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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] cleaning up games in extra
by Daenyth Blank 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Ronald van Haren <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > When I was adding licenses last week I went through the games > category. I know we don't have a lot of games in our repo > (relatively), but some just seem to be there for historic purposes. > > I'll start making a list of most ancient games for you to comment on > which we can delete. That is, if nobody says something like 'please > don't remove them, I like playing old games' :) > > Ronald It might help you to look at the arch-games repo. http://github.com/Stythys/arch-games/tree/master If you're interested in helping with the repo itself, talk to Stythys in #archlinux-games or mail arch-games(a)twilightlair.net

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[arch-general] gnome-language-selector
by ponto 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

i've read that to solve a problem that i have using virtualbox, i may use gnome-language-selector and enable "Enable support to enter complex characters". where's gnome-language-selector on Arch? i've tried gconf-editor to enable this, but i couldn't find anything. any suggestions?

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[arch-general] rotate pacman log?
by David Rosenstrauch 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

I noticed that the pacman log doesn't get rotated. Seems like it should, as it could get rather big over time. Any particular reason why the package doesn't provide a /etc/logrotate.d/ script by default? DR

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[arch-general] Tom K?
by David Rosenstrauch 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Is Tom K still an Arch dev? I dropped him a couple of emails about the openvpn package (which he's listed as the maintainer on) but haven't heard anything back. DR

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[arch-general] deluge pakage out-of-date
by raca 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hi! The deluge package http://archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/deluge/ has been flagged as out-of-date for sometime now. The oficial site provides a PKGBUILD for arch, for the lastest stable version http://download.deluge-torrent.org/arch/0.5.9.4/deluge-0.5.9.4.pkgbuild I'm using and seems to be working fine. If someone wants to upgrade the package you can use this. Cheers

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[arch-general] Bad package page(s) on Arch site
by David Rosenstrauch 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Anyone know why these pages are coming up in error? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/memtest86+/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/memtest86+/ TIA, DR

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[arch-general] Bug in Mailman version 2.1.10
by raca 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

<quote> Bug in Mailman version 2.1.10 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. </quote> This at http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/ , thought about warning. Some one did a pacman -Syu again? :P

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[arch-general] Colin Pitrat is out of the office.
by Colin Pitrat 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

I will be out of the office starting 01/08/2008 and will not return until 11/08/2008. I will respond to your message when I return.

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[arch-general] Free/Open Source conference in Buenos Aires.
by Cristian Wilgenhoff 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

The 8th edition of the "Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre"<http://www.jornadasregionales.org/>, a.k.a. JRSL <http://www.jornadasregionales.org/>, will happen on this August 20, 21 and 22, in Buenos Aires, Argentina<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=buenos+aires+argentina&ie=…>. The JRSL is a Free/Open Source conference that has been held alternately in Argentina and Uruguay since the year 2000, and both the quality of its agenda and the number of its participants define the JRSL as one of the most important events of the region. This year the conference is organized by CaFeLUG <http://www.cafelug.org.ar/> (the Capital Federal GNU/Linux User Group), usuaria <http://www.usuaria.org.ar/> (the Argentinian Association of Telecommunication and Computer Users) and the University of Belgrano<http://www.ub.edu.ar/>, Zabala 1837 which is hosting the conference. The event will also have other important guests<http://jornadas.cafelug.org.ar/8/en/guests/>, for a total of 80 speakers and 120 sessions. The conference is conveniently scheduled after the end of the Debconf 8<http://debconf8.debconf.org/>, which will happen in Mar del Plata, Argentina<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mar+del+plata,+argentina&s…>, and is not too far from Buenos Aires. If you plan to go to the Debconf, or if you just happen to be around Buenos Aires between August 20 and August 22, just remember to register <http://jornadas.cafelug.org.ar/8/en/home.php>and participate in the JRSL too. Sponsorship: Google, RedHat, elserver.com, tecso, core, xtech and backing Thanks, Cristian.

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[arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4
by Nigel Henry 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

I've been downloading iso's on dialup for some days, so havn't updated much on my OS's. Last time I updated Dont Panic on my new machine was 20080709. A pacman -Sy, followed by pacman -Su rung some alarm bells when it said arts was going to be replaced "yes, or no?". Well ages back I'd read that arts wasn't going to be in KDE4, so this looked like an upgrade to KDE4. Said yes to that, and then see a mention that extra/kdeplasma-addons is going to replace kdeaddons, and kdeplasma is definately KDE4 from my reading the fedora list for Fedora 9, and the Kubuntu list where KDE4 is an option with Kubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04. To see where this is going I say yes to the plasma stuff, and yes there is definately an upgrade from KDE3.5 to KDE4 in progress. One question is how new this upgrade is. I ask because an hour or so ago, the upgrade was in the 500+MB IIRC, but just having run pacman -Sy, and pacman -Su, the upgrade is now 643.38MB. Looking at the list of KDE packages to be upgraded, the only one that is not being upgraded to KDE4 is kdelibs, which shows an upgrade to kdelibs3-3.5.9-1. Should I perhaps wait a couple of days before doing the pacman -Su, so as to make sure that the transition to KDE4 will have all the necessary packages available? The second question, as I've seen a whole bunch of problems with KDE4 on mainly the Fedora list, but also on the Kubuntu list where folks using Hardy Heron 8.04 have decided to try KDE4, rather than the default KDE3.5, is, does KDE4 run ok on Don't Panic, without totally screwing up the desktop, that currently is working fine under KDE3.5? I'll start downloading the packages as I'm on dialup, so there is plenty of time for answers. I get about 150MB in 9hrs, so bearing in mind that during the daytime I'm doing other stuff on the Internet, I'd estimate about 45-48 hours is needed to download all the packages before they start to be installed. So the clock is ticking as from now. Answers please before the package downloads finish, and I'm stuck with KDE4. Just a bit of fun as the list is quiet. I suppose sooner or later I'll find some distro or other has KDE4 as default, and will have to go with it, but having seen many problems on the Fedora list, admittadly with kde-4.0, with promises that things would be better with kde-4.1, and of course Don't Panic is upgrading to kde-4.1.0-1, so perhaps I'm worrying about nothing. Nice distro, but I really do wish that Andy would fix Jacman. Nigel.

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