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[arch-general] xorg upgrade - error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
by David C. Rankin 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Guys, Updating xorg resulted in pacman finding the following conflicts: (87/87) checking for file conflicts [#######################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) xorg-bdftopcf: /usr/bin/bdftopcf exists in filesystem xorg-bdftopcf: /usr/share/man/man1/bdftopcf.1.gz exists in filesystem xorg-mkfontscale: /usr/bin/mkfontscale exists in filesystem xorg-mkfontscale: /usr/share/man/man1/mkfontscale.1.gz exists in filesystem xorg-mkfontdir: /usr/bin/mkfontdir exists in filesystem xorg-mkfontdir: /usr/share/man/man1/mkfontdir.1.gz exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. --force works fine. Just thought I'd let the list know in case the packages need tweaking. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux support in puppet
by Thomas S Hatch 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Nigel Kersten <nigel(a)puppetlabs.com> wrote: > Just noting that while I'm traveling and at a course, and thus not > answering all my email quickly, I'm reading this thread keenly, and > we're happy to help implement whatever is the most sane thing to do on > Arch. > > Forcing systemd as a requirement doesn't feel like the right approach > at this stage. > > > Nigel Kersten > Puppet Labs > Thanks Nigel! I am excited to see more complete support for Arch in puppet, I hope I can help as much as possible to make it a reality sooner than later! Working with Puppet Labs has been nothing short of a pleasure. -Thomas S Hatch

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[arch-general] Arch Linux support in puppet
by Thomas S Hatch 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

I am posting this to venture an opinion, and see if anyone has any ideas on how best to handle this situation. I am working with the puppet developers to help improve Arch Linux support in puppet (for those of you unfamiliar with puppet, it is an amazingly crucial component in datacenter management - http://www.puppetlabs.com) Puppet can automate the starting and stopping of systems services as well as managing if they are set to start on boot. In most Linux distributions flagging a system service to start on boot is done with an application like chkconfig and the order in which the system services start up is pre determined by the distribution. Arch Linux uses a much simpler approach to system services, the DAEMONS array in the rc.conf. The problem faced with an automation system in this scope is that the boot order of services is not predetermined. Right now the best idea we have been able to come up with is to have puppet simply append the named services to the end of the DAEMONS array in the rc.conf, but I wanted to ask the community if anyone had any alternative ideas on how this could be done. The ticket containing the discussion on the matter can be found here: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6697 Thank you for your ideas! -Thomas S Hatch -Arch Linux Trusted User

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[arch-general] firefox 4 in staging?
by Ray Kohler 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

I noticed that firefox 4.0rc1 and xulrunner 2.0rc1 went into [staging] yesterday. Does that mean we can expect to get these upgrades before Mozilla moves them out of release candidate status? What's up with these packages?

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[arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice
by Andreas Radke 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the Office packaging area and nobody stepped in. Then there's the poor distribution support Oracle spends on the distributions. They almost do not care about custom distribution builds and their interest. They break the build against system libs every now and then and it takes ages to contact the relevant devs to fix their bugs. Development is only driven by the profit interests of Oracle... You can put in here all the arguments the Document foundation has given at its birth. So don't expect any efforts to fix bugs in Oracle packages anymore. As soon as they will break due to a .so name bump or something like this I'll remove all the packages from our repos if nobody else is willing to maintain them. Any objections to add "replaces=('openoffice-base') " to the next LibO pkg? -Andy

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[arch-general] OpenERP
by Nicolás Adamo 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Hi there! Sadly the wiki page for OpenERP [0] is uncomplete. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Open_ERP Question: Did anyone succeed installing it? Could reproduce the necessary steps? OpenERP's documentation have instructions for Debian, but things like /etc/init.d directory, which is rc.d in Arch make this instructions useless. Regards, Nicolás

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Hi guys, - bump to latest version greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Apcupsd configs
by Joker-jar 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

Hello! Today i was surprised to find my 'onbattery' and 'offbattery' configs are overwritten... Files changeme, commfailure, commok, offbattery and onbattery should be placed in 'backup' array

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[arch-general] Pacman FInnish translation help wanted
by Jesse Juhani Jaara 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

So in short I would like someone to do little spell checking and other checking on the Finnish translation I'm working on. A bigger post I posted on archlinux.fi forums earlier (in Finnish ) ________________________________________________________________________ Eli olen siis kääntänyt pacmanin 70% prosenttisesti ja aion saada sen kokonaan käännetyksi sunnuntai 13.3 mennessä, jotta se saataisiin sisällytettyä pacmanin uuteen 3.5 julkaisuun joka tapahtunee seuravaalla viikolla. Olen tähän nyt kääntänyt pacmanista 32/64bittiset versiot suomennoksella varustettuna valmiiksi että muut voisivat siitä kaikenmailman virheitä sekä vaikeaselkoisuksia etsiä, jotta käännös olisi mahdollisimman laadukas jo ensimmäiseesä julkaisussaan. Käännös ei tosiaan ole vielä 100%. Näin äkkiseltään kun itse testasin niin ohjeviestien tasaus ei ole aivan kohdallaan. Raaka linkki itse käännöstiedostoon. Tästä on hyvä etsiä kirjoitus ja yhdysana virheitä: http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/arc … /download/ Tässä on linkki tiedostoihin jotka voi käsin kopioda koneellee ilman että tarvitsee päivittää itse pacmania. Kopoi .mo tiedostot kansioon /usr/share/local/fi/LC_MESSAGES/: http://huulivoide.pp.fi/Arch/pacman/käännökset.tar.xz Ota huomioon että tämä on git versio pacmanista, jota ei ole vielä testattu suuremmin joten sen käyttö voi aiheutaa vahinkoja koneelle, joten on suositeltavaa asentaa se virtuaali koneeseen tai chroottiin tai ottaa varmuuskopia enne käyttämistä. Todennäköisesti suurempia vahinkoja ei pitäsisi sattua. Mutta en mene lupaamaan pacman-i686-git: http://huulivoide.pp.fi/Arch/pacman/pac … pkg.tar.xz pacman-x86_64-git: http://huulivoide.pp.fi/Arch/pacman/pac … pkg.tar.xz Korjaukset ja ehdotukset miuluiten s-posti ositteeseen: jesse.jaara(a)gmail.com ________________________________________________________________________

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[arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux
by Madhurya Kakati 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Hi all, Got hold of a cheap laptop. I want to use it as my download rig. It will be on most of the time downloading torrents. The laptop actually came with Windows XP installed. I setup the laptop ip as 192.168.1.5 and my desktop (running Windows 7) ip as 192.168.1.4. After doing that I connected both of them using a lan wire. I then enable sharing on both of them and I could transfer files directly from one computer to the other at speeds of upto 75MBps. I want to know how to do the same with archlinux or Windows 7 running on my desktop and archlinux running on the desktop. Please tell me how to do that. I want to be able to tranfer downloaded content directly from the laptop to the desktop using a lan cable. Thanks.

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