Re: [Mageia-dev] Mailing list migration: this list is closing

2013-04-10 Thread EatDirt
On 08/04/13 00:54, Mageia Sysadmins wrote: When the Mageia project was started, it didn't have any server. Fortunatly people from zarb.org proposed to host the basic project infrastructure (mainly the website, wiki and mailing lists) until the project can have its own servers. Mageia.Org now

[Mageia-dev] freeze push: torque

2013-04-02 Thread eatdirt
Upgrade to 4.1.5.1 which is a bug fix release. ChangeLog (b=bug, c=crash, e=enhancement) 4.1.5 b - For cray: make sure that reservations are released when jobs are requeued. TRQ-1572. b - For cray: support the mppdepth directive. Bugzilla #225. c - If the job is no long valid after

Re: [Mageia-dev] Packages not rebuilt since Mageia 1

2013-03-28 Thread eatdirt
On 28/03/13 13:15, David Walser wrote: eatdirt dirteat@... writes: On 26/03/13 15:24, Pascal Terjan wrote: There are 26 packages. atlas I think, and unless someone complains, this one should be dropped. Atlas is supposed to provice fast routines already provided by blas and lapack

Re: [Mageia-dev] Packages not rebuilt since Mageia 1

2013-03-28 Thread eatdirt
On 28/03/13 23:00, eatdirt wrote: On 28/03/13 13:15, David Walser wrote: eatdirt dirteat@... writes: On 26/03/13 15:24, Pascal Terjan wrote: There are 26 packages. atlas I think, and unless someone complains, this one should be dropped. Atlas is supposed to provice fast routines already

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: python-scipy

2013-03-28 Thread eatdirt
Remove dependency in atlas and replaced by lapack/blas. atlas is one of the 26 not rebuilt since mga1 (checkout the spec to be scared) and, unless objections, we should drop it, at least for this rational reason: http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/atlas_install/node27.html Cheers, Chris.

[Mageia-dev] mageia 3 beta 4 installer infinitely slow?

2013-03-27 Thread Eatdirt
Hi, just tested a boot.iso with network upgrade from mga2-mga3. That's completely unusable even on a 10Mb connection. It announces more than 10h of upgrade even by selecting the minimal number of media (core release only). Playing with the CTRL+ALT+Fx, the packages are downloaded fast (up to

Re: [Mageia-dev] mageia 3 beta 4 installer infinitely slow?

2013-03-27 Thread Eatdirt
better to have a bug and mark it release critical Done. A side effect is that the mirror changed in between and the installation ends up failing after a few hours. Interestingly enough, it looks like we are installing the important packages first because I rebooted on the harddrive and

Re: [Mageia-dev] Packages not rebuilt since Mageia 1

2013-03-27 Thread eatdirt
On 26/03/13 15:24, Pascal Terjan wrote: There are 26 packages. atlas I think, and unless someone complains, this one should be dropped. Atlas is supposed to provice fast routines already provided by blas and lapack (that we have), but:

Re: [Mageia-dev] Another try at IRAF?

2013-03-06 Thread EatDirt
Congrats if you succeed, those guys are cool but really old non-conventional monsters. If you fancy, those are use in everyday business too, and much easier to install: http://www.astromatic.net/ While this one is fantastic: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~theli/ I succeed to compile it

Re: [Mageia-dev] packages not rebuilt since Mageia 1 with old src.rpm building fine

2013-03-04 Thread EatDirt
On 04/03/13 00:07, Pascal Terjan wrote: atlas-3.8.3-7.mga1.src.rpm That is useful and I see it has a maintainer, aka mitya. Source are at 3.10.1 http://sourceforge.net/projects/math-atlas/files/ Cheers, Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] EFI/GPT

2013-03-03 Thread eatdirt
On 01/03/13 22:13, Thomas Backlund wrote: Well, I dont drink the MS cool-aid... so I wont spend a minute worrying about that crap. the secure boot crap is a vendor lock-in thought up by MS disguised as a security feature so they can own your hw and tell you what you can and cannot run...

