[Cooker] Problem with samba3-server

2002-11-28 Thread Pierre
# urpmi samba3-server installation de /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/samba3-server-3.0-0.alpha21.2mdk.i586.rpm Préparation... ## L'installation a échoué: file /usr/share/man/man5/lmhosts3.5.bz2 from install of

Re: [Cooker] well ot, moral standards

2002-11-28 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 28 November 2002 03:45 pm, J. Greenlees wrote: since the evil empire has more money than god Yes. They'd certainly be better off if they had more God than money. (-: Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Problem with samba3-server

2002-11-28 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pierre wrote: # urpmi samba3-server installation de /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/samba3-server-3.0-0.alpha21.2mdk.i586.rpm Préparation... ## L'installation a échoué: file

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] xine-lib-1-0.alpha2.1mdk

2002-11-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 09:30, GXtz Waschk wrote: --=-=-= Name: xine-lib Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 0.alpha2.1mdk Build Date: Thu Nov 28 09:27:31 2002 Install

[Cooker] When will nice screen fonts be *default* in Mandrake?

2002-11-28 Thread Aristotle
I mean - it seems to be the last 'geeky' trait that sets Linux apart from Windows - in a bad way. Mandrake is pretty good - but when will anti-aliased / autohinted / etc screen fonts be default for all applications? It appears that Gnome 2 and KDE 3 all support it - but some application

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] xine-lib-1-0.alpha2.1mdk

2002-11-28 Thread Götz Waschk
Am Donnerstag, 28. November 2002, 09:40:23 Uhr MET, schrieb Adam Williamson: If I understand this Changelog correctly...is this the start of complying with the new MPEG4 licensing stuff? DivX4 and XviD decoding functionality appears to have been disabled from the .mdk build and is built only

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread David BAUDENS
On Thursday 28 November 2002 00:46, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:33, laurent Montel wrote: On Wednesday 27 November 2002 21:56, Danny Tholen wrote: On Wednesday 27 November 2002 19:03, Todd Lyons wrote: I have tested this and it works well. Please look at the url

[Cooker] [Bug 576] [MySQL-client] New: No ODBC

2002-11-28 Thread [Bug 576]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576 Product: MySQL-client Component: MySQL-client Summary: No ODBC Version: 3.23.53-5mdk Platform: PC OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement

[Cooker] [Bug 576] [MySQL-client] No ODBC

2002-11-28 Thread [Bug 576]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-11-28 10:49 --- Created an attachment (id=46) -- (https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=46action=view) RedHat RPM with modified spec file I use this RPM with MySQL

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread mika . laitio
Familiar Linux distro for iPaq PDA:s have resolved the proble in that way. They have postinstall-script that users can run if they want to get Microsoft Fonts. It will download and install Microsoft fonts from the SourceForge. (By using ipkg-installer which is very simular to Debian installer)

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Murray J. Root
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:01:17AM +0100, David BAUDENS wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 00:46, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:33, laurent Montel wrote: On Wednesday 27 November 2002 21:56, Danny Tholen wrote: On Wednesday 27 November 2002 19:03, Todd Lyons wrote:

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 28 November 2002 06:29 pm, Murray J. Root wrote: What I don't understand is the offensive way of stating the position. I guess it comes from the contempt MandrakeSoft has for its contributors. Or possibly from knowing and dreading that no matter how they closed it, they would get

Re: [Cooker] Mozilla 1.2B

2002-11-28 Thread mika . laitio
I also did it in that way and changed my menu-shortcuts to point to Mozilla 1.2. And because Mozilla in the mozilla.org is compiled with GCC 2.95, it will work with the Java-applications. I have also kept Mandrakes Mozilla rpm installed, so that Mandrake applications using Mozillas gecko-engine

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Quel Qun
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 02:29, Murray J. Root wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:01:17AM +0100, David BAUDENS wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 00:46, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:33, laurent Montel wrote: On Wednesday 27 November 2002 21:56, Danny Tholen wrote: On

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Murray J. Root
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:55:03AM -0800, Quel Qun wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 02:29, Murray J. Root wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:01:17AM +0100, David BAUDENS wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 00:46, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:33, laurent Montel wrote:

