Re: [Mageia-dev] Upcoming release freeze: 14 packages needs fixing, by Sunday

2013-04-05 Thread andre999
Johnny A. Solbu a écrit : http://check.mageia.org/cauldron/dependencies.html According to the link above, there are 14 packages that needs to be fixed, or removed. I have looked at most of them, and I can't figure out how to fix them, the maintainers doesn't seem to be working on them and

Re: [Mageia-dev] issue with accentuated letters with gnome: gdb vs gnome vs locale-br

2013-03-15 Thread andre999
Thierry Vignaud a écrit : On 7 March 2013 07:00, Thierry Vignaud thierry.vign...@gmail.com wrote: For some time, I've issues with typing accentued letter within gnome with br_FR locale (breton language). I tried altered the LC_CTYPE content by replacing copy en_DK by: copyfr_FR But

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

2013-03-02 Thread andre999
Sebastian a écrit : On 28/02/13 02:47, andre999 wrote: Colin Guthrie a écrit : ... I wonder how we could attract more Gnome, erm, gnomes :) to help with packaging? Col ... I'm very interested in helping with gnome packaging/development, since I'm a long time user of gnome. (I still

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

2013-02-27 Thread andre999
Colin Guthrie a écrit : 'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 21/02/13 14:45 did gyre and gimble: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:08:40AM +, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 21/02/13 09:08 did gyre and gimble: So you are making the same mess for upcoming mga3, that is also

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

2013-02-27 Thread andre999
Colin Guthrie a écrit : ... I wonder how we could attract more Gnome, erm, gnomes :) to help with packaging? Col I'm just getting back to Mageia, after being too busy for a while and then disk crashes on 2 subsequent computers (and no, I didn't have uptodate backups) ... I'm very

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] urpmq --not-available (was renaming -debug packages as -debuginfo)

2012-12-04 Thread andre999
Pascal Terjan a écrit : On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Pascal Terjan pter...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:13 PM, andre999 andre999...@laposte.net wrote: Colin Guthrie a écrit : ... general advice of running urpmq --not-available would be a good enough fallback IMO

Re: [Mageia-dev] Will the 'official' Mageia-3 installer have a 'GRUB Legacy' option?

2012-12-03 Thread andre999
Maurice Batey a écrit : On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:43:28 +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote: I guess he means that if we switch to Grub2 by default, will we still support greb legacy ? Correct! I.e. when installing 'GRUB2' Mageia-3, will there be an option to use GRUB-Legacy instead? The reason I

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] renaming -debug packages as -debuginfo

2012-12-03 Thread andre999
Colin Guthrie a écrit : ... general advice of running urpmq --not-available would be a good enough fallback IMO. By chance is that compared to cauldron ? Or is some other parameter required ? On my system, it lists 981 packages (more than 2/3 of those installed), on an up to date mga2. The

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

2012-11-23 Thread andre999
Colin Guthrie a écrit : 'Twas brillig, and Michael Wood at 22/11/12 14:45 did gyre and gimble: 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

Re: [Mageia-dev] Question about mysql-workbench documentation license

2012-11-22 Thread andre999
Juan Luis Baptiste a écrit : On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Juan Luis Baptiste juan...@mageia.org mailto:juan...@mageia.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:54 AM, andre999 andre999...@laposte.net mailto:andre999...@laposte.net wrote: An alternate approach would

Re: [Mageia-dev] Question about mysql-workbench documentation license

2012-11-19 Thread andre999
Juan Luis Baptiste a écrit : Ooops forgot to put the link from where the licence comes from: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-preface.html On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Juan Luis Baptiste juan...@mageia.org mailto:juan...@mageia.org wrote: Hi, In Fedora the bundled

Re: [Mageia-dev] 2nd Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).

