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

2013-02-28 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 03:25:41PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Build dependencies are usually specified in installation instructions. For humans, of course. You may also try to parse the outpout of ./configure (or equivalent) script. In both case, there is not garanty then every build

Re: [Mageia-dev] About bug 6676

2013-02-21 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:02:13PM +, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote: I would say that packages which autodownload non-free material should be in nonfree (like get-skype). For the same reason that free packages which Require a package in nonfree should be in nonfree. But what happens when free

Re: [Mageia-dev] Cleaning up init

2013-01-31 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:00:36AM +, Colin Guthrie wrote: While I'm pretty sure no such init script exists and would break in other ways, it's still a valid point. I've changed it to {} now. True, but if we haven't told our users what their symbolic links should look like, we can't be

Re: [Mageia-dev] Cleaning up init

2013-01-30 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:19:46AM +, Colin Guthrie wrote: find /etc/rc.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7}.d -type l -exec sh -c 'if [ ! -e {} ]; then rm -f {}; fi' \; This does much the same job, but find is already used in multiple places so probably a better solution even if the command is more

Re: [Mageia-dev] df lying?

2013-01-07 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:46:37PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: So the OP questions remain: 1-how can the free block count be identical before and after adding 37,925,705K bytes in 7 files to that journal-free, 0 reserved for root filesystem? Are you absolutely positive that this is the right

Re: [Mageia-dev] python-curl build fail in cauldron

2012-12-12 Thread Dan Fandrich
can someone have a look at python-curl build fail in cauldron ? Looks like a missing a -lcrypto in the link line, likely due to that being an implied dependency through libcurl. Without looking at the source, it might be as easy to fix as setting env LIBS=-lcrypto on the compile line. Dan

Re: [Mageia-dev] python-curl build fail in cauldron

2012-12-12 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:31:54PM +, Colin Guthrie wrote: Of course if that is the problem, then a proper patch to it's build system (autotools, cmake or whatever is used) and submitting the fix upstream is the correct course of action :) True, but the latest upstream release is 4 years

Re: [Mageia-dev] failure to install a src.rpm in a user build directory

2012-12-06 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:50:05PM +0100, sardine wrote: I've installed cauldron in a vmware vm, and wanting to rebuild a rpm as a user in my /home I've setup the build environment as usual (I've done that a lot of times in the past and even a few weeks ago). For me everything is OK but a

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

2012-07-25 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:26:13AM -0700, Jeff Robins wrote: I'll give that a try. Is there a better/newer way to access the device? I'd like to update and fix the program if possible. Using cups would be the best. If the program is currently opening the lp device directly, then it might be

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

2012-07-25 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 03:27:52PM -0700, Jeff Robins wrote: I'm not sure if that will work. CUPS doesn't have a driver for the device and it's not really a printer. It just uses the USB printer class. It's used to cut shapes into or out of paper. This includes moving the blade up and

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release libsoup-2.39.4.1-1.mga3

2012-07-20 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:36:02PM +0200, Nicolas Lécureuil wrote: in the devel ? i think a libsoup-l10n ( noarch package ) would be a better idea. This has been split into a -common package before, such as libexif12-common. Dan

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release libsoup-2.39.4.1-1.mga3

2012-07-19 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:28:41PM -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:12:34 +0200 Olav Vitters wrote: file /usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/libsoup.mo from install of lib64soup2.4_1-2.39.4.1-1.mga3.x86_64 conflicts with file fr om package

Re: [Mageia-dev] Important and urgent: people with ati cards needed on beta3 pre release qa

2012-04-18 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:33:13AM +0200, Oliver Burger wrote: Am 18.04.2012 09:28, schrieb Jeff Robins: 2) Where can I download the beta pre-release ISO's? Just join us in #mageia-qa on irc, we will tell you, but I don't want to post it on a public list, because the server doesn't have all

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] How to proceed with seamonkey/iceape for security updates and freeze push

2012-03-30 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:13:02PM +0200, nicolas vigier wrote: It seems that if we don't have major changes, there should be no problem to have permission. So I think someone should ask for permission for firefox and thunderbird. Does anyone know where it should be asked ? The page at

