Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Dexter Morgan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:29 AM, andre999 wrote: > ok. > My though was essentially that firmware is so close to hardware that its > actual free/non-free status shouldn't apply - we should treat it like > (almost) part of the hardware. > > As for the drivers, a little more distant from the hardware

Re: [Mageia-dev] buildsystem => maintainers db link test

2011-03-24 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 11:24:44 am Romain d'Alverny wrote: > Cool. Thanks to pterjan and boklm we now have a post on maintdb test > platform on each upload. That will help setting things up further. > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 20:45, Maarten Vanraes > > wrote: > > Op woensdag 23 maart 2011

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread andre999
JA Magallón a écrit : On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:41:18 -0400, andre999 wrote: Romain d'Alverny a écrit : On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 20:08, Anssi Hannula wrote: On 24.03.2011 19:35, Romain d'Alverny wrote: Summary (from http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy): * core: stuff that

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread JA Magallón
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:41:18 -0400, andre999 wrote: > Romain d'Alverny a écrit : > > > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 20:08, Anssi Hannula wrote: > >> On 24.03.2011 19:35, Romain d'Alverny wrote: > >>> Summary (from http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy): > >>> * core: stuff that is n

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread andre999
Romain d'Alverny a écrit : On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 20:08, Anssi Hannula wrote: On 24.03.2011 19:35, Romain d'Alverny wrote: Summary (from http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy): * core: stuff that is not Free/Open Source according to OSI/FSF does not belong here. Not even clos

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 22:09:50 schreef Dexter Morgan: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Maarten Vanraes > > wrote: > > Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 20:55:47 schreef Ahmad Samir: > >> On 24 March 2011 21:36, Maarten Vanraes wrote: > >> > Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 14:10:39 schreef Romain d'

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread andre999
Frank Griffin a écrit : On 03/24/2011 04:37 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote: I'm not sure it's broken. Realtek is known to have somewhat crappy NICs that can tend to lock up in a "middle state" if a driver probe comes too fast, and then they dont react to any link or driver loading anymore. One wa

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread andre999
Robert Xu a écrit : On Mar 23, 2011, at 17:28, Dexter Morgan wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Olivier Blin wrote: Dexter Morgan writes: I certainly don't have the web space and bandwidth resources for a repository and frankly I joined Mageia as a packager precisely because I thou

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Dexter Morgan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Maarten Vanraes wrote: > Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 20:55:47 schreef Ahmad Samir: >> On 24 March 2011 21:36, Maarten Vanraes wrote: >> > Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 14:10:39 schreef Romain d'Alverny: >> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:13, Tux99 wrote: >> >> > Like

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 20:55:47 schreef Ahmad Samir: > On 24 March 2011 21:36, Maarten Vanraes wrote: > > Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 14:10:39 schreef Romain d'Alverny: > >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:13, Tux99 wrote: > >> > Like I said before, KDE3.5 coexisted very well with KDE4 since 2009.1

Re: [Mageia-dev] vbox/vboxadditions conflicts question

2011-03-24 Thread andre999
Frank Griffin a écrit : On 03/24/2011 12:41 PM, andre999 wrote: Frank Griffin a écrit : Is there an rpm or urpmq query that will highlight conflicts between installed packages on a system ? For example, if I installed dkms-virtualbox and then installed dkms-vboxadditions with --force, is ther

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/24/2011 04:37 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote: I'm not sure it's broken. Realtek is known to have somewhat crappy NICs that can tend to lock up in a "middle state" if a driver probe comes too fast, and then they dont react to any link or driver loading anymore. One way that might help is to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread Thomas Backlund
Frank Griffin skrev 24.3.2011 15:21: On 03/24/2011 08:02 AM, Frank Griffin wrote: I'll do that today. I've looked in older logs, and I find places where the kernel puts out the "unable to load firmware" message, but then gets link beat anyway. Well, I've never been a believer in coincidence

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 20:08, Anssi Hannula wrote: > On 24.03.2011 19:35, Romain d'Alverny wrote: >> Summary (from http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy): >>  * core: stuff that is not Free/Open Source according to OSI/FSF does >> not belong here. Not even closed-source stuff that w

