Re: [Mageia-dev] A question about BuildRequires and other RPM questions.

2013-03-08 Thread Claire Robinson
On 08/03/13 11:18, Robert Wood wrote: Even as a programmer/electronics engineer (admittedly down at an embedded level most of the time) some of this is going so far over my head, it's a vapour trail in the sky. There are far too many acronyms of stuff I've not come across, for me to even

[Mageia-dev] Please help testing nvidia on Mageia 2 with older cards

2013-03-08 Thread Claire Robinson
Hi If you have any of the older nvidia cards listed here: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7902#c31 Could you please help by testing an update candidate for ldetect-lst and the two older drivers. Update ldetect-lst can be found in Core Updates Testing and the nvidia drivers are both in

Re: [Mageia-dev] Gnome mess in Mageia SVN...

2013-02-25 Thread Claire Robinson
On 25/02/13 03:44, Sebastian wrote: On 25/02/13 00:57, Christiaan Welvaart wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2013, Sebastian wrote: Not to mention there is serious doubts the the 3.8.0 release will be good enough to work properly for all endusers when the fallback is dropped, so it would need atleast a

Re: [Mageia-dev] the link to updates to test disappeared from http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/

2013-02-23 Thread Claire Robinson
On 23/02/13 13:08, PhilippeDidier wrote: nicolas vigier a écrit : Ok, so I removed the bugzilla query that was used to get the number of updates to validate. Instead it will now display Some updates to validate (it should also make the page a little faster). Nice ! it works... Thanks to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fail2Ban vs Blockhosts vs DenyHosts vs iptable throttle for SSH

2013-02-19 Thread Claire Robinson
On 19/02/13 12:51, fi...@linuxbsdos.com wrote: On 2013-02-19 11:45, Robert Fox wrote: On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 12:35 +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 19/02/2013 12:20, fi...@linuxbsdos.com a écrit : If that's how you feel about having a program like DenyHosts running by default, do you

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bugzilla and bug assignment

2013-02-11 Thread Claire Robinson
On 11/02/13 18:08, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: There is one aspect of the bugzilla that I can't figure out how to do. Possibly because I don't understand the system. When I want to assign a bug, how am I supposed to figure out what email to use? Lets say I want to assing a bug to «colin», (his

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push: perl-URPM-4.26 urpmi-7.19

2013-02-09 Thread Claire Robinson
On 09/02/13 21:35, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Hi Please let in perl-URPM-4.26 urpmi-7.19 I got rid of playing with rpm -Uvh --oldpackage foobar*rpm libfoobarX*rpm, so I added basic support for --downgrade (mga#6655). What's supported is eg: - enabling updates_testing - installing foobar

Re: [Mageia-dev] Segfault with new LibreOffice packages

2013-01-31 Thread Claire Robinson
On 31/01/13 16:47, zezinho wrote: Em 31-01-2013 12:39, Robert Fox escreveu: kernel: soffice.bin[4875]: segfault at 105cc098f ip 7f9d7d720907 sp 7fff9135ccd0 error 4 in libicule.so.50.1.2[7f9d7d70e000+3e000] Before I raise a bug, I want to check if I am the only one here . . . Since

Re: [Mageia-dev] libmtp 1.1.3 or greater for kio-mtp (on Mageia 2)

2013-01-22 Thread Claire Robinson
On 22/01/13 16:18, Robert Wood wrote: ... As an aside, I find it contradictory that we don't have an LTS so have to completely reinstall every eighteen months, yet we are often quite behind on latest releases/bleeding edge stuff like this. Thanks. :~) Releases are every 9 months and

Re: [Mageia-dev] What's the point of the latest nvidia update?