Re: [Cooker] Re: Propositions for rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Thursday 28 November 2002 00:14, Stephen Pickering wrote: I _really_ do not want to start the deb. vs. rpm holy wars again, but I get so sick of hearing it from deb-heads. Why are debs so much better than rpms? Tell me what you can do on a Debian box that you can't do on a Mandrake box,

Re: [Cooker] Re: Propositions for rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread Lea Gris
Steffen Barszus wrote: Is it easier to make good debs than making good rpms ? Is it easier to make debs at all ? Why is it easier ? What could be done to make it easier to make RPMs , or what does RPM lacks so that it isn't possible to make it easier ? Could there be made a GUI for making RPMs

Re: [Cooker] Re: Propositions for rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread François Pons
Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 12:22, Lea Gris a écrit : Whth urpmi you have to update entire filelists everytime you want to upgrade/download from an internet source because otherwise you get pointers to unavailables packages. Yes, maybe it can be automated but urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select

Re: [Cooker] Re: Propositions for rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 François Pons wrote: Currently the last improvement are use another mirror for downloading file (if some site gets unreachable), allow not creating list file (more an internal improvement) and some bug fixes. Can we also have a '--update' flag

Re: [Cooker] Re: Propositions for rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 11:22, Lea Gris wrote: Filelists represent like 25MB of data on a cooker + contribs this is quite huge to download whan you just like to update one or two packages or just want one new installed. maybe Mandrakesoft can improove urpmi in some way in that direction.

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] fluxbox-0.1.13-6mdk

2002-11-28 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2002-11-27 19:12 * Incoming subspace signal from Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : - Capitalized fluxbox-menu to coorparate with locales. co-operate ? - Added a regenerate menu-entry This could be a standard entry for the menu-package ? -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control

Re: [Cooker] Re: Propositions for rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread François Pons
Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 14:40, Buchan Milne a écrit : Can we also have a '--update' flag for urpmi.update ? So then: # urpmi.update --update; urpmi --auto-select --auto --update would only update hdlists for updates? Why not, wait some minutes. François.

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] xine-ui-0.9.15-1mdk

2002-11-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:31:23 +0100 (CET) Götz Waschk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ame: xine-ui Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.9.15Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Thu Nov 28

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] fluxbox-0.1.13-6mdk

2002-11-28 Thread Han Boetes
Maxim Heijndijk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Incoming subspace signal from Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Capitalized fluxbox-menu to coorparate with locales. co-operate ? Yes sometimes I wonder where my head is :D - Added a regenerate menu-entry This could be a standard entry for the

Urpmi improvment request WAS : Re: [Cooker] Re: Propositions forrpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread Lea Gris
François Pons wrote: Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 12:22, Lea Gris a écrit : Whth urpmi you have to update entire filelists everytime you want to upgrade/download from an internet source because otherwise you get pointers to unavailables packages. Yes, maybe it can be automated but urpmi.update -a

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] xine-ui-0.9.15-1mdk

2002-11-28 Thread Götz Waschk
Am Donnerstag, 28. November 2002, 08:53:00 Uhr MET, schrieb Charles A Edwards: file /usr/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt from install of xine-ui-0.9.15-1mdk conflicts with file from package curl-7.10.2-2mdk Thanks, I'll fix that (I don't have curl installed on my machine). -- Götz Waschk

Re: Urpmi improvment request WAS : Re: [Cooker] Re: Propositions for rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 12:53, Lea Gris wrote: François Pons wrote: Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 12:22, Lea Gris a écrit : Whth urpmi you have to update entire filelists everytime you want to upgrade/download from an internet source because otherwise you get pointers to unavailables packages.