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread andre999
Romain d'Alverny a écrit : On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not care about the issue does not mean we should not care either. We should

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 24 March 2011 21:36, Maarten Vanraes wrote: > Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 14:10:39 schreef Romain d'Alverny: >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:13, Tux99 wrote: >> > Like I said before, KDE3.5 coexisted very well with KDE4 since 2009.1 on >> > Mandriva and Trinity is even more so being developed wit

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 16:22:15 schreef Ahmad Samir: > On 24 March 2011 11:56, Olivier Blin wrote: > > nicolas vigier writes: > >> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Robert Xu wrote: > >>> As I reiterate, Trinity does not interfere with KDE4 in any way, if > >>> you keep /opt/kde3 > >> > >> Are you sure ?

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 14:10:39 schreef Romain d'Alverny: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:13, Tux99 wrote: > > Like I said before, KDE3.5 coexisted very well with KDE4 since 2009.1 on > > Mandriva and Trinity is even more so being developed with coexistence in > > mind, so there shouldn't be any

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 11:18:03 schreef Olivier Blin: > Wolfgang Bornath writes: > >>> It can't be "free" and have "non-free" firmware... previously the > >>> firmware only were on the Live CD's. I am not sure anything has been > >>> changed in that regard (i.e. I didn't see the matter get dis

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread andre999
Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : 2011/3/24 Olivier Blin: Thorsten van Lil writes: Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morganwrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samirwrote: Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever cont

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 24.03.2011 19:35, Romain d'Alverny wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 17:45, Michael Scherer wrote: >> But my issue is not about non-free firmwares and those who use them or >> not, but about the gradual move to non-free packages on the free dvd iso >> ( http://netsplit.com/2006/11/27/slippery-sl

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 24/03/11 15:12 did gyre and gimble: > But that doesn't cover the case of booting from a 2009.1 partition which > has worked with this NIC before. That partition would have the same > kernel and /lib/firmware that worked the last time, no ? Ahh yes, that's true.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread andre999
Ahmad Samir a écrit : On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free firmware? No, but the question is more , will we provide a "non free" dvd iso, and this question is i think interesti

Re: [Mageia-dev] buildsystem => maintainers db link test

2011-03-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
Cool. Thanks to pterjan and boklm we now have a post on maintdb test platform on each upload. That will help setting things up further. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 20:45, Maarten Vanraes wrote: > Op woensdag 23 maart 2011 20:32:42 schreef Michael Scherer: >> ( nota : xml rpc interface could be a good

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 17:45, Michael Scherer wrote: > But my issue is not about non-free firmwares and those who use them or > not, but about the gradual move to non-free packages on the free dvd iso > ( http://netsplit.com/2006/11/27/slippery-slopes/ ). > > When I started at Mandrake Linux, the

Re: [Mageia-dev] vbox/vboxadditions conflicts question

2011-03-24 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/24/2011 12:41 PM, andre999 wrote: Frank Griffin a écrit : Is there an rpm or urpmq query that will highlight conflicts between installed packages on a system ? For example, if I installed dkms-virtualbox and then installed dkms-vboxadditions with --force, is there a query which would repo

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 14:24 +0200, Anssi Hannula a écrit : > On 24.03.2011 12:53, Michael Scherer wrote: > > Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 11:15 +0100, Thorsten van Lil a écrit : > >> Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: > >>> 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir: > On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morga

Re: [Mageia-dev] vbox/vboxadditions conflicts question

2011-03-24 Thread andre999
Frank Griffin a écrit : On 03/23/2011 08:45 AM, Olivier Blin wrote: Don't you have x11 packages for vbox guest installed? That was it, thanks. Apparently virtualbox-additions and the x11 package were forced on during my post-installation processing. Is there an rpm or urpmq query that will

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread JA Magallón
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:18:03 +0100, Olivier Blin wrote: > Wolfgang Bornath writes: > > >>> It can't be "free" and have "non-free" firmware... previously the > >>> firmware only were on the Live CD's. I am not sure anything has been > >>> changed in that regard (i.e. I didn't see the matter get

