Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

On Jun 25, 2012, at 6:24 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 06/22/2012 09:09 PM, Manolo Martínez wrote: >> Is Arch going to sign [this >> petition](http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement)? >> I, for one humble user, would like it (us, whatever) to. >> >> Manolo Did

Re: [arch-general] Time for new release?

> > However: Distributing a pacman keychain master key to more than one machine is > rarely a sensible solution. If you actually want the very specific additional > security checks offered by only allowing signed packages, you must ensure a > properly secured master key with a diligently confirmed

[arch-general] Time for new release?

Hi everybody, I'm currently on a school project and I run a dozen of virtual machines, all running Arch. I noticed that every time I set up a new VM, I have to manually run the `pacman-key --init' and `pacman-key --populate archlinux'. Wouldn't it be time to set up a new installation release?

Re: [arch-general] update problem maybe ..

On Jun 7, 2012, at 9:08 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:04 PM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: >> Hi >> >> Just done a "pacman -Syu" i get the following error below >> is there a recomended way around the problem of var/lock and var/run >> is it safe to delete them to update . >> >> >

Re: [arch-general] update problem maybe ..

On Jun 7, 2012, at 9:06 PM, Kacper Żuk wrote: > W dniu 07.06.2012 21:04, P .NIKOLIC pisze: >> Hi >> >> Just done a "pacman -Syu" i get the following error below >> is there a recomended way around the problem of var/lock and var/run >> is it safe to delete them to update . >> > > Check > ht

[arch-general] Apppearance of .pacnew files

Hi, I've got a question about the appearance of .pacnew files. I've got two servers running archlinux, and I did pacman's 4.0.3 upgrade on both. The first server did the upgrade as expected, creating the pacman.conf.pacnew file. The second server merge my file with the new one, without asking