RE: Mandrake packages / FTP server.

2001-10-25 Thread Rafael Pereira Rigues
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 20:02, Jonathan Sailor wrote: > DO NOT try to install Ximian Gnome 1.4. It will not see the Mandrake Menus. > (At least on x86) Great, that's exactly what I want. I don't like Mandrake's menu layout. Also, why have 2 menus?? There's a Gnome menu and the Mandrake menu. Why no

RE: Mandrake packages / FTP server.

2001-10-24 Thread Jonathan Sailor
DO NOT try to install Ximian Gnome 1.4. It will not see the Mandrake Menus. (At least on x86) Hope to help -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rafael Pereira Rigues Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mandr

RE: Mandrake packages / FTP server.

2001-10-19 Thread Sean Fay
So is there a way to get rpmdrake to work with security updates and the such? Sean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:39 AM To: Mandrake Linux Subject: Re: Mandrake packages / FTP server

Re: Mandrake packages / FTP server.

2001-10-19 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, David Cheng wrote: > heh...forgot to mention Stew's caveats about using the RPMS from WTFO site. > If you search the archive for cooker, you should find a message from Stew > about not using some of the packages for production systems. But I believe > the mirrors' version i

Re: Mandrake packages / FTP server.

2001-10-19 Thread J. B. Schatz
the rpmdrake update is broke in the respect also. I dread using rpmdrake! >On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:29:19PM -0200, Rafael Pereira Rigues wrote: >> Also, it's me or there's no source for security updates yet? When I try >> to update the mirror list on the RPM tool, it comes empty. > >There is

Re: Mandrake packages / FTP server.

2001-10-19 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:29:19PM -0200, Rafael Pereira Rigues wrote: > Also, it's me or there's no source for security updates yet? When I try > to update the mirror list on the RPM tool, it comes empty. There is a bug in rpmdrake that stops this from working. Supposedly if you install the rpm

RE: Mandrake packages / FTP server.

2001-10-19 Thread Rafael Pereira Rigues
On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 14:18, Sean Fay wrote: > Secondly, on the ximian thing ... it took a while but I got it installed, > many many and many dependencies forced me to use the 2nd cd and also the > updates ftp sites but after about a day of this I finally got it installed > and running. Remember -

Re: Mandrake packages / FTP server.

2001-10-19 Thread David Cheng
heh...forgot to mention Stew's caveats about using the RPMS from WTFO site. If you search the archive for cooker, you should find a message from Stew about not using some of the packages for production systems. But I believe the mirrors' version is ok to use. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong,

Re: Mandrake packages / FTP server.

2001-10-19 Thread Rafael Pereira Rigues
Ouch!!! The idea to backtrack didn't occur to me. Lesson: Never try to find something on an FTP server at 02:00 AM :) Thanks! On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 14:14, David Cheng wrote: > I believe you can download them from the mirrors as well. For example, I > usually use the unc.edu mirror, and if

RE: Mandrake packages / FTP server.

2001-10-19 Thread Sean Fay
Rafael, Congrats on the install I was also very excited to get it installed on my powerbook. On the question of security updates... I have the same problem and even after updating the RPMdrake packages it still does not show any updates nor any sources. Secondly, on the ximian thing ... it took

Re: Mandrake packages / FTP server.

2001-10-19 Thread David Cheng
I believe you can download them from the mirrors as well. For example, I usually use the unc.edu mirror, and if you start from the iso directory, you can backtrack to the directory with the RPMS. I believe it's http://jungle.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake-deve l/cooker