Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for DesktopLinux

2003-01-16 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Timothy R. Butler wrote: C.) DrakeFont is a GREAT, STUPENDIOUS tool, but it seems to choke fairly easily without explaination. For example, I have about 250 truetype fonts that I copied from my last Linux installation (also MDK 9.0). However, DrakeFont would freeze on the first part of processin

Re: [Cooker] Re: postgresql-7.3.1-?mdk

2003-01-16 Thread Oden Eriksson
fredagen den 17 januari 2003 08.16 skrev Warly: > Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi. > > > > Do you think it would be possible to bring back libpq++ into the > > postgresql package, or should it be a new package? > > > > http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/libpqpp/projdisplay.php > >

[Cooker] Re: postgresql-7.3.1-?mdk

2003-01-16 Thread Warly
Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. > > Do you think it would be possible to bring back libpq++ into the postgresql > package, or should it be a new package? > > http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/libpqpp/projdisplay.php > ftp://gborg.postgresql.org/pub/libpqpp/stable/libpq++-4.0.tar

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Broke?

2003-01-16 Thread J. Greenlees
SI Reasoning wrote: ~snip~ As far as IBM bailing out SUSE, that was also another first. They were the first of the majors to approach bankruptcy, I would hedge bets that if Mandrakesoft was the first approaching Bankruptcy, then IBM may well have bailed out Mandrake and SUSE would be declaring C

[Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-16 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi everyone, Mandrake Linux 9.0 is SO CLOSE to what most people need to switch from Windows that with a few more improvements, I think I could get a lot of people to switch. I've been considering these ideas since I got 9.0, and I have them below. If you can't tell, I've been thinking about these

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Broke?

2003-01-16 Thread SI Reasoning
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 23:16, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 07:03, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > and Red Hat both make the same decision and don't appear to be filing > > > > for bankruptcy protection... > > > > > > Redhat have millions left over from a sucessful IPO, and SuSE hav

[Cooker] [Bug 845] [menudrake] New: Menudrake does not save changes

2003-01-16 Thread [Bug 845]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845 Product: menudrake Component: program Summary: Menudrake does not save changes Version: 0.7.2-1mdk Platform: PC OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major

[Cooker] [Bug 845] [menudrake] New: Menudrake does not save changes

2003-01-16 Thread [Bug 845]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845 Product: menudrake Component: program Summary: Menudrake does not save changes Version: 0.7.2-1mdk Platform: PC OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Broke?

2003-01-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 07:03, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > and Red Hat both make the same decision and don't appear to be filing > > > for bankruptcy protection... > > > > Redhat have millions left over from a sucessful IPO, and SuSE have recently > > recived a shitload of cash from IBM (to stop

Re: [Cooker] Re: [expert] rebuilding OO....

2003-01-16 Thread Damian Gatabria
> > I just installed cooker beta 1 with full updates as of today and I tried OO > and it displays fonts less that pt 10. So all is well. ok thanks Tex. Damian

Re: [Cooker] diskdrake prob followed by maint session problem with solution

2003-01-16 Thread John Danielson, II
Pixel wrote: "John Danielson, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Any system that has EVER had a file system with Windows or DOS on it has the following part structure. Part #s 1-4 can be primary. Part #5 is always an extended part table to hold logical drives. Parts 6 and up can be logicals.

[Cooker] hdlist.cz not updated ?

2003-01-16 Thread Bernard Varaine
looks like the /base/hdlist has not been updated on surfnet.pl Bernard

Re: [Cooker] Re: [expert] rebuilding OO....

