Re: [opensuse-factory] distribution meeting - introduction and agenda

2006-08-18 Thread Adrian Schröter
Am Thursday 17 August 2006 17:47 schrieb Christian Boltz: Hello, Am Donnerstag, 17. August 2006 13:57 schrieb Andreas Jaeger: Christian Boltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My proposal: KMail, evolution and Thunderbird [1] should come with the local mailbox account /var/spool/mail/username

Re: [opensuse-factory] Change session to Gnome [10.2alpha3]

2006-08-18 Thread Adrian Schröter
Am Friday 18 August 2006 09:37 schrieb J Nash: Hey! I did a default with KDE as my desktop and now I want to try out Gnome. So I went to Software Management, selected the Gnome pattern and installed it. It installed fine but I can't seem to find it on the Session Type option before I login.

Re: [opensuse-factory] distribution meeting - introduction and agenda

2006-08-18 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2006-08-18 09:24:50 +0200, Adrian Schröter wrote: (Yes, I know that there was a package wishlist in bugzilla already in pre-openSUSE times. And I wonder why it was moved to the wiki.) the wiki is way more flexibel here and you can also see all the other package wishes in the same are

[opensuse-factory] simple packaging

2006-08-18 Thread jdd
may be this is already done somewhere, but is it possible to have a very simple documentation of how to make a openSUSE rpm. All what I have seen is very intimidating (for me, say for many others!). in short, given I have already compiled and running an application on my openSUSE computer,

Re: [opensuse-factory] simple packaging

2006-08-18 Thread Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
On Friday 18 August 2006 14:54, jdd wrote: is what stops me :-(. I have no previous idea of the rpm creation process it's probably a step by step tutorial for the creation of spec file that I miss :-() you are over-scared a .spec fle is all you need, it is basically a recipe it has some

Re: [opensuse-factory] SuSEconfig clearance: SuSEconfig.automake

2006-08-18 Thread Andreas Hanke
Hi, Christoph Thiel schrieb: Do you have a patch to extend automake? ;) No, I don't have such a patch right now. It's not difficult to do, but: however, /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist.d/* is a SUSE-only thingy If it's already a SUSE-only thingy, it shouldn't become more SUSE-only, it should

Re: [opensuse-factory] SuSEconfig clearance: SuSEconfig.automake

2006-08-18 Thread jdd
Andreas Hanke a écrit : Hi, Christoph Thiel schrieb: Do you have a patch to extend automake? ;) No, I don't have such a patch right now. It's not difficult to do, but: however, /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist.d/* is a SUSE-only thingy If it's already a SUSE-only thingy, it shouldn't become

Re: [opensuse-factory] SuSEconfig clearance: SuSEconfig.automake

2006-08-18 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Andreas Hanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Maybe SuSEconfig is not that bad after all ;-) There are cases where SuSEconfig is useable - but there are also cases where developers were lazy. SuSEconfig is slow and everybody complains about it - the easy way to remove it (doing everything in

[opensuse-factory] SuSEconfig clearance: SuSEconfig.xdm

2006-08-18 Thread Christoph Thiel
Hi there, to continue the SuSEconfig clearance initiative, let's have a look at SuSEconfig.xdm. It's actually a pretty easy case, as the various parts just need to be moved to /etc/init.d/xdm and startx. I already talk to Stefan, who'll take care of this change. Bug #200299 has been submitted

Re: [opensuse-factory] SuSEconfig clearance: SuSEconfig.automake

2006-08-18 Thread Robert Schiele
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:06:14AM +0200, Andreas Hanke wrote: Hi, Robert Schiele schrieb: Do you have a patch to extend automake? ;) That's an easy one: This patch applies to automake-1.9.6, but not to CVS HEAD. Sure, latest SUSE shipped version _is_ 1.9.6. But if this is a