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[arch-general] wicd splitted in 'wicd' and 'wicd-gtk'
by Daniel Isenmann 20 Mar '11

20 Mar '11

Hi, like requested as a feature request (FS#22550) and as a solution to one bug (FS#22423), I have splitted the wicd package into two seperated packages. From now on there is wicd: All stuff you need to run the wicd daemon and the wicd-cli and wicd-curses interfaces wicd-gtk: All stuff you need to run the GTK interface of wicd and the autostart file for the client to appear in the systray. So if you want the GTK interface back you have to install wicd-gtk manually after you have updated the wicd package. Forum thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=905851 - Daniel

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Re: [arch-general] epoch support in devtools (was: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 3.5.0-1)
by Florian Pritz 20 Mar '11

20 Mar '11

On 16.03.2011 19:46, Dan McGee wrote: > Multiple signoffs per architecture would be great, as well as any > observations dealing with the upgrade process. Release notes: > http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS devtools doesn't yet support epoch and it looks like rsync and scp don't support colons in filenames. They use colons to indicate remote machines. -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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[arch-general] Solution for bug 22690 ?!
by Frederic Bezies 20 Mar '11

20 Mar '11

Hello. I looked at 2.6.37-1 config changelog comparing it with 2.6.36-2 (or 3) one, and find this option was added. CONFIG_USB_ENESTORAGE=m I'm trying to build a kernel without it. Could be the answer for my problem ?! -- Frederic Bezies - fredbezies(a)gmail.com Weblog : http://frederic.bezies.free.fr/blog/

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[arch-general] Introducing Salt
by Thomas S Hatch 20 Mar '11

20 Mar '11

If you are familiar with a project spearheaded by Red Hat called Func, Salt is very similar. On Thursday I released my first release of the Salt remote execution manager, Salt is a tool to allow an admin to execute remote commands on sets of systems over the network in an extremely fast and efficient way. I have a blog post explaining it in better detail here: http://red45.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/salt-0-6-0-released/ Packages are in the AUR! - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47512 Tell me what you think! It is of course open source, Apache licence, and I am open to collaboration! -Thomas S Hatch

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[arch-general] [PATCH] depmod: do not update module dependencies on boot
by Tom Gundersen 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Hi guys, I'm looking through initscripts to make sure systemd is compatible. In doing so I think I ran across the following possible simplification of rc.sysinit. Comments? I'd be especially interested in hearing about usecases where the attached patch would lead to regressions. ----- Running depmod on boot should not be necessary as the packages installing modules should be responsible for updating the dependencies themselves (and they do, at least the packages I looked through). Furthermore, as modules can be loaded very early in boot (by e.g. udev), but depmod can only be called after root is mounted rw, we can not rely on depmod fixing broken module dependencies. Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> --- rc.sysinit | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit index 1dfae33..dfb0050 100755 --- a/rc.sysinit +++ b/rc.sysinit @@ -351,8 +351,6 @@ if [[ $NISDOMAINNAME ]]; then status "Setting NIS Domain Name: $NISDOMAINNAME" /bin/nisdomainname "$NISDOMAINNAME" fi -status "Updating Module Dependencies" /sbin/depmod -A - # Flush old locale settings : >| /etc/profile.d/locale.sh /bin/chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/locale.sh -- 1.7.4.1

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[arch-general] Where is the boot log?
by Madhurya Kakati 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Hi, I am facing some problems with alsa. During booting it shows some errors. But I don't know how to copy those and paste them here. Can someone please tell me where can I find the log file? Thanks.

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[arch-general] Pacman db files and permissions.
by Peter Lewis 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi, It seems to me that something has changed regarding the way pacman handles permissions of its files since 3.5. I updated to pacman 3.5 yesterday, and today tried to do a pacman -Ss <foo> as my normal user. I got some "error: could not open file" errors and it bailed. Now, I have my umask set as 077, but this didn't seem to affect the way pacman worked before: % ls -l /var/lib/pacman/sync/core/pacman-3.4.3-1/desc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 370 Mar 17 19:53 /var/lib/pacman/sync/core/pacman-3.4.3-1/desc % ls -l /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db -rw------- 1 root root 38K Mar 18 05:25 /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db Did pacman used to set the permissions on things it had downloaded, and this hasn't been added to the .db file handling code? Or is this supposed to happen? Thanks, Pete.

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Re: [arch-general] Web sites down?
by Cédric Girard 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Le 18 mars 2011 18:38, "C Anthony Risinger" <anthony(a)extof.me> a écrit : > > 2011/3/18 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric(a)gmail.com>: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:12 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony(a)extof.me >wrote: > > > >> the other day i had to make a small change to our mail server, and it > >> was was down for probably 15 seconds ... but nowadays people have > >> fancy phones that check in every 5 minutes multiplied by hundreds of > >> clients ... > > > > Well, I was actually submitting a comment to a bug when the site went down. > > This is why I noticed it and decided to ask on the ML if it was really down > > or if it was my corporate network that had again some trouble. > > no worries ... > > > I understand I should have waited more before reacting and did apologize for > > that. What else do you want? > > ? uhm, nothing? i could care less whether you reported it or not ... > was only adding a humorous experience to it. but hey, i'm a developer > not a comedian, i don't claim to ever succeed at the task. > > > IMHO this thread should just have been left dead after my second mail as > > useless thread usually are. No need to add extra noise to it. > > whoa there big buy, it was nothing personal :-) nor was it directed at > or intended to badger you to any degree. all is well. > > IMHO it's friday, and the end of a @!#@!# of a week ... hooray! > > C Anthony Sorry about all this. My answer wasn't specifically directed at you. Whatever, as you say, end of the week, of a long day, after saint patrick yesterday... Please accept my apologies for some over reaction on my part. -- Cedric Girard

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[arch-general] Web sites down?
by Cédric Girard 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi, I cannot access (timeout) any archlinux web site except AUR. Am I alone to have this problem? Regards, -- Cédric Girard

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[arch-general] unoffical package signing
by keenerd 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

So, I've decided to unofficially start signing my packages. We don't need pacman or namcap or support from other tools. Here is how it works. gpg --detach-sign foo.pkg.tar.xz scp foo.pkg.tar.xz.sig pkgbuild.com:~/public_html/sigs/ That is it. Mine are at http://pkgbuild.com/~kkeen/sigs/ Of course I only have one package to sign at the moment, but 0.02% coverage is better than none ;-) If you think this is a good idea, sign your packages too. (And share the link please.) -Kyle http://kmkeen.com

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