Re: [Cooker] Want to do a magazine CD

2003-11-07 Thread Jaco Greeff
On Friday 07 November 2003 11:37, Buchan Milne wrote: (there have been some features and bugfixes in CVS, and we should probably get a new release out in a few days). Indeed. Jaco

Re: [mklivecd] Re: [Cooker] freechem livecd presentation

2003-11-03 Thread Jaco Greeff
On Monday 03 November 2003 12:31, Buchan Milne wrote: Austin wrote: One of the coolest ideas I got was from a guy who suggested that USB memory cards be used as the /home directory. This is a brilliant idea... as you could walk around with the liveCD, and your USB memory card, and you

Re: [Cooker] New ISO with updates

2003-10-31 Thread Jaco Greeff
On Friday 31 October 2003 11:16, Buchan Milne wrote: Robert L Martin wrote: btw you might want to include how to tell the difference (like maybe the win32 auto run reads linux-Mandrake 9.2a?) It would be enough to make it say 9.2 ;-). *lol*

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] ScalablePBS-1.0.1-1mdk

2003-10-29 Thread Jaco Greeff
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 15:17, Erwan Velu wrote: snip Erwan Velu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.0.1-5mdk - 1.0.1p0 release - Removing patch11 - Using right versioning :) snip -%define version 2.3.12 +%define version 1.0.1 snip I would suggest using an epoch increment if you are going to

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] xterm-179-2mdk

2003-10-29 Thread Jaco Greeff
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 15:31, Thierry Vignaud wrote: snip %changelog +* Wed Oct 29 2003 Thierry Vignaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] 179-2mdk +- patch 3: fix pasting when cursor is on scrollbar (backported from 181) + +* Wed Oct 29 2003 Thierry Vignaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] 179-2mdk + * Wed Jul 02

Re: [Cooker] Removing power from Dell laptop locks sysem

2003-10-23 Thread Jaco Greeff
Jaimon Jose wrote: Can you test with a 2.4.22.13mdk or later kernel to see if it is fixed? I would have to make a new livecd to test ... Tried 2.4.22.18mdk from updates. Same results. And with the nolapic option passed to the kernel? (Configuration - Configure your computer - Boot - DrakBoot)

Re: [Cooker] Removing power from Dell laptop locks sysem

2003-10-23 Thread Jaco Greeff
Jaco Greeff wrote: Jaimon Jose wrote: Can you test with a 2.4.22.13mdk or later kernel to see if it is fixed? I would have to make a new livecd to test ... Tried 2.4.22.18mdk from updates. Same results. And with the nolapic option passed to the kernel? (Configuration - Configure your computer

Re: [Cooker] Removing power from Dell laptop locks sysem

2003-10-22 Thread Jaco Greeff
Buchan Milne wrote: Jaimon Jose wrote: I upgraded my Dell latitude C640 laptop to 9.2. snip It *should* be possible (AFAIK) to have the same effect by booting with the 'nolapic' option, but I haven't seen any reports of whether it helps or not, and haven't been able to test with any of our Dell

Re: [Cooker] Removing power from Dell laptop locks sysem

2003-10-22 Thread Jaco Greeff
Buchan Milne wrote: Jaco Greeff wrote: Ok, my Dell Latitude C610 had the same problem. I've made the change to pass 'nolapic' on boot and unplugging/plugging the power cable works flawlessly now. The #1 prize would obviously be if this can be do automagically via a detection mechanism, I think

[Cooker] [OT] Misuse of the word gimp

2003-10-22 Thread Jaco Greeff
Rob wrote: The second most common use of the word refers to a... well, a character in the movie Pulp Fiction. I'll let you research that one. He is the guy in the black leather suit in Pulp Fiction, typically associated with alternative sexual preferences. (Some misuse reported here:

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.22.18mdk-1-1mdk

2003-10-21 Thread Jaco Greeff
Austin wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 06:18, Juan Quintela wrote: Name: kernel-2.4.22.18mdk Relocations: (not relocateable) - cloop 1.02. Cool, Thanks Juan. Indeed, it is really appreciated. Jaco

Re: [mklivecd] Re: [Cooker] 9.2 cannot produce a floppy boot disk.