2003-01-16 Thread Texstar
> > This bug is present in my machine since the day i upgraded > the XFT that shipped with 9.0. (The 'menu items have no text' > problem) Once i fixed the text, OO is still unable to render > most fonts if they are small (i.e. zooming out makes text invisible). > I just installed cooker beta 1 wit

Re: [Cooker] kernel release version

2003-01-16 Thread Ron Stodden
Chuck Shirley wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2003 22:05, Quel Qun wrote: kernel-2.4.21.0.pre3.1mdk Not that I really care, but where will it end? wouldn't kernel-2.4.21.pre3.1mdk be enough? -- Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Indeed. Once again Mr. Ron Stodden's perl script for rsync mirroring is

[Cooker] Xfig bug report (2 problems)

2003-01-16 Thread Dean S. Messing
I just built the xfig rpm from the .src.rpm on cooker. Compilation and installation went fine. To tickle the bug: After firing it up, go to `help' and bink on Xfig Reference (HTML) You should get an error dialog box that says /usr/share/doc/xfig/html/index.html is not installed, please install

[Cooker] Beta 1 install failure

2003-01-16 Thread George Mitchell
I have just attempted to install 9.1 beta 1 and it went as follows: 1. I have both a PS2 and a USB mouse on my system. The install came up on only the USB mouse. No problem, I suppose, though it would be nice if all mice were recognized on the initial install. 2. If one misses the cue to 'a

[Cooker] Re: [expert] rebuilding OO....

2003-01-16 Thread Damian Gatabria
Hi. I made a post to expert list a few days ago (kept it here at the bottom of this message) , asking if rebuilding OpenOffice would fix the problem with it (not displaying most fonts if they are size 8 or smaller). This bug is present in my machine since the day i upgraded the XFT that shipped

Re: [Cooker] kernel release version

2003-01-16 Thread Jeremy Salch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 16 January 2003 09:05 pm, Quel Qun wrote: > kernel-2.4.21.0.pre3.1mdk > > Not that I really care, but where will it end? wouldn't > kernel-2.4.21.pre3.1mdk be enough? Its not enought till everything works! Just because everything works for

Re: [Cooker] kernel release version

2003-01-16 Thread Chuck Shirley
On Thursday 16 January 2003 22:05, Quel Qun wrote: >kernel-2.4.21.0.pre3.1mdk > >Not that I really care, but where will it end? wouldn't >kernel-2.4.21.pre3.1mdk be enough? >-- >Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Indeed. Once again Mr. Ron Stodden's perl script for rsync mirroring is deleting the old

[Cooker] kernel release version

2003-01-16 Thread Quel Qun
kernel-2.4.21.0.pre3.1mdk Not that I really care, but where will it end? wouldn't kernel-2.4.21.pre3.1mdk be enough? -- Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Cooker] kernel-2.4.21.0.pre3.1mdk fails to create lilo entry

2003-01-16 Thread Quel Qun
Hi, Just installed the last kernel aside of the previous one (2.4.21.pre2.1mdk) and it fails to create a new lilo entry, saying that: not adding entry, 2421-1 already exists. -- Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Cooker] urpmi suggestion

2003-01-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 16:05, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le Jeudi 16 Janvier 2003 16:41, Adam Williamson a écrit : > > Would it be possible to add an option to urpmi something along the lines > > of --preserve-package-set? That is, an option to never replace packages > > from one set with packages fr

Re: [Cooker] urpmi suggestion

2003-01-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:58, Steffen Barszus wrote: > On Thursday 16 January 2003 16:41, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Would it be possible to add an option to urpmi something along the lines > > of --preserve-package-set? That is, an option to never replace packages > > from one set with packages fro

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.21.0.pre3.1mdk-1-1mdk

2003-01-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:31:50 +0100 (CET) Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --=-=-= > Name: kernel-2.4.21.0.pre3.1mdkRelocations: (not > relocateable) Version : 1 Vendor: > MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date:

[Cooker] Interface suggestions

2003-01-16 Thread B Lauber
I just thought of two things I want to put on my wishlist for 9.1: 1. Additional themes for Gnome and KDE. There needs to be a little more variety in the styles -- something fun, something professional, etc. 2. A Gnome applet / KDE equivalent that notifies you when there are updates for Mandra

Re: [Cooker] user login is very long, while root login is very fast

2003-01-16 Thread Felix Miata
Nicolas Pomarede wrote: > Well, I had the exact same problem after installing 9.0 on my laptop. > This is a "rather" old one, with Celeron 300 Mhz and not really fast ide disk, > so any unnecessary operations during the login is easily noticeable. > After boot completed, I noticed login with root

[Cooker] [Bug 844] [gurpmi] New: ?need to run rpm post-install script after choosing .rpmnew file?