Re: [Mageia-dev] EFI/GPT

2013-03-01 Thread eatdirt
On 01/03/13 19:47, Oliver Burger wrote: Do we have support for EFI/GPT in Mga3? Bernd Hentig from ixsoft says something about GPT partitions and EFI (without the secure boot stuff). I have not looked into that topic at all until now and don't know anything about it. Hello Master, I don't

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push: openmpi 1.6.4

2013-02-28 Thread eatdirt
On 28/02/13 21:39, Arnaud Patard (Rtp) wrote: Hi, Please push openmpi 1.6.4. It's a bug fix release and this one is building on arm. Amongst the various fixes, it's fixing some accidental abi breaking on the f90 librarie (it's putting back the right lib version number so would be annoying to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Corrupt packets with ath5k

2013-02-20 Thread eatdirt
On 20/02/13 20:14, JA Magallón wrote: Will Google this while I expect it rings any bell for anyone in the list... TIA Not same hardware, but indeed similar symptoms: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8622

[Mageia-dev] created as .rpmnew lies?

2013-02-12 Thread EatDirt
Within today update of cauldron: 7/232: Default-kde4-config ### warning: /var/lib/mageia/kde4-profiles/Default/share/config/kdm/kdmrc created as /var/lib/mageia/kde4-profiles/Default/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.rpmnew Now if I go to that directory, I see this is not the

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl

2013-02-09 Thread eatdirt
Are you sure that there still is a problem? There were some bugs that have been fixed months ago. Aside from that the memory usage could be off as journal uses mmap. But systemd always uses the journal (not runtime configurable IIRC), so best to make it efficient. It should also somehow be low

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl

2013-02-06 Thread EatDirt
On 06/02/13 09:52, Olav Vitters wrote: By default Mageia 3 should only have journalctl. Optionally you can still install rsyslog. Any syslog package will store the same information as journalctl does. Installing this by default provides little benefit, so it was decided that we only do

Re: [Mageia-dev] GNU Data Language

2013-01-31 Thread EatDirt
On 29/01/13 20:34, Joseph Wang wrote: Found it under gnudl On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Joseph Wangjoequ...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering if/where the GNU data language is being packaged with Mageia 3. It's listed as being in Mageia https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Science_SIG But the

Re: [Mageia-dev] URGENT: FOSDEM restaurant [input needed from everyone]

2013-01-24 Thread EatDirt
On 24/01/13 08:27, Oliver Burger wrote: Am 24.01.2013 01:11, schrieb eatdirt: Indeed. The other suggestion would be to bet a lot of Belgian beers, That's an option for after dinner :D See you next week for some talking and Belgian beers... YES Master!!! let the beers be with us!

Re: [Mageia-dev] URGENT: FOSDEM restaurant [input needed from everyone]

2013-01-23 Thread eatdirt
On 23/01/13 14:01, AL13N wrote: sorry, i figured i was supposed to do it like last time, i'll clear the wiki again. I hope you can do better than what i got last year :-) Hey buffoon !!! :) you mean like *I did* last time, right I reckon it was a bit shit but that's difficult to fit

Re: [Mageia-dev] URGENT: FOSDEM restaurant [input needed from everyone]

2013-01-23 Thread eatdirt
On 24/01/13 00:23, AL13N wrote: This time, i had actually tried to find an option to use a good caterer i know well, but location proves a big issue, most places i checked didn't allow external catering... :-( or the price had to be right... Indeed. The other suggestion would be to bet a lot

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push wxsvg for bug#8727

2013-01-19 Thread eatdirt
Hi there, please push wxsvg, that's a bumped version to 1.1.11 that fixes https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8727 on dvdstyler. As far as I can test, dvdstyler does not need a rebuild, but feel free to do it if you juge so. urpmq --whatrequires lib64wxsvg0 dvdstyler lib64wxsvg-devel

Re: [Mageia-dev] Minimal mageia install

2013-01-18 Thread EatDirt
On 18/01/13 18:19, Bruno Cornec wrote: I don't know who did that great job, but I'd like to congratulate this community, as with the beta of Mageia 3 I'm now able to install a very minimal distro for a firewall with 340 packages only without doing any urpme in my postinstall script !! Very

Re: [Mageia-dev] rpmrc [5221] build with -fPIC on x86_64 too (pok, mdv)

2013-01-10 Thread EatDirt
On 10/01/13 02:54, Anssi Hannula wrote: I have to strongly disagree with this. - This hides problems in build scripts. Shared libraries should normally be linked with -fPIC on *all* architectures. Not doing this causes some issues, like the library to actually become unshareable across

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: kernel-3.8-rc3 landing in Cauldron...

