[e-smith-devinfo] Something of interest

2003-12-16 Thread Tivon Coles
Hi Guys, I know a lot of people think its still to early to start thinking about changing the base OS...there are also a few of us that feel it needs to be looked at quite quickly (have something getting up and running in parallel). so if we all ever to get round to it *Smile* here is a

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Something of interest

2003-12-16 Thread Dick Morrell
(apologies for top posting) There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with the base we have at all. Remember Linux is Linux forget the RedHat issues its a non starter - just think like engineers. For those that want to realise why this isnt a major issue let me explain. Four years ago at VA Linux

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Something of interest

2003-12-16 Thread w9ya
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 06:25 am, Dick Morrell wrote: (apologies for top posting) There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with the base we have at all. Remember Linux is Linux forget the RedHat issues its a non starter - just think like engineers. For those that want to realise why this isnt

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Something of interest

2003-12-16 Thread Dick Morrell
Guys, I have seen enough of this to last a lifetime from this reflector. Please refrain from putting others down. There is *NO* need to say things like ...you havent the skills nor the time, nor the awareness of whats needed... (sic) , even if you are convinced you are right. It is in

[e-smith-devinfo] OpenH323 and SME

2003-12-16 Thread Dick Morrell
For the last few years I've used OpenH323 on VPN'd connections between sites, with IP Phones and users with Gnomemeeting and OhPhone. I've always set up gatekeepers up on internal machines with Procomm VoIP phones looking to that as its gatekeeper. I'd love to have OpenH323 as a core package

[e-smith-devinfo] Migrating devinfo...

2003-12-16 Thread dan_york
Jeff, With regard to this item of your note... 3. A listserv has been setup (Thanks Shad!) to host devinfo and a few other lists. We have been able to migrate all of the devinfo history over and are waiting to coordinate with Mitel for the migration of the list. We are ready to flip the

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Migrating devinfo...

2003-12-16 Thread Rich Lafferty
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:04:20AM -0500, Dan York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we need to do then is have you send to this list subscription info for the new list. Once people know that they can move their own subscriptions over to the new list. We can then send a reminder message or two

[e-smith-devinfo] Source packages (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Something of interest)

2003-12-16 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:30:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 06:25 am, Dick Morrell wrote: [...] P.S. I am glad that it appears that Mitel is intending to follow through on its' promises and releasing ALL the source for SME. Nothing has changed. We have

[e-smith-devinfo] Perl package statuses (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: What version of RH is SME 6 based on?)

2003-12-16 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 09:59:23PM +, Dick Morrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is based on RH7.3 with proprietary and GPL Perl mods. I say proprietary as there are more than a few GPL vagries. Please provide specifics to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for any Mitel developed packages. As far as we

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] OpenH323 and SME

2003-12-16 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Dick Morrell wrote: I'd love to have OpenH323 as a core package on GPL releases of SME. It's not that hard to do but it can be unreliable sometimes. Has anyone else ever played with this before ? Brad Hards has: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] OpenH323 and SME

2003-12-16 Thread Dick Morrell
Cheers Charlie I did use groups.google for 35 mins and came up with absolutely nothing :) On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Charlie Brady wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Dick Morrell wrote: I'd love to have OpenH323 as a core package on GPL releases of SME. It's not that hard to do but it can be

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] OpenH323 and SME

2003-12-16 Thread Jeff Coleman
Hey Brad, Looking in your contribs directory I don't see this work. Since ftp.e-smith.org isn't available anymore, do you want to put it up on contribs? -jeff -Original Message- From: Charlie Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:00 AM To: Dick

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl package statuses (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: What version of RH is SME 6 based on?)

