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[arch-general] package search shows duplicate ca-certificates package in [testing]
by Ray Kohler 17 Apr '10

17 Apr '10

Ever since the openssl rebuilds moved out of testing, the package search webapp shows an extra copy of ca-certificates in [testing] at the same version of the one in [core] now. This package doesn't really exist in the [testing] DB and there isn't an SVN entry for it in testing-any either. What's going on here? Is it a bug in the package search that I should file in flyspray?

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[arch-general] How to get permanent network devices?
by Dominik Schips 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Hello, I have three network devices (eth0, eth1 and eth2) in my system. Currently I use the networkmanager (Gnome) to configure my LAN connection. It is working good. My problem is that every reboot the device names are changing so somtimes my LAN device is eth0 next reboot it is eth2 ..... I think this is done by udev. Can someone explain me how to get permanent device names every boot? I want to have eth0 as my normal LAN device, eth1 as a bridge device for KVM VMs and eth2 as bridge device connected to my DMZ for VMs. With virt-manager I can setup these bridges but if the device name changes every boot it is unpossible to use. Any ideas or advices for me? -- Best regards Dominik Schips

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[arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing
by David C. Rankin 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Guys, One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and stopping processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse did was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming convention of rc<init script name>. So, for example, instead of having to type: /etc/rc.d/postfix the shortcut was simply rcpostfix I have normally seen the sym-link shortcuts placed in /usr/sbin, but /usr/local/sbin works fine as well. The convenience is addictive. If you manage your box from the command line or want to, then you can give this setup a testdrive. You can create the sym-links very easily with the following cut and pasted to the command line (as root - all on one line): for i in $(ls /etc/rc.d); do [[ -e /etc/rc.d/$i ]] && [[ ! -h /usr/local/sbin/$i ]] && ln -sv /etc/rc.d/$i /usr/local/sbin/rc${i}; done You need to make sure /usr/local/sbin is in root's path to use the rc-commands without having to type the full path each time (that would defeat any convenience). You can quickly check to see if /usr/local/sbin is in root's path by logging in, or su'ing, to the root account and pasting the next line into the command line: set | grep \/usr\/local\/sbin If you get an answer, your fine, if you get nothing, then, as root, add /usr/local/sbin to the path with: PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin EXPORT PATH you can make the path permanent by adding to, or creating /root/.bashrc with the following: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin I know most of you know all this, but this was written with additional detail to help those who may not make much use of the command line now, but may be interested in learning more about the control it offers. Remember, you can do some things some of the time from within various guis, but you can do ALL things ALL OF THE TIME, from the command line. -- 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] First Time Using AUR
by Carlos Mennens 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not clear on: Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is simply a directory where the package will be made or "built" and can be any directory. Examples of commonly used directories are: ~/builds Now when I create the "~/builds" directory, does it matter if I do this in a regular user's home directory or in 'roots'? It is not very clear and I don't want to break anything or improperly build a package from AUR.

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[arch-general] Repo mirrors
by Florian Pritz 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

I've changed the mirror script from the wiki so mirror admins can run it every minute without huge additional load. This will help a lot to reduce update delays now and even further when we have multiple tiers (don't know how mucht that works already). I've already described it somewhere, but for those who don't know it yet: The script fetches an md5 sum of checksums of the repos (core, extra, testing, community). If the first checksum is different then the one locally generated on the mirror, it will check those for every repo. If they are also different it will rsync as needed. HTTP requests are used to fetch the checksums because most mirrors already have HTTP servers running and because they are cheap. I've also created a patch for db-scripts to generate the md5sums for the master server. As I don't have a repo set up this patch is untested (it's the same code as in the mirrorscript though). Once this is merged on the master we can start to tell mirror admins to use the new mirrorscript which can be found at http://karif.server-speed.net/~flo/tmp/mirrorsync.sh.txt C&C welcome :)

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[arch-general] VirtualBox
by Carlos Mennens 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

