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[arch-general] one suggestion for aur edbrowse package
by Jude DaShiell 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

In its present configuration it's a good package. However someone who unpacks the edbrowse package for the first time ought to be told while running as a user account to prepare to use edbrowse for the first time first run the setup.ebrc package. Once that's done, necessary set up edbrowse needs to have gets done.

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[arch-general] suggestions for astrolog package on aur
by Jude DaShiell 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

For ecraven specifically, the astrolog package needs its astrolog.dat file packaged with it since the astrolog.dat file controls the operation of astrolog itself. I was able to fix that deficit after having downloaded and installed the aur package as a result of prior use of the software. That file belongs in /usr/share/astrolog and the DEFAULT path in astrolog.h needs to point to /usr/share/astrolog as well before compilation. The file ephemall.zip also ought to be extracted into /usr/share/astrolog because that file on the same site as the astrolog software is the ephemeris files for astrolog. The accuracy of calculations improve with use of ephemeris files and Lilith can then also be calculated. Other than that, this is a good package and builds well.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Rogutės Sparnuotos 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Allan McRae (2010-08-18 01:46): > Hi, > > I have pushed the new python (3.1) and python2 (2.7) packages to the > new [staging] repo so rebuilds can start there. Remember the > staging repo should never be used outside a build chroot... If you > do, everything python related will break on your system. > > TUs will not be able to start uploading rebuilds yet as they do not > have a staging equivalent, but we will sort something out for them > once we get all the db-scripts/devtools changes tested for the main > one first. The package pool is going to save us a heap of issues > when this gets moved so it is worth the wait. > > > The key things to remember with the rebuild are: > > - build in clean chroots. Most packages will detect "python2" or > "python-2.7" once they see no "python" and use that. Some will need > simple patching. > > - change your dependencies to python2 > > - check files for #!'s with "/usr/bin/python" or "/usr/bin/env > python". If you have those you will need to do a sed to change them > to python2. Me wonders what is planned for e.g. pyqt, which is available for both, python2 and python3? Thanks, -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

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[arch-general] PulseAudio in [extra]
by Tom Gundersen 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi Jan, I saw your plan, <http://gist.github.com/444917>, regarding moving pulseaudio to the extra repository, and I was curious if it is still going forward? I'm using PA with KDE myself, and would be happy to help with anything in order to move the packages to extra. I noticed two things about your plan: 1) the package pavumeter is listed as out-of-date/obsolete here: <http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio#RelatedSoftware>. So maybe it is not worth moving it to [extra]? 2) In order to make KDE work with PA, "kdemultimedia" and "phonon" have to be recompiled with PA support turned on. In case PA is disabled or not installed, the programs degrade nicely to the old (ALSA) behavior. So no need to maintain separate packages. On a side-note, there is currently a bug that causes Phonon+Gstreamer+PA to misbehave (particularily in Amarok), this is fixed upstream and everything should work well once gst-good 0.10.24 has been packaged. Cheers, Tom