2012-11-08 Thread andre999
Shlomi Fish a écrit : Hi all, I'm including here a new draft of a letter we are planning to send to the Software Freedom Law Center ( SFLC- http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ ) about faac vs. cinelerra. (see the last meeting at

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fwd: fallback mode

2012-11-08 Thread andre999
Olav Vitters a écrit : On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 07:33:43PM -0500, andre999 wrote: Olav Vitters a écrit : On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:56:55PM -0500, andre999 wrote: I again suggest to read the wiki page for the issues with fallback mode. I've read the wiki page a few times. It contains

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fwd: fallback mode

2012-11-05 Thread andre999
Olav Vitters a écrit : fyi Sujet: fallback mode De: Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com Date: 2012-11-05 10:42 Pour: distributor-l...@gnome.org Copie: GNOME release team release-t...@gnome.org I'm writing to inform you that the release team discussed

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fwd: fallback mode

2012-11-05 Thread andre999
Olav Vitters a écrit : On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:56:55PM -0500, andre999 wrote: Olav Vitters a écrit : ... This discussion has been held various times before. Please read the wiki link. The reason I'm forwarding the email is to get feedback about the impact on Mageia. For the impact

Re: [Mageia-dev] Jack1 package missing

2012-11-03 Thread andre999
Jehan Pagès a écrit : Hi, On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 11:11 PM, PhilippeDidier philippedid...@laposte.net mailto:philippedid...@laposte.net wrote: Jehan Pagès a écrit : Hi, I noticed we propose only the Jack2 package, but no Jack1. Yet Jack2 is simply another

Re: [Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

2012-10-30 Thread andre999
PhilippeDidier a écrit : andre999 a écrit : [...] In sum, I agree with the proposal of this thread to allow non-free packages in tainted repos. The problem : In Tainted repo we can find now vlc-tainted, gstreamer-tainted, mencoder-tainted... they are free indeed (because built without faac

Re: [Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

2012-10-30 Thread andre999
Johnny A. Solbu a écrit : On Tuesday 30 October 2012 02:44, andre999 wrote: If there is some constraint on the redistribution of a package in some countries, such as patent claims or encryption technology used or whatever, mirrors in affected countries may reasonably want to avoid carrying

Re: [Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

2012-10-30 Thread andre999
Malo a écrit : On 30/10/12 07:58, andre999 wrote: Personnally, I would favour putting tainted or nonfree (or rather an abbreviated form, say [nf] or [tnt]) at the end of the main part of the package name. It's already the case ... nvidia-current-kernel-3.6.4-desktop-1.mga3-304.60-2.mga3

Re: [Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

2012-10-30 Thread andre999
Johnny A. Solbu a écrit : On Tuesday 30 October 2012 09:30, andre999 wrote: The problem of including nonfree spftware in tainted, is that it no longer is a Free software repo in countries that don't accept software patents. So how is that a problem ? I am one of those that have core

Re: [Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

2012-10-30 Thread andre999
Johnny A. Solbu a écrit : On Tuesday 30 October 2012 09:37, Malo wrote: - there is only faac, so why bother? (fuelling the first reason) There is also another side to this, that we either haven't talked about or doesn't know about. We are a Free software community, that includes some nonfree

Re: [Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

2012-10-29 Thread andre999
Christiaan Welvaart a écrit : On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Nice to see that everyone went back to Start with this discussion, almost using the same words in their arguments. Is this really needed? There has been a wide consensus for the solution to put it into tainted as has

Re: [Mageia-dev] Duplicate reception of email messages

2012-10-27 Thread andre999
Juergen Harms a écrit : For some time now, Thunderbird receives messages twice (Mageia 3 Alpha2, thunderbird 16.0.1-1, using imap): my folder display contains twice an apparently identical message. The problem had first looked random - some messages single, some messages duplicated. Looking

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kwallet-4.9.2-1.mga3

2012-10-22 Thread andre999
Nicolas Lécureuil a écrit : Le lundi 22 octobre 2012 10:48:21 Malo a écrit : On 22/10/12 06:31, Nicolas Lécureuil wrote: That used to happen on release installs from iso on mdv (or maybe mdk ?) Which I found frustrating before I realised that, since deselecting everything in one group would

