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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Evangelos Foutras 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:05:47 +0200, Pierre Schmitz > <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:48:06 +1000, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> >> wrote: >>> Just a reminder for people to look at their packages and rebuild them >>> for this. We seem to of stalled majorly... >> >> Do you think a community-staging would be helpful? I could commit the >> needed changes to dbscripts and devtools; I'd like to do a new release >> soon anyway. > > FYI: support for community-staging was added to devtools 0.9.10 and > dbscripts. > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre That's great news. I made copies of my stable chroots for i686 and x86_64 and enabled the {,community-}staging repos in them, per Ionuț's suggestion. I'm guessing once the community-staging repository is created on sigurd, we should be able to upload community rebuilds there. Right?

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[arch-general] Pacman's superslow
by Nilesh Govindarajan 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

I have an OpenVZ VPS running arch. For some reason pacman is superslow, and I'm not allowed to create/use loopback devices. pacman-optimize takes nearly 5 minutes per run, no matter the last run was just a minute ago. -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1
by Florian Pritz 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

On 09.09.2010 11:55, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > this will hopefully the last update of xz for some time. :-) Maybe this > is a sign for the final 5.0 version to be near. I am now using the (very > strange) upstream versioning scheme. That's just git describe. <tag>-<commits since tagged commit>-<last commit id (short format)> signoff x86_64 -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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[arch-general] sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?
by David C. Rankin 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Guys, Got the sudo update with the new sudoers file, Noticed new %sudo group designation along with the traditional %wheel: ## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command # %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL Any reason that we would want a sudo group instead of using wheel? -- 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] cairo xcb backend
by Damjan Georgievski 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

>> Fair enough, if enabling the xcb backend slows things down, especially >> if it is unmaintained so not likely to improve soon, we should remove >> it. >> It's a shame that awesome has to go but I'm sure the people using >> awesome know how to handle building from AUR/ABS and create a >> xcb-enabled cairo for it. > > If it was just an optional backend, I would leave it enabled. But the > fact is that the XCB backend replaces the Xlib version, resulting in > visual bugs and crashes. Have you tried --enable-xcb and --disable-xlib-xcb - this should keep the Xlib version as is, but still support the xcb version. I'd be willing to test this configuration if there's some reliable way to invoke the fore mentioned crashes. I don't usually use Seamonkey or Thunderbird, and my Firefox is a tarball download from Mozilla.com -- damjan

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[arch-general] [PATCH] rc.sysinit: condense calls to mkdir and chmod
by Dave Reisner 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

--- rc.sysinit | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit index f7df48c..bee4efb 100755 --- a/rc.sysinit +++ b/rc.sysinit @@ -276,8 +276,7 @@ stat_busy "Removing Leftover Files" : >| /var/run/utmp /bin/chmod 0664 /var/run/utmp # Keep {x,k,g}dm happy with xorg -/bin/mkdir /tmp/.ICE-unix && /bin/chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix -/bin/mkdir /tmp/.X11-unix && /bin/chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix +/bin/mkdir -m1777 /tmp/.{X11,ICE}-unix stat_done #status "Updating Shared Library Links" /sbin/ldconfig -- 1.7.2.3

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[arch-general] digital camera not showing as mass storage device
by Matthew Monaco 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

I can get my digital camera to work with libgphoto stuff like shotwell, but for months now it simply won't show up as a mass storage device. Am I missing a kernel module or something? I loaded usb-storage. I downloaded the Ubuntu 10.10 beta live CD, plugged the camera in, and it popped up fine as a hard disk /dev/sdX... In the logs I see a load-modules.sh error. Please advise.

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[arch-general] Issues with SFTP and Nautilus.
by wahjava.ml＠gmail.com 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Hi everyone, When I connect to my remote SFTP server (running FreeBSD) using GNOME Nautilus, I noticed that the in the "Permissions" dialog box, instead of user/group names, the numeric U/G IDs are being shown, whereas when I do 'sftp' from terminal, and execute 'ls -l', I can see the user/group names. Any ideas what might be wrong there ? Thanks -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ Avoid Success At All Costs !!

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[arch-general] [PATCH 01/48] Bashification of initscripts
by Victor Lowther 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Despite efforts to make the initscripts POSIX, we use bash 4.0 features. Bashifying this framework should result in about a 30% speedup, assuming no IO latency and that all programs we call also take zero time. :) --- functions | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/functions b/functions index 672eed2..023de35 100644 --- a/functions +++ b/functions @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# +#!/bin/bash # initscripts functions # -- 1.7.1

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Re: [arch-general] sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?
by Auguste Pop 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

i tried to add myself into the sudo group to avoid possible future problems and found out that sudo group does not even exist. i will just ignore this and keep granting sudoer privilege by user.

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