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

2012-03-19 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:17:46PM +0100, zezinho wrote: Thanks, but no : this is howto load manually the modules, what I seek for is what file associates the PCI IDs to a driver maybe in /etc/modprobe.conf : Are you looking for /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.pcimap ? Dan

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push mgaonline

2012-03-15 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:25:40PM +0100, n...@gmx.com wrote: * stop using Mandriva URLs and replace them by www.mageia.org (mga#1590) * replace Mandriva strings by Mageia in gnome-mandrakeonline.desktop * replace MIME Type application/x-mdv-exec by application/x-mga-exec Replacing Mandriva -

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push mgaonline

2012-03-15 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:15:34PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: If you don't know what it is used for why are you so opposed? We have our own names and suffixes, so I don't why you are against. For exactly the same reason we dropped X-Mandriva-* in favor of X-Mageia in .desktop files. If

Re: [Mageia-dev] Cannot compile LLVM/Clang under Mageia 1

2012-02-07 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:43:31PM +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 7 February 2012 20:02, Thomas Lottmann skipercoo...@gmail.com wrote: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4179 I do need this compiler and think it can be useful for programmers. I thank you by advance for your help.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Adding a new license to rpmlint

2012-02-07 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:06:00PM -0500, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: I did a clean mga2 alpha3 install, updated it to cauldron, and just installed mgarepo, bm and warsow's spec BR and again it builds fine. arrgghhh I don't know why it fails on the BS !! the only thing I noticed comparing the

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

2012-01-11 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:23:20PM -0500, David Walser wrote: andre999 wrote: However I do agree that we should put encoders that seem to be covered by valid patents in some countries in tainted. If we really want a hard and fast rule, I agree that this makes the most sense. If you

Re: [Mageia-dev] Signature verification of sources

2012-01-10 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:00:35PM +0100, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: I think this is a good initiative. Does other distros do this? Perhaps we can ask other distros to start doing the same, and thus give upstream developers a reason for signing. I believe at least some source-based distros (e.g.

Re: [Mageia-dev] packaging savoir-vivre

2011-12-29 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:25:14AM +0100, Maarten Vanraes wrote: What about svn lock? That would be pretty hard to ignore. true, but what if you are ill, have a heart-attack, or are away for a long time for various reasons? svn unlock --force Dan

Re: [Mageia-dev] packaging savoir-vivre

2011-12-28 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:26:22PM +0100, Maarten Vanraes wrote: imho the best solution is that everyone checks if there's a maintainer for it and asks maintainer first... i mean, it's all nice that it's in the spec file, but i think people who bump, rarely look inside spec file... (not

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-16 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:08:36AM +0100, JA Magallon wrote: If its is (d)ash: CMDLINE=$(cat /proc/cmdline) Or save two fork+execs this way, on dash or bash: read CMDLINE /proc/cmdline case ${CMDLINE} in * nokmsboot *) echo YES ;; esac if if uses bash:

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

2011-12-14 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:04:39PM -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote: It's really hard to test for dependencies like this, as the person building the package will have working versions of everything. It would be tricky, but entirely possible to be tested automatically. Worse, in two years' time,

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

2011-12-14 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:49:15AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: This is unsupported. Maybe you should instead contribute documentation that makes this more explicitly obvious, but it is a well-known rule in Mandriva and Mageia (and usually applies to other distros as well). I can understand

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

2011-12-14 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:31:36PM +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 14 December 2011 10:14, Dan Fandrich d...@coneharvesters.com wrote: I can understand that my particular case is unsupported, but I described a different, supported, scenario that would also fail due to this problem

Re: [Mageia-dev] pixmap

2011-12-14 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:42:54PM +0100, jcc wrote: I have a problem with the icon of the application. First I tried to save the icon image in pixmap directory but no icon appears on the desktop menu bar. What does your .desktop file look like? Dan

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

2011-12-13 Thread Dan Fandrich
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 perl. The perl dependency in the RPM is listed as perl-base when it should really be something like perl-base = 5.14.2 (Mageia