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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64
by Caleb Cushing 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > I'll keep this installed despite the security problem. Combined with > flashblock, I can at least watch youtube this way. Force-removing it by > a dummy update is something I don't want. Same here. I block all plugins and js by default anyways... it's not like anyone should actually be trusting flash to be secure... removing it will just harm user functionality. Linus is right http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950 of course no matter what... adobe is wrong... they shouldn't have released without 64-bit... but their wrongs shouldn't make us choose to harm our users functionality. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date
by Gaurish Sharma 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hi, The fwbuilder package which is very usefull for writing firewall rules is flagged out of date since weeks. there is a major 4 which has lots of new features[1] Any reason its not being updated to latest version? [1]http://www.fwbuilder.org/4.0/docs/whats_new/firewall_builder_whats_new_in… Regards, Gaurish Sharma

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-security] Re: What should the Arch Security Team be called?
by Ananda Samaddar 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:27:59 -0700 (PDT) nepherte <nepherte(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Why not just "Arch Security Team" (AST) not to be confused with > abstract syntax trees :) No need to make things complicated. This looks like the way to go, if there's no more dissenters or better suggestions. Ananda

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[arch-general] unrealircd 3.2.8.1-2 contains backdoor
by Alexander Duscheleit 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hi folks, the unrealircd version in community (3.2.8.1-2) has been flagged as containing a backdoor which allows an attacker to execute commands with the privileges of the user running the daemon. The md5sum in the PKGBUILD (abs) matches the known-bad md5sum from this announcement: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=4C134F7E.202%40vuln… I've already filed a bug as FS#19780 to the community project, but given the severity I thought it would be wise to alert a wider audience. Greetings, Jinks

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[arch-general] Knotify4 segmentation fault
by Madhurya Kakati 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hi all, I am using kde 4.4.4. whenever i get any notifications knotify4 throws up error stating seg fault. this is very annoying cause sometime while chatting if chat window is unfocused, if someone replies, i get notification and immediately knotify throws error. Application: KNotify (knotify4), signal: Segmentation fault [KCrash Handler] #5 0x00007f2fed7912f0 in snd_pcm_extplug_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 #6 0x00007f2fed750d65 in snd_pcm_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 #7 0x00007f2fed76f135 in snd_pcm_plug_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 #8 0x00007f2fed750d65 in snd_pcm_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 #9 0x00007f2febbd0f98 in gst_alsasink_close () from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstalsa.so #10 0x00007f2fec30eb86 in gst_audioringbuffer_close_device () from /usr/lib/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0 #11 0x00007f2fec2ff143 in gst_ring_buffer_close_device () from /usr/lib/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0 #12 0x00007f2fec30a396 in gst_base_audio_sink_change_state () from /usr/lib/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0 #13 0x00007f2fecbb28fc in gst_element_change_state () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 #14 0x00007f2fecbb32e2 in gst_element_set_state_func () from /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 #15 0x00007f2fed2efa2a in Phonon::Gstreamer::AudioOutput::setOutputDevice(Phonon::ObjectDescription<(Phonon::ObjectDescriptionType)0> const&) () from /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_gstreamer.so #16 0x00007f2ff7c2185c in Phonon::AudioOutputPrivate::setupBackendObject() () from /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4 #17 0x00007f2ff7c21e63 in Phonon::AudioOutputPrivate::createBackendObject() () from /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4 #18 0x00007f2ff7c1f0cc in Phonon::AudioOutputPrivate::init(Phonon::Category) () from /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4 #19 0x000000000040c871 in _start ()

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Out-of-date packages in [extra]/[community]
by Angel Velásquez 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

>> - biopython >> - pylint >> - python-cheetah >> - python-formencode >> - python-sqlobject (needed by pacbuild, but does pacbuild still work?!) >> - python-gdata (needed by pytube in [community]) >> - python-vpython Let me have the python ones (mainly for pylint python-cheetah python-sqlobject python-vpython) or let's wait to see what's happens with the jr dev positions as Eric said. -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 3.4.0-1
by Andres P 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Upstream release, please signoff. Small detail, Optional Deps : fakeroot: for makepkg usage as normal user python: for rankmirrors script usage rankmirrors is now bash. Andres P

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 3.4.0-1
by Ng Oon-Ee 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 17/06/10 12:34, Dan McGee wrote: >> >> Upstream release, please signoff. >> > > Please make sure to update your makepkg.conf when updating to this, > _including in your chroots_. There may be file stripping issues if you do > not... > > And a summary of the upstream changes: > http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS?id=v3.4.0 > > Allan > Hi Allan, just a quick question, what changes would need to be made? >From examining that link, I'd need to:- 1) Add an "Architecture" option and optionally 2) change my mirrorlists to use $arch instead of i686/x86_64 Or is it just a more general "diff makepkg.conf makepkg.conf.pacnew"?

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Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?
by Nicky726 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:17:44 +0200 > From: ?yvind Heggstad <mrelendig(a)har-ikkje.net> > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:47:16 +0530 > > Gaurish Sharma <contact(a)gaurishsharma.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I think Nvidia still does not work with 1.8 > > > > Regards, > > Gaurish Sharma > > The last I heard was that the devs are waiting for the legazy nvidia > drivers to be updated. > (nvidia-173xx/96xx) Uh... to hell with nvidia, there is nouveau... and if I remember correctly noone did wait for the catalyst. no offence ment, just the blob and stuff... Nicky -- Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone (Joni Mitchell)

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[arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive
by Carlos Mennens 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

I have a USB thrumb drive when I mount it, it mounts fine and shows up as "USBDRIVE" on my system. I would like to know how I can reformat the drive as fat32 using the 'mkfs' command and also setting a new system label on the drive as "ocz_usb"? I do not appear to have the tools installed on my Arch system that allow me to format as fat32 and can't find the command to format and set the label? Can this be done in one command step?

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