Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

2010-10-09 Thread André Machado
> I don't think a GUID would be very useful. When I installed Mandriva, I > installed it on one machine, setup the configurations the way I wanted > them, and then cloned the hd for 4 other systems. The GUID would be > identical on all four systems. Though I am against this idea, there is more

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

2010-10-09 Thread Frank Griffin
Marc Paré wrote: > > I guess both of your suggestions would work André and Margot. > > So, this sounds like it could be something that could be worked out. I > would prefer, as a user, Margot's process. Of course the user would > have to be able to see the usage and re-claimed space due to his use

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

2010-10-09 Thread Frank Griffin
Luca Berra wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: >> >> But here you are only talking about system-wide configuration files, >> which are known of rpm as they are part of the package and marked as >> config files. >> But what about user specific configuration files?

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 Bugz

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

2010-10-09 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 9 October 2010 20:48, 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 Bugzi

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

2010-10-09 Thread Dick Gevers
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 Bugzilla? > >what for? To request / remember that urpmi s

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 Bugz

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

2010-10-09 Thread Thomas Backlund
andré skrev 9.10.2010 17:41: BTW, a feature to blacklist the installation of a particular version of a package would be very useful. I.e. an option "never install this package" or "never select automatically this package". This would prevent a package found to be problematic on a particular syst

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

2010-10-09 Thread andré
Frank Griffin a écrit : Part of the recent thread about what the desirable release cycle should be devolved into a discussion of how backports works and whether or not it's suitable. I'd like to examine this issue. The current urpmi repository architecture serves purposes that were meaningful t

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

2010-10-09 Thread andré
Luca Berra a écrit : On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: On samedi 09 octobre 2010 at 05:45, andré wrote : Note that configuration files that have been changed from the installation default are often already saved. (Generally ".old" is appended to the configuration

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

2010-10-09 Thread Dick Gevers
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 Bugzilla? TIA =Dick Gevers=

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

2010-10-09 Thread Luca Berra
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: On samedi 09 octobre 2010 at 05:45, andré wrote : Note that configuration files that have been changed from the installation default are often already saved. (Generally ".old" is appended to the configuration file name, sometimes "

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

2010-10-09 Thread Luca Berra
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 08:05:08AM +0100, Margot wrote: There are already various options which can be run with urpmi, such as --noclean and --repackage (see man urpmi) and perhaps these could be incorporated into the GUI - with full simple explanations for the user on exactly what will happen if

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

2010-10-09 Thread Renaud MICHEL
On samedi 09 octobre 2010 at 05:45, andré wrote : > Note that configuration files that have been changed from the > installation default are often already saved. (Generally ".old" is > appended to the configuration file name, sometimes ".new" to the new > configuration file.) But here you are

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

2010-10-09 Thread Oliver Burger
Marc Paré schrieb am 2010-10-09 > > Before we start having polls and surveys, it would be useful to > > hear from our devs. I'm hoping that they have already been > > communicating with one another in the background (IRC? private > > emails?) and working out what can actually be done. I can rememb

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

2010-10-09 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-09 03:57, Margot a écrit : There has been a lengthy debate about users' wishes for the Mageia release cycle, but one important voice has been missing from this debate: the collective voice of the devs who will be responsible for producing the releases. Before we start having polls and

[Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

2010-10-09 Thread Margot
There has been a lengthy debate about users' wishes for the Mageia release cycle, but one important voice has been missing from this debate: the collective voice of the devs who will be responsible for producing the releases. Before we start having polls and surveys, it would be useful to hear fro

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

2010-10-09 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-09 03:05, Margot a écrit : On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:15:18 -0400 andré wrote: Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2010-10-08 23:45, andré a écrit : Frank Griffin a écrit : Marc Paré wrote: Thanks. So this thread is to see if there were a possibility to programme a more efficient roll-back opti

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

2010-10-09 Thread Margot
On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:15:18 -0400 andré wrote: > Marc Paré a écrit : > > > > Le 2010-10-08 23:45, andré a écrit : > >> Frank Griffin a écrit : > >>> Marc Paré wrote: > Thanks. So this thread is to see if there were a possibility > to programme a more efficient roll-back option so that