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[arch-general] GSoC 2011 - Join forces
by Markus M. May 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Hello, there seem to be some interest in the participation of Arch Linux on GSoC 2011. The ArchServer community has decided to participate, but since we are a small and quite new project, we do not think to get accepted. So why not join forces in this effort. I guess we do have similar goals (e.g. every Arch Linux based distro will benefit from the extension of pacman). ArchServer can bring the application to the plate, which will need to get adapted to the new structure obviously (http://wiki.archserver.org/index.php/GSoC2011_Application) I envision some umbrella project for Arch Linux, ArchServer and probably even other Arch Linux based distros. Of course we do have a very tough timeframe to get this up. What do you think? R, Markus

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Re: [arch-general] [translation] Let's start the work for 3.5.0 release
by Dan McGee 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > We're using transifex this time around, and going cold turkey, so I > won't even look at translations submitted here. > > http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/doc/translation-help.txt > > The transifex help and the tx client will likely be your friend here. > `tx pull` and `tx push -t -l en_GB` were two commands I used to try > this whole system out. As I mentioned earlier, you will need > transifex-client-hg (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45787) > from the AUR. > > Questions- send them to the list. Translations- please do not. OK- we have most of them in, I'm going to set a deadline of this Sunday (March 13) so we can release early next week. Here is the status: http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/archlinux-pacman/r/3-5-0/ -Dan

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[arch-general] Build in clean chroot
by Baho Utot 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

I have a chroot devel environment like this /home+build/ / root/ - srch chroot build made with mkarchroot / /trinity.source - a symlink ie ln -s ../trinity.source / copy - made by makechrootpkg / pkgbuild - where the pkgbuild live / trinity.source - a subversion repo checkout of source code I then fetch the subversion rev level to use as the pkgver number like this _source=trinity.source _module=kdepim cd ${_source}/${_module} pkgver=$(svnversion) This gives me an error /build/PKGBUILD: line 25: cd: /trinity.source/kdepim: Too many levels of symbolic links I want to symlink the svn repo to inside the chroot so when makechrootpkg -c -r <chrootdir> creates the clean copy it doesn't have to copy the entire svn source code to the clean copy, as it is almost 2G is size. Anyone know of a way to get around this?

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[arch-general] HTTP Custom Mirror on Install
by Thomas Misilo 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Good Evening, I was trying to use a custom mirror during an install today, it is only a HTTP server currently. Is this a problem, does it need to be ftp? As the mirror does work with pacman after install. Thanks! Tom

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[arch-general] MPD httpd vorbis buggy?
by Karol Babioch 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hi, I've set up MPD with an additional http stream. Default for the encoding engine seems to be "vorbis". However it seems to be extreme buggy, at least for me. I've tried it as stand alone output, as well as in combination with pulse. It crashed quite irregularly during the normal playback, but it took nether longer than 1 minute. At least changing the song crashed it every time. I couldn't reconnect to the stream, but it was down. Only option was to restart mpd daemon itself. The log file said something like "error initializing vorbis encoder" After some fiddling with the configuration I changed the encoder to lame, which works great so far, even changing the song works ;). Before reporting any kind of bug, I wanted to ask you, whether someone has made the same experience? Is it something individual for me? Is something with Arch wrong? Or is it really an upstream issue? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] Wiki license?
by Nicolás Reynolds 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hi, I was checking the wiki license, that says GNU FDL 1.2, but links to GNU FDL 1.3, so... which one should I pick? :) -- Salud! Nicolás Reynolds, xmpp:fauno@kiwwwi.com.ar omb:http://identi.ca/fauno blog:http://selfdandi.com.ar/ gnu/linux user #455044 OTR: C0CB1F0F 01DB5E18 2D634C2A A4626858 E7C7C3A2 http://parabolagnulinux.org http://endefensadelsl.org

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[arch-general] Several advices about Perl Package Packaging Standards
by 郑文辉 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hey,guys I have several thoughts about perl packages packing standards. First,It seems to me that renaming spamassassin to perl-mail-spamassassin which following the cpan perl packages naming standard is better.May be we can add a feature to PKGBULD that allowing package have several alias.Ex,perl-mail-spamassassin should be the official name and spamassassin could be the common name or aliase.Both official name and standard name can be installed or qureied using pacman,but official name mostly used in programing and official posts. Second,the URL variable of perl package's PKGBUILD should be restriced to cpan permanent urls (like:http://search.cpan.org/dist/*) even if the project has its own home page,and the cpan will link to the project's real homepage if exits. What do you think?

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[arch-general] rotc-ethernet package in aur
by kurrata 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

I made a update for package rotc-ethernet in aur and submited it. When i do makepkg locally it works but when i try to install it thought yaourt i get this error: ==================================== [martins@sazan rotc-ethernet]$yaourt -S rotc-ethernet ==> Installing from a package list Password: error: './rotc.bin': could not find repository for target ==> Downloading cd PKGBUILD from AUR... x LICENSE x PKGBUILD First Submitted: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:59:30 +0000 cd 5.3-3 : C platform-independent graphics library. ( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! ) ==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort) ==> ------------------------------------ ==> ^C [martins@sazan rotc-ethernet]$ [martins@sazan rotc-ethernet]$^C ==================================== I am doing something wrong or it is yaourts fault? AUR link: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29456

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] GSoC 2011
by Andres Perera 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

lol... gsoc students aren't going to get sponsored for making packages you'd have to be in a distro that does their own projects like fedora it'd be like slackware asking for gsoc 2011/2/25 Ángel Velásquez <angvp(a)archlinux.org>: > Hi, > > I'm just wondering why we didn't participate in GSoC, many open source > projects got improved for this kind of programs. > > Just wondering areas in which we can receive and mentor students with > the permission of the projects owner I will do a list of possible > areas of work: > > * Pacman (Adding signed packages) > * AIF and archiso integration > * Namcap > * Netcfg > * <insert project here> > > Please don't kill me if the idea is wrong, It just came to my mind that idea. > > Cheers > > -- > Angel Velásquez > angvp @ irc.freenode.net > Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User > Linux Counter: #359909 > http://www.angvp.com >

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[arch-general] Tool to build from source bundle?
by Magnus Therning 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Is there a standard tool that takes a source bundle, as produced by `makepkg --source`, and builds from that? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. -- Alan Kay

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