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[arch-general] [ABS][PATCH] Switch Contributor line with Maintainer line.
by David Campbell 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

This was already done with the prototypes in the pacman repository and should be done with these as well. --- prototypes/PKGBUILD-bzr.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-cvs.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-darcs.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-git.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-gnome.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-haskell.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-hg.proto | 4 ++-- prototypes/PKGBUILD-perl.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-rubygem.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-svn.proto | 2 +- 10 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-bzr.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-bzr.proto index d3e41fe..ac3ecf2 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-bzr.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-bzr.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines # for more information on packaging from Bazaar sources. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME-bzr pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-cvs.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-cvs.proto index 520087d..7e93cfd 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-cvs.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-cvs.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines # for more information on packaging from CVS sources. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME-cvs pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-darcs.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-darcs.proto index 0c3377c..821c4e2 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-darcs.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-darcs.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines # for more information on packaging from darcs sources. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME-darcs pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-git.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-git.proto index 3bbfddb..e00363f 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-git.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-git.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines # for more information on packaging from GIT sources. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME-git pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-gnome.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-gnome.proto index 8c7b695..c361501 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-gnome.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-gnome.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_package_guidelines for more # information on Gnome packaging. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-haskell.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-haskell.proto index 6d7322f..cc988f2 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-haskell.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-haskell.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines for more # information on Haskell packaging. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-hg.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-hg.proto index c589991..f6ee05b 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-hg.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-hg.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines # for more information on packaging from Mercurial(hg) sources. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME-hg pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 @@ -57,4 +57,4 @@ build() { ./configure --prefix=/usr make make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install -} +} diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-perl.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-perl.proto index 2f8759a..4aa765b 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-perl.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-perl.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Perl_Package_Guidelines for more # information on Perl packaging. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=perl-foo-bar pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-rubygem.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-rubygem.proto index c3b5533..e1768e3 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-rubygem.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-rubygem.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ruby_Gem_Package_Guidelines for more # information on Ruby Gem packaging. -# Contributor: YourName <YourEmail AT example DOT com> +# Maintainer: YourName <YourEmail AT example DOT com> pkgname=ruby-GEMNAME pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-svn.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-svn.proto index 588423b..b806aca 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-svn.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-svn.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines # for more information on packaging from SVN sources. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME-svn pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 -- 1.7.2.3

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Evangelos Foutras 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

I noticed that my python-jinja, python-pygments and python-south packages aren't on the rebuild list. Shall I add them myself, or can the list be regenerated?

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[arch-general] Gvim is a blank, empty, grey window
by Simon Woolf 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Hi all, Subject line says it all, really -- installed gvim, and on opening it, I get a blank, empty, grey window: http://i.imgur.com/DUUIO.png . That's if opening it normally; opened from a terminal, it prints: (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Opening cache "/var/tmp/kdecache-simon/icon-cache.kcache" page size is 4096 (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Attached to cache, determining if it must be initialized (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Cache fully initialized -- attached to memory mapping (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: 4636672 bytes available out of 10485760 ...And then nothing -- not even a grey window. Reinstalling gvim & vim-runtime has no effect. I would try aur/vim-gtk instead of extra/gvim, but it seems to be unbuildable -- one of the sources gives a 404. If relevant, Arch is up to date, and is broadly KDE4.5 (with compiz and bmpanel2 used in place of kwin and plasma). Since I haven't heard anyone else have this problem with gvim, I assume it's just me. Anyone had anything liike this before? Any ideas? Thanks to all in advance. Simon Woolf

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[arch-general] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

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

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[arch-general] Unable to start server kxkb
by Nilesh Govindarajan 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Hi, I'm unable to use multiple keyboard layouts due to the error mentioned in the subject. What's the solution? This is happening after the kde upgrade. $ grep kglobalaccel .xsession-errors QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.5' -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] Unable to Start PostgreSQL
by Carlos Mennens 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

When I installed the latest version of PostgreSQL today, I attempted to start the daemon so I could login and start creating databases but received the following error: [root@buster ~]# /etc/rc.d/postgresql start :: Starting PostgreSQL [BUSY] su: warning: cannot change directory to /var/lib/postgres: Permission denied could not change directory to "/root" pg_ctl: could not open PID file "/var/lib/postgres/data/postmaster.pid": Permission denied [FAIL] Anyone know what I am doing wrong? This is a brand new server and fresh install of both Arch & PostgreSQL.