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kwallet-4.9.2-1.mga3

2012-10-21 Thread andre999
Balcaen John a écrit : Le mardi 16 octobre 2012 01:22:39 Marek Laane a écrit : As there are new groups policy, I'd propose either Graphical desktop/KDE, as it is quite pure KDE application, or System/Configuration/Other, as it is a tool to manage the passwords on your KDE system. By using

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kremotecontrol-4.9.2-1.mga3

2012-10-15 Thread andre999
Balcaen John a écrit : Le lundi 15 octobre 2012 14:54:27 Marek Laane a écrit : [...] mikala mikala 4.9.2-1.mga3: + Revision: 301978 - Update tarball to KDE SC 4.9.2 - Fix group kremotecontrol in group Accessibility? hmm, really? ... We're of course open to suggestion... Its a front end

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kwallet-4.9.2-1.mga3

2012-10-15 Thread andre999
Balcaen John a écrit : Le lundi 15 octobre 2012 22:15:20 Sander Lepik a écrit : 15.10.2012 21:46, Guillaume Rousse kirjutas: Le 15/10/2012 19:07, Malo a écrit : On 15/10/12 17:34, Balcaen John wrote: Le lundi 15 octobre 2012 15:48:46 Marek Laane a écrit : [...] Again, is

Re: [Mageia-dev] GNOME llvmpipe rendering in gnome-session-3.6.0-2.mga3

2012-10-08 Thread andre999
Olav Vitters a écrit : On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 02:32:24PM +0200, ovitters wrote: Name: gnome-sessionRelocations: (not relocatable) Version : 3.6.0 Vendor: Mageia.Org Release : 2.mga3Build Date: Mon Oct 8

Re: [Mageia-dev] GNOME llvmpipe rendering in gnome-session-3.6.0-2.mga3

2012-10-08 Thread andre999
zago a écrit : On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 12:32:16PM -0400, andre999 wrote: Olav Vitters a écrit : On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 02:32:24PM +0200, ovitters wrote: Name: gnome-sessionRelocations: (not relocatable) Version : 3.6.0 Vendor

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

2012-10-05 Thread andre999
Johnny A. Solbu a écrit : On Thursday 04 October 2012 10:56, EatDirt wrote: adding an epoch number (that can not be removed later) I'm sure I'm not the only one confused about this epoch thing, so I'll ask. What is an epoch? (I think I know it's function, but still) And why can it not be

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

2012-09-25 Thread andre999
Thomas Backlund a écrit : zezinho skrev 24.9.2012 12:52: Em 24-09-2012 09:55, Thomas Backlund escreveu: Just because they have a 64bit hw, it does not mean they have accees to cheap bw since that depends on where they live, what isp they have, and so on... Well, we can't keep the same

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

2012-09-24 Thread andre999
Anne Nicolas a écrit : Hi there So here is the discussion about what isos we should keep or have for final release. We had several (many!) proposals on that topics and we need to take some decisions. Here are some prerequisites I can see for what I can read in comments and review about Mageia

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

2012-09-24 Thread andre999
Thomas Backlund a écrit : andre999 skrev 24.9.2012 09:57: Anne Nicolas a écrit : Hi there So here is the discussion about what isos we should keep or have for final release. We had several (many!) proposals on that topics and we need to take some decisions. Here are some prerequisites I can

Re: [Mageia-dev] Having problem with the monitor

2012-08-16 Thread andre999
Kira a écrit : 在 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:19:31 +0800, Kira elegant.pega...@gmail.com寫道: Already Tried. It tells me DPMS is off, but then the screen goes off by itself. I had tried with different plug(DVI D-Sub), but same problem. Anyone think of other possibility? This is really disturbing

Re: [Mageia-dev] Task-obsolete and non-sense obsoletes

2012-08-13 Thread andre999
nicolas vigier a écrit : On Tue, 07 Aug 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Olivier Thauvin nanar...@nanardon.zarb.org wrote: Hi, Many people already complain about it, but for me task-obsolete must die. I don't think so, but people should not be