2013-01-10 Thread eatdirt
On 10/01/13 22:56, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:27:01 +0200 Thomas Backlund wrote: Booted without issues here. Nvidia driver works and everything appears to be performing normally. Well, it does not build dkms-nvidia-current for me! But the nouveau driver automatically

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

2013-01-09 Thread EatDirt
On 09/01/13 16:24, Maurice Batey wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:21:06 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: If you are lucky you will have *.old initrds so just edit your grub prompt to use initrd.img.old rather than initrd.img (via text mode in grub) Where are such initrd.img.old files found? We

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

2013-01-09 Thread eatdirt
On 09/01/13 20:13, Maurice Batey wrote: and - in menu.lst - replaced: /boot/vmlinuzwith /boot/vmlinuz-3.7-0-desktop-1.mga3 and initrd /boot/initrd.imgwith initrd /boot/initrd-3-7-0-desktop-1-mga3.img in a clone of the 'official' (but kernel panic) stanza. But although a

Re: [Mageia-dev] PXE boot on cauldron failed

2013-01-08 Thread eatdirt
On 08/01/13 20:51, AL13N wrote: Any idea ? huh, i never knew that you could specify URLs in pxe configs... for kernel and initrds Me neither, this is very cool actually. If you make it work again Olivier, that would deserve a mini wiki somewhere...

Re: [Mageia-dev] Booting on GPT + UEFI + Secure Boot...

2013-01-07 Thread Eatdirt
On 01/07/2013 12:31 PM, Olivier Thauvin wrote: So questions: - is it possible to boot Mageia using legacy boot on GPT disk ? Yes, was working fine for me with various harddrives of 2T and more (grub) Cheers, Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] DVD install feedback for mga3 beta 1

2013-01-01 Thread Eatdirt
On 12/31/2012 08:38 PM, Eatdirt wrote: Hi there, I have just installed mga3 beta1 on a brand new machine for my folks and everything went fantastically fine in a first try. Congrats. Hi again, I am reporting here some post-install bugs: 1a) gnome-shell-extension does not work

[Mageia-dev] DVD install feedback for mga3 beta 1

2012-12-31 Thread Eatdirt
Hi there, I have just installed mga3 beta1 on a brand new machine for my folks and everything went fantastically fine in a first try. Congrats. So I decided to test other options and managed to end up in an infinite loop that hung the installer. There how to do it: 1) choose additional

Re: [Mageia-dev] acpid under systemd

2012-12-31 Thread Eatdirt
On 12/31/2012 09:46 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: systemd starts daemons in a clean environment. I'm guessing some environment variables are missing. Most likely DISPLAY, maybe others. I see, although I tried to set up the DISPLAY variable without success :-/ Thanks, Chris.

[Mageia-dev] acpid under systemd

2012-12-28 Thread Eatdirt
Hi Colin :) I have a funny issue with acpid as it is started under systemd (on mga2) I have a little script on my laptop in /etc/acpi/actions that starts xset -display dpms force off or xset -display dpms force on according to the lid state. That commands used to work in the pre-systemd era

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problem with urpmq ??

2012-12-26 Thread Eatdirt
On 12/26/2012 04:29 PM, Pascal Terjan wrote: I think you have to use urpmq -y ssh Or --fuzzy if you like the long version. Yes it seems the default has changed, I noticed it recently... So do I, I was also wondering why? In particular, any usage of urpmq blabla has now a high probability

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problem with urpmq ??

