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[arch-general] multilib repo and flashplugin
by Rafael Beraldo 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

I've just activated the multilib repository and installed flashplugin from there. But during installation, nspluginwrapper gives an error: nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/plugins/libflashplayer.so What is a viewer anyway? How can I solve this problem? Thanks. -- Rafael Beraldo http://cabaladada.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.4-1
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Latest kernel is in testing, 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[arch-general] Vala out of date
by Jackson Alley 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

The vala package is several versions out of date and some packages now depend on the .9 branch like shotwell. Here's an updated PKGBUILD: http://dpaste.com/234866/ Jackson

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.21-1
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Latest kernel is in testing, 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] Interactive boot mode like in Gentoo
by joker-jar＠yandex.ru 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

What do you think about it? Need to be in Arch? During booting before starting daemons appears message: "Press I to enter interactive boot mode" Interactive boot allows to select action for each daemon such "start service" and "skip service"

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[arch-general] Makepkg $(srcdir) detection and false-positives
by Nathan Wayde 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

I'm not sure if this is the correct ML or not but whatever I'll post here anyway. I was just reading the ML where the quest? to finding why makepkg warns about $srcdir was brought up and a simple grep -R... seemed to be the method of detection. Anyway it reminded me of another message on the topic last week i think where someone said that it would warn on files with debugging symbols... TL;DR makepkg does a grep -q to decide if a package contains files that reference $(srcdir), this is inadequate as it causes a false-positive on files that contain debugging symbols. This can be eliminated by specifying the option `-I` a.k.a `--binary-files=without-match` to grep which makes prevents grep from matching binary files. Rationale: the only paths that binary files should contain based on buildtime setting are path such as '/usr/share/xyz'. If the pkgbuild *accidentally* uses a variable that resolves with $srcdir in it then I'd argue that the pkgbuild is broken and will most likely break the application in other ways and will be caught before sharing the pkgbuild. I can't be the only one that tests their packages before uploading to the AUR right? On another note, shouldn't there also be a check for $pkgdir. The only cases of this that I've ran into myself have been a reference to $pkgdir causing all sorts of nonsense such as broken symlinks and incorrect resource paths.

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[arch-general] rc.conf man page
by Dave Reisner 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

I threw together a man page for rc.conf based on info gleaned from the Wiki, rc.conf itself, and my own experiences. I offer it up for for adoption into the initscripts package along with comments, critcisms, and rotten tomatoes. The format is asciidoc, which is the same format used by pacman. If desirable, I'm willing to compile other pages for system config files in a similar manner. d

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kde 4.5.0
by Stefano Avallone 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

On Tuesday 24 August 2010 19:05:46 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On Wednesday 18 August 2010 11:06:43 Ronald van Haren wrote: > > so far I've seen people reporting the following chipsets to be > > affected, but there may be others > > intel 910 > > intel 945 > > intel 965 > > ati 3450 > > After the update to Xorg 1.9 I had to disable compositing (editing > ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc). I own an intel gm45 chipset. I tried to update to xorg, mesa and intel video driver from [unstable], too, and found kde unusable with compositing enabled (huge flickering). So, I reverted all the stack back to [extra]. I own an intel gm45 chipset, too. Stefano

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[arch-general] restore hdd image to a bigger disk
by Marek Otahal 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi all, I use dd command to make an image of entire /dev/sda (160GB) and back up it as netobook.hdd to an external storage. The disk contains both encrypted(dmcrypt/luks) and normal linux/win partitions. My question is, if my netbook died and I needed to recover from backup, can I just dd-copy the image to a new larger disk? Does it matter? 1/ it will do, but the size will remain 160gb ..is ok. 2/ will do & possibility to resize partitions later ..even better! :) I've searched the net, but I'd like someone to confirm it 100% works (just dd and reboot). Thanks in advance, Marek -- Marek Otahal :o)

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [ANNOUNCEMENT DRAFT] True multilib for Arch Linux x86_64
by Mario Figueiredo 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

On 26-08-2010 23:09, Thomas Bächler wrote: > [multilib] > Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Also planning a a multilib-testing?

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