2013-01-19 Thread Claire Robinson
On 19/01/13 17:52, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 9:44 AM, AL13N al...@rmail.be wrote: if for mga2 you want a newer driver you should ask for a backport request, ie: to have 310 on mga2 as well. plz file such requests at https://bugs.mageia.org/ This means that

Re: [Mageia-dev] Feedback on Mageia 3 beta1

2013-01-18 Thread Claire Robinson
On 18/01/13 02:02, Davy Defaud wrote: Le 17/01/2013 14:27, Claire Robinson a écrit : On 16/01/13 23:10, Davy Defaud wrote: Dear Mageia packagers, Now that it's time for polishing, I'd like to give a feedback on my own experience with mga3 beta1. I've installed a mga3 beta1 x86_64 (DVD

Re: [Mageia-dev] Feedback on Mageia 3 beta1

2013-01-17 Thread Claire Robinson
On 16/01/13 23:10, Davy Defaud wrote: Dear Mageia packagers, Now that it's time for polishing, I'd like to give a feedback on my own experience with mga3 beta1. I've installed a mga3 beta1 x86_64 (DVD GNOME install) as soon as it has been released on a brand new SSD Hi Davy Can I tempt

Re: [Mageia-dev] Actively exploited Java 7 zero day

2013-01-11 Thread Claire Robinson
On 11/01/13 18:52, David Walser wrote: If you're using Cauldron as a workstation and have the Java plugin (icedtea-web or Sun Java) enabled in your browser, be aware there's a zero-day vulnerability being actively exploited, and you should disable the plugin for general usage until we have

Re: [Mageia-dev] Kernel Panic after latest Mageia-3-Alpha2 s/w update c

2013-01-08 Thread Claire Robinson
On 08/01/13 16:53, Maurice Batey wrote: On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:35:30 +, I wrote: Anyone know of a fix for the above, The Mageia-3-Alpha2 menu.lst is: timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu default 3 title Mageia-3-Alpha2 kernel

Re: [Mageia-dev] Kernel Panic after latest Mageia-3-Alpha2 s/w update c

2013-01-08 Thread Claire Robinson
On 08/01/13 17:45, Liam R E Quin wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 17:41 +, Claire Robinson wrote: It's actually Cauldron you're running Maurice. This issue is known, see the ML thread 'Boot borked cause procfs :((' from earlier today. It's also in the 3.0 beta DVD, as I reported yesterday

Re: [Mageia-dev] Regression testing for generated RPM

2013-01-04 Thread Claire Robinson
On 04/01/13 09:15, Jochen Breuer wrote: 2013/1/4 Guillaume Rousse guillomovi...@gmail.com We already run existing tests suite during package build... Running them again on a different host would just change the execution environment to use runtime dependencies instead of build time

Re: [Mageia-dev] What is happening with WiFi on Mageia-3?

2012-12-02 Thread Claire Robinson
On 02/12/12 16:39, Maurice Batey wrote: I'm using Mageia-2 on my netbook for normal work, at the same checking out Mageia-3-Alpha2 (fully updated). WiFi adaptor is Broadcom BCM43225. On Mageia-2 the Wifi worked fine - at first - but after the recent s/w update it started all over again

Re: [Mageia-dev] Not very important require about mail checker.

2012-11-21 Thread Claire Robinson
On 21/11/12 19:02, Anne Wilson wrote: On 21/11/2012 10:29, André Salaün wrote: Hello ! Is it possible to reintroduce gnubiff in Mageia 3. All mail checkers (in mga 2) depend on a wm. In kde they don't check the mail spooler, only kmail, gmail, thunderbird etc. Gnubiff is more versatile.

