in system settings. disabling and enabling compositing with the > global shortcut should be enough to get it working again. > > Ronald hello, for me, it kills desktop instantly, not only while fiddling with settings. Manually disabling compositing in kwinrc helps, "setting LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 in ~/.bash_profile" doesn't affect the bug. I'm using kde on i945. Thanks, marek -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] Configure / Set a Hostname
by Carlos Mennens 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

I have read on Google searches and on all over so many different ways to properly set a FQDN on Arch Linux and am more confused than I was before I started looking this up. I don't ever get prompted during the Arch installer to enter a 'hostname' but rather do so in /etc/rc.conf which appears to make no difference because it's superseded by /etc/hosts. Can someone tell me if I want my Arch machine called "bishop.mydomain.tld", how does one properly and officially achieve this task in Arch? Thanks!

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[arch-general] Abiword and wv
by Myra Nelson 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Greetings, Abiword was upgraded from 2.8.6.1 to 2.8.6.2. [2010-08-20 01:25] upgraded abiword (2.8.6-1 -> 2.8.6-2) [2010-08-20 01:25] upgraded abiword-plugins (2.8.6-1 -> 2.8.6-2) When I attempted to start Abiword with gmrun and it failed. Next I tried in a terminal and received the following error message. [myra@gandalf abiword unable to find libwv-1.2.so.3 My troubleshooting went like this: [myra@gandalf /usr/lib]:locate libwv /usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.4 /usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.4.0.3 /usr/lib/libwv.a /usr/lib/libwv.so [myra@gandalf pacman -Q wv Name : wv Version : 1.2.7-1 http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/wv/ Package Details: wv 1.2.7-1 Architecture: x86_64 Repository: Extra Description: MSWord library can load and parse Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats Upstream URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware License: GPL Groups: None Maintainers: Jan de Groot Package Size: 261.3 KB Installed Size: 3.2 MB Last Packager: Jan de Groot Build Date: 2010-06-08 10:02:57 UTC Last Updated: 2010-06-08 Package Contents * usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.3 **************** * usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.3.0.4 * usr/lib/libwv.a * usr/lib/libwv.so fix-soname.patch with PKGBUILD diff -ru wv-1.2.7.orig//configure wv-1.2.7//configure --- wv-1.2.7.orig//configure 2009-09-21 12:22:46.000000000 +0200 +++ wv-1.2.7//configure 2010-06-08 12:00:27.948857203 +0200 @@ -2082,8 +2082,8 @@ WV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 WV_MINOR_VERSION=2 WV_MICRO_VERSION=7 -WV_INTERFACE_AGE=3 -WV_BINARY_AGE=3 +WV_INTERFACE_AGE=4 +WV_BINARY_AGE=4 WV_VERSION=$WV_MAJOR_VERSION.$WV_MINOR_VERSION.$WV_MICRO_VERSION I rebuilt Abiword and everything works fine. Now for the question. Why was Abiword still trying to find the previous version of libwv and why does the package listing on the archlinux packages still show libwv-1.2.so.3? I only ask because that's the version the latest Abiword package from the repositories was looking for. Granted I built Abiword 2.8.2-1 from ABS because I was having problems getting it to work properly installing the package with pacman, and wv was installed on [2010-02-14 02:46] installed wv (1.2.7-1) which is prior to the age bump for the .so file and hasn't updated since (I've checked the pacman.log thoroughly). I'm assuming I built wv from abs at the time but can't find the package I built to check it. Makes one wonder how I wound up with libwv-1.2.so.4. AFAICT that doesn't explain the latest build of Abiword from the package repository trying to find libwv.so.3 since the PKGBUILD doesn't use version deps, or am I missing something. Ciao for now Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Add keditbookmarks to kdebase
by joker-jar＠yandex.ru 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello! Sorry for my english, i'm russian :) Look at that: http://websvn.kde.org/tags/KDE/4.4.5/kdebase/apps/ But there is no keditbookmarks app in kdebase: pkgbase=kdebase pkgname=('kdebase-dolphin' 'kdebase-kappfinder' 'kdebase-kdepasswd' 'kdebase-kdialog' 'kdebase-kfind' 'kdebase-kinfocenter' 'kdebase-konqueror' 'kdebase-konsole' 'kdebase-kwrite' 'kdebase-lib' 'kdebase-plasma') Keditbookmarks now is a part of konqueror (see the file list for kdebase-konqueror => usr/bin/konqueror). But keditbookmarks is required by some apps (krdc, krusader and others) to edit bookmarks. So, without konqueror you can't edit bookmarks in the krusader (nothing appears after clicking "manage bookmarks"). I think that need to split konqueror on two packages: konqueror and keditbookmarks, because install konqueror just for working bookmark editor in krusader isn't good. P.S. I think you understand me :)