2012-12-26 Thread Eatdirt
On 12/26/2012 11:42 PM, AL13N wrote: i think this is fine, escpecially considering there's scripts that could use this, so exact match is much better as default. there's nothing worse than mistyping and a different package is installed because it matched... Ok, but the behaviour and man of

[Mageia-dev] r8169 eth0 link up/down

2012-12-15 Thread eatdirt
Hi, I am running into trouble with the ethernet adaptater within 3.7.0-desktop-1.mga3. My eth0 connection goes up and down all the time; the logs are full of [167751.720286] r8169 :02:00.0 eth0: link up [167763.726287] r8169 :02:00.0 eth0: link up [167811.720288] r8169 :02:00.0

Re: [Mageia-dev] r8169 eth0 link up/down

2012-12-15 Thread eatdirt
On 15/12/12 16:40, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Did you actually check your cable? Did you try booting back to 3.6? Yes, cable/router are fine and it works normally with 3.6.5 I also got a kernel trace under 3.7.0 by stressing the eth0 with torrents. I can open a bug report if this is not only

[Mageia-dev] service dm restart go on tty3

2012-12-13 Thread eatdirt
Hi (Colin) :D I don't know if this is because I still have obsolete files, but if I do a service dm restart just after boot on the console of tty2, then the X server restarts but on tty3, dunno if this is wanted, but I would have expected it to restart on tty1. Cheers, Chris PS :I can

[Mageia-dev] systemd-journal

2012-11-27 Thread eatdirt
385 root 20 0 278m 20m 19m S0 1.0 0:00.24 systemd-journal This looks huge to me; actually it takes more memory that my windowmanager (fvwm2) just for logging? We're back to devfs? :) Cheers, Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] systemd-journal

2012-11-27 Thread eatdirt
On 27/11/12 23:10, Colin Guthrie wrote: Doesn't look too big to me. While 19megs isn't tiny, it's also not crazy. For me here I'm on about 2.5megs, but it's only been up a day and a half, so it might creep up from here. How long have you been up? Col not too much, just one day; do you

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Bug 8177] rm command can't delete file, unless using the full path for the rm binary /bin/rm

2012-11-22 Thread EatDirt
On 22/11/12 15:45, Michael Wood wrote: Or if you happy to run rm as it was written and risk deleting something you didn't want too, then comment out the alias (and any others that get on your nerves:) ) from /etc/profile.d/60alias.sh :) did that too, old school, when I do rm, I want to do

Re: [Mageia-dev] Welcome Götz!

2012-10-24 Thread Eatdirt
On 10/22/2012 11:15 PM, Olivier Blin wrote: Hi, After uncountable years as a packager and maintainer in the Mandriva Linux distribution, providing a huge number of impeccable contributions, Götz Waschk is now joining us as a Mageia packager. Please welcome him aboard! MageiaBigBoss++

Re: [Mageia-dev] version scheme blocks mgarepo submit

2012-10-04 Thread EatDirt
As I guess all new packagers make the mistake, as I did recently too; please check out: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines#Version_and_Release once the mistake done; it is either package removal of adding an epoch number (that can not be removed later) Cheers, chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-27 Thread EatDirt
On 25/09/12 21:54, David Walser wrote: This topic came up in the packagers meeting. It was stated that: - the change was initiated by Thierry Vignaud (tv) - the change was also done in Fedora Ah, thanks for the infos! Although I think the first reason is a good reason (tv), the second is

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-24 Thread EatDirt
On 23/09/12 14:28, brian.sm...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I noticed the change... but on my machine it looks like an improvement I don't know if just my eyesight or the change is having different effects on different set ups. I'm using X86-64 with a Radeon graphics card On 24/09/12 08:31,

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-24 Thread EatDirt
On 24/09/12 14:58, Dimitri wrote: Hi guys, The changes in default fonts might be related to recent fonts-ttf-liberation update. Since 2.00, this package ships fontconfig settings that by default substitute Liberation fonts for sans-serif, serif and mono families. This is done by

[Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-23 Thread eatdirt
Hi, is that a bug that all default fonts on kdm, firefox, terminal titles changed to an ugly one? ;) cheers, chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 final set of isos

2012-09-20 Thread EatDirt
On 19/09/12 10:31, Thomas Backlund wrote: I'd suggest for livecds: 2 liveCDs: - 1 GNOME 700M i586 - english only - for FOSDEM co - 1 KDE 700M i586 - english only - for FOSDEM co 4 liveDVDs: - 1 GNOME DVD i586 - all locales-* - 1 GNOME DVD x86_64 - all locales-* - 1 KDE DVD i586 - all

[Mageia-dev] umask=0 in cdrom fstab options?

