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[arch-general] Voice support for gajim and pidgin
by Storm Dragon 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

Howdy, I have tried both pidgin and gajim for making audio calls using my xmpp server. Both of them say they are missing packages. Here's a sample from gajim: Requires: gir1.2-farstream-0.2, gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0, gstreamer1.0-plugins-base, gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly, gstreamer1.0-libav, and gstreamer1.0-gtk3 I even tried upgrading to jagim-git, and got the same thing. Here is how the dependency list looks after installation completes: (1/1) installing gajim-git [############################################################] 100%Optional dependencies for gajim-git python-dbus: for gajim-remote and zeroconf support [installed] farstream: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugins-good: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugins-bad: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugins-ugly: for video/voice support [installed] gst-libav: for video/voice support [installed] gst-python: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugin-gtk: for video support gsound: for notification sounds [installed] gspell: for spell checking support [installed] libxss: for idle time checking on X11 [installed] libappindicator-gtk3: to get a tray icon on some desktop environments notification-daemon: for desktop notifications [installed] gnome-keyring: store passwords encrypted in GNOME Keyring kded: store passwords encrypted in KSecretService python-crypto: support for E2E encryption python-docutils: for RST generator support gupnp-igd: for UPnP-IGD support [installed] geoclue2: for sharing your location :: Running post-transaction hooks... the output from pidgin looks very similar. So I'm curious, am I missing something here or is audio support just broken in both of these? I have audio support using conversations in Android, but why use that when there's a perfectly good computer running Arch right at my fingertips lol. Also, I was wondering if there's a CLI based xmpp client that supports audio? I have searched and there seem to be quite a few, but none that I have found that specifically mentions audio with the jingle protocol, or audio at all for that matter. Thanks, Storm

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[arch-general] Vim errors: Can't allocate color Orange, Can't allocate color SlateBlue, etc...
by David C. Rankin 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

All, A recent change to how vim is being packages has resulted in errors when opening files with C syntax highlight on my system. The error I receive is, e.g.: Error detected while processing /etc/vimrc[38]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/syntax.vim[19]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/synload.vim[21]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/syncolor.vim: line 53: E254: Cannot allocate color SlateBlue E254: Cannot allocate color SlateBlue I get the same error with different colors depending on what different highlight elements are present in any file. Was the vim package changed to put this stuff in another package? Odd error -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Status of gnupg - time to update
by Genes Lists 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Current Arch version is LTS 2.2.32 [1]. As per the announcement [2] 2.3.4 is considered the current stable version: "Version 2.3 is the current stable version with a lot of new features compared to 2.2." I have hazy recollections from some time back that there was a reason for delaying updating to current version - don't recall what exactly. It's been a while now, and there are some nice features in 2.3.4 [3] Also, our libgcrypt is up to date ( ignoring today's release of 1.10.1) Any remaining reason not to update gnupg to current version? thanks gene [1] Aside - LTS 2.3.34 was released recently in early Feb of this year. [2] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2022q1/000470.html [3] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q2/000458.html

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[arch-general] Pacman Search on Package Names Only?
by 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE＠potatochowder.com 25 Mar '22

25 Mar '22

Greetings, Is there a way to limit Pacman to search package names only, rather than package names and descriptions? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Querying_package_databases says that you can do that by tweaking the search term, but that doesn't really work. As a [horrible] workaround, I could write my own script atop pacman -Qq, but, well, yuck. :-) Thanks, Dan

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[arch-general] Output of make -s kernelrelease has a "" suffix
by u34＠net9.ga 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

With 5.17.arch1, the output of make -s kernelrelease ends with "". That is, having a double \" character at the end of the string. It was not like that in prevoius versions. Is that expected? -- u34

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[arch-general] Atheros AR9462 - kernel upgrade warning
by Danila Kiver 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

A little heads up for Atheros AR9462 owners. It seems that the latest kernel renders AR9462 (and maybe some other cards using ath9k module) WiFi close to unusable due to network connection being dropped continuously. The problem seems to be not Arch-specific; there is an upstream report for this: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215698 Upgrade with caution; keep old kernel package cached. Rolling back to linux-5.16.3 worked well for me. Regards, Danila Kiver.

