Re: [Mageia-dev] udev in initrd and/or using dracut (LVM root fs related)

2011-11-11 Thread Luca Berra
I switched from mkinitrd to dracut on all systems using lvm in order to prevent these very issues actually in mandriva i pushed for migrating to dracut i would suggest doing the same thing with mageia On 19/10/11 16:00, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > On 19 October 2011 15:20, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> In

Re: [Mageia-dev] udev in initrd and/or using dracut (LVM root fs related)

2011-11-11 Thread Luca Berra
On 10/21/2011 1:28 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Luca Berra at 20/10/11 19:55 did gyre and gimble: >> I switched from mkinitrd to dracut on all systems using lvm in order to >> prevent these very issues >> actually in mandriva i pushed for migrating to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-08 Thread Luca Berra
rs, let alone a piece of software. i'll spend more time on doing qa on packages pushed to released distros. L. -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread Luca Berra
if those options are chosen. man page is wrong, --repackage has been dropped from urpmi since it has been dropped from rpm 4.6 -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread Luca Berra
roblem why i believe rollbacks are not that easy -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread Luca Berra
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 01:16:09PM +, Dick Gevers wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 12:28:44 +0200, Luca Berra wrote about Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post): --repackage has been dropped from urpmi since it has been dropped from rpm 4.6 Will you post it in Mdv

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread Luca Berra
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 06:48:40PM +, Dick Gevers wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 18:42:25 +0200, Luca Berra wrote about Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post): --repackage has been dropped from urpmi since it has been dropped from rpm 4.6 Will you post it in Mdv

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc

2010-10-12 Thread Luca Berra
owed: Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Opensuse, Ubuntu This should probably be 'no'. I'd say yes, in europe it should fall under the interoperability case. -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-14 Thread Luca Berra
ing a snapshot makes users loose a whole day of work. L. -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-15 Thread Luca Berra
ugzilla when they find bugs or actually doing packaging work. Ignoring the will of such users will, sooner or later, force mageia to employ paid personnel to do packaging work. L. -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

[Mageia-dev] Q: how long should we able to upgrade from?

2010-10-16 Thread Luca Berra
short explanation: I maintain some package that has multiple spec and initscript hacks to allow upgrading since 2005LE to current cooker (i.e. postfix). I really believe it is too far and that some should be pruned. The question is, how long should we maintain suck hacks in packages? -- Luca

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-16 Thread Luca Berra
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:41:31AM -0500, Fernando Parra wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:56:06 +0200 Luca Berra wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:00:14PM -0500, Fernando Parra wrote: >The basic/novice user doesn't read anything, remove basic/novice from the sentence and i will agree ;

Re: [Mageia-dev] Q: how long should we able to upgrade from?

2010-10-18 Thread Luca Berra
} < 200610 927 root bzcat %{SOURCE6} > bacula.pam 927 root %else 927 root bzcat %{SOURCE7} > bacula.pam 927 root %endif i think this could go. (btw, bacula from 2010.1 builds correctly on 2006.0 if you disable the qt gui components) L. -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

[Mageia-dev] maintainer groups

2010-10-25 Thread Luca Berra
intai...@packages.mageia.org when noone is subscribed to a package. Regards, L. -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

Re: [Mageia-dev] maintainer groups

2010-10-25 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:44:19PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote: Le lundi 25 octobre 2010 à 19:29 +0200, Luca Berra a écrit : this would result that in case a ticket is opened in bugzilla vs package, all interested parties would be notified, and start working on a solution. (this might require

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

2010-12-11 Thread Luca Berra
at using this kind of software is a way to express personal freedom without really committing any _wrong_. I would really hate if a free software distribution fell in the trap of supporting the idea that software patents are _right_. L. -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

2010-12-13 Thread Luca Berra
d in non-free, software with a non-free license and no permission to distribute should not be distributed. But this is a very different issue from free-software possibly breaking some patent. Please do not mix the two issues. L. -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

Re: [Mageia-dev] maintainers database

2010-12-20 Thread Luca Berra
ining the same package)? i think explicit L. -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

2010-12-20 Thread Luca Berra
. this is the exact opposite of catching a thief. It is the patent holder that has to prove the property was his before claiming damage. L. P.S. I do not like the word 'tainted' for this kind of repository because it just encourages parallels with theft like Ernest is making here. L. -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Packagers representatives

2010-12-29 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 09:23:00PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: sorry, but I can try to answer questions. do you ever sleep? :P -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Packagers representatives

2011-01-05 Thread Luca Berra
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 08:01:19PM +0100, Anne Nicolas wrote: sorry, i am still getting "Invalid login/password, are you sure you can participate to this poll ?" TIA, L. -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Spec File Syntax

2011-01-18 Thread Luca Berra
y and confusion, please just drop this. "Name: foo" appers to be working in rpm 4.6 "Version: foo" is totally borked, dunno with rpm 5 this is why i will continue on using macros for version and release. %define myver 1.0 %define myrel %mkrel 1 Name: foo Version: %myver Releas

Re: [Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Spec File Syntax

2011-01-20 Thread Luca Berra
ndeed since I've used "Version: 1.0" for 12 years... take at lvm2 srpm and try to use %version anywhere in the spec, you will be surprised by the result. btw i believe Name to be buggy as well, but there is no use in having two "Name:" tags in a single spec, so it will nev

Re: [Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?

2011-03-02 Thread Luca Berra
initrd? L. -- Luca Berra -- bl...@vodka.it