[Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread danny
On 23 Oct 2002, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: That counts, but I don't agree with the axiom because users want it, we do it. Sometimes we don't agree and we don't do it. I have to agree to do it. I was taking a rather severe stance. Ofcourse you have a free will, but I think you are not as free

[Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Oct 2002, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: That counts, but I don't agree with the axiom because users want it, we do it. Sometimes we don't agree and we don't do it. I have to agree to do it. I was taking a rather severe stance. Ofcourse you have a free will,

Re: [Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
J. Greenlees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ~snip~ A good design requires that we don't add any other visible UI element. why not a simple check box added to both current searches to enable the expanded search? minimal alteration to

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Lyall Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also find the installer annoying if I try install a list of packages, something goes wrong and it forgets all the selections I have made. I have to repeat them all again for the next attempt (really bad if you are doing wildcard searches then have to

[Cooker] ECI modem status

2002-10-23 Thread Florent BERANGER
What is the status for ECI ADSL modem (it was in Mdk but was disabled) ? Thanks for answer, Florent

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Eric Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right, but what is the relationship between the language and the GUI concept ? I can understand the changes : they wanted to integrate rpmdrake to the whole control center, which is a good idea. Actually, the tabs of the previous rpmdrake have been

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lyall Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also find the installer annoying if I try install a list of packages, something goes wrong and it forgets all the selections I have made. I have to repeat them all again for the next attempt (really bad

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Thomas Backlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you press Install, save list of selected packages to temporary file. If install was successful, just delete the file. It's even not necessary to use a file, the main rpmdrake doesn't get closed when the packages are being installed. if not, read

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Pascal
Le Mercredi 23 Octobre 2002 12:36, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : Lyall Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also find the installer annoying if I try install a list of packages, something goes wrong and it forgets all the selections I have made. I have to repeat them all again for the next

Re: [Cooker] urpmi does not like to be interrupted

2002-10-23 Thread Pascal
Could a signal handler be added to urpmi so that the current partial file in the cache is cleaned up when we interrupt a transfert ? try urpmi some package CTRL-C during the download phase urpmi again the file in the cache is used and of course it fails. -- Pascal Mayyy thhee souuurcee

[Cooker] sed-4.0

2002-10-23 Thread Oden Eriksson
http://freshmeat.net/branches/9392/ -- Regards // Oden Eriksson - Deserve-IT Networks http://d-srv.com Check the Modules For Apache2 status page at: http://d-srv.com/modules_for_apache2.html

Re: [Cooker] what about server config tools in drakconf

2002-10-23 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wrote: | Todd, | | May not have made myself clear. In MDK you lgoin to MCC with your | root password. By default MDK sets up webmin with the uname root and | the password identical to root. I'm saying that once you log into MCC |

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 05:20 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: It sound to me like it is a problem of not using dma. I'm not a linux-guru , but similar problems you get on all OSs without using DMA. Try hdparm on your cd-rw and the drives there the data is coming from. Maybe it will be better

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Backlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you press Install, save list of selected packages to temporary file. If install was successful, just delete the file. It's even not necessary to use a file, the main rpmdrake doesn't get closed

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread David Walser
--- Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Backlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you press Install, save list of selected packages to temporary file. If install was successful, just delete the file. It's even not necessary to use a file, the main rpmdrake doesn't get

[Cooker] Where to put samba3?

2002-10-23 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been working on packages of samba3 (currently alpha20), which I would like to put in contrib. They install parallel to the current stable samba, you can only have one running on a particular interface at a time though. At the moment, I am

Re: [Cooker] MDK 9.0: Use of nss_ldap causes /usr not to unmount

2002-10-23 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Danen wrote: | | On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 02:00 AM, Buchan Milne wrote: | | Mandrake development is open, you could have tested it, and it would | have been found earlier. It's pretty obvious that Mandrakesoft can't | employ enough

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 13:30 schrieb Gregory K. Meyer: On Wednesday 23 October 2002 05:20 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: It sound to me like it is a problem of not using dma. I'm not a linux-guru , but similar problems you get on all OSs without using DMA. Try hdparm on your cd-rw and

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 08:03 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: Have you tried it with the /dev/scd* device or the real ide-device ( assuming /dev/hdc ): hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc turns dma on on my system, regardless if it is a harddrive or a cd-rw or dvd. Okay done. I take back my bug report.

