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[arch-general] Vim Syntax Highlighter
by Carlos Mennens 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

I noticed today when editing a config file for Postfix in Vim that one value was listed in white text only and everything else was in color. This lead me to beleive the value or parameter was wrong or not being recognized by Postfix configuration but it is. I asked Postfix and the said: "Your VIM syntax highlighter is out of date" Can anyone tell me if there is a way to update this manually if I have the latest version of Vim in my Arch repo?

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Re: [arch-general] gsfonts - package is updated?
by Francois Charette 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

On 26/03/2010 11:18, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Firmicus<Firmicus(a)gmx.net> wrote: > >> PS: Yes, the stupid version numbers for those fonts used upstream by the >> ghostscript project is also part of the mess I was referring to, but far >> worse it the fact that the fonts have not been released as a standalone >> tarball for so long. The fonts themselves (outlines and metrics) are of a >> very high quality, so there is no problem in that respect. It's just that >> the ghostscript project does not seem to care releasing them. The tarball >> was generated by Fedora from the ghostscript svn repo. The new version not >> only fixes the bug mentioned above, but also adds glyphs for Cyrillic. >> >> > Did you try to communicate with upstream ? It is not always bound to failures :) > It just takes a few minutes to write a mail. And sometimes there are results ! > > Done http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=687297#c31

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[arch-general] gsfonts - package is updated?
by Ng Oon-Ee 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Repository : extra Name : gsfonts Version : 1.0.7pre44-1 Installed : 8.11-5 URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts/ I'm assuming this is a simple mess upstream on non-consecutive version numbers? The linked sourceforge page still lists 8.11 as the stable version, while the one currently in extra is listed as 'pre' (and doesn't seem available in the sourceforge page?

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[arch-general] tmpfs
by Juan Diego 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Good day everyone, I want to delete the next two lines from my fstab: none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 however I would like to know the secondary effects of doing such thing, all the information I could get on the internet is that shm is for POSIX shared memory support and that almost any program actually use it, for devpts I couldn't find much information about it. does anyone knows if it is safe to remove those lines from my fstab? thank you.

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[arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games
by Daenyth Blank 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

For some reason rankmirrors seems to really hate the arch-games mirrorlist. I don't know whether it's a bug or whether there's some sort of server misconfiguration. [root@Muspelheimr pacman.d]# rankmirrors -t archgames-mirrorlist Querying servers, this may take some time... * * * * Servers sorted by time (seconds): http://pseudoform.org/arch-games/games/i686 #(Nürnberg, Germany. Maintainer: svenstaro) : 1.01 http://repo.exigen.org/arch/games/i686 #(Düsseldorf, Germany. Maintainer: s4msung) : unreachable http://repo.archlinux-gaming.org/i686 #(Toronto, Canada. Primary mirror) : unreachable ftp://mirror.selfnet.de/arch-games/i686 #(Stuttgart, Germany. Maintainer: hrist) : unreachable All of the above servers respond to ping and their repos can be browsed manually and synced with using pacman.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grep-2.6-1
by Xavier Chantry 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Upstream big update. > > Local changelog: > - Removed the multibyte locale speed-up patch (and all the patches to fix > the issues it created...) as it is now included upstream. > - Removed the other patches as it appears they are not being considered > upstream. > > Upstream NEWS: > * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6 (2010-03-23) [stable] > > ** Speed improvements > > grep is much faster on multibyte character sets, especially (but not > limited to) UTF-8 character sets. The speed improvement is also very > pronounced with case-insensitive matches. > That's awesome. After all these years, I thought this would never happen :) I did a quick benchmark before and after, and I got very similar results, so we are good. grep -i is still considerably slower than grep in UTF-8 (0.1 -> 1.5s , that is 15x slower), but IIRC it was MUCH worse with an unpatched grep 2.5, like hundred of times slower. With LANG=C , grep and grep -i are both at 0.1s.

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[arch-general] Kernel LTS won't boot properly
by Nilesh Govindarajan 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I installed kernel26-lts. It will boot properly upto Udev then screen will flicker and then nothing shows up, but it seems like the boot is going on. Its just after when INIT changes the screen font. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Issue with man
by Damien Churchill 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I've got a rather confusing issue with man. Whenever I try and view a man page I just end up with a blank screen. http://www.imagebam.com/image/41dd5973332829 This occurs for any page, even for local ones. I was wondering if anyone would be able to shed any light on why this is occuring? Thanks, Damien

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[arch-general] upcoming Xiph releases
by Ray Kohler 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Just a heads-up to package owners that there will be several xiph.org releases very soon now. libao appears to be the only thing with a soname bump (2.1.3 -> 4.0.0). I don't think the rebuild list for it should be very long. See below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <xiphmont(a)xiph.org> Date: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Vorbis-dev] upcoming releases (was: adding directory contents to ogg123 playing in sorted order?) To: Ray Kohler <ataraxia937(a)gmail.com> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Can I take it that the releases of libao and vorbis-tools are > imminent, then? The doc updates from the last day have that feel to > them also. > > I ask because I'd like to give a heads-up to the Arch devs since the > libao release will have a soname bump, and thus they'll have some > rebuilding to plan. (And is libvorbis getting a release soon as well?) I will be releasing libogg, libvorbis, libao and vorbis-tools by the end of the week (I hope). Schedule is actually 'tomorrow', but some small amount of slippage is traditional. Monty

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[arch-general] New Using AUR
by Carlos Mennens 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

I had two questions about using the AUR. I have never done it before and read of the How-To on the Wiki but could someone please answer the following two questions I have: 1. If I build a tarball on 'PC1' downloaded from AUR with the 'makepkg -s' command, can I then transfer the created tarball to 'PC2' and install it even though PC2 didn't have any of the required packages used to create the tarball from the AUR? 2. Once a package is installed from the AUR, when I do a system upgrade via Pacman, will outdated packages I installed via AUR get automatically upgraded or do I have to do all my AUR packages manually?

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