2012-09-17 Thread eatdirt
Hi, this line was set by drakconf a while ago (clicking on local disk - dvdrom etc..) /dev/sr0 /media/cdrombot auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 but since a few days, mounting sr0 now fails with: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,

[Mageia-dev] /sbin/poweroff kdm

2012-09-13 Thread EatDirt
seems to have been replaced by /bin/poweroff making kdm failing to poweroff. I can open a bug report if needed. cheers, Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] x11-server-1.13

2012-09-13 Thread EatDirt
On 08/09/12 13:02, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Hi x11-server-1.13 and rebuild drivers are in */update_testing. Please test. Tested with AutoAddDevice Off and works fine with: x11-driver-input-mouse x11-driver-input-keyboard x11-driver-input-evdev x11-driver-video-intel Cheers, Chris.

[Mageia-dev] pthread segfaults?

2012-09-08 Thread eatdirt
Hi, am I alone to get pthread segfaults in the log for various programs?? upowerd[759]: segfault at 0 ip 7f7a03efbfe0 sp 7fff5497d498 error 4 in libc-2.16.so[7f7a03dfc000+1a2000] motion[3066]: segfault at 18 ip 7f98abe78b80 sp 7fffdbfa6678 error 4 in

Re: [Mageia-dev] date/time on the BS?

2012-08-29 Thread EatDirt
On 29/08/12 00:42, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote: Maybe it's because of the -j24 in %make: try 'make' instead. Fantastic, that was it, you saved me too!! :) Thanks!!

Re: [Mageia-dev] date/time on the BS?

2012-08-29 Thread EatDirt
On 29/08/12 10:51, Pascal Terjan wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:04 AM, EatDirtdirt...@gmail.com wrote: Then the proper fix is to fix the makefile and send it upstream Ok! I have simply reported the bug upstream for the time being... Thanks. Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] how to upgrade a package with %_preun_service ?

2012-08-27 Thread EatDirt
On 26/08/12 22:53, Thierry Vignaud wrote: look for %triggerpostun or %posttrans Fantastic! You saved me!! Cheers.

Re: [Mageia-dev] updating torque?

2012-08-24 Thread eatdirt
So torque-2.5.12-1mga3 landed; please open bug reports if it doesn't work for you. Cheers, Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] updating torque?

2012-08-24 Thread eatdirt
the obvious question Do we really need 2 branches of torque ? Why not simply say bye-bye to 2.* series ? -- Thomas Agreed! I was just avoiding to do a big jump as 2.5.x is still maintained upstream, but ultimately that could be the plan. As we have some bugs on the current 2.5.3

[Mageia-dev] updating torque?

2012-08-23 Thread EatDirt
Hi, torque package is not maintained by anyone. The version we have on mageia is 2.5.3 which is *very* old. Torque comes in various branches, the version 2 is now at 2.5.12 wheras the last version is 4.1.0 The spec file is an old monster from mandriva that would need cleaning. Some scripts

Re: [Mageia-dev] no mouse in cauldron boot.iso

2012-08-22 Thread EatDirt
On 21/08/12 14:54, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 15 August 2012 19:28, eatdirtdirt...@gmail.com wrote: Can you check if mga2 installer was OK on your machine? Yep it works fine actually ! The mouse is found. Cheers, Chris.

[Mageia-dev] no mouse in cauldron boot.iso

2012-08-15 Thread eatdirt
Hi there, I know it is very early to test the installer; but after screwing up the /usr migration I reinstalled cauldron from thye current boot.iso; which was not finding any mouse on my machine. Let me know if you want me to open a bug report. Cheers, Christophe. lspci output 00:00.0

Re: [Mageia-dev] Dropping hal from Mageia 3

2012-07-19 Thread Eatdirt
On 07/17/2012 04:10 PM, Damien Lallement wrote: If packagers can check their packages to remove hal deps, I will add it to task-obsoletes before first alpha. Thanks. Yep. I take charge of wmbattery! Cheers, Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] [help] does openmpi works under iurt?