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[arch-general] xorg (group) and xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello, i now found out where my "ugly" fonts in firefox comes for some pages. one page had this defined in css font:11px verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; and busybox.net has: font-family:lucida,helvetica,arial; and both make firefox to use bitmap fonts from the packages xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-fonts-100dpi removing those packages (and having like ttf-dejavu installed) i havent found any webpage that would get any bitmap fonts assigned anymore. so, anyone know how/what decides which fonts firefox gets ? (i have all i can set in firefox settings to dejavu) and on same note, what packages even need xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi ? cant we replace those with ttf-dejavu in the xorg package ? cheers .andre ps. no, the solution is _not_ to install ms-fonts :P

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[arch-general] Package changelog
by Magnus Therning 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

I just found out about the changelog= directive for PKGBUILDs. However I can't really find more detailed information about it, e.g. is there a specific format that I have to follow? Where can I find more info? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] [PATCH] devtools: give a writable home to nobody for use in makechrootpkg
by Gaetan Bisson 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, This is to ensure $HOME is a writable directory during makechrootpkg runs. I suspect this is helpful to build various packages - in the example I have in mind (uim in [extra]), the home directory was determined by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_dir, so simply exporting a new HOME environment variable in the PKGBUILD wasn't enough. Best, --Gaetan diff -aur devtools-0.9.9/mkarchroot devtools-0.9.9.new/mkarchroot --- devtools-0.9.9/mkarchroot 2010-08-20 12:44:16.000000000 +0200 +++ devtools-0.9.9.new/mkarchroot 2010-08-23 11:11:45.036666760 +0200 @@ -194,5 +194,9 @@ if [ ! -e "${working_dir}/.arch-chroot" ]; then date +%s > "${working_dir}/.arch-chroot" fi + + # give nobody a writable home (for makechrootpkg) + chroot "${working_dir}" usermod -d /build nobody + # }}} fi

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] At last, clean multilib support
by Rogutės Sparnuotos 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Rémy Oudompheng (2010-08-23 13:16): > On 2010/8/23, Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 12:54 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > >> What kind of packages are expected to be found in a multilib > >> repository? > >> Should we keep with core/extra packages, leaving 32-bit versions of > >> community packages to AUR ? In more down-to-earth terms: are we going > >> to have glibc/gtk2/firefox/flashplugin in the same place ? > > > > Firefox probably not, but a 32bit flashplugin and its dependencies are > > one of the candidates. Another thing that comes to mind is Wine, as > > there's no native 64bit port of that available. > > > > At this moment community is crowded with broken 32bit crap which is just > > i686 packages copied to a different location (in /opt... ew), where > > hardcoded configuration files still point to the old i686 locations. An > > example of this is gtk2 trying to load 64bit plugins all the time. > > Did I miss something or the 32 bit flashplugin can only be used in a > 32-bit browser ? Wouldn't it be unconvenient to have the plugin in the > repo without some widely used browser ? <...> 64bit Opera can use 32bit Flash (but the 32bit flashplugin needs a bunch of lib32-* packages from community, which have packaging problems as mentioned by Jan). -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

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[arch-general] [PATCH] restrict NETWORK_PERSIST to runlevel 0 and 6
by Florian Pritz 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)xssn.at> --- network | 2 +- rc.shutdown | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/network b/network index 977e81e..d1ecdde 100755 --- a/network +++ b/network @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ case "$1" in # exit #fi - if [ "${NETWORK_PERSIST}" = "yes" -o "${NETWORK_PERSIST}" = "YES" ]; then + if [ "${NETWORK_PERSIST}" = "yes" -o "${NETWORK_PERSIST}" = "YES" ] && [[ $RUNLEVEL = 0 || $RUNLEVEL = 6 ]] ; then status "Skipping Network Shutdown" true exit 0 fi diff --git a/rc.shutdown b/rc.shutdown index 4eb29cc..bbd4444 100755 --- a/rc.shutdown +++ b/rc.shutdown @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ # /etc/rc.shutdown # +export RUNLEVEL PRELEVEL + . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions -- 1.7.2.1

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