Re: [Mageia-dev] HPLIP - Request for testing Mga1 2

2012-11-14 Thread Claire Robinson
Thanks for the tests and the offers of tests. If it's OK, I'll ask again when HPLIP is next updated. An errant keyword led us to think this was for Mageia 1 as well, but it turns out it was just for Mageia 2. It has now been validated and will soon be pushed to updates. Thanks Claire

[Mageia-dev] HPLIP - Request for testing Mga1 2

2012-11-13 Thread Claire Robinson
Hi all QA team don't have any HP printers between us. We'd like to be able to validate an update for hplip which is in core/updates_testing for both mga1 and mga2. Ideally we still need tests on mga2 i586 and mga1 i586 x86_64 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5395 Please help with

Re: [Mageia-dev] HPLIP - Request for testing Mga1 2

2012-11-13 Thread Claire Robinson
On 13/11/12 20:15, Yann Ciret wrote: Le 13/11/2012 18:48, Claire Robinson a écrit : Hi all QA team don't have any HP printers between us. We'd like to be able to validate an update for hplip which is in core/updates_testing for both mga1 and mga2. Ideally we still need tests on mga2 i586

Re: [Mageia-dev] HPLIP - Request for testing Mga1 2

2012-11-13 Thread Claire Robinson
On 13/11/12 20:17, Donald Stewart wrote: On 13 November 2012 20:15, Yann Ciret mag...@zamiz.net wrote: Le 13/11/2012 18:48, Claire Robinson a écrit : Hi all QA team don't have any HP printers between us. We'd like to be able to validate an update for hplip which is in core/updates_testing

Re: [Mageia-dev] 3rd draft of Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center about FAAC

2012-11-08 Thread Claire Robinson
On 08/11/12 15:28, Shlomi Fish wrote: Here is the third draft - I have integrated Liam's suggestions and gave more context for our dilemma. Regards, Shlomi Fish Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing you this letter on behalf of Mageia ( https://www.mageia.org/en/ ), which is a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Distrib-coffee big failure of the century

2012-10-30 Thread Claire Robinson
On 30/10/12 20:16, Olivier Thauvin wrote: Yesterday, the two power supplies of the distrib-coffee's disk array failed at the same time. This mean we lost access to our 10TB of data including mirrors. Currently distrib-coffee is syncing again data from mirrors and restoring backup (for our

Re: [Mageia-dev] Support of grub2 in the installer/drakboot

2012-10-08 Thread Claire Robinson
On 08/10/12 16:20, Manuel Hiebel wrote: Le 08/10/2012 15:27, Nicolas Lécureuil a écrit : Hi, is there any plans to add grub2 support ? is there someone already working on it ? regards, Nicolas. PoK started something in Mandriva with the classical installer, maybe Rosa too. It's an

Re: [Mageia-dev] Adding a new font to the default install

2012-10-08 Thread Claire Robinson
On 08/10/12 21:21, Donald Stewart wrote: Hello everyone, I saw this article today and I think that it would be great to add this to the default fonts that we have available as it would allow greater ease of access to people with dyslexia. https://github.com/antijingoist/open-dyslexic

Re: [Mageia-dev] Final set of isos for Mageia 3

2012-10-03 Thread Claire Robinson
On 03/10/12 08:00, zezinho wrote: Em 02-10-2012 17:58, Anne Nicolas escreveu: Here is the list (Thanks MrsB for doing it first :) ): Thank you both for this list. I feel it comes with almost every ideas that came along. Let's see if Mageia 3 will rock in his medias. I had nothing to do

Re: [Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

2012-10-03 Thread Claire Robinson
On 03/10/12 15:20, Sander Lepik wrote: 03.10.2012 17:07, Guillaume Rousse kirjutas: Which means using 'nonfree' repository instead of 'tainted'... OK, let's vote here: - how many people for using 'tainted' ? - how many people for using 'non-free' ? Any solution involving technical changes

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bye packaging, hello dev

2012-09-27 Thread Claire Robinson
On 27/09/12 16:37, Sandro CAZZANIGA wrote: Hi all, As some of you can see, I'm not interested in packaging anymore. In fact, I'm more interested in developpment, and sysadm. So, my best wishe is to stay in mageia, but only for code developpment (msec for example, which I ask to import in

