Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Manager major changes for Beta4 and FACTORY Tree

2006-02-07 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Andreas Jaeger wrote: > We're replacing our package manager resolver library with a new version > called "libzypp". This integration is more complex than estimated and > therefore we decided: > > * to have beta4 available a day later than planned > > * to have an additional beta5 next week > >

Re: [opensuse-factory] suse xp home sp2?

2006-03-09 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Pascal Bleser wrote: > Now the fact that it is based on Mono.. well... I don't care much. It's an > application, that's it. > As long as it works and people take care of proper integration and > functioning, I don't care. > > The only problem I have with Mono is more or less the same as with GN

Re: [opensuse-factory] gcc 3.x compatibility package

2006-03-09 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Jens Siebert wrote: > Hi there, > > does anybody know of a compatibility package of gcc version 3.x for Suse > 10.x ? I've looked into the opensuse repositories but only found a > compat-g77 package. Is there something similar for the C compiler? > I need this for an older program which doesn't co

Re: [opensuse-factory] gcc 3.x compatibility package

2006-03-09 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Jens Siebert wrote: FIX YOUR ERRORS, or at least SHOW THEM IN DETAIL... > > Maybe I haven't made myself clear enough... The code in question is no > code which I have written (in this case I wouldn't ask such a question) > but from SUN (the J2SE 1.4 sourcecode). I need to compile this for some > r

Re: [opensuse-factory] suse xp home sp2?

2006-03-09 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
houghi wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 04:22:52PM -0300, Cristian Rodriguez wrote: >> 2. DOESN'T CRASH (like all GNOME stuff I tried) > > You sure you don't have bad hardware, because I yet have to see Gnome > stuff crash. And when you then say that ALL gnome stuff

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen-updater

2006-03-21 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Hans-Peter Jansen escribió: > Am Freitag, 17. März 2006 18:05 schrieb Marcel Hilzinger: >> Can anybody explain me in 2-3 sentences, howto setup the new >> replacement for Suse watcher? Or point me to the right documentation? > > While at it, could some kind soul explain me, what the mono folks fro

Re: [opensuse-factory] ssh protocol 1 not disabled

2006-03-24 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Andreas Vetter escribió: > Hi, > > I just wanted to ask why ssh protocol 1 is still enabled in standard > installation? There must be a reason ;-) > I can imagine is for BC reasons. but the user should be warned in some place of the documentation I agree with you, keeping ssh1 is a bad i

Re: [opensuse-factory] program linked to printscreen

2006-04-02 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Marc Collin escribió: > hi > > under kde with suse 10.1 beta 9 when we press on print screen, there a > program > who start ? > > what is this program? > that seem a mono program.. > > how to change this bad action? > > i would like to replace it by KSnapShot > It Should open KDE nativ

Re: [opensuse-factory] Product Registration?

2006-04-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Andreas Jaeger escribió: > So answer is: I hope - and notice I did not specify a time on > wednesday ;-) > Take all the time you need Andreas, even if a month or more will be ok. just make sure it's ready. ;-) - To unsubscrib

Re: [opensuse-factory] network installation fails with 'install program exit code is 134'

2006-04-27 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Kastus escribió: > Hi, > > I tried network installation on 2 different machines and both failed > with mysterious message "install program exit code is 134" > > The hardware is IBM ThinkPad T30 and T21. > > I first tried with boot CD from 10.1RC2 and then with boot.iso from > the factory. > >

Re: [opensuse-factory] network installation fails with 'install program exit code is 134'

2006-04-27 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Kastus escribió: > Hi, > > I tried network installation on 2 different machines and both failed > with mysterious message "install program exit code is 134" > > The hardware is IBM ThinkPad T30 and T21. > > I first tried with boot CD from 10.1RC2 and then with boot.iso from > the factory. > >

Re: [opensuse-factory] RC3 factory

2006-04-29 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
jdd escribió: > the delta is thing is really painfull, my computer was stuck > all this morning by applydeltaiso... > I totally agree with you, that's the reaosn why I tried network install, however, that won't work. :-( and I ended in the deltaiso mess. .

Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1 events/0 CPU usage

2006-05-04 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Jon Black escribió: > Sorry for the late reply. I have now installed 10.1 RC3 and the problem has > spread so that both events/0 and events/1 are hogging the cpu. The output > from top, dmesg and lspci can be found at this address: > > http://pastebin.com/697722 > > Thanks. did you tried booting

Re: [opensuse-factory] iSCSI testing

2006-05-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Anders Norrbring escribió: > I can't get iSCSI to work as an initiator.. I run it on a x86_64 > installation of 10.1 GM + factory and I have installed iscsid 0.3 plus > the yast2 modules. > > The last try I made I could at least reach the target, but got this in > the log.. > > Has anybody gotten

Re: [opensuse-factory] Why I hate package manager in 10.1 3 hours 30 minutes to check dependentcies.

2006-05-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Boyd Lynn Gerber escribió: > > I would like to report why I object to 10.1 package manager. Sadly , You are not the only one. :-( - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] Bug 177758

2006-05-29 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
M, CLI only install. this is what I call a real pig. and it's nearly unusable in low resource systems. :-( Using rug it's completely out of question for me. -- Cristian Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service? --

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-05-29 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
all, Zen will keep bugging you about them - thus making the > notification of new updates available useless. ( Yes, that annoyed me very much. -- Cristian Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service -

Re: [opensuse-factory] What to do with the bad package mngr reviews

2006-12-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
> It is that I can use other package managers, so I can live more or less > without YOU and YAST PM, but otherwise I would have had a hard time using > opensuse > Test zypper, opensuse-updater madly. these tools does not use zmd.(where the problems resides) -

Re: [opensuse-factory] ifolder server on 10.3

2006-12-17 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
> What else is necessary to get the ifolder server package into the > distribution for 10.3? At the moment I am rather oblivious to how this > process works... > > I would guess that the following needs to happen: > > 1. Create a package (or use something from the ifolder team) > 2. Check that it

Re: [opensuse-factory] Python IDLE

2006-12-18 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
> Hi, > > Python IDLE is not found on the 32 bit openSUSE10.2GM DVD. Is this due to > the > change to "patterns" or a question of space on the DVD? In any event could > it > be included in openSUSE 10.3? > it is available , according to webpin (1) en te network installation source as "python-idle

Re: [opensuse-factory] OSS 10.3 Beta 1 Grub-issue

2007-08-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Jens Nixdorf escribió: >Some kind of fratricidal war out there? heh. no, but a bug in perl-bootloader I guess. -- WARNING: This bug is visible only to employees, You are allowed to be mad at them. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] mysql-devel not on 10.3beta1 ?

2007-08-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Per Jessen escribió: > I couldn't find mysql-devel on the DVD image - should I be looking > somewhere else or is this a bug? > > > /Per Jessen, Zürich > libmysqlclient-devel -- WARNING: This bug is visible only to employees, You are allowed to be mad at them. signature.asc Description: O

Re: [opensuse-factory] ImageMagick (and ldd) problem on 10.3 Beta 1

2007-08-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Arto Viitanen escribió: > What good is of ldd that does not list missing libraries, if that is the > problem? > hrmmm.. works for me.. ldd `which display` linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000) libMagick.so.10 => /usr/lib/libMagick.so.10 (0xb7d2a000) libWand.so.10 => /usr/lib

Re: [opensuse-factory] BulletProofX - a critical feature request for openSUSE

2007-08-30 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Alexey Eremenko escribió: > Hi Susers ! > > Ubuntu team have just developed an excellent technology, that existed > in Windows for many years before. and that exists in SUSE since many many years. type sax.sh -a in the command line and get your messed up configuration fixed. no critical featur

Re: [opensuse-factory] BulletProofX - a critical feature request for openSUSE

2007-08-30 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Frank-Michael Fischer escribió: > > "sax.sh -a"? What kind of a joke is this supposed to be? no joke, when your xserver is misconfigured and dont work, you are redirected to a console no ? so, sax.sh -a will just fix your problem.. Somebody > deserving the description "user" versus "administr

Re: [opensuse-factory] BulletProofX - a critical feature request for openSUSE

2007-08-30 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Clayton escribió: > So.. I would say this is definitely a critical request. Then our concept of critical is very different. -- Cristian Rodríguez R. SUSE R&D "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." --Ray Bradbury

Re: [opensuse-factory] BulletProofX - a critical feature request for openSUSE

2007-08-30 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
CyberOrg escribió: > Yeah, it has been around for a long time, it works quite well. Indeed, it works just fine. > now we > should make it automatic so user doesn't have to know any commands or > do it manually. Hrmm.. yes, but in what specific situations should it be triggered automagically ? I

Re: [opensuse-factory] Refreshing the sources still takes forever...

