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[arch-general] archlinux on old hardware
by Dimitrios Apostolou 19 Sep '09

19 Sep '09

Hello list, I just installed archlinux on a very old laptop of mine PIII at 500MHz with 128MB RAM. I am planning on using it as a desktop... I should mention two facts. First is that I installed from CD succesfully without problems. I remember in the past the installer would fail with such amount of ram but it seems today's squashfs goodness is paying back... So what are the current minimum requirements? The other is that I had trouble finding a truly lightweight X terminal (there were times when xterm was considered bloated ;) so I packaged myself rxvt. Most other distributions offer it so in case you decide to include it I attach the PKGBUILD. I'm wondering, what's the oldest equipment you run archlinux on? Is it for desktop or server usage? Thanks, Dimitris

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[arch-general] Please update the "gavl" package or gstreamer will continue breaking
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 19 Sep '09

19 Sep '09

Hey, the current gavl package in [community] is seemingly compiled with wrong CFLAGS and thus it breaks on older CPUs in conjunction with the newest gstreamer update. I flagged the package a week ago and shot the maintainer a mail but no answer. Can somebody update the package real quick please? Doing so will fix FS#16060. Tested and working PKGBUILD for your convenience: # $Id$ # Contributor: Robert Emil Berge <filoktetes(a)linuxophic.org> # Contributor: Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh(a)lutzhaase.com> # Maintainer: Robert Emil Berge # Maintaner: Mateusz Herych <heniekk(a)gmail.com> pkgname=gavl pkgver=1.1.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A low level library, upon which multimedia APIs can be built." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://gmerlin.sourceforge.net/" license=('GPL') depends=('glibc') optios=(!libtool) source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gmerlin/$pkgname-$pkgv… md5sums=('DC37718AB20ED6728EB9E10D5BB3AD17') build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver} ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --without-doxygen make || return 1 make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install }

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[arch-general] An evil idea --- use Git to manage the repositories
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

Is it possible? advantage: 1 The mirrors do not need download the total new pkgs if it just updated several files. 2 old versions of package can be retrived. 3 GIT is fast. 4 It seems cool! dis-advantage: 1 It is a torture of GIT 2 Huge of works to be done.

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[arch-general] lost-packages in testing/os/any/ @ FTP [season 2]
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

Hi, First: There are some lost packages in testing/os/any/ in the FTP [#1] that are already moved to {core,extra}/os/any perl-anyevent-5.11-1-any.pkg.tar.gz perl-exiftool-7.86-1-any.pkg.tar.gz perl-io-socket-ssl-1.27-1-any.pkg.tar.gz perl-libwww-5.829-1-any.pkg.tar.gz perl-test-pod-1.40-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-bibtexextra-2009.14680-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-core-2009.14682-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-fontsextra-2009.14419-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-games-2009.13822-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-genericextra-2009.14264-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-htmlxml-2009.14086-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-humanities-2009.13530-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-langcjk-2009.14619-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-langcyrillic-2009.14075-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-langextra-2009.14322-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-langgreek-2009.14450-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-latex3-2009.14222-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-latexextra-2009.14694-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-music-2009.13822-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-pictures-2009.14620-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-plainextra-2009.13715-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-pstricks-2009.14633-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-publishers-2009.14558-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-science-2009.14678-1-any.pkg.tar.gz wireless-regdb-2009.08.05-1-any.pkg.tar.gz ------------------------------------------------------------------- Second: These two packages are still on testing, while the rest was moved to extra texlive-formatsextra-2009.14435-1-any.pkg.tar.gz texlive-bin-2009.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz Good Luck! [#1] ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/testing/os/any/ -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[arch-general] Community db missing ?
by Nezmer＠allurelinux.org 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

hi , What's going on ? The 2 mirrors I use give 404 error when trying to fetch community db .

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[arch-general] crypto++ broken on arch? (unable to link)
by Caleb Cushing 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

#include <cryptopp/sha.h> #include <cryptopp/hex.h> #include <cryptopp/files.h> #include <boost/filesystem.hpp> #include <string> #include <iostream> using namespace std; using namespace boost::filesystem; string getSha1Hash(const path &file, bool uppercase) { string result; CryptoPP::SHA1 hash; CryptoPP::FileSource(file.file_string().c_str(),true, new CryptoPP::HashFilter(hash, new CryptoPP::HexEncoder( new CryptoPP::StringSink(result),uppercase))); return result; } int main() { string sha1; path file("test.txt"); sha1 = getSha1Hash(file, true); cout << sha1 << endl; } g++ -lboost_filesystem-mt -lcryptopp sha1.cpp /tmp/cc5IJR4i.o: In function `getSha1Hash(boost::filesystem::basic_path<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, boost::filesystem::path_traits> const&, bool)': sha1.cpp:(.text+0x5a): undefined reference to `CryptoPP::StringSinkTemplate<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >::StringSinkTemplate(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >&)' sha1.cpp:(.text+0x117): undefined reference to `CryptoPP::DEFAULT_CHANNEL' sha1.cpp:(.text+0x11d): undefined reference to `CryptoPP::DEFAULT_CHANNEL' sha1.cpp:(.text+0x133): undefined reference to `CryptoPP::HashFilter::HashFilter ... collect2: ld returned 1 exit status according to the crypto++ mailing list my code does compile with that command on ubuntu. if I'm doing something wrong for arch I'd like to know. But I'm concerned that something is not being compiled right for crypto++ on arch. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] community broken
by Sergej Pupykin 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

Hi, I want to notice that community packages disappeared. ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/

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[arch-general] Error #23: User or group not enabled for login.
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hi all! I can't login to Flyspray, just have the error message "Error #23: User or group not enabled for login." I've requested "Lost password retrieval" and set the new password - the same error. -- Sincerelly yours, Vitaliy Berdinskikh (Виталий Бердинских) UR6LAD 73! xmpp:vitaliy@berdinskikh.in.ua

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[arch-general] Ruby and rubygems
by Lars Tennstedt 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hello, I updated my Arch Linux box today and pacman wanted to install an update for ruby that conflicted with rubygems. So I removed rubygems. But what is the reason for this conflict? Bye, Lars Tennstedt

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[arch-general] ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hello all! During my installation trials for ArchLinux 2009.02, I've stumbled upon some issues that I describe below. First one (the most minor and insignificant one), is that when you login as root in the installation system, it says as MOTD that you should read the documentation found in /arch/<some-file-name>, when in fact the file is in /arch/docs/<some-file-name>. Anyway. The second problem is a little bit more tricky... I want to install ArchLinux under a domU Xen virtual machine. So the only method (without using HVM) is to boot from the USB disk image, and try to perform the installation over serial the console. The problem is that by default ArchLinux does not include ttyS0 in inittab or in securetty, so I have to manually mount the disk as loopback, end edit the files appropriately... Thus my feature request is: could you include in the default install images also the ttyS0 and ttyS1 as usable terminals? Thanks, Ciprian.

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