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libreoffice - new versioning download frequency - multiple updates per-week?
by David C. Rankin 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Devs, With the advent of the new version scheme for libreoffice, there is a dramatic increase in the frequency of package updates lately, sometimes a new version is packaged daily or every other day, e.g. [2024-08-26T19:24:24-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.5-1 -> 24.2.5-2) [2024-09-02T23:01:03-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.5-2 -> 24.2.5-3) [2024-09-07T01:54:56-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.5-3 -> 24.2.6-1) [2024-09-09T16:53:22-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.6-1 -> 24.2.6-2) [2024-09-10T18:48:31-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.6-2 -> 24.2.6-3) Granted with gcc changes, etc.. many rebuilds may be needed as those changes are incorporated, and it may just be temporary, but libreoffice is a 150M+ package. I can imagine that adds up from a bandwidth standpoint for Arch and it's mirrors. Is the libreoffice new package frequency just a temporary thing, or is this here to stay? More a curiosity than anything else. I can look back nearly a decade in the pacman.log and it wasn't uncommon to have months when there was no libreoffice update, and rarely 3 or more a month. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Update to pacman 7.0.0 and AUR Helpers
by Moabeat 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

Hi all, today the update to pacman 7.0.0-r3 was installed on my machine through the core-testing repository. I am usually using the AUR helper yay for any kind of updates. After the update, yay didn't start anymore, as the library version of libalpm increased to 15 and yay was still looking for 14. A manual rebuild of yay easily fixed this. However, I am wondering if there is any way how to make such an update smoother, so that yay would be rebuilt in the same step after pacman was updated and avoid the necessity for a manual rebuild? Kind regards, Moabeat

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Fwd: Replacing mlocate with plocate
by David C. Rankin 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

User-feedback on plocate replacment: Works like a champ! Thank you Morten! # pacman -Syu <snip> # systemctl enable plocate-updatedb.timer # updatedb done! -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Replacing mlocate with plocate Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:04:54 +0200 From: Morten Linderud <foxboron(a)archlinux.org> To: arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org Thanks for the feedback everyone. I've pushed 1.1.22-2 of plocate which includes a replaces directive. It should replace mlocate from now on. Also included the patch that enables the updatedb timer by default. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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qemu-common-9.1.0-2 and qemu-system-nios2-9.0.2-1 are in conflict. Remove qemu-system-nios2? [y/N] - Expected?
by David C. Rankin 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Devs, Update today resulted in removal of qemu-system-nios2 presenting the error: qemu-common-9.1.0-2 and qemu-system-nios2-9.0.2-1 are in conflict. Remove qemu-system-nios2? [y/N] There was no note in the "Latest News" about user interaction needed. Just a dependency change or features moving between packages? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Arch Linux public upload server
by Óscar García Amor 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

El dom, 01-09-2024 a las 12:41 +0200, Jelle van der Waa escribió: > For users there are plenty of pastebin alternatives, for staff we can > use md.archlinux.org to share notes, pastes. Regarding abuse, see for > example what 0x0.st does against detecting awful nsfw content > > https://git.0x0.st/mia/0x0 I couldn't agree more. Personally I have experience in maintaining a public instance of "pastes" with my own development called lesma[1] (source code[2]). If you want some advice, don't do it. 99% of the "pastes" are straight up junk, spam, links to websites selling “dubious products” and other crap. If you want to have it operational, authentication is required and only for internal use. Something public is a pain because unfortunately there are many people who do not respect. Greetings. [1]: https://lesma.eu [2]: https://gitlab.com/ogarcia/lesma -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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extra/realtime-privileges
by Ralf Mardorf 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

Hi, I am not up to date, is there meanwhile a reason for • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ grep nice /etc/security/limits.d/99-realtime-privileges.conf @realtime - nice -11 ? I the past a nice value for real-time was null and void. Regards, Ralf

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Any way to query the Arch package list to get %-installed by package?
by David C. Rankin 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

All, Devs, I was curious about the frequency that packages in extra and core are installed by Arch users. Is that metadata captured anywhere and is there any way a user can query it? What sparked this curiosity is that I follow the package feeds closely checking for version changes I may have to deal with on a production box. In doing so I learn about many packages I've never heard of before. That posed the question of how frequently all packages are installed by Arch users. Package use, popularity, whatever you want to call it can provide a reasonable metric when comparing between two packages that provide the same feature in determining which to investigate first or install. It would also give a metric of the impact of a developer retiring or orphaning packages. Does any install frequency data such as that exist for packages in extra and core? Or could it be garnered by whatever data is captured from the mirror system? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Arch Linux public upload server
by Lucie Scarlet 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

On 9/3/2024 8:31 PM, Orhun Parmaksiz wrote: > > For users there are plenty of pastebin alternatives Honestly, my biggest issue with the alternatives is how most other services are either too complicated, don't make it easy to just use the keyboard or end up like Hastebin and getting bought up and honestly getting a lot worse. > > it's important to specify how the moderation capabilities are. > My initial idea was to use a configuration like this (with some parts stripped): I 100% support having our own paste service that's on a trustworthy domain like archlinux.org, though I do have some concerns about being able to upload more than just text. I haven't used Rustypaste before, so I can't comment much on that, but reading your email does seem like that would be possible. > > I agree, too. If it should be only for Arch Linux users, we can add a validation question like the one in the forum's log in page. > That's a good/fun idea 🙂 Seconded :D I do hope you're able to put up a service like this. /Lucie

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Network issues on laptop, issue with iwd?
by Lucie Scarlet 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Hi, I've got my HP laptop set up with Arch, and it's been working absolutely wonderful. That is, until recently when it seems like it is having major network issues. I've got it set up with iwd and connected to my home wifi, but it's having a bunch of issues. It keeps dropping the connection, and when it doesn't do that, it really struggles with resolving addresses. I also tested going to 1.1.1.1 and even that had issues, so it's not just DNS. I haven't had any issues with my other devices on the wifi, so I'm not sure if it's that. I tried restarting it as well, which didn't help. Could it be an issue with iwd? Hoping for something that can lead me in the right direction, this is getting quite frustrating. Best, Lucie

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knotes missing after upgrade
by SET 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Hello, After today's upgrade, package knotes is not in the repositories. 'pacman -Q knotes' gives 'knotes 24.05.2-1', the previously installed package that fails to load. Other KDE packages like kontact have version '24.08.0-1'. 'pacman -S knotes' gives nothing. Is it dropped upstream or in Arch (both doubtful)? Has it been renamed? Thank you for any input.

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