2012-06-24 Thread EatDirt
Ping? Ahem, either it was a trivial question, or a too much non-trivial question May someone managing the bs could simply test if, under iurt, after having installed the package openmpi, those commands work: mpirun --version mpirun -np 2 /usr/bin/pwd the result should be something

[Mageia-dev] [help] does openmpi works under iurt?

2012-06-17 Thread eatdirt
Hi venerable masters, I am going into trouble and need some help in compiling mpi support for fftw3. Checkout my failure logs: http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/uploads/failure/cauldron/core/release/20120617165035.eatdirt.valstar.1249/log/botcmd.1339951835.jonund.log That's during the test section,

[Mageia-dev] openssl install conflicts?

2012-06-13 Thread EatDirt
How this is possible? That file should be updated no? -- Installation failed:file /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 from install of lib64openssl1.0.0-1.0.1c-2.mga3.x86_64 conflicts with file from package lib64openssl1.0.1-1.0.1c-1.mga3.x86_64 Cheers, Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] openssl install conflicts?

2012-06-13 Thread EatDirt
On 13/06/12 14:45, Guillaume Rousse wrote: It was available for a short period, tough, it could have been installed at this moment. Using --force if needed. yep, that was indeed the case... sorry :-/ thanks!! Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bugzilla mass ping

2012-05-28 Thread eatdirt
On 26/05/12 12:20, Marja van Waes wrote: I plan to do a mass ping today, because we need to find out whether they are still valid for Mageia 2 Thanks, I think it is good idea, let's make mga2 almost bugfree before making Cauldron bugfull ;)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread eatdirt
On 21/05/12 18:11, Robert Fox wrote: Any hints what I could check? At first I though this was Firefox related (like flash problem or something) because it was most noticeable when I surfed - firefox freezes off and on and it is really frustrating. Nope, but I got into same pb during a

Re: [Mageia-dev] RFT: nvidia-current 295.49

2012-05-13 Thread eatdirt
On 06/05/12 19:46, Thomas Backlund wrote: So, nVidia released a 295.49 wich fixes performance regressions introduced in 295.40. gressions So test them out and respond to this thread if it works or not. Works for me on: Card:NVIDIA GeForce 6100 to GeForce 360: nVidia Corporation|G92

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: gv

2012-04-27 Thread eatdirt
Please submit gv. Just added a missing Requires to ghostscript, this is bug #5648. Tested, fixes the pb. cheers, Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

2012-03-10 Thread eatdirt
On 10/03/12 10:12, Maarten Vanraes wrote: I have a pentium 66MHz (not MMX) With the turbo button 33 - 66 ? Man, that's a proper collector :)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

2012-03-09 Thread eatdirt
On 09/03/12 00:58, Colin Guthrie wrote: If no one has a problem, I'll look to include the patch Well done! [got another reason for startx, my pentium 133MHz running mga.1 does not like kdm, even xdm :)] Thanks! chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

2012-03-07 Thread EatDirt
On 07/03/12 10:26, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi, Unless someone comes along and does a reasonable amount of coding before mga2, I think we'll have to deprecate supporting startx (it can still be used in some circumstances, but audio and accelerated graphics will not be available). See this comment

Re: [Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

2012-03-07 Thread EatDirt
On 07/03/12 12:12, Colin Guthrie wrote: You can still debug X but only for an actual X server. Anyway even when I was maintaining X a few years back, I don't think I ever started it from the text console. I always used the official methods for starting X (service dm restart in those days). So

Re: [Mageia-dev] NVidia fallback to Nouveau after latest Kernel updates

2012-03-06 Thread EatDirt
On 02/03/12 22:44, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: AFAIK you need to reconfigure your system to use the proprietary modules... Yes, that's to be expected anyway. Thx Or tweak harddrake to let you in peace with X and video; checkout /etc/sysconfig/harddrake2/service.conf

Re: [Mageia-dev] NVidia fallback to Nouveau after latest Kernel updates

2012-03-02 Thread EatDirt
On 02/03/12 09:38, Robert Fox wrote: Since last Cauldron kernel update, I have two nvidia based system which now fallback to nouveau when starting X - stating nvidia cannot be loaded. +1 Recurrent pb for me as well. Did you try to add nokmsboot in the boot arguments? chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] xinit upgraded to 1.3.2