Re: [Cooker] Where to put samba3?

2002-10-23 Thread Oden Eriksson
onsdagen den 23 oktober 2002 11.55 skrev Buchan Milne: I guess I shouldn't actually put packages with files in /opt in the distro, so how should I define _prefix now? --program-suffix=SUFFIX append SUFFIX to installed program names ??? -- Regards // Oden Eriksson - Deserve-IT Networks

Re: [Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Philip Webb
021023 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: J. Greenlees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why not a simple check box added to both current searches to enable the expanded search? minimal alteration to the ui (only shows in the search area) and adds the functionality requested. A check box plus a label just

[Cooker] notebooks and Linuxconf system profiles

2002-10-23 Thread Henri
Hi, I 've looked at linuxconf system profiles : that's great in theory but what a mess ! I have a notebook which is sometimes on the network with dhcp and sometime in standalone with a modem. When i boot on linux without being connected to the network i have to wait for 5 minutes for dhcp to fail

[Cooker] rpmdrake-sources problems

2002-10-23 Thread David Walser
This old bug is still here, check this out: --- [rootmccarthy urpmi]# rpmdrake examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD (http1).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Contrib CD (http2).cz] retrieving description

[Cooker] notebooks and Linuxconf system profiles

2002-10-23 Thread Henri
Hi, I 've looked at linuxconf system profiles : that's great in theory but what a mess ! I have a notebook which is sometimes on the network with dhcp and sometime in standalone with a modem. When i boot on linux without being connected to the network i have to wait for 5 minutes for dhcp to

Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations?

2002-10-23 Thread allen
Presario 700 Athlon 1.4Ghz I have not done a direct install, I'm running Mdk 8.2 under VMWare. For what it works, that works well. -AEF On Wednesday 23 October 2002 04:37 am, J. Greenlees wrote: Bernard Varaine wrote: Has anyone installed or have comments on the Compaq Presario 905

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] perl-Crypt-Blowfish-2.09-1mdk

2002-10-23 Thread Lenny Cartier
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:43:29PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: I guess the version 0.1 for Mandrake 9.0 made me think someone had modified it to produce more Mandrakeish spec files. Yes I asked the submitter to have more info. lenny

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake-sources problems

2002-10-23 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
David Walser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, since we're post-9.0 now can you rename edit-urpm-source.pl to rpmdrake-sources (it was on your todo list I believe)? Hum no it was not. I add it. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

Re: [Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: | J. Greenlees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | |Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: |~snip~ | | A good design requires that we don't add any other | |visible UI element. | |why not a simple check box

[Cooker] services problems

2002-10-23 Thread David Walser
Updating 9.0 - cooker caused shorewall to get selected to start (hadn't been selected before) which made dm take forever to start and NFS not work. service shorewall stop didn't fix it, had to reboot. Also, drakxservices doesn't work now, it just says choose which services to start on boot, [OK]

Re: [Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 14:59, Philip Webb wrote: Maybe the time will be reached to use a --expert option on commandline, but I'll be inflexible on the UI of the default rpmdrake. 'inflexible' was the dying word of the dinosaurs ... (smile) Yup, but the dinosaurs managed a few million years

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Eric Fernandez
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Eric Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right, but what is the relationship between the language and the GUI concept ? I can understand the changes : they wanted to integrate rpmdrake to the whole control center, which is a good idea. Actually, the tabs of the

Re: [Cooker] notebooks and Linuxconf system profiles

2002-10-23 Thread J. Greenlees
Henri wrote: Hi, I 've looked at linuxconf system profiles : that's great in theory but what a mess ! I have a notebook which is sometimes on the network with dhcp and sometime in standalone with a modem. When i boot on linux without being connected to the network i have to wait for 5 minutes

Re: [Cooker] Where to put samba3?

