Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and df discrepancy

Sascha Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just noticed by chance that rpmdrake displays a significantly different amount > of free diskspace from df. > > / has 147 MB free (according to df) and 282 MB (according to rpmdrake). Note > that my only partitions are / and /home (which has a lot of

[Cooker] rpmdrake and df discrepancy

Just noticed by chance that rpmdrake displays a significantly different amount of free diskspace from df. / has 147 MB free (according to df) and 282 MB (according to rpmdrake). Note that my only partitions are / and /home (which has a lot of free space). Any ideas? Best, Sascha Noyes

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake- will not fild packages to remove

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 04:36:36PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:27, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I have tried to remove some packages with rpmdrake, but I do not succeed. > > > Rpmdrake simply d

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake- will not fild packages to remove

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 17:15, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Also, why people don't just *read* the big "Software Packages > Installation" up the rpmdrake window is a total mystery to me. > Even if they don't at first, they might do it when they see they > can't find place for installed packages...

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake- will not fild packages to remove

Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:49, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:27, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > Hi >

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake- will not fild packages to remove

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:27:06PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi > > > > I have tried to remove some packages with rpmdrake, but I do not succeed. > > Rpmdrake simply does not find the installed packages. This is RC2. > > What do you

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake- will not fild packages to remove

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:49, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:27, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > I have tried to remove some packages with rp

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake- will not fild packages to remove

Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:27, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I have tried to remove some packages with rpmdrake, but I do not succeed. > > > Rpmdrake simply does not find the ins

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake- will not fild packages to remove

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:27, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi > > > > I have tried to remove some packages with rpmdrake, but I do not succeed. > > Rpmdrake simply does not find the installed packages. This is RC2. > > What do you mean? Works

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake- will not fild packages to remove

Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I have tried to remove some packages with rpmdrake, but I do not succeed. > Rpmdrake simply does not find the installed packages. This is RC2. What do you mean? Works for me.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

[Cooker] rpmdrake- will not fild packages to remove

Hi I have tried to remove some packages with rpmdrake, but I do not succeed. Rpmdrake simply does not find the installed packages. This is RC2. keld

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake problem

Paul Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That's not normal.. any tip? > I logged a bug report (4882) concerning this. Problems are occuring because we > use LDAP authentication on our network: Hm, I don't see any connection? :/ > (clues from xession-errors) > ... > could not get user name f

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Dorman wrote: > On Tuesday 02 September 2003 09:29, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > >>Paul Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I think this is a 'glitch', rather than a 'bug' :op >>> >>>I have two cooker machines, both up to date

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake problem

On Tuesday 02 September 2003 09:29, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Paul Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all, > > > > I think this is a 'glitch', rather than a 'bug' :op > > > > I have two cooker machines, both up to date. On both machines I have > > problems with users not being able to se

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and drakgw doesn't works

"_ cosmicflo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > We cannot add a new software source in rpmdrake (crash), drakgw > crash at configuration. > I've report bugs. > > When will they works ? How many time working version of this Mdk > tools will be tested before 9.2 release ? It's up to you

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake problem

Paul Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I think this is a 'glitch', rather than a 'bug' :op > > I have two cooker machines, both up to date. On both machines I have problems > with users not being able to see the icons and background on their desktop, > or have the right-click

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and drakgw doesn't works

_ cosmicflo wrote: Hello, We cannot add a new software source in rpmdrake (crash), drakgw crash at configuration. I've report bugs. When will they works ? How many time working version of this Mdk tools will be tested before 9.2 release ? Thanks _

[Cooker] rpmdrake and drakgw doesn't works

Hello, We cannot add a new software source in rpmdrake (crash), drakgw crash at configuration. I've report bugs. When will they works ? How many time working version of this Mdk tools will be tested before 9.2 release ? Thanks _

