Re: [mhvlug] Stupid growisofs won't cooperate

2008-01-05 Thread Jim Hartley
There is a file, /etc/yum.conf, where you put exclude=packagefoo* to tell yum not to mess with a particular package. I had to use it for OpenOffice so I could download the latest 2.3 version from the OOo website and not have yum keep trying to reload the fedora-customized earlier version; it

Re: [mhvlug] Stupid growisofs won't cooperate

2008-01-04 Thread matthew scouten
I hate to compile other people's code. There always seems to be some library I am missing or some dev package I need. And next time I 'sudo yum update' I lose the changes. Open source does not excuse user un-friendly programming. If I want to waste half a dual layer DVD on a small ISO, the

Re: [mhvlug] Stupid growisofs won't cooperate

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday 04 January 2008, matthew scouten wrote: I hate to compile other people's code. There always seems to be some library I am missing or some dev package I need. Compiling source can be an adventure, yeah. And next time I 'sudo yum update' I lose the changes. Not following

Re: [mhvlug] Stupid growisofs won't cooperate

2008-01-04 Thread matthew scouten
On Jan 4, 2008 10:44 PM, Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008, matthew scouten wrote: I hate to compile other people's code. There always seems to be some library I am missing or some dev package I need. Compiling source can be an adventure, yeah. And next

[mhvlug] Stupid growisofs won't cooperate

2007-12-26 Thread matthew scouten
So I am trying to burn the fedora 8 ISO to DVD using K3b I am getting the following error messege: :-( more than 50% of space will be *wasted*! use single layer media for this recording Wow! thanks for warning me! But it just so happens that I only have dual-layer disks on hand, and I would

Re: [mhvlug] Stupid growisofs won't cooperate

2007-12-26 Thread Porkchop
On 26/12/07 22:33 -0600, matthew scouten wrote: Wow! thanks for warning me! But it just so happens that I only have dual-layer disks on hand, and I would rather get this burned today than save a few bucks. The beauty of open source... Theres an exit() in growisofs_mmc.cpp around line 1342