I am really needing to install VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads) on my Arch 64-bit machine. I noticed that there is obviously no official download for Arch specifically on their site. I then checked Pacman and it appears there is only a OSE (Open Source Addition) available for 32-bit (i686) systems only. My question is if I download the file from the vendor's site I linked above, can I simply not just install that manually on my Arch Linux 64-bit system or will I run into problems? The package I downloaded was called "VirtualBox-3.1.6-59338-Linux_amd64.run" which I assume is just a self contained installer with all the necessary downloads and required files. I am just trying to figure out that best solution for installing VirtualBox (PUEL) but if I have to, I can even deal with using the less-featured version (Open Source Edition) if it was available via Pacman... Thanks for any help / info! -Carlos

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[arch-general] Emerald crashing on theme change or edit in Gnome
by David C. Rankin 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Guys, For some reason, emerald has started crashing when changing themes in Gnome. It changes the theme just fine, but then crashes. (disappears - no error shown or in any logs). The crash occurs as soon as you click on a new theme to change it. This happens when you select the first theme 3/4 of the time. Other times, you can click on two, or maybe even three themes looking for the one you want before the crash occurs at other times. The result is the same, emerald-theme-manager just disappears into thin air. A restart restores emerald without error as well. The problem prevent you from being able to look at more than one theme or edit the emerald themes. The issue isn't with any new theme, I have a set that I've been using without error for a while, it seems like one of the recent updates may be the cause (new Xorg?). I will look at it in kde later this evening. Has anyone else experienced this or got any more information on this new emerald trick? I know emerald well from a user's standpoint, but not from the developer standpoint. I have checked all the logs I could think of (messages.log, everything.log, Xorg.0.log, errors.log ~/.xsession-errors), but I didn't find anything. Is there somewhere else I should be looking? I'll try to provide more information on the behavior in kde and see if I can get anything else from the command line. However, if you have any suggestions in the interim, I would sure appreciate it. Thanks. -- 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] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.62-1
by Eric Bélanger 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Am 12.04.2010 03:09, schrieb Eric Bélanger: >> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.62-1 are now in testing: >>> >>> - minor upstream update (ChangeLogs below) >>> - license fix: ('GPL') -> ('GPL2' 'LGPL2.1') >>> >>> Please test and signoff. Signoffs from users are welcome. >>> >>> Eric >>> >> >> Bump. Anyone? >> > > Updated and re-did initramfs yesterday, signoff x86_64. > > Anyone for i686? I'll wait a couple of days then I'll move them signoff or not.

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[arch-general] erlang emacs
by Juan Diego 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Good day, I'm trying to run erlang-mode in emacs and I'm getting the following error: File mode specification error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "erlang-skels") I remember some time ago this error did not occur. I'm using emacs 23.5-1 and erlang R13B04-3 Is somebody having the same error?

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[arch-general] [signoff] util-linux-ng-2.17.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Hi Util-linux-ng 2.17.2 Release Notes ================================== Changes since v2.17.1 --------------------- For more details see ChangeLog files at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/ docs: - fix small typo in v2.17.1-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] fdisk: - fix -b <sectorsize> [Karel Zak] ionice: - fix typo [Pierre Hauweele] lib: - add #ifndef around min() max() macros [Karel Zak] libblkid: - fix display of device size [Karel Zak] - fix infinite loop when probe chain bails out early [Colin Watson] - more robust minix probing [Karel Zak] - remove "0x" prefix from DRBD UUID [Karel Zak] - reset BLKID_TINY_DEV flag in blkid_probe_set_device [Pascal Terjan] - support alignment_offset=-1 [Karel Zak] lscpu: - fix cpuid opcode detection [Henne Vogelsang] mount: - more explicitly explain fstab usage in mount.8 [Karel Zak] - posix option of vfat is obsolete [Yoshihiro Takahashi] - properly ignore comments in /etc/filesystems [Mike Frysinger] po: - merge changes [Karel Zak] - update ja.po (from translationproject.org) [Makoto Kato] - update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz] - update vi.po (from translationproject.org) [Clytie Siddall] swapon: - remove " (deleted)" from filenames from /proc/swaps [Karel Zak] wipefs: - cleanup usage() and man page [Karel Zak] please signoff, both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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