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 24.03.2011 14:41, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > 2011/3/24 Anssi Hannula : >> On 24.03.2011 12:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: >>> But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents >>> in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not >>> care about the issue does

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 24 March 2011 11:56, Olivier Blin wrote: > nicolas vigier writes: > >> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Robert Xu wrote: >> >>> >>> As I reiterate, Trinity does not interfere with KDE4 in any way, if >>> you keep /opt/kde3 >> >> Are you sure ? >> >> For libs installed in /opt/kde3/lib, rpm find-provides w

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/24/2011 10:35 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: Could perhaps the firmware needed have been [re]moved with some other updates?... Perhaps the nic is not dead yet! :p It sure looked like the files were in /lib/firmware/rtl, although I suppose they could have moved. And booting with the prior ker

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 24/03/11 13:21 did gyre and gimble: > On 03/24/2011 08:02 AM, Frank Griffin wrote: >> >> I'll do that today. I've looked in older logs, and I find places >> where the kernel puts out the "unable to load firmware" message, but >> then gets link beat anyway. >> >

Re: [Mageia-dev] Gstreamer pfl codecs/plugins

2011-03-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:55, Frank Griffin wrote: > On 03/24/2011 09:45 AM, Romain d'Alverny wrote: >> >> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy#acceptable_licenses >> >> "The tainted section accepts software under a license that is might be >> free or open source and which cannot b

Re: [Mageia-dev] Gstreamer pfl codecs/plugins

2011-03-24 Thread Tux99
Quote: rdalverny wrote on Thu, 24 March 2011 14:45 > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:39, Frank Griffin > wrote: > > On 03/24/2011 05:14 AM, Tux99 wrote: > >> > >> Can you (or anyone) tell us when the build system will be ready to > deal > >> with s

Re: [Mageia-dev] Gstreamer pfl codecs/plugins

2011-03-24 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/24/2011 09:45 AM, Romain d'Alverny wrote: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy#acceptable_licenses "The tainted section accepts software under a license that is might be free or open source and which cannot be redistributed publicly in certain areas in the world, or due to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Gstreamer pfl codecs/plugins

2011-03-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:39, Frank Griffin wrote: > On 03/24/2011 05:14 AM, Tux99 wrote: >> >> Can you (or anyone) tell us when the build system will be ready to deal >> with source packages that generate both core and tainted binary packages? >> >> Is it something that's still far off (months)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Gstreamer pfl codecs/plugins

2011-03-24 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/24/2011 05:14 AM, Tux99 wrote: Can you (or anyone) tell us when the build system will be ready to deal with source packages that generate both core and tainted binary packages? Is it something that's still far off (months) or will this be possible soon? On a related issue, the wiki still

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 24 March 2011 11:38, Olivier Blin wrote: >> What about a DVD including non-free packages but has the option to not >> install them? >> I think the majority of the users don't care that much about >> proprietary issues, they just need them for using there wireless card >> or graphic card. Those

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/24/2011 08:02 AM, Frank Griffin wrote: I'll do that today. I've looked in older logs, and I find places where the kernel puts out the "unable to load firmware" message, but then gets link beat anyway. Well, I've never been a believer in coincidence, but I've booted the old kernel (2

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:13, Tux99 wrote: > Like I said before, KDE3.5 coexisted very well with KDE4 since 2009.1 on > Mandriva and Trinity is even more so being developed with coexistence in > mind, so there shouldn't be any unsolvable issues. Maybe it did coexist well at a significant cost on

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/3/24 Anssi Hannula : > On 24.03.2011 12:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: >> But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents >> in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not >> care about the issue does not mean we should not care either. We >> should ra

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 24.03.2011 12:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents > in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not > care about the issue does not mean we should not care either. We > should rather stress the point. Note tha

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 24.03.2011 12:53, Michael Scherer wrote: > Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 11:15 +0100, Thorsten van Lil a écrit : >> Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: >>> 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir > wr