2002-10-23 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oden Eriksson wrote: | onsdagen den 23 oktober 2002 11.55 skrev Buchan Milne: | | |I guess I shouldn't actually put packages with files in /opt in the |distro, so how should I define _prefix now? | | | --program-suffix=SUFFIX append SUFFIX to

[Cooker] Default homepage of Mozilla

2002-10-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! How/where is the default home page set in the Mozilla preferences, which is used as a template for creating new profiles? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.biz |Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 14:37 schrieb Gregory K. Meyer: On Wednesday 23 October 2002 08:03 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: Have you tried it with the /dev/scd* device or the real ide-device ( assuming /dev/hdc ): hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc turns dma on on my system, regardless if it is a

Re: [Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread David Sansome
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 3:13 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 14:59, Philip Webb wrote: Maybe the time will be reached to use a --expert option on commandline, but I'll be inflexible on the UI of the default rpmdrake. 'inflexible' was the dying word of the dinosaurs

[Cooker] 3.1-0.beta2.8mdk patch500

2002-10-23 Thread David Walser
Apparently something's wrong with patch500. It used to work (KDE 3.0.x), but now the Up button is still the 3rd button :o( __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 17:52 schrieb Eric Fernandez: There are two issues here : 1) I think it is illogical to have two independent search engines, one for remote and uninstalled packages, and one with local and installed packages. I think it would be more convenient if there were

Re: [Vietlug-users] [Fwd: Re: [Cooker] Xsession script]

2002-10-23 Thread Dao Hai Lam
--- Frederic Lepied [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It doesn't mean XIM program only, it means all X applications using xinit scripts (xinitrc.d/*) to init some environment variables for later use will be broken in Mandrake. You are right but we see it the other way: program can't

[Cooker] super methane brothers

2002-10-23 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
It seems like something's broken, it wont respond to the keyboard when trying to start a game etc, though the F-keys still changes resolution, also, 1.4.3 is out and the version in cooker is still 1.4.0 -- Mvh Per Øyvind Karlsen Delonic Technology Group AS Sysadmin, developer, greasemonkey

[Cooker] kmix other kde3.1 bugs

2002-10-23 Thread Jeremy Salch
Kmix doesn't load with oss audio drivers loaded. it appears to be looking for the ALSA mixer with ALSA loaded kmix runs but it has 4 mixer tabs and none of the adjustments do anyhting. also child panels don't seem to function properly. Their size settings are not saved upon exit and re-entry

[Cooker] poor harddrake infos

2002-10-23 Thread Florent BERANGER
Hello, Harddrake just display detect_devices routines output. I think it must explode each category : - Hard drives : UDMA ? - printer : ink level,... - graphic card : Hardware 3D acceleration / card memory ? (infos could be collected

Re: [Cooker] Default homepage of Mozilla

2002-10-23 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:18:07 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How/where is the default home page set in the Mozilla preferences, which is used as a template for creating new profiles? It is set by by the mozilla-browser-home-page.patch.bz2 in the mozilla.spec. It alters the

Re: [Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 17:49, David Sansome wrote: On Wednesday 23 October 2002 3:13 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 14:59, Philip Webb wrote: Maybe the time will be reached to use a --expert option on commandline, but I'll be inflexible on the UI of the default

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Stephen Pickering
Stephen Pickering wrote: I have the same problem, I also use a 24x lite-on cd burner. It worked fine with 8.2, but using 9.0 (kernel 2.4.19-16mdk) it seems to take an age, 30minutes for a 20mb cd :-( I have noticed that during burn the red light of the cd only comes of for short pulses then

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 12:43 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: The solution seems to be this : . # Turn on harddisk optimization # There is only one file /etc/sysconfig/harddisks for all disks # after installing the hdparm-RPM. If you need different hdparm parameters # for each of your

Re: [Cooker] notebooks and Linuxconf system profiles

2002-10-23 Thread Henri
J. Greenlees wrote: Henri wrote: Hi, I 've looked at linuxconf system profiles : that's great in theory but what a mess ! I have a notebook which is sometimes on the network with dhcp and sometime in standalone with a modem. When i boot on linux without being connected to the network i have

Re: [Cooker] services problems

2002-10-23 Thread Pixel
David Walser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Updating 9.0 - cooker caused shorewall to get selected to start (hadn't been selected before) which made dm take forever to start and NFS not work. service shorewall stop didn't fix it, had to reboot. % rpm -qp --scripts

Re: [Cooker] Default homepage of Mozilla

2002-10-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Charles A Edwards am 2002-10-23 um 13:31:54 -0400 : If you find something easier let me know. Thanks, I'll do! I found Mozilla/defaults/pref/all.js where you can set all sorts of things, however setting the startup page simply doesn't work. I tried to add these settings:

