Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff

Xyne · 2008-11-04 05:18:12

Greetings Archers!

I present to you the new home of powerpill among other things: http://xyne.archlinux.ca
I hope some of you find this useful.

If you have trouble accessing the site:
Some DNS servers don't recognize this site yet. If your ISP's DNS server happens to be one of them, you can use this link to access it directly or you can try one of the free public DNS servers from this page (I've had good luck with 4.2.2.6). To use one of these servers, open up /etc/resolv.conf, comment out the existing "nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" line, and add a new line with one of the IPs for the listed DNS servers on that page, e.g.

nameserver 4.2.2.6

On my system this is automatically reset at boot by dhcpcd so keep that in mind. Hopefully most ISPs will start resolving the address properly once there's some traffic.

Last edited by Xyne (2008-11-15 07:39:21)

jarryson · 2008-11-05 15:45:24

well , work fine here, China telecom (education net).

deltaecho · 2008-11-08 00:21:40

Seems to work fine here, too, on a Bellsouth DSL line (and Arch64).

Xyne · 2008-11-13 07:42:39

*bump*
It's no longer beta.

u_no_hu · 2008-11-13 08:08:27

Thats looks really nice... It would be great if you can provide a page with links to all the nifty archlinux utilities that people post in community contrib. Even forum links would suffice.

Xyne · 2008-11-13 08:46:54

Thanks u_no_hu.

I've actually thought about something like that for the Arch area too. I need to give it some thought to come up with a practical way to do it though.

iphitus · 2008-11-13 08:49:26

very cool! I like it.

MindTooth · 2008-11-13 08:53:16

The powerpill stuff should be added to Yoaurt. But great job on the contributions. Better then what I would manage.

Birger

Xyne · 2008-11-13 09:05:12

Thanks guys.

Yaourt can use powerpill already, so there's no need for yaourt to consume it.

MindTooth · 2008-11-13 09:40:08

Hmm, how is that? Please elaborate.

Birger

moljac024 · 2008-11-13 10:16:56

Xyne - love the site's colors!

Xyne · 2008-11-13 17:42:09

MindTooth wrote:

Hmm, how is that? Please elaborate.
Birger

I've added a section to the powerpill info page about using powerpill with yaourt. Please tell me if that makes it clear.

@moljac024

I started with the standard blue but then I thought that it would probably be a bad idea to use the same layout because it might mislead people into thinking that it was somehow part of the official site. I settled on that red when playing with the logo in gimp.

Rasi · 2008-11-13 23:28:04

I didnt know about metapax.. that sounds awesome!

phrakture · 2008-11-14 17:59:00

Nice work Xyne. While I don't use any of these things, it's more because I'm a lazy computer user 8)

This is awesome. Also, I like the site a lot.

MetalheadGautham · 2008-11-14 19:00:48

Right now, I am having issues accessing the site. OpenDNS says site is not loading.

Xyne · 2008-11-15 07:43:13

@phrakture
Thanks. Give powerpill a try if anything though and let me know what you think as part of it was inspired by some metalink stuff that (I think) you'd posted ages ago.

@MetalheadGautham
I updated the post with a direct link to the site. Use that for now until your DNS server starts resolving the site (or try another free public DNS server).

Last edited by Xyne (2008-11-15 08:08:36)

lilsirecho · 2009-01-14 03:34:04

Trying powerpill in x86-64 on my machine which has an 88KB/s download speed normally.

I have been running it as root after install of -gen-conf.

I also have yaourt installed.

The results obtained in using ....powerpill -Syu ...this date are discouraging.

The speed indicated during aria2 activities was half speed. Whether that is normal for multiple downloads is not apparent to this user, but may indeed be the case.

I don't think the results indicate any speedier upgrade than normal pacman...in fact seem slower and call for user input(s).

See the following for operational results:

bash-3.2# powerpill -Syu
==> /root/.config/powerpill/powerpill.conf loaded
==> Checking permissions for given cache directories.
==> Invoking pacman to get URIs...                   
PACMAN: Starting...                                  
PACMAN: :: Synchronizing package databases...        
PACMAN:  core is up to date                          
PACMAN:  extra is up to date                         
PACMAN: downloading community.db.tar.gz...           
PACMAN: :: Starting full system upgrade...           
PACMAN: resolving dependencies...                    
PACMAN: Done                                         
==> The following packages were specified:           
==> qt-4.4.3-4                                       
==> strigi-0.6.3-1                                   

Would you like to download all of them? [Y/n] y
==> Added to download queue: qt-4.4.3-4 (19.20 MiB)
==> Added to download queue: strigi-0.6.3-1 (916.92 kiB)
==> About to download 2 files                           
==> Total download size: 20.09 MiB                      

Proceed? [Y/n] y
ARIA2: Starting...
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:03:04.767195 ERROR - CUID#11 - Download aborted. URI=http://mirror.archlinux.com.ve/extra/os/x86_64/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                                 
ARIA2: Exception: Resource not found                                                                                                                                                                  
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:03:12.345425 ERROR - CUID#7 - Download aborted. URI=ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/extra/os/x86_64/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                            
ARIA2: Exception: The response status is not successful. status=550                                                                                                                                   
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:03:19.537035 ERROR - CUID#16 - Download aborted. URI=ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                       
ARIA2: Exception: The response status is not successful. status=550                                                                                                                                   
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:03:19.930189 ERROR - CUID#9 - Download aborted. URI=ftp://mirrors.igprolin-online.org/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                     
ARIA2: Exception: The response status is not successful. status=550                                                                                                                                   
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:03:21.607548 ERROR - CUID#14 - Download aborted. URI=ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                              
ARIA2: Exception: The response status is not successful. status=550                                                                                                                                   
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:03:26.402265 ERROR - CUID#18 - Download aborted. URI=http://unix.net.pl/archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                               
ARIA2: Exception: Resource not found                                                                                                                                                                  
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:03:30.325283 ERROR - CUID#8 - Download aborted. URI=ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/metalab/distributions/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                          
ARIA2: Exception: The response status is not successful. status=550                                                                                                                                   
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:03:53.595517 ERROR - CUID#10 - Download aborted. URI=ftp://ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr/Linux/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                   
ARIA2: Exception: The response status is not successful. status=550                                                                                                                                   
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:04:33.428734 ERROR - CUID#23 - Download aborted. URI=http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                           
ARIA2: Exception: Resource not found                                                                                                                                                                  
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:05:20.011751 ERROR - CUID#22 - Download aborted. URI=http://mir.archlinux.fr/extra/os/x86_64/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                                        
ARIA2: Exception: Timeout.                                                                                                                                                                            
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:05:53.727927 NOTICE - Verification finished successfully. file=/var/cache/pacman/pkg/strigi-0.6.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                                            
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:05:53.728267 NOTICE - Download complete: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/strigi-0.6.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                                                                  
==> Remaining: 12.84 MiB/20.09 MiB (2/2 files)  Speed: 40.42 kiB/s  Connections: 10  ETA: 5:25     ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:06:48.179586 ERROR - CUID#25 - Download aborted. URI=ftp://ftp.ds.hj.se/pub/os/linux/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                      
ARIA2: Exception: The response status is not successful. status=550                                                                                                                                   
ARIA2: [#1 SIZE:19.1MiB/19.1MiB(100%) CN:0] [Checksum:#1 3.0MiB/19.1MiB(15%)]                      
ARIA2: [#1 SIZE:19.1MiB/19.1MiB(100%) CN:0] [Checksum:#1 11.0MiB/19.1MiB(57%)]                     
ARIA2: [#1 SIZE:19.1MiB/19.1MiB(100%) CN:0] [Checksum:#1 18.2MiB/19.1MiB(95%)]                     
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:11:06.399779 NOTICE - Verification finished successfully. file=/var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                                                
ARIA2: 2009-01-13 19:11:06.400193 NOTICE - Download complete: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                                                                                      
ARIA2: Download Results:                                                                                                                                                                              
ARIA2: gid|stat|avg speed  |path/URI                                                               
ARIA2: ===+====+===========+==========================================================             
ARIA2:   2|  OK|   5.4KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/strigi-0.6.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                 
ARIA2:   1|  OK|  41.1KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt-4.4.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz                     
ARIA2: Status Legend:                                                                              
ARIA2:  (OK):download completed.                                                                   
ARIA2: Done.                                                                                       
==> SUCCESS: Checksum verified: qt-4.4.3-4                                                         
==> SUCCESS: Checksum verified: strigi-0.6.3-1                                                     
==> 0.00 B downloaded and verified in 482 s.                                                       
==> Average rate: 0.00 B/s                                                                         
==> Maximum rate: 92.82 kiB/s                                                                      
==> Done.                                                                                          
==> Exiting powerpill and passing control to pacman...                                             
PACMAN: Starting...                                                                                
:: Starting full system upgrade...                                                                 
resolving dependencies...                                                                          
looking for inter-conflicts...                                                                     