Re: Urpmi improvment request WAS : Re: [Cooker] Re: Propositionsfor rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread François Pons
Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 13:53, Lea Gris a écrit : With urpmi you *have* to download entire filelists everytime you want to download/upgrade package from constantly upgrading mirrors because serverside new or updated packages don't magically go to your local filelist. You have to get an updated

Re: [Cooker] Re: Propositions for rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread Lea Gris
Adam Williamson wrote: Um, that's only the complete hdlist, which you only need to download if you want package descriptions. Otherwise you can use the synthesis files, synthesis.hdlist.cz (for Cooker) and synthesis.hdlist2.cz (for contribs), which are 137KB and 105KB respectively at the moment

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] xine-lib-1-0.alpha2.1mdk

2002-11-28 Thread Giuseppe Ghibò
Götz Waschk wrote: Am Donnerstag, 28. November 2002, 09:40:23 Uhr MET, schrieb Adam Williamson: If I understand this Changelog correctly...is this the start of complying with the new MPEG4 licensing stuff? DivX4 and XviD decoding functionality appears to have been disabled from the .mdk build

Re: [Cooker] Re: Propositions for rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread François Pons
Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 14:10, Lea Gris a écrit : Adam Williamson wrote: Um, that's only the complete hdlist, which you only need to download if you want package descriptions. Otherwise you can use the synthesis files, synthesis.hdlist.cz (for Cooker) and synthesis.hdlist2.cz (for

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] xine-lib-1-0.alpha2.1mdk

2002-11-28 Thread Götz Waschk
Am Donnerstag, 28. November 2002, 13:06:47 Uhr MET, schrieb Giuseppe Ghibò: If I understand this Changelog correctly...is this the start of complying with the new MPEG4 licensing stuff? DivX4 and XviD decoding functionality appears to have been disabled from the .mdk build and is built only in

[Cooker] mdk4chem page

2002-11-28 Thread Austin Acton
Weird story. I put up a page to track the development of Mandrake RPMs for chemistry applications. (There were 3 in Mandrake 8.0, there are about 6 in Mandrake 9.0, I hope to have about 20 in Mandrake 9.1). http://groundstate.ca/mdk4chem I told all the authors about the page, and most of them

[Cooker] devfsd and LDAP wont work together

2002-11-28 Thread Juergen Krause
Hi ! I have a prob with the combination devfsd daemon and LDAP. I have configured LDAP (server = 127.0.0.1) and all works well, if i start linux with boot parameter devfs=nomount. But as soon as i start linux with devfs=mount, the devfsd daemon fails to load and therefor all daemons fails to

Re: [Cooker] mdk4chem page

2002-11-28 Thread Götz Waschk
Am Donnerstag, 28. November 2002, 10:10:37 Uhr MET, schrieb Austin Acton: I was really surprised! Are most developers 5 years behind the rest of us, or is it only the scientists? Do people LIKE building stuff from source, using freakish makefiles, ancient libraries, and static linking? I've

Re: [Cooker] Re: Re: Propositions for rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread Stephen Pickering
Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:14:43PM +, Stephen Pickering wrote: Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:48:38PM +, Stephen Pickering wrote: I'd like rpmdrake urpmi to have an option to list updates that are over say 'n' days old, a command line

Re: [Cooker] devfsd and LDAP wont work together

2002-11-28 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juergen Krause wrote: Hi ! I have a prob with the combination devfsd daemon and LDAP. I have configured LDAP (server = 127.0.0.1) and all works well, if i start linux with boot parameter devfs=nomount. But as soon as i start linux with

Re: [Cooker] Re: Re: Propositions for rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread François Pons
Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 16:45, Stephen Pickering a écrit : I'd like rpmdrake urpmi to have an option to list updates that are over say 'n' days old, a command line switch for urpmi, eg: urpmi --available_for 5 I've found that sometimes an rpm is released and it screws the system, a few

Re: [Cooker] When will nice screen fonts be *default* in Mandrake?