2007-09-06 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Benji Weber escribió: > Using the susetags (yast2) metadata repositories in 10.3 (even b3) it > does seem to download the metadata every time here. :s > +Wed Sep 5 14:33:02 CEST 2007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] + +- fixed the order of operands of susetags local metadata status + computation which cause

Re: [opensuse-factory] Zypper does not recognise: zypper update -t packages anymore..

2007-09-24 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
M9. escribió: > > thnx, did not notice that, me stupid.. ;-0 > No, you are not, is just that zypper up -t package is not quite intuitive :( I think zypper upgrade (or something like zypper upgrade-all) should do what you want (and there is bugzilla entry for that IIRC) -- "You don't have t

Re: [opensuse-factory] Zypper does not recognise: zypper update -t packages anymore..

2007-09-25 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Igor Jagec escribió: > On Uto, 2007-09-25 at 00:08 -0400, Cristian Rodriguez wrote: > >> M9. escribió: >>> thnx, did not notice that, me stupid.. ;-0 >> No, you are not, is just that zypper up -t package is not quite intuitive :( > > ...that's the reas

Re: [opensuse-factory] suggested work around for zypper/libzypp

2007-10-03 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Gabriel . escribió: > IMHO, using the 'smart' approach would be better. No, you end having almost the same problem.. We have explained this many times, smart is **no** model to follow for a package manager, it is inconsistent and it does **not work** properly in 64 bit. > First download all > p

Re: [opensuse-factory] suggested work around for zypper/libzypp

2007-10-04 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Ludwig Nussel escribió: > He is right, but only in YOU mode. In YOU mode first all packages > where downloaded, then all deltas applied, finally all packages got > installed. Yes, but was not a transaction the way yum or smart do ;) ---

Re: [opensuse-factory] suggested work around for zypper/libzypp

2007-10-04 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Igor Jagec escribió: > On Čet, 2007-10-04 at 19:08 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: > >> On Thursday 04 October 2007 06:35:28 pm Igor Jagec wrote: >>> BTW what is the difference between 'zypper update' and 'zypper update -t >>> package? >> 'zypper update' == 'zypper update -t patch' > > Meaning, the patch

Re: [opensuse-factory] zupper update

2007-10-07 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Donn Washburn escribió: > > Hey Group; > > Command : zypper update -t package > > Reading repository > 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-spource > you have typos in the name !! it says "inst-spource" should say "inst-source" ..ohh.. and for 10,3..do not use sl-oss

Re: [opensuse-factory] suggested work around for zypper/libzypp

2007-10-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Klaus Kaempf escribió: > Whats the exit strategy if the disk space is not sufficient ? smart (or rather Python last time I checked) was to SIGSEGV :P > > We probably do not want to code, debug, test and maintain two > different strategies. > indeed . mantaining two strategies does not make mu

Re: [opensuse-factory] libstdc++.la

2007-10-27 Thread Cristian Rodriguez
Donn Washburn escribió: > Hey group; > > It seems that many source programs are looking for libstdc++.ls and > libexpat.la. Neither is found. Programs like koffice and kMyMoney. I > think libstdc++ and libexpat are not in the normal / development packages. Neither should be there, this is inte

Re: [opensuse-factory] Announcing Yast-GTK

2006-08-23 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Volker Kuhlmann escribió: >> So with the Summer of Code over, it's time to announce the GTK+ interface >> for >> Yast (other SoCees, I would love to hear from you btw :)). > > Just out of interest, what is the advantage of re-implementing yast by > linking it with libgtk instead of libqt? Would

Re: [opensuse-factory] Discussion about starting BETA process earlier - by end of sep 2006

2006-09-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Alexey Eremenko escribió: > Hi all ! > > I would like to ask to start the BETA process of openSUSE 10.2 earlier. > > Alpha4 now is stable enough to be almost BETA - a few fixes here and > there and we are BETA-ready. I think it is not-needed to waste another > month of time to get to Alpha5 and t

Re: [opensuse-factory] Discussion about starting BETA process earlier - by end of sep 2006

2006-09-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Alexey Eremenko escribió: > Pushing half-developed features into OS results in SUSE Linux 10.1 - > both late and unstable OS. 10.1 is stable, the only problem it has (or had) is the persistent bugs in package manager stuff. still looking forward the new 10.1 ISOS.. signature.asc Description:

