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[arch-general] findutils-4.4.2-4
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] cracklib-2.8.18-2
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Best way to make makepkg use pacman-color
by Alex Ferrando 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

I've been using pacman-color since a while ago (now pacman-color-testing as I'm using [testing]) and a few days ago I noticed that pacman-color is not used by makepkg. I got curious and started looking for information about a way of doing makepkg to use pacman-color instead of pacman. However the only way found is to modify the makepkg script itself, if I'm not wrong editing the line 2089: PACMAN=${PACMAN:-pacman} So now I have some questions about the right way to do this a) creating a package that conflicts with pacman because of makepkg being inside the pacman package (not very happy with this idea) b) creating a package that provides another makepkg script (lets say makepkg-color) that calls pacman-color instead of pacman c) something that I'm forgetting Any advice on this? Right now I'm only considering a package to keep track of the file and not editing the file because of ( possible ? ) troubles with updates. Alex

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[arch-general] Why not create a new repo specified for games ?
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi all, I noticed that there are some games in the community repo. Some of them has _HUGE_ data packages. Why not create a new repo for those games? That will save some bandwidth if a mirror maintainer decided to not support games. By far, not everyone play game on our ArchLinux.

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[arch-general] ALSA problems with linux-3.1
by Nyuszika7H 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi, I upgraded to linux-3.1-2 from [testing] a few days ago (x86_64), and I had problems with ALSA. Sound was broken - KMixer treated Headphone as master, and alsamixer has changed, too. I tried everything but I couldn't get sound to work. Did anyone else have this or a similiar issue? I can't test it unfortunately, as I would have to reboot even to load a new kernel module after upgrading because of changed paths. I could test it in a VM, but the result might not be the same because of different, virtual hardware. nyuszika7h

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.1-3
by Thomas Bächler 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Compared to the last release, a few bugfixes: Fix FS#19234, FS#26674, FS#25939, FS#26528 and a wrong drm error. Please sign off.

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[arch-general] permission denied on key
by Gr., F. 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi, I've just noticed the following warning in the /var/log/boot file: " Sun Oct 23 10:35:26 2011: error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding' Sun Oct 23 10:35:26 2011: error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv4.conf.default.mc_forwarding' " What does it mean?

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Hi guys, please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel version - all external modules should be installed in /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH now - disabled the old IDE subsystem, marked as deprecated for quite some time All users of the old ide hook in mkinitcpio should make the transition to pata hook now! - disabled the old ACPI /proc files, marked as deprecated for quite some time, everything is available in /sys greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.4.0-1
by Geert Hendrickx 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Appears to work fine, however I noticed a change in cryptsetup status output: /dev/mapper/cryptswap is active. type: PLAIN cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 - keysize: 256 bits + keysize: 0 bits device: /dev/xvda1 offset: 0 sectors size: 2097152 sectors (both on the existing crypted partition and after re-configuring it using the newer cryptsetup) Is this to be worried about? Geert -- geert.hendrickx.be :: geert(a)hendrickx.be :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages!

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[arch-general] coping with damaging updates
by Mick 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

Following yet another update that has disabled user control of USB sticks, cameras, etc. and blocked user from shutting down from the desktop (in my case xfce4), I am at the end of my tether. Is there some way to be fore-warned of these updates coming online and avoid them or be ready with clear info on how to repair the damage they are set to create. mick

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