2002-11-28 Thread David Walser
--- Aristotle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean - it seems to be the last 'geeky' trait that sets Linux apart from Windows - in a bad way. Mandrake is pretty good - but when will anti-aliased / autohinted / etc screen fonts be default for all applications? The fonts in Mandrake for the most

[Cooker] Re: Re: Re: Propositions for rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:45:45PM +, Stephen Pickering wrote: The real reson for my post, ignore the rest of my email, if this feature is added I'm happy :-) I'll second that request. I did say 'personal experience'. Right, a number of messaages after you said most people. Your

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread David Walser
C'mon people, give it up. The difference between some script that DLs them at install time and an RPM that ships them directly is not immediately obvious to a non-techie. What that means is, it's close enough for Microsoft to sue, and MandrakeSoft to not be able to get the case dismissed in a

Re: [Cooker] mdk4chem page

2002-11-28 Thread Stphane Teletcha
Le Jeudi 28 Novembre 2002 16:27, Götz Waschk a écrit : Am Donnerstag, 28. November 2002, 10:10:37 Uhr MET, schrieb Austin Acton: I was really surprised! Are most developers 5 years behind the rest of us, or is it only the scientists? Do people LIKE building stuff from source, using

Re: [Cooker] mdk4chem page

2002-11-28 Thread Austin Acton
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 10:27, Götz Waschk wrote: I've experienced that scientists prefer specialized distributions fitting their research needs. Maybe there's a chemistry distribution you're not aware of that bundles the stuff you need? Not true at all. Most scientists I know (I know a lot of

[Cooker] Re: Urpmi improvment request

2002-11-28 Thread Emmanuel Blindauer
Can synthesis and hdlist be used at same time ? I can't use only synthesis file because I use a lot urpmf to find a package from a header file, to install it later. A nice idea is having the two files for a source. * urpmi.update -a will update synthesis file * urpmi.update -a --full

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 16:23, David Walser wrote: C'mon people, give it up. The difference between some script that DLs them at install time and an RPM that ships them directly is not immediately obvious to a non-techie. What that means is, it's close enough for Microsoft to sue, and

Re: [Cooker] Re: Urpmi improvment request

2002-11-28 Thread Lea Gris
Emmanuel Blindauer wrote: Can synthesis and hdlist be used at same time ? I can't use only synthesis file because I use a lot urpmf to find a package from a header file, to install it later. A nice idea is having the two files for a source. * urpmi.update -a will update synthesis file *

Re: [Cooker] mdk4chem page

2002-11-28 Thread Stphane Teletcha
Le Jeudi 28 Novembre 2002 18:10, Austin Acton a écrit : On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 10:27, Götz Waschk wrote: I've experienced that scientists prefer specialized distributions fitting their research needs. Maybe there's a chemistry distribution you're not aware of that bundles the stuff you need?

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 16:23, David Walser wrote: I just don't think this is either accurate or true, and I worry about the quality of Mandrake's legal advice. I thnik Mandrake is being way, way too timid in this case. It's

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:01:17AM +0100, David BAUDENS wrote: For you, maybe. But for Microsoft, it is enough to start an action in justice. So, I am sorry but I refuse to see Mandrake close for a such stupid thing. David, I suggest you start packing your things... Codeweavers plugin

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 18:05, Buchan Milne wrote: I am sure many people on this list consider Mandrake to be one of the few viable competitors to Microsoft. Remember that Mandrake is probably approaching the same market share Apple has. I think MS would take Apple on if they had to. For

[Cooker] TTF fonts

2002-11-28 Thread Oden Eriksson
Let's stop this thread, please! No!, do not reply on this message. Enough is said on this so please let it be! -- Regards // Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks MandrakeSoft is pushing the apache2 revolution forward to unknown grounds. Check my latest work here:

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Igor Izyumin
This thread is getting absolutely ridiculous. Let's not forget that we are talking about Microsoft's copyrighted binaries - it's much more serious than patent issues that Mandrake constantly faces. If Mandrake ships freetype without the bytecode interpreter because it MIGHT be a patent

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft for Contrib... (-:

2002-11-28 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:57:44PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: I think you just contradicted yourself. From Microsoft's PoV, the fact that the fonts now ship to the only platforms they care about would be motivation enough to begin putting the fonts out of reach of competitors. But they can't

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:43:38PM -0600, Igor Izyumin wrote: This thread is getting absolutely ridiculous. Let's not forget that we are talking about Microsoft's copyrighted binaries - it's much more serious than patent issues that Mandrake constantly faces. If Mandrake ships freetype

