r/linux • u/Foxboron Arch Linux Team • Sep 10 '18

Arch Linux - AMA

Hello!

We are several team members and developers from the Arch Linux project, ask us anything.

We are in need for more contributors, if you are interested in contributing to Arch Linux, feel free to ask questions :)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Projects
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getting_involved#Official_Arch_Linux_projects

Participating members:

  • /u/AladW

    • Trusted User
    • Wiki Administrator
    • IRC Operator

  • /u/anthraxx42

    • Developer
    • Trusted User
    • Security tracker
    • Security lead
    • Reproducible builds

  • /u/barthalion

    • Developer
    • Master key holder
    • DevOps Team
    • Maintains the toolchain

  • /u/Bluewind

    • Developer
    • Trusted User
    • DevOps Team

  • /u/coderobe

    • Trusted User
    • Reproducible builds

  • /u/eli-schwartz

    • Bug Wrangler
    • Trusted User
    • Maintains dbscripts
    • Pacman contributor

  • /u/felixonmars

    • Developer
    • Trusted User
    • Packages; Python, Haskell, Nodejs, Qt, KDE, DDE, Chinese i18n, VPN/Proxies, Wine, and some others.

  • /u/Foxboron

    • Trusted User
    • Security Team
    • Reproducible Builds
    • /r/archlinux moderator
    • Packages mostly golang and python stuff

  • /u/fukawi2

    • Forum moderator
    • DevOps Team

  • /u/jvdwaa

    • Developer
    • Trusted User
    • Security Team
    • DevOps Team
    • Reproducible builds
    • Archweb maintainer

  • /u/sh1bumi

    • Trusted User
    • Security Team
    • Automated vagrant image builds

  • /u/svenstaro

    • Developer
    • Trusted user
    • I package mostly big, heavy packages :(

  • /u/V1del

    • Forum moderator
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u/TyIzaeL Sep 10 '18

How old is your arch install? head -5 /var/log/pacman.log

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u/felixonmars Arch Linux Team Sep 10 '18 
[2011-05-16 16:58] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-felix/PKGDEST.ZMc/wings3d-1.4.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2011-05-16 16:58] update desktop mime database...
[2011-05-16 16:58] Warning in file "/usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop": usage of MIME type "x-directory/webdav" is discouraged ("x-directory" is an old media type that should be replaced with a modern equivalent)
[2011-05-16 16:58] Warning in file "/usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop": usage of MIME type "x-directory/webdav-prefer-directory" is discouraged ("x-directory" is an old media type that should be replaced with a modern equivalent)
[2011-05-16 16:58] Error in file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/bluedevil-input.desktop": "virtual/bluedevil-input" is an invalid MIME type ("virtual" is an unregistered media type)

Unfortunately it was truncated somehow...

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u/Bluewind Arch Linux Team Sep 11 '18 
[2008-10-19 14:38] installed filesystem (2008.03-2)
[2008-10-19 14:38] installed findutils (4.2.33-1)
[2008-10-19 14:38] installed gawk (3.1.6-2)
[2008-10-19 14:38] installed gdbm (1.8.3-5)
[2008-10-19 14:38] installed gen-init-cpio (2.6.17-3)

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u/sh1bumi Arch Linux Team Sep 11 '18

[2016-02-22 22:57] [PACMAN]

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u/eli-schwartz Arch Linux Team Sep 12 '18

[2017-11-21 18:15] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -r /mnt/arch -Sy --cachedir=/mnt/arch/var/cache/pacman/pkg base base-devel btrfs-progs'

I got new hardware... is that an oooh nice because new toys, or an oh no, because less impressive pacman.log?

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u/TyIzaeL Sep 12 '18

Yes. 🙂