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[arch-general] Arch Linux Review on DistroWatch
by Hugo Doria 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090119#feature "Conclusion The "keep it simple" philosophy of Arch Linux really shines through in all aspects of this distribution. It lets the user control the system and doesn't do anything unless told to. It has the speed and convenience of binary with the power of source and is very flexible when it comes to optional dependencies. Being a rolling release, the packages are also reasonably up-to-date. Other than the problem with the Intel video driver, I have not had any issues with the quality of the packages. Still, I have to wonder how well a smaller distribution like this can provide overall stability. Perhaps time will tell. It also remains to be seen how well Pacman will perform after installing and removing thousands of packages. Certainly, Arch Linux isn't for everybody, no distribution is, but it sure is plenty of fun and you learn a lot. If you're the kind of person who likes to fiddle and tweak your system, then definitely give it a shot. Once you have your system up and running the way you want, it's very easy to maintain and it feels great. If you've been tempted to try it out, there is a Wiki page listing how it compares to others. As for my dream distribution, Arch Linux comes pretty darn close." Read the page for full review. -- Hugo

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Re: [arch-general] 2.6.28 to core?
by wain 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hello, Virtualbox modules can't be compiled anymore with 2.6.28. wain ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerhard Brauer" <gerhard.brauer(a)web.de> Sent: Wed, January 14, 2009 10:52 Subject:[arch-general] 2.6.28 to core? Hello, seems that all stopper for 2.6.28 are solved. Are there any issues that causes 2.6.28 (and klibc, mkinitcpio) don't went to [core]? Without these the new ISO's couldn't be build... Regards Gerhard ----- End of original message -----

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[arch-general] About ttf-ms-fonts package in extra/
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hi, Anyone knows anything about ttf-ms-fonts ? `pacman -Ql ttf-ms-fonts ` gives funny result! And the license is another affairs. Being a Linux user, and Archlinux lover, I do not want be sent a lawyer's letter from Micro$oft. Emm, It is strange of that package, the packager name is Archlinux.

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[arch-general] Error with makepkg installing dependency
by Baho Utot 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

When compiling packages using makeworld or my custom script I am getting a number of failures like this: /usr/info/dir exists in both 'glib' and 'gtk' What causes this? Is there a way to fix this without forcing this packages? or better still is there a fix? Thanks

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[arch-general] 2.6.28 to core?
by Gerhard Brauer 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hello, seems that all stopper for 2.6.28 are solved. Are there any issues that causes 2.6.28 (and klibc, mkinitcpio) don't went to [core]? Without these the new ISO's couldn't be build... Regards Gerhard

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[arch-general] Intro + package maintenance
by aashiks 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hi all, Apologies for the long mail but do read on. My name is Aashik and i have been using Arch for the last two days. I was planning to simply try it, but decided to stick with it because i like its simplicity. Only one annoying thing happened to me. I am from India and my mother tongue is Malayalam. I tried to use scim and m17n version of malayalam input methods. There were a few glitches. I noticed that it is out of date and is currently flagged as 'orphan' when you do a package search. To be precise, the following packages. m17n-db,m17n-lib,scim-m17n There have been some commits made in the last few months from a project called SMC ( http://smc.org.in ) which enables phonetic text input in Malayalam via m17n also. I did not file a bug report because it asks everyone not to report outdated packages as bugs.Is anyone actively maintaining i686 these packages ? If not I can do it. I have spare time ( i took some time off from work ) . I don't know a thing about creating packages and things like that. If someone can answer my questions and doubts as they pop up , I can take up this task. Regards Aashik -------------------------------------------------------

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[arch-general] How to change default terminal from xterm
by David Rosenstrauch 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

On my desktop machine, it seems like any time a GUI app needs to launch a console app, the default is to launch it in an xterm window. But as I'm a hardcore KDE user, I'd like to change that default to konsole. Wasn't able to figure out where this setting is to override it, however. "set | grep xterm" didn't turn up much of relevance, and I couldn't see any KDE setting to override it either. Anyone know how to tweak this? Tnx, DR

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[arch-general] Malayalam fonts for Arch
by aashiks 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Hi, I understand that there may not be many users who need Malayalam fonts here on this list, but if there are any then there are a set of TTF fonts ( from theep://smc.org.in ) that I have packaged. The PKGBUILD is available at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23145 These fonts are the default Malayalam fonts in Debian and Fedora. I thought it would be nice to see them on Arch too :) regards, Aashik

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[arch-general] agg - antigrain
by Baho Utot 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

I am posting this here because this package is in extra and is orphaned... Can anyone have a look at this? Antigrain build fails current PKGBUILD from abs, compiled attempt with gcc-4.3 default build flags. Here is the error from my log file make[3]: Entering directory `/srv/http/Build/BUILD.i686/extra/agg/src/agg-2.5/src/platform/X11' /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../include -I../../../include -I -g -O2 -c -o libaggplatformX11_la-agg_platform_support.lo `test -f 'agg_platform_support.cpp' || echo './'`agg_platform_support.cpp libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../include -I../../../include -I -g -O2 -c agg_platform_support.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libaggplatformX11_la-agg_platform_support.o libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../include -I../../../include -I -g -O2 -c agg_platform_support.cpp -o libaggplatformX11_la-agg_platform_support.o >/dev/null 2>&1 /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -I../../../include -I -g -O2 -version-info 2:4:0 -L -o libaggplatformX11.la -rpath /usr/local/lib libaggplatformX11_la-agg_platform_support.lo -lX11 libtool: link: require no space between `-L' and `-o' make[3]: *** [libaggplatformX11.la] Error 1

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[arch-general] Boot error with 2008.12
by Sergi Pons Freixes 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Hi all, Thanks to a Xmas present, now I'm the proud owner of a ThinkPad X200T. After been a time flirting with Ubuntu, I'm returning to Arch (in fact, I've never abandoned it, because my home server runs Arch). The X200T doesn't have an optical drive, so I tried the USB install method. First I tried the last "official" release, 2008.06, and it booted perfectly. Unfortunately, as you can see here [1], the kernel included (2.6.24) doesn't fully support the wireless neither the ethernet cards. Then, following the recommendation from [1], I tried the "testing" 2008.12 release. But it doesn't boot. It just shows the message: Boot error. I've checked the md5sum of the img file and the pen drive (dd if=/dev/sdb count=875219 status=noxfer |md5sum) and in both cases it's ok (so, no corrupt img file, and no corrupt pen drive). I've checked the forums and in this post [2] at least two people suffer the same issue, but there is no answer. Any idea about the possible origin of the issue and how to solve it? Regards, Sergi [1] http://itgen.blogspot.com/2008/12/installing-arch-linux-on-lenovo.html [2] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60385

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