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Thursday 28 November 2002 12:31 pm, Ben Reser wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:01:17AM +0100, David BAUDENS wrote: For you, maybe. But for Microsoft, it is enough to start an action in justice. So, I am sorry but I refuse to see Mandrake close for a such stupid thing. David, I

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] lm_sensors-2.6.4-5mdk

2002-11-28 Thread Oden Eriksson
torsdagen den 28 november 2002 20.00 skrev Juan Quintela: [snip] why not v2.6.5? -- Regards // Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks MandrakeSoft is pushing the apache2 revolution forward to unknown grounds. Check my latest work here: http://www.deserve-it.com/modules_for_apache2.html

[Cooker] [Bug 577] [urpmi] New: Cannot exclude a path when installing

2002-11-28 Thread [Bug 577]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577 Product: urpmi Component: urpmi Summary: Cannot exclude a path when installing Version: 4.0-9mdk Platform: PC OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major

[Cooker] [Bug 577] [urpmi] Cannot exclude a path when installing

2002-11-28 Thread [Bug 577]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-11-28 17:40 --- This sounds raisonable to include this features in cooker (and in 9.1). --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 577] Cannot exclude a path when installing

2002-11-28 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:40:09PM +0100, [Bug 577] wrote: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-11-28 17:40 --- This sounds raisonable to include this features in cooker (and in 9.1). Excellent, so why then no

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 18:43, Igor Izyumin wrote: This thread is getting absolutely ridiculous. Let's not forget that we are talking about Microsoft's copyrighted binaries - it's much more serious than patent issues that Mandrake constantly faces. If Mandrake ships freetype without the

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Thursday 28 November 2002 12:56 pm, Ben Reser wrote: It prohibits distribution for profit. Including the package in contrib and making sure it never gets on the CDs doesn't count as for profit. The words value add never occur in the license. I am not a lawyer, and I will not pretend that I

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Giuseppe Ghibò
Igor Izyumin wrote: How about fixing the font packages instead? It's not that hard to make a set of decent bitmap fonts from the TTF ones. I am pretty sure that someone could get the FontLab people (www.pyrus.com) to donate a copy or at least sell it at a reduced price. Then you could just

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:01:15PM -0600, Igor Izyumin wrote: There are two key differences: 1. Mandrake does not make Crossover. Codeweavers does. They are taking most of the risk here. It's a much smaller risk for Mandrake than including a script that auto-installs fonts. No difference

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 28 November 2002 19:56, Ben Reser wrote: There is no clause in copyright law about failing to protect your copyright. That only applies to trademark and patent law. AFAIK it does not apply to patents, only trademark. Remember lzw/gif? Igor: Finally, you have to understand that a

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 28 November 2002 20:01, Igor Izyumin wrote: There are two key differences: 1. Mandrake does not make Crossover. Codeweavers does. They are taking most of the risk here. It's a much smaller risk for Mandrake than including a script that auto-installs fonts. Strange reasoning.

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:47:05PM -0600, Igor Izyumin wrote: I am not a lawyer, and I will not pretend that I understand what for profit means in the context of this license. In this case, I am assuming this could mean adding value to another product or service. Even putting it in

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:37 pm, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: Igor Izyumin wrote: How about fixing the font packages instead? It's not that hard to make a set of decent bitmap fonts from the TTF ones. I am pretty sure that someone could get the FontLab people (www.pyrus.com) to donate a

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 08:33:52PM +0100, Danny Tholen wrote: AFAIK it does not apply to patents, only trademark. Remember lzw/gif? It applies to patents. Unisys has never actually gone to court over lzw. Adobe and other big companies settled with undisclosed terms. The rest of the industry

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:40 pm, Danny Tholen wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 20:01, Igor Izyumin wrote: There are two key differences: 1. Mandrake does not make Crossover. Codeweavers does. They are taking most of the risk here. It's a much smaller risk for Mandrake than

Re: [Cooker] Re: Urpmi improvment request

2002-11-28 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 17:35, Lea Gris a écrit : Emmanuel Blindauer wrote: or urpmi could simply be able to manage diffs files for hdlists.cz and synthesis Each synthesis and filelist should have a version number You should only need ot download diff files if that was done that way. Get

