August 2009 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] KDE4.3 upgrade
by Manne Merak 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Just upgraded to KDE4.3 and for some reason almost all possible KDE apps were installed alongside the upgraded packages? anyone know why? Also I lost the ability to play MP3s in Amarok. Manne

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[arch-general] In defense of pacman.static
by Piyush P Kurur 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hi, This is my first posting on Arch-general. I am one of the recent converts to the Arch religion from the Debian religion. I am writing this in defense of the pacman.static package from archlinuxfr site. I have been running for Arch on a server, a laptop and an eeepc box for a while. The server and laptop were updated almost regularly may be once every 3 days where as the eeepc was not upgraded for about 2 months. So I hit pacman -Syu on eeepc and it first asked to install the new pacman version. I went ahead and then with the new pacman I had a problem. It would just not run as a shared library was missing. I was stuck. One way was to reinstall the thing again, I hate this. The other solution which I now describe might be known but still it might be interesting if you get stuck in a similar situation. Imagin that you are install Arch linux sitting in another distro. You would have started with installing the pacman.static package first and then syncing the packages into the directory which will be your new arch root. Something like $ mount /dev/sda2 /media/target $ # copy the mirror list and pacman.conf in the appropriate place $ pacman.static --root /media/target -Sy base Now that you are already in Arch all you have to do is the last line. In my case I just had to install the xz-utils package absense of which was creating the problem. $ pacman.static -S xz-utils The pacman upgrade some how did not install this package. I guess this is a bug. After that the pacman started working fine and I did the following $ pacman -Syu Note. This might be a problem with my pacman.conf. I probably had to install things in the right order. Regards ppk

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Re: [arch-general] xzgv, rtorrent and libtorrent have been orphaned - where can I apply for maintainership ?
by Partha Chowdhury 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:58:17PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Partha Chowdhury wrote: > >i have been using archlinux for about 3 months.I have switched from > >fedora to arch due to its simplicity. > >i had reported a bug > >http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15199?string=xzgv&project=1&type[0]=&sev[0]=… > >when i first started using arch.Recently it has been fixed and i have > >tested and reported it. > > > >However it seems that xzgv package is currently orphaned as this page > >shows > >http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/xzgv/ > >so is rtorrent and libtorrent.They have been marked out-of-date for > >a while now. > > > >is another trusted user or developer will be maintaining the packages in > >the future ? > > > >i want to help and i want to maintain the above packages if someone else > >has not decided already. so where do i apply and how do i start ? > > Note that all community packages are orphans at the moment due to > the backend transition that is ongoing. > > I notice that xzgv 0.9.1 is now released. If you tell me whether > updated version needs the patch provided in the bug report, I will > do the update. > > Allan > no , xzgv 0.9.1 does not need the patch. it is for xzgv-0.9 release.simply updating the xzgv package will solve it. About the backend transition - does that mean maintainers of the packages in the community repo cannot update their packages at the moment or is there some other problem ? Should i email the maintainers personally to make a request to update ?

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[arch-general] xzgv, rtorrent and libtorrent have been orphaned - where can I apply for maintainership ?
by Partha Chowdhury 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

i have been using archlinux for about 3 months.I have switched from fedora to arch due to its simplicity. i had reported a bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15199?string=xzgv&project=1&type[0]=&sev[0]=… when i first started using arch.Recently it has been fixed and i have tested and reported it. However it seems that xzgv package is currently orphaned as this page shows http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/xzgv/ so is rtorrent and libtorrent.They have been marked out-of-date for a while now. is another trusted user or developer will be maintaining the packages in the future ? i want to help and i want to maintain the above packages if someone else has not decided already. so where do i apply and how do i start ?

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Re: [arch-general] [*] Re: In defense of pacman.static
by Piyush P Kurur 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 07:12:55PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > ludovic coues wrote: >> It's a problem with the default pacman.conf I suppose. >> By default, pacman is configured to upgrade itself first. If he have upgrade >> itself, but forget to bring dependencies with it, it's a shame. >> >> I think this is a bug with the FirstSync option in pacman.conf >> > > Its not actually... it is a bug with pacman's deps. It requires > libarchive>=2.7.0-2 and not just 2.7.0 > > Allan Do I report this bug ? Regards ppk

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[arch-general] soundcard order is not maintained after recent updates
by kira.laucas＠gmail.com 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

i have two soundcards. one is creative soundblaster live and the other is onboard nvidia soundcard. the kernel modules are snd-emu10k1x and snd-hda-intel respectively. Before the recent updates i used to put snd-emu10k1x before snd-hda-intel in /etc/rc.conf in the MODULES array to force the soundblaster card to be soundcard 0. But after the most recent updates this setting does not work. After going through archwiki and googling i found that either i can put "options snd_emu10k1x index=0" in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf or i can create a custom asoundrc file in my home directory which will serve my purpose. so my question is that is the new udev does not load modules according to /etc/rc.conf ?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] How the use of "provides" can damage the dependency tree
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Allan McRae wrote: > Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> Am Sonntag 02 August 2009 11:26:51 schrieb Roman Kyrylych: >> >>> Okay, then how we currently check that subversion needs >>> to be rebuilt on db or heimdal soname bump? >>> >> >> That's where the link database would help a lot. >> > > Or the rebuild script I have posted which scans all the packages in > the repos in a few minutes. > Or visit this url to check the deps of the desired pkg http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/i686/core/heimdal-1.2.1-5 http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/x86_64/core/openssl-0.9.8k-4 etc, etc. http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/ That I update it regulary, 1-3 times per week, depending of amount of pkgs that are updated in repos. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[arch-general] autofs orphaned
by JM 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hello, I have been using autofs with my local and remote filesystems for some time. With an update to version 5.0 numerous bugs were introduced forcing many users, including me, to downgrade. On May 2nd, Andrea Scrapino who was the autofs maintainer at the time, orphaned the package and asked on arch-dev-public if some other dev would be interested in maintaining the package. Three months later autofs is still orphaned and autofs bugs assigned to BaSH haunt the bugtracker [1]. Will autofs be deprecated? If so, what compatible alternatives are there? Kind regards, JM [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=autofs&project=1

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[arch-general] no lzma man
by Caleb Cushing 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

man lzma doesn't come up with anything although other lz* tools refer to an lzma man page -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] What up with the mirrors? Errors using the .pacnew mirrorlist
by David C. Rankin 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Listmates, Today I'm gettign mirror failures: 16:37 alchemy:/etc/pacman.d> pms -u :: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from archlinux.unixheads.org : Not Found error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.easynews.com : Protocol error error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.easynews.com : Forbidden error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) Should this problem solve itself in a day or so? -- 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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