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FLTK 1.4.4 package in extra repo
by Robert Arkiletian 23 Nov '25

23 Nov '25

Hello, I am one of the upstream maintainers of pyfltk https://pyfltk.sourceforge.io/ I adopted the orphaned python-pyfltk package in the AUR. In the process of creating a PKGBUILD, I noticed that the FLTK 1.4.4 package in the extra repo is not built with Wayland support. One of the main new features of FLTK 1.4 is that it now has native Wayland support. Hence, pyfltk 1.4 now also has native Wayland support. I would like to request that FLTK be re-built with Wayland support. Here are some of the missing makedepends packages cairo pango libdecor wayland-protocols There may be more packages required. You can verify that wayland is supported from the output of the cmake command. The README.Wayland.txt in the FLTK source tree describes the dependencies for other distros like Debian and Fedora.

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AUR - connection issues 11/17 at 0600 zulu - hopefully just maintenance?
by David C Rankin 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

All, Last night around 0600 GMT, I had difficulties reaching AUR. I would get "nginx gateway 502" errors and "Command Not Found" rendered in the browser at other times. When connections were successful, they would take 10 - 20 seconds to actually return content. Then clicking links on a package page, like "View PKGBUILD" would fail (as described above) Hopefully this was just maintenance and not another surge of bots. I thought I would drop a message about it -- though I have every confidence the web wizards at Arch already know. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Fwd: How do I advise users to install the arch package for Cpdf?
by Andy Pieters 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 at 15:56, Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > Hi John, > > Max wrote: > > "cpdf can be installed from the AUR > > (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cpdf) using the normal methods" > > He's right, an ArchLinux user will know about the AUR, but you can refer > them to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository as > a starting point if you wish to make sure. > > I think it's important to keep the disconnect and do point people to the wiki like Max says rather than just say "install helper", *and* to highlight that AUR is *user* content, not subject to the normal QA and vetting from the main repository, and not endorsed by Arch

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How do I advise users to install the arch package for Cpdf?
by John Whitington 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

Hello, Someone has kindly provided an Arch package for a piece of software I wrote: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cpdf I had thought it could be installed with pacman -S cpdf, and not being an arch user, that's what I'd put in the documentation. In fact, this is not true, because it's in the AUR. I installed Arch, and yay, and ran: yay -S cpdf which completed successfully. But running 'cpdf' at the command line cannot find the command. And yet, from the comments, other people are using it successfully. Any advice on what I can tell my users? Or a better venue to ask this question? Thanks, John -- John Whitington Director, Coherent Graphics Ltd https://www.coherentpdf.com/

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Connection timeout when accessing Arch GitLab
by DodoGTA GT 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

Hello I've been having issues accessing the Arch Linux GitLab (gitlab.archlinux.org) for more than a week now Every time I try to access that domain, the connection keeps timing out (and `ping` command shows a 100% packet loss) Here's what `tracepath` command outputs for reference: ❯ tracepath gitlab.archlinux.org 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway 0.818ms 1: _gateway 0.674ms 2: <ISP address> 9.205ms 3: decix2-gw.hetzner.com 30.104ms 4: core21.fsn1.hetzner.com 34.806ms 5: ex9k2.dc13.fsn1.hetzner.com 34.676ms 6: no reply What's strange is that I can access every other Arch Linux service fine (including the AUR which has been unstable in the past few weeks) Also I've already set up DNS-over-HTTPS (so DNS shouldn't be an issue) and I've had an Arch DevOps person check my IP to confirm it isn't blocked (so it might be some further upstream issue like Hetzner?) And finally, accessing the website via Tor/Tor Browser works and I was even able to do a `git push` (so that's a workaround I could use for now) Hopefully a resolution can happen in the near future (because I'm a bit annoyed by this issue at this point) Thanks

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Lost OTP authenticator
by whiteman808＠paraboletancza.org 08 Nov '25

08 Nov '25

I lost OTP authenticator and I'm no longer be able to log in to gitlab.archlinux.org. I tried to send mail to accountsupport(a)archlinux.org but I didn't get answer.