Re: [Mageia-dev] Task-obsolete and non-sense obsoletes

2012-08-07 Thread andre999
Olivier Blin a écrit : Colin Guthriemag...@colin.guthr.ie writes: 'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 07/08/12 12:54 did gyre and gimble: The package manager (urpmi) can also notify people because it sees which installed packages are not in the configured repositories. Zypper

Re: [Mageia-dev] Free software needing non-free data

2012-08-05 Thread andre999
Samuel Verschelde a écrit : Hi, I've reread our policy, but it's unclear to me where to put free software that can't work (in a useful way for a user) without non-free data. We currently have a mix of situations (sometimes in core, sometimes in nonfree), which shows that it's not totally clear

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kdelibs4-4.9.0-2.mga3

2012-08-01 Thread andre999
Sander Lepik a écrit : 01.08.2012 11:19, Anne Nicolas kirjutas: Please try to work properly ie asking maintainer before. It takes a mail to do it and save lot of work for everybody. This should be applied especially by new comers and mentors. If not we will have to write some strict rules

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! ---- Instructions

2012-07-29 Thread andre999
Colin Guthrie a écrit : OK, so the packages have now all been uploaded. You should see several packages now that you cannot install on Cauldron. This is intended behaviour. Here is how to update your cauldron systems: 1. Run urpmi --auto-update install everything that can be installed. 2.

Re: [Mageia-dev] php-smarty vs. php-Smarty

2012-07-15 Thread andre999
Thomas Spuhler a écrit : There are two spellings of smarty on distis. Mageia and Mandriva use php-smarty, Fedora use php-Smarty and SUSE uses php- smarty but internally has /Smarty/Smarty.xxx /usr/share/php/Smarty/Smarty.class.php ours is /usr/share/php/smarty/Smarty.class.php This creates

Re: [Mageia-dev] [usrmove] dahdi vs zapata: is zapata dead now?

2012-07-12 Thread andre999
Pascal Terjan a écrit : On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Colin Guthriemag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Hi, Hi, I have no idea what you are talking about but, according to Wikipedia, Zapata died on April 10, 1919 (aged 39) in Chinameca, Morelos, Mexico so yes he is dead now :) :)

Re: [Mageia-dev] RIP Eugeni Dodonov

2012-07-10 Thread andre999
David Walser a écrit : Phoronix has reported that Eugeni Dodonov, a developer many of us know from his time working at Mandriva, has been killed in an accident over the weekend. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTEzNTk I am very sad to learn of this, as I'm sure we all are.

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

2012-07-05 Thread andre999
AL13N a écrit : Op donderdag 5 juli 2012 21:31:50 schreef Guillaume Rousse: 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:

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

2012-06-27 Thread andre999
Thomas Backlund a écrit : Thomas Backlund skrev 26.6.2012 22:25: So, we have been discussing this many times, and not gotten any satisfactory decision to go ahead yet... First off, we decided long ago that backports will be better supported than during mdv times, meaning security and

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

2012-06-27 Thread andre999
AL13N a écrit : Op dinsdag 26 juni 2012 23:15:16 schreef Sander Lepik: 26.06.2012 22:25, Thomas Backlund kirjutas: * backports is supported as long as the rest of the release Comments? Questions ? I think we should change the wording from supported to tested. Currently we

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

2012-06-27 Thread andre999
Thomas Backlund a écrit : Sander Lepik skrev 26.6.2012 23:15: 26.06.2012 22:25, Thomas Backlund kirjutas: * backports is supported as long as the rest of the release Comments? Questions ? I think we should change the wording from supported to tested. Currently we can support backport with a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

2012-06-27 Thread andre999
Sander Lepik a écrit : 27.06.2012 10:56, andre999 kirjutas: Or we could say partially supported, or low-priority support. Since the support is more than just testing. How is it more than testing? QA will test if the package installs w/o conflicts + will check that it at least starts

Re: [Mageia-dev] Remove upgrade functionnality in installer

2012-06-27 Thread andre999
Anne nicolas a écrit : But using a DVD to upgrade an already installed system is a good way to get around the fact that many packages, including nonfree firmware, are missing from the DVD. If one does a clean install, one has to try to find a lot of missing packages, because they are no longer

