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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] ifenslave-1.1.0-5
by Allan McRae 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

On 19/04/10 16:50, Allan McRae wrote: > Last rebuild in 2008 and upstream recommends building against current > kernel... > Fixed include path > > Signoff both, > Allan Anyone? User signoffs are good.

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[arch-general] announce: latest snapshot of the "TalkingArch" CD for blind users
by Chris Brannon 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Hi all, I'm proud to announce the April 2010 snapshot of my TalkingArch CD for blind users. This is more-or-less equivalent to the netinstall CD, with one major difference. The system provides spoken feedback as soon as you boot with the disk. I made some improvements to the project since the last release in the fall of 2009. First, I now provide an x86_64 image, as well as an image for i686. I learned that I could use qemu to build the 64-bit version. Second, the CD now includes a brltty package, for people who wish to use braille displays. Here's the link to my project: http://the-brannons.com/tarch/ If you're blind, please check it out. Likewise, if you know anyone who might be interested, please spread the word. -- Chris

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[arch-general] A peculiar LDAP setup
by Piyush P Kurur 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hi, We have configured a set of machines to authenticate against an LDAP database. For some machines we do not want the users to login via their normal shell but some custom program runs for them. For example if some one tries to login to the smtp server via ssh, they get authenticated via LDAP but their default shell fo smtp should be say a program that sets up the email forwarding. More generally is there a way, by mucking around in the pam config or ldap config to ignore certain fields in the ldap database and fill it with some default values. Is there a way to achieve this apart from inelegent ways like copying the ldap database locally and creating a /etc/passwd file ? Best Regards ppk

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[arch-general] CUPS backend for both libusb-based and usblp-based access
by Andreas Radke 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

I know users with multidevices have a serious problems with recent 1.4.0 update because they can only use either the scanner or the printer. I've just found this patch from Till Kapeter, the main OpenPrinting(foomatic) developer and Debian cups package maintainer. http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3357 I assume this could solve all outstanding issues. But sure this is not the current upstream way. And I cannot test it in any way because I don't have such a device. This is to show affected users a possible way to recompile our cups packages with this patch. If it really solves the trouble we might think if it should be done manually (we could put the patch into svn though). That would receive my vote. Or if we could trust Debian here and provide stuff that is not the upstream way but - if proved - solves all the trouble. I couldn't provide any help but doing building the packages. Please test the patch and post your opinions. http://www.cups.org/strfiles/3357/usb-backend-both-usblp-and-libusb.dpatch -Andy

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.33 and friends
by Thomas Bächler 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Now that Pierre fixed lirc for us (neither tpowa nor I were able to do it due to time constraints), here is the signoff for 2.6.33 and the related modules. Please sign off, so we can finally move 2.6.33.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] bridge-utils 1.4-3
by Allan McRae 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

On 19/04/10 17:03, Allan McRae wrote: > Last rebuild was over a year ago. > > Signoff both, > Allan Anyone? User signoffs are fine.

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[arch-general] Raising identical task against multiple packages?
by Magnus Therning 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Is there a way to raise an identical task against multiple packages in FlySpray? I'd like to raise a task against all binary haskell-* packages, but I'd rather like to avoid wearing out my mouse doing it ;-) /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] libgrss, new to archlinux PKGBUILD
by andrew james 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

low is a PKGBUILD that builds libgrss. the library was found as an optional dependency with tracker. http://live.gnome.org/Libgrss/ current vers 0.4.0 # Maintainer: andrew james <andrew at systemssingular com> pkgname=libgrss pkgver=0.4.0 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A library to ease management of RSS/Atom/Pie feeds" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://live.gnome.org/Libgrss/" license=('LGPL3') depends=('glib' 'libxml2' 'libsoup') source=(http://gtk.mplat.es/libgrss/tarballs/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz) md5sums=('c145ce89a8287519e6366ce9c3c15de7') build() { cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver ./configure --prefix=/usr make || return 1 make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install }

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[arch-general] X server gets shifted to Ctrl+Alt+F8
by Karol Babioch 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Hi, I'm not quite sure how to call this issue, maybe that's the reason, why I couldn't find anything on google nor in the bugtracker :(. I'm using the X server with GDM (Gnome), which is attached to Ctrl+Alt +F7 (btw: How do you call this?) during startup. Pretty normal. But as soon as I restart the X server (using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, but it doesn't matter) the X server gets attached to the next free "combo", which is quite obviously Ctrl+Alt+F8, whereas Ctrl+Alt+F7 shows just a blinking cursor. Interestingly this just happens once, so restarting the X server doesn't change anything, it stays attached to Ctrl+Alt+F8. I guess this could be known by some of you, I've experienced this on different machines already, but due to the fact that I don't know how to call this issue, I couldn't find any work-around. So, first of all I would like to know, whether you can reproduce this? Secondly I would like to know where the consoles are set up, so I can set up a seventh console, so the X server will get started on Ctrl+Alt +F8 in the first place. This has a different reason. My F8 key has a LCD printed on it (as it is also a function key to switch the output between the LCD and an attached monitor), so this would be a cool thing ;). But I don't know whether this would fix my main issue, or if the X server would then be shifted to Ctrl+Alt+F9. -- Best regards, Karol Babioch <karol(a)babioch.de>

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[arch-general] openoffice + lprng
by Javier Vasquez 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Hi, I have openoffice installed as well as lprng. Lprng used to work for openoffice providing I believe "Generic Printer" or similar. Some time back for it work under any gtk-2 application (like firefox) I had to add to the gtkrc: gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr,cups" This is still working for firefox and other gtk-2 applications, however it doen't help at all to openoffice. I launched spadmin to see if I could actually add a printer manually. But it doens't work, the most that can be done is trying to install a driver. So no luck... Has any one made lprng work properly with openoffice? Thanks, -- Javier.

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