2003-01-16 Thread [Bug 844]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844 Product: gurpmi Component: gurpmi Summary: ?need to run rpm post-install script after choosing .rpmnew file? Version: 4.2-6mdk Platform: All OS/Version: All S

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 839] [Installation] New: Wrong character display in installaion for Greek

2003-01-16 Thread Pixel
"[Bug 839]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After selection of the Greek language in installation > all character are displayed as squares > (9.1 beta 1) reproduced, seems to be mdk_10.pcf missing in the ramdisk. fixing make_mdkinst_stage2 accordingly.

Re: [Cooker] wine update for 9.1

2003-01-16 Thread rcc
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:03:13 +0100 Danny Tholen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 January 2003 00:46, rcc wrote: > > never seen it. Is it that tcl/tk thingy I never got to run? > yes, it didn't run? not for me, but I didn't try very hard because > > I like Xwine this looks so much n

[Cooker] patch: check tmp permissions for xfs

2003-01-16 Thread Danny Tholen
There have been some reports of X not starting because xfs silently fails when it cannot write to its socket (unsticky dir, not writable, no tmp dir, caused by user/program errors, or fs corruption). It might be a good idea to set correct ownership/permissions before starting xfs. This patch is

Re: [Cooker] wine update for 9.1

2003-01-16 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 16 January 2003 00:46, rcc wrote: > so you can actually do work at work? :)=) actually, it was a collegues machine. > > never seen it. Is it that tcl/tk thingy I never got to run? yes, it didn't run? > > I like Xwine, though last time I checked the config editor was not > implemented y

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.21.0.pre3.1mdk-1-1mdk

2003-01-16 Thread Jeremy Salch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 16 January 2003 05:31 pm, Juan Quintela wrote: > --=-=-= > Name: kernel-2.4.21.0.pre3.1mdkRelocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 1 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > Release : 1mdk

[Cooker] html association problem ?

2003-01-16 Thread Jeremy Salch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whenever I click on a http link within a e-mail it runs it in konqueror but it runs it from the file in the cache on the hd, so the address bar reads something like the following: file:/home/salch/.kde/share/apps/kfmexec/tmp/4672.0. and of course

Re: [Cooker] DebDrake

2003-01-16 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Thursday 16 January 2003 22:47, Luca Olivetti wrote: > Austin Acton wrote: > > And how could we drop RPM? There's no good alternative: certainly not > > portage. The guys at gentoo spend forever maintaining the ebuilds, and > > they're never perfect. And don't say dpkg/apt cuz I might puke.

Re: [Cooker] Cooker TextMode Install Bugs...

2003-01-16 Thread Pixel
"Thomas Backlund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > 3. booted, selected textmode, and Finnish as Install language: > - [BUG 1] the text (extended characters?) in finnish does not > show up right, for example 'ä' shows up as 'Ã' followed > by > a ques

Re: [Cooker] diskdrake prob followed by maint session problem with solution

2003-01-16 Thread Pixel
"John Danielson, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any system that has EVER had a file system with Windows or DOS on it has the > following part structure. > > Part #s 1-4 can be primary. > Part #5 is always an extended part table to hold logical drives. > Parts 6 and up can be logicals. it real

Re: [Cooker] diskdrake prob followed by maint session problem withsolution

2003-01-16 Thread John Danielson, II
Pixel wrote: "John Danielson, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Something that just happened to me made me think that documenting a particular recovery process would help many people: How to get your /etc/fstab file edited from a floppy boot when your partitioning is set up to have a separate

Re: [Cooker] DebDrake

2003-01-16 Thread Luca Olivetti
Austin Acton wrote: And how could we drop RPM? There's no good alternative: certainly not portage. The guys at gentoo spend forever maintaining the ebuilds, and they're never perfect. And don't say dpkg/apt cuz I might puke. :-) uPM? http://www.u-os.org/upm.html (Now, I didn't try u-os, an