Re: [Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-13 Thread Claire Robinson
On 12/09/12 22:53, JA Magallón wrote: On 09/12/2012 10:05 PM, Damian Ivanov wrote: My name isDamian Ivanov. Xiao-Long Chen and me are the maintainers of unity desktop environment for openSUSE and Fedora, Xiao-Long additionally maintains also unity on Arch Linux. We use for building the

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release totem-3.5.90-2.mga3

2012-09-05 Thread Claire Robinson
On 05/09/12 12:08, JA Magallón wrote: On 09/05/2012 10:29 AM, blino wrote: Name : totem Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 3.5.90 Vendor: Mageia.Org Release : 2.mga3 Build Date: Wed Sep 5 10:25:26 2012 I get this error message under Firefox: Couldn't load the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Last signs of life from maintainers in Bugzilla

2012-07-28 Thread Claire Robinson
On 28/07/12 12:45, Florian Hubold wrote: Am 08.06.2012 12:53, schrieb Marja van Waes: On 08-06-12 11:29, Marja van Waes wrote: On 07-06-12 09:41, Marja van Waes wrote: Hi everyone, AFAIK, there isn't an easy way to find the last sign of life of a maintainer in our Bugzilla, I use the

Re: [Mageia-dev] What to use instead of /dev/usb/lp*

2012-07-25 Thread Claire Robinson
On 25/07/12 09:10, Jeff Robins wrote: Hello, My wife is trying to use a Xyron Wishblade in Linux with the graphtecprint program (http://vidar.botfu.org/graphtecprint). It looks like the program accesses /dev/usb/lp* directly, which no longer exists. Is there a different device that it

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

2012-07-13 Thread Claire Robinson
Regards, Buchan Buchan please refer here: https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-July/017245.html Thankyou.

[Mageia-dev] Updates waiting to be pushed

2012-07-08 Thread Claire Robinson
Hello all There are currently a backlog of 30 updates which have been validated and are waiting to be pushed. Are any sysadmins on the list? Could somebody push these please. Thanks Claire

Re: [Mageia-dev] Updates waiting to be pushed

2012-07-08 Thread Claire Robinson
On 08/07/12 19:14, Pascal Terjan wrote: On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Claire Robinsonm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all There are currently a backlog of 30 updates which have been validated and are waiting to be pushed. Are any sysadmins on the list? Could somebody push these please. It

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

2012-07-06 Thread Claire Robinson
On 06/07/12 07:56, Oliver Burger wrote: Am 06.07.2012 08:18, schrieb AL13N: Op donderdag 5 juli 2012 23:52:39 schreef Claire Robinson: With respect Nicolas, you're not on the receiving end. [...] allthough i see badly worded(possibly to look offensive) sentences, i don't think

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

2012-07-06 Thread Claire Robinson
On 06/07/12 12:57, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 06/07/2012 13:19, AL13N a écrit : On 06/07/12 07:56, Oliver Burger wrote: [...] This has nothing to do with being rude. IIUC, a small bit of it is related in 2 instances (from my pov): - QA team being ignored in their question - packager being

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

2012-07-05 Thread Claire Robinson
I spent some time today to help the QA team to manage those pending security updates. And for the second time in a week, I've been facing rather unpleasant attitude from someone else from the same team: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5939 I wonder how we're supposed to work together

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

2012-07-05 Thread Claire Robinson
On 05/07/12 23:34, nicolas vigier wrote: On Thu, 05 Jul 2012, Claire Robinson wrote: These recent attacks are causing even more work for us, which again helps nobody, and diverts our attention away from where it is really needed. Also I would point out that having to validate the same package

Re: [Mageia-dev] Meeting tonight

2012-07-04 Thread Claire Robinson
On 04/07/12 18:47, AL13N wrote: Op woensdag 4 juli 2012 15:44:51 schreef nicolas vigier: Hello, A meeting is planned tonight on #mageia-dev at 19 UTC. Topics for the meeting : - Mageia 3 Features review - Stable updates and regression testing policy (discussion with QA team) - Update on ARM