2003-10-21 Thread Jaco Greeff
Thomas Backlund wrote: From: Svetoslav Slavtchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS. there is one related thred on lkml may be Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch? might be interesting to include it ? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10664547841r=1w=2 http://shepard.kicks-ass.net/~cc/ I have

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.22.16mdk-1-1mdk

2003-10-17 Thread Jaco Greeff
Juan Quintela wrote: Will be in 18mdk (17mdk already building). At least it is coming. :) Can someone told me a course for stupids about mklivecd? I mean something like: urpmi mklivecd mklivcd foo bar $ urpmi mklivecd $ mklivecd --rootdir /mnt/livecd-root livecd.iso Which will create a bootable

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.22.16mdk-1-1mdk

2003-10-17 Thread Jaco Greeff
Buchan Milne wrote: It might be feasible enough to make a cloop filesystem of ~200MB, and just mount it (losetup should be able to), copy the 200MB out and verify it. If the copy hangs, the cloop module is broken. But as I've said in my previous mail, the broken behaviour is very random and

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.22.13mdk-1-1mdk

2003-10-15 Thread Jaco Greeff
Juan Quintela wrote: Name: kernel-2.4.22.13mdk Just a quick question: has MDK updated the cloop modules since 10mdk? (Syncing with Thomas' kernel.) I haven't seen a changelog in this regard and the current cloop module is randomly broken. (i.e. it works and breaks when you least expect

Re: [Cooker] [Mandrake 10] Ideas for RpmDrake [long]

2003-10-09 Thread Jaco Greeff
Vedran Ljubovic wrote: --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I like your interface, I think the layout is quite nice, but I don't think qt is going to be an option since all the mdk tools are built on gtk. Yeah, I thought about that. Is there a tool for gtk like Qt Designer? Not AFAIK, but

Re: [Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-09 Thread Jaco Greeff
Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: I have been sent a package by someone that uses (AFAICT) two approaches, running at install time, and running via cron. I will upload to contrib (unless there is vehement opposition ...) this evening (I can't get to klama from the

Re: [Cooker] compressed loopback supported?

2003-09-21 Thread Jaco Greeff
Robert L martin wrote: Is there any chance that cloop support is in /can be added to 9.2? The cloop module has been in the default kernel since 2.4.22-1mdk. cloop-utils (for compressing/decompressing) the iso has been added to Contrib as well. (I think about a week ago.) Im pondering doing a

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 4888] [gcc] Internal compiler error (busybox)

2003-09-01 Thread Jaco Greeff
Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: I still need preprocessed output. Copy-paste the command line and add -save-temps. This will generate a .i file. I need this. Attached to the bug report. Thanks, Always a pleasure :) Greetings, Jaco

Re: [Cooker] Bug 1583 not taken into account ?

2003-03-06 Thread Jaco Greeff
On 06 Mar 2003 14:49:27 +0100, Teletchéa Stéphane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : I think these entries are missing in /etc/hosts : localhost.localdomain. snip Unless this line, gnome fails to load correctly. I did a fresh install everytime, so it is missing in the install

Re: [Cooker] KDE Artwork (Screen Savers) Package Still Missing

2003-03-05 Thread Jaco Greeff
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:28 am, Timothy R. Butler scribbled on a piece of papyrus: Maybe that's a bit far fetched, but as a desktop distribution, people *do* expect a little choice in this area. If you did a survey, I bet the majority of KDE users use something other than the two

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-05 Thread Jaco Greeff
On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:41 am, Jan Ciger scribbled on a piece of papyrus: - annoying message about kfm_client pops up from time to time, when trying to open directories on desktop Do you have a bug number for this one? I noticed thgis myself on links I created myself, thought it might

Re: [Cooker] VMWare /usr/src/linux/include for 9.1

2003-02-28 Thread Jaco Greeff
On Friday 28 February 2003 10:39 am, Trevor Rhodes scribbled on a piece of papyrus: I'm trying to install VMWare into 9.1 and am having trouble finding the correct directory. Where is the directory for the header files? I've done it successfully on a 9.1B3 and RC1 machine. Just install the

Re: [Cooker] Too late for this change?

2002-09-06 Thread Jaco Greeff
Michal Bukovjan wrote: Richard Burt wrote: I suppose is would be asking too much to include KDE3.1? Bwaaahahaha, aieee, ha, ha, ha. 1. Cooker is in deep freeze; 2. 3.1 has not been released yet - they are only looking at October. Take a peek at www.kde.org for the official release dates.

Re: [Cooker] Laurent, can we get kdebindings 3.0.3 for mdk 9.0?

