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

2011-02-20 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Hi What do you think about switching from defaulting to installing on raw partitions to lvm installing on LVs like fedora does ? It does help brings more flexibility. See you

Re: [Mageia-dev] [584] - update the version in the Makefile

2011-02-20 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 20 February 2011 04:47, Thierry Vignaud thierry.vign...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 February 2011 17:25,  r...@mageia.org wrote: Revision584AuthorahmadDate2011-02-20 02:25:37 +0100 (Sun, 20 Feb 2011) Log Message - update the version in the Makefile Please update NEWS at well... We used to

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

2011-02-20 Thread Angelo Naselli
What do you think about switching from defaulting to installing on raw partitions to lvm Personally i don't like lvm i prefer installing it when needed. iirc it's not easy to mount lvm partiotions when a dd images has been performed, but i maybe wrong... installing on LVs like fedora does ? i

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

2011-02-20 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sunday, 20 February 2011 17:51:27 Thierry Vignaud wrote: Hi What do you think about switching from defaulting to installing on raw partitions to lvm installing on LVs like fedora does ? It does help brings more flexibility. Sure, but it can still introduce boot problems after kernel

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

2011-02-20 Thread Thomas Backlund
Michael Scherer skrev 18.2.2011 15:42: 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 than (an update to) the corresponding core package?

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

2011-02-20 Thread Philippe DIDIER
Well, the old simple logic works... lets say we abuse the release tag, for example changing mga to mgt then if the user enables tainted (meaning he/she wants the rpms) urpmi will automatically get the mgt ones, no questions asked... simple, and effective. and since the rebuild should be

Re: [Mageia-dev] So, you want to become a mageia packager

2011-02-20 Thread Pierre Chaland
Le samedi 19 février 2011 21:18:48 Remy CLOUARD, vous avez écrit : Hi there, As the title says so, this mail is intended to all people who would like to become a packager, but who don’t know where to look, what’s the path, what to do. As you may or may not know, mentoring started a few

[Mageia-dev] please keep note of missing dependancies

2011-02-20 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Hi, Now and then, i'm refreshing http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ and sometimes i notice the missing dependancies increasing... As such, i have no big problem with this, except that i would like this to be solved one way or the other when we release final. however, when i looked at them, i

Re: [Mageia-dev] please keep note of missing dependancies

2011-02-20 Thread Balcaen John
Le dimanche 20 février 2011 20:23:30, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Hi, Now and then, i'm refreshing http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ and sometimes i notice the missing dependancies increasing... [...] Maybe we should in fact check dependencies directly from the spec fix requires before uploading

Re: [Mageia-dev] So, you want to become a mageia packager

2011-02-20 Thread genomega
-Original Message- From: Pierre Chaland pierre.chal...@tsf47.net Sent: Feb 20, 2011 4:49 PM To: Mageia development mailing-list mageia-dev@mageia.org Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] So, you want to become a mageia packager Le samedi 19 février 2011 21:18:48 Remy CLOUARD, vous avez écrit :

[Mageia-dev] Text (log) attachment to bugzilla

2011-02-20 Thread Ahmad Samir
Hi. This is just a reminder, when attaching a text log to a bug report in bugzilla, make sure to set the content type to text/plain, leaving it as auto-detect doesn't work (this is an old bug, the same issue happened in mdv bugzilla). Thanks. -- Ahmad Samir

Re: [Mageia-dev] [599] Only check deps for packages buildable on x86_64

2011-02-20 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 20 February 2011 21:50, r...@mageia.org wrote: Revision 599 Author pterjan Date 2011-02-20 21:50:18 +0100 (Sun, 20 Feb 2011) Log Message Only check deps for packages buildable on x86_64 Why not try the same logic and i586, then fail (which is fine since for now we only care about those

Re: [Mageia-dev] please keep note of missing dependancies

2011-02-20 Thread Michael Scherer
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:52:08 -0300, Balcaen John wrote: Le dimanche 20 février 2011 20:23:30, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Hi, Now and then, i'm refreshing http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ and sometimes i notice the missing dependancies increasing... [...] Maybe we should in fact check

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

2011-02-20 Thread P. Christeas
On Sunday 20 February 2011, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Hi What do you think about switching from defaulting to installing on raw partitions to lvm installing on LVs like fedora does ? I vote against that. (=to be enabled by default) LVM is fine for enterprise setups, or better, installations