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[arch-general] did kdemod-legacy repo go away?
by David C. Rankin 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Guys, I must have missed a note advising that the kdemod-legacy repo was removed from the pacman repos. Every time I update I get the following error: error: failed retrieving file 'kdemod-legacy.db.tar.gz' from chakra-project.org : Not Found error: failed to update kdemod-legacy (Not Found) So is it true? Is it gone for good? If so, it would be a sad epitaph on the desktops head-stone. ("Killed at its prime") Currently,(at least before 2 days ago) kdemod-legacy installed perfectly with the only updates required being libjpeg, libpng and poppler-qt3 - all available at AUR and with it taking less than 1.7G of static space on a drive, seems like it would make Arch a much more robust distro to continue the offering and list is as an asset rather than having an empty check mark in the "KDE3 available" column. What's the scoop? -- 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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[arch-general] FF Browser Tip for Archers who like a darker desktop (DR, you listening?)
by David C. Rankin 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Guys, Here is a quick browser tip for firefox. About a year ago I stumbled across 'NightShift - Eyecare' that did a fantastic job at basically inverting the way firefox rendered pages darkening the display and providing immediate relief to tired eyes: NightShift - Eyecare (good title) http://userstyles.org/styles/18192 It's not for all pages, but when you need to read a page or two of text and you don't want to stare into a bright display, it is worth its weight in gold. Last night, I had to rebuild my firefox install (moving ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-sav and starting new). Looking for nightshift again (not remembering what it was called and searing 'night' on userstyles.org, I stumbled across 'Midnight Surfing' and gave it a try. Wow, it worked better in some circumstances. That was cool, so I thought I would pass it along to the list: Midnight Surfing http://userstyles.org/styles/23516 It can be a great tool to stick in your toolbox for the right circumstance and since stylish integrates nicely with FF providing the little status bar on/off dialog for the styles, you can flip it on/off with no effort at all. Install stylish before going to userstyles.org and you can then just load the styles into firefox. Get stylish at the mozilla addons site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/2108/addon-2108-l… Enjoy! -- 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] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Thomas Dziedzic 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have pushed the new python (3.1) and python2 (2.7) packages to the new [staging] repo so rebuilds can start there. Remember the staging repo should never be used outside a build chroot... If you do, everything python related will break on your system. > > TUs will not be able to start uploading rebuilds yet as they do not have a staging equivalent, but we will sort something out for them once we get all the db-scripts/devtools changes tested for the main one first. The package pool is going to save us a heap of issues when this gets moved so it is worth the wait. > > > The key things to remember with the rebuild are: > > - build in clean chroots. Most packages will detect "python2" or "python-2.7" once they see no "python" and use that. Some will need simple patching. > > - change your dependencies to python2 > > - check files for #!'s with "/usr/bin/python" or "/usr/bin/env python". If you have those you will need to do a sed to change them to python2. > > > If you come across a package that you can not easily fix, add it to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List#Packages… and I will take a look at it. > > Have fun, > Allan > > > This would probably be also a good time to remind the maintainers that there are still packages left for the community cleanup.. only a few are still remaining. I would like to finally see the community cleanup marked as "complete" :) emerald-themes - ronald gnochm - dgriffiths grub-gfx - orphan kydpdict - jswierczynski libnewt - dgriffiths libnsbmp - dgriffiths libnsgif - dgriffiths libtrash - jswierczynski magickthumbnail - orphan man-pages-cs - jlichtblau man-pages-pt_br - jlichtblau mandvd - jlichtblau mdf2iso - dgriffiths miniracer - dgriffiths mt-daapd - orphan noyau - orphan nrg2iso - dgriffiths pork - jlichtblau premake - dgriffiths pstreams - dgriffiths pygoocanvas - orphan python-certtool - orphan python-geotypes - orphan python-gnupginterface - aschaefer python-pysqlite-legacy - ronald qt-recordmydesktop - dgriffiths qucs - spupykin sfarkxtc - jlichtblau shfs-utils - jlichtblau texlive-bibtexextra-doc - shusmann texlive-core-doc - shusmann texlive-fontsextra-doc - shusmann texlive-formatsextra-doc - shusmann texlive-games-doc - shusmann texlive-genericextra-doc - shusmann texlive-htmlxml-doc - shusmann texlive-humanities-doc - shusmann texlive-langcjk-doc - shusmann texlive-langcyrillic-doc - shusmann texlive-langextra-doc - shusmann texlive-langgreek-doc - shusmann texlive-latex3-doc - shusmann texlive-latexextra-doc - shusmann texlive-music-doc - shusmann texlive-pictures-doc - shusmann texlive-plainextra-doc - shusmann texlive-pstricks-doc - shusmann texlive-pstricks-doc - shusmann texlive-publishers-doc - shusmann texlive-science-doc - shusmann

