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[arch-general] Problem Reporting Question
by Kevin Monceaux 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Fellow Arch Enthusiasts, I noticed a problem with the ruby-python package in aur/community and added a comment to it. But, then I started wondering if I should have have flagged it as out of date or filed a bug instead. So, I thought I'd ask for future reference. The package isn't exactly out of date. It's built against the current version of the available sources according to the project's web site, although the sources don't appear to have been updated since 2005. The postgres.so library file included in the ruby-postgres binary package is linked against libpq.so.4. The current postgresql-libs package contains libpq.so.5, so the package just needs to be rebuilt to link against the current libs. Also, I got an error trying to download the source tarball from the source URL in the PKGBUILD file. The source tarball is available via the package's main website. Does Arch have a utility similar to Gentoo's revdep-rebuild utility that scans all the libraries/binaries on the system for missing dependencies? Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!

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[arch-general] Domain: archlinux.eu
by Volker Glatz 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Hi there, I'm the owner of the domain www.archlinux.eu. I registered this domain in the sunrise period of dot-eu to avoid commercial usage or something else. Actually there is a redirection to archlinux.org. If the archlinux project is interested in this domain I'd like to spend it to the project. But if you think it is a good contribution to give my part back to the project I'm also willing to hold the domain anymore on my costs. If there is absolutely no interest in it, I'll give it free. Volker

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[arch-general] Name change on crypto modules for kernel26-2.6.24?
by Neil Darlow 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Hi, I run encrypted swap on my i686 system and thought I would give kernel26-2.6.24 a try. During the encrypted swap setup phase of boot I noticed a couple of errors relating to loading of the aes and sha256 crypto modules. Too me, it looks like these modules have undergone a name change in 2.6.24. I think the required modules are actually being loaded but cryptsetup complains about missing modules. I don't see an updated cryptsetup in testing. Should there be one or am I way off-base here? Regards, Neil Darlow

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[arch-general] Newbie Build xine-lib-1.1.10-1
by JaDa 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Here is my first Archlinux Package Build for i686 xine-lib-1.1.10-1 http://files.myopera.com/Jada0007/arch/xine-lib-1.1.10-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz well I think it is not perfect but someone can check it out too. Then how will be my tutor for the next few weeks? Teaching me a little how to build and work for Archlinux. Thx JaDa -- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

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[arch-general] man pages and utf8
by Grigorios Bouzakis 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Regarding the discussion going on in arch-dev-public about changes in man and utf8 compliance. As far as i remember Roman's feature request [1] wasnt even mentioned. At least not recently. Are there any thoughts of replacing man with man-db? Or the recent chamges in man and groff make this FR invalid? [1]http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9130

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[arch-general] Mirror out of sync [tu.chemnitz.de]
by Gerhard Brauer 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hello, One german mirror, tu.chemnitz.de, is not synced since 12.12.2007. Bye Gerhard -- Bundestrojaner - wir sind die Guten! Nur echt mit 52 Verfassungsbruechen!

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[arch-general] Qjackctl won't open since latest updates
by Nigel Henry 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

I've had Archlinux "Don't Panic" installed for a while. I installed it because someone on another list was having problems with their hda intel soundcard, and I wanted to see what was required to upgrade the Alsa driver on Archlinux. It seems to be a nice stable distro, pacman, which I havn't used before, installs the downloaded packages very quickly. Downloading them, as always takes a while, as I'm on dialup. Anyway. The problem since the latest updates. Qjackctl was working ok, but since updates I did last night, it now fails to start. See below for the updated packages. [root@myhost djmons]# pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: opera: forcing upgrade to version 9.25-2 resolving dependencies... warning: dependency cycle detected: warning: xorg-server will be installed before its catalyst-utils dependency looking for inter-conflicts... Targets: readline-5.2-7 jack-audio-connection-kit-0.109.0-1 kde-common-3.5.8-3 qt3-3.3.8-6.1 arts-1.5.8-2 avahi-0.6.20-3 xorg-server-1.4.0.90-5 catalyst-utils-8.01-1 dbus-qt3-0.62-3 e2fsprogs-1.40.4-1 x264-20071202-1 ffmpeg-20071204-1 hwd-5.3.2-1 pcre-7.5-1 kdelibs-3.5.8-4 kdebase-3.5.8-3 qscintilla-qt3-1.7.1-2 kdebindings-3.5.8-2 poppler-qt3-0.6.3-1 kdegraphics-3.5.8-3 lvm2-2.02.31-1 mplayer-1.0rc2-2.1 opera-9.25-2 qt-4.3.3-4 poppler-qt-0.6.3-1 python-2.5.1-5 pygobject-2.14.1-1 pygtk-2.12.1-1 qca-2.0.0.svn744387-1.1 qca-qt3-1.0-1 qca-tls-1.0-5 qjackctl-0.3.2-1 qscintilla-2.1-3 libx86-0.99-1 vbetool-1.0-2 vi-7.1.228-1 which-2.19-2 wpa_supplicant-0.5.9-1 Total Download Size: 170.33 MB After these updates Qjackctl would not start from the KDE desktop launcher, and see below for output when trying to start it on the CLI. [djmons@myhost ~]$ qjackctl qjackctl: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [djmons@myhost ~]$ It's true that there's no such library as libaudio.so.2, at least I can't find one. I have run pacman -Sy, and -Su this evening, and no further updates are available. Should I just wait a bit, and see if this problem is resolved, or post a bug report? Personally I don't see it as a bug, but more to do with Qjackctl being upgraded, and the upgraded version needing a library not yet available. Comments as always welcome. Nigel.