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 01:47 pm, Stephen Pickering wrote: I've got a 12x lite-on at home with a soltek 75Kv+ m/b and it works fine, but then I'm running cooker, I wonder? Download cdrecord from cooker in work and install it, guess what, it works ! cdrecord-1.11-0.a37.1mdk Looks

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Jason Straight
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Me too - me too, and mine is hdparmed and lilo boot paramed to use DMA, I also use my own kernel. This particular machine I just wrote off as being something to do with the computer itself becase I'ts new and has had cooker on it the entireness of

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 19:56 schrieb Gregory K. Meyer: On Wednesday 23 October 2002 12:43 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: The solution seems to be this : . # Turn on harddisk optimization # There is only one file /etc/sysconfig/harddisks for all disks # after installing the

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2, 1024 MB RAM

2002-10-23 Thread Bryan Whitehead
andre wrote: On Tuesday 22 October 2002 22:59, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: smp and highmem, and highmem are still a little buggy, if you look at some of the posts last month, several people had problems with the highmem kernels. btw. do you really need the highmem kernel for 1024 MB ram? I

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Todd Lyons
Eric Fernandez wrote on Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:52:42PM +0100 : Using the console : urpmi -r xine and you know the package exists, wherever it is : locally installed, or on a remote server, ready to be downloaded and installed. I must be missing something obvious: [rootfiji

[Cooker] foomatic mdk9.0 bug?

2002-10-23 Thread Bryan Whitehead
This is mostly a heads up. Using foomatic to install a printer from the command line has broken in 9.0 for setting the default BINDING option. In previous versions of mandrake the BINDING flag for printing was set to LONGEDGE. Now the default is SHORTEDGE. This makes full duplex printing

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread E . Fernandez
Quoting Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Eric Fernandez wrote on Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:52:42PM +0100 : Using the console : urpmi -r xine and you know the package exists, wherever it is : locally installed, or on a remote server, ready to be downloaded and installed. I must be

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Elliott Martin
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 3:58 am, Pascal wrote: Le Mercredi 23 Octobre 2002 12:36, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : Lyall Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also find the installer annoying if I try install a list of packages, something goes wrong and it forgets all the selections I

[Cooker] mdk 9.0 not able to format usb ide drive?

2002-10-23 Thread Brent Hasty
I have made several unsucessful attempts at setting up an external 30 gig usb ide hard drive. When using drakconf it is recognized, and I am cautioned; I can't read the partition table of device sdc, it's too corrupted for me :( I can try to go on, erasing over bad partitions (ALL DATA will be

Re: [Cooker] mdk 9.0 not able to format usb ide drive?

2002-10-23 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 2002.10.24 Brent Hasty wrote: I have made several unsucessful attempts at setting up an external 30 gig usb ide hard drive. When using drakconf it is recognized, and I am cautioned; [...] I have tried smaller partions, and differing file systems, to no avail. Does anyone have tips on

[Cooker] perl-HTML-Template-2.6 and perl-CGI-Application-2.6 uploaded

2002-10-23 Thread Peter Chen
FYI, I have uploaded perl-HTML-Template-2.6 and perl-CGI-Application-2.6. HTML-Template attempts make using HTML templates simple and natural. It extends standard HTML with a few new HTML-esque tags - TMPL_VAR, TMPL_LOOP, TMPL_INCLUDE, TMPL_IF and TMPL_ELSE. The file written with HTML and

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 03:37 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: cp /etc/sysconfig/harddisks /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhda and cp /etc/sysconfig/harddisks /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdc and uncommenting it in there does not work ? This does not work, it looks like tho script affects harddisks only. I

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Randy
Gregory K. Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 23 October 2002 03:37 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: cp /etc/sysconfig/harddisks /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhda and cp /etc/sysconfig/harddisks /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdc and uncommenting it in there does not work ? This does not work, it looks like tho script

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 10:06 pm, Randy wrote: Gregory K. Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 23 October 2002 03:37 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: cp /etc/sysconfig/harddisks /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhda and cp /etc/sysconfig/harddisks /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdc and uncommenting it in there does not

Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations?

