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[arch-general] grub2 efi image files
by Carsten Mattner 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hi, I could swear that some time back some version of archboot media gave me the choice to select grub2-efi-32-bit. Was this dropped? I've been trying to install arch only (single boot) on a EFI-32 mac. Due to not being able to convinve (bless) rEFIt without having OS X installed to not come up with a delay of >= 20seconds, I wanted to use EFI. The mac has onboard intel i915 graphics which I know to work out of the box. Would this give me any issues like the nvidia guys with using EFI? What is the exact issue I have to be careful about to not brick the firmware with EFI? I know I shouldn't use efitbootmgr on mac efi. What else is dangerous? Thanks, Carsten

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[arch-general] How can I change thunderbird profile dir form .thunderbird to .mozilla/thunderbird?
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two. So,anyone knows? Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird, that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole thunderbird if necessary. Regards, Techlive Zheng

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[arch-general] Compiling qt-4.8rc1 from [testing] fails
by Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, The latest qt-package in testing broke one of the applications I am working on at the moment. It compiles fine, but crashes during runtime, so I tried to compile qt with debug symbols. I did the same thing as I usually do when I have to poke qt-internals - added '!strip' to the options in the PKGBUILD and tried to compile the package again. The PKGBUILD and friends were obtained from abs. However, the compilation fails in tools/assistant, with the following errors: make[4]: Entering directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools/assistant/tools/assistant' compiling helpviewer_qwv.cpp helpviewer_qwv.cpp:168:1: error: expected class-name before ?{? token helpviewer_qwv.cpp:173:13: error: ?QWebPage? does not name a type helpviewer_qwv.cpp:174:32: error: ?WebAction? has not been declared helpviewer_qwv.cpp:176:42: error: ?QWebFrame? has not been declared helpviewer_qwv.cpp:177:41: error: ?NavigationType? has not been declared helpviewer_qwv.cpp: In constructor ?HelpPage::HelpPage(QObject*)?: helpviewer_qwv.cpp:189:7: error: class ?HelpPage? does not have any field named ?QWebPage? helpviewer_qwv.cpp: At global scope: helpviewer_qwv.cpp:197:1: error: ?QWebPage? does not name a type helpviewer_qwv.cpp:207:30: error: variable or field ?triggerAction? declared void helpviewer_qwv.cpp:207:30: error: ?WebAction? was not declared in this scope helpviewer_qwv.cpp:207:48: error: expected primary-expression before ?bool? make[4]: *** [.obj/release-shared/helpviewer_qwv.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools/assistant/tools/assistant' make[3]: *** [sub-assistant-make_default-ordered] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools/assistant/tools' make[2]: *** [sub-tools-make_default-ordered] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools/assistant' make[1]: *** [sub-assistant-make_default-ordered] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools' make: *** [sub-tools-make_default-ordered] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). I noticed that qtwebkit was split out of this package. Have I missed some other piece of vital information which allows me to compile this, and does anyone else see this? I could reproduce this on two x86_64 machines here, -Syu'ed as of today. I would be thankful for any tips :) Regards, Bjørn Øivind -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOuS6BAAoJEAPvNxjF/T/2kR0P/2ycR9+3LlYaJOnosVJnSuRH 9tN9eT/WZY1cHEyxQAJuux2GQ0L2oECYc6BumPPQ6EJ7WLgKe9jgwoYTJZN5QSxC Mp5noNmiyqInWp75p53kzyAg30XKYKWqRZbaV+mcXHra3aZ4ydC1rxEEG5FDVQx2 GauKhGqaZ5RKdtO4b/6rCQtAjGSv4l7QvLErFkRAYSqsaK7XKiDGatPOAkalxw6X /T0dhyKDP4r6V8DHUOqekbrNX9Oupso8GPHRMhTqO8jSuOtUD/ie0D6lkepArG+v HXDYsxVF+Fepr1CLfAD2xM3p8JrKqdiPjbXdnqmcSGiWMzkSonlWl66Y4Lcnrs5c Uqa8XFVcLYvJ9MOgV3VBdpJijGIzvrYWKI8FunxU1EeOPNmPYig+zg85ArP8OTiT ZtNgM4jTrQGGQCMK5tjY2Ji8YhVL5b0nv4yroV9jQ8q9yhY4pOgiEqxdYAPtw0QY bFsSrlQH8QQD/SNd98xIl3qzNeq7Nq5Dc/OwP9I/scA+Je2DM9P2oX0X++mVvkiL fN7Qtst1j8u2TyXDfPf2cSCw+kPIZLct++0+5UmC92p1UPcddmVTg4JZl68EZPNe 3u7yjJ9lfHZjktb5P/fyaTfxiZ4gshuQL2fITwR5MFjZ/o6TB0TFCSfBF9+HlZZk aa9dFnmP/REmH8oQUdEO =bFqE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] Join my network on LinkedIn
by Erwin José López Pulgarín via LinkedIn 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