[Cooker] postgresql-7.3.1-?mdk

2003-01-16 Thread Oden Eriksson
Hi. Do you think it would be possible to bring back libpq++ into the postgresql package, or should it be a new package? http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/libpqpp/projdisplay.php ftp://gborg.postgresql.org/pub/libpqpp/stable/libpq++-4.0.tar.gz -- Regards // Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT.com

Re: [Cooker] DebDrake

2003-01-16 Thread Austin Acton
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:42, Bob Sanders wrote: > The package management system is going to have to deal with this > in a fairly robust fashion and from what I've seen, I'm not convinced RPM can > do that or that I want to put up with the workarounds it will require. We have the source code for rp

Re: [Cooker] DebDrake

2003-01-16 Thread Bob Sanders
> From what I understand of Gentoo, it basically downloads the equivalent > of an SRPM and builds it then installs the binary. > >From Levi's and others comments, everyone seems to have missed the real differences in the methods. (S)RPMs carry meta data with each RPM. With Gentoo, the meta data

Re: [Cooker] diskdrake prob followed by maint session problem with solution

2003-01-16 Thread Pixel
"John Danielson, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Soemthing that just happened to me made me think that documenting a particular > recovery process would help many people: > > How to get your /etc/fstab file editted from a floppy boot when your > partitioning is set up to have a seperate /usr pa

Re: [Cooker] Kde ACPI battery monitor

2003-01-16 Thread Jeremy Salch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 16 January 2003 07:34 am, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The battery monitor on the tast bar shows a grer / black battery with a > > red X over it. And when i click on setup it says > > > > "Your computer

[Cooker] [Bug 790] [urpmi] Unable to install package

2003-01-16 Thread [Bug 790]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=790 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added CC||[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Additional C

[Cooker] [Bug 842] [rpmdrake] unable to install new software using rpmdrake

2003-01-16 Thread [Bug 842]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|

[Cooker] [Bug 843] [drakxtools] New: Appletalk printer noy automatically added - no pap entry in Device URI

2003-01-16 Thread [Bug 843]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843 Product: drakxtools Component: printerdrake Summary: Appletalk printer noy automatically added - no pap entry in Device URI Version: 9.1-0.10mdk Platform: Macintosh OS/Ve

[Cooker] MaxJobs should be lowered in cupsd.conf

2003-01-16 Thread Curtis Hildebrand
This was probably an oversight, but the MaxJobs in cupsd.conf is set at 500 again. I think is was lowered down to 50 after the discussion in bug 376. https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=376 -- /curtis ><> Mandrake Linux 9.1 (cooker)

[Cooker] [Bug 842] [rpmdrake] unable to install new software using rpmdrake

2003-01-16 Thread [Bug 842]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-01-16 21:00 --- Isn't this a duplicate of bug 790? And don't they both depend on supermount bug 642? (patches to be applied into upcoming 2.4.21-pre3q1 kernel) --- You are rece

Re: [Cooker] X11 hangs kernel

2003-01-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:26:52 -0800 George Lindholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I do that? > Thanks edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, in the modules section add a # to the line "Load "dri" # direct rendering" as below # Load "dri" # direct rendering Charles Fortune's r

[Cooker] new rpm's in incomming

2003-01-16 Thread Brook Humphrey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just uploaded these to incomming. Summary: vsftpd - Very Secure Ftp Daemon # # Description of the package #--

Re: [Cooker] DebDrake

2003-01-16 Thread Austin Acton
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 14:05, Levi Ramsey wrote: > >From what I understand of Gentoo, it basically downloads the equivalent > of an SRPM and builds it then installs the binary. Done it. Came back. It takes a long time. Even with a dual Athlon and a 10MB line, it takes a long time. What I didn't li

Re: [Cooker] X11 hangs kernel

2003-01-16 Thread George Lindholm
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:14:48 -0800 George Lindholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but when I try a kernel > 2.4.19, my system hangs as soon as X11 fires up, requiring the reset button to get back control. At this point I'm out of ideas on how to even debug the problem or ho