[Cooker] rpmdrake problem

Hi all, I think this is a 'glitch', rather than a 'bug' :op I have two cooker machines, both up to date. On both machines I have problems with users not being able to see the icons and background on their desktop, or have the right-click menu from the desktop. There's just the default blue d

Re: [Cooker] Rpmdrake inspecting of config files

On Wed 13 Aug 2003 08:04, John Allen posted as excerpted below: > On Wednesday 13 August 2003 11:31, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Rpmdrake should do a diff of .rpmnew/.rpmsave and if no changes are > > > detected, zap the rpmsave, or use .rpmnew autom

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Frank Griffin wrote: I'll try it on a fresh cooker install. The one I did it on was up to date for today, but the install was from a few days ago and I had been keeping it current with urpmi. Well. I will as soon as the install gets fixed so that X (and therefore rpmdrake) can be run

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: So, the problem appears to be in the FlashPlayer RPM, Maybe you could report that to the author of the RPM then? Thanks! Happy to, but the maximum info display in rpmdrake Changelog just lists * Thu Dec 12 2002 Mandrake Linux Team

Re: double-clicking on files directly from CD's [was: Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes

"Andrey Borzenkov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What do people think? > > As long as kernel team remains silent about anything I do - your hack > looks like the simplest solution. (Sorry, cleaning my inbox and noticing this) Ok so I'm adding the hack in mount.c. Now, is it a good thing to a

[Cooker] Rpmdrake inspecting of config files

Rpmdrake should do a diff of .rpmnew/.rpmsave and if no changes are detected, zap the rpmsave, or use .rpmnew automatically. This will reduce the amount of files you have to manually inspect. Thanks. Disclaimer: The information contained in this message is confidential and is intended for the

Re: [Cooker] Rpmdrake inspecting of config files

John Allen wrote: Rpmdrake should do a diff of .rpmnew/.rpmsave and if no changes are detected, zap the rpmsave, or use .rpmnew automatically. This will reduce the amount of files you have to manually inspect. you can urpmi etc-update, but since it is a gentoo tool, it sucks a lot, when i have

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > >Is it reproducable with another package? Here I can see no > >problems.. > > > > > I did a fresh install this morning, went to a root command line, > added the Club Commercial site as a media, and did > >urpmi Flash

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 11:18, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > > >>So, the problem > > >>appears to be in the FlashPlayer RPM, > > >> > > > > > >Maybe you could report that to the author of the RPM then? > > >Thanks! >

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:43:57 -0400 Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > urpmi --no-verify-rpm --allow-force FlashPlayer > > and it installed cleanly without a single complaint. Had you not used --allow-force urpmi would have given you the same error as did rpmdrake. Charles -- Eloq

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Is it reproducable with another package? Here I can see no problems.. I did a fresh install this morning, went to a root command line, added the Club Commercial site as a media, and did urpmi FlashPlayer This got the same error that I reported for rpmdrake. Whe

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 05:27:08PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > Well, it's not specific to Club, the same packages are on the commercial > CDs. > > And the disparity between packaging files for commercial apps and other > packages has been an issue before. If people building for Club need to > mak

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Charles A Edwards wrote: Had you not used --allow-force urpmi would have given you the same error as did rpmdrake. That's not what I would expect. From the man page: --allow-force Allow urpmi to ask user to continue installation using no depen- dencies checkin

[Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

I just tried to install the MandrakeClub Commercial FlashPlayer package on today's cooker with rpmdrake, and got the error: FlashPlayer-6.0-3mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 I then went to command line and tried: urpmi --no-verify-rpm --allow-force FlashPlay

Re: [Cooker] Rpmdrake inspecting of config files

John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rpmdrake should do a diff of .rpmnew/.rpmsave and if no changes are detected, > zap the rpmsave, or use .rpmnew automatically. This will reduce the amount of > files you have to manually inspect. Is it normal at first place that a .rpmnew is created whic

Re: [Cooker] Rpmdrake inspecting of config files

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 11:31, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rpmdrake should do a diff of .rpmnew/.rpmsave and if no changes are > > detected, zap the rpmsave, or use .rpmnew automatically. This will reduce > > the amount of files you have to manually

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So is rpmdrake imagining unsatisfied dependencies or is urpmi > ignoring them ? Or am I just doing something dumb without > realizing it ? Is it reproducable with another package? Here I can see no problems.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.m

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Is it reproducable with another package? Here I can see no problems.. I'll try it on a fresh cooker install. The one I did it on was up to date for today, but the install was from a few days ago and I had been keeping it current with urpmi.