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[arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs
by Steve Holmes 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

I have emacs 23.2 running in a normal text console and am trying to spell check using the ispell.el facility in the emacs lisp libraries. I also installed aspell and espell-en packages to resolve the binary program to be used by the emacs ispell function. When I do any of the emacs commands like ispell-buffer or ispell-region and the like, I keep getting a message in the prompt line of emacs saying "Text is read-only" The buffer where I am testing this is most definitely not a read-only buffer. I tested aspell out in a normal terminal on a test text file and that seemed to work OK. Do I have to do anything else to get this working right? I did not set up any config files for aspell; I'm not sure if I have to or not. Can anyone help me out?

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[arch-general] [PATCH] Ignore empty lines when grepping host's mirrorlist
by Evangelos Foutras 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

--- mkarchroot | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mkarchroot b/mkarchroot index fe436f7..5cb9a0f 100755 --- a/mkarchroot +++ b/mkarchroot @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ if [ -z "$cache_dir" ]; then fi if [ -f /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist ]; then - host_mirror=$(grep -v '^#' -m1 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist | sed -E 's#/os/(i686|x86_64)#/os/\$arch#g') + host_mirror=$(grep -E -v '^(#|$)' -m1 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist | sed -E 's#/os/(i686|x86_64)#/os/\$arch#g') fi if [ -z "${host_mirror}" ]; then host_mirror='Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch' -- 1.7.2.3

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[arch-general] [PATCH] Remove 'Add your preferred servers here' comments
by Evangelos Foutras 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

These comments were removed from the default pacman.conf, so let's remove them from these default configuration files as well. --- pacman-extra.conf | 5 ----- pacman-multilib.conf | 6 ------ pacman-staging.conf | 7 ------- pacman-testing.conf | 5 ----- 4 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/pacman-extra.conf b/pacman-extra.conf index 911c23d..3a5d875 100644 --- a/pacman-extra.conf +++ b/pacman-extra.conf @@ -58,23 +58,18 @@ Architecture = auto # after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors. #[testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [core] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [extra] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist #[community-testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for diff --git a/pacman-multilib.conf b/pacman-multilib.conf index 7e0f1d7..8dfd584 100644 --- a/pacman-multilib.conf +++ b/pacman-multilib.conf @@ -58,27 +58,21 @@ Architecture = auto # after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors. #[testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [core] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [extra] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist #[community-testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [multilib] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for diff --git a/pacman-staging.conf b/pacman-staging.conf index 14323d5..f015e63 100644 --- a/pacman-staging.conf +++ b/pacman-staging.conf @@ -58,31 +58,24 @@ Architecture = auto # after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors. [staging] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [core] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [extra] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community-staging] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community-testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for diff --git a/pacman-testing.conf b/pacman-testing.conf index 048e4f7..910e0bc 100644 --- a/pacman-testing.conf +++ b/pacman-testing.conf @@ -58,23 +58,18 @@ Architecture = auto # after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors. [testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [core] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [extra] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community-testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for -- 1.7.2.3

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[arch-general] Many official packages don't also provide static libraries
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Hello all! I've seen that a lot of official ArchLinux packages don't also provide the static library variants (only the shared ones). (See at the end for a statistic, but summarized almost half of them are in this case.) These static variants of the libraries might be pointless for the "vanilla" distribution as most (all?) packages are dynamically linked. But as ArchLinux doesn't provide niche or obscure tools, I have to build them myself. (And by no mean I would like ArchLinux to have all the packages Debian has. I prefer ArchLinux to remain "slim".) And when I build them myself most of the time I can't make them statically link against the current installed libraries (as I have only shared ones). (I know the pros and cons of this. I don't want to debate static linking here.) But as the time goes and ArchLinux moves forward, old shared libraries just disappear, and my hand-built tools remain broken. (And of course I don't see they are broken when I break them, but instead just when I need them and I don't have time to fiddle around fixing them. And I've stumbled onto this multiple times until now, but it gradually gets annoying.) So my question is: what is the reason to not provide also the static library variants? Thanks, Ciprian. ~~~~ # number of packages which provide at least one `.so` library pacman -Ql | grep -E -e '/[^/]+\.so$' | grep -o -E -e '^[^ ]+' | sort -u | wc -l >> 378 # number of packages which provide at least one `.a` library pacman -Ql | grep -E -e '/[^/]+\.a$' | grep -o -E -e '^[^ ]+' | sort -u | wc -l >> 200 ~~~~

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