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Web Development Pattern

2006-09-22 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Jaeger escribió: > Here's a pattern for "Tools and libraries for web application > development". Please comment and help to improve, > > Cheers, > Andreas > > Must have (if pattern is selected this is mandatory): > LAMP-Pattern the LAMP pattern, for the "P" and the "M" to be useful must

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Web Development Pattern

2006-09-22 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Alexey Eremenko escribió: > I am not sure, but I think "apache2-prefork" is mandatory, because Apache2 > won't start without it. > exactly, it is :) additionally mod_php is compiled in non-zts mode, so, it will only run with apache prefork ;) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signat

Re: [opensuse-factory] spca5xx drivers

2006-09-22 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Justin Haygood escribió: > Any chance these can be included in OpenSUSE 10.2, at least as a KMP? > They're fairly high quality, and support quite a bit of the webcams on > the market today. > > http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html those are here : http://repos.opensuse.org/drivers:/webcam/ ps:

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package management architecture

2006-10-31 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Alex wrote: >>> With zypper (cli) and opensuse-updater (updater applet) it is >>> within grasp to not have zmd+friends on KDE installations. >> That would indeed be excellent news. > > I, too, would consider this a great idea. Yes, this tools requires testing though, I encourage the readers of t

Re: [opensuse-factory] Insatiable zmd

2006-11-02 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Is it normal for this process to run on and on like this? > Is expected but not normal...it is just another sign that zmd should be "bye,bye" very soon now :-P see bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215649 where the discussion is. signature.asc De

Re: [opensuse-factory] tiny-nvidia-installer removed from factory

2006-11-02 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Greg KH wrote: > But good luck, some of us kernel developers take this kind of > infringement quite seriously... > Explain that to the users, that needs their stuff working. and to all people that has to ask their questions. (visit #suse one day to figure what the reality is) But I agree this p

Re: [opensuse-factory] tiny-nvidia-installer removed from factory

2006-11-02 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Greg KH wrote: > I have explained this, many times in the past. See: > http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html > for the last time I did. I had read that notes a few months ago. > Just buy stuff that works with the OS you choose to purchase, it's that > simple. > Unfortuna

[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-buildservice] obviously not, so I`ll try again

2006-11-03 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Detlef Steuer wrote: > so I´ll try again: > > Hi, > > what do others think of yesterday´s deal? Bussiness as usual.. > How do you feel? I feel this can be a good thing , but probably unlikely to affect us, nor the buildservice , probably we will not notice any difference. A (very unusual)

Re: [opensuse-factory] Out of memory - endless loop

2006-11-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Hans Witvliet wrote: > Gents, > > I know that in certain circles, PHP has not a good > reputation( security) Untill know, i had never any problems. PHP has problems, but the biggest problem is the code quality of the applications written on it. > Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel: Call Trace: {out_of

Re: [opensuse-factory] nVidia GeForce Go 6150 on Suse 10.2 x86_64

2006-12-30 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Digvijoy Chatterjee escribió: > nVidias latest version of the driver for x86_64( 1.0-9746 ) does not > have GeForce Go 6150 in the list of supported cards for linux > drivers. > If it is not in the list, does not meant it does not work, install the driver and **try** it yourself zyyper -vv s

Re: [opensuse-factory] expat-devel on factory

2007-01-06 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Chema Ollés escribió: > Hi all > I have expat-2.0.0-34.i586.rpm I download yesterday from factory. > I need libexpat.la because this package doesn't contains it. > How do I create it? > If I run libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O -o libexpat.la -rpath /usr/lib > -lexpat from /usr/lib directory, before s

Re: [opensuse-factory] Updates applet for GNOME

2007-01-28 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Alberto Passalacqua escribió: > Hello, > in the last status meeting Andreas announced that ZMD won't be installed > by default in OpenSUSE 10.3. This means that the current version of > zen-updater won't be used as the default update applet. > > As a consequence, GNOME would be without a dedicated

Re: [opensuse-factory] no cdrecord

2007-03-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Donn Washburn escribió: > What is the binary replacements file name? wodim signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] konquerer / KDE SSL problem?

2007-03-10 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Volker Kuhlmann escribió: > Could someone please check out whether they get a response (login page) > from https://authorproof.ieee.org/ please? Mine always times out after a > long wait. Using firefox or wget works, so it's not my firewall or > ieee's server!!! Running wireshark shows no data is e

Re: [opensuse-factory] cvsgraph?