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[arch-general] arch as virtualbox guest - gpm -> mouse cursor stuck in middle of console?
by David C. Rankin 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Guys, IIRC, gpm used to work fine in archlinux when arch was installed as a guest os in virtualbox (virtualbox-bin 4.1.8-1). I have always used the same options with gpm: gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 -a 3 Now when I start gpm and click in the virtualbox console window, all I get is a single cursor (character cell) in the center of the console. If I double-click, then the line with the cursor on in highlights, but I can never move the cursor from the middle. I've tried all other -t msX types. I've also tried -t ps2 which gives the same behavior as imps2. I've check the wiki Console_Mouse_Support and googled gpm cursor won't move, etc.. and haven't found anything relevant. Anybody see this behavior before or know of a workaround? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] `multicat` package added to AUR
by Sébastien Leblanc 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hi, I made a PKGBUILD for VideoLAN's multicat utility. It is a content-agnostic (optimized for MPEG TS) uni/multicast streaming software suite. It is often considered a multicast version of the netcat utility. It is very lightweight: a compiled package weighs 41K It is available on the AUR under the name `multicat`. >From their website: > Simple and efficient multicast and transport stream manipulation > The multicat package contains a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate multicast streams in general, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams (ISO/IEC 13818-1) in particular. > The multicat suite of applications is very lightweight and designed to operate in tight environments. Memory and CPU usages are kept to a minimum, and they feature only one thread of execution.

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[arch-general] git software: howto remove files from history and its objects
by F. Gr. 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hi, I'm a new user of git software. I imported a mercurial repository to a git repository. Now I want to remove some files from history and the objects in my repository. Are these the right commands? git filter-branch -d /dir1/subdir/ --index-filter 'git rm --cached -f --ignore-unmatch' -- --all rm -rf /git_repo/.git/refs/remotes/origin git reflog expire --expire=0 --all git gc --aggressive --prune=0 then (perhaps :-) I can push to my remote repository. I haven't tried the above commands yet because I don't want to break my repository.

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[arch-general] Mplayer and cdparanoia
by Leonid Isaev 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hi, Currently cdparanoia is a dep. for mplayer, despite closed https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27970 and --disable-cdparanoia in PKGBUILD. Is there a reason for that? Thanks, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users
by Jude DaShiell 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

I tried setting up emacspeak and emacspeak needs two variables exported to the user's .profile file in order to work. The EMACSPEAK_DIR variable needs to point at the location of emacspeak and DTK_PROGRAM needs to point at the speech server you intend to use. The export commands did not create a .profile file for me nor did they update a .profile file for me with their contents in it. Using echo to create and populate the .profile also has no good effect. I'm about to use git to pull the current version of emacspeak down onto this system and try with that but I downloaded and built eflite and emacspeak that's on this machine from the aur repository. Fortunately, I can test emacspeak on debian without much difficulty and may need to check out where debian stores those export variables since the debian version I have made work in the past. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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[arch-general] export runs and emacspeak doesn't
by Jude DaShiell 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Okay, changing DTK_PROGRAM=espeak produced identical results to DTK_PROGRAM=eflite which is process no speaker running as the final message in emacspeak. Apparently both servers need -Ltcl8.4. This is good to know since now I get some disk space back. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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