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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.41-1
by Tobias Powalowski 24 May '11

24 May '11

Latest LTS kernel is in testing, please signoff for 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] Finishing off the package signing issue -- call for contributors
by Kerrick Staley 20 May '11

20 May '11

Hello, I'm new to this mailing list, but my name's Kerrick Staley. I'm fairly new to the Arch community: I've used Arch for 2.5 years now. I would like to spearhead an effort to finish the implementation of signed packages in Arch that Allan has gone to the effort to start. I've only been working on the issue for about 4 days now and don't have much to show yet, but I'm sending this message out to stop the bickering as well as to query for interested developers who would be willing to help me (no background knowledge required, just strong coding skills, patience, and dedication). Please reply to this message if you are interested. It seems there are a lot of users who would like this feature and can contribute, but are prevented by a lack of documentation and technical knowledge, so I will create plenty of documentation regarding the issue and what needs doing. I should warn that I'm a rather inexperienced programmer in the broad scale of things and am unfamiliar with pacman's source code, so I ask that developers on the pacman-dev mailing list have extra patience when I ask questions. I'm sure that even just the cessation of angry signing-related inquiries to this list will be reward enough for your help as I implement this feature. I would like this feature to be in active use in 3 months, 2 if possible. Since a working system will require cooperation and understanding from all developers, the human aspects of this project may prove more difficult than the actual coding, therefore ***I ask that all Developers and Trusted Users stay tuned to this list and read future information I will give regarding system configuration and key management.*** I might be busy this weekend, but I should have some things started within a couple of days. Thanks, Kerrick Staley

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[arch-general] rc.d bash completion
by Auguste Pop 19 May '11

19 May '11

i wrote a very simple rc.d bash completion script. is there any chance it can be used upstream? the script is uploaded to http://paste.pocoo.org/show/391283/ it is also copy-pasted here for your convenience: #!/bin/bash _rc.d_getdaemons () { /usr/bin/find "$1" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf '%f\n' } _rc.d_arraydiff () { local arr declare -A arr for elem in "${!1}" do arr[$elem]=1 done for elem in "${!2}" do unset arr[$elem] done echo "${!arr[@]}" } _rc.d () { local command commands available started local cur words cword commands="list help start stop restart" available=($(_rc.d_getdaemons /etc/rc.d)) started=($(_rc.d_getdaemons /run/daemons)) _get_comp_words_by_ref -n =: cur words cword [ $cword -gt 1 ] && command=${words[1]} if [ -z "$command" ] then COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$commands" -- $cur)) else case "$command" in start) COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$(_rc.d_arraydiff \ available[@] started[@])" -- $cur)) ;; stop|restart) COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W "$(echo ${started[@]})" -- $cur)) ;; list|help|*) COMPREPLY=() ;; esac fi } complete -F _rc.d rc.d

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[arch-general] postfix rc.d script
by Milos Negovanovic 18 May '11

18 May '11

Hi all, On my workstation I have LXC (linux containers) setup and postfix rc.d script does not work on the host. I think reason for this is the way it gets the PID of the master process: PID=$(pidof -o %PPID /usr/lib/postfix/master) On my host this value is: pidof -o %PPID /usr/lib/postfix/master 29187 27623 881 As you can see it catches all master processes running in all LXC containers! Needless to say rc.d script doesn't work. Whats the idea behind using pidof? Storing the PID in /var/run is not an option? -- Milos Negovanovic milos.negovanovic(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] Battery status files created on the fly?
by Norbert Zeh 18 May '11

18 May '11

Hi folks, I've run into a weird problem with monitoring the status of my laptop battery. Since I assume I'm doing something wrong, I thought I'd ask for feedback here first before going and filing a bug report. Here goes: When my machine boots, /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0 and all the files in it do not exist: $ ls /sys/class/power_supply AC Since my battery monitor uses this as the source of information, it obviously fails. Now, as soon as I query the state of the battery through /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0, the missing files under /sys/class/power_supply get created: $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: discharging present rate: 1265 mA remaining capacity: 4234 mAh present voltage: 11340 mV $ ls /sys/class/power_supply AC BAT0 This is not just a timeout issue. If I don't query /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state, /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0 does not get created even after a few hours of uptime. Also, after suspending, the files remain present but cannot be read. Querying the battery through the /proc interface once again brings everything back to normal. Now what's funny about this is that I read online that the /proc/acpi/battery interface is deprecated and that the /sys/... interface should be used instead. Yet, without querying the former, the latter doesn't even exist. Did anybody run into similar issues? Does anybody have any ideas how to fix this "the proper way"? (My workaround right now is to include "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state > /dev/null" in rc.local, but that's obviously a hack.) Thanks for any pointers you may give. Cheers, Norbert PS: Machine is Dell Latitude E6510 running 64-bit ARCH.