2003-12-16 Thread dan_york
Richard, On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 09:59:23PM +, Dick Morrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is based on RH7.3 with proprietary and GPL Perl mods. I say proprietary as there are more than a few GPL vagries. Please provide specifics to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for any Mitel developed

[e-smith-devinfo] concern over the tone of list of late

2003-12-16 Thread Julian Luton
Dear All, As a long time lurker on this list I've been used to plenty of friendly banter going back and forth over the years. Think Darrell vs Charlie ;-) etc... Julian Luton Boff Ltd 10 Frith Street - opposite the Dog and Duck London UK +44 207 4343300 ..computer people for creative

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl package statuses (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: What version of RH is SME 6 based on?)

2003-12-16 Thread Hsing-Foo Wang
Dan stop taking the steroids Since my first visit to e-smith.org, the lists or the forums, _this_ is the most worst insult I ever saw comming from this community. I'm sorry to see these kinds of posts... and feel sorry for the poster. -HF -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl package statuses (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: What version of RH is SME 6 based on?)

2003-12-16 Thread Greg Zartman
Dan stop taking the steroids What's the point of this response? Dick, I agree with Dan/Gordon/Dan. You accused Mitel of breaking the GPL, yet you offer no specific examples where they have done this. If someone had accused my company of unethical/unlawful business practices, I'd be on

[e-smith-devinfo] ...and now for a current dev question...

2003-12-16 Thread Craig Jensen
Hello all and good day, In regards to re-building anaconda (-7.3-7es115), I am looking for the required newt-devel which will not conflict with the existing newt package on a stock sme 6. Could someone point me to the newt-devel package build which would work here? Thank you, Craig Jensen --

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl package statuses (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: What version of RH is SME 6 based on?)

2003-12-16 Thread Noah Genner
Dan stop taking the steroids This is getting ridiculous! -- Noah Genner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.genner.on.ca/noahville/ -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] ...and now for a current dev question...

2003-12-16 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Craig Jensen wrote: In regards to re-building anaconda (-7.3-7es115), I am looking for the required newt-devel which will not conflict with the existing newt package on a stock sme 6. Could someone point me to the newt-devel package build which would work here?

[e-smith-devinfo] Most suitable update mechanism (was Re: CVS dump of current SME...)

2003-12-16 Thread Charlie Brady
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Hsing-Foo Wang wrote: contribs.org is looking in to the most suiteable update mechachinsm. Shouldn't that be a public discussion? -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 592 5660 or

[e-smith-devinfo] Re: Most suitable update mechanism (was Re: CVS dump of current SME...)

2003-12-16 Thread Hsing-Foo Wang
Maybe, maybe not. contribs.org is simply providing a central place with information about the (future) development. All this information is for 'free' and everybody can contribute and share this information. Choosing any internal mechanisme is just another way of organising this information.

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl package statuses (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: What version of RH is SME 6 based on?)

2003-12-16 Thread Dick Morrell
I apologised to Dan offlist. I had a polite PRIVATE discussion with Greg, and Dan chose to post back to the list. I dislike being slapped down to size as I don't need it. I have apologised off list to Dan and I am following that through here. On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Greg Zartman wrote: Dan

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net

2003-12-16 Thread Hsing-Foo Wang
Up to now contribs.org has chosen to provide ways of communication that can be archived and organised in different ways and fully searchable. A IRC channel is hard to archive and search in such a way (It can be done, I know). With the contribs.org forums and lists we think there are sufficient

[e-smith-devinfo] Re: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net

2003-12-16 Thread Grand'Pa
Jason Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] nous a bargouiné: Just so everyone knows, there in now a channel setup on the IRC network freenode.net called #contribs.org And since at least 18 month, there is an active francophone IRC channel : #sme-fr on IRCNET (for exemple server irc.nerim.fr) but, as

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net

2003-12-16 Thread Jeff Coleman
Thank you. We agree. The entire reason contribs.org exists is because there was no centralized resource. There is now and we should utilize it as best we can. -jeff In my opinion, all international ressources and means of communication MUST be concentrated on contribs.org -- Franck