2007-03-12 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Vetter escribió: > > Thank you for support. That's exactly my point of view. > I personally prefer quality over quantity... however took five minutes to create a cvsgraph package and should be available shortly at: http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/elvigia/openSUSE_

Re: [opensuse-factory] brp scripts in autobuild

2007-03-21 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > Other interesting scripts seem to be applied after the build: > > ... checking for files with abuild user/group > ... testing for empty debuginfo packages > ... testing for serious compiler warnings > ... checking filelist > ... testing for suid/sgid and world wri

Re: (SOLVED) [opensuse-factory] Dependency problem

2007-03-21 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Anders Norrbring escribió: > Anders Norrbring skrev: >> I don't know where to start looking.. I'm trying to use PHP 5.2.1 from >> the repositaries, from what repòsitories server:php in the buildservice ? > the memcache rpm was expecting php 5.2.0, hehe. checks worked :) currenlty all extension

[opensuse-factory] error messages of the package manager stack considered harmful

2007-04-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Hi folks: Errors and informative messages that comes from zypp/yast and related stuff are just ..well ..plain horrible..:-( In this mail I attempted to summarize the problems (although there are many more..and are easy to find) the main issue is this stuff is not user friendly and people gets con

Re: [opensuse-factory] OpenSuSE Alpha 3 on VMWare

2007-04-17 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Christoph-Erdmann Pfeiler escribió: > Gentle readers, > 1. the default setting of VMWare with LSI Logic SCSI adapter failed to detect > the hard disk, the alternative BusLogic worked flawlessly, known issue : see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263883 > 2. the default installation w

Re: [opensuse-factory] Announcement: Software management for openSUSE

2007-04-18 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Jaeger escribió: . ZENworks components are > fully available and supported for SUSE Linux Enterprise based products > and not longer part of the openSUSE distribution. Ok. that's good news. :-) now we can focus on a single solution instead of having to provide a large number of instruction

Re: [opensuse-factory] Announcement: Software management for openSUSE

2007-04-18 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Eberhard Moenkeberg escribió: > But unfortunately not for SLES - there the hassle has to go on (by order), > and that may affect the business part of SUSE/Novell. well.. you probably know what happends to a part of a commercial product if cause to loose money..it becomes either an documented bu

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-18 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Jaeger escribió: > * log entries in .changes file > > Just a simple "Update to version x.y" is not valid in the packages > changelog but happens far too often. > > Goal: present the changes done to packages to users in a good way and > use that for e.g. Release Notes. > 1.

Re: [opensuse-factory] YaST message

2007-04-18 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Sid Boyce escribió: > Any clues on how to proceed appreciated. Use yast installation source format not yum/rpm-md as it is currenlty b0rked. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-19 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Jaeger escribió: > I'm under the impression that end users want to know in an easy way why > the version update happened - and not only that it happened. 1. for patches this is already done in the patch changelog or in the "suse security announce "newsletter" " 2. if you are thinking abo

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-19 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Klaus Kaempf escribió: > A lot of developers here do this, so its not a technical problem per se. I have been upgrading my factory copy with zypper since early alphas and seems it can manage upgrades preyy much fine except for 1. it is slow ( well, that's a general problem) 2. it emits "scary"

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-19 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Jaeger escribió: >> 2. it emits "scary"(for users) errors and then seems to try with >> --nodeps and continue anyway. > > Please file a bugreport. filled long way ago, noticed in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216042 > >> 3. it emits equally "scary" "invalid object" messag

Re: [opensuse-factory] Announcement: Software management for openSUSE

2007-04-22 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Jiri Srain escribió: > Hi! > > Since we now have also GNOME applet, should not we adjust the package names? > Currently we have opensuse-updater and opensuse-updater-gnome. The first one > does not reflect the desktop it is intended for. In order to keep the package > names reasonably short, wh

Re: [opensuse-factory] LTSP 5 + openSUSE

2007-04-23 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
David Mayr escribió: > I'd really like to work on this, but have no time for it until july because I > have to write my diploma thesis. I have some extended experience with LTSP > 4.0 up to 4.2. I think it would be very good to have it in openSUSE. It > offers many new opportunities by e.g. rev

Re: [opensuse-factory] Java packages changes for 10.3

2007-05-02 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Manfred Tremmel escribió: > As long as many business software like SAP server and client (I'm not > sure about the sap-client, but the SAP-XI-GUI didn't do a good job with > SUNs java-1.5) are only certified for Java 1.4.x, I don't think it's a > good decision to drop it... > that is not an o

Re: [opensuse-factory] ntfs-3g.

