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Hello,
Spent some time debugging it, so I share my experience:
I use a local http server as installation source for factory. After
yesterday's sync I found, that installation sources are broken,
packages.sk is not available. It turned out, that it's a symlink, and
'AllowSymLinks' is missing from
Dňa Št 19. Júl 2007 12:49 Peter Czanik napísal:
Hello,
Spent some time debugging it, so I share my experience:
I use a local http server as installation source for factory. After
yesterday's sync I found, that installation sources are broken,
packages.sk is not available. It turned out, that
Everything was working on 10.3 Alpha4plus, setup using hp-setup. I
hadn't tried printing again until 10.3 Alpha5plus. Jobs get queued but
not printed. A test print to either Photosmart C4180 or DeskJet 840C
from http://localhost:631 causes either printer status to go from green
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Hi community,
The next alpha6 of openSUSE 10.3 will contain lot of changes in the package
management code.
I will try to summarize what is new so you can help us testing. The
integration can bring some regressions, so please test it and help us to fix
the remaining bugs during the betas.
Repository handling
- Repositories can now be added either via yast, zypper or just copying
a .repo file to /etc/zypp/repos.d
- a .repo file added by hand could have more than one repository defined
inside.
- Mixing of hand repo operations with API repo operations in all combinations
should
Hi guys.
If you read already the news on package management, there are some open issues
we would like to have feedback from you.
As you may know, now all operations on repositories are splitted, so you can
add a repository without downloading metadata. But at some point to operate
on them
Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett escribió:
for the search, you need cache, for the cache you need metadata. Should
ZYpper
exit and tell the user to refresh, or should it ask the user whether to
refresh without exiting?
hrmmm.. I think neither of those.. why ask if it knows that a refresh
is needed
Den Thursday 19 July 2007 17:51:39 skrev Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett:
zypper sa http://foo bar
Maybe zypper should ask already at this point: Repository added succesfully.
Do you wish to download metadata (xx MB) now ? y/n?
zypper search moo
zypper install cuack
for the search, you need cache,
Can the new GNOME/KDE cd's be used to install a text only version as
well as a minimal graphical system?
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Am Thursday 19 July 2007 schrieb Coach-X:
Can the new GNOME/KDE cd's be used to install a text only version as
well as a minimal graphical system?
Sure. You need to deactivate the patterns.
Greetings, Stephan
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote:-
snip
Media and Download
==
openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 for i386, x86-64 and ppc comes as different media
sets:
* 1 DVD containing the contents of the 5 CDs and the NonOSS AddOn CD
* 1 CD with a default KDE installation (not for ppc yet)
* 1 CD
On 7/19/2007 1:38 PM, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Thursday 19 July 2007 schrieb Coach-X:
Can the new GNOME/KDE cd's be used to install a text only version as
well as a minimal graphical system?
Sure. You need to deactivate the patterns.
Thanks for the reply, what I meant to ask was, can you
Den Thursday 19 July 2007 19:46:16 skrev David Bolt:
No mention of the normal CD ISOs, nor the alpha5_alpha6 delta ISOs,
being released. Are there plans to create and release the normal CD
ISOs?
See the transscript of yesterday's status meeting:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Martin Schlander wrote:-
Den Thursday 19 July 2007 19:46:16 skrev David Bolt:
No mention of the normal CD ISOs, nor the alpha5_alpha6 delta ISOs,
being released. Are there plans to create and release the normal CD
ISOs?
See the transscript of yesterday's status meeting:
Am Thursday 19 July 2007 schrieb David Bolt:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote:-
snip
Media and Download
==
openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 for i386, x86-64 and ppc comes as different media
sets:
* 1 DVD containing the contents of the 5 CDs and the NonOSS AddOn CD
* 1 CD
Am Thursday 19 July 2007 schrieb Coach-X:
On 7/19/2007 1:38 PM, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Thursday 19 July 2007 schrieb Coach-X:
Can the new GNOME/KDE cd's be used to install a text only version as
well as a minimal graphical system?
Sure. You need to deactivate the patterns.
Thanks for
Am Thursday 19 July 2007 schrieb David Bolt:
There was a status meeting yesterday? I didn't see any mention of that
in announce otherwise I'd have tried to be there. However. After reading
the transcript, it does explain things a bit. I do have a feeling that
there are going to be quite a few
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote:-
I'm sure there are people having used them. But we feel that one CD installs
are more useful to more people. I guess having to throw away the CDs and not
having deltas available is a big hit, but you seem to have no bandwidth
problems :)
For uploads, I
On Thursday 19 July 2007 20:50:48 David Bolt wrote:
There was a status meeting yesterday? I didn't see any mention of that
in announce otherwise I'd have tried to be there. However. After reading
The reminder was a bit earlier posted than usual, already on Monday. :-)
I do have a feeling
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
Trying to upgrade from alpha 5 to alpha 6 and I'm getting a lot of curl
errors with an unrecognized error code. Appears to be an ftp error.