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/24/2011 07:55 AM, Thomas Backlund wrote: No r8169 fixes in upstream 2.6.38.1 I'll check HEAD commits... Should be easy to check if kernel is at fault Boot the old kernel... Is the issue gone ? I'll do that today. I've looked in older logs, and I find places where the kernel puts o

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread Thomas Backlund
Colin Guthrie skrev 24.3.2011 13:18: 'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 23/03/11 21:38 did gyre and gimble: I updated cauldron this morning, and later rebooted my desktop. My r8169 on eth0 is suddenly having problems, maybe due to the new kernel. There should be a new kernel later today (or

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 24.03.2011 11:53, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 11:15 +0100, Thorsten van Lil a écrit : What about a DVD including non-free packages but has the option to not install them? I think the majority of the users don't care that much about proprietary issues, they just need them

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 24 March 2011 13:03:08 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > 2011/3/24 Romain d'Alverny : > > Well, that's precisely debatable (and why I'll try to setup a relevant > > survey through marcom). The ISO can be seen as a static commodity > > storage; that it holds core and nonfree makes no such diffe

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 24 March 2011 12:48:22 Romain d'Alverny wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents > > in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not > > care about the issue does no

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 23/03/11 21:38 did gyre and gimble: > I updated cauldron this morning, and later rebooted my desktop. My > r8169 on eth0 is suddenly having problems, maybe due to the new kernel. There should be a new kernel later today (or maybe tomorrow). Fingers crossed tha

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 24 March 2011 10:57:17 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir : > > On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: > >>> Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free firmware? > >> > >> No, but the question is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:03, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > In the public appearance this would make a difference. As soon as > there is non-free contents on the ISO it is a non-free ISO. That we > provide non-free on the mirrors doesn't make Mageia a non-free distro, > only what we offer as "product

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/3/24 Romain d'Alverny : > > Well, that's precisely debatable (and why I'll try to setup a relevant > survey through marcom). The ISO can be seen as a static commodity > storage; that it holds core and nonfree makes no such difference as > that those two media are available from the network wit

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/3/24 Oliver Burger : > Am Donnerstag 24 März 2011, 11:43:57 schrieb Rémi Verschelde: >> 2011/3/24 Wolfgang Bornath : >> > We already made such a difference by using different repositories, we >> > not continue this in our "product line"? We use a different repo for >> > non-free, we also shoul

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/24/2011 04:57 AM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: A possible solution for people with such a setup could be a non-free "driver cd ISO" which they could include in the installation process. Excellent suggestion, and it dovetails with another problem: being able to do a network install over a wi

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 11:15 +0100, Thorsten van Lil a écrit : > Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: > > 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir: > >> On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan wrote: > >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir > >>> wrote: > > Has the Free DVD in Mandriva

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Oliver Burger
Am Donnerstag 24 März 2011, 11:43:57 schrieb Rémi Verschelde: > 2011/3/24 Wolfgang Bornath : > > We already made such a difference by using different repositories, we > > not continue this in our "product line"? We use a different repo for > > non-free, we also should use a different ISO for non-fr

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents > in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not > care about the issue does not mean we should not care either. We > should rather stress the point

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Thomas Backlund
Donald Stewart skrev 24.3.2011 11:39: I've never installed with more than one cd, but from memory, the installer asks for extra media, surely if your installing from the free dvd and have to eject it to add a non-free cd then that would cause problems, or have I misunderstood? Nope, Installer

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Rémi Verschelde
2011/3/24 Wolfgang Bornath : > > We already made such a difference by using different repositories, we > not continue this in our "product line"? We use a different repo for > non-free, we also should use a different ISO for non-free. > That's what I was thinking about. Could it be possible to hav

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/3/24 Olivier Blin : > Thorsten van Lil writes: > >> Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: >>> 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan  wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir   > wrote: >> >> Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever co

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/3/24 Thorsten van Lil : > > What about a DVD including non-free packages but has the option to not > install them? > I think the majority of the users don't care that much about proprietary > issues, they just need them for using there wireless card or graphic card. > Those how do care can jus

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Olivier Blin
Thorsten van Lil writes: > Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: >> 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir: >>> On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: > > Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free firmware? >>>

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Anne nicolas
2011/3/24 Thorsten van Lil : > Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: >> >> 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir: >>> >>> On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan  wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir  wrote: > > Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free firmw

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Olivier Blin
Wolfgang Bornath writes: >>> It can't be "free" and have "non-free" firmware... previously the >>> firmware only were on the Live CD's. I am not sure anything has been >>> changed in that regard (i.e. I didn't see the matter get discussed >>> yet). >> >> They were also on the PowerPack images, an

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free firmware? No, but the question is more , will we provide a "non free"

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/3/24 Olivier Blin : > Ahmad Samir writes: > >> On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir >>> wrote: Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free firmware? >>> >>> No, but the question is more , will we provide a "non fre

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Olivier Blin
nicolas vigier writes: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Robert Xu wrote: > >> >> As I reiterate, Trinity does not interfere with KDE4 in any way, if >> you keep /opt/kde3 > > Are you sure ? > > For libs installed in /opt/kde3/lib, rpm find-provides will add the > provides for the libs on the packages. Whe

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Olivier Blin
Ahmad Samir writes: > On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir >> wrote: >>> >>> Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free firmware? >> >> No, but the question is more , will we provide a "non free" dvd iso, >> and this question is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
I opened https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523 -- wobo

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Donald Stewart
On 24 March 2011 05:22, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > 2011/3/24 Thomas Backlund : >> Wolfgang Bornath skrev 24.3.2011 10:57: >>> >>> 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir: It can't be "free" and have "non-free" firmware... previously the firmware only were on the Live CD's. I am not sure anything has b

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread nicolas vigier
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Robert Xu wrote: > > As I reiterate, Trinity does not interfere with KDE4 in any way, if > you keep /opt/kde3 Are you sure ? For libs installed in /opt/kde3/lib, rpm find-provides will add the provides for the libs on the packages. When an other package require this library

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/3/24 Thomas Backlund : > Wolfgang Bornath skrev 24.3.2011 10:57: >> >> 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir: >>> >>> It can't be "free" and have "non-free" firmware... previously the >>> firmware only were on the Live CD's. I am not sure anything has been >>> changed in that regard (i.e. I didn't see the mat

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Thomas Backlund
Wolfgang Bornath skrev 24.3.2011 10:57: 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir: It can't be "free" and have "non-free" firmware... previously the firmware only were on the Live CD's. I am not sure anything has been changed in that regard (i.e. I didn't see the matter get discussed yet). Correct. It's the same

Re: [Mageia-dev] Gstreamer pfl codecs/plugins

2011-03-24 Thread Tux99
Quote: Balcaen John wrote on Thu, 10 March 2011 17:41 > > Le Thursday 10 March 2011 12:19:52, Tux99 a écrit : > > The same question also applies to mplayer, which I just noticed > > also > > doesn't include codecs like h.264 and aac. > For the moment there's a work in progress regarding the BS so

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir : > On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir >> wrote: >>> >>> Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free firmware? >> >> No, but the question is more , will we provide a "non free" dvd iso, >> and this question

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Tux99
Quote: Oliver Burger wrote on Thu, 24 March 2011 08:53 > > Am Donnerstag 24 März 2011, 08:23:18 schrieb Tux99: > > I think this thread is starting to derail from a simple technical > > question > > limted to a specific issue (reenabling qt-dev) to an ideological > > argument > > based greatly on

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Oliver Burger
Am Donnerstag 24 März 2011, 08:23:18 schrieb Tux99: > I think this thread is starting to derail from a simple technical question > limted to a specific issue (reenabling qt-dev) to an ideological argument > based greatly on fear and paranoia. It is? I don't think so. Unless you think considerations

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Tux99
I think this thread is starting to derail from a simple technical question limted to a specific issue (reenabling qt-dev) to an ideological argument based greatly on fear and paranoia. Adding TrinityDE to Mageia, like adding any bigger software, is a gradual step by step process. I don't think