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[arch-general] Opera Tip -- Use QT/GTK file Open/Save dialogs
by David C. Rankin 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Archers, I have always liked the opera browser, but one thing that has really sucked about it was the crappy file open/file save dialogs opera comes with. Picking around tonight, I ran across an option in opera's configuration that allows you to choose the file selector dialogs to use. It is cryptic as hell, but I found the commit page for the changes and got the needed information. To make use of real kde4 open/save dialogs in opera, got to the config page by typing "opera:config" into the address bar, the scroll down to "File Selector", then change the setting to "2". The commit notes say: 0 - normal 1 - Qt 2 - GTK For some reason, I couldn't get Qt to work, so I select "2" for GTK, and Bingo! I had usable dialogs in opera (you may need to restart opera). What a relief. If you use opera, it's worth a look. While on the subject, you might want to check out the C00-14, Keramik and crystal_onyx_bull skins. Opera has come a long way in 10.0 -- 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] [signoff] device-mapper & lvm2 2.02.52
by Eric Bélanger 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Hi, device-mapper & lvm2 2.02.52-1 are now in testing. Update: - Minor upstream update: lvm2: 2.02.48 -> 2.02.52 device-mapper: 1.02.33 -> 1.02.37 - Implemented split package. For this to work, I had to set the package version of device-mapper to 2.02.52 as I found out that the dbscripts can't handle split packages with different pkgver. -Renamed pkgconfig file (close FS#15909) Please test and signoff. Users signoff would be appreciated as very few dev uses this. Eric

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[arch-general] Why doesn't Arch show full kernel version in uname-r?
by David C. Rankin 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Guys, When I do uname -r to get the kernel name, I never get the full versions information about the installed kernel. Example, tonight, the new kernel is: kernel26-2.6.31.1-1-x86_64 but when I do a uname -r, I only see: "2.6.31-ARCH". That doesn't tell me anything about the minor version, etc. and if that information is wanted, then you have to look at the cache or some other software package that would disclose this. As another example, on an older suse box I have uname -r gives: 2.6.25.20-0.5-pae. That tells me exactly version I'm running. Any reason the rest of the version string inst included in this naming? Not a biggie by any stretch, just another curious thought ;-) -- 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] xmonad and java environment
by Sergey Manucharian 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Hi all, I've installed openproj from AUR and met the following issue: the program runs, but the main GUI window is blank (no buttons, menus - nothing), although the dialog windows appear normal. I don't have much experience with java, and tried both jre and openjdk6 - with the same result. Then I tried to run openproj without any window manager, and it worked! I noticed that openjdk6 warns: when you use a non-reparenting window manager set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 in /etc/profile.d/openjdk6.sh So the setting of that env. variable indeed helps with openjdk6, but not with jre. Any advices? Thanks, Sergey

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[arch-general] Failover to LTS in the Arch boot processt?
by David C. Rankin 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

Guys, I'm curious. Since there is now an LTS kernel, has anyone thought about adding a few lines of code to the Arch boot process that would provide for automatic failover to the LTS kernel in the event the normal kernel failed to load during the boot process. The thought is to provide redundancy for servers in the case where the regular kernel becomes corrupt (for whatever reason, disk problem, etc...) and a reboot is forced (exhausted UPS, etc..) I don't know what it would take or if it is doable. I had just envisioned adding a trap that catches the failure of the regular kernel to boot, checks for the presence of the LTS kernel, and if installed boots the LTS kernel in this case. I haven't looked deep enough into the Arch boot process to know if it is feasible, but it just seemed like a good bit of extra protection that Arch could provide for server installs where the server operates on the regular kernel but also has LTS installed as a backup. I'll leave it to the gurus to consider. If it's not doable or not worth doing, then just consider it another of my stray thoughts worthy of the DEL key ;-) -- 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] [commitpkg] Some stylistic cleanup
by Evangelos Foutras 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

These changes are done on top of http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-September/007635.h…

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[arch-general] musepack-tools version in community
by JM 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hello, Asunder (in [Community]) has an optional dependency on musepack-tools SV8 (not actually included in the PKGBUILD). Musepack-tools in [Community] is version SV7 while the current stable (SV8) has been available since March. Trying to make a pkgbuild I noticed that it depends on two libraries (libcuefile and libreplaygain) which are obtainable only through musepack's svn. Is this the reason why there is only the previous version in the repos? Regards, JM

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[arch-general] easily comparing (AUR) pkgbuilds against ABS
by Dieter Plaetinck 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

It would be nice if it was easily possible to compare a pkgbuild against a corresponding 'official' pkgbuild (from ABS). disclaimer: i haven't thought this through so here are some ideas. consider this a brainstorm - on AUR, many packages are customized versions (patches, vcs versions, alternative compile options,..) of official packages so maybe AUR packagers could fill in an official packagename as 'base' package. the webinterface could then show a diff against the official pkgbuild - maybe this can be done on the makepkg level by passing some flag. it would be less point and click but would work for non-aur pkgbuilds. - everything in 1 big git repo: official packages, community, AUR,.. through branching they can be nicely separated but it would make things easier to generate diffs. dieter