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

2012-06-27 Thread andre999
Thomas Backlund a écrit : andre999 skrev 27.6.2012 10:47: Thomas Backlund a écrit : Thomas Backlund skrev 26.6.2012 22:25: And then the questions we need to decide on: (substitute mga1/mga2 for any future release...) 1. Do we support backporting package with higher version than

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

2012-06-27 Thread andre999
nicolas vigier a écrit : On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote: Thomas Backlund a écrit : andre999 skrev 27.6.2012 14:40: Thomas Backlund a écrit : andre999 skrev 27.6.2012 10:47: I would favour adding the requirement that the dependancies

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

2012-06-27 Thread andre999
nicolas vigier a écrit : On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote: I would favour tagging backports as update repos, so that in the event of a newer backport for security or bug fixes, that it will be automatically presented with other updates. No. as the update applet currently

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

2012-06-27 Thread andre999
nicolas vigier a écrit : On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote: nicolas vigier a écrit : On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote: Thomas Backlund a écrit : andre999 skrev 27.6.2012 14:40: Thomas Backlund a écrit : andre999 skrev

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

2012-06-27 Thread andre999
nicolas vigier a écrit : On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote: nicolas vigier a écrit : On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote: I would favour tagging backports as update repos, so that in the event of a newer backport for security or bug fixes, that it will be automatically

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

2012-06-27 Thread andre999
nicolas vigier a écrit : On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote: nicolas vigier a écrit : On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote: nicolas vigier a écrit : On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote: I would favour tagging backports as update repos, so

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

2012-06-27 Thread andre999
Angelo Naselli a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 27/06/2012 20:27, andre999 ha scritto: By tagging the package in the name (someone suggested using bp), it could be readily determined by any user that a package is a backport. And as i told already, changing

Re: [Mageia-dev] Remove upgrade functionnality in installer

2012-06-25 Thread andre999
Jeff Robins a écrit : On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, andre999andre999...@laposte.net wrote: Note also that with upgrade install, even firmware that is missing from the release (and not only the DVD) remains installed. So there are cases where an upgrade install necessarily produces a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Remove upgrade functionnality in installer

2012-06-23 Thread andre999
Marja van Waes a écrit : On 23/06/2012 13:50, Anne Nicolas wrote: Hi there I'd like to propose this one: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:RemoveUpgradeInstaller Feel free to comment Cheers * Many people (many reporters in the forums) had problems with the upgrade function of Mgaapplet,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Remove upgrade functionnality in installer

2012-06-23 Thread andre999
Anne nicolas a écrit : 2012/6/23 Colin Guthriemag...@colin.guthr.ie: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Nicolas at 23/06/12 12:50 did gyre and gimble: Hi there I'd like to propose this one: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:RemoveUpgradeInstaller Hmm, I wonder if it should be fully

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

2012-06-22 Thread andre999
AL13N a écrit : Op vrijdag 22 juni 2012 18:14:50 schreef David W. Hodgins: On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:11:58 -0400, AL13Nal...@rmail.be wrote: ok, i guess when people said, supported, i immediately assumed full support. that kind of misled me. My understanding, is that backports

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:Backports_update_applet

2012-06-12 Thread andre999
blind Pete a écrit : andre999 wrote: blind Pete a écrit : Samuel Verschelde wrote: Following Backports opening due soon, and since our policy is that backports are supported (security, bugfix), we need a way to push backport updates for users who installed backports

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-12 Thread andre999
blind Pete a écrit : andre999 wrote: blind Pete a écrit : Samuel Verschelde wrote: Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 20:20:54, David W. Hodgins a écrit : On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:22:41 -0400, Samuel Verschelde sto...@laposte.net wrote: I think

