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[arch-general] Something so ugly only a BASH scripter could love it.
by David C. Rankin 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Listmates, Here is an off-the-wall one for the BASH guys. Many times I need to get file or directory information from the command line with wildcards in the filename or path. I have always hated having to quote the filename or path to prevent shell expansion before it gets to my script. I was pecking around on a script for rsync that would take the same type of file and path information with wildcards and hit upon a really cool way to handle the input without having to quote the names with wildcards to prevent expansion. (.. at least I thought it was cool) Any way, I thought somebody else could get some use out of it. I've replaced the rsync calls with echo statments so your can test it if you have any use for it. Any script that deals with multiple files or filespecs is a candidate for its use. Take a look. The process is a 2-loop process with an Array of cli inputs as the outer loop and the inner loop tests whether the array element holds a directory or a filespec with globbing. If it is a filespec with wildcards, then the wildcards are processed with the inner loop using ls for the individual files. Works for one file or a thousand specified in as many chunks as you want to put on the command line: #!/bin/bash --norc OLDIFS=$IFS IFS=$'\n' ## Fill an Array with all CLI input declare -a CLIARRAY CLIARRAY=( "$@" ) ## Step through CLIARRAY with ls to expand wildcards and process ## files specified on the command line sequentially. Rely on ## rsync to throw error if bad filename ## Simple echo is used for this example for ((a=0;a<${#CLIARRAY[@]};a++)); do ## if the argument is a directory rsync in 1 shot, else rsync each file if [[ -d ${CLIARRAY[${a}]} ]]; then echo "directory: ${CLIARRAY[${a}]}" else for b in $(ls ${CLIARRAY[${a}]}); do echo "file: $b" done fi done IFS=$OLDIFS exit 0 If you are interested in using it with rsync as I had it originally, just replace the first echo with: rsync -ruv ${CLIARRAY[${a}]} ${SSUSER}@${DESTHOST}:${DESTPATH} and the second echo with: rsync -ruv $b ${SSUSER}@${DESTHOST}:${DESTPATH} This allowed me to collect a lot of dispersed information for troubleshooting the X issues that have been plaguing me with a minimum of typing. I had used it like: 2nv /var/log/mes* /var/log/Xorg.* /var/log/kdm.log (the script name was 2nv (short for rsync to nirvana) but it allow chunks to be thown into it and it would nicely rsync the wanted files to their destination. Script in good health :p -- 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] Who has the original for backgrounds in /usr/share/archlinux/wallpaper
by David C. Rankin 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Listmates Does anybody know who has the originals of the wallpapers in /usr/share/archlinux/wallpaper? I as because I would like to get the backgrounds but have the arch logo moved to the lower left corner instead of the center or the right where they are covered by the kde4 weather app and CPU meter. I don't mind putting the arch logos back on just the plain backgrounds, but with the textures and patterns involved, there aren't something you can just move the logo on. If anybody has them, I would appreciate a copy. 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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[arch-general] Kernel Updates & radeonhd -- what does that mean for me compiling the radeonhd from git?
by David C. Rankin 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Guys, I don't know exactly how the kernel changes would effect me compiling and installing the radeonhd module from the radeonhd git repository (if at all). My question is "If I compile and install the radeonhd driver, will the new kernel setup use my module or will it use so precompiled module that is built into the kernel?" In the past, for testing all I had to do was build drm and build the radeonhd driver, install both and restart X. How does the new setup effect that? Do I have to rebuild the initfs with mkinitcpio -p kernel26 every time I build a new module like with the intel driver? What say the gurus? -- 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] vi problems
by richard terry 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi List, I upgraded a couple of days ago not having done so for a number of weeks and now vi dosn't work properly in a konsole - the key allocations seem all wrong (eg up/down arrows, insert, delete > all print A', B' etc. Clueless as to where to start. Any help appreciated. Richard

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[arch-general] Is it possible to move Mumble to community repository?
by Lauri Niskanen 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hello, Mumble [1] is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software. It has a stable version package on AUR [2]. Would it be possible to have Mumble in [community]? Mumble is very popular application and it doesn't have any license issues [3]. It has 216 votes on AUR. Pkgstats reports 8.91 % usage [4]. Having Mumble in official repository would help users installing it and keeping it up-to-date. [1] http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Main_Page [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10221 [3] It's licensed as BSD and GPL. [4] http://www.archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics -- Ape <Lauri Niskanen>

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[arch-general] [PATCH] automatically mount debugfs
by Markus Trippelsdorf 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Here is a patch for rc.sysinit to automatically mount the kernel's debugfs, if available. (I switched from Gentoo to Arch two days ago and first sent this message to arch-dev-public which turned out to be read-only. Maybe a hint on the mailman page would be nice, to spare future newbies the same experience?) --- rc.sysinit_old 2009-10-14 20:08:56.776237753 +0200 +++ rc.sysinit 2009-10-14 20:40:28.227216838 +0200 @@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ /bin/mount -n -t proc none /proc /bin/mount -n -t sysfs none /sys +# mount debugfs, if available +if [ -d /sys/kernel/debug ]; then + if grep -qs debugfs /proc/filesystems; then + mount -n -t debugfs -o nodev,noexec,nosuid debugfs /sys/kernel/debug + fi +fi + # Copy static device nodes to /dev /bin/cp -a /lib/udev/devices/* /dev/ @@ -288,7 +295,7 @@ /bin/mount -o remount,rw / # Write /proc, /sys and /dev to /etc/mtab if [ -e /proc/mounts ]; then - /bin/grep -e "/proc " -e "/sys " -e "/dev " /proc/mounts >> /etc/mtab + /bin/grep -e "/proc " -e "/sys " -e "/dev " -e "debugfs" /proc/mounts >> /etc/mtab fi # now mount all the local filesystems /bin/mount -a -t $NETFS -O no_netdev -- Markus

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[arch-general] pacman error: config file ../mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized
by David C. Rankin 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Listmates, I did a fresh install of 2009.08 on a new box and I am getting a weird pacman error where pacman doesn't recognize the first "Server" statement in mirrorlist. (2009.08 installed perfectly) All 3 of my other arch boxes work fine with the mirrorlist file and do not give the error. I have even copied the mirrorlist from one of my other boxes to the new box and the error still occurs. Even though I get the error, pacman works just fine. The error is: error: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized Line 193 is just the first sever in mirrorlist: 192 # United States 193 Server = http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/$repo/os/i686 194 Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/i686 Any ideas? The pacman.log.bz2 and messages.log.bz2 for the install are here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/dcrgx2/ -- 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] Commits mailing list in Gmane
by A Rojas 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hi, Is the arch-commits mailing list subscribed in gmane? I can only find arch- announce, devel and general. If it's not, would it be possible to subscribe it? I find it much more convenient to be able to read the lists in Knode.

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[arch-general] packages deleted from db but still on repos
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

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[arch-general] Arch Linux installation only with pacman
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Hello all! I remember looking at the installation script about one year ago, and all it had done (to install the base packages), was to use pacman. Now if I try to use the same procedure now (or what I remember from it), I get a lot of errors from the install hooks (script-lets). I've tried to install them once without by disabling scriptlets, and then once more by using them, but the errors are still there. So my question is: how can I install Arch Linux now, by having only a static built pacman? (I want to use this for an automated installation procedure for virtual machines.) (I think I've tried the procedure on the Wiki page with the same outcome.) Thanks, Ciprian Craciun. P.S.: Maybe it's Ok to have those scriptlet errors?

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