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[arch-general] Howto Preserve Current Kernel through Update?
by David C. Rankin 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Guys, I want to keep the current kernel while I upgrade to 2.6.36-2 and where I confused is how to use mkinitcpio to do this. What I think I can do to preserve the current kernel as 2.6.36-dcr is: (1) cp -a /lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH /lib/modules/2.6.36-dcr (2) mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ -g /boot/kernel26-dcr.img mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ -g /boot/kernel26-dcr-fallback.img \ -S autodetect (3) update grub menu.lst and create entries for the dcr kernel Before I wasted too much time chasing my tail, I thought would put this out to the list and see if (or what) I'm missing. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] Testing kills shm and pts
by jesse jaara 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Shm is used by pulseaudio I think and also i copy my chromium profile from hd to shm an boot and then remove cache and copy the profile back to hd when i shutdown. Also it is used by one script that simply touches a lock file in there. Reproducing is as simple as just rebooting the pc and the permissions are broken and shm is mounted whit beautiful size of mere 10 mb and it used to mount whit a size of 1.4G :D (it broke my chromium profile :( as it didn't fit in there ) Il try to add those options and the size option too to the fstab and see if that helps, hopely this won't eat my chromium profile again :D -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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[arch-general] Testing kills shm and pts
by jesse jaara 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

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[arch-general] 2010.12-1 archboot "2k10-R8" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2010.12-1, "2k10-R8" has been released. To avoid confusion, this is not an official arch linux iso release! Homepage and for more information on archboot: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110009 Summary: - bugfix release with latest kernels Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository. Please check md5sum before using it. Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives. Please get it from your favorite arch linux mirror: - http://www.archlinux.de/?page=GetFileFromMirror;file=iso/archboot/2010.12 - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2010.12/ Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Minor type in Create-Archboot-Allinone-Howto.txt
by David C. Rankin 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

tpowa There is a minor typo in Create-Archboot-Allinone-Howto.txt Install archboot and update to latest packages: # configure pacman.conf and mirrorlost to your needs above 'mirrorlost' should be mirrorlist Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.27-1
by Andreas Radke 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Am Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:49:03 +0100 schrieb Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de>: > Upstream update. Please sign off. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.27 > > -Andy > Anyone? It's also fixes a vulnerability.

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[arch-general] Patent protection
by Armando M. Baratti 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Probably many of you know about the acquisition of 882 of Novell's patents by a Microsoft organized consortium [1]. What you may not know is that, as Novell was part of OIN (Open Invention Network), those that join OIN *before* the closing date for the acquisition (about january 23) will be protected from any harassment regarding these patents. This [2] Groklaw's article explains it in more detail. It works because the patents are granted perpetually to OIN members that have jointed before the closing date, even in the case of a sell (like occurred in this case). You don't need to have patents or be a company to join (for free) OIN. Any project (like Arch Linux), or even an individual can do it. I understand that *if* MS will use them, it'll be with the big guys (or at least some company). Probably they will prefer to use the patents just for FUD. But OTOH we have nothing to loose (not even patents :-), and it's free. [1] http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2010112410321… [2] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101206205654916 Armando

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[arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]
by Jan Steffens 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

I've put PulseAudio into [testing] some time ago, but received no feedback on this. This either means it works well, or nobody uses it. So I'm asking for it now, especially from GNOME and KDE users running PulseAudio.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.36 series for both arches, Please signoff for 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] [dbscripts] What's needed to support overriding arch in split packages?
by Evangelos Foutras 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

makepkg and devtools are already capable of building split packages with different architectures. A particular case of interest is foo-data split packages which usually are much bigger than their arch-dependent counterparts. Currently, a separate PKGBUILD is required to convert these data packages to be arch-independent, which complicates maintenance needlessly. I had a look at the db-update and db-function scripts, but the code is hard to follow for someone new to it. Therefore, I'd like to ask for opinions from people who've worked on them and have a general knowledge of how they work and how this could be implemented. My idea is to make a special case for arch-dependent PKGBUILDs, to allow for arch=('any') split packages, without necessarily parsing the package_foo-data function. What do you think?

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