Re: [Cooker] X11 hangs kernel

2003-01-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:14:48 -0800 George Lindholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but when I try a kernel > 2.4.19, my system hangs as soon as X11 fires > up, requiring the reset button to get back control. > At this point I'm out of ideas on how to even debug the problem or how > to gather more inf

[Cooker] X11 hangs kernel

2003-01-16 Thread George Lindholm
I've been trying to get a handle what the problem is with my new system, but when I try a kernel > 2.4.19, my system hangs as soon as X11 fires up, requiring the reset button to get back control. At this point I'm out of ideas on how to even debug the problem or how to gather more information. AS

Re: [Cooker] user login is very long, while root login is very fast

2003-01-16 Thread Luca Olivetti
Combelles, Christophe (MED, ALTEN) wrote: Are you sure this is a first login No, you're right, I was already logged in in X. Because when you or another user is already logged, the login is as fast as root. Well, just to be sure I tried as a first login and it takes about 2 seconds. I rememb

Re: [Cooker] DebDrake

2003-01-16 Thread Brook Humphrey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 16 January 2003 11:05 am, Levi Ramsey wrote: > From what I understand of Gentoo, it basically downloads the equivalent > of an SRPM and builds it then installs the binary. Well it uses build scripts and it downloads the soruce tar ball and

Re: [Cooker] DebDrake

2003-01-16 Thread Levi Ramsey
On Thu Jan 16 7:19 -0800, Brook Humphrey wrote: > Do you mean for the srpm rebuilding to have a gui? > > I have not used gentoo but I thought it was just a bunch of build scripts more > or less that compiles the whole distro from scratch. Which, well taking a few > days to have a usable distro

Re: [Cooker] "No fonts found"

2003-01-16 Thread Liam Quin
Lonnie Borntreger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 09:34, Serge Plüss wrote: >> After "playing" a little more with it I came to >> the conclusion that it doesn't matter which fonts I move around > Instead of rebooting, run "fc-cache -f" after each font move, before > trying the p

Re: [Cooker] DebDrake

2003-01-16 Thread Levi Ramsey
On Thu Jan 16 22:11 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: > General question: if you were joint-packager for a handful-to-a-score of > packages, responsible for doing the following, could you cope? > > 1. Have an up-to-date local Cooker mirror and installation (mirror for > when the installation breaks

[Cooker] loosing umlaut symbols on tty, cause hotplug activates framebuffer

2003-01-16 Thread Juergen Krause
Hi ! I run Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20030114 22:48 on my IBM ThinkPad 600. All runs fine, except that i have no umlaut symbols on my tty consoles after I start the pcmcia service (under X they are shown correctly). when I start the system without the pcmcia service and I have all umlaut sym

[Cooker] [Bug 842] [rpmdrake] New: unable to install new software using rpmdrake

2003-01-16 Thread [Bug 842]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842 Product: rpmdrake Component: rpmdrake Summary: unable to install new software using rpmdrake Version: 2.0-27mdk Platform: PC OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severit

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] qt3-3.1.1-4mdk

2003-01-16 Thread Oden Eriksson
torsdagen den 16 januari 2003 17.53 skrev Guillaume Rousse: > Le Jeudi 16 Janvier 2003 17:47, Laurent MONTEL a écrit : > > --=-=-= > > > > * Thu Jan 16 2003 Laurent MONTEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3.1.1-4mdk > > > > - Use %mklibname make happy gb² > > - Spit again qt to make happy gb² > > I beg you mean

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] a2ps-4.13b-1mdk

2003-01-16 Thread David Walser
Hi Till, did you ever see my bug about printerdrake/a2ps? You might not have since I don't think anyone bother to confirm it. It should be trivial, please have a look. It was bug 665. Thanks. --- Till Kamppeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Name: a2ps __

[Cooker] diskdrake prob followed by maint session problem with solution

2003-01-16 Thread John Danielson, II
Soemthing that just happened to me made me think that documenting a particular recovery process would help many people: How to get your /etc/fstab file editted from a floppy boot when your partitioning is set up to have a seperate /usr part: Go into maintenance shell, as the e2fsck fails due to

[Cooker] [Bug 841] [Installation] New: Could not load network driver for Intel PRO/100