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[arch-general] error try install foobnix
by Carlos Alberto Ospina 18 May '11

18 May '11

Hi Archer, Start using archlinux. I want to install Foobnix and when trying toinstall the python-keybinder unit displays the following error: checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for style of include used by make... none checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl.exe... no configure: error: in `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-cabeto/aur-libkeybinder/src/keybinder-0.2.2': configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. I appreciate your help respect thanx

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[arch-general] 2011.05-2 archboot "2k11-R2" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 17 May '11

17 May '11

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2011.05-2, "2k11-R2" has been released. To avoid confusion, this is not an official arch linux iso release! Homepage and for more information on archboot: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119109 Summary: - bump to latest kernels and introduce pacman 3.5.2 Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository. Please check md5sum before using it. Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives. Please get it from your favorite arch linux mirror: - https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2011.05/ - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2011.05/ Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] DropBox problem
by Bernardo Barros 17 May '11

17 May '11

Hi, Recently I am having problems with DropBox. I have it installed (1.1.31-1)and there is indeed a file named "/opt/dropbox/dropbox", but the daemon seems not to find it: ~/ dropboxd /usr/bin/dropboxd: line 10: /opt/dropbox/dropbox: No such file or directory That's only me or other people had this bug too? Cheers Bernardo

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[arch-general] farsight2/gstreamer dependencies pull a lot of gnome related stuff
by Marek Otahal 17 May '11

17 May '11

Hi, a recent update wants to bring in a lot of new gnome/gstreamer-plugins dependencies, like gtk3,gconf etc..is that really necessary? On my system, kde-meta-kdemultimedia needs farsight2, which seems to cause all the new dependencies. Should the dependencies be reviewed or do I really need all that? Thanks, Mark $ yaourt -Syu Password: :: Synchronizing package databases... testing 13.2K 180.6K/s 00:00:00 [#####################################] 100% core 37.9K 195.5K/s 00:00:00 [#####################################] 100% extra is up to date community-testing is up to date community 444.8K 423.0K/s 00:00:01 [#####################################] 100% kernel26-ck is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date ==> Package upgrade only (new release): extra/liblqr 0.4.1-1 1 -> 2 extra/pkgstats 2.1-4 4 -> 5 ==> Software upgrade (new version) : testing/grep 2.7-1 -> 2.8-1 testing/pixman 0.20.2-1 -> 0.22.0-1 extra/gstreamer0.10 0.10.32-1 -> 0.10.34-1 extra/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.32-4 -> 0.10.34-1 extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.32-4 -> 0.10.34-1 extra/farsight2 0.0.26-1 -> 0.0.28-1 extra/poppler 0.16.4-1 -> 0.16.5-1 extra/poppler-qt 0.16.4-1 -> 0.16.5-1 extra/telepathy-glib 0.14.5-1 -> 0.14.6-1 extra/telepathy-farsight 0.0.17-1 -> 0.0.18-1 ==> New package : extra/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.29-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- plugins) extra/libavc1394 0.5.3-3 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- plugins) extra/libiec61883 1.2.0-2 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- plugins) extra/libdv 1.0.0-3 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- plugins) extra/audiofile 0.2.7-1 (required by esound) extra/esound 0.2.41-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- plugins) extra/orbit2 2.14.19-1 (required by gconf) extra/gtk3 3.0.9-2 (required by gconf) extra/gconf 2.32.3-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- plugins) extra/wavpack 4.60.1-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- plugins) extra/gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.0.1-2 (required by glib-networking) extra/glib-networking 2.28.6.1-2 (required by libsoup) extra/libsoup 2.34.1-1 (required by libsoup-gnome) extra/libgnome-keyring 3.0.1-1 (required by libsoup-gnome) extra/libsoup-gnome 2.34.1-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- plugins) extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.29-1 (required by farsight2) extra/gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.22-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- plugins) extra/libdc1394 2.1.3-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- plugins) extra/libmms 0.6-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- plugins) extra/libcdaudio 0.99.12-5 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- plugins) extra/mjpegtools 1.9.0-4 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- plugins) extra/soundtouch 1.5.0-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- plugins) extra/gsm 1.0.13-6 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- plugins) extra/rtmpdump 2.3-3 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- plugins) extra/libgme 0.6.0-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- plugins) extra/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.22-1 (required by farsight2) ==> Continue upgrade ? [Y/n] ==> [V]iew package detail [M]anually select packages ==> -------------------------------------------------- ==> $ yaourt -Rcsn farsight2 checking dependencies... Remove (20): kde-meta-kdenetwork-4.6-1.2 [0.00 MB] kdenetwork-krdc-4.6.3-1 [0.91 MB] telepathy-qt4-0.5.16-1 [6.31 MB] telepathy-farsight-0.0.17-1 [0.22 MB] farsight2-0.0.26-1 [1.38 MB] kdenetwork-filesharing-4.6.3-1 [1.61 MB] kdenetwork-kdnssd-4.6.3-1 [0.07 MB] kdenetwork-kget-4.6.3-1 [4.16 MB] kdenetwork-kopete-4.6.3-1 [18.58 MB] kdenetwork-kppp-4.6.3-1 [3.02 MB] kdenetwork-krfb-4.6.3-1 [0.77 MB] rdesktop-1.7.0-1 [0.37 MB] telepathy-glib-0.14.5-1 [17.67 MB] gstreamer0.10-python-0.10.21-1 [1.16 MB] libnice-0.1.0-1 [1.18 MB] libgadu-1.10.1-1 [0.23 MB] libmsn-4.1-2 [1.02 MB] libotr-3.2.0-2 [0.38 MB] qca- ossl-2.0.0-3 [0.30 MB] ppp-2.4.5-2 [0.82 MB] Total Removed Size: 60.18 MB -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] go community package bug #19730
by Mike Rosset 17 May '11

17 May '11

This bug has been open for a year now. Can somebody please look at the attached patches. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19730 Regards, Mike

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