Re: [Mageia-dev] Packagers meeting

2012-06-27 Thread Claire Robinson
On 27/06/12 12:13, AL13N wrote: 2012/6/27 Sander Lepiksander.le...@eesti.ee: I still don't understand where's the big problem if we enable release media for updates. It's not updated, so it shouldn't slow down updating too much. Hardware that can run DEs today should have no problems with

Re: [Mageia-dev] bug 2317 revisited: --update option should behave like --search-media

2012-06-22 Thread Claire Robinson
On 21/06/12 22:01, AL13N wrote: Op donderdag 21 juni 2012 22:21:52 schreef Sander Lepik: On Jun 21, 2012 9:10 PM, AL13Nal...@rmail.be so, there's 2 options: - testing i586 with backports enabled - testing x86_64 without backports enabled this is still 2 tests, and this is sufficient. Are

Re: [Mageia-dev] bug 2317 revisited: --update option should behave like --search-media

2012-06-22 Thread Claire Robinson
On 22/06/12 11:25, Thomas Backlund wrote: AL13N skrev 21.6.2012 20:39: Op donderdag 21 juni 2012 17:36:58 schreef Thierry Vignaud: End users do not know about urpmi. They knows about mgaupdate which shows them updates and about rpmdrake which shows everything. Thy _ONLY_ way for them to get

Re: [Mageia-dev] bug 2317 revisited: --update option should behave like --search-media

2012-06-22 Thread Claire Robinson
On 22/06/12 17:00, AL13N wrote: Op vrijdag 22 juni 2012 14:46:17 schreef Sander Lepik: 22.06.2012 13:53, AL13N kirjutas I do agree with you here, except that i'm trying to prevent this from happening, because it's not something that can be easily fixed. 1. package A is backported into X 1b.

Re: [Mageia-dev] bug 2317 revisited: --update option should behave like --search-media

2012-06-21 Thread Claire Robinson
since QA is waiting for a fix for this for a long time (pre-mga1), we should get this fixed asap. PS: since we're enabling backports, we should make sure that the update validation process would have one of both required tests for validation with backports enabled and the other disabled. We

Re: [Mageia-dev] packaging amrwb ?

2012-06-20 Thread Claire Robinson
On 20/06/12 13:05, Oliver Burger wrote: Am 20.06.2012 13:45, schrieb Simple w: Appears to be different from faac case, because this one doesnt have a GPL license, so it could be in non-free repository. The issue with faac is not, that it's partly GPL, the problem is, it's partly nonfree.

Re: [Mageia-dev] packaging amrwb ?

2012-06-20 Thread Claire Robinson
So you are saying that someone who wants to have free and nonfree software in separate repositories is an open source purist and a minority, but you don't want to add fuel to the fire ? Nope, I was just interested as to the reason. You say purist like it's a bad thing.. :P

Re: [Mageia-dev] QA process for GNOME 3.4.2 for Mageia 2

2012-06-16 Thread Claire Robinson
On 16/06/12 12:09, Balcaen John wrote: Le mardi 12 juin 2012 13:01:28 Olav Vitters a écrit : For Mageia 2, I'd like to: - get my act together and fix a bunch of bugs (a lot of wrong suggests/requires, resulting in bugscrashers) - provide GNOME 3.4.2 as update But this concerns loads and

Re: [Mageia-dev] Skype 4.0 for Linux - Package request

2012-06-15 Thread Claire Robinson
On 15/06/12 18:37, Angelo Naselli wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, it's only the tag in name (mga3) that changes. Nothing else. In this case yes, but other folks who don't know the package might not know that and, buoyed by the success of installing this package may

[Mageia-dev] QA bugs for MGA1 and MGA2

2012-06-13 Thread Claire Robinson
Morning Dev This is just a follow up email after the packagers meeting on behalf of QA. * At packagers request we have recently been trialling the use of one bug report where updates cover both releases. So mga1 and mga2 on the same bug. So far it has been working quite well. Complex ones