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[arch-general] Amarok 2.2rc1
by Frederic Bezies 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Amarok 2.2 rc1 was released today. It needs taglib 1.6 with asf support. I tried to build taglib 1.6, using this patch to add ASF support : --- CMakeLists.txt 2009-09-08 10:52:57.000000000 +0200 +++ CMakeLists2.txt 2009-09-23 18:43:12.767847589 +0200 @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ OPTION(BUILD_EXAMPLES "Build the examples" OFF) OPTION(NO_ITUNES_HACKS "Disable workarounds for iTunes bugs" OFF) -OPTION(WITH_ASF "Enable ASF tag reading/writing code" OFF) -OPTION(WITH_MP4 "Enable MP4 tag reading/writing code" OFF) +OPTION(WITH_ASF "Enable ASF tag reading/writing code" ON) +OPTION(WITH_MP4 "Enable MP4 tag reading/writing code" ON) add_definitions(-DHAVE_CONFIG_H) After building an ASF enabled taglib 1.6 and installing it, Amarok is still not being built : Début de la compilation... mkdir: ne peut créer le répertoire `build': Le fichier existe -- Taglib found: -L/usr/lib -ltag CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:27 (message): TagLib does not have ASF support compiled in. What to do to get Amarok 2.2 rc1 and of course 2.2 final on archlinux ? -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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Re: [arch-general] vim 7.2.245-1
by Aaron Griffin 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jozsef <jozefk(a)gmx.com> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Xavier <shiningxc(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Jozsef <jozefk(a)gmx.com> wrote: >> >>> Which plugins in particular are you talking about? Can we get an "ls >> >>> -l ~/.vim/plugin" ? >> >> >> >> To move .vimrc away? but all my settings are in .vimrc :) how do you imagine anything to work without .vimrc? >> >> I don't have vi and gvim anymore. only vim and .vimrc >> >> >> >> >> > >> > Dude, it is just for testing purpose ... >> >> Aye, it's for the purpose of testing. My suspicion is that something >> in your ~/.vimrc is causing this problem, as it works fine for >> everyone else. >> >> >> total 348 >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 40775 2009-07-02 20:46 calendar.vim >> >> -rw------- 1 jozefk jozefk 15940 2006-10-30 21:23 cecutil.vim >> >> -rw------- 1 jozefk jozefk 62195 2006-10-31 00:17 engspchk.vim >> >> -rwxr--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 30714 2008-01-25 10:04 matchit.vim >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 147930 2007-09-21 18:11 taglist.vim >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 1583 2009-06-25 13:49 templates.vim >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 36771 2009-07-02 21:11 vimcommander.vim >> >> >> >> and my .vimrc is important as well: http://dpaste.com/97063/ >> >> >> >> >> > >> > Is that ~/.vim/ or ~/.vim/plugins ? >> >> Note that it's "plugin", singular, for the vim plugins dir. I know, it >> annoys me too :) > > I tried to remove .vimrc and the plugins still don't work. The colors became different than when I use my original .vimrc > Which .vimrc is in use right now? That nobody can knows anymore :) So many runtimepaths and directories... > > ls -l ~/.vim/plugin > total 348 > -rw-r--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 40775 2009-07-02 20:46 calendar.vim > -rw------- 1 jozefk jozefk 15940 2006-10-30 21:23 cecutil.vim > -rw------- 1 jozefk jozefk 62195 2006-10-31 00:17 engspchk.vim > -rwxr--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 30714 2008-01-25 10:04 matchit.vim > -rw-r--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 147930 2007-09-21 18:11 taglist.vim > -rw-r--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 1583 2009-06-25 13:49 templates.vim > -rw-r--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 36771 2009-07-02 21:11 vimcommander.vim > > ls -l ~/.vim/ > total 2032 > drwxr-xr-x 2 jozefk jozefk 4096 2009-07-15 21:25 CVIMSYN > drwxr-xr-x 2 jozefk jozefk 4096 2009-07-15 21:25 doc > -rw-r--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 2048000 2009-07-15 21:24 engspchk.tar > drwxr-xr-x 2 jozefk jozefk 4096 2009-07-15 21:25 plugin > -rw-r--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 74 2009-06-17 22:12 skeleton.css > -rw-r--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 445 2009-06-17 21:57 skeleton.html > -rw-r--r-- 1 jozefk jozefk 1300 2009-06-17 21:56 skeleton.php > drwxr-xr-x 2 jozefk jozefk 4096 2009-07-13 19:08 templates > > It doesn't works fine for everyone else. Somebody already mentioned that he has the same issue and I didn't change anything with my .vimrc or with any other file or directory or plugin. All I did was > pacman -R vim vi gvim > And after that pacman -S vim > Nothing else. I already paste my .vimrc in last message so if you think something is wrong with it, please let me know :) Here's a question for you... are you using "vi" or "vim"?

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