Re: [Mageia-dev] Please remove qemu, and qemu-img from Mageia 3.

2013-02-12 Thread Buchan Milne
- Original Message - On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 04:16:54 -0500, Pascal Terjan pter...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:45 AM, David W. Hodgins davidwhodg...@gmail.com wrote: During testing of updates to qemu, and x11-driver-video-qxl, it has become very clear that no-one

Re: [Mageia-dev] web virtual management solution

2013-01-09 Thread Buchan Milne
On 08/01/2013 17:50, Armando B. wrote: Hi friends, i looking in svn repo for some solution about KVM web management solution, but i haven't founded applications. I used, for a little virtual cluster, VirtualBox + VbTool + phpVirtualbox (all presents in our repo). For KVM there is great

Re: [Mageia-dev] db5.3 rebuilds still needed

2012-08-03 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 2 August 2012 01:34:17 Charles A Edwards wrote: The following is a list of the apps which still require libdb-5.2.so()/(64bit) that need a rebuild for db5.3 apr-util-dbm-db c-icap-client c-icap-modules c-icap-modules-extra cyrus-imapd cyrus-imapd-murder cyrus-imapd-nntp

Re: [Mageia-dev] db5.3 rebuilds still needed

2012-08-03 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 2 August 2012 01:34:17 Charles A Edwards wrote: The following is a list of the apps which still require libdb-5.2.so()/(64bit) that need a rebuild for db5.3 apr-util-dbm-db c-icap-client c-icap-modules c-icap-modules-extra cyrus-imapd cyrus-imapd-murder cyrus-imapd-nntp

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release task-obsolete-3-21.mga3

2012-08-03 Thread Buchan Milne
On Wednesday, 1 August 2012 05:29:55 fwang wrote: fwang fwang 3-21.mga3: + Revision: 277136 - obsolete db5.2 in favour of db5.3 Funda, Before you push a change like this, you should ensure you aren't going to break people's machines and make cauldron uninstallable. Regards, Buchan

Re: [Mageia-dev] Security updates - Help needed (also forgot avidemux and gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg)

2012-07-13 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 5 July 2012 20:34:02 David Walser wrote: Guillaume Rousse wrote: So, before any further contribution from my side, I'd like the people in charge of security updates to find some internal agreement about what kind of help they expect from other people exactly. If that's just to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

2012-07-01 Thread Buchan Milne
On Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:25:10 Thomas Backlund wrote: So, we have been discussing this many times, and not gotten any satisfactory decision to go ahead yet... Sorry for the late reply, but as some of you are aware, I have had some problems replying to Mageia-related mails (which are

Re: [Mageia-dev] Please push openldap

2012-06-11 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sunday, 29 April 2012 19:49:07 Sander Lepik wrote: 28.04.2012 15:04, Thierry Vignaud kirjutas: On 28 April 2012 07:04, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz dlu...@okay.com.mx wrote: Please push openldap, it fixes #5605 That is? Please describe the bug next time instead of forcing everyone to

Re: [Mageia-dev] bug, omission or feature

2012-06-04 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sunday, 3 June 2012 17:52:47 Colin Guthrie wrote: On the whole, this kind of security is basically bullshit anyway. You can't make that assessment without understanding the rest of the security environment. It might make things a tiny bit harder, but if you can get into the bootloader to

Re: [Mageia-dev] List of packages on svn but not in the packages repository

2012-05-02 Thread Buchan Milne
On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 00:21:06 nicolas vigier wrote: Hello, The following list of packages are on the svn in the cauldron directory, but are not in the packages repository. This should be packages that have been renamed, obsoleted, or imported but never submitted. I plan to move them to

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: cifs-utils

2012-05-02 Thread Buchan Milne
We update to 5.4 to address CVE-2012-1586 (bug for Mageia 1: 5714). r234507 Regards, Buchan

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: samba 3.6.5

2012-05-01 Thread Buchan Milne
Please push samba-3.6.5, it fixes CVE-2012-2111 (no other changes). The current package also now has samba-virusfilter enabled (replacing samba- vscan that has been disabled for a long time), but this has no impact on users who don't install the packages and explicitly enable the VFS modules.