2002-08-20 Thread Jaco Greeff
Gary Greene wrote: Just curious. Yes, please. I'm sure I'm not the only one compiling it myself.

Re: [Cooker] M9 Beta 2 Bug2 - No Dual Head support

2002-08-15 Thread Jaco Greeff
Ben Reser wrote: XFdrake doesn't work worth a hoot on multi-head boxes. It assumes you have the same model of monitor on all your heads. And it supposedly has an option to let you configure each card independently but it never prompts you for any card but the first one. So XFdrake is junk

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 Suggestion: More themes - Keramik

2002-08-12 Thread Jaco Greeff
Buchan Milne wrote: I don't know what the issue is with Keramik? Shouldn't be any since it will be the default for KDE 3.1. I agree that it would be nice to jump the gun and make it the default in Mandrake 9.0 now. Most people I know with Linux desktops (Mandrake, obviously) use it with

[Cooker] Changing mouse PS2 to USB - 9.0 Beta 1/mousedrake

2002-07-31 Thread Jaco Greeff
Hi, Small comment on my 9.0 Beta 1 installation at home. (All the other potential problems I've picked up have been reported and dealt with on this list already.) Over the weekend I've decided to scrap my old, really worn out Microsoft PS2 mouse for a brand new laser-thingy Microsoft USB

Re: [Cooker] Compatibility purposes

2002-07-24 Thread Jaco Greeff
Thierry SAURA wrote: It's nice to have up to date libraries but removing old ones isn't a good idea for commercial applications : for example, opera 6.0 needs qt2 and Websphere Studio Application Developper (WSAD) needs libstdc++2.10. They will break even if the compatibility

Re: [Cooker] kde3 in contrib??

2001-12-20 Thread Jaco Greeff
My understanding of this is that 3.0 stable problably will not be ready for the 8.2 release, hence the contrib. Keeping options open for the release, I assume. (I might however be dead wrong on this.) As an aside: other distro's have found interresting ways for 2.2.2 and 3.0 to co-exist for

Re: [Cooker] Read this. It's unbelievable

2001-10-02 Thread Jaco Greeff
These guys are looking for flames. My advice is just to ignore it. They are looking for comments from us and every one we give them will just add fuel to their fire. Judging by the number of comments, it is already too late... Borsenkow Andrej wrote: While the review itself may be a joke

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 8.1 is out!

2001-09-27 Thread Jaco Greeff
Umm, still looking for a mirror that is updated. Most still seem blocked/unupdated :( Sergio Korlowsky wrote: On Thursday 27 September 2001 00:03, you wrote: I will try to burn copies for tomorrow's meeting (assuming the mirrors don't die between now and morning). Please email me (not the

Re: [Cooker] Builing kdebase source rpm

2001-08-29 Thread Jaco Greeff
Here is the rest of the build from where we left off with the full failure: (Sorry for the delay, like I've said this is a PIII-500. I've also included the pluginmgr.cpp, but it looks fine to me. I'm almost sure this is a libvrary issue altough I have the latest kdelibs and qt built and

Re: [Cooker] Builing kdebase source rpm

2001-08-29 Thread Jaco Greeff
, 29 Aug 2001 09:58:03 +0200, laurent Montel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Mercredi 29 Aot 2001 09:41, Jaco Greeff a écrit : Here is the rest of the build from where we left off with the full failure: (Sorry for the delay, like I've said this is a PIII-500. I've also included the pluginmgr.cpp

Re: Fixed: [Cooker] Builing kdebase source rpm

2001-08-29 Thread Jaco Greeff
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:53:27 +0200, laurent Montel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install a 8.1 beta. Why you rebuild all package ? *grin* Interresting question. The answers are as follows: 1. I really want to figure out what makes this thing tick; 2. I'm upgrading to 8.1 beta as I go along by

Fixed: [Cooker] Builing kdebase source rpm

2001-08-29 Thread Jaco Greeff
I'm doing. At least I have a couple of more boxes to compile on now ;) Greetings, Jaco On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:12:21 +0200, laurent Montel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Mercredi 29 Aot 2001 10:04, Jaco Greeff a écrit : It is an 8.0 base install. So what you are suggesting it that I should rather do