Never had this on all of the previous alpha upgrades.
Ken
Where did you find Alpha 6?
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Stephan Binner wrote:-
On Thursday 19 July 2007 20:50:48 David Bolt wrote:
There was a status meeting yesterday? I didn't see any mention of that
in announce otherwise I'd have tried to be there. However. After reading
The reminder was a bit earlier posted than usual,
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:20 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote:
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
Trying to upgrade from alpha 5 to alpha 6 and I'm getting a lot of curl
errors with an unrecognized error code. Appears to be an ftp error.
Never had this on all of the previous alpha upgrades.
Ken
Where
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:46 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote:
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:20 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote:
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
Trying to upgrade from alpha 5 to alpha 6 and I'm getting a lot of curl
errors with an unrecognized error code. Appears to be
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:46 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote:
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:20 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote:
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
Trying to upgrade from alpha 5 to alpha 6 and I'm getting a lot of curl
errors with an unrecognized error
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 18:22 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote:
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:46 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote:
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:20 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote:
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
Trying to upgrade from alpha 5 to alpha 6
I always get problems with gmail webmail, because it sorts conversations
incorrectly. For instance, someone changes the subject, and it breaks.
Mmm ya it can do that... I use GMail mainly for the openSUSE mailing
lists, and generally speaking I can't think of many times that this
happens.
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 18:01 +0200, Krupanský Rastislav wrote:
If you want to try cutting edge Compiz-Fusion see this:
http://dev.beryl-project.org/~cyberorg/suse/38/want-to-take-compiz-fusion-for-a-test-ride
If you are not adventurous, I'd advise you to stick with the official
Hi Marcus,
Thanks for your reply, but I'm afraid I still don't understand some of
it. If the package is installed but the patch isn't, I thought I should
see a green and white Z. What's the difference in these cases? When you
say 'it will be gone', do you mean the patch will be installed?
I wrote my problem here
http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=14t=152st=0sk=tsd=astart=50#p9847
and here too
http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=14t=152st=0sk=tsd=astart=60#p10080
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Komu: opensuse
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 09:37 +0200, Krupanský wrote:
I wrote my problem here
http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=14t=152st=0sk=tsd=astart=50#p9847
and here too
http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=14t=152st=0sk=tsd=astart=60#p10080
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Od:
Dňa Po 16. Júl 2007 09:17 peter nikolic napísal:
Hi .
I have Suse 10.2 x86_64 on my laptop that works very well apart from a
recent problem i am having when trying to update the system on line or
install new software yast will read the DVD and the on-line repositories
the actual selection
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 09:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 22:09 -0500, Stevens wrote:
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 21:12, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07-11-07 17:41]:
What is the best way to set the timeout to 120 permanently at
Dňa Št 19. Júl 2007 08:36 Marcus Meissner napísal:
Hi Marcus,
Thanks for your reply, but I'm afraid I still don't understand some of
it. If the package is installed but the patch isn't, I thought I should
see a green and white Z. What's the difference in these cases? When you
say 'it
Marcus Meissner wrote:
snip reply that I'll need to check on my 10.2 system this evening
The final aspect is specific to gtk2. There is a patch for gtk2, which I
have installed. Why can't I see a matching patch to gtk2-debuginfo?
There's a version conflict. Am I misunderstanding something or
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:00:01AM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
Marcus Meissner wrote:
snip reply that I'll need to check on my 10.2 system this evening
The final aspect is specific to gtk2. There is a patch for gtk2, which I
have installed. Why can't I see a matching patch to
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S Glasoe wrote:
On Wednesday July 18 2007 8:14:27 am Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
S Glasoe wrote:
On Wednesday July 18 2007 6:57:07 am Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
Sunny wrote:
On 7/17/07, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL
Hi,
The entire Zenworks system is broken for SP1. My Zenworks 7.2 patch
server still hasn't downloaded a single patch for SP1 even though
several are present on Novell's web site. The Zenworks people have
been very quite about this issue -
...
So, in essence if you have a
Hello,
How can I change the login screen?
(if this is not the correct name: I mean that screen that appears when booting
is cmplete or when you log out as a user, where you choose which user to use
and enter the password).
I am on Suse 10.0, just updated KDE to 3.5.7 - and now I have the new
hi all !
Is this subproject still alive ?
