Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-13 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > > > It's just a matter of calling "createrepo /dir/to/rpms/" to turn > > > them into YUM repos. For 10.0 those would work out of the box with > > > YaST or yum. > > > > That'd be one for Eberhard I would think, it is his server after all > > ;)

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Carl Hartung
On Monday 12 September 2005 22:45, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > "Man" is the glue (me, I guess). I like to assure that we in practice > have no real gap. > > Cheers -e Thanks for the brief synopsis, Eberhard, and for humoring my pent-up curiosity. You do an amazingly difficult job in an amazing

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Carl Hartung wrote: On Monday 12 September 2005 19:42, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: I will surely not get a new server this year like I think I need (quad Opteron with 32 GB RAM, 15 TEuro money at least), so we have to care that the current server(s) will stay able to

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Carl Hartung
On Monday 12 September 2005 20:05, Anders Johansson wrote: > www.gwdg.de/index_us.html > > It's not exactly something based in somebody's basement > I already understood that, Anders. I envisioned the place being a data center or campus complex like those I've visited in the past: - SLAC, Stanfor

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Anders Johansson
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 01:56, Carl Hartung wrote: > It's probably none of my business, and you can tell me that without > offending me, but how in the world does this amount of infrastructure get > /paid/ for in the first place? All the bandwidth? The hardware? Eberhard's > Rolls Royce? :-) I

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Carl Hartung
On Monday 12 September 2005 19:42, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > I will surely not get a new server this year like I think I need (quad > Opteron with 32 GB RAM, 15 TEuro money at least), so we have to care that > the current server(s) will stay able to fulfill their tasks within time. > > ftp.gwdg

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, James Ogley wrote: It's just a matter of calling "createrepo /dir/to/rpms/" to turn them into YUM repos. For 10.0 those would work out of the box with YaST or yum. That'd be one for Eberhard I would think, it is his server after all ;) ISTR this was trialed at one po

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread James Ogley
> It's just a matter of calling "createrepo /dir/to/rpms/" to turn them into > YUM repos. For 10.0 those would work out of the box with YaST or yum. That'd be one for Eberhard I would think, it is his server after all ;) ISTR this was trialed at one point[1] [1] See http://rubberturnip.org.uk/

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, houghi wrote: > > If you need yum packages for older SUSE releases, I can build them and put > > them into my people dir on ftp.suse.com... > > Not me personally and ftp.suse.com is so slow, I sometimes think it is a > server at somebodies home behind an ISDN link. :-) s/ft

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread houghi
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:27:33PM +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote: > It's just a matter of calling "createrepo /dir/to/rpms/" to turn them into > YUM repos. For 10.0 those would work out of the box with YaST or yum. For 10.0 that would be great. I guess some addition (Yum repo's) to http://www.ope

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, houghi wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:51:38PM +0100, James Ogley wrote: > > > That's http://packman.links2linux.org > > > And here's another one: http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ > > > > ...and also http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms :) > > Do you plan on converting that to

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread houghi
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:51:38PM +0100, James Ogley wrote: > > That's http://packman.links2linux.org > > And here's another one: http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ > > ...and also http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms :) Do you plan on converting that to Yast repo's as well, or will that stay apt-only?

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread James Ogley
> That's http://packman.links2linux.org > And here's another one: http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ ...and also http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms :) -- James Ogley [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME for SuSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms Make Poverty History: http://makepovertyhistory.org

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Youssef CHAHIBI
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Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread houghi
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:51:49PM +, Youssef CHAHIBI wrote: > > http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories > > The first part is done. Hope you like it. > > > Great work, thanks ! > But just a proposition, do you think that the directories should be sorted > from the most r

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Barry Hinrichs
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:42 +0200, houghi wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:51:12AM -0400, Carl Hartung wrote: > > On Monday 12 September 2005 08:37, houghi wrote: > > > > > This is getting very confusing. I personally like the Yast Repositories > > > better an easier to use: > > > http://www.op

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Youssef CHAHIBI
> http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories > The first part is done. Hope you like it. > Great work, thanks ! But just a proposition, do you think that the directories should be sorted from the most recent (10.0), to the oldest (7.x) ?

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread houghi
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:51:12AM -0400, Carl Hartung wrote: > On Monday 12 September 2005 08:37, houghi wrote: > > > This is getting very confusing. I personally like the Yast Repositories > > better an easier to use: > > http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories > > Hi Hough

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Carl Hartung
On Monday 12 September 2005 08:37, houghi wrote: > This is getting very confusing. I personally like the Yast Repositories > better an easier to use: > http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories Hi Houghi, It /is/ confusing to me sometimes, too, so don't feel bad. The way I've

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Carl Hartung
On Monday 12 September 2005 08:02, Pascal Bleser wrote: > That's http://packman.links2linux.org Thanks for pointing out my link is bad! (copied & pasted) - Carl - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Rodge
On Monday 12 September 2005 12:38, Redhat Admin wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm fairly new to Suse and I just installed 9.3 onto my new laptop, I > think its pretty good. I'm usually a Fedora user but I'm getting bored > and want to try something else. Anyway, the thing I love about fedora is > all t

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread houghi
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:02:13PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Carl Hartung wrote: > > On Monday 12 September 2005 07:38, Redhat Admin wrote: > >> What I'd like to know is, are there any such equivalent repos for suse 9.3 > ... > > There are a

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Hartung wrote: > On Monday 12 September 2005 07:38, Redhat Admin wrote: >> What I'd like to know is, are there any such equivalent repos for suse 9.3 ... > There are a lot of great '3rd party' package maintainers for SUSE, too. > MPlayer etc. and

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Carl Hartung
On Monday 12 September 2005 07:38, Redhat Admin wrote: > What I'd like to know is, are there any such equivalent repos for suse 9.3 > ? > > Brian. Hi Brian, The correct list for 9.3 (released) questions is suse-linux-e. Visit http://lists.suse.com for info on that. There are a lot of great '3rd

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Youssef CHAHIBI
> Hello all, > > I'm fairly new to Suse and I just installed 9.3 onto my new laptop, I > think its pretty good. I'm usually a Fedora user but I'm getting bored > and want to try something else. Anyway, the thing I love about fedora is > all the extra yum/apt repositories around the 'net, eg > > f

Re: [opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hi, On Monday, September 12, 2005 at 21:38:39, Redhat Admin wrote: > Anyway, the thing I love about fedora is > all the extra yum/apt repositories around the 'net > > What I'd like to know is, are there any such equivalent repos for suse 9.3 ? http://www.opensuse.org/YaST_package_repository H

[opensuse] Extra Packages....

2005-09-12 Thread Redhat Admin
Hello all, I'm fairly new to Suse and I just installed 9.3 onto my new laptop, I think its pretty good. I'm usually a Fedora user but I'm getting bored and want to try something else. Anyway, the thing I love about fedora is all the extra yum/apt repositories around the 'net, eg freshrpms a