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[arch-general] FS#73728 - Installing mandoc uninstalls certain doc-only packages (dependency issue)
by Kelvin M. Klann 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

Greetings. Some packages are currently affected by Arch bug FS#73728[1]. It seems that not all of the relevant package maintainers were added to the bug report, so I figured that I'd send the bug status to a mailing list and copy whoever is missing. I'm not sure if this is relevant to arch-dev-public, so I'm sending it to arch-general. Apologies if it's not the correct list. Here's a partial quoting of the issue[1]: > Both man-db and mandoc provide "man" and also conflict with each other. > > And there are documentation-only packages which depend on "man-db" rather > than on just "man". > > This prevents installing both mandoc (instead of man-db) and these > documentation-only packages at the same time. > > Note: "man-db" provides only man(1) and related tools; the "default" man > pages themselves are provided by "man-pages". Suggested fix: Change all of the following packages to depend on "man" rather than on "man-db": * man-pages-zh_cn * man-pages-zh_tw * man2html * xorg-docs Note: The following packages were already fixed[2][3]: * bat-extras * man-pages-cs * man-pages-da * man-pages-de * man-pages-es * man-pages-fr * man-pages-hu * man-pages-it * man-pages-mk * man-pages-nl * man-pages-pl * man-pages-pt_br * man-pages-ro Note2: In the case of man2html, it does not call man(1); you have to call it yourself and pass the output to man2html. From man2html(1): > Typical Usage: > > man2html[-options] < infile > outfile > > man topic | man2html [-options] > outfile I have tested it with both man-db and mandoc: $ yes | sudo pacman -Sdd man-db >/dev/null 2>&1 $ man /usr/share/man/man1/tr.1.gz | man2html >tr_mandb.1.html $ yes | sudo pacman -Sdd mandoc >/dev/null 2>&1 $ man /usr/share/man/man1/tr.1.gz | man2html >tr_mandoc.1.html The main difference that I noticed was that with man-db, everything is put inside a pre tag, while with mandoc it uses h2, b and pre tags for each section. So the output looks different, but at least the main content is present on both. Package versions: * coreutils 9.0-2 * man-db 2.10.1-1 * mandoc 1.14.6-1 Cheers, Kelvin [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73728 [2] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commit/c4d5698c9f031547039a… [3] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commit/c79b07ccfa1389d58bb6…

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[arch-general] Use Grub with Preloader
by Giovanni Santini 04 Mar '22

04 Mar '22

Hi all, I was reinstalling Arch after an unlucky SDD wipe due to warranty. I reinstalled Arch and then proceeded to use Secure Boot via Preloader. I followed the steps at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secu… But I got an error from Grub saying: *error: verification requested but nobody cares* I decided to re-create the Grub binary with the TPM module via *grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=ESP_DIR --modules="tpm" --bootloader-id=BOOTLOADER* But that didn't do the trick. Do I have to do something peculiar in order to make Grub to work? Bests, -- Giovanni Santini Telegram: @ItachiSan Github: https://github.com/ItachiSan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovanni-santini/ Facebook: https://fb.me/giovanni.santini

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[arch-general] Whom to report a possible bug with Flyspray, powering bugs.archlinux.org?
by u34＠net9.ga 25 Feb '22

25 Feb '22

I have a problem with bugs.archlinux.org. I think there is a bug with the software powering the site. I tried to search how to report, and failed. It is tricky to choose the right search expression. Should I report to bugs.flyspary.org? I am not related to bugs.archlinux.org adminstrators. I couldn't find contact information of the administrators. Should I email webmaster(a)archlinux.org? What should I do? I don't mind posting a description of the problem here. -- u34

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[arch-general] Updating a (local) repository based on dependency changes
by Knut Ahlers 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

Hey there, Through the latest update in glibc an issue / question emerged for me and maybe someone on this list has some input for me how to solve this: We do have a repository with custom built packages (for example a custom version of ffmpeg we need for internal purposes)… These packages obviously do have dependencies on libraries and break when there is a change in a library. In this case: "version `GLIBC_2.34' not found". Is there anyone who solved this already? How is it solved in the Archlinux core / community repo? What is your trigger to rebuild packages and prevent running into some command not finding its dependencies? So how do you know when to rebuild [some binary package depending on glibc] without manually keeping track of the glibc version you've built the package against and then triggering the re-build when any of the underlying library changes its version? How does the Archlinux community/core/extra build system keep track of this and knows when to rebuild ffmpeg because glibc changed? Thanks in advance for any input! Cheers, Knut -- Knut Ahlers Software & Infrastructure Developer Web & Blog: https://ahlers.me/ GPG-Key: 0xD215AD7D

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