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Re: Possible to script pacman -U to automate swap between dovecot 2.3/2.4, or 2.4/2.3?
by Pocket 07 Nov '25

07 Nov '25

On 11/7/25 3:20 PM, David C Rankin wrote: > On 11/6/25 5:01 PM, Pocket wrote: >> I use the btrfs filesystem, I create a subvolume for version 1 and >> install the base packages and the "old version" It is configured and >> boots and "runs" using systemd-nspawn. >> >> I then create a subvolume for version 2, install the base packages and >> the "old version" It is configured and boots and "runs" using >> systemd- nspawn. >> >> I then can use machinectl to run/start a "version" and then I can shut >> it down and run the other, ie >> machinectl start "version 1" >> machine login "version 1" >> >> when I am finished then >> >> machinectl start "version 2" >> machine login "version 2" >> >> systemd containers are your friend > > Thanks! > > That's something I've not looked into yet. I've avoided btrfs and > stayed on ext4 --- I also run opensuse and lived through the development > years when btrfs would regularly exhaust drive space leaving users > without a usable system. > > It's matured, but there are also distros now dropping it, so that has > been another ding against my trying it. The systemd container aspect > does as a huge capability to its arsenal. I'll have to read up. > ls /var/lib/machines/ DNS PiHole machinectl list MACHINE CLASS SERVICE OS VERSION ADDRESSES DNS container systemd-nspawn archarm - - PiHole container systemd-nspawn archarm - - - base packages are installed to DNS and PiHole. bind is installed into the DNS subvolume and pihole is installed into the PiHole subvolume. They are started at boot. They are separate from the "Root" subvolume that the system boots to. This keeps all the "services" separate from the boot system and I don't have the bind and pihole packages installed/mixed into the "root system". I am currently creating a subvolume for nginx to provide web service to the local network. btrfs subvolume list /mnt ID 256 gen 9111 top level 5 path Root ID 257 gen 9099 top level 5 path Home ID 258 gen 8452 top level 5 path Pkgs ID 259 gen 263 top level 256 path Root/var/lib/portables ID 260 gen 9100 top level 256 path Root/var/lib/machines ID 261 gen 9111 top level 5 path PiHole ID 262 gen 263 top level 261 path PiHole/var/lib/portables ID 263 gen 1005 top level 261 path PiHole/var/lib/machines ID 264 gen 9110 top level 5 path DNS ID 265 gen 1005 top level 264 path DNS/var/lib/portables ID 266 gen 1005 top level 264 path DNS/var/lib/machines Overall: Device size: 27.31GiB Device allocated: 4.57GiB Device unallocated: 22.74GiB Device missing: 0.00B Device slack: 0.00B Used: 2.35GiB Free (estimated): 24.65GiB (min: 13.28GiB) Free (statfs, df): 24.65GiB Data ratio: 1.00 Metadata ratio: 2.00 Global reserve: 7.53MiB (used: 0.00B) Multiple profiles: no Data,single: Size:4.01GiB, Used:2.10GiB (52.32%) /dev/mmcblk0p2 4.01GiB Metadata,DUP: Size:256.00MiB, Used:129.83MiB (50.71%) /dev/mmcblk0p2 512.00MiB System,DUP: Size:32.00MiB, Used:16.00KiB (0.05%) /dev/mmcblk0p2 64.00MiB Unallocated: /dev/mmcblk0p2 22.74GiB I have compress=lzo turned on all volumes -- Hindi madali ang maging ako

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Possible to script pacman -U to automate swap between dovecot 2.3/2.4, or 2.4/2.3?
by David C Rankin 06 Nov '25