Re: [Mageia-dev] QA process for GNOME 3.4.2 for Mageia 2

2012-06-12 Thread Claire Robinson
On 12/06/12 12:19, andre999 wrote: Olav Vitters a écrit : For Mageia 2, I'd like to: - get my act together and fix a bunch of bugs (a lot of wrong suggests/requires, resulting in bugscrashers) - provide GNOME 3.4.2 as update But this concerns loads and loads of packages. How to best proceed?

[Mageia-dev] MGA2 Testing Request: Microcode

2012-06-11 Thread Claire Robinson
Hi guys We need people with an AMD K10 CPU and mga2 to please test bug 6175. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6175 'dmesg | grep microcode' should tell you if you are affected. QA can show the fix has been applied but not that it actually works, without having the right hardware. We'd

Re: [Mageia-dev] MGA2 Testing Request: Microcode

2012-06-11 Thread Claire Robinson
On 11/06/12 10:52, AL13N wrote: Hi guys We need people with an AMD K10 CPU and mga2 to please test bug 6175. is this Phenom machines? what kind of CPU's are in the K10 category? I've no idea. Wikipedia says yes though.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_10h Claire

Re: [Mageia-dev] MGA2 Testing Request: Microcode

2012-06-11 Thread Claire Robinson
On 11/06/12 10:59, zezinho wrote: Em 11-06-2012 11:52, AL13N escreveu: Hi guys We need people with an AMD K10 CPU and mga2 to please test bug 6175. is this Phenom machines? what kind of CPU's are in the K10 category? Yes Phenom are K10, as recent Mobile Athlons. The only question is : does

Re: [Mageia-dev] #2317: --update option should behave like --search-media list of the update media

2012-06-11 Thread Claire Robinson
On 07/06/12 15:13, nicolas vigier wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012, Anne Nicolas wrote: Hi there This bug has been raised during last packagers meeting. This has been a big discussion since ages now. And dealing specifically with Mageia, it's causing lots of troubles also in QA team. After

Re: [Mageia-dev] openssl regression

2012-06-08 Thread Claire Robinson
On 08/06/12 13:21, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi, The new openssl causes Handshake timeouts for me on some connections. e.g. in xchat connecting to an ircd-hybrid SSL server. Can't find any specific reference, but reverting to the mga2 version solves the problems. Cheers Col You had me worried

Re: [Mageia-dev] #2317: --update option should behave like --search-media list of the update media

2012-06-08 Thread Claire Robinson
On 07/06/12 15:13, nicolas vigier wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012, Anne Nicolas wrote: Hi there This bug has been raised during last packagers meeting. This has been a big discussion since ages now. And dealing specifically with Mageia, it's causing lots of troubles also in QA team. After

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bugzilla mass ping

2012-05-30 Thread Claire Robinson
On 30/05/12 06:08, Sander Lepik wrote: 30.05.2012 05:14, blind Pete kirjutas: Would it be possible to have a bug report refer to multiple versions and simultaneously have X marked as OLD, Y marked as FIXED, and Z marked as BLOCKING? With new bugzilla we should be able to choose multiple

Re: [Mageia-dev] Suggestion of roadmap for kde on mageia once cauldron is reopened

2012-05-26 Thread Claire Robinson
On 26/05/12 09:58, Angelo Naselli wrote: And i've just realised i missed all my old calendar entries :( A sad kmail user, You could try Thunderbird with lightning installed Angelo, it is a calendar addon for thunderbird and should be in our repo's. Claire

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bugzilla mass ping

2012-05-26 Thread Claire Robinson
On 26/05/12 11:20, Marja van Waes wrote: Hi everyone, We have very many Cauldron bugs that aren't listed as package requests.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push: xawtv

2012-05-04 Thread Claire Robinson
On 04/05/12 12:01, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all, the new release of xawtv fixes this bug - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5463 . Please push. Regards, Shlomi Fish (who is going to have his Birthday tomorrow (5 May) ). Happy birthday!