2007-05-03 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Greg KH escribió: > If it is in the main kernel.org tree, yes. greg.. did you actually read the page !? it is a userspace driver!! it cannot be in the kernel because is not a kernel module ;-P signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: > Dear all, > > please let me draw your attention to some problems with and around PHP. > 10.2 delivers only PHP5 on the isos. Exaclty and will stay that way.. PHP4 upstream supports end on Dec 31 , 2007. it is EOL. One might think that this is completely > su

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Sylvester Lykkehus escribió: > Since you mentioned the "basic security" configured by open_basedir, you > should also be aware, that with PHP6, safemode will be removed. open_basedir and safe-mode are different, they serve and slightly different purpose.. safe-mode is unfixable, it is broken by

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Cristian Rodriguez R. escribió: > Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: >> Dear all, >> >> please let me draw your attention to some problems with and around PHP. >> 10.2 delivers only PHP5 on the isos. > > Exaclty and will stay that way.. PHP4 upstream supports

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: > Ok. that brings us to the fundamental question what a distribution is really > for. We are using linux for about 10 years now. Very early we decided to > switch to the SuSE distribution because it contained all parts necessary for > setting up internet hosts. >

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: >ed. > > And "5" will end up as the next dead horse? Probably, but is not time to worry about that, maybe in about 5 years or so.. dunno, but now **is** time to worry for PHP4 as it is going away this year.. software has a lifecycle and in 5 or 6 years your inves

Re: [opensuse-factory] I can't update from factory today

2007-05-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Adrian Schröter escribió: > Hard to say ... what kind of errors do you see ? > the error is obviuos ;) there is no yum metadata in factory mirrors.. the "repodata" directory disappeared... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Sylvester Lykkehus escribió: >> > Really ? I always thought open_basedir was a part of safemode. both are different things. > "Safe Mode was removed in > PHP 6.0.0." warning sign. yes, it is already removed, in fact was one of the first prioritary things to in PHP6 (and the other was removin

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-09 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: I am in no way > interested in PHP. I am _only_ interested in setting up an > environment for _users_ that do what users do. If they need some (php) > application, they google until they reach a download link, click on it and > expect the webservice (and thats my

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-09 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Carlos E. R. escribió: > It happens also with cars and anything else. Exactly..is called "product lifecycle" ;-) >There is a moment when a car > is no longer manufactured, but they still make spares. >Then even spares > are no longer made, then the spares in storage are spent, then the last >

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-09 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Marcus Meissner escribió: > - SLES 9 (until around 2011) that will be fun.. :-P > btw... > yup I know is supported in legacy versions of SLES as well in SUSE 10.0 (till Oct afaik) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-10 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
jdd escribió: > just a question: is SLES/SLED in the same situation?could be a > reasonable solution if php4 is maintained in SLES > It is only mantained in SLES 8 and 9, SLES10 does not include PHP4. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] tifm module

2007-05-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Rafał Miłecki escribió: tifm_core, tifm_7xx1 and tifm_sd modules? none of this modules are in the factory kernel .(or ag leays I cannot find them). are those included in the official kernel.org ? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-packaging] Should we evaluate Zimbra ? - a next-gen Mail Server

2007-05-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Peter Czanik escribió: > I tested a previous version earlier this year. It's really great, but > also has some down sides. > Positive: > - free / OSS > - full featured e-mail & calendar server > Negative: > - resource hog (written in Java) > - many duplicate work inside, as uses it's own apache /

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
jdd escribió: > Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > >> it means there will be patches for big issues. So the only question >> left is if >> they are made available for the whole community _somewhen_ (maybe later). >> >> This is really a neat thread ;-) >> > > given the hard work of maintaining this,

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: > I cannot believe it is > that hard to understand why it makes no sense to drop working stuff ... > If you someday did really made something big or seriuos enough with PHP4, you wouldn't define it as "working". ask someone who knows, they will tell you how broken

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: > Why not make the most of the work that is done anyway? huh ? the most work eh ? try yourself first. ;-) The issue is (to recall > that again), that PHP4 is no part of 10.2/10.3 and will certainly continue this way, there are no plans to put PHP4 back into