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

2012-06-12 Thread andre999
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? I saw mentioning that QA is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-12 Thread andre999
nicolas vigier a écrit : On Fri, 08 Jun 2012, Samuel Verschelde wrote: Maybe we shouldn't open backports for Mageia 1, and make sure upgrade to Mageia 3 can take backports from Mageia 2 into account so that backports to Mageia 2 are not stopped when Mageia 3 is released. Then we'll be

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-12 Thread andre999
nicolas vigier a écrit : On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote: nicolas vigier a écrit : On Fri, 08 Jun 2012, Samuel Verschelde wrote: Maybe we shouldn't open backports for Mageia 1, and make sure upgrade to Mageia 3 can take backports from Mageia 2 into account so

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-10 Thread andre999
Thomas Backlund a écrit : 09.06.2012 13:29, andre999 skrev: OK. To backport from Cauldron to mga1, we have to backport from Cauldron to mga2, (bumping the revision in cauldron to ensure that is is higher), then backport from mga2 to mga1, ensuring that the revision is lower in mga1 than

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread andre999
blind Pete a écrit : Samuel Verschelde wrote: Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 20:20:54, David W. Hodgins a écrit : On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:22:41 -0400, Samuel Verschelde sto...@laposte.net wrote: I think you missed my point. If Mageia 1 backports has higher versions than

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread andre999
Sander Lepik a écrit : 08.06.2012 11:38, Samuel Verschelde kirjutas: I re-read the backports policy, and there's a part I think needs to be pointed out before people start to backport packages. We need to ensure that upgrades never fail: cauldron must always have a higher version/release

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:Backports_update_applet

2012-06-09 Thread andre999
blind Pete a écrit : Samuel Verschelde wrote: Following Backports opening due soon, and since our policy is that backports are supported (security, bugfix), we need a way to push backport updates for users who installed backports. Otherwise, we can't really say that we're providing

[Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

2012-06-05 Thread andre999
Hi everyone, Since my last post, we have 2 new apprentice candidates looking for a mentor. simplew (Pedro), who is a longtime user of various rpm-based distros, is most interested in Gnome and KDE packages. As you have probably noticed, he has already been struggling with packaging on his

Re: [Mageia-dev] Volunteering to [attempt] packaging.

2012-06-02 Thread andre999
Hi Rob, I'm contacting you in my role as packager mentoring coordinator. (continued below) Robert Wood a écrit : Following a discussion on the forum, I'd like to volunteer to do some packaging. I develop software [and hardware] for a living, *but* this is little embedded programs that work

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release task-obsolete-3-1.mga3

2012-05-29 Thread andre999
Colin Guthrie a écrit : 'Twas brillig, and Jani Välimaa at 29/05/12 16:13 did gyre and gimble: On 29.05.2012 17:38, Sander Lepik wrote: 29.05.2012 17:14, wally kirjutas: Name: task-obsoleteRelocations: (not relocatable) Version : 3

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 DVD 64bits install is broken

2012-05-27 Thread andre999
John a écrit : On Sun, 27 May 2012 04:18:19 +0100 Simple . wrote: 2012/5/27 Simple .simpl...@gmail.com: 2012/5/27 Johnj...@neodoc.biz: [...] _You_ used a Windows application to write the image to the USB key. If instead calling _You_ you had first went to

Re: [Mageia-dev] DVD isos content

2012-05-15 Thread andre999
Anne Nicolas a écrit : Le 15/05/2012 08:27, Remco Rijnders a écrit : On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:46:08PM +0200, Anne wrote in 4f971110.8090...@mageia.org: Hi there As you may have seen, we have some room left on DVD isos. Please answer this mail if you have some proposals for apps to be added

Re: [Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop laptop-mode-tools

2012-04-25 Thread andre999
zezinho a écrit : Em 25-04-2012 21:40, Colin Guthrie escreveu: As per https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5603 this causes problems on upgrade. It conflicts with newer upower and gnome as well as pm-utils. Should we just drop it? Co My laptop works nicely without it : same power used,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Impossible to change the locale to Greek language (el)