2002-10-23 Thread Bernard Varaine
Has anyone installed or have comments on the Compaq Presario 905 Athlon 1800 CPU ? my HP XE3 (PIII 700) is getting overused and need a boost/replacement regards Bernard smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Eric Fernandez
Gary Greene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 22 October 2002 06:55 pm, Stephen Pickering wrote: rpmdrake should return to the original single installer / uninstaller with options to force install/remove only (for the unexperienced). First, Guillaume has

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Simone Riccio
Well, that happens me too! i have a 24x LG cd-rw and when i'm burning or reading cds i can't do anything else! My hw is a bit different (that's my office pc, I'D NEVER BUY iNTEL) hp vectra vl420 with p4 1.6GHz and 800MB SDRAM, so i suppose it dowsn't much depend on that... On Wed, 2002-10-23 at

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] psmisc-21.2-1mdk

2002-10-23 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i happily use pstree for a quick check of processes it resides in /usr/bin (upgrade 8.2 - 9.0rc1), but i can't find psmisc via MCC Software Packages Install/Remove: psutils has a number of 'ps-' utilities, but doesn't include pstree . is psmisc

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Lyall Pearce
In my previous post, I 'complained' about install / remove. Other points where made about forcing installs/removes - I agree, they should not be available *at all* - if someone needs to force an install/uninstall or do something non simple, thats what the command line is for :) Fine,

[Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Danny Tholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read this on a forum on mandrakeclub: What would be nice is some way of searching for a package when I don't know if it is installed or not. Right now I have to search the software installer, then search the uninstaller in two separate operations.

Re: [Cooker] urpmi doesn't find PLF files

2002-10-23 Thread Franois Pons
Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After looking, the problem is on plf machine: If I remove all ppc package, synthetis is build fine, but I add it in tree, parhdlist stop before adding in synthetis first ppc package. I can't find why ? This machine is a 8.2... plf@katu

Re: [Cooker] system slowness using cdrecord

2002-10-23 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 11:16 schrieb Simone Riccio: Well, that happens me too! i have a 24x LG cd-rw and when i'm burning or reading cds i can't do anything else! My hw is a bit different (that's my office pc, I'D NEVER BUY iNTEL) hp vectra vl420 with p4 1.6GHz and 800MB SDRAM, so i

Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations?

2002-10-23 Thread J. Greenlees
Bernard Varaine wrote: Has anyone installed or have comments on the Compaq Presario 905 Athlon 1800 CPU ? my HP XE3 (PIII 700) is getting overused and need a boost/replacement regards Bernard I haven't used or looked at that model myself, but I know compaq does make solid machines

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread danny
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, J. Greenlees wrote: um, if it isn't showing in the installer tree then it will show in the uninstaller tree. No, only if you got the name correct and the app is in the distro. when looking for if an app is installed I just search the installer, if it doesn't show, I

[Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread danny
On 23 Oct 2002, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Danny Tholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It doesn't fit well, I do agree. And I don't really see the point of searching between installed and installable packages. Guillaume, I really do not know how to convince you on this one. I'll try anyways:

Re: [Cooker] what about server config tools in drakconf

2002-10-23 Thread James Sparenberg
Todd, May not have made myself clear. In MDK you lgoin to MCC with your root password. By default MDK sets up webmin with the uname root and the password identical to root. I'm saying that once you log into MCC since you obviously have entered the root password, MCC could just pass the

[Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Oct 2002, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Danny Tholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It doesn't fit well, I do agree. And I don't really see the point of searching between installed and installable packages. Guillaume, I really do not know how to convince

Re: [Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread J. Greenlees
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ~snip~ A good design requires that we don't add any other visible UI element. why not a simple check box added to both current searches to enable the expanded search? minimal alteration to the ui( only shows in the search area ) and

[Cooker] KDEHOME in startkde

2002-10-23 Thread David Walser
As someone has posted, twice with a patch to fix it, unlike the stock KDE startkde script that defines KDEHOME and uses it, Mandrake's first hardcodes .kde a bunch of places, then continues with the stock KDE one. KDEHOME should be defined at the top and used throughout. Can we get this fixed?

Successful installation

2002-10-23 Thread Phil Lavigna
Hi, Just wanted to say that with the 'Install ISO' and a local PPC mirror, Cooker is up and running on my TiBook. KDE 3.1 looks great! Thanks Stew and Ben. Bye, Phil