Re: [Mageia-dev] Please welcome a new packager : remmy

2012-04-19 Thread Claire Robinson
On 19/04/12 18:24, Samuel Verschelde wrote: Remmy has completed his packager mentorship program, and was given submit rights so now he can break things without being under my responsibility \o/. Congratulations, and continue the good work ! Samuel Well done Remmy!

Re: [Mageia-dev] testing

2012-04-18 Thread Claire Robinson
On 18/04/12 05:03, simple w8 wrote: Just a testing email. it worked :)

Re: [Mageia-dev] texlive missing files/apps in Mageia

2012-03-21 Thread Claire Robinson
On 21/03/12 15:25, simple w8 wrote: 2012/3/21 Oliver Burgeroliver@googlemail.com: Am 21.03.2012 14:33, schrieb simple w8: Hi, Today i have tried to package an updated wpa_supplicant (from git) and was not possible due to missing texlive features. [...] I can't find the format file

Re: [Mageia-dev] autoselecting a driver for some hardware

2012-03-19 Thread Claire Robinson
On 19/03/12 09:14, zezinho wrote: hi, can anyone hint me where to look into to link some hardware pci id with some driver? I am thinking on Broadcom hardware that is unlucky enough to have 3 drivers which only works with some hardware : - b43 (open source with unredistributable firmware) -

Re: [Mageia-dev] autoselecting a driver for some hardware

2012-03-19 Thread Claire Robinson
On 19/03/12 11:17, zezinho wrote: Em 19-03-2012 11:06, Claire Robinson escreveu: Some info on arch wiki, does this help? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless#Determine_which_driver_you_need.2Fcan_use Thanks, but no : this is howto load manually the modules, what I seek

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release_blocker bugs

2012-03-07 Thread Claire Robinson
On 07/03/12 20:43, Manuel Hiebel wrote: Hello, How can we (the bugsquad or other people) determinate what can be a release_blocker bug ? in the triage guide we can see: The release_blocker priority is only relevant to bugs filed on Cauldron or beta releases, and should only be used for issues

Re: [Mageia-dev] Default graphics software

2012-02-27 Thread Claire Robinson
On 27/02/12 13:01, Damien Lallement wrote: Le 25/02/2012 15:46, Pascal Terjan a écrit : Currently rpmsrate lists: 5 !CAT_KDE !CAT_GNOME || CAT_XFCE gthumb 4 !CAT_KDE !CAT_GNOME !CAT_XFCE flphoto gtkam flphoto has been dead for years and gtkam is very limited (and not packaged currently), what

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

2012-02-24 Thread Claire Robinson
On 24/02/12 13:02, Thomas Backlund wrote: Colin Guthrie skrev 24.2.2012 14:13: noarch packages should be available in both, but as a quirk urpmi and friends sometimes prefer downloading them via the 32 bit repo. If the repo was removed it should find them via the 64 bit repo happily. Afaik

Re: [Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR = we should totally go for this wrt stable releases

2012-01-13 Thread Claire Robinson
On 13/01/12 09:36, nicolas vigier wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Sander Lepik wrote: 13.01.2012 03:20, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas: see https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozilla-firefox- extended-support-release/ see https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/9/9d/Esr-release-overview.png

Re: [Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR = we should totally go for this wrt stable releases

2012-01-13 Thread Claire Robinson
On 13/01/12 11:37, Michael Scherer wrote: Le vendredi 13 janvier 2012 à 11:21 +, Claire Robinson a écrit : On 13/01/12 09:36, nicolas vigier wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Sander Lepik wrote: 13.01.2012 03:20, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas: see https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10

Re: [Mageia-dev] Orphans - those poor orphans . . .

