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[arch-general] Server Management Tools
by siefke_listen＠web.de 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

Hello, Is there a way to automatically administer multiple arch Linux servers? It's annoying to provide 20 servers daily with the same commands. Are there possibilities to manage the daily tasks centrally and to set them off automatically? I know there are tools like puppets but they're too cluttered. Thank you for help. Silvio

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[arch-general] Is there anything keeping the refind version back?
by mike lojkovic 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

refind-efi, in the repo, is at 10.8-1. The package has been flagged out of date for 2 months now. The current release is 0.11.1.

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[arch-general] Thank you for keeping 32 bit alive
by theodore.preuninger＠lycos.com 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

The current issue of Distro Watch Weekly has some topics including if 32-bit prematurely obsoleted or not. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20171009 Since I can not offer any money or time to assist you at this time, thank you for keeping 32 bit alive.

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Re: [arch-general] Server Management Tools
by Guus Snijders 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Op 12 okt. 2017 20:05 schreef "siefke_listen(a)web.de" <siefke_listen(a)web.de>: On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:00:18 -0400 David Rosenstrauch <darose(a)darose.net> wrote: > cron + pssh? Sounds good okay cron I not need but pssh sounds great. But at end I become only siefke@sisibox ~ $ pssh -h .config/pssh-hosts -P yaourt -Suy [1] 20:03:54 [FAILURE] host1 Exited with error code 255 [...] Good case, wrong solution, IMHO. With remote execution, you want to use tested commands which only error if there really is something wrong. It's the cattle vs pets approach (check Google, little time to type right now). Yaourt is a "pet" problem. A better approach would be to have a custom repro, where you place the pkg's that were compiled (and tested!) on a workstation/dev server. When the actions become more complex, write a script and use pssh (or other execution tool) to execute that script. The script should be able to handle the small exceptions one can expect; ). At least, that is my preferred modus operandi. Just my two cents. Mvg, Guus Snijders

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[arch-general] Spice issue with Arch (KDE) in QEMU/KVM
by Nick Gilmour 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Hi all, I've just installed the latest Arch with KDE as a VM with QEMU/KVM in Virtual Media Manager. Everything seems to be working fine except spice, so the resolution and copy/paste do not work. The spice-vdagent and xf86-video-qxl are installed. There is not something wrong with my host configuration since I have already two other 2 VMs which work fine with spice. One with Fedora 26, which worked out of the box and one with Ubuntu 16.04.3 for which I had only to install spice-vdagent and now it also works fine. Any ideas what is going on? Regards, Nick

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[arch-general] gnucash [aur]->[community]?
by Ido Rosen 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

Gnucash has 44 votes on AUR. It's useful (and very old, stable) accounting/bookkeeping software. Would any TUs be willing to migrate it from AUR to [community]? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnucash/

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[arch-general] firejail and network
by Shridhar Daithankar 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

Hello, For some time, chromium, firefox and qupzilla are unable to reach network/ internet/dns, if started from firejail. When started normally, all of these can reach the network as expected. So the internet link is not the problem. Has anybody experienced this? Any pointers to debug? Thanks. -- Regards Shridhar

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[arch-general] Question regarding cmake
by Valo 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

Hello everybody, I noticed that extra/cmake depends on core or extra packages exception made for community/rhash. I was trying to use build.opensuse.org to build a package but was unable to use cmake due to the fact that it depends on a package in community which is not included in build.opensuse.org My question is: is it fine for an extra package to depend on a package found in community? I tried to search for policies but didn't find anything. It would be really helpful if rhash could be brought in extra or, if not strictly needed by cmake, to be made an optdep for it. I checked on debian.packages.org, they have 3.9.3-1 as the latest version of cmake which don't depend on rhash, I can't say anything for version 3.9.4 currently in extra. I'm saying it would be useful as cmake is used by many project ad being able to use it on opensuse build service would enable more packages to be built there for Arch. Thanks, -- sValo -- PGP ID 0x06DD1631 -- www.eigenlab.org -- www.exploitpisa.org -- "It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly." [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments,it is a secret proprietary format, so it is hard for me to read. If you send me plain text, HTML, PDF, or ODF then I will read it without any problem. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Thanks

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[arch-general] community/ipython package out-of-date
by Josiah Schwab 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

Hello, I noticed the Arch Linux ipython package is out of date, at v5.3. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ipython/ It looks like it was first flagged almost 6 months ago when the 6.0 release hit. Since then, there have been multiple releases on both the 5.x and 6.x branches. The current versions are 6.2.1 & 5.5. https://github.com/ipython/ipython/releases I emailed the maintainer Kyle Keen two weeks ago, but have not received any response. Best, Josiah

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[arch-general] IPSEC / L2PT for IOS
by siefke_listen＠web.de 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

Hello, have someone this setup working? Can it share? Or give howtos? I search since few hours but at end all what I found was with openswan. But it give only strongswan. I will be very happy. :) Thank you for help. Silvio

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