[Cooker] libbonoboui = 2.1.1 is needed by libbonoboui2_0-2.1.1-1mdk

2002-11-28 Thread Quel Qun
Somehow, this rpm got lost. Only libbonoboui-2.1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm is available. -- Quel Qun [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Cooker] libggi2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.pre10.3mdk

2002-11-28 Thread Quel Qun
This package is missing from the main distribution. -- Quel Qun [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Cooker] Re: Urpmi improvment request

2002-11-28 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Thursday 28 November 2002 21:56, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 17:35, Lea Gris a écrit : Emmanuel Blindauer wrote: or urpmi could simply be able to manage diffs files for hdlists.cz and synthesis Each synthesis and filelist should have a version number You should

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Giuseppe Ghibò
Igor Izyumin wrote: Pfaedit is a good outline editor, but it doesn't do hinting yet. Fontlab currently has the best hinting, but even that doesn't approach the quality of the Monotype (microsoft) fonts. I think Monotype just programmed the bytecode directly. Are you talking about TTF or

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Giuseppe Ghibò
Igor Izyumin wrote: How about fixing the font packages instead? It's not that hard to make a set of decent bitmap fonts from the TTF ones. Decent bitmap fonts...Am I reading this well? Please read a book about font technology before arguing. Bitmap fonts typically look better than

Re: [Cooker] Re: Urpmi improvment request

2002-11-28 Thread François Pons
Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 22:09, Steffen Barszus a écrit : A full ACK on that the hdlist.cz should be updated trough diffs, however this is realized This sounds to me like a reasonable solution. For hdlist.cz file, rsync (or diff ?) could do it, but for synthesis it sounds diffcult to be

Re: Urpmi improvment request WAS : Re: [Cooker] Re: Propositionsfor rpmdrake

2002-11-28 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: François Pons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 13:53, Lea Gris a écrit : With urpmi you *have* to download entire filelists everytime you want to download/upgrade package from constantly upgrading mirrors because serverside new or updated packages don't magically go to your local

Re: [Cooker] Re: Urpmi improvment request

2002-11-28 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 22:56, François Pons a écrit : Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 22:09, Steffen Barszus a écrit : A full ACK on that the hdlist.cz should be updated trough diffs, however this is realized This sounds to me like a reasonable solution. For hdlist.cz file, rsync (or diff ?) could do

[Cooker] gnome-cd b0rked?

2002-11-28 Thread Quel Qun
It just does not start. The process hangs somewhere and has to be terminated manually. -- Quel Qun [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Cooker] Re: Urpmi improvment request

2002-11-28 Thread François Pons
Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 22:52, Gilles Mocellin a écrit : What french mirror supports rsync ? For instance to play with it I suppose you have to create an rsync mirror, then create your medium using rsync://... François.

[Cooker] problem with cooker and lilo...

2002-11-28 Thread Thomas Backlund
I have a IBM PC Server 325 wich is an all SCSI system. I installed MDK 9.0 on it and it worked perfect. I then added an Abit HPT370 IDE controller to get support for a 120GB Maxtor IDE disk (cheap storage...) Everything worked fine. Then yesterday I decided to upgrade to latest

[Cooker] kernel 2.4.20-0.5mdk allways lacks xfs_support

2002-11-28 Thread Xavier Granier
This is still true On Monday 25 November 2002 12:52, Gilles Mocellin wrote: | No module xfs_support found for kernel 2.4.20-0.4mdk | There was an error when generating initrd try to do a : | /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-0.4mdk.img 2.4.20-0.4mdk | and see the errors | look like there

[Cooker] [Bug 578] [bash] New: char-range in case is always case-less (locale-related)

2002-11-28 Thread [Bug 578]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578 Product: bash Component: bash Summary: char-range in case is always case-less (locale-related) Version: 2.05b-9mdk Platform: PC OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Helge Hielscher
David BAUDENS wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 00:46, Adam Williamson wrote: To say it again: NO ONE IS ASKING YOU TO PUT THE MICROSOFT CORE FONTS IN MANDRAKE. Is that clear enough? Do you want it up in lights somewhere? Ben wants his WRAPPER SCRIPT THAT DOWNLOADS AND INSTALLS THE

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Ron Stodden
Sorry, Ben, but as you may imply from my signature below, I maintain a current (up to 15 minutes ago) mirror of all Mandrake's Change Logs and binary output. There has been no mention of crossover anything in the change log or in the cooker contrib tree or in the unsupported/MandrakeClub tree.

