Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL6.1 is missing various bug fix and fasttrack updates?

2011-09-15 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi Pat Riehecky! On 2011.09.14 at 15:02:53 -0500, Pat Riehecky wrote next: Anyway, the mirrors should pick everything up on their next sync, provided what we've got posted now is actually accurate. Can I have you give ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/archive/debuginfo/ a

Re: buildsys-macros rpm

2011-09-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Garrett Holmstrom ho...@physics.umn.edu wrote: On 2011-09-14 18:20, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: And unfortunately, it can be confusing as all get-out for building SRPM's for multiple releases. Subversion, for example, has different dependencies in el5 than in

Re: {OT} looking for laptop screen replacement

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew Z
Thank you Alexandr. I already ran your checks. Backlight is working, but the size of the crack (about 1.5 inch square ), its form - shining star and location - an inch off the lower left corner of the screen makes the work problematic . ill try to contact tosgiba, but I doubt the outcome very

Re: {OT} looking for laptop screen replacement

2011-09-15 Thread Alexander Hunt
No problem Andrew, If you are inside the case already I'm sure you can replace the screen yourself, just using the manual I forwarded to you to locate the screen screws and where the wires connect, so your least cost bet would almost certainly to be to get the one from Amazon, but make very

.xps files on SL5

2011-09-15 Thread Stephen Isard
Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? I've found web postings saying that okular can read them, but I can't find a version of that for SL5. I tried installing kdegraphics, but it wasn't included. It's apparently on the way for evince, but

Re: .xps files on SL5

2011-09-15 Thread Christopher Tooley
Apologies for the double post, forgot to post to the listserv (maybe other people can get some info out of this too): You might try using kpdf... apparently okular is based upon that. That's located in the kdegraphics package. However, it looks like okular is specifically the one that reads

SL6 Minimal Desktop problem

2011-09-15 Thread Brian Long
I've installed SL6.1 Minimal Desktop in order to use IceWM on an IONITX motherboard (Intel Atom + Nvidia ION). When I try to login via GDM, GDM insists on starting gnome-session even though GNOME is not fully installed. I'm trying to determine the best method to have GDM use IceWM by default. I

Re: .xps files on SL5

2011-09-15 Thread Stephen Isard
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Christopher Tooley wrote: Thanks very much, Christopher. Ghostxps did the job for me. You might try using kpdf... apparently okular is based upon that. That's located in the kdegraphics package. However, it looks like okular is specifically the one that reads xps. I

Re: .xps files on SL5

2011-09-15 Thread Chris Pemberton
On 09/15/2011 01:33 PM, Stephen Isard wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Christopher Tooley wrote: Thanks very much, Christopher. Ghostxps did the job for me. Sounds like you've found a free solution. I tried evince 3.0.2 compiled with libgxps (latest git) and it would open xps documents but the

SL 6.1 and elilo?

2011-09-15 Thread Jeff Layton
Afternoon all, I googled around a bit for SL 6.1 and elilo? Can SL 6.1 work with elilo and UEFI boards? TIA! Jeff

Re: SL 6.1 and elilo?

2011-09-15 Thread Connie Sieh
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Jeff Layton wrote: Afternoon all, I googled around a bit for SL 6.1 and elilo? Can SL 6.1 work with elilo and UEFI boards? I think it will work with UEFI on x86_64 . -Connie Sieh TIA! Jeff

Does SL6 support yum-plugin-security ?

2011-09-15 Thread Stefan Lasiewski
Greetings, Does SL6 support the yum-plugin-security [1] plugin? This would be very useful in addressing security advisories. The SL6 Deployment Guide mentions this plugin, but I'm not clear if SL6 supports this since the plugin requires a significant amount of work in the yum repositories. I