January 2010 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit
by Joerg.Schilling＠fokus.fraunhofer.de 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Jan de Groot wrote: >It seems that GPL and CDDL have some conflicting paragraphs, so even if >CDDL allows linking to GPL with this exception, GPL doesn't allow the >other way around. I am not sure where you have this idea from.... The CDDL allows to combine CDDL code with other code and the GPL permits to link any GPLv2 program against any independent library under any license. Note that the GPL is an asymmetric license that disallows code based on GPLd software but if a program _uses_ a library, the library definitely is not based on the program code that just uses the library code. The common understanding of the laywers in Germany and the USA on what's happening when a program links against a library is that this creates a so called "collective work" which is not a derived work. The GPL definitely allows such collective works. See page 114 ff. in: http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf Lawrence Rosen is the legal advisor of the OpenSource Initiative opensource.org. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js(a)cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

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[arch-general] Software RAID w/ 4 Drives Fails
by Carlos Williams 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

I am successfully able to install Arch Linux with 3 drives in a RAID5 array on Arch Linux using: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2 Now when I attempt the install with 4 physical disks and add the same command above with just attaching /dev/sdd2 and changing the # of devices from 3 to 4, I get a failure. When I reboot the system I lose keyboard and it asks me to enter a run level. Obviously I can't troubleshoot more because I have no keyboard. What command should I use to create a RAID5 with more disk space (no hot spare) using 4 drives? My commands and install method work perfect with 3 drives but 4 and the system crashes upon reboot. Any tips?

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.6-1
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Hi guys, bump to latest bugfix version. Please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] pciutils-3.1.6-1
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Hi bump to latest version. Please signoff both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] List of community packages deleted/moved and still on FTP
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

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[arch-general] PulseAudio
by Xavier Chantry 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > If you want to read up on the different sound components, just do a > google search. There's tons of articles out there, some very good, > mostly a bit crap. Lennart Pottering (dev for Pulse) has a > particularly good one I recall. Most on Arch wouldn't like his > conclusions though. > I collected some article/blogs about pulseaudio, in case anyone is interested. 1) PA detractor (both articles have been slashdotted) http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2007/05/sorry-state-of-sound-in-linux.html http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sor… 2) PA defenders interview of Lennart Poettering (PA dev at redhat) http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/05/sound-of-fedora-11.html his blog : http://0pointer.de/blog/projects Many info about PA there, just one example : http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html blog of colin guthr (another PA dev) : http://colin.guthr.ie/tag/pulseaudio/ Also many interesting articles, for example : http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-anti-fud-calm-certainty-and-co… (answer to 1)) http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-is-confusing-defuzzing-part-1-… http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-is-confusing-defuzzing-part-2-… ------------------ If you are just interested about getting PA working, and not about the how and why, you should probably just read the following wiki, instead of all the links above : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup

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[arch-general] alsa-tools
by fons＠kokkinizita.net 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Is there any good reason why alsa-tools is not available from core or extra and only (in bits and pieces) from AUR ? Tools like envy24ctl or hdspmixer are really not an option when you use one of the soundcards they are meant to control. You need them for things to work at all. Any other distros I know would put them in the equivalent of core. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !

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[arch-general] unclean filesystem
by christopher floess 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Uh, this might be a quick question, since it's a little abstract. I'm dual booting and I've noticed that every time I boot into Arch after I've booted into one of my other systems, there is a forced file system check. It's not a huge deal, because I use Arch almost exclusively, but I have to say, I cringe at the thought of having to boot into one of the other systems now. How would you trouble shoot this? I have also never seen a system where after every ~20 reboots, a file system check is mandatory. This might just be my ignorance here, so a reference to some background about that part of the boot process might suffice. Thanks in advance. -- chris

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[arch-general] esmtp 1.2
by Kitty 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

New version has been out for a bit, here's the diff to update the pkg in community. It builds ok (i686) for me. --- /var/abs/community/esmtp/PKGBUILD 2010-01-25 05:21:42.000000000 -0700 +++ PKGBUILD 2010-01-25 20:49:35.076474428 -0700 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ # Contributor : Aaron Griffin <aaron(a)archlinux.org> pkgname=esmtp -pkgver=1.0 +pkgver=1.2 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="an easy smtp forwarder" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ provides=('smtp-server') install=esmtp.install source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/esmtp/$pkgname-$pkgver… -md5sums=('e4c4e00eecb70b528a9d772d2e633b29') +md5sums=('79a9c1f9023d53f35bb82bf446150a72') build() { -- Kitty

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[arch-general] fvwm-devel's dependencies
by 大熊 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

I want to install the fvwm-devel, but why it depend on gtk 1.2.10-10? ** fvwm-devel Dependencies (7): * fribidi * imlib * librsvg * libstroke * libxpm * perl * readline>=6.0.00 when I ask some ubuntu user, they say fvwm is only depended on gtk2 under ubuntu. libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libfribidi0 (>= 0.10.9), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.17.0), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libreadline5 (>= 5.2), librplay3 (>= 3.3.2-2), librsvg2-2 (>= 2.26.0), libsm6, libstroke0 (>= 0.5.1), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxft2 (> 2.1.1), libxinerama1, libxpm4, libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) what is the different from arch and ubunut's packaging?

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