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Large packages in repositories
by Thomas Dziedzic 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > A package went in so big today that it made reporead blow up on my > local database due to the installed size being > 2GB: > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/sage-mathematics/ > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/sage-mathematics/ > > File > "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/postgresql_psycopg2/base.py", > line 44, in execute > return self.cursor.execute(query, args) > django.db.utils.DatabaseError: integer out of range > > I'm wondering if we need to be more careful when it comes to these big > packages entering our repositories. This one is especially suspect as > of its 71096 files (and 71094 in the other architecture), a ton of > them are things like *.py, *.pyc, *.html, or *.png files. This is ripe > for splitting into a -data package (or not including some of this > junk, if it is that, at all). > > mysql> select count(*), substring_index(path, '.', -1) from > package_files where pkg_id = 49860 and path like '%.%' group by > substring_index(path, '.', -1) order by count(*) desc limit 25; > +----------+--------------------------------+ > | count(*) | substring_index(path, '.', -1) | > +----------+--------------------------------+ > | 29787 | png | > | 9410 | py | > | 6602 | pyc | > | 1804 | h | > | 1722 | html | > | 1659 | txt | > | 1168 | pyo | > | 988 | doctree | > | 988 | rst | > | 886 | hpp | > > > tl;dr: I think we need some standards with these huge packages, and > people need to be a lot more cognizant as to how big they are. We have > lost more than one mirror due to complaints over needed space and > stuff like this doesn't help. > > If any TU's would like to forward this along and solicit their > thoughts I'd appreciate it. > > -Dan > There was a 4 day long thread about this in aur-general http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-August/009854.html

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Re: [arch-general] FF Browser Tip for Archers who like a darker desktop (DR, you listening?)
by Sergey Manucharian 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Excerpts from Filip Filipov's message of Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:08 +0300: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Filip Filipov <pilif.pilif(a)googlemail.com> > Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 18:39 > Subject: Re: [arch-general] FF Browser Tip for Archers who like a > darker desktop (DR, you listening?) > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > > > > > Indeed nice stuff, but... > > Stylish is supposed to work with Chrome, and I tried it with > > Chromium 5.0.375.99 - an error message "unable to open a > > transaction to the database" keeps popping up... > > > > Cheers, > > Sergey > > > > just tried it with http://userstyles.org/styles/18192 on Chromium > 5.0.375.125 . wenn installing I deleted the first 3 lines: > @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); > @-moz-document url-prefix(http://), > url-prefix(https://),url-prefix(about:blank) > { > body,html {min-height: 100%!important; } > Hi Filip, Thanks! This works! > hi, this was my mail as answer to yours but it seems no-one is aware > of my mail. May be am blocked??? I'm not sure, but your email has been addressed only to me, not to arch-general(a)archlinux.org ... Cheers, Sergey

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1
by Martín Cigorraga 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

I want to give my 2 cents of feedback to this issue posted in [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1 : (I had the impression that it might be heating up my laptop more than normal, but then I was doing backups last night, and I'm feeling a part of my laptop that I'm not sure if it's normally warm anyway. Is there a way to measure this? The estimated battery life from GNOME looks pretty normal, if that's an indication of heating by way of power-usage.) -Isaac I do think you have a valid point on the heat issue. The fans on my laptop are notably louder with 2.6.35. Not by a bunch, but from quiet to a low "ssshhhhsshhhsshhh" that you cannot mistake. But given it runs great, it is a big step forward from my 2.6.34 woes... David C. Rankin I'm having fan noise issue since latest kernel update. While system does run smooth, there's a notable increment of noise from the fan that seems to be running a little faster. On the other hand the videocard cooler seems to run as silent as ever. Kernel: 2.6.34.3-1 from [core] Catalyst: 10.7-3 from [catalyst] My system: Linux archbox 2.6.34-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 11 00:23:15 CEST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux ATI Radeon 5750HD Regards, -Marín >

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