Re: [Mageia-dev] No time right now

2012-04-30 Thread Buchan Milne
On Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:26:37 Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: I will have a very bussi weekend, can anyone help me to fix openldap? Enviado desde mi teléfono Verizon Wireless If the bug had been assigned to me, I would have looked at it, as I would have seen it (as I saw other

Re: [Mageia-dev] Please push openldap

2012-04-30 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sunday, 29 April 2012 19:49:07 Sander Lepik wrote: 28.04.2012 15:04, Thierry Vignaud kirjutas: On 28 April 2012 07:04, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz dlu...@okay.com.mx wrote: Please push openldap, it fixes #5605 That is? Please describe the bug next time instead of forcing everyone to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Removing Core 32bit from x86_64

2012-02-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Friday, 24 February 2012 13:09:45 Pierre Jarillon wrote: I have just installed Mga2b1 x86_64 and it is already a great distro. But once more, I was annoyed with an unuseful bunch of rpm in rpmdrake which make the list less readable. Then rpmdrake shouldn't be showing libraries by default.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Removing Core 32bit from x86_64

2012-02-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Friday, 24 February 2012 13:14:30 nicolas vigier wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Pierre Jarillon wrote: I have just installed Mga2b1 x86_64 and it is already a great distro. But once more, I was annoyed with an unuseful bunch of rpm in rpmdrake which make the list less readable. For a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Removing Core 32bit from x86_64

2012-02-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Friday, 24 February 2012 14:30:10 Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:26:04 +0200 Buchan Milne bgmi...@staff.telkomsa.net wrote: I think rpmdrake should only show x86_64 packages on x86_64 by default. So, rpmdrake shouldn't show get-skype or wine32? That sounds

Re: [Mageia-dev] Error message while trying checkout a package?with mgarepo

2012-02-13 Thread Buchan Milne
On Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:22:52 Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote: Στις Σάββατο 11 Φεβρουάριος 2012 15:00:42 nicolas vigier γράψατε: On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote: Στις Σάββατο 11 Φεβρουάριος 2012 14:41:59 nicolas vigier γράψατε: On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Dimitrios

Re: [Mageia-dev] Official VM images for Mageia 2?

2012-01-26 Thread Buchan Milne
On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:30:23 Romain d'Alverny wrote: Hi there, I'd like to discuss/plan how we can build and distribute ready to use VM images of Mageia 2 along with original ISOs, from our download pages. Generic VM images, or ones targetted at specific uses? If specific uses, it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Build system currently broken

2012-01-26 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 26 January 2012 11:03:09 Pascal Terjan wrote: Hi everyone, I don't have time to restore previous systemd package currently, but the new one broke the build system: Installation failed: lockdev is needed by systemd-39-2.mga2.x86_64 Do we need more validation on packages

Re: [Mageia-dev] Official VM images for Mageia 2?

2012-01-26 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 26 January 2012 13:37:38 Romain d'Alverny wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:16, Buchan Milne bgmi...@staff.telkomsa.net wrote: On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:30:23 Romain d'Alverny wrote: Generic VM images, or ones targetted at specific uses? If specific uses, it might

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing bugs for updating magia 1

2012-01-13 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:25:51 Christian Lohmaier wrote: Hi Florian, On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Florian Hubold doktor5...@arcor.de wrote: Am 12.01.2012 19:01, schrieb Christian Lohmaier: [..] PS: Maybe next time you could improve on your wording, the policy may

Re: [Mageia-dev] Existing Cauldron VM users willing to test gnome-boxes?

2012-01-13 Thread Buchan Milne
On Friday, 13 January 2012 11:47:39 Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 06:14:46PM -0500, Scott Chevalley wrote: I'm using KVM for a windows 7 vm and I just tried to use gnome-boxes to create, I guess, a vm for a drbl live cd and it created it but when I launch it the app just shows

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing bugs for updating magia 1

2012-01-12 Thread Buchan Milne
On Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:22:23 Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:43:35 -0500 Juan Luis Baptiste juan...@mageia.org wrote: Sure, you cannot be save of regressions, but what makes you think you are smarter than upstream? What makes you so sure that not the one commit

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing bugs for updating magia 1