Targets (2): qt-4.4.3-4  strigi-0.6.3-1  

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   66.64 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
(2/2) checking for file conflicts                   [########################################] 100%
(1/2) upgrading qt                                  [########################################] 100%
Optional dependencies for qt
    postgresql-libs
    libmysqlclient
    unixodbc
---------------------------------------------------------------

Perhaps I expect too much from powerpill but find the multiple access steps and timeouts to be a negative aspect of its use.

Pacman has the same difficulties in locating mirrors with the packages available and goes through the same timeouts. Thus each method drags...............

Perhaps I need an upgrade?

z0phi3l · 2009-01-14 07:00:21

^^ Sounds like you have network issues

Xyne · 2009-01-14 12:48:17

@lilsirecho
Please use the powerpill thread to report powerpill issues: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56583

I've replied to your post here.

Last edited by Xyne (2009-01-14 12:57:50)

Dusty · 2009-01-22 13:41:34

Simo the great helped me track down the DNS issue. (All hail Simo" Oh Mighty Simo!) I've had my host change the records and I think the DNS should be much more stable now. Anyone who thinks Xyne's stuff is as awsome as I do: Please let me know if you still have trouble accessing the site, it should be fixed now.

Dusty

Xyne · 2009-01-22 16:57:46

That's very good news... thanks to both of you!

ataraxia · 2010-01-27 20:34:51

(I'm assuming it's still ok to post on this thread even though it's really old, since Xyne's site directs people here...)

Xyne, do you have any plans to generate a xyne-any.files.tar.gz filelist? This would make it work with pkgfile, and make pkgfile -u stop complaining. (Alternately, do any of your tools replicate pkgfile's functionality in some other way?)

Xyne · 2010-01-27 22:37:39

It should be ok to post here.

Adding the "files" archive to my repos (via makerepo) is on my todo list, along with either adding a search function to bauerbill or creating my own tool to search through files. All of the necessary code is there in perl-xyne-arch. I just need to connect the dots.

cl10k · 2010-02-02 18:58:23

I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!!! I use many of your great tools. I would even consider to use bauerpill of the name wasn't so strange ;-)
[Bauerpill klingt einfach nicht so, wie ein Computerprogramm klingen sollte - egal es gibt ja powerpill...].

GREAT WORK!!

Xyne · 2010-02-02 19:18:50

cl10k wrote:

I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!!! I use many of your great tools. I would even consider to use bauerpill of the name wasn't so strange ;-)
[Bauerpill klingt einfach nicht so, wie ein Computerprogramm klingen sollte - egal es gibt ja powerpill...].
GREAT WORK!!

Thanks.

[Wenn du bauerbill nicht benutzen willst, nur weil es einen "seltsamen" Namen hat, dann könntest du immer ein "alias" in .bashrc benutzen Übrigens, eine Version des Powerpills die Paketen baut heißt ganz natürlich Bauerbill, nicht wahr? ]

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