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: > > Now that really gives a kick :-) > Basically we just found out that even the "we don't want to spend time for it > for further support" argument is ridiculously false even within the company. What I presented here is my personal view of the problem , I dont t

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: > Besides SLES9 as we heard earlier this thread. someone pays for that. ;) > Really, Cristian, it makes no sense to repeat wrong statements over and over > again. You will find my "wrong statements" reapeated in other places, by other people as reasons to just

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: > Really, Cristian, stop it. No. you should stop acting like kid that mom denied a caramel. if you have a problem, fix it. if you are having incompatible scripts is your problem, not mine. in most cases you did something wrong in your test migration.. the most

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-12 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: > And the reason I am forwarding this as a last point to aj is that I am deeply > concerned about the ongoings. Whenever I experienced situations like this they > did not survive. With "situations like this" I explicitely mean people not > listening and acting li

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-12 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Volker Kuhlmann escribió: > http://www.phpprobid.com/auction-script-requirements.php if it says PHP4 in the requirements does not mean it does not work with PHP5. ;) > And I'd be swearing at the php people for a lousy language design > which doesn't stay compatible with itself it **is** comp

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Jaeger escribió: > I think we have php4 in the Build Service. Is that correct? yes, mmarek mantains it and I may move/add an updated version there , although is not a priority > > Wouldn't that solve the problems - give Stephan a php4 that works with > openSUSE 10.2 and us not needing t

Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha4 dependencies validation

2007-05-16 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
André Malin escribió: > It seems to take ages to do the the dependencies validation when adding > packages at the initial packages selection. > > Regards, try performing an installation while sending the logs to other machine and open a bug report. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [opensuse-factory] php5 init file bug? (10.0)

2007-05-17 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
jdd escribió: > Hello :-) > > Before opening a bugzilla bugreport, I would know if this is only me or > not. I had the following problem: off-topic.. but lss see. > > * installing the CMS "guppy" (http://www.freeguppy.org/), I had a blank > (empty) home page. > After many thought, we found the

Re: [opensuse-factory] php5-pear-db-1.7.6-75 in 10.3a4

2007-05-25 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
> On Fri, 25 May 2007, Marcus Meissner wrote: >> I guess the latter. Please open a bugreport. :) We did noticed it :) it is needed by squirelmail ( as I told the to reporter ;) ) however maybe squirelmail can use MDB2 instead.. have to check that. but not before 2 week "break"/"vacation of this

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 A4 and libiconv

2007-06-02 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Donn Washburn escribió: > Has anyone found a usable version of "libiconv" that works with > " gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070430 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) ". It is not on > the CDs. It is needed by AmArok and since SuSE's version is boken I was > going build my own working version of 1.4.5 huh ? iconv li

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: How can we integrate OpenVZ into openSUSE ?

2007-06-23 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Alexey Eremenko escribió: > I believe SUSE should not be limited by Xen-only approach. > and I believe openSUSE should do one thing, and do it right, not many half working virtualization alternatives. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] call trace on opensuse10.3alpha5

2007-07-02 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Mohammed Omar escribió: > Linux linux-0gxvrp 2.6.22-rc4-git3-2-ppc64 #1 SMP 2007/06/12 15:00:04 UTC > ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux > > machine type: p520(power 5) > > Whether any bug in the kernel ? Please open a bug report ..thta definately looks like a bug ;) signature.asc Description: Ope

Re: [opensuse-factory] opensuse-updater: "Check for any kind updates" option?

2007-07-04 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Benji Weber escribió: > Smart handles this quite badly, it just blindly upgrades to newer > versioned packages regardless of the vendor/repository. > Yup, smart is no model of good behaviuor in this case...and better not to talk about the mess it produces in 64 bit systems..;-) signature.asc

Re: [opensuse-factory] when to refresh?

2007-07-19 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett escribió: > for the search, you need cache, for the cache you need metadata. Should > ZYpper > exit and tell the user to refresh, or should it ask the user whether to > refresh without exiting? hrmmm.. I think neither of those.. why ask if it knows that a "refresh" is ne

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory update breaks the system (resmgr problem)

2007-07-24 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Silviu Marin-Caea escribió: > I have just performed an update to latest factory, and there must be > something > broken with resmgr. > > /dev/null is not accessible by my user, I get /dev/null permission denied > when > I log in the console, and KDE does not start at all. > > I have stopped t

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