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pacman -Syy refreshes all db for all repositories
Is there a way to have pacman only refresh a single repository db?
Ie pacman -Syy custom only refreshes custom withou refreshing core extra
etc
Hello,
This question may be simplified to whether pacman can do -Sy on a
single repository. Wh
The world has been living through the record breaking 1.33 Million
host botnet attack during the past month, and especially the last week
as a repurposed brute-force campaign (my fail2ban had over 330 IPs in
the dovecot jail - normal is about 15, with 95% of the new compromised
IPs coming fr
Visiting the Arch Linux wiki, my browser achieves 2.8 kH/s at
difficulty 4, and the test finally completes after 40 seconds.
This matches other Anubis-wrapped sites.
Some anti-malware features may break Anubis or reduce performance.
This is because it’s indistinguishable from mining malware.
On access of https://wiki.archlinux.org today, a dialog flashed (…)
Hello,
Many sites are currently falling victim to crawlers from LLM
companies. The bots mercilessly hammer the servers, causing enormous
load. This leads to service disruption to normal users. Since many of
them own hun
I believe this is unrelated to the copying process.
Actually, I am certain that the behaviour was triggered *by the copying
process*, as the log journal entries were reproducible by repeating the
installation for a second time.
I misunderstood your report then. From now on I’ll assume we
Hi Friedrich, while you're likely much better versed in your goals than
what I likely know how to do I couldn't help but ponder what exactly you're
trying to accomplish by copying the ISO to the seemingly unpartitioned hard
disk /dev/sda, if I've followed along correctly.
*> which I encountered d
(…)
This is about some error entries in the system journal, which I encountered
during copying this ISO image over. The respective transcripts are provided
inline, as well as attached in the form of plain text files.
(…)
I believe this is unrelated to the copying process. udevd stopped
respondi
figure 3rd party repos or jump into AUR, if that’s not
really necessary.
Cheers, mpan
⁽¹⁾ Due time: when reflector’s PKGBUILD needs to be updated.
⁽²⁾ Webapp at <https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages/reflector>
life I also had to answer “what this naked
lady does with a horse” regarding a hotlinked photo.
The trustworthiness in this case means avoiding those two issues.
Cheers, mpan
⁽¹⁾ During a 2-day long CSAM uploads attack.
⁽²⁾ It was abused as storage area and exchange point for third-party
Hello,
Morganamilo maintains a PKGBUILD in AUR⁽¹⁾ and the pinned comment
links to the pre-build binary.⁽²⁾ Moranamilo is an official Arch PM⁽³⁾
and that binary is signed (.sig) with their key. One can verify using
official Arch’s keyring:
pacman-key --verify pacman-static.sig pacman-static
Cheers,
(…) If you don't restart sshd, and then attempt to ssh into the remote,
it may fail with: (…)
Note that one *must* restart sshd regardless. Updating the files
isn’t fixing the vulnerability. The old, vulnerable version of the
process is still running until the service is restarted.
Cheers
.
Cheers, mpan
Are you sure you're not just hitting the new(old at this point)
idiotic default of always failing after X failed attempts in Y time?
That would mean you mistyped the password a few times, but afterwards
it would not matter even if you typed it correctly.
Hello. This is a response not only to the
I noticed that pam 1.6.1-2 breaks sudo. Every time I tried to enter my
password with a sudo command, it tells me my password is incorrect. Of
course, it is not.
Similar to what was requested in the forum thread,⁽¹⁾ please provide
the output of `pacman -Qii sudo pambase`. 1.6.1-2 works here. Ch
Hello. Before this hit mails/MLs, I had a talk with Arvid in
#archlinux-offtopic, where the issue was first mentioned, finally
suggesting to to mail heftig directly. Two points from that talk.
First. I believe the “/usr/share/licenses” part is both more
important and easier to solve. The i
as most of you have heard the yuzu has been shutdown by nintendo[1] and the
github page removed[2] therefore the package needs to be considered for
removal from the official repos as there will be no more updates and the
package links to the github will be broken in a matter of time
Hello. The y
(From arch-dev-public)
- One dependency version update requires Arch Linux package maintainer update
a series of packages which depend on this package. (Unlike Python, Haskell is
compiled language with low ABI compatibility across different version).