2012-01-12 Thread Buchan Milne
On Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:05:53 Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:41:54 -0500 Juan Luis Baptiste juan...@mageia.org wrote: As I said, when there's a bug report on mga, we start investigating the problem and go and look at upstream for a bug report there for *that*

[Mageia-dev] Over-zealous rpmlint policy (rejecting rt)

2012-01-12 Thread Buchan Milne
I am trying to get rt (3.8.11) into the distro (a package that I am using on a different distro in a production environment), to be followed up with the rt (4.0.4) I have queued (which I am testing in preparation for upgrading our production environment). I would really like to get this

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing bugs for updating magia 1

2012-01-12 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 12 January 2012 11:27:59 Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:05:34 +0200 Buchan Milne bgmi...@zarb.org wrote: An approach that doens't include a bug filed with the distribution means the user doesn't really seem interested in receiving an update from

Re: [Mageia-dev] Over-zealous rpmlint policy (rejecting rt)

2012-01-12 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 12 January 2012 11:55:07 Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Buchan Milne at 12/01/12 09:12 did gyre and gimble: I don't see why we shouldn't ship dirs in /usr/local ... I don't really see the point in shipping the dirs personally. Any separate extension that is packaged

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing bugs for updating magia 1

2012-01-12 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:45:39 Johnny A. Solbu wrote: On Thursday 12 January 2012 10:05, Buchan Milne wrote: many users don't report upstream bugs to the distro's tracker.” Why not? Why should they? As far as the average Joe is concerned they should only have to file a bug one

[Mageia-dev] Signature verification of sources

2012-01-10 Thread Buchan Milne
I think we should be in the position to be able to verify the origin of any software we provide to users. While we have cryptographic verification of the RPMS (both 'binary' and src), and we store the hashes of the sources, AFAIK we do very limited verification of any signatures provided by

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing bugs for updating magia 1

2012-01-10 Thread Buchan Milne
On Wednesday, 11 January 2012 06:32:50 Johnny A. Solbu wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2012 03:28, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: I mean, stop asking updates for mageia 1 just because there is another newversion. May I suggest that next time, say it in so many words. Some of us are not

Re: [Mageia-dev] references to outside web sites/wiki

2012-01-05 Thread Buchan Milne
On Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:56:01 Romain d'Alverny wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 22:36, Johnny A. Solbu coo...@solbu.net wrote: On Wednesday 04 January 2012 21:06, Romain d'Alverny wrote: wiki.mandriva.com may be shut down for good in just a few days What? Are Mandriva serisouly

Re: [Mageia-dev] RFC: Opening Backports (once again...)

2012-01-03 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sunday, 11 December 2011 19:43:35 Florian Hubold wrote: \ Whatever the decision is, maybe we could tie this to some conditions: Only allow backports if there are near-zero security/critical bugs for the stable release or if there are no open bugs for the package in question? Well, my

Re: [Mageia-dev] RFC: Opening Backports (once again...)

2012-01-03 Thread Buchan Milne
On Saturday, 10 December 2011 13:32:12 Michael Scherer wrote: Le mardi 06 décembre 2011 à 00:56 +0200, Thomas Backlund a écrit : Now, here comes the question about backports once again. We are now 6+ months into Mageia 1, and we are nowhere closer to opening backports that we were

Re: [Mageia-dev] How broken are RPM dependencies allowed to be?

2011-12-13 Thread Buchan Milne
On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 04:04:39 Liam R E Quin wrote: On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 16:31 -0800, Dan Fandrich wrote: I raised a bug ticket on drakxtools (#3731) because the RPM in Cauldron installs without complaints in Mageia 1 but won't work there because it requires a newer version of

Re: [Mageia-dev] qemu new upstream release (1.0-rc1) and should we move from qemu-kvm to qemu?

2011-11-14 Thread Buchan Milne
On Saturday, 12 November 2011 22:11:31 Kamil Rytarowski wrote: On 12.11.2011 20:20, Michael Scherer wrote: Le samedi 12 novembre 2011 à 16:44 +0100, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : There is also one important patch missed in Mageia -

Re: [Mageia-dev] qemu new upstream release (1.0-rc1) and should we move from qemu-kvm to qemu?