06 Nov '25

Arch pacman gurus, I'd thought I would automate the swap between dovecot versions for testing between dovecot23 and dovecot with pacman -U --noconfirm, but since pacman considers dovecot23 and dovecot to be in conflict, the upgrade fails with: :: dovecot-2.4.2-3 and dovecot23-2.3.21.1-3 are in conflict. Remove dovecot23? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: dovecot-2.4.2-3 and dovecot23-2.3.21.1-3 are in conflict Job for dovecot.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status dovecot.service" and "journalctl -xeu dovecot.service" for details. Manually swapping is easy enough, it just takes a little more time to do the service stop, pacman upgrade, copy the changed configs and restart the service. Is there any way to script around the dovecot23/dovecot conflict issue? Moreover, since dovecot23 and dovecot are single packages, why the conflict? Seems a warning about config breakage would be appropriate, but the user should be able to swap between them without triggering a conflict. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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dovecot 2.4
by Friedrich Strohmaier 04 Nov '25

04 Nov '25

Hi @all, does anybody know, why dovecot 2.4 didn't make it into extra until now? Couldn't find any info about it. best Friedrich

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Fwd: News draft: dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention
by David C Rankin 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

Thank you Thore, Preserving 2.3, while maintained, to provide replication functionality is much appreciated. Smart move. Draft of announcement seems fine. (posted to arch-general as no reply capability to arch-dev-public) -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: News draft: dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:54:34 +0100 From: Thore Bödecker <foxxx0(a)archlinux.org> To: arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org Hi folks, the upstream dovecot 2.4 branch comes with handful of breaking changes, mostly concerning configuration semantics and syntax. For this, upstream provides a migration guide [1]. We've kept dovecot 2.4.1 in [testing] for quite some time and it received a decent number of signoffs. There was already a bit of chatter on arch-general regarding the availability of a dovecot 2.4 package in [extra]. While slightly unintentional, I've built and pushed todays upstream release version 2.4.2 to [extra]. However, there is a feature disparity: the 2.4 branch no longer supports replication. My own setup relies on that particular feature and I've grown quite fond of it, so I'm a bit sad to see it going away. As per upstreams EOL announcement [2], the 2.3 branch is supposedly going to receive critical secrity fixes, which I considered "maintained enough" to warrant packaging it separately until upstream fully drops it. The following packages are now available in [extra]: - dovecot23 - pigeonhole23 - dovecot23-fts-elastic - dovecot23-fts-xapian Where applicable, they are configured with the necessary conflicts/provides. The most recent dovecot-2.4.2-3 build also contains the following dovecot.install notice: > ==> Dovecot 2.4 is incompatible with older configurations and requires manual intervention. > ==> Refer to 'https://doc.dovecot.org/latest/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html' for upgrading instructions. > ==> Alternatively, there is a dovecot23 (and pigeonhole23) package available. Given the fact that any dovecot 2.4 binary *will not* start with a <= 2.3 configuration file, it seems reasonable for us to publish an announcement to make users aware of this situation while also informing them about the alternate 2.3 packages we provide. News draft below. ----8<---- # dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention The dovecot 2.4 release branch has made breaking changes which result in it being incompatible with any <= 2.3 configuration file. Thus, the dovecot service will no longer be able to start until the configuration file was migrated, requiring manual intervention. For guidance on the 2.3-to-2.4 migration, please refer to the following upstream documentation: [Upgrading Dovecot CE from 2.3 to 2.4](https://doc.dovecot.org/latest/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html) Furthermore, the dovecot 2.4 branch no longer supports their replication feature, it was removed. For users relying on the replication feature or who are unable to perform the 2.4 migration right now, we provide alternative packages available in [extra]: - dovecot23 - pigeonhole23 - dovecot23-fts-elastic - dovecot23-fts-xapian The dovecot 2.3 release branch is going to [receive critical security fixes](https://dovecot.org/mailman3/archives/list/dovecot@dovecot.org/threa… from upstream until stated otherwise. ---->8---- [1] https://doc.dovecot.org/latest/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html [2] https://dovecot.org/mailman3/archives/list/dovecot@dovecot.org/thread/3P45L… Cheers -- Thore "foxxx0" Bödecker GPG ID: 0xEB763B4E9DB887A6 GPG FP: 051E AD6A 6155 389D 69DA 02E5 EB76 3B4E 9DB8 87A6 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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