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[arch-general] out-of-date python-cheetah, python-formencode
by adam 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

python-formencode-0.9 is in AUR as it was needed in order to build a package depending on it. The old version still exists in supported branch but would like to have it replaced/upgraded with my PKGBUILD. python-cheetah is one release old as the package was placed a month prior to the next release. These packages haven't be updated in awhile I do not believe Thanks

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[arch-general] New User(sort of) and a packaging question
by Kevin Monceaux 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Fellow Arch Enthusiasts, I discovered Arch about a year ago, and loved it. I played around with it under VMware for a while, and even created a couple of packages for myself. At the time my hard drive really needed some reorganization/repartitioning before switching to another distribution. But, my DVD burner was acting flaky. Anyway, one year later with a second hard drive installed, and with a new DVD burner on order, I've made the switch to Arch, after trying a few other distros along the way. I can't find the packages I created back when I first started using Arch. At some point I ended up deleting the VMware image to free up some space and neglected to copy the packages. Anyway, I've created a package for c3270. I found an x3270 package but prefer the text console version. Is there a utility that can be used to help set the package's dependencies? I found a few mentions of namcap on the wiki. I tried it on the package I created, which I don't currently have any dependencies listed in, and the only problems it reports are missing maintainer and CVS id tags. It mentions nothing about the missing dependencies. By the way, What does the name namcap stand for? Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!

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[arch-general] blurry fonts at Qt4 apps
by Maik Beckmann 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Hello I did send the follwing to the kde and qt mailing list: <my message> I have an issue with the fonts off apps which are based on Qt4. This png http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gtkkde3kde4qt4za7.png shows the "File" menubar entry at (left to right): gtk+ - kde3 - kde4 - Qt4 apps. As you see the fonts of gtk and kde3 are same. The kde4 and qt4 fonts are the same too. Please focus on the "F"s in "File". The "F" of gtk/kde3 are plain lines, since no curves are involved. The "F" pf kde4/qt4 has something like shadows, which results in a blurry look. Currently I'm running arch-linux, but I saw the behavior on previous gentoo and debian installations when I played with qt4. The screenshots which are placed at the kde4 programming tutorials show that there must be a way do make the fonts in kde4 behave like those in kde3 http://techbase.kde.org/images/a/a3/Introtokdetutorial3.png Just zoom and pan to "File" and compare with the screenshot I provided. My $HOME/.fonts.conf is attached. The font I'm using is Bitstream Vera Sans </my message> The mentioned files are attached to this email too. James Richard Tyrer answered: <answer> > This is interesting. > > If you simply showed these to me without any context, I would say that > the first two (left to right) are hinted for screen display and the > second two are unhinted for WYSIWYG printing. > > KDE-3 and Qt-3 always did fonts as screen hinted which is why some > applications (e.g. KWord) had font printing issues. Since Qt-4 can do > it either way, KDE-4 needs to decide which way that the fonts should be > rendered. So, this would appear to be a bug -- the GUI should always be > screen hinted. </answer> So Qt4 apps maybe do silently the wrong type of font rendering. If you know about this and how to fix it on arch, please share your knowledge. Since there are configuration which are not hit by this (obviously James has one) I would like to ask you're to test if your installtion handles fonts on qt3 and qt4 apps the same way or not. To do so start the i.e kwrite(the kde3 version) and qtconfig (which is a Qt4 app). Pan the "File" entry of qtconfig's menubar to the right of the "File" entry of kwrite's menubar. Now take a screenshot (I used GIMP) and zoom into the "File" - "File" area. To make your results comparable to mine, please chose Bitstream Vera Sans as toolbar font. Thanks in advance, -- Maik

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