2012-04-10 Thread andre999
Zézinho a écrit : Em 09-04-2012 13:09, Dimitrios Glentadakis escreveu: The pull of translations with locales-xx would be a comfort way to switch the environment language. Comfort against disk space. If you want to be able to switch to any language, just check the box 'all languages' at

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release dovecot-1.2.17-3.mga2

2012-02-27 Thread andre999
Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Op maandag 27 februari 2012 09:20:17 schreef Guillaume Rousse: Le 27/02/2012 08:00, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Is it necessary to have these --with[out]* compile flags in the package description? maybe not necessary, but definitively useful.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Looking for a packaging mentor

2012-02-26 Thread andre999
Pierre-Malo Deniélou a écrit : Le 26/02/12 16:55,Jeff Robins nous adresse ces quelques mots : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/26/2012 04:09 AM, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote: I can be your mentor, although I'm in the UK. If you don't mind being on IRC

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

2012-02-24 Thread andre999
Buchan Milne a écrit : 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

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

2012-02-24 Thread andre999
Thomas Backlund a écrit : Michael Scherer skrev 24.2.2012 19:14: Le vendredi 24 février 2012 à 12:12 +0100, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : I think wine is using 32bit packages too. I think people who are able to use wine ( who is far from being fool proof enough ) are also able to read a doc

Re: [Mageia-dev] About dm

2012-02-19 Thread andre999
Guillaume Rousse a écrit : Le 18/02/2012 01:28, andre999 a écrit : Exactly. Let's document all virtual provides. Once again 'virtual provide' makes no sense, just because there is no non-virtual provides (and in plain english, no provides at all, because that's a verb, not a noun

Re: [Mageia-dev] About dm

2012-02-19 Thread andre999
andre999 a écrit : Guillaume Rousse a écrit : Le 18/02/2012 01:28, andre999 a écrit : Exactly. Let's document all virtual provides. Once again 'virtual provide' makes no sense, just because there is no non-virtual provides (and in plain english, no provides at all, because that's a verb

Re: [Mageia-dev] About dm

2012-02-17 Thread andre999
Michael Scherer a écrit : Le vendredi 17 février 2012 à 16:20 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Op vrijdag 17 februari 2012 15:15:37 schreef Michael Scherer: [...] Because no one never documented exactly what is needed to be providing dm, or what it exactly mean. Does it mean to be

Re: [Mageia-dev] Can't switch to virtual consoles

2012-02-15 Thread andre999
Thomas Backlund a écrit : 14.02.2012 21:50, Juan Luis Baptiste skrev: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Guillaume Rousse guillomovi...@gmail.com wrote: Le 14/02/2012 19:58, Juan Luis Baptiste a écrit : Can you check if systemd has forked mingetty for the text consoles yet?

Re: [Mageia-dev] -- mozilla branding issues -- was [Seamonkey package]

2012-02-07 Thread andre999
Julien a écrit : Le Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:04:05 +0100, Florian Hubolddoktor5...@arcor.de a écrit : Am 12.01.2012 16:55, schrieb Florian Hubold: Am 07.01.2012 18:36, schrieb Florian Hubold: Am 16.04.2011 16:05, schrieb Christiaan Welvaart: On Fri, 11 Mar 2011,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Seamonkey mga1 package missing updates - mozilla branding issues -- was [Seamonkey package]

2012-02-07 Thread andre999
Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : On 06.02.2012 22:15, Florian Hubold wrote: Am 06.02.2012 21:43, schrieb Kamil Rytarowski: In my opinion we can drop that package, and in its place have Firefox-ESR, next to standard Firefox. How are we supposed to drop seamonkey/iceape from a released distro?

