Re: [opensuse-factory] AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered

2006-02-17 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Silviu Marin-Caea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20060216 14:42]: > If NLD10 and SLES10 would come out without support for hardware that > worked with NLD9 and SLES9, then yes, your complain is justified. Code for SL 10.1, NLD10 and SLES10 have the same base, so drivers missing in SUSE Linux will also mi

Re: [opensuse-factory] Apt

2006-03-01 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:38:52 +0100, Marcel Hilzinger wrote: >where do I find apt on beta5? > >Was it dropped?? Nope, but it|s not on the CDs so you have to get it from the FACTORY tree. Philipp - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse-factory] Createrepo gone?

2006-03-07 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:26:51 +0100, Marcel Hilzinger wrote: >Shall we open a bugreport then, as Apt also is not on the CDs? No need to do so. apt4rpm has always been only in the FTP version and it will stay that way. Createrepo is handled likewise. Philipp ---

Re: [opensuse-factory] Q: AMD microcode update utility

2006-03-10 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Ulrich Windl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20060309 09:08]: > regarding bug #122040: Is there a microcode update utility for AMD CPUs? No. At least AMD hasn't published any specs that indicate that AMD CPUs do have an interface to do that. > Currently the Intel microcode update utility is installed ev

Re: [opensuse-factory] Status of reiser4

2006-08-03 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Marcel Hilzinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20060803 10:56]: > As namesys has a lot of (non technical) problems with some members of the > kernel-list, they need support from the community to get reiser4 really > adopted. No, its not the communities task to bridge gaps that namesys opened. AFAICT,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Status of reiser4

2006-08-04 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Marcel Hilzinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20060803 17:03]: > Perhaps you forgot/don't know, how ReiserFS got included in the kernel... Now being very nearly 7 years with R&D, I know perfectly well how reiserfs got included. But you learn from experience and dealing with Hans Reiser is not very easy

Re: [opensuse-factory] Status of reiser4

2006-08-04 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Volker Kuhlmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20060804 00:33]: > I mean, how else would you completely ignore truely innovative technology > when it's handed to you on a silver platter for free... It wasn't ignored completely, if you followed the discussions on lkml. But AFAIR, there where quite a few i

[opensuse-factory] Re: List "Reply-To"

2006-08-11 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Dominique Leuenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20060811 16:14]: > I for my part am using GroupWise (is also from Novell, just in case > somebody wonders) and there this option just does not exist. GW is good for many things, but calling it an MUA is an insult to all those programs that do follow RF

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

2006-08-23 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:31:31 +0200, Manfred Hollstein wrote: > strings -a /usr/lib64/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6.so.2.0.0 | fgrep /usr/lib > /usr/lib64/apt/methods > /usr/lib/apt/scripts > >As you can see the scripts will be looked up in the architecture >independent location "/usr/lib/apt" (which is

[opensuse-factory] FIXED: Apt searching scripts in the wrong place

2006-08-25 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Manfred Hollstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20060817 14:31]: > As you can see the scripts will be looked up in the architecture > independent location "/usr/lib/apt" (which is correct FWIW), but they > are installed under "/usr/lib64/apt/scripts" unfortunately. I've fixed this bug now. The fixed pac

[opensuse-factory] Re: Announcing Yast-GTK (forw)

2006-08-25 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:00:05 +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote: >Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:58:47 +0200 >From: Joerg Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Marcel Hilzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Announcing Yast-GTK >In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You don't quote headers! >And whil

Re: [opensuse-factory] Ditching ReiserFS?

2006-10-04 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:23:49 +1000, Michael James wrote: >I'm disappointed that reiser4 isn't present. Reiser4 has not been accepted into mainline kernel. If it is, we'll pick it up. SUSE has had experience with what it means to integrate a file system that's not yet in mainline and thus having t

[opensuse-factory] Re: Building NetworkManager PPTP .. but where oh where can I find / get pppd.h for RC1 ?

2006-11-24 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Bruce A. Mallett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20061124 04:25]: > I thought I'd try my hand at building the NetworkManager PPTP plugin but > it requires this file. The pin util. does not find it and a google > seems to indicate ppp-devel. Yes, it is indeed part of ppp-devel. Philipp --

[opensuse-factory] Apt update - opinions needed

2007-02-23 Thread Philipp Thomas
Hi folks, I've been asked by Richard Bos if I could update apt in factory to the version he has in the BS. This is based on a beta version of apt and offers repomd support but does *not* work with synaptic. So If I'd update apt, I'd drop synaptic. As I use neither of them, I need your input to d

[opensuse-factory] Upgrading apt - your input is needed

2007-02-23 Thread Philipp Thomas
Hi, I've been asked (by Richard Boes) to update apt to the one he's maintaining in the BS. This is based on a beta version of apt-rpm that supports repomd but does *not* work with synaptic. In deciding whether or not to update and drop synaptic I need your input, as I use neither apt nor synaptic

Re: [opensuse-factory] Upgrading apt - your input is needed

2007-02-23 Thread Philipp Thomas
Hi Edward, * Edward Dunagin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20070223 16:45]: > I am running 10.2 and I use apt. It is SO much better than yast2. > Yast2 is unreliable and SLOW on my system. Other parts of Yast2 are > fine. Just the software management part. Maybe I hadn't made myself clear enough. The que

[opensuse-factory] Re: Apt update - opinions needed

2007-02-27 Thread Philipp Thomas
Hi * Felix Miata ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20070224 02:35]: > > [X] Stay with stable apt and synaptic > > [ ] Update to beta apt with repomd support and forgo synaptic I just learned there is a third way: updating to the latest stable version which also supports repomd. So in this case you can have t

[opensuse-factory] Re: Answer 3M about touchscreendrivers...(touchware)echo

2007-05-03 Thread Philipp Thomas
* M9. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20070502 18:22]: > > You can download the source and binary kit from our webpage > > www.3m.com/touch. Click on the Touch Drivers link and then click on > > Linux Touchware Drivers. The source and object kit can be downloaded > > from this page. I downloaded the .src.rp

[opensuse-factory] Re: ntfs-3g, and deficient linux kernel....

2007-05-07 Thread Philipp Thomas
* M9. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20070506 13:10]: > I just saw in the bootlog, (while the fs was checked, 60 daily check), > that it is indeed a propriety driver (i did not know that), and asked > myself why them and not 3M!! Because it's ATI that supplies the driver? The ATI driver is no part of openS

[opensuse-factory] Re: How to get rid of allmost out of space message?

2007-05-07 Thread Philipp Thomas
* M9. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20070506 20:39]: > Create a new /usr > Replace the old usr by a bigger one! > Clever thinking, and empty the old one to use it for something else.. I'd do an even better thing and start using LVM :) Philipp ---

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

2007-05-20 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Sun, 20 May 2007 16:33:07 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote: >That's also the reason I got a new box, as kvm reported no supported >hardware found on the socket 939 64x2 box. kvm needs a processor with hardware vitualisation support, a feature that socket 939 Athlon64 X2s lack and only the AM2 socket on

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

2007-05-21 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Mon, 21 May 2007 01:26:22 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote: >I guessed that immediately I saw the "no supported hardware found" in >dmesg. I thought so, since you said that you got yourself new hardware :) I just added it as info for others. Philipp

[opensuse-factory] Re: Audacity in Opensuse 10.3 beta 1 or 2

2007-08-29 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:31:39 -0300, Juan Erbes wrote: >Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. >[Switching to Thread 0xb676a6d0 (LWP 28895)] >0xe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () >(gdb) At that point, give it the bt command. This should give you a backtrace. Philipp -

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Beta-2 + nvidia-drivers

2007-08-30 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Patrick Shanahan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20070830 16:55]: >rpm -q kernel-smp kernel-source That's rpm -q kernel-default kernel-source kernel-default *is* the SMP kernel. Philipp - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Beta-2 + nvidia-drivers

2007-08-31 Thread Philipp Thomas
* TooMany Secrets ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20070831 08:03]: > My kernel is a kernel-smp (default installation into a pentium 4 with > HT). My workstation is a Dell Precision 380. No, it is an SMP kernel, but the package it comes from is kernel-default, as there is no kernel-smp package in 10.3. Just

[opensuse-factory] Re: BulletProofX - a critical feature request for openSUSE

2007-09-04 Thread Philipp Thomas
> BulletProofX can really enlarge our user base to lots of new Windows > users alike. > It is very important to test this technology, and later integrate into our OS. You haven't read Benji's mail, have you? I'll quote to make it easier for you: > Ubuntu's "bulletproofX" is mostly hype as they'r

[opensuse-factory] Re: openSUSE distribution, week 36

2007-09-05 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:27:47 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: >I also could reproduce the problem here. Because I also frequently >uses Audacity, I fixed that now. It should appear in soon in Factory. Was war denn die Ursache? Philipp --

[opensuse-factory] Re: About dropped packages -- xmms

2007-09-05 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Alexey Eremenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20070905 14:50]: > I would like to see XMMS included with openSUSE. As soon as xmms2 is in a usable state, I'm sure it will be included. xmms was dropped because a) it's a gtk1/glib1 package and b) isn't maintained anymore upstreams. Philipp ---

[opensuse-factory] Re:libstdc++.la

2007-10-28 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:54:55 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote: >It seems that many source programs are looking for libstdc++.ls and >libexpat.la. Neither is found. Programs like koffice and kMyMoney. I >think libstdc++ and libexpat are not in the normal / development packages. Packages requiring the

Re: [opensuse-factory] runlevel deps on network

2008-01-18 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:20:48 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >1-cron - why? Beats me. >2-cups - not all printers have anything to do with networking a) Per default cups-client listens to a remote cups server and needs network for that. That's why b) the init script for cups says it needs network. >3

Re: [opensuse-factory] Hungarian compound word analysis in OOo

2008-01-25 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Kálmán Kéménczy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20080125 12:22]: > Without this patch everything's works fine. > > So please disable the patch the following row in the patches/src680/apply > file: > > hunspell-hashify.diff, i#50842, dkeskar/jholesov It'd be *far* more effective if you'd open a bugrepor