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts - some positive moves

2002-11-28 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 29 November 2002 01:36 am, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 16:23, David Walser wrote: The difference between some script that DLs them at install time and an RPM that ships them directly is not immediately obvious to a non-techie. What that means is, it's close

[Cooker] [Bug 579] [libdvdread2] New: Cannot rebuild this package

2002-11-28 Thread [Bug 579]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579 Product: libdvdread2 Component: packaging Summary: Cannot rebuild this package Version: 0.9.3-2mdk Platform: PC OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: trivial

Re: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts - some positive moves

2002-11-28 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:43:55AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: Ask yourself if Trey would turn down an opportunity to destroy a Linux distributor while simultaneously portraying them as a thief of intellectual property. It's nearly Christmas: he'd think Santa had already arrived early! This

RE: [Cooker] Microsoft True Type Fonts for Contrib...

2002-11-28 Thread Linux-Lists.Mandrake.Cooker
Ok, .uk says it all... Sorry, but here in the US a hot cup of coffee gets you in court. An employee who works for you parttime gets involved in a traffic accident, and you go to work. Maybe it's a case that won't win, so what? It costs a lot of money to defend yourself against a frivolous

[Cooker] Tablet PC -

2002-11-28 Thread Bernard Varaine
Does anyone know if there is a port or a project for it ? regards BErnard

[Cooker] packaged fenris 0.0.7

2002-11-28 Thread Michael Scherer
hi I've submitted in incoming a spec file for fenris, a very powerful debugger. Mick

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] eog-1.1.2-1mdk

2002-11-28 Thread Yura Gusev
Frederic Crozat said: --=-=-= Name: eog Version : 1.1.2 Description : Eye of GNOME is a tool for viewing/cataloging images. --=-=-= This is the Eye of Gnome, an image viewer program. It is meant to be a fast and functional image viewer as well as an image cataloging program.

Re: [Cooker] problem with cooker and lilo...

2002-11-28 Thread Wesley J Landaker
As a final touch I installed latest kernel with rpm, changed lilo.conf and run 'lilo -v'. no complaints, so I rebooted, and ... :-( the system boots to the point where lilo starts (should start...) I only get an 'L' and then the screen fills up with a number '91' over and over again, and

[Cooker] stopping a drakbackup daemon

2002-11-28 Thread Brent Hasty
I set up drakbackup to run an incrimental backup every evening using a daemon, now I have to empty space every morning out of an over filled partition, How do I stop this daily backup job? -- 11:00pm up 1 day, 46 min, 5 users, load average: 0.22, 0.09, 0.02

[Cooker] Problem with rsync urpmi method

2002-11-28 Thread Chris Picton
Hi I've just tried the rsync method with urpmi and got the following results: -- # urpmi.addmedia cooker rsync://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux /distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz added medium cooker examining synthesis file

ooffice

2002-11-28 Thread Jeroen van Drie
When i vnc into my mdk ppc and open openoffice from within an xterm on the vncclient computer it opens in that session, but when I then start x on the ppc itself, any call from the vncclient to open ooffice opens an office instance on the ppc machine screen itself. in other words: start linux

Re: Graphical Install on 1280x854 Powerbook?

2002-11-28 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Christian Walther wrote: Has by accident anyone managed to get a graphical install on a 1280x854 Powerbook (867MHz, in my case)? I didn't try very hard yet, and I'm not afraid of doing a text install either, but I thought a quick question couldn't hurt. My experiences up

Re: status of the nv driver

2002-11-28 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Thomas Geenen wrote: hi all trying to get an geforce2 mx400 pci card to work on my old world g3 on board card ati 3d rage II mach64 GT (i have been trying to get an old s3 card to work but i gave up on that) however there are some problems the card is recognized fine