October 2011 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] backpac: A package state snapshot and restore tool
by Ethan Schoonover 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

I've finished basic implementation of 'backpac', which is a package state snapshot and restore tool for Arch Linux with config file save/restore support. I've posted a summary to the forum, an AUR package and a github repo: BBS: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127768 AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52957 GIT: https://github.com/altercation/backpac It's alpha but usable and, I hope, useful. Essentially it is a system state save/restore tool. Save lists of (explicitly installed only) groups, packages (separate official/aur). Uses a user created simple list of files to snapshot system config data. Feedback solicited. -Ethan Ethan Schoonover es(a)ethanschoonover.com http://ethanschoonover.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [prerelease] initscripts-2011.09.2-1
by Geert Hendrickx 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 16:00:52 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > * /etc/localtime may now be a symlink, and is not written to unless it is > necessary. Hi, why not always make it a symlink, so updates to tzdata package are applied immediatly and don't require a reboot? Is it for scenario's where /usr is not available? Geert -- geert.hendrickx.be :: geert(a)hendrickx.be :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages!

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[arch-general] ArchLinux Cheat Cube (english)
by Madhurya Kakati 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Hi, I saw cheat cubes for Fedora and Ubuntu. However someone has created a cheatcube for archlinux but it is in Spanish. I was wondering if anyone could translate it into english. Here is the link for the Spanish cheatcube http://elblogdepicodev.blogspot.com/2010/03/arch-linux-cheat-cube.html Thanks.

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0.6-1
by Tobias Powalowski 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches Changes: - changed default governor to ondemand instead of performance - added ubifs support - reworked archlinux MTD session based on fedora # enable rico XD card reader support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25889 # added alix2 led support https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25950 # change default compression to gzip https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25875 # remove ACPI_PROCFS https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25845 greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] python2-werkzeug and python2-flask moved to [community].
by Thomas Dziedzic 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

I decided to pull these brilliant projects into [community]. I have renamed them from python-* to python2-* so please adjust your dependencies accordingly.

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[arch-general] perl-readline-gnu
by Jorge Almeida 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

I'm trying to update the system, and cannot: # pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: shorewall: local (4.4.23.3-1) is newer than custom (4.4.12.1-1) resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: perl and Term-ReadLine-Gnu are in conflict (perl-term-readline). Remove Term-ReadLine-Gnu? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: perl and Term-ReadLine-Gnu are in conflict (perl-term-readline) ~ This is an innovation indeed. What to do? I assume the package perl-term-readline install the Perl package Term::ReadLine. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The Perl package Term::ReadLine does, essentially, nothing. (http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Term-ReadLine-1.07/lib/Term/ReadLine.pm) This is a show-stopper. TIA Jorge Almeida

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[arch-general] Gnome 3.2 - gdm login ignores disabled user list
by Richard Ullger 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

The recent upgrade from 3.0 to 3.2 has caused the gdm login screen to display a list of user names despite /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list being set to true. Was working in 3.0. This has been reported upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660660 Should I log this in FS and link to the upstream bug? Richard.

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[arch-general] gnome 3.2 in testing
by Ionut Biru 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hi, take for a spin gnome 3.2 from testing and report any packaging bugs to our tracker. TUs, check your packages and rebuild for eventually soname bumps(e.g evolution-data-server). NVIDIA users be aware that xorg-server 1.11 from testing is incompatible with the current nvidia driver, even with IgnoreABI. You can switch to nouveau or add xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-synaptics xorg-server-common xorg-server to Ignorepkg. -- Ionuț

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[arch-general] Can't mount a certain type of ISO CDs
by Bastien Dejean 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hi, I can't mount a whole bunch of CDs/DVDs I've burned back in the days I was using Mac OS X. They've been burnt with the 'Hybrid Mac/PC' scheme of the following program: http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html isoinfo -d dev=/dev/sr0 Gives the following output: CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format System id: APPLE COMPUTER, INC., TYPE: 0002 Volume id: MY_CD Volume set id: NOT_SET Publisher id: Data preparer id: Application id: TOAST ISO 9660 BUILDER COPYRIGHT (C) 1997-2005 SONIC SOLUTIONS - HAVE A NICE DAY Copyright File id: Abstract File id: Bibliographic File id: Volume set size is: 1 Volume set sequence number is: 1 Logical block size is: 2048 Volume size is: 2275987 Joliet with UCS level 1 found NO Rock Ridge present Unfortunately, mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd responds: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so and generates the followings dmesg entries: attempt to access beyond end of device sr0: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=sr0, iso_blknum=16, block=16 Regards, -- Bastien

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[arch-general] lxde + fluxbox.
by Javier Vasquez 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hi, I'm not a DE (desktop environment) user, and I'm not planning to become one. I'm pretty comfortable with plain fluxbox... However when people wonders about how to start on a linux kernel based OS, specially to be able to run on old or low end machines, they really expect a DE, not knowing that both major ones (gnome and kde) are really bloated and they better stay out of their way, :-) So LXDE sounds like the DE I'd like to experiment with, but I'd like to use fluxbox instead of openbox. I'm not familiar with LXDE, so perhaps a pointer to a tutorial or howto for this WM switch might be useful. I'd guess is not just calling startfluxbox in some configuration file (like ~/.xinitrc), but some care is required for keyboard management as well since fluxbox offer its own keybinding, :-) Also I'd liek to know what problems are to be faced because of using fluxbox before hand if possible... Any help will be greatly appreciated, :-) Thanks, -- Javier.

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