Re: [Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?

2011-02-22 Thread Buchan Milne
- Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: 2011/2/21 Buchan Milne bgmi...@staff.telkomsa.net: On Monday, 21 February 2011 11:49:27 Thomas Lottmann wrote: I am still not convinced of how easy this can be. For having attempted to manage (and learn) how to manage LVM partitons

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-22 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:57, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 10:13 +0100, Philippe DIDIER a écrit : Just seen that mikala added panotools in the repository . (some algorythms library to build panoramic photographs) Very happy with this ! (thanks a lot...)

Re: [Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?

2011-02-22 Thread Buchan Milne
- Thorsten van Lil tv...@gmx.de wrote: Am 22.02.2011 09:07, schrieb Buchan Milne: The user will still *always* be able to decide what he wants. The question is, what to do for users who don't know what to decide. IMHO, for a first time user, it is *much* better to give them a Use

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-22 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Quote: rdalverny wrote on Tue, 22 February 2011 11:04 Long time ago, How long is a long time ago? because every patent has a term and here it may have expired. Long time ago means 1999.. Actually the problem has not expired : Bruno

[Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

2011-02-22 Thread Angelo Naselli
hi, porting tuxpaint i've finally found the time to fix and old menu issue for that application. Some low level school teachers i know, complain about tuxpaint position -Education/Other menu- that is not very intuitive. Packaging it again for mageia, I've relaized that there's Other nowhere into

[Mageia-dev] Test upgrade of server, second try

2011-02-22 Thread Michael Scherer
Hi, so after trying to upgrade the web server, i decided to give a go for the svn server. This went quite smoothly, and the missing list is quite small : Error message on update : The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded:

Re: [Mageia-dev] 1st test upgrade of our servers ( using vm )

2011-02-22 Thread andre999
Thierry Vignaud a écrit : On 17 February 2011 18:04, Thomas Backlundt...@iki.fi wrote: here is the list of package that were not upgraded : # rpm -qa | grep -v mga | sort kernel-desktop-2.6.33.7-2mnb-1-1mnb2 This is normal, as we dont remove kernels automatically... but urpme

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-22 Thread andre999
Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Op vrijdag 18 februari 2011 14:42:02 schreef Michael Scherer: Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 12:47 +, James Kerr a écrit : If there are two packages, one in core and another in tainted, then doesn't urpmi need a way to recognise that the tainted package is newer

Re: [Mageia-dev] Test upgrade of server, second try

2011-02-22 Thread Buchan Milne
On Tuesday, 22 February 2011 18:54:06 Michael Scherer wrote: And for the missing rpms that are important : Maybe it is time to try and assign maintainers? tcpdump For the following, I don't currently have a mageia installation to package on. I *may* be able to try and solve this this week

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-22 Thread Buchan Milne
On Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:09:17 andre999 wrote: Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Op vrijdag 18 februari 2011 14:42:02 schreef Michael Scherer: Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 12:47 +, James Kerr a écrit : If there are two packages, one in core and another in tainted, then doesn't urpmi

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-22 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 22 February 2011 20:09, andre999 and...@laposte.net wrote: aside First of all, tainted in English implies that the software doesn't work.  (Unless it refers to food, in which case it means poisonous.) So we should choose a more appropriate name, such as constrained, or use the Ubuntu

Re: [Mageia-dev] freedesktop spec and categories

2011-02-22 Thread Angelo Naselli
The menu layouts are defined in desktop-common-data. Menu NameOther/Name Directorymandriva-education-other.directory/Directory Include Or CategoryX-MandrivaLinux-MoreApplications-Education- Other/Category CategoryArt/Category

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-22 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op dinsdag 22 februari 2011 19:09:17 schreef andre999: [...] aside First of all, tainted in English implies that the software doesn't work. (Unless it refers to food, in which case it means poisonous.) So we should choose a more appropriate name, such as constrained, or use the Ubuntu

[Mageia-dev] We must port Mageia to ARM and PowerPC!

2011-02-22 Thread André Machado
I was watching now and I realized that both mageia and Mandriva have ports for both i586 and x64 architetures. When Mageia is released, she will compete directly with Mandriva, even though this is not your intention, Many Mandriva users will not want to migrate to Mageia and here is the clever.

Re: [Mageia-dev] automagically submitting correctly

2011-02-22 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 23 februari 2011 00:07:59 schreef Thomas Backlund: On 23.2.2011 00:54, Maarten Vanraes wrote: I've been thinking on submission (since i'm a novice packager, i have no good experience with this, so i ended up talking to my mentor on submission stuff). So i was thinking:

[Mageia-dev] Heads Up

2011-02-22 Thread genomega
-Forwarded Message- From: Jeff Johnson n3...@mac.com Sent: Feb 22, 2011 8:14 PM To: coo...@mandrivalinux.org Subject: [Cooker] Upgrding db-5.1.19 - db-5.1.26 needs full rebuilds (cool! a bug related to RPM might have been found _BEFORE_ it ended up in cooker-devel e-mail ;-) I got a