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net

2003-12-16 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jeff Coleman wrote: Thank you. We agree. The entire reason contribs.org exists is because there was no centralized resource. Water under the bridge now, but there was a centralised resource - e-smith.org, which was (is) mirrored around the world. An open invitation to

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.n et

2003-12-16 Thread Courchesne, Andre
Personally I found e-smith.org easier and faster to use. It did need maintenance and updates on contribs and how-to, but it was much faster... Just my feeling... One thing using this mailing list... whi isn't the reply-to header changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on e-mails... It's a pain to always

[e-smith-devinfo] Licenses (was RE: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net)

2003-12-16 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jeff Coleman wrote: Sorry Charlie, No offense intended. No offense taken. I just wanted to set the record straight. I agree that there was fragmentation of relevant information but that's because people chose not to take up our offer. We were not in a position to

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net

2003-12-16 Thread Hsing-Foo Wang
Hi Jason, To clarify, my only intention with creating the channel was to have a place to casually chat with other users of the E-Smith/SME distro. If it is wanted I can just let the channel lapse. Your initiative is appreciated. I just tryed to explain why contribs.org has not claimed it

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.n et

2003-12-16 Thread Hsing-Foo Wang
Hi Andre, Personally I found e-smith.org easier and faster to use. It did need maintenance and updates on contribs and how-to, but it was much faster... Just my feeling... You're absolutely correct. The current contribs.org is a bit slow. But as said earlier on the list, we'll try to make it a

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net

2003-12-16 Thread Rich Lafferty
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:16:12PM -0600, Jason Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To clarify, my only intention with creating the channel was to have a place to casually chat with other users of the E-Smith/SME distro. If it is wanted I can just let the channel lapse. I think it sounds like a

[e-smith-devinfo] Announce rdiff-backup HowTo - Initial

2003-12-16 Thread Noah Genner
Gang, I've put together a quick HowTo for installing rdiff-backup http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/examples.html on SME 5.X. It should work on 6.0 as well, but I don't have a test box handy right now so I can't confirm that. Can anyone else? What is rdiff-backup? From the website...

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Something of interest

2003-12-16 Thread w9ya
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 08:33 am, Dick Morrell wrote: Guys, I have seen enough of this to last a lifetime from this reflector. Please refrain from putting others down. There is *NO* need to say things like ...you havent the skills nor the time, nor the awareness of whats needed...

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net

2003-12-16 Thread John Cusick
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 16:39, Rich Lafferty wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:16:12PM -0600, Jason Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To clarify, my only intention with creating the channel was to have a place to casually chat with other users of the E-Smith/SME distro. If it is wanted I can

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Announce rdiff-backup HowTo - Initial

2003-12-16 Thread Hsing-Foo Wang
Hi Noah, Your how-to states that 'This work' is being released under the following license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/ Is this a valid license? for almost everything is GPL, except for the how-to itself. Just curious since this was discussed on the list today. Nice work

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Announce rdiff-backup HowTo - Initial

2003-12-16 Thread Noah Genner
Is this a valid license? for almost everything is GPL, except for the how-to itself. I'm not sure I have the legal knowledge to answer that question, but I'm sure someone else on the list will. ;-) Usually, any public domain writing I do (i.e. websites, blogs, etc...) I release under the CC

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: Most suitable update mechanism (was Re: CVS dump of current SME...)

2003-12-16 Thread George Siegel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hsing-Foo Wang said the following on 12/16/2003 2:18 PM: | contribs.org is simply providing a central place with information about | the (future) development. All this information is for 'free' and | everybody can contribute and share this

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: Most suitable update mechanism (was Re: CVS dump of current SME...)

2003-12-16 Thread Greg Zartman
Then why has the discussion been taken private? It hardly seems to be a good way to start off, particularly when you'll want the support of the people being excluded. Does this show what we can expect in the future? George, It was necessary to take organizational conversations private as

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Source packages

2003-12-16 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 11:11 am, Gordon Rowell wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:30:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has been a long wait for some packages, and it is nice to see. Please provide specifics - you presumably have

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: Most suitable update mechanism (was Re: CVS dump of current SME...)

