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[arch-general] Bad Idea?
by Carlos Mennens 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Is it a bad idea to install nVidia display drivers manually by downloading them from nvidia.com and installing it by hand...or should I use 'Pacman'? I read that I could mess up my system by manually installing packages and should always use Pacman. Thoughts / Suggestions? -Carlos -- Sent from my mobile device

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[arch-general] Kopete and Yahoo
by Nilesh Govindarajan 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi, Yahoo is not working with Kopete 1.0.0 Any ideas ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds
by Jeff Horelick 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hey all, I have a suggestion to possibly make rebuilds a bit less painful (or non-existant). I think this is a good idea because it seems like right now, even before there was a new rebuild (ffmpeg/x264) in testing, there's already another on the horizon (linjpeg/libpng, and it's a big one) and when this isn't the case, there's usually a rebuild, when it leaves testing, another rebuild comes in within days and so on. My suggestion would be to do what Debian does and when there's a library release with a new soname, bump the old package and "rename" it (or for new packages just do it from the start) and make the package name include the soname version (like libjpeg7, libpng12, libtorrent-rasterbar4 and so on) and when the soname is bumped upstream, just make libjpeg8 or libpng13 or libtorrent-rasterbar5. This does clutter the repos a bit, but it pretty much negates the need for rebuilds since (i believe) when the new GNOME for example is released, it'll automagically build against libjpeg8 and libpng13 instead of the old ones and eventually, almost no packages will be using the old ones. Once the package list for a large rebuild like the libpng/libjpeg one is down to 3 or 4 items after like 3 months, you can probably rebuild them and pull libjpeg7/libpng12 from the repos. This would likely require 2 changes to pacman to implement: 1. Pacman would have to know that libpng8 is the newer version of libpng7 and prompt users to install that (or do it as a upgrade keeping the old package). 2. Pacman would have to know something was removed from the repo and somehow notify the user and possibly give them a [Y/n] to remove it from their system. (I personally think this is a good idea to implement anyway). -JD

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[arch-general] imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch - Is this a bug, or do I just override with ignore?
by David C. Rankin 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Guys, I'm finishing the mail server setup and I've run into a problem with dovecot. It looks like one part of dovecot doesn't match the other??? Here is what everything log says: Mar 9 22:48:37 nirvana dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch: Master is v1.2.10, login is v1.2.11 (if you don't care, set version_ignore=yes) Mar 9 22:48:37 nirvana dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch: Master is v1.2.10, login is v1.2.11 (if you don't care, set version_ignore=yes) Mar 9 22:48:52 nirvana dovecot: dovecot: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=18351 uid=0 code=kill) Mar 9 22:48:54 nirvana dovecot: Dovecot v1.2.11 starting up (core dumps disabled) I just have the standard repositories enabled (no testing or community-testing) for this box. Is there a package out of place that I need to report, or is it just intended that we use 'version_ignore=yes' ? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space
by Carlos Mennens 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

I wanted to know if I configure my three identical disks as followed: - sda1 = /boot @ 4GB - sda2 = RAID @ 300GB - sdb1 = Swap @ 4GB - sdb2 = RAID @ 300GB - sdc1 = Swap @ 4GB - sdc2 = RAID @ 300GB Now when I am done configuring RAID, will Arch Linux show I have 8GB of Swap space total under a tool like 'htop' or something like this? Will the above configuration work? Or Should I change it?

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[arch-general] DR - Other dark theme aficionados - "just black" for FF 3.6, simple & clean
by David C. Rankin 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2
by Byron Clark 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 05:16:10PM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 17:08:45 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > > Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 16:36:15 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > > This is really not my day and I already regret touching this package. :-) > > The problem with using readlink /proc/$pid/exe is that during an update of > > a running sshd that link will point nowhere. As a result the restart will > > fail. > > > > What do you think about using /proc/$pid/cmdline instead? > > Just found out that this wont work with ssh_args set in /ec/conf.d/sshd. My > last resort would be stripping that possible "(deleted)" fro mthe readlink > output. Here's another way to check if the pid file is valid: if pidof sshd | grep -q $(cat /var/run/sshd.pid); then echo "pid in /var/run/sshd.pid is valid" else echo "invalid pid" fi -- Byron Clark

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[arch-general] Howto handle poppler conflict with poppler-qt3
by David C. Rankin 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Guys, Latest updates to poppler require the removal of poppler-qt3 which fails due to kdemod3-kdegraphics-pdf (kpdf) dependencies. How do we handle this? Do we just remove poppler-qt3? Won't that break kpdf? Thought I would check before I started breaking things on my own :p The actual error is: :: poppler conflicts with poppler-qt3. Remove poppler-qt3? [Y/n] error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: kdemod3-kdegraphics-kpdf: requires poppler-qt3>=0.6 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] LVM/MDADM and GRUB2
by Tobias Powalowski 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi, has anyone succeeded in having /boot on a lvm volume, or a mdadm raid device, which grub2 can directly boot from it? If yes please give me some advice how to do it, i want to add full grub2 support to archboot setup and the docs are quite messy. I haven't found a way to do such a setup. Many thanks for any input. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] A good twitter client
by Nilesh Govindarajan 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi, Does anyone know a good twitter client for KDE apart from Firefox's echofon, Chromed Bird (I don't use GChrome), and KDE μblog ? Twitgin sucks if you have to many tweets from people you're following and that's my case. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

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