2003-01-16 Thread [Bug 841]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841 Product: Installation Component: stage1 Summary: Could not load network driver for Intel PRO/100 Version: 1.761 Platform: PC OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severit

Re: [Cooker] user login is very long, while root login is very fast

2003-01-16 Thread Nicolas Pomarede
On Thursday 16 January 2003 15:42, Felix Miata wrote: > Gerard Patel wrote: > > At 03:52 AM 1/16/03 -0500, you wrote: [ snip a lot ] Well, I had the exact same problem after installing 9.0 on my laptop. This is a "rather" old one, with Celeron 300 Mhz and not really fast ide disk, so any unneces

Re: [Cooker] Package verification

2003-01-16 Thread Buchan Milne
Götz Waschk wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2003, 19:04:37 Uhr MET, schrieb Buchan Milne: >>To know whether your CDs are ok before you format? > > So you want to run a rpm -K *rpm before starting to install anything? > This shouldn't be too hard to add to the installer. Something like that mi

Re: [Cooker] "No fonts found"

2003-01-16 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 09:34, Serge Plüss wrote: > Well, here is my interesting discovery. > I moved all the A* fonts out of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf > to a safe location and boom, I was able to launch mozilla, menudrake > and drakconf. So I thought I was lucky and just one of these fon

Re: [Cooker] Package verification

2003-01-16 Thread Götz Waschk
Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2003, 19:04:37 Uhr MET, schrieb Buchan Milne: > Götz Waschk wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2003, 08:49:16 Uhr MET, schrieb George Mitchell: > >>I don't know whether anyone else has noticed, but the RH8 installer has > >>a very nifty feature in the form of a installe

Re: [Cooker] Package verification

2003-01-16 Thread Brad Chamberlin
> rpmdrake/urpmi already verifies the gpg signature, so what else do you > want? > I think he's talking about the system installer...not the package installer, which also checks for sig's. During the install the first (or at least one of the first) steps asks if you want to verify your install

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] qt3-3.1.1-4mdk

2003-01-16 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le Jeudi 16 Janvier 2003 17:47, Laurent MONTEL a écrit : > --=-=-= > > * Thu Jan 16 2003 Laurent MONTEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3.1.1-4mdk > > - Use %mklibname make happy gb² > - Spit again qt to make happy gb² I beg you meant "split", not "spit" here :-) -- The speed with which components become obso

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] gimp-1.2.3-19mdk

2003-01-16 Thread Buchan Milne
Frederic Crozat wrote: > --=-=-= > * Thu Jan 16 2003 Frederic Crozat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.2.3-19mdk > > - Fix menu entry to use gimp-remote Cool! But does it still launch from the menu (when not called with a filename as argument)? > > --- gimp-1.2.3-18mdk.src.rpm/gimp.spec2003-01-16

Re: [Cooker] Package verification

2003-01-16 Thread Buchan Milne
Götz Waschk wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2003, 08:49:16 Uhr MET, schrieb George Mitchell: > >>I don't know whether anyone else has noticed, but the RH8 installer has >>a very nifty feature in the form of a installer based MD5SUM >>verification option which would prove very useful to anyone

Re: [Cooker] Package verification

2003-01-16 Thread Götz Waschk
Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2003, 08:49:16 Uhr MET, schrieb George Mitchell: > I don't know whether anyone else has noticed, but the RH8 installer has > a very nifty feature in the form of a installer based MD5SUM > verification option which would prove very useful to anyone using > downloaded ISO

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Broke?

2003-01-16 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 05:03, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 15:01, Edward Tandi wrote: Could it be? http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=192 What does it mean? It means that they have some breathing room and clearance from their debtor

[Cooker] Package verification

2003-01-16 Thread George Mitchell
I don't know whether anyone else has noticed, but the RH8 installer has a very nifty feature in the form of a installer based MD5SUM verification option which would prove very useful to anyone using downloaded ISOs. It would seem that this would be rather easy to implement. Any thoughts on so

Re: [Cooker] DebDrake

2003-01-16 Thread Buchan Milne
Brook Humphrey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 16 January 2003 07:19 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>Plus, if it were end-user-friendly enough (aka have a gui), it would >>shut the Gentoo users up ;-). > > > Do you mean for the srpm rebuilding to have a gui?