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenVZ_virtualization
If so, how can I find it's maintainers ?
I'm having trouble setting up openVZ on openSUSE.
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On 2007/07/19 14:46 (GMT+0200) Daniel Bauer apparently typed:
How can I change the login screen?
(if this is not the correct name: I mean that screen that appears when
booting
is cmplete or when you log out as a user, where you choose which user to use
and enter the password).
I am on
I have Kmail 1.9.7 installed on my openSUSE 10.2 box, when I am writing a
message with kmail and I get to the end of a line I can tell that wordwrap is
working but composer only moves the slider bar half way so it cuts off some
of the text at the start of the line. Is this something that can
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Hi,
I would like to reload the entire system from scratch but do not want to
have to re-download all the patches I have already downloaded.
After spending about an hour or two searching opensuse.org via Google
advanced search, without luck, I found and wrote:
No one can help me with this?
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 07:29, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Today I ran YaST Software Management for the first time in a few
weeks. It failed to update one of my repositories:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_10.0
It gave a
On Thursday 19 July 2007 11:00:01 Dave Howorth wrote:
There's a problem in gtk that apparently only shows up in some
configurations. I happen to have a configuration where it shows up and
was asked to try debugging with symbols to help locate it.
Wasn't this problem solved already? Or is this
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2007 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
No one can help me with this?
I can't, but probably someone else can with this info: I have clicked on
KDE:KDE3.repo in the directory you mention below, and it says:
XML-Verarbeitungsfehler: Syntax-Fehler
Adresse:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 19 July 2007 11:00:01 Dave Howorth wrote:
There's a problem in gtk that apparently only shows up in some
configurations. I happen to have a configuration where it shows up and
was asked to try debugging with symbols to help locate it.
Wasn't this problem
On Thursday 19 July 2007 09:09, Guido Pinkernell wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2007 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
No one can help me with this?
I can't, but probably someone else can with this info: I have clicked
on KDE:KDE3.repo in the directory you mention below, and it says:
On Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2007, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2007/07/19 14:46 (GMT+0200) Daniel Bauer apparently typed:
How can I change the login screen?
I am on Suse 10.0, just updated KDE to 3.5.7 - and now I have the new
blue Suse login screen, but I'd prefer to have my old one...
kdmrc
Hello,
I made a new email account in kmail. I say remember password wherever I find
this option, but kdewallet forgets it after user log out .
How can I tell kdewallet to please remember that password?
Thanks for hints
Daniel
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Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2007 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
On Thursday 19 July 2007 09:09, Guido Pinkernell wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2007 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
No one can help me with this?
I can't, but probably someone else can with this info: I have clicked
on KDE:KDE3.repo in
Personally I think it **could** be a really, really great product if
the Zenworks folks could ever get it to deal with with SLES10
correctly. I love being able to use rug to update stuff from the
command line -
Somehow the folks at Novell/Suse/Zenworks need to get stuff in sync.
Once that's
Hello! I have installed SLES10 SP1 and need mutt to be either disabled
or uninstalled. It seems mutt has many hooks into the base system. How
can i uninstall/disable mutt?
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Distro: OpenSuSE 10.2
Kernel: 2.6.18.2-34-default
Driver: sym53c8xx
System: Tyan S2469NG dual AMD MP 2600
My old 2469 motherboard broke, so I bought a new one, w/o the built-in
Adaptec SCSI, but w/ a Symbios 53C896... so everything is the same as
what worked last week, except SCSI.
Upon driver
On 2007/07/19 16:18 (GMT-0600) Chris Worley apparently typed:
Distro: OpenSuSE 10.2
Kernel: 2.6.18.2-34-default
Driver: sym53c8xx
My old 2469 motherboard broke, so I bought a new one, w/o the built-in
Adaptec SCSI, but w/ a Symbios 53C896... so everything is the same as
what worked last
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The Tuesday 2007-07-17 at 16:12 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I would like to reload the entire system from scratch but do not want to
have to re-download all the patches I have already downloaded.
What I would like to know, is where
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The Thursday 2007-07-19 at 08:55 +0200, Clayton wrote:
I always get problems with gmail webmail, because it sorts conversations
incorrectly. For instance, someone changes the subject, and it breaks.
Mmm ya it can do that... I use GMail mainly
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The Tuesday 2007-07-17 at 11:15 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
actually, I think what OP wants is to define an update source that
utilizes the already downloaded patches/updates that have been applied
to the existing system.