Unless maintainers are willing to evaluate
When these crop up from time to time on update, do we just fix them
and move on, or it is worth digging into further to find out when and
why the permissions changed?
If you’re sure you never changed the permissions yourself and this is
not a case of a conflict between packages, blindly app
I installed kicad and kicad-library (7.0.10-1) using pacman. After I
launch KiCad and create a new project, I can't find any symbols in the
symbol browser.
Hello, “works here”.
Is this the first time you use KiCad on this user account? If not,
possibly you have some stale configuration and
The issue you faced with kernel 6.7.0 is actually a mkinitcpio issue
[1] that made initramfs files grow up in size significantly.
Fortunately, this issue already has a patch already tested and merged.
[2] :)
As detected a moment ago, the current git mkinitcpio version still
does not resolve t
no doubt there are some use cases where an installation should be kept
as small as possible, but on an average desktop laptop computer or
server a GiB more or less doesn't matter these days. (…)
Note: I’m aware you are answering to Genes Lists’s post specifically,
making a statement about benef
While 300 MiB is not huge, it should be enough in most cases.
And note that 300 MB is recommended, while in reality you could go
even below that. I have a BIOS system with 128 MB “/boot”, with 45 MB
occupied by the images. So that’s certainly not you doing something
wrong or having a partitio
Just got the announcement about the replacement of dbus-daemon with
dbus-broker. The RFC link is rather terse on any problems users may
encounter when upgrading. Will all existing rules be accepted by
dbus-broker or should we expect custom rules to break? (like custom
access to embedded devi
Users and groups created when installing some packages (avahi, usbmuxd) are not
deleted along with its removal. Is it related to
https://archlinux.org/todo/pacman-hooks-systemd-sysuserstmpfiles/ and requires
some changes? Or should I always delete them manually?
Hello,
If you decide, that y
If the SHA-256 hash agrees, the file did not sustain any damage in
transit. It does not matter how unreliable your connection is. If the
file seen any unintentional, random changes, SHA-256 would not agree.
The same holds for SHA-1, which is checked by torrent clients.⁽¹⁾ Your
file is not dam
Having downloaded the torrent and burned the iso to a dvd I verified the
torrent using sha256sum but apparently that wasn't enough since the
installation broke part of the way through which means I ought to have
used the gpg verification that is available online. What is done with
those asc files
my system partition is as good as full
Hello. The primary thing to try would be freeing up space. I don’t
know, what is your experience, but people very often miss the growing
“/var/cache/pacman/pkg” directory. Even well-maintained it consumes a lot.
Other than that, see the extra/ncdu pac
I forgot to add: Firefox has a built-in memory profiler. Just go to
“about:memory” in the address bar and press “Measure”. This is separate
from the measurement outlined in the other email.
Although it's impossible, I can't catch the problem again now 🙁
But that problem hasn't only appeared for twice but many times. I'm now
trying to make it reappear.
Hello,
While reporting, please make sure you’re reporting the right value.
“Memory usage” is pretty vague and it becomes even m
if I turn on the computer, the PC buzzer does beep one time, so it does
work for the POST, but the terminal (ROXTerm, with audible bell enabled)
is silent, it doesn't beep anymore after using the Arch install from my
old PC with my new PC. […]
For testing purposes instal the beep package and ru
First of all, my problem is with the requirement to verify the user is
currently using Arch, as the Arch Wiki is a very popular resource in
the greater Linux community as a lot of resources apply to software
that is commonly seen on other distributions, for example, I wanted to
make a change (whic
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: mesa will be installed before its libglvnd dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: smbclient will be installed before its cifs-utils dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: python-ipykernel will be installed before its py
A full update gives me a number of warnings about dependency cycles.
Can this be safely ignored, or is some special handling required ?
You did not tell us, what are the exact messages you are receiving
and what packages are in the cycle. So it’s impossible to tell.
Since pacman does not wa
Got a bit of a problem i need to move the root partition to another drive my
own fault i did not make it big enough to start with but i cant face a
complete rebuild of the system i have several 1Tb drives lurking but how do
i switch things to a new drive .
The easiest and safest way is
Hello. Will the gajim and python-nbxmpp packages in the community
repository be updated?