2012-02-27 Thread EatDirt
On 27/02/12 12:17, Colin Guthrie wrote: I don't think it's a problem and the commit looks good to me. I wouldn't have changed the %patch0 line, but that's just a very minor comment. Cool, thanks! Ah ok, you mean the suffix? I though it was a bit unclear as the file itself is called startx.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Replace Gqview by Geeqie

2012-02-26 Thread eatdirt
On 26/02/12 16:36, Julien wrote: Hi, I would like to drop gqview (the image viewer) in favor of geeqie ( http://geeqie.sf.net ). The latter is a fork of the former and is a bit less unmaintained. At least fedora and opensuse have already done it. Any objection ? I am using gqview in

Re: [Mageia-dev] Volume mixer for Window Maker

2012-02-25 Thread eatdirt
On 25/02/12 08:41, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: Hello! I'm going to add a volume mixer for a default desktop in Window Maker. What is the name of the binary of the gnome mixer applet? I am looking for something modern against pulseaudio. pavucontrol?

[Mageia-dev] xinit upgraded to 1.3.2

2012-02-25 Thread eatdirt
Hi people, xinit has no maintainer, I am happy to do so but the spec is a bit scary as it has a lot of patches, some quite old and maybe no longer needed? I have just upgraded it to the latest keeping (and fixing) all orignal patches; please if you have a request of warning, make a comment

Re: [Mageia-dev] Default graphics software

2012-02-25 Thread eatdirt
On 25/02/12 16:52, zezinho wrote: +1 : I had a friend who asked me for help when he received .AI files, simply because Inkscape was not in the default KDE install. +1, a must even on fvwm2 :D

Re: [Mageia-dev] proposition to drop xedit

2012-02-21 Thread EatDirt
On 21/02/12 09:37, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: My proposition is to drop it. (And the side effect will be to eliminate one of the last things that is based on Aspell) Just a naive question, but emacs uses aspell too no? chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] proposition to drop xedit

2012-02-21 Thread EatDirt
On 21/02/12 09:49, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: On 21.02.2012 09:50, EatDirt wrote: Just a naive question, but emacs uses aspell too no? It was changed to enchant, see https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4462 Ah cool, thanks!

Re: [Mageia-dev] chroot for mageia 1; db42_load?

2012-02-19 Thread eatdirt
On 18/02/12 19:54, Anssi Hannula wrote: On 18.02.2012 19:27, eatdirt wrote: I thought mga1 uses Hash v9, maybe urpmi wrongly tries to perform a downgrade? And AFAICS mga1 rpm uses db4.8 anyway, so using db42_load seems wrong. Yes, it does indeed that. I installed mdv db42-utils packages

[Mageia-dev] chroot for mageia 1; db42_load?

2012-02-18 Thread eatdirt
Hi there, I got this warning by trying to setup a chroot of mageia 1, being under cauldron can not migrate rpm db from Hash version 9 to Hash version 8 without db42_load The rpm data base is corrupted under the chroot, as expected. urpmf db42_load gives nothing, as I can find only db47

Re: [Mageia-dev] WindowMaker themes

2012-02-17 Thread EatDirt
On 17/02/12 03:17, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: Hello! I'm planning to exclude built-in theme(s) from the windowmaker package. Are there any objections? no, very good! Cheers, Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] OSS sound support

2012-02-06 Thread EatDirt
On 10/10/11 11:20, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Just for curiosity, where is OSS support needed nowadays ? Quake and co ? At least for wmix and wmsmixer too :) chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-23 Thread EatDirt
On 21/01/12 20:06, Colin Guthrie wrote: What's wrong with this? It's showing you the mounts that are active... would you rather it filtered out e.g. /sys etc? Generally speaking df is a more useful command than mount IMO anyway, and it's always been the command I use when I'm just wanting a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread eatdirt
On 21/01/12 18:21, Oliver Burger wrote: I found at least three different tmp directories: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ ~/tmp/ (one for every user) Hi, I am taking the opportunity of this thread to also mention the incredible number of shit mounted by systemd that completely render the output of a mount

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 Alpha 3 available for tests

