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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] news item draft: /dev layout cleanup
by Rogutės Sparnuotos 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Allan McRae (2009-08-01 22:33): > Hi all, > > Getting around to this again.... > > [draft] > /dev layour cleanup > > The /dev layout has been cleaned up to comply to the device names > specified in the Linux kernel documentation. We had some legacy left > from our devfs days, which has now been removed. > > The most obvious change from a users perspective is the vc/*->tty* > transition. The initscripts-2007.08 update requires adjusting the > /etc/inittab file to refer to tty* instead of vc/*. Due to severe > system breakages if this file is not updated, this change will be > automatically handled by pacman. The original /etc/inittab file is > saved as /etc/inittab.pacsave. To be clear: > > package /etc/inittab -> inittab.pacnew (if needed) > system /etc/inittab -> inittab.pacsave > system /etc/inittab --sed--> inittab > > Make sure to check these files after the update and do any merging that > is required. > [/draft] > > Finally, are we going to do a quick update to initscripts and filesystem > before this is moved? There have been a few patches push to get for > these. I can do that tomorrow if people agree? > > Allan As someone has already mentioned, it would be nice to mention the reasons for this (vc/*->tty*) change to please curious users... Why is this needed? Are /dev/vc/* going away? -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

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[arch-general] Arch doc inclusion policy
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hey everybody, looking through my /usr/share/doc today I noticed that there were surprisingly few packages that actually installed their documentation there. Not even the SDL package installed its docs in there. I don't mind this too much as I carry all kinds of library documentation in my home directory with me at all times to have it accessible when I have no Internet connection available. This left me wondering, though, what Arch's general policy is on inclusion/exclusion of library/tool/package documentation for /usr/share/doc and if this policy should be generally applied to AUR packages as well. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?
by Will Siddall 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

I know this isn't particularly an arch question, but I know Arch people are better off to ask then most. I'm in the process of upgrading my hard drive in my laptop but with the amounts of customizations I've done to my setup, I don't want to have to set it all up again. I know about running dd to copy the partition information, but the problem with that is that it also copies that partition information over. So, if I copy my root partition that started as a 40G partition with 90% used and now I have a 60G parition, the used portion will be kept at 90% so, it'll show something like 50G of data... which doesn't make sense. I've also just tried copying the partitions to an external, mount the iso's in a livecd session then copy the data over, but for some reason after I modified the menu.lst and fstab files to match my new setup and then restart, the computer doesn't boot. Is there something I'm missing in the second instance that I didn't change a file that should be changed? Is there a better way of copying the partitions so I don't run into this problem? Thanks, Will

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30.4-1
by Tobias Powalowski 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hi guys, just an upstream bump. please signoff fast greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] community svn issues
by Allan McRae 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hi, The following packages have files in the wrong place in svn. Something like <pkg>/repo/<pkg> instead of <pkg>/repo/<pkg>-<arch>. cabal-install codeblocks haskell-x11 haskell-zlib moovida Also python-matplotlib has a package in "comunity-i686". I will fix these up but please remove any stray files as they cause issues for the ABS scripts. Thanks, Allan

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[arch-general] Emacs 23 window resize on startup
by Edgar Kalkowski 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hello list! I know this is not an Arch specific question but I thought maybe something similar occurred to someone here and he knows a solution. I just updated to Emacs 23 which has new fancy font code with antialiasing etc. However the default font of 12pt is way too big for my taste. So I changed it to 10pt and saved the configuration to my ~/.emacs file. Everything works fine -- the font is smaller now -- but: Every time I start Emacs now the window first resizes to the dimensions that would be needed by the old (bigger) font. The (yet empty) window is then displayed and layouted by the window manager (KDE 4’s kwin). I configured it to center all new windows by default because I like it that way. Then the Emacs window resizes itself to match the new (smaller) font and the window is no longer centered! This may seem like a minor issue and I know it is. But it nevertheless annoys me and I did not find a way to change this behaviour! Is there a way to do so? Emacs should just first resize the window to match the font size the user has actually configured and then display the window! Greetings! Edgar

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[arch-general] abs issues
by Sascha Siegel 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

hi, "sudo abs" deletes the repos core, extra and testing and creates "comunity" AND "community". i think theres something wrong with the abs-sync. /etc/abs.conf says: REPOS=(core extra community testing) but ls on /var/abs sais: community comunity local README tryed differend servers. no success ;\ someone have the same problem? greetings

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[arch-general] archboot stills depends of portmap
by mathieu p 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Maybe someone should fix that, since portmap has been replaced by rpcbind some time ago (and portmap can no longer be found on any repo). (archboot is in [extra] )

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grub-0.97-16
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Ronald van Haren wrote: > It's time for the 16th release in the grub 0.97 series. Grub 0.97 is > now allowed to have drinks ;-) > > This release fixes FS#14363. The old inode patch caused in some > circumstances a division by zero which is no good, the new patch fixes > this. > > In testing for both architectures. Please signoff. > > Ronald Sign-off i686 and x86_64 Reinstalled grub via grub-install /dev/sda (i686) and grub-install /dev/sdd (x86_64) Both systems boot OK. FS: EXT3 -- 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] Run commands as user once network is up (NetworkManager)
by Magnus Therning 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

I'm currently using NetworkManager's ability to run scripts once the network is up[1], but that seems to only be on a system level. Is there some way of also running scripts/programs as the logged in user once network is up? Especially I want to start dropbox only when the network is available. It seems completely incapable of coping with a network that appears after it's been started. /M [1]: I've put a short script in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ that will start and stop openntpd when the network goes up and down. -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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