2003-12-16 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Greg Zartman wrote: getting done. Please be assured that 95% of what's being discussed off-list at this time is organizational in nature (e.g., how are we going to move the lists, what bug tracking are we going to use, what's our next move, how are we going to

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] yum repository

2003-12-16 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Charlie Brady wrote: Indeed. FTR, I use yum version 1.0.3-1_73 (from dulug, IIRC), and my /etc/yum.conf contains: Well, it does, but that config doesn't work yet. You'll need to comment out this section for the next little while, as the above version of yum doesn't

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: Most suitable update mechanism (was Re: CVS dump of current SME...)

2003-12-16 Thread Greg Zartman
Frankly, I wonder as well... I agree. Closed lists are bad. I don't like them either. However, as previously indicated, it was necessary to get certain things done. A group started with a simply CC list in email messages. This proved to be a real pain in the butt, so a list was put

[e-smith-devinfo] yum (Re: OpenH323 and SME)

2003-12-16 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Rich Lafferty wrote: I manage all my home Fedora boxes with yum, and before that used yup heavily with Yellow Dog Linux. It *is* a good packaging solution; I'd go so far as to say that the real benefit would be if it was used for both updates and for RPM-based contribs

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: Most suitable update mechanism (was Re: CVS dump of current SME...)

2003-12-16 Thread George Siegel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Zartman said the following on 12/16/2003 7:28 PM: | It was necessary to take organizational conversations private as | everyone was running around talking about wild ideas and nothing was | getting done. Please be assured that 95% of what's

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Source packages

2003-12-16 Thread w9ya
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 07:37 pm, Charlie Brady wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 11:11 am, Gordon Rowell wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:30:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has been a long wait for some packages, and it is nice

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: Most suitable update mechanism (was Re: CVS dump of current SME...)

2003-12-16 Thread Hsing-Foo Wang
Hi Craig, We can only get where we want to go as long as 'we' are together in the process :-) And contribs.org is just doing that for the benefit of the _whole_ community. Basically, If you don't like what you see, you're free to go your own way. We're talking Open Source here, so you have as

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] OpenH323 and SME

2003-12-16 Thread Jon Blakely CTS-Howick
Dick, I havn't played with OpenH323 but over the last month have been playing about with SIP VOIP gateways on SME V6. I have setup Asterisk ( a full blown pabx) and SER (SIP Express Router). Asterisk worked well as a SIP gateway but is a nightmare to provision services. This would be good stand

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Source packages

2003-12-16 Thread w9ya
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:09 pm, Charlie Brady wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 07:37 pm, Charlie Brady wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 11:11 am, Gordon Rowell wrote: On Tue, Dec 16,

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: Most suitable update mechanism (was Re: CVS dump of

2003-12-16 Thread David Trask
Hsing-Foo Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please feel free to share your thoughts and contributions on this matter. contribs.org is merely trying to create a starting point. If something better is requiered by the community I assume contribs.org will comply and do what it has always have been

[e-smith-devinfo] Contribs.org's view of the future OFFTOPIC

2003-12-16 Thread Jeff Coleman
Sorry that this may be off the topic of development but there has been a lot of conversation on this list lately about the future of the distro. There have been many questions concerning the direction of the GPL SME Server. I certainly can't speak for the community, but I can speak for

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Source packages

2003-12-16 Thread w9ya
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:52 pm, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 16/12/03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] did say: So what constitutes a working SME system is not ALL going to be released into open-source AND you are considering parts of SME and/or Red Hat as LGPL in some cases to make this

[e-smith-devinfo] GPL

2003-12-16 Thread Peter Lambert
Charlie, Are the sources Mitel are releasing sufficient to build the unsupported developer release 6.0 ISO when compiled with other open, readily available sources ?. If there are Mitel proprietary sources involved, are these being released in some (binary) form that will allow the ISO to be