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

[arch-general] Inclusion of wvdial in the ISO
by Nilesh Govindarajan 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Hi, Recently I've been going to my friends' house and installing arch on their boxes. Some of them had high speed wireless dialup internet (3.1 megabytes/s is the max) which required wvdial, so I had to carry wvdial's package in another pen drive. It would be nice if wvdial was included in the ISO, so such people can have the latest system if they conduct an FTP install. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] RAID Fails Due To Metadata
by Carlos Mennens 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

I noticed today I tried to create a new system using 'Software / Fake RAID' on Arch with the 'mdadm' utility. I have not done this for a year or so but realized that when I tried now on my new system, it failed and then I tried it again and read between the lines... mdadm: Note: this array has metadata at the start and may not be suitable as a boot device. If you plan to store '/boot' on this device, please ensure that your boot-loader understands md/v1.x metadata, or use --metadata=0.90 So then I created my array as follows: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --metadata=0.90 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 Is there a way to get Grub to read / access the default metadata that the 'mdadm' utility uses?

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[arch-general] [namcap] [PATCH] Check for packages that should be 'any'
by David Campbell 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

If a package has no elf files but is not 'any', throw a warning saying that the package could be 'any'. --- Namcap/anyelf.py | 18 ++++++++++-------- namcap-tags | 1 + 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Namcap/anyelf.py b/Namcap/anyelf.py index f3414af..c037ff0 100644 --- a/Namcap/anyelf.py +++ b/Namcap/anyelf.py @@ -33,20 +33,22 @@ class package: def short_name(self): return "anyelf" def long_name(self): - return "If package is 'any' architecture, check for ELF files" + return """Check for ELF files to see if a package should be 'any' + architecture""" def prereq(self): return "extract" def analyze(self, pkginfo, data): ret = [[], [], []] - if pkginfo.arch and pkginfo.arch[0] != 'any': - return ret found_elffiles = [] - os.path.walk(data, scanelf, found_elffiles) - if len(found_elffiles) > 0: - for i in found_elffiles: - ret[0].append(("elffile-in-any-package %s", i)) - + + if pkginfo.arch and pkginfo.arch[0] == 'any': + if len(found_elffiles) > 0: + for i in found_elffiles: + ret[0].append(("elffile-in-any-package %s", i)) + else: + if len(found_elffiles) == 0: + ret[1].append(("no-elffiles-and-not-any-package", ())) return ret def type(self): diff --git a/namcap-tags b/namcap-tags index acb8e9c..4040136 100644 --- a/namcap-tags +++ b/namcap-tags @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ missing-license :: Missing license missing-maintainer :: Missing Maintainer tag missing-checksums :: Missing checksums missing-url :: Missing url +no-elffiles-and-not-any-package :: No ELF files and not an "any" package non-fhs-info-page %s :: Non-FHS info page (%s) found. Use /usr/share/info instead non-fhs-man-page %s :: Non-FHS man page (%s) found. Use /usr/share/man instead not-a-common-license %s :: %s is not a common license (it's not in /usr/share/licenses/common/) -- 1.7.1.1

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[arch-general] [PATCH 01/48] Bashification of initscripts
by Victor Lowther 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Despite efforts to make the initscripts POSIX, we use bash 4.0 features. Bashifying this framework should result in about a 30% speedup, assuming no IO latency and that all programs we call also take zero time. :) --- functions | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/functions b/functions index 672eed2..023de35 100644 --- a/functions +++ b/functions @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# +#!/bin/bash # initscripts functions # -- 1.7.1

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[arch-general] The principle behind MSN & Yahoo invisible scanners?
by Nilesh Govindarajan 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Go to google.com and search for MSN & Yahoo invisible scanners. You'll find a big list. So what's the principle of their working? I'm thinking of writing a pidgin plugin to catch invisible buddies. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] Something is wrong with xbindkeys
by 大熊 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

I use xbindkeys under kde4 (start xbindkeys with kde's autorun), add some hotkeys: win+a, win+c, win+h, win+j, ... When kde4.4, All are OK. Few days ago I upgraded to kde4.5 , So something is wrong: When I just enter desktop, some keys( win+h, win+j) would be invalid, but when I restart xbindkeys, All keys will be OK again!

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] inkscape finding a maintainer
by Loui Chang 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

On Mon 30 Aug 2010 19:24 +0200, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2010-08-30 19:54:44 +0300] Ionuț Bîru: > > Does anyone in our dev team uses inkscape like a daily bases and > > wants to maintain it? > > I use it about once a week or so; if you want inkscape to stay in > [extra] I could maintain it. Now if Laurent wants it, I'm also happy to > have it go to [community]. Hey... Did we gain some new developers that went unannounced?

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[arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds
by Caleb Cushing 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Does anyone know if the workarounds are still needed or if that was a fixed bug? I read the changelog but was unable to discern whether or not these were on the list of fixed kwin bugs. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.com

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[arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working
by Linus Eklöf 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

After an upgrade in the beginning of summer (don't remember what was updated) my hal fdi files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy stopped working, I had to change the keyboard mapping in the xfce settings and haven't been able to use my joypad since. I can't find anything on it with google and I've upgraded my system a couple of times since, but it still isn't working. Anybody who knows what might cause this?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Evangelos Foutras 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 18/08/10 01:46, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have pushed the new python (3.1) and python2 (2.7) packages to the new >> [staging] repo so rebuilds can start there. Remember the staging repo >> should never be used outside a build chroot... If you do, everything >> python related will break on your system. >> >> TUs will not be able to start uploading rebuilds yet as they do not have >> a staging equivalent, but we will sort something out for them once we >> get all the db-scripts/devtools changes tested for the main one first. >> The package pool is going to save us a heap of issues when this gets >> moved so it is worth the wait. >> >> >> The key things to remember with the rebuild are: >> >> - build in clean chroots. Most packages will detect "python2" or >> "python-2.7" once they see no "python" and use that. Some will need >> simple patching. >> >> - change your dependencies to python2 >> >> - check files for #!'s with "/usr/bin/python" or "/usr/bin/env python". >> If you have those you will need to do a sed to change them to python2. >> >> >> If you come across a package that you can not easily fix, add it to >> >> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List#Packages… >> and I will take a look at it. >> > > Just a reminder for people to look at their packages and rebuild them for > this. We seem to of stalled majorly... > > Allan Any updates regarding the creation of a [community-staging] repository?

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