2011-11-14 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sunday, 13 November 2011 23:32:45 Kamil Rytarowski wrote: On 13.11.2011 10:58, Michael Scherer wrote: Le samedi 12 novembre 2011 à 21:11 +0100, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : On 12.11.2011 20:20, Michael Scherer wrote: Le samedi 12 novembre 2011 à 16:44 +0100, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :

Re: [Mageia-dev] About syslinux libpng

2011-10-04 Thread Buchan Milne
On Monday, 3 October 2011 15:58:36 Michael Scherer wrote: Except if I start to replace this by here is a nice syslinux boot image with a duck. And then my code is run by syslinux, just because someone took my png picture. And the same person could say, Here is my cool plymouth splash screen,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Copying dependencies to Updates (Testing), or changing mgaapplet to use urpmi --auto-update instead of urpmi --update.

2011-09-01 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 1 September 2011 12:12:46 Samuel Verschelde wrote: Le jeudi 25 août 2011 11:03:42, David W. Hodgins a écrit : If the Mandriva way is kept, we must ensure all needed dependencies are available in Updates (Testing too). I note that the exception given for Mageia 1 to have packages

Re: [Mageia-dev] [135989]

2011-09-01 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:46:17 Zé wrote: 2011/8/31 Balcaen John mik...@mageia.org: The main point here was how your attitude changed from a certain day. You started rising tone everytime i didnt agree, like you owned kde But, he is the maintainer: $ mgarepo maintdb get

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.

2011-08-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Tuesday, 23 August 2011 17:15:44 Michael Scherer wrote: Le mardi 23 août 2011 à 15:28 +0200, Thierry Vignaud a écrit : What's more gaining 20s on a server when the IBM uefi/firmware take *minutes* to setup the machine is worthless. On the server side, we still manage RHEL networking

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.

2011-08-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:30:45 Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 23/08/11 12:16 did gyre and gimble: On 23/08/2011 12:26, Colin Guthrie wrote: How would removing initscripts support helps enhancing networkmanager integration ? Because the current

Re: [Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal

2011-08-10 Thread Buchan Milne
On Friday, 5 August 2011 19:05:43 Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: That's what i was asking to create a new subpckage samba-helper-squid to stor ntlm_auth since ntlm_auth is not linked with other lib it can stand by itself in a independend subpackage to make a suggest from squid. ?? For a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Re : Re: new samba-squid subpackage proporsal

2011-08-10 Thread Buchan Milne
On Saturday, 6 August 2011 20:20:39 andre999 wrote: Samuel Verschelde a écrit : Le vendredi 5 août 2011 21:19:06, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz a écrit : Why condicional suggest? All what i'm asking is ti do that subpackage and then i place Suggests: samba-squid-helper At squid's spec I

Re: [Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal

2011-08-05 Thread Buchan Milne
On Tuesday, 2 August 2011 22:23:24 Maarten Vanraes wrote: Op dinsdag 02 augustus 2011 17:04:41 schreef Buchan Milne: Samba-common is the right package for this. I see no need to have a squid- specific subpackage (and then samba-apache, samba-freeradius, with the same content, or all virtual

Re: [Mageia-dev] RM replacement

2011-08-05 Thread Buchan Milne
On Friday, 5 August 2011 12:14:14 Colin Guthrie wrote: Otherwise users may be duped into a false sense of security by installing the secure deletes package and then delete files thorough Nautilus or Konq under the false impression they are securely deleted. Or from another Mageia host with a

Re: [Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal

2011-08-02 Thread Buchan Milne
On Monday, 1 August 2011 22:34:55 Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: Le Lundi 01 Août 2011 12:36:47 Buchan Milne a écrit : On Friday, 29 July 2011 20:52:14 Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: Helow Specially tu buchan, in my experince, when trying to making work a Squid with an ugly

Re: [Mageia-dev] Drakxnet, drakroam and Draknetcenter : let's fix it or throw it.

2011-08-02 Thread Buchan Milne
On Monday, 1 August 2011 20:21:21 Maarten Vanraes wrote: Op maandag 01 augustus 2011 11:42:26 schreef Thomas Lottmann: Hello, I should have written this mail much sooner, but finally, I am totally, completely and starting to be hatefully fed up of these tools. The Mandriva/Mageia

Re: [Mageia-dev] Drakxnet, drakroam and Draknetcenter : let's fix it or throw it.

2011-08-02 Thread Buchan Milne
On Tuesday, 2 August 2011 10:56:55 Thomas Lottmann wrote: You are right in several points, but... :-) Le 01/08/2011 15:59, Thierry Vignaud a écrit : On 1 August 2011 15:29, Thomas Lottmannskipercoo...@gmail.com wrote: The other main issue I see si that Drakxnet is coded in Perl and uses a

Re: [Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal

2011-08-01 Thread Buchan Milne
On Friday, 29 July 2011 20:52:14 Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: Helow Specially tu buchan, in my experince, when trying to making work a Squid with an ugly wik2k8 we realize that the squid helper is not working. I had no problems with this in providing one of the two sets of squid proxy

Re: [Mageia-dev] openldap-server needs rebuild agains new db51

2011-07-07 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 7 July 2011 06:38:44 Thomas Spuhler wrote: openldap-server needs rebuild against new db51 otherwise a lot of packages want to be uninstalled Please wait for 2.4.26 which is in progress (well, submitted to Mandriva cooker, building on my internal build system for RH-based systems,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy proposal

2011-06-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Friday, 24 June 2011 08:30:15 Maarten Vanraes wrote: Op vrijdag 24 juni 2011 02:10:14 schreef Michael Scherer: [...] Another rule that we could add is that cauldron should always be newer than backports, in order to ensure upgradability. The same goes for n-2 and n-1 release. While

Re: [Mageia-dev] why not disable bytecode interpreter in freetype2 ?

2011-05-13 Thread Buchan Milne
On Friday, 13 May 2011 11:12:41 Zé wrote: 2011/5/13 Zé mmode...@gmail.com: 2011/5/13 Dimitrios Glentadakis dgl...@gmail.com: Στις Παρασκευή 13 Μάιος 2011 00:39:55 Zé γράψατε: 2011/5/12 Dick Gevers dvgev...@xs4all.nl: On Thu, 12 May 2011 13:20:39 +0200, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote about

[Mageia-dev] Samba update to 3.5.8

2011-05-13 Thread Buchan Milne
I have finally got a bit of time to get busy with Mageia packaging (my first VM was on virtio disk on Mandriva 2010.1/kvm, and there seem to be some corruption problems, I finally got time to reinstall it yesterday). Since I have just finished samba/samba4 updates in Cooker, I would like to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Samba update to 3.5.8

2011-05-13 Thread Buchan Milne
On Friday, 13 May 2011 12:28:45 Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Buchan Milne at 13/05/11 11:16 did gyre and gimble: I have finally got a bit of time to get busy with Mageia packaging (my first VM was on virtio disk on Mandriva 2010.1/kvm, and there seem to be some corruption

Re: [Mageia-dev] why not disable bytecode interpreter in freetype2 ?

2011-05-13 Thread Buchan Milne
On Friday, 13 May 2011 17:28:24 Zé wrote: 2011/5/13 Buchan Milne bgmi...@staff.telkomsa.net: On Friday, 13 May 2011 11:12:41 Zé wrote: 2011/5/13 Zé mmode...@gmail.com: 2011/5/13 Dimitrios Glentadakis dgl...@gmail.com: Στις Παρασκευή 13 Μάιος 2011 00:39:55 Zé γράψατε: 2011/5/12 Dick

Re: [Mageia-dev] 3G usb pen

2011-05-10 Thread Buchan Milne
On Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:50:42 Stefano Negro wrote: 2011/5/9 Stefano Negro stbl...@gmail.com The USB pen is recognized if I mount the /dev/sr0 as usb disk and I do an eject. You should get the same effect by running 'eject /dev/sr0' without having to mount the device first. At this

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-25 Thread Buchan Milne
- andre999 and...@laposte.net wrote: Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : 2011/3/24 Olivier Blinmag...@blino.org: Thorsten van Liltv...@gmx.de writes: Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-25 Thread Buchan Milne
- Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote: Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 11:18:03 schreef Olivier Blin: Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com writes: It can't be free and have non-free firmware... previously the firmware only were on the Live CD's. I am not sure anything has

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-25 Thread Buchan Milne
- Tux99 tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: Quote: andr55 wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 01:29 My though was essentially that firmware is so close to hardware that its actual free/non-free status shouldn't apply - we should treat it like (almost) part of the hardware. I agree with

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 24 March 2011 12:48:22 Romain d'Alverny wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:39, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not care about

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 24 March 2011 13:03:08 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2011/3/24 Romain d'Alverny rdalve...@gmail.com: Well, that's precisely debatable (and why I'll try to setup a relevant survey through marcom). The ISO can be seen as a static commodity storage; that it holds core and nonfree makes

Re: [Mageia-dev] Contributors using real name/working email? or not? or maybe?

2011-03-04 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 3 March 2011 22:43:25 Maarten Vanraes wrote: I think we need to have a name and email address. however, some options: A. possibly cn could be editable in identity Please stop referring to possibilities that exist as if they don't ... it is depressing that people keep

Re: [Mageia-dev] RPM5 AND MAGEIA

2011-03-03 Thread Buchan Milne
- devzero2000 devzero2...@rpm5.org wrote: Apart from the rest - of which i will ask for sponsorship when it will be - I wanted to know if there are plans to move to rpm5 by Mageia, such as Mandriva has been doing lately. Rpm5 already has a builtbot with Magela and rpm5. I can, if you

Re: [Mageia-dev] Contributors using real name/working email? or not? or maybe?

2011-03-03 Thread Buchan Milne
- Romain d'Alverny rdalve...@gmail.com wrote: * packagers/contributors [sh|w]ould use publish their real name (as registered in identity), I would just like to note that, during registration on identity, we only prompt for a 'First name' and 'Surname', however we populate the LDAP

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

2011-02-22 Thread Buchan Milne
- Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: 2011/2/21 Buchan Milne bgmi...@staff.telkomsa.net: On Monday, 21 February 2011 11:49:27 Thomas Lottmann wrote: I am still not convinced of how easy this can be. For having attempted to manage (and learn) how to manage LVM partitons

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

2011-02-22 Thread Buchan Milne
- Thorsten van Lil tv...@gmx.de wrote: Am 22.02.2011 09:07, schrieb Buchan Milne: The user will still *always* be able to decide what he wants. The question is, what to do for users who don't know what to decide. IMHO, for a first time user, it is *much* better to give them a Use

Re: [Mageia-dev] Test upgrade of server, second try

2011-02-22 Thread Buchan Milne
On Tuesday, 22 February 2011 18:54:06 Michael Scherer wrote: And for the missing rpms that are important : Maybe it is time to try and assign maintainers? tcpdump For the following, I don't currently have a mageia installation to package on. I *may* be able to try and solve this this week

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-22 Thread Buchan Milne
On Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:09:17 andre999 wrote: Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Op vrijdag 18 februari 2011 14:42:02 schreef Michael Scherer: Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 12:47 +, James Kerr a écrit : If there are two packages, one in core and another in tainted, then doesn't urpmi

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

2011-02-21 Thread Buchan Milne
On Monday, 21 February 2011 18:56:22 Jeff Robins wrote: Michael Scherer wrote: For a linux system, a lvm logical volume is just another disk. I've had issues in the past because Linux considered LVM just one logical disk and I think the average user would eventually have the same problem

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

2011-02-21 Thread Buchan Milne
On Monday, 21 February 2011 14:19:23 Michael Scherer wrote: Le lundi 21 février 2011 à 10:56 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : Another part of the discussion may be the fact that a large number of users are running dual (or multiple) boot systems, keeping the pre-installed Windows and

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

2011-02-21 Thread Buchan Milne
On Monday, 21 February 2011 11:49:27 Thomas Lottmann wrote: I am still not convinced of how easy this can be. For having attempted to manage (and learn) how to manage LVM partitons with CentOS, it is quite complicated. So it certainly has many advantages, but I'm awaiting an intuitive disk

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

2011-02-20 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sunday, 20 February 2011 17:51:27 Thierry Vignaud wrote: Hi What do you think about switching from defaulting to installing on raw partitions to lvm installing on LVs like fedora does ? It does help brings more flexibility. Sure, but it can still introduce boot problems after kernel