Hi Michael Stauber >> /bin/rm -f /usr/sausalito/ui/menu/base/swupdate/rssnews.xml
That is fine. But I choose rename rssnews.xml. Eiji Hamano > Hi Eiji Hamano, > >> 1. Recently the contents "software updates" were all rewritten >> in the fixed English character format by you. > > Yes, because our Japanese translation of that module was broken. But > thanks to > your help we could fix that, as you submitted an updated > "base-swupdate.po" in > Japanese language. > >> It was multi-language-format for a long time, since Cobalt 550 ! > > Like said: Our ja/swupdate.po was broken somehow. Apparently it once had > been > edited with an editor that didn't support Japanese. You know how easy > those > files can break if you edit them with the wrong editor. It wasn't clear > when > it broke, nor if we still had a good copy somewhere in SVN. Especially > considering that many strings had been added in between. So the old > translation (if we still had any) was probably no good. But like already > said: > Thanks to your help we now have a good copy again and it'll be released as > update over the weekend. > >> 2. I bought AV-SPAM5 with solarspeed.net in 2009. >> But recently the pages of AV-SPAM5 also changed >> from multi-language-format to fixed English character format. >> >> Is it related with you? > > All my PKGs come with English language files only. Even though I am > German, I > don't even include a German translation. Now if someone said: "Hey, here > is a > translation, please include it", then I certainly would. > >> 3. BlueOnyx News: Is there any feeling of adding a switch function? >> Please tell me the present idea. > > Eiji, is this really *such* a big issue? Goddammit. It's a new page with > the > newsfeed from the BlueOnyx.it website - which is only available in English > anyway, as *that* is the common language between us BlueOnyx users and > coders. > > Only the siteAdmin can see this page and nobody else. Although there are > now > 15742 BlueOnyx servers out there, you're the only one who is vehemently > outspoken against this new feature. May I ask why? And what's the problem > there? > > Let me just tell you what would be needed to make it configureable: > > The file /usr/sausalito/ui/menu/base/swupdate/rssnews.xml would need to be > edited to set the line '<access require="systemAdministrator"/>' to a new > capability group that's not even there yet and which isn't assigned to > anyone. > Adding new capability groups has the tendency to break things left and > right > if not done carefully. So I'd rather not do that. > > So I'd need to juggle in a new capability group. That's half an hour of > work > and like an hour of testing just to make sure that nothing else breaks on > the > way. > > Then I'd need to modify a schema file to add a new CODB database field > for > storing the data if the "BlueOnyx News" menu item is visible or not. Then > I'd > have to add a GUI page for the switch and another page that parses the > data > and stuffs it into CODB. Next a Perl handler needs to be created to handle > the > editing of /usr/sausalito/ui/menu/base/swupdate/rssnews.xml > > Finally the conf file needs to be updated, so that on changes of the CODB > database field for "BlueOnyx News" the hander does its magic. > > Short of adding a new capability group, I could instead let the handler > wrap > or unwrap the XML data in /usr/sausalito/ui/menu/base/swupdate/rssnews.xml > into comments by dynamically rewriting it. But that will break some things > hard, as comments in the XML files are not supported and will generate > display > problems. So instead the content of this file must be dynamically added or > or > removed. However: The next drawback is that this would require a CCEd > restart > and Admserv restart to take effect. Which we can't do dynamically from > within > the GUI without beaking other things, too. > > So all in all we're looking at upwards of two hours of coding and testing > to > do it right. No, most likely more than that. *Just* to make it possible to > entirely disable something that 99.99% of our users either find useful, or > don't find any reasons to complain about. > > So let me ask you again: Why? Why is this such a big deal? > > Quite honestly: I'd rather spend that time doing something useful instead. > Like finding out why Sendmail isn't restarted after adding or removing a > user. > THAT would be something really useful. > > Here is a suggestion for you: > > /bin/rm -f /usr/sausalito/ui/menu/base/swupdate/rssnews.xml > > Problem solved. > > You can even put it in a cronjob in /etc/cron.daily/ that runs after the > daily > YUM-update, so that even if a new base-swupdate is released, it'll > automatically remove the XML file that makes the "BlueOnyx News" appear in > the > GUI. The default start page of the GUI will then revert back to what it > was > before. > > Now how's that for a solution? > > -- > With best regards > > Michael Stauber > _______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it > http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx