On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Boyd Lynn Gerber:
> > I do not know anyone that is able to use the repair system. I am talking
> > about aprox... 200 users. This to me is a major pita. I really think
> > that we should get a
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Richard Creighton wrote:
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Ken Schneider:
> >>> This would require remastering 10.3 and we want to avoid that.
> >> How is that? Deltas are used all the time to update the alpha/beta
> >> releases, how is this differe
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Stephan Binner wrote:
> On Thursday, 4. October 2007 19:15:53 Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
>
> > I notice that there are no torrents at all listed in the email announcing
>
> The announces point to software.opensuse.org which lists torrent by default.
Yes, but re
Hello,
I notice that there are no torrents at all listed in the email announcing
the release. I thought this would be the main focuse for download. I am
only getting 1.5 K via ftp. Having the torrents made available in the
announcement like in the past should really be done.
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Boyd Gerber <[E
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:29:50PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > What's hppening? It's the 4th, but only for another hour and a half ;)
> >
> > Volker, you should know that we use German local time
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> Linksys PCMCIA wpc54g ver. 1.2 card.
>
> Just upgraded to 10.3 b3plus and the wireless is broken AGAIN! Worked
> with A5 a I recall. Upgraded to factory to see if any fixes might have
> taken place but no luck. I can't be the only one in the world tha
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
> > > I suppose for the quality of GNOME it would be more helpful if people
> > > would report issues upstream. At least if the perception is correct
> > > that bugs in openSUSE GNOME are only fixed by pul
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Michel Salim wrote:
> On 18/08/07, Michel Salim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I tried running the openSUSE 10.3b1 installer (using the GNOME x86
> > CD), and ran across a problem with detected disk geometry on a
> > Thinkpad T41p, with no other OS installed.
> >
> > I have had
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> On Tue 22 May 2007 02:18:49 NZST +1200, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
>
> > linuxrc in 10.2 is setup to ask for swap if you have less than about 256MB
> > RAM (provided you already have a swap partition.)
>
> Thanks. No mistaking the hard hang, so there ca
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Boyd Lynn Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >> Boyd Lynn Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> > [...]
> >> >> * Faster booting?
> >>
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Boyd Lynn Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > [...]
> >> * Faster booting?
> >> What can be done here?
> >
> > I have to way for DHCP. I do not use any DHCP. I have 4 NIC's. It is a
> > re
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> I have so far the the following topics for tomorrows meeting:
>
> * Enabling more network services to be Network manager aware, e.g. ntp
> and autofs
>
> * checkin policy for specific projects and how to track them
> Current example is postgresql.
>
Hello,
With all the great discussion on the topic, We need to get it going. I
like the IRC, but really think a summeray is needed on the email list to
keep consistency across time zone.
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Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Francis Giannaros wrote:
> On Saturday 03 March 2007 15:22:21 Rajko M. wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 March 2007 09:02, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
> > > I'm a bit critical about the _one_day_ bug testing because I think it's
> > > too short to examine the bugs of something complex li
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Most annoying bugs for now:
>
> * Adding a remote repository shows "/media.1/in not found". Just
>press OK to continue the install Bug 243498
>
> * ftp installation of mounted CD/DVD images is not possible (http
>seems to work - and installatio
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Sid Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >> Sid Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> I've created:
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3-AlphaXplus
>
> Andreas
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Jim Pye wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 22:31 +0100, jdd wrote:
> > Jim Pye wrote:
> > > 10.1 and 10.2 does not handle the default resolution of the very first
> > > screens of the install.
> >
> > textmode=1
>
> Problem was the screen where you enter this is the one trashed :-(
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Hans Witvliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
> > Why have dhcp, *if* one chooses for static address?
>
> What do others think?
I really would like to see dhcp removed. It should be an additional
choice. This would really speed things up. I have to
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Andreas Hanke wrote:
> > Mark Hounschell schrieb:
> >> If they split the 32 and 64 bit versions and put each on a DL-DVD
> >> it would all fit.
> > And who pays the bill for all the data that gets transfered just so that
> > every user has everything on
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Francis Giannaros wrote:
> > On Saturday 09 December 2006 01:08, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
>
> > > And you can shorten the destination parameter to . if the filename is the
> > > same as at the source.
> >
> > Hey! It's a wiki, a
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Saturday 2006-12-09 at 00:32 -, Francis Giannaros wrote:
> > Granted, the problem is with aria2. I hear the developer is working on this.
...
> Provided the client doesn't erase the already downloaded part without
> asking first: it does that. I had
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > 1) Novell did not prepare metalink files with segment information.
> > 2) the aria2c client doesn't handle segment checksums.
> >
> > You call that reliable? It is no more reliable than a single http/ftp
> > download.
>
> It is far less reliable than
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Thursday 2006-12-07 at 20:13 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>
> > > I don't know if ares2c is capable of a similar thing, but I had thought
> > > the metalink file included torrents as well.
> >
> > Apparently not :^(, I'm uploading at nearly the same
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Rajko M wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 December 2006 07:48, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > The Tuesday 2006-12-05 at 19:20 -0600, Rajko M wrote:
> > > I thought that more people with underpowered machines are present on
> > > openSUSE, but that is obviously not the case :-)
> >
> > Why do yo
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Felix Miata wrote:
> For several months at least, an FTP/HTTP installation must be baby sat.
> Always at least once, and usually several times throughout download and
> installation of packages, the installer claims the installation media
> cannot be accessed, and sits there st
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Marcel Hilzinger wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 28. November 2006 21:53 schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we just have prepared a ntfsprogs package which supports resizing of
> > NTFS partitions for Vista. This is rather new and untested and we
> > therefore need some testers to
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> How does this look? Are we fine to go for 10.2 and 10.3 with these?
> Goals
> =
> * Clear naming
> * Smaller repositories for faster metadata download
> * Use structure for 10.3 again
> Separate trees
> ==
> * OSS (factory)
> * NON-OSS (
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> It does not take longer time to get a sense for a shorter word.
> But directory listings have a chance to be readable and submitting URLs
> has a chance not to get broken if the path names are short.
>
> the length of
>
> /pub/opensuse/distribution/
Hello,
How are things going for Beta2? Any word on a guestimate on a release? I
heard their were a couple blockers? Are they fixed?
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Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 06/10/23 08:47 (GMT-0400) [EMAIL PROTECTED] apparently typed:
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204324
> >What|Removed |Added
> > --
Hello,
I received this email today. I hope whe can get it in factory and
released with OpenSUSE 10.2
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Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:14:22 +0200 (CEST)
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On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Andreas Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Nobody has answered so far - so what should be done?
> >
> > 4) Create a new pattern that includes just the bare minimum needed to
> > build external modules.
> >
> > Advantage: ?
> >
> > Disadvantage: Bloats
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Evan McClain wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > I remember all the nethack frontends have been dropped some time ago.
> > IIRC one of the main raisons was that they no longer work with newer
> > nethack backends,
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Andreas Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Robert Schiele schrieb:
> >> Does this happen with the current package?
> > Yes, installing kernel-debug on a Factory system where there was only
> > kernel-default installed renames the existing vmlinuz and
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:39:03PM -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > > I'm currently transfering most of my packages to the
> > > buildservice. Among these are also some games. We probably will
> > > introduce a "
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> I'm currently transfering most of my packages to the
> buildservice. Among these are also some games. We probably will
> introduce a "Games:" namespace for different kind of games.
I would like to see this namespace on the build service. I would li
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Christian Boltz wrote:
> > finger
>
> Is finger still used? IMHO fingerd disabled on most machines for
> security reasons, so there's no point in including the client in the
> default installation.
Yes, It is restricted to intranet. Very handy to use inside company
network to
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> I'm aware of the successor of Falcon's Eye. I suggest to create a
> package on the buildservice.
I have never used a graphical version of Nethack. I have won a few times
the various versions of Nethack. I do not get to play it very often as my
company t
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:33:09AM -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > > Is Pysol really so much better than kpat?
> > >
> > > > My mom *loves* Pysol. :-)
> > >
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> Is Pysol really so much better than kpat?
>
> > My mom *loves* Pysol. :-)
>
> You'll always find a person, which loves a special package. :-)
My wife has to have Pysol. It is the first thing I download for her
computer. She has used kpat but prefers Pys
The only game I really play is nethack. I dp not seem to find the X
version on any new SUSE releases. It seems the last version I remember it
on was 9.2. Was there a reason it seems to have been dropped?
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Robert Schiele wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:20:12AM -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > Maybe I look at core wrong. I feel a core system should have vi and
> > emacs as the default editors. I do not want to cause a vi/emacs debate.
> > So they sho
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Boyd Lynn Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Robert Schiele wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:48:28PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> >> > This basically boils down to first
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Robert Schiele wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:48:28PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > This basically boils down to first identifying the dependency sets for
> > - the install-time dependencies of a minimal install
> > - the build-requirements to build the minimal inst
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> The packagers have started already with the first packages, we want
> to discuss the timeframe for the move and the move of GNOME to /usr
> (from /opt/gnome).
I really like this move. I am just concerned that there will not be
enough time i
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> Am Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 17:02 schrieb jdd:
> > right now [...] I can't save the selection with 10.1
>
> I posted a possible workaround to the suse-linux mailinglist some time
> ago, maybe it helps ;-)
>
> You can save the package list with
> rp
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> Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> > Thats a bug in the 10.0 implementation.
>
> right now I use 10.0 because I can't save the selection with 10.1
Saving and retreiving selections is close to the top of my list of things
missing. Top is the package management t
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Martin Schlander wrote:
> Torsdag 13 juli 2006 13:49 skrev houghi:
> > Great news. Not so much the name, but taking away the confusion.
>
> You think this will end confusion?
>
> - Many of us have been trying to explain to people that the distro is SUSE
> Linux for the last 10
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> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:04:33PM +0200, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> > > Having each and every service seperated might not be wanted, because of
> > > complexity it will bring.
> >
> > Define one pattern "DNS Server" and one "DHCP Server" and one
> > "DNS
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> As a first step for discussion I propose these roles and patterns:
>
> * Graphical Environments
> - GNOME Desktop Environment
> - KDE Desktop Environment
> - X Window System (with fvwm2)
>
> * Base Technologies
> - Base System (always install
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> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 01:02:10PM -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > Will perl-Mail-SPF-Query-1.997-10.i586.rpm be upgraded in 10.2? There is
> > a new version Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1 and it will be the last. SPF now has
> >
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Will perl-Mail-SPF-Query-1.997-10.i586.rpm be upgraded in 10.2? There is
a new version Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1 and it will be the last. SPF now has
a RFC and are working on a new Mail-SPF. Mail-SPF should be available
July-Aug 2006.
http://search.c
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To start off I would like to thank SUSE/Novell for 10.1. I think the
following information may be of interest.
I have installed 10.1 over 10 times. I would like to report the results
and share my opinion.
10.1 runs well on older hardware once inst
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> > Em Dom, 2006-05-14 às 13:54 -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber escreveu:
> > > This makes the upgrade totally not an option. I will stay with 10.0 on
> > > the other 30 systems I have control over. I do not have the time to try
>
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> Em Dom, 2006-05-14 às 13:54 -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber escreveu:
> > This makes the upgrade totally not an option. I will stay with 10.0 on
> > the other 30 systems I have control over. I do not have the time to try
> Since I c
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> The Monday 2006-05-15 at 13:37 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> > > > > > I would like to report why I object to 10.1 package manager.
> > > > > Sadly , You are not the only one. :-(
> > > > I used y2pmsh instead. Very comfortably at the "solving"
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> is it possible to integrate also the Add-On-CD in the created DVD or does it
> work only with the normal 5 SL 10.1-install-CDs?
I have used it for all 6 CD's and a few other rpm's that I want on the DVD
and it worked perfectly. Look at [EMAIL PROTE
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I would like to report why I object to 10.1 package manager. I just
finished with the first CD (CD1). I tried to upgrade a production 10.0
server. I choose the upgrade option. It complained about not being able
to reslove them and had to have manu
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I have tried to post and I am not seeing messages. I also tried to get
messages with a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am not getting anything back. I have not received any messages since
early this morning. It seems like the list is down.
I am
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I have gone through the SUSE-10.0-DVD-SRC-GM.iso and I am unable to find
the source for applydeltaiso. I have also looked eveywhere I could find
on the factory trees. Where is the source for applydeltaiso?
Thanks,
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> On Thursday 20 April 2006 22:10, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > > Perhaps I'm just whining or venting some steam, but the aggressive
> > > release-schedule isn't doing me much good.
> >
> > I too am very conc
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> I can't help noticing a bit of a problem. With a very aggressive
> release-schedule such as "every 2 weeks", chances of genuine bugs being
>
> 1) reported,
> 2) diagnosed and
> 3) fixed
>
> in that timeframe are very minimal.
This is my greatest fe
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> Martin Schlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 13:20, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >> And yes, this week we'll have Beta9, I've took the comments received
> >> on the list into account.
> >
> > Don't know whether this is good
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> we have just enabled the opensuse-commit mailinglist. It will carry all
> checkin mails for Factory. To subscribe just sent an empty mail to
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The web archive is available
> at http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-commit/
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> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:55:26PM -0400, Cristian Rodriguez wrote:
> > > I can imagine is for BC reasons. but the user should be warned in some
> > > place of the documentation
> >
> > BC? What does that mean?
>
> Backwork Compatibility. I wo
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> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:55:26PM -0400, Cristian Rodriguez wrote:
> > I can imagine is for BC reasons. but the user should be warned in some
> > place of the documentation
>
> BC? What does that mean?
Backwork Compatibility. I would guess.
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> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:47:18PM +0100, Robert Schiele wrote:
> > Almost new SUSE Linux user will just install with default selections without
> > ever seeing dependency problems, won't he?
>
> Almost all will start to install non-default software.
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> Martin Schlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 09:48, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >> Andreas Vetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> > I just tried to install as many packages as possible and found something
> >> > very annoyin
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, houghi wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 04:18:12PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
> > And most machine bought today with a dual-layer burner built in will tend
> > to
> > have >150GB hard disks - laptops being an exception, the DL burnered laptop
> > has only 80GB of disk space.
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
> On Thursday 09 March 2006 09:02, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> > On Thursday, March 09, 2006 at 14:39:38, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 02:36:34PM +0100, Burkhard Carstens wrote:
> > > > Am Donnerstag, 9. März 2006 14:02 schrieb Henne
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, houghi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:34:20AM +0100, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> > Just merging booth suse-trees of the 5 CD set and the add-on CD +
> > recreating the metadata should be everything you need to do to prepare a
> > DVD... in theory ;)
> I have edited the file
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