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[arch-general] Why Fortify Sources are Disabled with the glibc Libraries?
by Sijie Bu 12 May '21

12 May '21

Hello, I was reading the PKGBUILD of `glibc` the other day, and noticed that only the `glibc` programs are build with fortify sources, and the library itself is not. Is there a specific reason to do so? Sincerely P.S. My context for this question is that I'm bootstrapping Arch for MIPS r6 and is under way, I'm rebuilding glibc today and this came to my mind (I have built the entire `glibc` with fortify enabled and it seemed to work just fine, so would like to know the reason behind disabling fortify for the libraries).

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[arch-general] I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 11 May '21

11 May '21

Subject: I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021 Good day from Singapore, I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021. Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 8GB (Latest) - Price SGD$120 https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-main-board/c-raspberry-p… Raspberry Pi 7 Inch Touch Screen Display With SmartiPi Case - Price SGD$147 https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-display/c-display-for-rp… Do you think it is a good match? I want to use my Raspberry Pi like a regular laptop or desktop computer. Would a 7 inch touch screen display be too small for my use case? I don't want to strain my eyes looking at a small display. However, if I get a 10 inch touch screen display, I can't find one with a supporting base. I can't find a 10 inch touch screen display with a supporting base which could allow the screen to stand vertically. Finally, does your Linux distribution support Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 GB? Can I do 4K Ultra HD video editing on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 GB? Like adding watermarks, and cutting away unwanted 4K scenes. Is there a good 4K video editing software for Linux? I am looking forward to your reply. Thank you very much. Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming, 43 years old as of 9th May 2021, is a TARGETED INDIVIDUAL living in Singapore. He is an IT Consultant with a System Integrator (SI)/computer firm in Singapore. He is an IT enthusiast. -----BEGIN EMAIL SIGNATURE----- The Gospel for all Targeted Individuals (TIs): [The New York Times] Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html ******************************************************************************************** Singaporean Targeted Individual Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 14 Feb 2019 and refugee seeking attempts at the United Nations Refugee Agency Bangkok (21 Mar 2017), in Taiwan (5 Aug 2019) and Australia (25 Dec 2019 to 9 Jan 2020): [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ [2] https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/ [3] https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming -----END EMAIL SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] One maintainer, 100+ outdated packages
by Christopher W. 08 May '21

08 May '21

Over a hundred packages with anthraxx listed as the maintainer have been flagged out of date: https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=&maintainer=anthraxx&flagged=Flagged Many open bug reports are assigned to him too: https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?dev=17958 (In the past, bug reports with the [security] tag were automatically co-assigned to him, even if he wasn't the maintainer. Nevertheless many of these are specifically assigned to him and valid, including currently missing security updates.) Everyone's a volunteer and people have lives. Got it. Now what can we do to fix this situation? Can there be a group effort to take over some of the packages and get them in shape again? Regular users like me can't commit to the repo, TUs can only work in the [community] repo, and developers are all busy doing their own maintainer work.

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[arch-general] Clock one hour ahead
by Kiran Ostrolenk 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi all, I'm finding that both my system and hardware clock are an hour ahead of what they should be (I checked this using the 'timedate' and 'hwclock' commands). Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks, Kiran

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Re: [arch-general] debian conversion tool
by Jude DaShiell 03 May '21

03 May '21

One of the debian sources I'm trying to convert is at: git clone http://www.github.com/dosemu2/install-freedos

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[arch-general] debian conversion tool?
by Jude DaShiell 03 May '21

03 May '21

install-dosemu-master.zip can be built with debian. When it is, those using dosemu2.deb can install many snearly standard dos utilities that work inside of dosemu2. Unfortunately the source code inside that package is debian only and I will be copying installed dosemu utilities from my debian disk onto my archlinux system. Lots of entries for debian in archlinux repositories and I'm curious if anything can port debian source code to something archlinux can build. Maybe Chris Severance doesn't know about this extra file for dosemu2 or maybe this kind of conversion is too much trouble.

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[arch-general] Orca reading date/time stamps different then the time zone set on my system.
by matthew dyer 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Good morning all, I am using the latest thunderbird under arch linux and have an announce I would like to get resolved. In the message list, orca speaks the time and date header as if my time zone were 4 hours hours ahead. My time zone is set to America/New_York. Everything else shows up and works fine but orca reads time stamps differently Is there a way to fix this. This is very strange and have not seen this before. All of my locales are set to en_US.UTF-8. Thanks. Matthew

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[arch-general] graylog
by Andy Pieters 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

Hi Apologies for off-topic discussion, but does anyone have any hints as to where I would ask for help to convert a single node graylog server into a 3-node graylog cluster without causing downtime or losing data. Many thanks Andy

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[arch-general] Bulk Disown
by Phillip Smith 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

Hi all, I am bulk disowning all my packages on the AUR. Due to real estate limitations preventing my access to my main Arch box, and a lack of time with a new job, I'm no longer able to properly maintain them. If anyone wants to pick up any of these packages, please be my guest. Regards, ~p apache-mod_bw apache-mod_form apache-mod_geoip2 apache-mod_macro authpgsql backupchecker cryptkeeper dalbum daloradius dump etraxis fina freshwall fwlogwatch gnomebaker husk husk-git iptrafvol jwhois katarina latencytop massh nsca perl-geo-google perl-iptables-rule perl-mac-itunes-library perl-net-rabbitmq perl-proc-queue pgdbf pgsql-backup publishr-gimp quickrdp sgwi sqlgrey sshfp sshmenu tcptraceroute tile-world umit yasat

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[arch-general] Advice on bootstrapping Arch onto a new architecture?
by Sijie Bu 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Hello, Not sure if I am posting it to the right place, but this seems to be the mailing list to ask. I tried to send it to arch-dev-public list but was redirected by the system to this list. I am about to start working as an intern at CIP United, a company focusing on MIPS chips, and I will be bootstrapping Arch Linux onto the MIPS64r6 architecture, in a fashion similar to Arch Linux ARM. I have checked the Arch Linux MIPS project, but it seems to be inactive for years now. I have checked ArchWiki's DeveloperWiki section, but it seems to lack guidelines or suggestions on bootstrapping Arch onto a new architecture. Therefore I have a few questions: - Intuitively, I think I should cross-compile the packages of the "core" section (sans a few x64-specific packages) and build a bootable rootfs, but I was having some trouble finding how should I set makepkg to cross-compile. Do I just set up an Arch developer environment as usual, but substitute the toolchain with the cross ones? - Does adding a new architecture require modifications to the pacman source code? Or pacman itself should support new architectures? I have also tried looking at pacman source code, and it seems to not have hard-coded list of architectures, but I am not 100% sure about this (if I'll have to modify the source code of pacman, I will be emailing the pacman-dev mailing list regarding their policies on patches etc.). Thank you for your time and have a nice day. Sincerely

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