Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-06-01 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 31 May 2006 at 15:49, houghi wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:01:40AM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: Is it really asked too much for a user to know how to install software?: Apparently. Even installing software that is on CD 1 can be a chalange. At this moment the Linux users are changing

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

2006-06-01 Thread houghi
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:23:23AM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: I'm afraid that too much effort is put into making the last two categories of users happy, while in fact those are exactly the kind of users who won't be happy with Linux. They want the possibility to ruin their installation

Re: [opensuse-factory] my XML project

2006-06-01 Thread Robert Schiele
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:04:59PM +0200, houghi wrote: I tried till now only Schiele and that one did not work. As soon as I I looked into this and most likely identified the problem. If you like then try again now. It will still complain that it is not signed but I suppose it to work now.

[opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-01 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I noticed that Fedora seems to have switched to using Logical Volumes for installing on the hard disk since FC4. I personally am using LVM myself for a very long time and must say I am very fond of it. It provides much more flexibility than using

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-01 Thread jdd
Lenz Grimmer wrote: I'd like to propose that SUSE Linux considers switching to this scheme for new installations by default, too - I now filed this as an enhancement request in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=180762 if you can garanty that one hard drive failure won't

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-01 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, jdd wrote: if you can garanty that one hard drive failure won't make me lose all my data, I'ok (I have several HD, of course, each with part of my system) In what respect would that be different from a hard disk failure with regular

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-01 Thread jdd
Lenz Grimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, jdd wrote: if you can garanty that one hard drive failure won't make me lose all my data, I'ok (I have several HD, of course, each with part of my system) In what respect would that be different from a hard disk

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Galloway
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:08:02PM +0200, Lenz Grimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I noticed that Fedora seems to have switched to using Logical Volumes for installing on the hard disk since FC4. I personally am using LVM myself for a very long time and must

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-01 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, Lenz Grimmer wrote: I noticed that Fedora seems to have switched to using Logical Volumes for installing on the hard disk since FC4. I personally am using LVM myself for a very long time and must say I am very fond of it. It provides much more flexibility than using plain partitions,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Update stack test build

2006-06-01 Thread Andreas Hanke
Hi, I'd like to know if / propose that the following bugs are candidates for inclusion in the package management update: - Option to disable missing signature complaints is not persistent https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=175845 Not because of its severity - it's actually labelled as

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-01 Thread jdd
Pascal Bleser wrote: jdd wrote: ... AFAIK, if LVM uses 4 disks and one of them fails, the hole file system is lost. With the usual system only the file system on the faulty disk is lost. That's quite oversimplified, but it's more or less correct, as with RAID 0 (striping). On the other

Re: [opensuse-factory] Update stack test build

2006-06-01 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Andreas Hanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'd like to know if / propose that the following bugs are candidates for inclusion in the package management update: - Option to disable missing signature complaints is not persistent https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=175845 It will

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-01 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 1 Jun 2006 at 15:08, Lenz Grimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I noticed that Fedora seems to have switched to using Logical Volumes for installing on the hard disk since FC4. I personally am using LVM myself for a very long time and must say I am very

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-01 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
jdd wrote: given modern disks are large, is it possible to have LVM strictly assigned at one disk, or separate LVM to each disk? Of course. sharing a partition between several disks don't seems so nice to me (when not strictly necessary), but when a drive fails, anyway all it's content is

Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?

2006-06-01 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Ulrich Windl wrote: On 1 Jun 2006 at 15:08, Lenz Grimmer wrote: [...]Logical Volumes[...] I'd like to propose that SUSE Linux considers switching to this scheme for new installations by default, too - I now filed this as an enhancement request in Bugzilla: