Re: [opensuse] New rpm Amsn on Guru ??

2007-02-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
rcefroge website dl the > installer and run it yourself. 0.96b did install for me on both 10.1 > and 10.2, but it required downloading of the extra packages. No, just get my amsn-0.96-0.2 package, that one works. At least it did for me on 10.2. Please report issues directly to me. cheers - --

Re: [opensuse] A tool for YaST repositories - YaSTRS.

2007-02-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
en.de/suser-guru/rpm/10.2/RPMS (of course, also for older SUSE versions) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Re: [opensuse] smart won't update ktorrent from Guru's repositories

2007-02-09 Thread Pascal Bleser
... So... what am I doing wrong?? :-/ smart update Then try again. You must update the repository metadata of the guru and packman repositories on a regular basis, as the content changes several times a day. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECT

[opensuse] OpenSUSE @ FOSDEM 2007: schedule

2007-02-10 Thread Pascal Bleser
DEM: http://fosdem.org/2007/about/fosdem cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-04 Thread Pascal Bleser
orks great on Linux. Anyhow, stay away from any RAID controller that is cheaper than 1000 EUR because it's crap. And yet, software RAID on Linux outperforms most of them. Umm.. does that answer your question ? ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ &l

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-05 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sun, March 4, 2007 22:35, Pascal Bleser wrote: >> Anyhow, stay away from any RAID controller that is cheaper than 1000 EUR >> because it's crap. And yet, software RAID on Linux outperforms most of &g

Re: [opensuse] mod_auth_ldap

2007-03-05 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Raimundo wrote: > Hi! > > Is it just me or the auht_ldap module for apache doesn't exists in > openSUSE 10.2? > I just cant' find it and I really need it... It's "mod_authnz_ldap" with Apache 2.2 - -

Re: [opensuse] Scanner for Linux

2007-03-21 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lívio Cipriano wrote: > Any suggestions for an USB 2.0 scanner for Linux? For the record, on the inexpensive side of things, the Canon LiDE-25 works great too with recent sane versions (out-of-the-box on 10.2). cheers - -- -o) Pascal Ble

Re: [opensuse] Quanta + in OpenSUSE 10.2?

2007-03-23 Thread Pascal Bleser
scribus comes with 10.2 too, but maybe not on the CDs (the DVD has more packages than the CDs, and the internet repository has even more) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things

[opensuse] Working Democracy Player RPMs for 10.2

2007-03-24 Thread Pascal Bleser
- -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGBU/Qr3NMWliFcXcRApclAKCejPm0NCtEMpRDdZPtQ3iX

Re: [opensuse] Working Democracy Player RPMs for 10.2

2007-03-24 Thread Pascal Bleser
epository because SUSE's doesn't include the PyXPCOM stuff. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: [opensuse] Working Democracy Player RPMs for 10.2

2007-03-25 Thread Pascal Bleser
;smart update" first. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [opensuse] kde application for 'id'

2007-03-27 Thread Pascal Bleser
ember ship to know how > to set permissions on file for sharing. istn't...? kdialog --msgbox "$(id)" ;) - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane.

Re: [opensuse] Working Democracy Player RPMs for 10.2

2007-03-28 Thread Pascal Bleser
then > have to kill the process. > > Is anyone else seeing this behavior? Not here, but I didn't test democracy thoroughly. Please report it upstream, it's not the packager's fault if the sources are crap ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwd

[opensuse] Novell Client for openSUSE

2007-03-31 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Novell's Novell Client for Linux is only available for SLED 10 and not for openSUSE. I think it's a rather ridiculous situation. Who can be poked to consider making builds for openSUSE (10.2, 10.3, ...) ? cheers - -- -o) Pascal Blese

Re: [opensuse] Novell Client for openSUSE

2007-03-31 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pascal Bleser wrote: > Novell's Novell Client for Linux is only available for SLED 10 and not > for openSUSE. > I think it's a rather ridiculous situation. > > Who can be poked to consider making builds for openSUSE

Re: [opensuse] Oh my god, zypper is such a crap!

2007-04-07 Thread Pascal Bleser
SUSE-Devs but now not anymore. I will wait for the 10.3 release and then > decide whether I switch to another Distro or stick to 'Novell's SUSE' > bit longer. > Nevertheless, I respect your poit of view, but please respect mine too. > I don't want libzypp and it is my r

Re: [opensuse] Novell Client for openSUSE

2007-04-07 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> Pascal Bleser wrote: >>> Novell's Novell Client for Linux is only available for SLED 10 and not >>> for openSUSE. >>> I think it's a rather ridiculous situation. > > Yes, it

Re: [opensuse] Smart package manager problem

2007-04-13 Thread Pascal Bleser
main once the process died. Are you really sure there is no smart process still running ? ps -ef | grep smart | grep -v grep If that line shows anything, kill those processes. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PR

Re: [opensuse] Installing Firefox 2.0.0.3

2007-04-13 Thread Pascal Bleser
ut I didn't run into that problem either. I have MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.3-3.2 and it has a dependency to the package "gconf2", but not to "gconftool-2". Maybe it was already fixed. - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [opensuse] off-list replies

2007-04-13 Thread Pascal Bleser
openSUSE packages of Thunderbird, they already include the required patch. Additionally, you must also install the extension (but as said, it also requires the patch). cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] building RPMs

2007-04-29 Thread Pascal Bleser
aged (RPM) stuff should go into /usr (or /opt/...), stuff you install yourself, "manually" goes into /usr/local /usr/local should never, ever be used as a target directory by RPM packages. - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EM

Re: [opensuse] building RPMs

2007-04-30 Thread Pascal Bleser
cluding RPMs built with checkinstall). > One more detail: you will see that users may have the /usr/local/bin first > in their path, but often root does not even have it included - on purpose > so as to execute "official" programs only. Define "official". Packages

Re: [opensuse] Pidgin and repository?

2007-05-04 Thread Pascal Bleser
i/2007/05/04#1178308659pidgin_packages_and_poll_particulars See also: http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2007/05/dropping-gaimpidgin-200-use.html cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things chang

Re: [opensuse] Amarok + NFS mounted home

2007-05-06 Thread Pascal Bleser
CK, ... = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) > If so, any suggestions on further troubleshooting? Locking doesn't work on NFS mounts unless you enable the locking daemon. Make sure you didn't mount with the "nolock" option. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice.org 2.2

2007-05-09 Thread Pascal Bleser
o file a bug [1]. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Submit_a_Bug#Accessing_Bugzilla I couldn't find an existing bug requesting 2.2 packages, so I filed one for that: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=273077 cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL

[opensuse] Project launch: openSUSE Software Portal / Application Manager

2007-05-12 Thread Pascal Bleser
oking for Java/Python/YCP developers, web designers, artwork designers, and people with ideas, suggestions, and motivation. [1]http://forge.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/appinstaller-devel Please spread the word ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ &l

Re: Moving Directories Across Partitions (was Re: [opensuse] 10.0 ? remove un-needed languages)

2007-05-19 Thread Pascal Bleser
use LVM to create PVs (Physical Volumes) and then LVs (Logical Volumes) you can format and use as partitions for /, /usr, /var/log, etc... You can even combine the software RAID1 and LVM. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &l

Re: [opensuse] rpm problem

2007-05-21 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob S wrote: > Running 10.2 64 bit. Tried to install an src rpm. RPM version is rpm-4.4.2-76 > rpm won't accept the --rebuild or the -bb commands. > > Any ideas why? rpmbuild --rebuild rpmbuild -bb cheers - -- -o) Pasca

Re: [opensuse] Amarok 1.4.5 and MySQL

2007-05-30 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pueblo Native wrote: > Can somebody tell me which packages I need installed so that Amarok can > store my music library on a MySQL database? Complete instructions are here: http://opensuse-community.org/Amarok cheers - -- -o) Pascal

Re: [opensuse] Amarok 1.4.5 and MySQL

2007-05-30 Thread Pascal Bleser
#x27;s easily 3 times faster than sqlite3 (just gut feeling, didn't run any benchmarks). With larger collections, I'd definitely recommend using MySQL instead of sqlite3. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAI

Re: [opensuse] opensuse repositories now illegal in Germany

2007-05-30 Thread Pascal Bleser
nds of lies: lies, damn > lies, and statistics. To that should be added the worst kind of lie > of all: a political promise. And there are three deadly issues on this list: off-topic, off-topic and off-topic. Please stick to the topic. Thanks ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://lin

Re: [opensuse] GUI for environment variables

2007-06-09 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 printenv | sort | kdialog --textbox /dev/stdin To edit, could use some logic around eval $(printenv | sort \ | kdialog --textinputbox Environment "$(http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more th

Re: [opensuse] New Subject - building clusters with OpenSuse

2007-06-15 Thread Pascal Bleser
a load-balancer upfront that is smart enough to understand session URLs and cookies and to redirect traffic to the cluster node that originated the session (fastest, but only load-balances the first request and doesn't help all that much wrt HA). cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linu

Re: [opensuse] Repo for Freetype with BCI/sub-pixel hinting enabled

2007-06-18 Thread Pascal Bleser
Without the green light of a lawyer, I wouldn't host binary RPMs with subpixel hinting enabled. But it's not too difficult to build it yourself from the src.rpm, so, you may chose to do so ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [opensuse] Repo for Freetype with BCI/sub-pixel hinting enabled

2007-06-19 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug McGarrett wrote: > On Tuesday 19 June 2007 01:39, Pascal Bleser wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> Kevin Donnelly wrote: >>>> On Mon 18 June 2007 22:12:33 Michael wrote: >>>>> I'm thinking

Re: [opensuse] Repo for Freetype with BCI/sub-pixel hinting enabled

2007-06-19 Thread Pascal Bleser
pm or something. :-) ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: U

Re: [opensuse] unable to access website after 10.2 install (bug 229848)

2006-12-21 Thread Pascal Bleser
with the server + mirrors. For the impatient, it rebuilds just fine on 10.2: rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i586 \ tcptraceroute-1.5beta7-1.guru.suse100.src.rpm cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse and why not stay, The Linux Wall

2006-12-25 Thread Pascal Bleser
it easier to understand and apply). cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFj

Re: [opensuse] Workaround to install Novell Client for Linux in 10.2?

2006-12-25 Thread Pascal Bleser
't trivial: http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2006/12/novell-client-on-opensuse-102.html As things haven't been moving yet (xmas holidays I guess ;)), I'll probably build a novfs KMP that includes my patch and host it in my repository. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse and why not stay, The Linux Wall

2006-12-26 Thread Pascal Bleser
rt of it is already documented on http://opensuse-community.org > We may be angry or mad or distressed or whatever, but Novell can't do > otherwise: they could be sued. Even a threat to be sued can be damaging > for them, they are a USA company. That's my understanding; how do you sa

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse and why not stay, The Linux Wall

2006-12-27 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Tuesday 2006-12-26 at 22:12 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: >>>> So, that information has to go elsewhere. You mention another non official >>>> site: that could be a possibility. >>>

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 Manpath adding path

2006-12-27 Thread Pascal Bleser
;> /etc/profile.local Log out and log in again, done. - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linu

Re: [opensuse] Setting up NFS with Suse 10.2

2006-12-27 Thread Pascal Bleser
tell the NFS mount to use that port, by setting the "mountport=" option in /etc/fstab, e.g. nfsserver:/some/export/dir /some/local/mountpoint nfs \ tcp,mountport=2222,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,retry=10,bg,soft 0 0 cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ &

Re: [opensuse] Playing MP3 with Amarok on top of xine-engine

2006-12-28 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote: > How can I play MP3 with Amarok on top of xine-engine? http://opensuse-community.org/Amarok cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [opensuse] digikam 0.9, packman, suse 10 aspect ratio crop

2006-12-28 Thread Pascal Bleser
o you have a solution ? Report the bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED] cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [opensuse] No updates?

2006-12-29 Thread Pascal Bleser
://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.suse.com/suse/update/10.2/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/update/10.2/ All of them are in Europe (Belgium and Ireland) but very fast and reliable (and yes, they do sync properly). cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linu

Re: [opensuse] FTP question.

2006-12-29 Thread Pascal Bleser
ips with SUSE 10.1 and 10.2 cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] iptables.h

2006-12-30 Thread Pascal Bleser
at doesnt' exist on previous versions. It seems ipp2p requires a newer kernel/iptables version than what you are using. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more t

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-01 Thread Pascal Bleser
nternet repositories to YaST2's list of installation sources. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP S

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-01 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Lewis wrote: > Pascal Bleser wrote: >> Robert Lewis wrote: >>> I would like to get a better handle on the SUSE oss and non-oss >>> repositories. >>> Are these static ? >> >> Yes >>

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-01 Thread Pascal Bleser
grade amarok rpm -q amarok-xine || smart install amarok-xine cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
ovide rsync but only HTTP and/or FTP. And it wouldn't help much anyway because when the metadata is generated again, all the metadata files are modified. RPM-MD metadata files are even gzipped, so it's very unlikely rsync's binary deltas would be a big help to reduce the download siz

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd wrote: > Pascal Bleser wrote: > >> Definitely get rid of ZMD on 10.1 >> http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources >> http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources/10.1 > > I can't agree with such asser

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Tuesday 2007-01-02 at 11:12 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: >>>> Firing that module takes half an hour or more in my system (10.1). >>> Definitely get rid of ZMD on 10.1 >>> http://opensuse-commu

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd wrote: > Pascal Bleser wrote: >> You don't know about smart, so why are you giving your opinion anyway. > > because for me SuSE = Yast and I wont change that. I also have seen > bugreports for smart, there are also other

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd wrote: > Pascal Bleser wrote: >> Personally, I stick with smart because I like it better than yast2/zypp > > and nobody prevent you from doing so, this is linux's choice :-) > >> Don't attend SLED/SLES marketin

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gustav Degreef wrote: > On 1/2/07, Pascal Bleser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And if you like yast2, use yast2 with the zypp backend. > > Yes, that is what I'd like to do on 10.1 > >> The latter actually being

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-03 Thread Pascal Bleser
the most appropriate solution would be. It would certainly make more sense to just copy the relevant Packman RPMs into a separate repository at videolan.org instead of building the packages from scratch again -- especially when they conflict with the most used community package repository. cheers -

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-03 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd wrote: > Pascal Bleser wrote: > >> Ok, let me summarize: you just said you have no clue about ZMD nor zypp >> nor smart nor other package managers. Nor did you ever had to help those >> people who were about to ditch

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-03 Thread Pascal Bleser
e package "mad" -- although it is bad practice, I chose to do so in this case because it makes it easier to just install my amarok RPMs and everything that's needed for complete codec support is pulled from my repository and from Packman. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http:/

Re: [opensuse] Problems adding PackMan as an Additional Repository

2007-01-03 Thread Pascal Bleser
ay from packman mirror at gwdg.de, which >> was working a few says ago. So it seems to be temporary breakage at >> packman. > Thanks, I will forget it for a while "for a while" == 1 day at most. Actually, it works here for me, using the RPM-MD repository with smart, both with

Re: [opensuse] Problems adding PackMan as an Additional Repository

2007-01-03 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pascal Bleser wrote: > Peter Bloomfield wrote: >>> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 14:53, Markus Koßmann wrote: >>>> Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2007 20:45 schrieb Peter Bloomfield: >>>>> I have just installed 10.2 on

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-04 Thread Pascal Bleser
ite sure where SUSE stores programs - it seems some are > in /etc/bin, others in /usr/bin and still others in /opt/kde3/bin. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse102/opensuse102_startup/data/sec_new_fs.html cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser ht

Re: [opensuse] recurring smart update errors

2007-01-05 Thread Pascal Bleser
t; /var/lib/smart/channels/packman%%http:__packman.inode.at_suse_10.1_repodata_repomd.xml > > Yep. removed it. smart update recreates it, then complains about it. Please report the issue at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [opensuse] user mount iso images with autofs

2007-01-06 Thread Pascal Bleser
ot; the ISO image with konqueror (or krusader), copy files out of it, etc... cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

Re: [opensuse] Stopping Smart upgrading itself

2007-01-08 Thread Pascal Bleser
mart/config, which is where the list of channels you use is stored. > The problem is that it doesn't see .50rc1 as being an upgrade to .49, maybe > the full release will fix this. It isn't, see at the beginning of this mail. smart/yast are behaving correctly. cheers - -- -o)

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread Pascal Bleser
nely expensive. And in a lot of countries (e.g. South Asia or Africa), it costs as much as several months of salary. Frankly, I doubt MS wants piracy of their products to fail. - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [opensuse] YOU Bust

2007-01-10 Thread Pascal Bleser
k at it today, YOU is broken again and I have to fix it. > > YOU is deprecated, AFAIK. No, not at all. > Use SMART. Well yes, it's an option, but YOU is not deprecated by any means. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [opensuse] YOU Bust

2007-01-10 Thread Pascal Bleser
t;Crystal ball, crystal ball, tell me, what's broken in Darko's YOU?" crystal ball: "erm... what the heck, how am I supposed to know" me: "oh.. uh... hmm... 8ball, should I bother ?" 8ball: "most likely not" me: "ok" cheers - -- -o) Pasca

Re: [opensuse] Re: Future of SUSE (at home)

2007-01-14 Thread Pascal Bleser
rants and try to formulate something productive and intelligent out of it. Do precise proposals on what you think would be an enhancement - - don't bash/rant/generalize, be positive - - stop whining and complaining - - don't think that just because _you_ think something is better on wind

Re: [opensuse] multimedia problems in 10.2

2007-01-17 Thread Pascal Bleser
edia in OpenSuse, lots of resources out there. >> > Check out konvenientSUSE > (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=43378) > As well as: http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL P

Re: [opensuse] Strange bug with amarok

2007-01-19 Thread Pascal Bleser
elf. FYI, amarok 1.4.5 is currently planned to be released on 1st Feb. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [opensuse] SVN amarok

2007-01-19 Thread Pascal Bleser
ook at my spec file for amarok. Download ftp://ftp.skynet.be/pub/suser-guru/rpm/packages/Sound/amarok/src/amarok-1.4.4-110.guru.suse102.src.rpm Unpack it with rpm2cpio amarok-*.src.rpm | cpio -imd And then have a look at amarok.spec (you can skip all the patching part) cheers - -- -o) Pasc

[opensuse] swap on RAID (was: mdadm - strange problem: After being moved, the system won't boot with std OpenSuse 10.2 kernel)

2007-01-21 Thread Pascal Bleser
sk" is also full of bad blocks). Having swap on RAID means that the system actually keeps on running when a disk dies as the swapped out pages will be read from the clean disk in the degraded array. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] (incomplete) list of possibilities (and impossibilities) to play mp3 on SuSE 10.2

2007-01-29 Thread Pascal Bleser
That means heavy patching on a lot of media player applications. Not feasible, or rather, not maintainable IMO. > complete and easy and with screenshots, hosted on a website in > China or any other countries where copyright and patents are > difficult to en

Re: [opensuse] (incomplete) list of possibilities (and impossibilities) to play mp3 on SuSE 10.2

2007-01-30 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Nikolic wrote: > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 06:21, Pascal Bleser wrote: > >> xmms is dead, get over it. > >> -- >> -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ >> /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [opensuse] (incomplete) list of possibilities (and impossibilities) to play mp3 on SuSE 10.2

2007-01-30 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan S. Tyson wrote: > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 1:21 am, Pascal Bleser wrote: >> xmms is dead, get over it. > > What do you mean that xmms is dead? > > Xmms is still my favorite music player and accounts for 90% of my listeni

Re: [opensuse] a user call for attention on SuSE's mp3 support issue

2007-01-31 Thread Pascal Bleser
have been written by people who never saw those patents and started from scratch. That's exactly why software patents are a ridiculous (but extremely dangerous) idea in the first place. Still, with MP3, the question isn't even open. It's pretty clear, and it's damn restricti

Re: [opensuse] Applications question

2007-01-31 Thread Pascal Bleser
: http://flyspray.rocks.cc/ - - Roundup: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ - - Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/ - - JTrac: http://jtrac.info/ And there's also JIRA. It's commercial (free for opensource projects) but it's really, really good, not very expensive and the support is great: http://www.a

[opensuse] MP3/swpatents (was: a user call for attention on SuSE's mp3 support issue)

2007-02-01 Thread Pascal Bleser
Juergen Weigert wrote: > On Feb 01, 07 07:02:00 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: >>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg#Ogg_codecs> >>> So then those who preach ogg from the hill tops are still >>> not necessarily any more free of patents until they prove >

Re: [opensuse] MP3/swpatents

2007-02-01 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juergen Weigert wrote: > On Feb 01, 07 13:47:15 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: >> I don't know for the US, but the EPO (European Patent Office) only >> makes money from the patents that are filed and accepted, they don't &g

Re: [opensuse] Open suse 10 GM still copyright Novell and distribution restricted

2005-10-11 Thread Pascal Bleser
2005-Oct/1016.html And yes, IANAL, and I'm not working for Novell either. So contact a sales representative from Novell to get an "official" statement. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Cisco router simulator

2005-10-12 Thread Pascal Bleser
; on its own separate purpose-built TCP port for telnet logins. Once you log > in, the telnet command line virtually mimics a Cisco router. ... > There are no (open)suse rpm's, but it would be could to have them > available ;) I'll have a look at it this evening, for some RPMs ;)

Re: [opensuse] External repositories

2005-10-12 Thread Pascal Bleser
t works, sometimes it doesn't. Eberhard and I will have to find some time to try fixing that, although we couldn't find any workaround until now :\ Hopefully the load will decrease of ftp4.gwdg.de, which should solve that issue as well. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux0

Re: [opensuse] Official OpenSuse Forum?

2005-10-12 Thread Pascal Bleser
s out of the way, I hope this can be given some > attention, as the way I see it, everyday we don't have a forum, we > lose an opportunity to capture end-users in our community. We'll probably have to wait two more weeks to get stuff done, as a few key people in the SUSE 10.0 / ope

Re: [opensuse] External repositories

2005-10-12 Thread Pascal Bleser
Conectiva) and now for Canonical. That means it's very actively maintained and that the author pretty much knows his subject ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change,

Re: [opensuse] Cisco router simulator

2005-10-12 Thread Pascal Bleser
AFAICR it's even different from one language to the other... I know that for Chinese, you should use their last name.. dunno for Japanese ;)) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more th

[opensuse] SmartPM (was: External repositories)

2005-10-13 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (new thread) Nicola -kOoLiNuS- Losito wrote: > Pascal Bleser wrote: >> SUSE Linux RPMs are here: >> http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=/System/smart [...] > Do you experts think that can be merged with the apt4

Re: [opensuse] SmartPM (was: External repositories)

2005-10-13 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Pascal Bleser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-13-05 14:23]: >> Well, at least my smart RPM comes preconfigured with Packman and my >> repository. I could add some others. And if you notice something fishy,

Re: [opensuse] YOU politics

2005-10-13 Thread Pascal Bleser
E Linux, have a look at the 3rd party packagers' repositories. And if it's still not there, either package them yourselves (e.g. join Packman to maintain them) or ask the Packman team, me, or another community packager whether he has the time to make and maintain RPMs of it. The list of re

Re: [opensuse] Searching the mailinglist(s)

2005-10-15 Thread Pascal Bleser
sults for wiki: ... - - Search results for mailing-list archives: ... cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane

Re: [opensuse] (Non-free) multimedia support in boxed Suse 10.0

2005-10-15 Thread Pascal Bleser
ay have been talking about Real Player. It's still a bit > of a catch, though. "Out-of-the-box multimedia support" applies to MP3, MPEG*, etc... (and obviously Ogg and Theora) but certainly not to Microsoft-only formats that, by definition, are not available to non-Microsoft

Re: [opensuse] uname -a not providing Suse OS name and release info

2005-10-17 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > From a developer point of view is there a reliable/consistent way to > obtain Linux distribution name and release information? /etc/SuSE-release /etc/redhat-release /etc/mandrake-release cheers - -- -o) Pascal

Re: [opensuse] uname -a not providing Suse OS name and release info

2005-10-17 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 houghi wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:27:24PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> ... >>> From a developer point of view is there a reliable/consistent way to >>> obtain Linux distribu

Re: [opensuse] uname -a not providing Suse OS name and release info

2005-10-17 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Schneider wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 23:27 +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> ... >>> From a developer point of view is there a reliable/consistent way to >>> obtain Linux distribu

Re: [opensuse] uname -a not providing Suse OS name and release info

2005-10-18 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Schiele wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:40:30AM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: >> Well, it doesn't help. We could start with SUSE and ask the devs to include >> such a file, then talk >> with Fedora, Mandriva, Debia

Re: [opensuse] SmartPM (was: External repositories)

2005-10-18 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iznogood wrote: > Torsdag 13 oktober 2005 21:18, skrev Pascal Bleser: >> SUSE Linux RPMs are here: >> http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=/System/smart > > The links on that page takes me to ftp4.gwdg.de, AF

Re: [opensuse] SmartPM (was: External repositories)

2005-10-18 Thread Pascal Bleser
n-gtk (that, in turn, requires the latest-and-greatest gtk2, etc...) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v FOSDEM 2006 -- 25+26 February 2006 in Brussels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [opensuse] does the "new apt" smart run with proxies?

2005-10-24 Thread Pascal Bleser
allowed to bypass our proxy, so how can I tell > smart to use it? apt uses wget and my ~/.wgetrc points > to my proxy; so it works > Any hints? Sure. smart honors the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables, as many other applications do (curl, libxml2, wget, lynx, w3m, ...). Hope

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