Hello,
Packages are updated, when it’s possible to update them. A typical
blocker is the dependency tree. In both directions, though in the case
of Gajim it’s likely to be only dependencies. Currently it
I just wanted to confirm that the 300-500KiB I was getting in download was
normal or if I had missed something on the wiki page. Even if slow, the
archive is invaluable for circumstances just like this, and I can understand
why limiting the download may help create a balance for the use of the arc
The rollback worked flawlessly, but is there anything that can be done to
help the download rate? Due to the ICU 7.0->7.1 update, there were 368
packages in 1.3GiB to download. At 300->500KiB it took forever.
Did you use ArchLinux Archive? It’s meant for solving crisis
situations, not for ev
I have a problem with bugs.archlinux.org. I think there is a bug with the
software powering the site. I tried to search how to report, and failed.
It is tricky to choose the right search expression.
Should I report to bugs.flyspary.org? I am not related to
bugs.archlinux.org adminstrators. I could
According to
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported
pacman -Sywu is not safe. But pacman -Syu is safe. Quoting the wiki, the
rational is that pacman -Sywu
will update the pacman sync database without installing the newer packages.
What I fail to s
Right to the point. A systemd timer script had a too strict Umask setting.
Are you invoking pacman in an unattended manner in a systemd timer?
If yes, you probably have another problem. I suppose you mean calling
`pacman -Sywu`. That puts your system into a potential partial upgrade
scenario
Lately, possibly starting at mid December, files in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
are kept with mode u=rw,g=,o= . Am I the only one having it?
Not observed here:
-
$ find /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ -iname '*.tar.zst' -exec stat -c '%a' {}
+ | sort -u
644
-
Check what `umask` prints before in
¹⁾ If the file isn’t present, it’s because gawk is not
installing it in the first place.
If anything is missing, consider filing a bug report to gawk
developers at .
Cheers, mpan
⁽¹⁾
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/5b7e021f9e8bc39cf7fb668b946f0172334ab8c3/trunk/PKG
manually download package from mirror, install with
pacman -U filename.pkg.tar.zst
You may -U a URL directly:
$ sudo pacman -U
'https://archlinux.org/packages/community-testing/x86_64/PKGNAME/download'
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Pacman could do with a feature to bypass authors packages and keys so
those don't disrupt updates.
That would mean installing packages that are not bearing valid
signature. If you don’t want package signing, simply disable signature
checking altogether in your pacman configuration. Accepting a
If the command shares any resources, and name “autobackup” suggests
it does, it should include some mechanism that prevents concurrent
execution if another instance is already running. Otherwise, even if a
single match happens, multiple instances of the script may be executed.
For USB devices
Thank you friends for your trying to help. But none of the suggestions
worked. In fact I had already tried those before writing to the mailing
list. Finally one of my friends (not in mailing list) suggested me to
install 'shotwell' (
https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/shotwell/), and
Can you please help me? The filesystem is not showing anything, like it
does with a thumb-drive or music-player. Do I to install some packages?
You may need gvfs-gphoto2 for the file manager to see it.
Photo cameras are usually offering PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol) or
its extension MTP (
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdexZlVkAY) that goes to sing how
to pronounce SUSE. Now, as Arch faces the same issue (being Ark Linux vs
Arch linux), I was wondering if we could get some momentum towards
building such content. :)
The topic pops up regularly on IRC. The proper pronunciation o
When you have this situation, what can be done to remove the build files
from your machine that failed to build? This happened here with the
yabasic tonight.
Pass the `--cleanbuild` option to `makepkg`: it will remove $srcdir
before building the package.
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Description: Open
I am going to benchmark the performance difference between the various x86 uarch
levels. I will be using Phoronix Test Suite, which has some support for
performing compiler and compile flag benchmarks.
I believe that for the purpose of this discussion that will be a
waste of your time. There is
If a separate arch/repo is going to be set up, perhaps it would be
wiser to go straight for v3? May yield even better results and
eliminates the need to bump the version after a few years. Since people
have a choice, there is no risk of leaving v1 and v2 users behind.
If there is going to
I benchmarked it on my mkinitcpio image, and zstd with mkinitcpio's […]
Though you have benchmarked a wrong thing. It’s decompression time
that matters here, not compression. The image is compressed to make it
load faster during boot and that’s the important metric here.
I did my own bench
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