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What are you doing to run a Windows 11 guest on Arch Linux in Virtualbox?
by Ralf Mardorf 05 May '23

05 May '23

Hi, to run Windows 11 as Virtualbox guest I build Virtualbox < version 7. My current installed virtualbox was build against python 3.10.10-1. Today building against python 3.11.3-1 failed with "Checking for Python support: ** Python not found!". I can still start a Windows 11 guest with virtualbox build against python 3.10.10-1 on the machine that is updated to python 3.11.3-1. However, the situation threatens to become more serious. • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ pacman -Q python python 3.11.3-1 • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ grep SUPPYTHONLIBS= chroot/rocketmouse/build/virtualbox/src/VirtualBox-6.1.40/configure SUPPYTHONLIBS="python2.7 python2.6 python3.1 python3.2 python3.3 python3.4 python3.4m python3.5 python3.5m python3.6 python3.6m python3.7 python3.7m python3.8 python3.8m python3.9 python3.9m python3.10 python3.10m" • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ grep " python (" /var/log/pacman.log | tail -1 [2023-05-04T01:05:49+0200] [ALPM] upgraded python (3.10.10-1 -> 3.11.3-1) • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ pacman -Q virtualbox virtualbox 1:6.1.40-708.1 I want to build virtualbox 1:6.1.40-708.2 against latest version of python. Maybe I don't need to do this, but soon or later I at least need to build against another dependency and then python is involved, too. Perhaps just adding python3.11 to configure's SUPPYTHONLIBS already does the job to build virtualbox, without fixing something else. If so, the end of building virtualbox < version 7 to run Windows 11 guests is still close. What are you doing to run a Windows 11 guest? Regards, Ralf

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Python 3.11 timeline?
by David Rosenstrauch 04 May '23

04 May '23

Anyone know if there's any timeline on when we'll see python 3.11 get released to Arch? I emailed the maintainer about this directly recently, but didn't hear anything back. I know this is a big upgrade, and lots of dependent packages are involved, so this might require some time. I just was wondering if there was any roadmap/timeline for how long that might be. Thanks, DR

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Fwd: dropping retired X.Org Packages
by David C. Rankin 04 May '23

04 May '23

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: dropping retired X.Org Packages Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 23:51:11 +0200 From: Andreas Radke <andyrtr(a)archlinux.org> Organization: ArchLinux To: arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org Following this reminder post[1]+[2] I'm going to remove the following packages soon from the repos: xf86-input-elographics xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-vmmouse xf86-input-void Any objections? -Andy Andy, I still use the synaptics package on laptops -- handy to have. Will it go to AUR. It would be a shame to lose it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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ttf-nerd-fonts conflict
by Ralf Mardorf 01 May '23

01 May '23

Hi, there's a ttf-nerd-fonts conflict, one package removes the other package. One of the packages is flagged out-of-date, so I guess I shouldn't report a bug. However, it's a little bit annoying that I need to add ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em to IgnorePkg. "Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in the AUR. Use the 'flag out of date' link on the package page, or the Mailing List. REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!" - https://bugs.archlinux.org/ $ sudo pacman -Syu [snip] :: Replace ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em with community/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols? [Y/n] Y [snip] Packages (2) ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-3.0.0-2 ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em-2.3.3-1 [removal] [snip] $ sudo pacman -Syu :: Replace ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols with community/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em? [Y/n] Y [snip] Packages (2) ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-3.0.0-2 [removal] ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em-2.3.3-1 [snip] https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols/ Last Updated: 2023-05-01 02:12 UTC https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em/ Flagged out-of-date on 2023-04-30 Regards, Ralf

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Re: Python 3.11 in [staging] -> [testing]
by Genes Lists 29 Apr '23

29 Apr '23

On 4/29/23 11:19, Felix Yan wrote: > On 4/29/23 14:13, David Runge wrote: >> ... > The move is now done and everything should have been fixed. Have fun > breaking something new :) > So far for all the things I've tested, starting with my own code, its working really well. And noticeably faster - one tool runs in half the time! It has brought to my attention that there's still 'things' which have not yet upgraded to use the standard 'pyproject.toml' approach for packaging. Have not found anything (yet!) which is not working. thank you all for the enormous effort - very much appreciated. gene

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How to use package from community-testing
by Łukasz Michalski 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Hi, I am running arch-linux with cyrus-imapd as mail server for several years and now cyrus-imapd appeared in community-testing. I am planning upgrade and switch from cyrus-imapd aur package to version from community-testing. What is a recommended way to test only this package? If I enable community-testing in pacman.conf, then doing pacman -Su will still pull official packages from community until I explicitly request a version from testing? Regards, Łukasz

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Re: Consolidating our mkinitcpio hooks
by Jordan Glover 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

On Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 at 4:31 PM, Morten Linderud <foxboron(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently we have a lot of our mkinitcpio hooks in several packages which has > never been consolidated. This makes it confusing where stuff belong and what is > provided where, and I really want to consolidate everything. > > It would help keeping up the development of the hooks, patch everything and > ultimately write a test suite for mkinitcpio. > > I also have long term plans on moving the default hooks from busybox to systemd, > but this will happen at a later point. > > Initially I really want to move the hooks from `cryptsetup` and `systemd`: > > * encrypt and sd-encrypt from core/cryptsetup > * systemd and udev from core/systemd What if new cryptsetup release will need some changes in the hook? How would you ensure mkinitcpio hook and cryptsetup (or any other package requiring a hook) are kept in sync? What are the pros of consolidation? Jordan

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As gcc 13 approaches, if you have C++ projects, time to check the changes
by David C. Rankin 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

all, There are changes in gcc 13 that primarily impact C++ regarding the headers automatically included, overload resolution and excess floating-point precision that can cause existing projects to not compile (or break). See: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/porting_to.html -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Recommended way to use software that depend on python2
by Sadeep Madurange 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

I am trying to setup ESP8266 toolchain [1] on Arch. The problem is that their SDK depends on python2. The aur package for python2 is marked as unmaintained. What is the recommended way to work with python2 on Arch? [1]: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp8266-rtos-sdk/en/latest/get-started/… -- Regards, Sadeep PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E

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What can be done to prevent messages from cluttering up log files?
by Ralf Mardorf 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Hi, assuming you can't get rid of the cause of messages flooding the log file, could you prevent writing with a filter? After all, only filtering when reading would not prevent the unnecessary growth of log files. I stumbled across the following which the solutions posted on the forums managed to fix. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=275022 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=280638 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep threadirqs\ i /boot/grub/grub.cfg linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-label/m1.archlinux ro threadirqs ibt=off ipv6.disable=1 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/acpi/events/buttons event=button/(up|down|left|right|kpenter) action=<drop> But what could you do if there were no such workarounds? Regards, Ralf

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