[Cooker] Re: PATCH: 2.4.20-2mdk: fix slow supermount on IDE devices

2003-01-16 Thread Juan Quintela
> "andrey" == Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: andrey> Danny, one more for your collection :) Should be the really last andrey> problem known to me. andrey> It fixes ridiculously slow read from IDE devices in some cases. The andrey> reason was as usual very simple and is not super

Re: [Cooker] wine update for 9.1

2003-01-16 Thread Damian Gatabria
> > How do you *tell* that you've corrupted Windows? =) Umm.. it doesn't crash correctly? :oP

[Cooker] Re: PATCH: 2.4.20-2mdk: ide-proc && ide_scan cleanup

2003-01-16 Thread Juan Quintela
> "andrey" == Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: andrey> Again from very old backlog. andrey> This fixes my old error. The patch is against 2.4.20-2mdk, but it reverts DI92, so Juan, if you intend to ever apply it :) just remove DI92 and skip drivers/ide/ide.c chunk. andrey> The p

[Cooker] Re: PATCH: 2.4.20-2mdk: scsi_error timeout resubmitted

2003-01-16 Thread Juan Quintela
> "andrey" == Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: andrey> I have some old patches still lingering around. andrey> - 2.4.19-q18. andrey> ... andrey> * scsi_error timeout patch andrey> Juan, this is still unapplied (or have been lost during 2.4.19 -> 2.4.20 move). I attach it against

[Cooker] Re: Please, enable GRKERNSEC_CHROOT in secure kernel

2003-01-16 Thread Juan Quintela
> "andrey" == Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: andrey> This probably has been disabled due to problems with initrd, am I right? Current implementation of initrd in kernel has been changed so it is safe to enable CHROOT features again. I would advice to enable all of them because

[Cooker] Re: PATCH: 2.4.20-2mdk: fix file_readahead for ide-cd and ide-floppy

2003-01-16 Thread Juan Quintela
> "andrey" == Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: andrey> The file_readahead setting in ide-cd and ide-floppy obviously andrey> assumed read-ahead values are kept as bytes. This made them andrey> totally useless. This patch unifies file_readahead with ide-disk andrey> making values be

Re: [Cooker] php-snmp breaks php

2003-01-16 Thread Brandon Long
I had ucd-snmp also installed yesterday but that uninstalled after the problem arose. A uninstall and reinstall of net-snmp-mibs gives the same effect. also net-snmp-mibs complains of conflict with ucd-snmp. On Thursday 16 January 2003 11:05, you wrote: > torsdagen den 16 januari 2003 16.12 skre

Re: [Cooker] php-snmp breaks php

2003-01-16 Thread Brandon Long
yep. [narb@narghoul narb]$ rpm -qa | grep snmp net-snmp-mibs-5.0.7-1mdk libsnmp0-4.2.3-4mdk libnet-snmp50-5.0.7-1mdk strace info (right before seg): open("/etc/snmp/snmp.conf", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/snmp/snmp.local.conf", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such fi

[Cooker] 9.1 beta 1

2003-01-16 Thread George Mitchell
I have just completed downloading beta 1 and look forward to giving it a test run. I am one of many users who operate at the mercy of an old 56K modem and I very much appreciate beta 1 being released on a stripped down 1 CD basis. In fact I am intrigued by the possibility in the future of ext

Re: [Cooker] Problems with network connection after live_update

2003-01-16 Thread Frederic Crozat
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:10:34 +, John Allen wrote: > The /sbin/ifstatus returns cable unplugged on a 3COM 3C59x. > > The cable is plugged in, and if I comment out that check everyting works fine. This is a known bug of this driver.. (I have the same at home..) -- Frederic Crozat MandrakeSof

[Cooker] Mandrake is dead ... Long live Mandrake!