[Cooker] Error Building kdemultimedia

2001-08-28 Thread Jaco Greeff
Hi, I get the following errors building kdemultimedia: [jaco@penguinbook src]$ rpm --install mdk-sources/kdemultimedia-2.2-2mdk.src.rpm [jaco@penguinbook src]$ rpm --clean --rmsource --rmspec -ba RPM/SPECS/kdemultimedia.spec + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + rm -rf

Re: [Cooker] Possible Mesa buildrequires

2001-08-28 Thread Jaco Greeff
The build doesn't fail, the configuration step (second one I think) just presents a warning. If needed, I can send the full messages by doing a compile again. On 28 Aug 2001 10:54:22 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?q?Fran=E7ois?= Pons) wrote: Jaco Greeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: [Cooker] Possible Mesa buildrequires

2001-08-28 Thread Jaco Greeff
': copypix.c:200: warning: implicit declaration of function `free' snip .. /snip On 28 Aug 2001 10:54:22 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?q?Fran=E7ois?= Pons) wrote: Jaco Greeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure if this is a problem of not, but anyways... On building the Mesa-3.4.1-4mdk source

[Cooker] Building kdesdk source rpm

2001-08-28 Thread Jaco Greeff
Hi, I get the following errors in building the kdesdk src rpm. Maybe there is a missing requirement: snip .. /snip + '[' 8.0 = 8.1 ']' + '[' -z '' -a -f /proc/stat ']' ++ egrep -c '^cpu[0-9]+' /proc/stat + NPROCS=1 + '[' -z 1 -o 1 -le 0 ']' + make -j1 libtool: link: warning: -version-info' is

[Cooker] Building Gimp source rpm

2001-08-28 Thread Jaco Greeff
Me again. This time building the Gimp src rpm. Two things here: 1. It doesn't list libbmpeg as a build require, altough this is needed to build in MPEG support in the rpm. 2. It seems that my build is successful, but I get no rpm's created. Here is an output: snip .. /snip +

[Cooker] Builing kdebase source rpm

2001-08-28 Thread Jaco Greeff
And me again, this time on the kdebase src rpm... (I'vce successfully build kdelibs as well as qt and have them installed already) [jaco@penguinbook src]$ rpm --rmsource --rmspec -ba RPM/SPEC/kdebase.spec snip .. /snip schemaeditor.cpp: In method Void SchemaEditor::readSchema (int)':

Re: [Cooker] Builing kdebase source rpm

2001-08-28 Thread Jaco Greeff
, 29 Aug 2001 07:42:06 +0200, laurent Montel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Mercredi 29 Aot 2001 07:18, Jaco Greeff a écrit : And me again, this time on the kdebase src rpm... (I'vce successfully build kdelibs as well as qt and have them installed already) I don't understand, I created 22 versions

Re: [Cooker] Builing kdebase source rpm

2001-08-28 Thread Jaco Greeff
I don't understand how lt_ptr_t can be replace by Lt_ptr_t Perhaps a old patch, but I don't see. Could you send me complet name of patchs that you apply on kdebase please. The way it appeared was my stuff-up. I cut-and-pasted the text into joe last night and for some obscure reason it messed-up

[Cooker] Compiling libao problems

2001-08-27 Thread Jaco Greeff
Hi all, I get the following errors when trying to build libao: [jaco@penguinbook Puxedo]$ rpm --install libao* [jaco@penguinbook Puxedo]$ rpm -ba RPM/SPECS/libao.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.18686 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + rm -rf

[Cooker] Compiling libao problems

2001-08-27 Thread Jaco Greeff
Hi all, I get the following errors when trying to build libao: [jaco@penguinbook Puxedo]$ rpm --install libao* [jaco@penguinbook Puxedo]$ rpm -ba RPM/SPECS/libao.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.18686 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + rm -rf

[Cooker] Compiling libao problems

2001-08-27 Thread Jaco Greeff
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:13:59 UTC, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I get the following errors when trying to build libao: [jaco@penguinbook Puxedo]$ rpm --install libao* [jaco@penguinbook Puxedo]$ rpm -ba RPM/SPECS/libao.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.18686 + umask 022 + cd

[Cooker] Possible Mesa buildrequires

2001-08-27 Thread Jaco Greeff
Hi, Not sure if this is a problem of not, but anyways... On building the Mesa-3.4.1-4mdk source RPM, it generates a warning about not being able to generate the documentation if the following is not installed: Jade sgml, lynx, jadetex, dvips and ps2pdf. Not sure if this should be a requirement,