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[arch-general] xorg (group) and xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello, i now found out where my "ugly" fonts in firefox comes for some pages. one page had this defined in css font:11px verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; and busybox.net has: font-family:lucida,helvetica,arial; and both make firefox to use bitmap fonts from the packages xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-fonts-100dpi removing those packages (and having like ttf-dejavu installed) i havent found any webpage that would get any bitmap fonts assigned anymore. so, anyone know how/what decides which fonts firefox gets ? (i have all i can set in firefox settings to dejavu) and on same note, what packages even need xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi ? cant we replace those with ttf-dejavu in the xorg package ? cheers .andre ps. no, the solution is _not_ to install ms-fonts :P

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[arch-general] Package changelog
by Magnus Therning 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

I just found out about the changelog= directive for PKGBUILDs. However I can't really find more detailed information about it, e.g. is there a specific format that I have to follow? Where can I find more info? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] [PATCH] devtools: give a writable home to nobody for use in makechrootpkg
by Gaetan Bisson 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, This is to ensure $HOME is a writable directory during makechrootpkg runs. I suspect this is helpful to build various packages - in the example I have in mind (uim in [extra]), the home directory was determined by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_dir, so simply exporting a new HOME environment variable in the PKGBUILD wasn't enough. Best, --Gaetan diff -aur devtools-0.9.9/mkarchroot devtools-0.9.9.new/mkarchroot --- devtools-0.9.9/mkarchroot 2010-08-20 12:44:16.000000000 +0200 +++ devtools-0.9.9.new/mkarchroot 2010-08-23 11:11:45.036666760 +0200 @@ -194,5 +194,9 @@ if [ ! -e "${working_dir}/.arch-chroot" ]; then date +%s > "${working_dir}/.arch-chroot" fi + + # give nobody a writable home (for makechrootpkg) + chroot "${working_dir}" usermod -d /build nobody + # }}} fi

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] At last, clean multilib support
by Rogutės Sparnuotos 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Rémy Oudompheng (2010-08-23 13:16): > On 2010/8/23, Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 12:54 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > >> What kind of packages are expected to be found in a multilib > >> repository? > >> Should we keep with core/extra packages, leaving 32-bit versions of > >> community packages to AUR ? In more down-to-earth terms: are we going > >> to have glibc/gtk2/firefox/flashplugin in the same place ? > > > > Firefox probably not, but a 32bit flashplugin and its dependencies are > > one of the candidates. Another thing that comes to mind is Wine, as > > there's no native 64bit port of that available. > > > > At this moment community is crowded with broken 32bit crap which is just > > i686 packages copied to a different location (in /opt... ew), where > > hardcoded configuration files still point to the old i686 locations. An > > example of this is gtk2 trying to load 64bit plugins all the time. > > Did I miss something or the 32 bit flashplugin can only be used in a > 32-bit browser ? Wouldn't it be unconvenient to have the plugin in the > repo without some widely used browser ? <...> 64bit Opera can use 32bit Flash (but the 32bit flashplugin needs a bunch of lib32-* packages from community, which have packaging problems as mentioned by Jan). -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

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[arch-general] [PATCH] restrict NETWORK_PERSIST to runlevel 0 and 6
by Florian Pritz 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)xssn.at> --- network | 2 +- rc.shutdown | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/network b/network index 977e81e..d1ecdde 100755 --- a/network +++ b/network @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ case "$1" in # exit #fi - if [ "${NETWORK_PERSIST}" = "yes" -o "${NETWORK_PERSIST}" = "YES" ]; then + if [ "${NETWORK_PERSIST}" = "yes" -o "${NETWORK_PERSIST}" = "YES" ] && [[ $RUNLEVEL = 0 || $RUNLEVEL = 6 ]] ; then status "Skipping Network Shutdown" true exit 0 fi diff --git a/rc.shutdown b/rc.shutdown index 4eb29cc..bbd4444 100755 --- a/rc.shutdown +++ b/rc.shutdown @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ # /etc/rc.shutdown # +export RUNLEVEL PRELEVEL + . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions -- 1.7.2.1

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] At last, clean multilib support
by Mauro Santos 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

On 08/23/2010 12:18 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > - skype (needs qt, which is huge, so maybe this will take a while) You mean to have skype readily available for the 64bit version? That would be nice (one less thing to fetch from AUR :p ). I guess the staticqt version could be used in the meantime, I've been using it for a good while and it has been working fine. I think the staticqt version can also help avoid some minor inconveniences that plague skype when there is a qt update, such as missing avatars. -- Mauro Santos

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[arch-general] makepkg devel_check svn issue
by Andrea Fagiani 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hello, A little background : when updating a svn package with makepkg, svn info gets called (in the devel_check function) and then the "Last Changed Rev" extracted from its output and $pkgver updated accordingly. However, while compiling stjerm-svn [1] (which I maintain in the AUR, btw) I end up with a package that has pkgver=256 , but the actual revision checked out by svn is 262. I suspect it may be due to the fact that rev 257 created a new branch (you can find the repository here) [2]. This could be easily fixed by considering the "Revision" value (instead of "Last Changed Rev") in the svn info output. Question is, is this the desired behavior or did I just stumble into a bug (and should, therefore, report it) ? Andrea [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27759 [2] https://code.google.com/p/stjerm-terminal/source/checkout

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 22 Aug '10

22 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] usb-storage and processor C-states
by JM 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hello, I have two boxes: Pentium M / i915 / ICH7 and Via C7 / CN 700 / VT8237R. Both processors support C-states 0 through 3. Both southbridges support USB 2.0 (ehci). Yet when I plug in an usb flash drive into the Via C7 box the processor can no longer go into the C3 sleep state (C2 becomes the lowest possible) while the Pentium M box does not display this behavior and still happily idles in the C3 state. I'd like to poke upstream about it but I need to know more. What is to blame? Could this be a Southbridge/CPU/BIOS limitation, or is it driver's fault? How do I debug this further? Any help would be appreciated. Regards, JM

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[arch-general] Gnome/Gtk-2.0 BLING! (list of surprisingly cool themes)
by David C. Rankin 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Listmates, I stumbled across some absolutely killer gtk-2.0 & metacity themes that caught my eye. If you use gnome, Xfce, etc.., give them a try and I guarantee you, you will be blown away. They are available at gnome-look or Xfce-look.org sites or by googling the theme name. Most also come with an emerald theme as well as part of the package. Here is the short list: ** Abstract-DarkGlow Aero-ion3.1 Black Plastic V.2 ** Blue-Joy Correcamins DarkVision DiMurrineGTK Dust (Dust Burnt, and the rest of the Dust ... themes) Elegant Aurora (and the other Elegant....) Glow Fire (Lava, Flower, Cinder ...) Harvest Industrial-Glacier (GONYX, Lighthouse, Charcoal, Zeta, ...) Moomex Nova-Blue (Gold, etc...) Overglossed Oxygen-Molecule River Shifte_Black ShinyBlack Silence ** SlicknesS-black SphereCrystal Tenebrific-BlueMods Vision Xfce-cadmium (many of the Xfce themes also have matching gtk themes) Zniavre ** (top 3 for me - the rest are a close 4th) And the screenshot giving an example of Blue-Joy and SlicknesS-black: (86k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/ss/gnome/gnome-bling.jpg -- 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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