2012-01-07 Thread Claire Robinson
On 07/01/12 15:30, Sander Lepik wrote: 07.01.2012 17:09, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: 2012/1/7 Sander Lepiksander.le...@eesti.ee: 07.01.2012 16:24, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: Used the full DVD (32-bit) Mageia 2 Alpha 2 - minimal install with X How? AFAIK this is not one of the default

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release sauerbraten-2010_07_28-1.mga2

2011-12-09 Thread Claire Robinson
On 09/12/11 06:44, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: W dniu 09.12.2011 07:41, Kamil Rytarowski pisze: W dniu 05.12.2011 12:53, Thomas Backlund pisze: Our policy is that core _must_ be selfcontained. So what to do with (game) emulators? I just checked that ScummVM is in core and one game is in nonfree.

[Mageia-dev] Syndaemon testing required x86_64 MGA1

2011-12-05 Thread Claire Robinson
Hi Please see bug 1597 ( https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1597 ) Syndaemon, the synaptics touchpad daemon, will suddenly/randomly use 100% CPU when the disable when typing option is set. It requires testing x86_64 in Mageia 1 by reproducing the bug and testing with the update

Re: [Mageia-dev] Enable kernel log timestamps?

2011-12-03 Thread Claire Robinson
On 03/12/11 16:41, Dick Gevers wrote: On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:22:26 +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote about [Mageia-dev] Enable kernel log timestamps?: Hi! I propose to we configure our kernel to emit timestamps in kernel messages. Please! Like (some) tmb kernels did/do. Tks+ =Dick Gevers= This

Re: [Mageia-dev] Drakx-net or NetworkManager for Mageia 2

2011-11-21 Thread Claire Robinson
On 21/11/11 20:15, John Balcaen wrote: 2011/11/21 Frank Griffinf...@roadrunner.com: On 11/21/2011 02:14 PM, Marianne Lombard wrote: What will Mageia team do ? Continue to maintain and enhance drakx-net or follow all others distributions with NetworkManager ? There are a number of serious

Re: [Mageia-dev] (second attempt) suggesting sectool be dropped

2011-11-18 Thread Claire Robinson
On 18/11/11 10:37, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Claire Robinson at 17/11/11 12:49 did gyre and gimble: On 17/11/11 10:26, Michael scherer wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:39:29AM +0100, Florian Hubold wrote: Am 15.11.2011 07:29, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le lundi 14 novembre 2011

Re: [Mageia-dev] (second attempt) suggesting sectool be dropped

2011-11-17 Thread Claire Robinson
exists. That does not reflect well on the distribution, not that QA haven't performed sufficient testing, which we obviously did. Regards Claire Robinson

Re: [Mageia-dev] KDE SC 4.7.3

2011-11-03 Thread Claire Robinson
On 03/11/11 12:46, Thomas Backlund wrote: John Balcaen skrev 3.11.2011 14:40: 2011/11/3 Dark Charlotjcld...@gmail.com: [...] So why not backporting since now and for every kde 4.7.X release to mageia1, it will make a lot of people happy :). *I* won't backport it as said earlier currently, i

Re: [Mageia-dev] Review Of Bugs

2011-10-31 Thread Claire Robinson
On 31/10/11 21:12, Maarten Vanraes wrote: Op maandag 31 oktober 2011 22:06:25 schreef Colin Guthrie: [...] For example things like initscripts, udev, systemd etc. should be maintained by a core team, and IMO, not a single person (tho' if someone steps up and is proven to be reliable then this

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] nspluginwrapper should exclude native x86_64 plugins from wrapping

2011-10-12 Thread Claire Robinson
Can i take that as +1 to exclude flash-player-plugin from wrapping? I don't know the technical ins and outs but when 64 bit flash-player-plugin was updated to the native 64 bit flash it was necessary to first uninstall the 32 bit plugin. As we currently have no obvious way to let people