2003-01-16 Thread George Mitchell
Fortunately Mandrake is more than just a business enterprise. Although it is painful to see Mandrake go through all of this, we all must remember that Mandrake is a community at its core. As the Mandrake business attempts to reorganize, developers will continue to communicate via this list, c

[Cooker] Problems with network connection after live_update

2003-01-16 Thread John Allen
The /sbin/ifstatus returns cable unplugged on a 3COM 3C59x. The cable is plugged in, and if I comment out that check everyting works fine. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] urpmi suggestion

2003-01-16 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le Jeudi 16 Janvier 2003 16:41, Adam Williamson a écrit : > Would it be possible to add an option to urpmi something along the lines > of --preserve-package-set? That is, an option to never replace packages > from one set with packages from another. To illustrate, mplayer is > currently at 0.90-0.r

[Cooker] libevent-0.6 build error

2003-01-16 Thread Oden Eriksson
Hi. (I have a massive rebuild ahead...) Trying to build libevent v0.6, but are getting: make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/oden/RPM/BUILD/libevent-0.6' Making all in . make[2]: Entering directory `/home/oden/RPM/BUILD/libevent-0.6' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I/usr/inclu

[Cooker] Re: PATCH: 2.4.20-2mdk: fix slow supermount on IDE devices

2003-01-16 Thread Juan Quintela
> "andrey" == Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: andrey> Danny, one more for your collection :) Should be the really last andrey> problem known to me. andrey> It fixes ridiculously slow read from IDE devices in some cases. The andrey> reason was as usual very simple and is not super

Re: [Cooker] urpmi suggestion

2003-01-16 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Thursday 16 January 2003 16:41, Adam Williamson wrote: > Would it be possible to add an option to urpmi something along the lines > of --preserve-package-set? That is, an option to never replace packages > from one set with packages from another. To illustrate, mplayer is > currently at 0.90-0.r

[Cooker] [Bug 840] [kdevelop] New: BuildRequires libart_lgpl2-devel

2003-01-16 Thread [Bug 840]
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840 Product: kdevelop Component: packaging Summary: BuildRequires libart_lgpl2-devel Version: 2.1.4-3mdk Platform: PC OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: trivial

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Broke?

2003-01-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 13:50, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Thursday 16 January 2003 05:47 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > > We might all feel a bit safer though if Mandrake's cvs were rsynced to > > an independant location (or more than one), so if the worst does come to > > the worst, all source code revision

Re: [Cooker] wine update for 9.1

2003-01-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 13:46, Wim Horst wrote: > Good idea. Its very easy, with current default install, to corrupt your > existing windows when playing around with wine. How do you *tell* that you've corrupted Windows? =) -- adamw

[Cooker] urpmi suggestion

2003-01-16 Thread Adam Williamson
Would it be possible to add an option to urpmi something along the lines of --preserve-package-set? That is, an option to never replace packages from one set with packages from another. To illustrate, mplayer is currently at 0.90-0.rc2.3mdk and 0.90-0.rc2.1plf. urpmi --auto-select wants to replace

Re: [Cooker] php-common, gstreamer

2003-01-16 Thread Götz Waschk
Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2003, 10:38:27 Uhr MET, schrieb Gary Walsh: > I cannot update to gstreamer-0.5.1-1mdk.i586.rpm, because installation > always hangs. This means that I cannot upgrade other rpms that have > dependencies on gstreamer. The %post script of gstreamer hangs on the update, yo

[Cooker] php-common, gstreamer

2003-01-16 Thread Gary Walsh
When trying to upgrade using urpmi --auto-select, installation fails with the following error: "file /etc/php.ini from install of php-ini-4.3.0-1mdk conflicts with file from package php-common-4.2.3-3mdk". Where is php-common-4.3.0? I cannot update to gstreamer-0.5.1-1mdk.i586.rpm, because ins

Re: [Cooker] "No fonts found"

2003-01-16 Thread Serge Plüss
Well, here is my interesting discovery. I moved all the A* fonts out of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf to a safe location and boom, I was able to launch mozilla, menudrake and drakconf. So I thought I was lucky and just one of these fonts was broken. Then I started to move one font after a

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