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

2012-02-07 Thread andre999
Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Op maandag 06 februari 2012 08:50:21 schreef Sander Lepik: 06.02.2012 09:38, Funda Wang kirjutas: And, don't forget, we still have a package named firefox-beta. If we stick with FF10, then some day we will come to a situation of firefox-10.0.4 and

Re: [Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2

2012-02-06 Thread andre999
Maurice Batey a écrit : On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:50:27 -0500, Michel Catudal wrote: On my son's computer I installed it on the MBR. I couldn't figure out how to do that. It seemed to me that it had to have a FAT32 partition, and that one would need to be running Windows to run the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2

2012-02-06 Thread andre999
Also the url for extipl is no longer valid. (It hasn't been developed since 2002.) Since extipl uses unallocated sectors on the disk, and not a separate partition, it can't be used on disks with gpt partition tables. (The usually unallocated 62 sectors at the beginning of a disk with an

Re: [Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2

2012-02-04 Thread andre999
Michel Catudal a écrit : Le 03/02/2012 19:05, Pierre Jarillon a écrit : I have installed Mageia on a disk after Ubuntu. After the install, I reboot and Ubuntu was ignored in Grub. The owner of the PC was not happy and tought that Mageia is bad. I have not found how to restore an access to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2

2012-02-04 Thread andre999
Michel Catudal a écrit : Le 2012-02-04 04:32, andre999 a écrit : [...] I have been using xosl for years and it works like a charm. On my computer I needed to install eComStation 2.1(OS/2) and it wants to be on drive A: just like windows. I disconnected the other drives and installed

Re: [Mageia-dev] exfat support in Mga2

2012-02-03 Thread andre999
Michael Scherer a écrit : Le vendredi 03 février 2012 à 16:23 +0100, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit : Hello! What do you think of support exfat in Mga2? There are two packages (already in Debian, Fedora, partly Mandriva) exfat-fuse and exfat-utils both iinm shall land in tainted. Why ?

[Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

2012-01-26 Thread andre999
Hi everyone, Currently we have 4 apprentice candidates looking for a mentor. am2605 (Andrew Myers), has been waiting now about 2 months. He is a longtime Fedora, a web developer, interested in packaging related to Gnome, Java, Eclipse among others, teaching himself Mageia packaging basics.

Re: [Mageia-dev] [ANN] unbloated installer stage1

2012-01-24 Thread andre999
John Balcaen a écrit : 2012/1/24 Olav Vitterso...@vitters.nl: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:09:02PM +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Total gain on boot.iso: -23Mb (57.5%) on x86_64 (less on i586) Yay, more space for GNOME! (my interest :P) Nice work :) :) Currently we

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread andre999
Oliver Burger a écrit : Hi, while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ ~/tmp/ (one for every user) [...] Can't we do something about that? Thanks, Oliver Sounds like a good

Re: [Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

2012-01-21 Thread andre999
Colin Guthrie a écrit : 'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 21/01/12 17:21 did gyre and gimble: Hi, while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: /tmp/ /var/tmp/ ~/tmp/ (one for every user) Now I can

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

2012-01-20 Thread andre999
Anssi Hannula a écrit : On 20.01.2012 08:07, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: Hi, I have packaged Warsow[1], which it's engine is open source but as with other games I have packaged, the data files are licensed with a non-free license called Warsow Content License [2], which allows unmodified

Re: [Mageia-dev] Packaging MDS and Pulse2

2012-01-18 Thread andre999
Glen Ogilvie a écrit : Hi, I've noticed that a project I work on, MDS (http://mds.mandriva.org) is not yet packaged for Mageia. I am wondering if Mageia can package it as Mandriva Directory Server, or if we need to change the name and fork the MDS project in order to package it. Ref:

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

2012-01-14 Thread andre999
Luc Menut a écrit : Le 13/01/2012 02:22, D.Morgan a écrit : On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Maarten Vanraesal...@rmail.be wrote: see https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozilla-firefox- extended-support-release/ see

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

2012-01-13 Thread andre999
Christian Lohmaier a écrit : On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Juan Luis Baptistejuan...@mageia.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+mag...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Juan Luis Baptistejuan...@mageia.org wrote:

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

2012-01-13 Thread andre999
Chris Evans a écrit : *From:* Claire Robinson m...@gmail.com *To:* mageia-dev@mageia.org *Sent:* Friday, January 13, 2012 6:45 AM *Subject:* Re: [Mageia-dev] FireFox ESR = we should totally go for this wrt stable

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