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[arch-general] kDE 3.5.9
by Baho Utot 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Is there a way to get the abs build files for kde 3.5.9? Is the svn repos tagged at 3.5.9 ? If so how? I would like to build them for a new computer of mine that has an old graphocs card and cpu.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.27.7-1
by Tobias Powalowski 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version please signoff for both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pkgstats and repo cleanup
by Grigorios Bouzakis 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Allan McRae <allan.mcrae(a)qimr.edu.au> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I have created a table of candidates for removal from the extra repo based > on <1% usage in the pkgstats results. I have gone through and flagged for > keeping packages which are i18n, makedepends, or otherwise needed (in pacman > testsuite, using on gerolde). See the list here: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Extra_Repo_and_Pkgstats > > There is probably other categories of packages we should keep (e.g drivers) > and there are some fonts which might be considered i18n related so can you > all go through the list a cross out the ones to be kept and giving the > reason. > > In a couple of weeks time I will remove all the orphaned packages remaining > on that list and contact the maintainers of the rest so they can decide what > to do with their packages. > > Cheers, > Allan Hi Alan, Can i give some other extend to this? I can understand why you limit the list to only packages with 0.xy usage, but i think theres much more to cleanup than just those packages. Orphan or not.. Just by looking at the statistics, for which we owe a huge thanks to Pierre, its obvious that more than 50% of the packages in extra have 10% or less usage. Most of which are below 5%. While at the same time there are many packages in community with >10%. Those should definately go in extra. Most of the developers use em too. Also , many packages in extra, some of which are long unmaintained upstream, many multimedia & games packages come to mind but not limited to these. Those could go to community and even be left unmaintained with a small portion of good will. Anyway, all i am saying is dont focus only on packages having 0.xy usage. Greg

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[arch-general] Custom repository
by Baho Utot 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

I created a custom package repository to hold arch packages compiled locally. I compile a newer package from abs then I have on the current system and it is placed into my custom repos. I issue a pacman -Syu will pacman get the package from arch or will it install from my custom repository? Thanks

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Re: [arch-general] Custom repository
by Loui Chang 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:31:05AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Loui Chang wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 09:13:55AM -0500, Baho Utot wrote: > > > >> I created a custom package repository to hold arch packages compiled > >> locally. I compile a newer package from abs then I have on the current > >> system and it is placed into my custom repos. > >> > >> I issue a pacman -Syu will pacman get the package from arch or will it > >> install from my custom repository? > > > > It will install from the repo with the newest version. > > Not really... it will install the package from the repo which comes first > in you pacman.conf. Ah that is right. Doh! That phenomenon is just a coincidence for me.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Away for Holidays
by Dieter Plaetinck 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Aaron Griffin wrote: > Hey all, > It's Thanksgiving here in the US. I will be away at my parents' house > all day, and am going camping on Friday. I won't be at a computer > until Saturday. > > Cheers, > Aaron > Have fun and don't forget to mention the Arch community! :-) (At thanksgiving the tradition is to say what you're thankful for right, or is that only in the movies?) Dieter

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[arch-general] Fwd: /etc/cron.hourly/ntp isn't working.
by Daenyth Blank 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

I'm using openntpd ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: root <daenyth(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 21:01 Subject: cron: /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly To: root /bin/stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device /bin/stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device :: Stopping OpenNTPD [BUSY] [DONE] /bin/stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device :: Starting OpenNTPD [BUSY] [DONE]

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Re: [arch-general] Fwd: /etc/cron.hourly/ntp isn't working.
by Daenyth Blank 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

> this is because the init scripts use some fancy options to set colors. > This seems to be done by stty, which won't work on a fake tty like the > one used by cron. > I don't know why you're restarting openntpd from cron every hour though, > as it's a daemon that keeps running all the time. Restarting it has no > use. Well, I think I had added it because it seemed that after a long uptime it wasn't working properly... dunno. I've disabled it now.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Other things gleaned from package list statistics
by Dieter Plaetinck 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> There are a few packages people have installed that we have killed >> that show up really high on the list: >> >> liblbxutil-84.79 % >> csup -44.39 % >> xorg-xsm-43.74 % >> >> It might be worth posting a news item saying these packages are >> worthless on a modern-day Arch system (as long as you have a newer X)? >> I know I had some of them installed. >> > > Hmm, is there a more generic way to handle cases like this? -Qm can > help us in these cases, but considering how much people use the AUR, > we need to be careful. > Don't liblbxutil and xorg-xsm become orphans when the user upgrades to that particular X version? I noticed I don't have these packages and I don't even know why (I did clean up my orphans recently, like every good user should) I do have csup explicitly installed , because it used to be in the base-devel group. I guess that's where http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8242 - "Keep track of groups and allow upgrading them with pacman -Syu" - comes in.

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Re: [arch-general] [sqlite3] x86_64 version mismatch?
by Andreas Radke 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Am Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:54:09 +0100 schrieb Gerhard Brauer <gerhard.brauer(a)web.de>: > Hello, > > > in the extra.db.tar.gz on ftp.archlinux.org sqlite3 version for x86_64 > is 3.6.6-1. But the binary is > still /extra/os/x86_64/sqlite3-3.6.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz > > Seems that this version upgrade have done today (22.11) so could it be > possible that ftp.archlinux.org mirrors have currently only synced the > database file? Is it a missing upload or only a sync problem? > > Regards > Gerhard > The new package is still in my pipeline. We have issues with the db-updates. See dev-public list. -Andy

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