2012-01-13 Thread EatDirt
On 12/01/12 21:04, Anne nicolas wrote: Hi all Mageia 2 Alpha 3 is now available for tests: http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/01/12/here-comes-mageia-2-alpha3/ Hi, tested the boot.iso with network install; everything went fine. At boot however, systemd exhibited some failures (apparently they

Re: [Mageia-dev] Welcome to tthe packager team: eatdirt

2011-12-13 Thread EatDirt
On 13/12/11 17:35, Oliver Burger wrote: It seems I forgot something. I'd like to welcome Christophe Ringeval (eatdirt) to the Mageia packager team. Welcome and continue the good work, you already did. Oliver Hi there Thank you Venerable Master, I owe you everything and will do my best

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

2011-12-09 Thread EatDirt
On 05/12/11 12:53, Thomas Backlund wrote: NO. Our policy is that core _must_ be selfcontained. Hi there, what's about quake2 which is currently on the core and cannot work without pak files? Cheers, Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: gcc-4.6.2 landing on Cauldron

2011-12-06 Thread EatDirt
On 06/12/11 15:14, Funda Wang wrote: I guess he means gfortran should require quanmath-devel as what fedora currently does. It should be indeed since without, it just does not work. ...although I did no mean that. mirrors were just out of sync till now :-/ cheers. chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: gcc-4.6.2 landing on Cauldron

2011-12-06 Thread EatDirt
On 06/12/11 17:03, Oliver Burger wrote: So did I understand you correctly, that your problem is resolved now? Yes Master :) But, as Funda said, gcc-gfortran should Requires quadmath; otherwise installing gcc-gfortran alone is not enough for linking fortran progs. Chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: gcc-4.6.2 landing on Cauldron

2011-12-05 Thread EatDirt
On 05/12/11 15:26, Thomas Backlund wrote: Hi, so... the long wait is over I've submitted gcc-4.6.2-1.mga2 to core/release now. Hi, I have some package not recompiling due to missing libquadmath. Gfortran actually fails to compile program with this error: gfortran -g -DLin blabla.o -o

Re: [Mageia-dev] oxygen-gtk needed by gtk+2.0?

2011-11-18 Thread EatDirt
On 18/11/11 11:41, Funda Wang wrote: It is wanted, because we default to oxygen gtk-style, which is hardcoded in gtk's configuration files and source code. Hi Funda I tried to remove it the hard way, rpm -e --nodep, and all my gtk windows work good. So, are you sure about this? Maybe if not

Re: [Mageia-dev] oxygen-gtk needed by gtk+2.0?

2011-11-18 Thread eatdirt
On 18/11/11 15:34, John Balcaen wrote: I tried to remove it the hard way, rpm -e --nodep, and all my gtk windows work good. So, are you sure about this? Maybe if not found, there is a default behaviour. Probably because you already switch from oxygen-gtk to another style. So gtk apps are

[Mageia-dev] oxygen-gtk needed by gtk+2.0?

2011-11-17 Thread eatdirt
Hi, trying to remove oxygen-gtk triggers the removal of 300 packages because it seems to be required by gtk+2.0. I don't think it is the case, shall I open a bug report if true? Cheers, Chris.

[Mageia-dev] [info] texlive on mandriva: what not to do ;)

2011-11-14 Thread EatDirt
Hi guys, I still have a computer on mandriva cooker, and they did the split of texlive in many packages (a long standing discussion on cooker as far as remember due to the size of texlive). Now, I don't know if someone there is actually using texlive, but the resulting monster is completely

Re: [Mageia-dev] Standardising the virtual Provides in -devel packages

2011-07-08 Thread EatDirt
On 08/07/11 06:37, Ahmad Samir wrote: Hello. I've had a rather vague idea about standardising the virtual provides in the distro, there should be: Provides: %{name}-devel Provides: lib%{name}-devel either both of them in _all_ packages, or one of them in _all_ packages, so that we don't have

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release Notes - reminder

2011-05-26 Thread Eatdirt
On 25/05/11 11:34, Anne nicolas wrote: Please have a look on it and add anything that could complete it. Deadline is thursday evening I have added my microscopic contribution in the list of Window Manager (fvwm2) cheers, chris.

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