He figures that the
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The Tuesday 2007-07-17 at 17:53 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
He figures that the downloaded updates are stored *somewhere* on the
drive, and would like to use THOSE as the update repo, so that he does
not have to download them all again, after he
On 2007/07/19 18:34 (GMT-0400) Chris Worley apparently typed:
On 7/19/07, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IIRC, sym 895 896 chips do not share nicely, and prefer to use INT 10 or
11 over 9. Can you disable the sharing of the interrupts it wants in your
motherboard BIOS, or at least
When I run Yast Online Update, I see a Linux Kernel security update.
However, when I run the update, that one does not get applied, though
others do. I've included the relevant info from y2log.
2007-07-19 19:43:45 0 linux(14472) [media]
MediaHandler.cc(release):710 Request to release attached
James Knott wrote:
When I run Yast Online Update, I see a Linux Kernel security update.
However, when I run the update, that one does not get applied, though
others do. I've included the relevant info from y2log.
Forgot to mention, I'm running the 64 bit version.
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I still have to boot w/ noapic, but, otherwise, it works!!:
xserver:~ # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 43143 0 XT-PIC timer
1:238 0 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 1101 0
I have had 10.2 installed on one of my boxes since it was first released
and until today it never given me any problems. When I turned this box
on today the boot process started and froze at Setting up the hardware
clock. Tried several hardware resets and a few attempts at a Safe
Boot, but it
I am looking for a smtp package for SLES10; one that is configurable and
secure. Does opensuse site have a package?
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Chris Arnold wrote:
I am looking for a smtp package for SLES10; one that is configurable and
secure. Does opensuse site have a package?
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On Thursday 19 July 2007, Chris Arnold wrote:
I am looking for a smtp package for SLES10; one that is configurable and
secure. Does opensuse site have a package?
I can't believe you can't find that.
You have your choice of several. Yast would have asked you the setup
questions for it.
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Yast would have asked you the setup
questions for it.
Postfix is installed. I did not really want to use postfix. Where does
yast ask you for the setup?
Chris
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I am truly frustrated at applications like online
update, open suse update, Zen, what ever you like
enforcing the application set standards on an
acceptable response time from the update source.
When are we going to stop dictating to the comms
protocols, which are far more superior in making
On Thursday 19 July 2007 18:53, James Knott wrote:
James Knott wrote:
When I run Yast Online Update, I see a Linux Kernel security update.
However, when I run the update, that one does not get applied, though
others do. I've included the relevant info from y2log.
Forgot to mention, I'm
I have had 10.2 installed on one of my boxes since it was first released
and until today it never given me any problems. When I turned this box
on today the boot process started and froze at Setting up the hardware
clock. Tried several hardware resets and a few attempts at a Safe
Boot, but it
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On my 64 bit machine, I've been running the 32 bit version of Firefox
from the following repository:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/openSUSE_10.2
Yesterday, I installed the 64 bit version of Firefox and found that my
java plugin and
From what I have been able to find they do not exist yet.
Sun has not released a 64bit browser plugin and their 64bit package does
not include it.
Adobe has clearly stated on their web site (although the post is old
now) that the 64bit flash player is not ready yet either but that they
are
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I have had 10.2 installed on one of my boxes since it was first released
and until today it never given me any problems. When I turned this box
on today the boot process started and froze at Setting up the hardware
clock.
Hi Rick,
On Thursday 19 July 2007 22:16, Rick Friedman wrote:
On my 64 bit machine, I've been running the 32 bit version of Firefox
from the following repository:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/openSUSE_10.2
Yesterday, I installed the 64 bit version of Firefox and found that
Chris Arnold wrote:
I am looking for a smtp package for SLES10; one that is configurable and
secure. Does opensuse site have a package?
What's wrong with the smtp program that comes with sles and opensuse? We use
the suse-supplied postfix to handle millions of messages a month, out of the
box.
Chris Arnold wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
Yast would have asked you the setup
questions for it.
Postfix is installed. I did not really want to use postfix. Where does
yast ask you for the setup?
Just curious, what are the reasons you don't want to use postfix? In terms of
performance,
I have qt4.3.0-69.1 and family on my 10.2 system
which I got from online update.
The Skype engineers are telling me that this
version is buggy and has been replaced by
.2, .3 and now .4 which is the latest and
solves some problems they are seeing.
What are the chances of SUSE providing
the
Stephan Binner wrote:
Hello,
also to allow concentration on my team's main tasks more packages for sale:
took this one:
blueprint-cursor-theme
it there some hardware (cards, readers) packaged to this one?
libchipcard (-devel)
Martin
On Thursday, 19. July 2007 17:40:13 you wrote:
it there some hardware (cards, readers) packaged to this one?
libchipcard (-devel)
In theory yes, in practice I never had a chipcard reader (and a company bank
account filled with money) to test with. :-)
Bye,
Steve
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