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake package selection madness

Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Jay DeKing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Now let's not let this happen again ;-p > > > > For that we'd need to throw titi (tvignaud) to jail :). > > Or not let gc go on holiday ... Yep :/. -- Guillaume Cottenceau

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Happy to, but the maximum info display in rpmdrake Changelog just lists >> >>* Thu Dec 12 2002 Mandrake Linux Team >> 6.0-3mdk >> >>as the maintai

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake ftp url problem

Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joe Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sure enough! /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg has the urls for the installation CDs > > with the double slash after the ip addresses. > > Hum, how can this be? I can't reproduce. Maybe that depends on > FTP serve

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > >>So, the problem > >>appears to be in the FlashPlayer RPM, > >> > > > >Maybe you could report that to the author of the RPM then? > >Thanks! > > > > > Happy to, but the maximum info display in rpmdrake Changelog just lis

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just tried to install the MandrakeClub Commercial FlashPlayer package on > today's cooker with rpmdrake, and got the error: > > FlashPlayer-6.0-3mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= > 4.0-1 This is strange, such error should

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Charles A Edwards wrote: > > >Had you not used --allow-force urpmi would have given you the same error > >as did rpmdrake. > > > That's not what I would expect. From the man page: > >--allow-force > Allow urpmi to ask user to con

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake package selection madness

On Monday 04 August 2003 5:29 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau honored me with this communique: > Pascal Cavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Select one package on updates opens the new package list > > > select a package then another one unselects the previously selected > > > ... etc... > > > > than

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake package selection madness

Jay DeKing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now let's not let this happen again ;-p For that we'd need to throw titi (tvignaud) to jail :). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake package selection madness

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Jay DeKing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Now let's not let this happen again ;-p > > For that we'd need to throw titi (tvignaud) to jail :). Or not let gc go on holiday ... - -- |--Another happy Mandrake Cl

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake ftp url problem

Joe Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sure enough! /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg has the urls for the installation CDs > with the double slash after the ip addresses. Hum, how can this be? I can't reproduce. Maybe that depends on FTP servers configurations then. I change the code so that you will have

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake package selection madness

Pascal Cavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Select one package on updates opens the new package list > > select a package then another one unselects the previously selected ... > > etc... > > thanks for the update Guillaume, that's really better ! Seems that there are at least two new things:

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and proxy

David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It didn't when I looked. It looked as if rpmdrake > > wasn't configured to use a proxy. > > I still think edit-urpm-sources.pl should show the > proxy. BTW, are you ever gonna rename or symlink it It has a proxy config, but you already know it I thi

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake package selection madness

Le Lundi 4 Août 2003 16:52, Pascal Cavy a écrit : > current cooker rpmdrake is unusable > > try playing with packages checkboxes, the behaviour is completly weird ! > > Select one package on updates opens the new package list > select a package then another one unselects the p

[Cooker] rpmdrake package selection madness

current cooker rpmdrake is unusable try playing with packages checkboxes, the behaviour is completly weird ! Select one package on updates opens the new package list select a package then another one unselects the previously selected ... etc... -- Pascal Cavy - VMF

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and proxy

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, David Walser wrote: > Ok, we're both wrong. It's not curl or rpmdrake's job > to check for this, it's urpmi's. > > Imagine this scenario, you've got a proxy configured, > which is also the location of one of your urpmi > sources, but you have sources from other servers too.

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and proxy

--- David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I noticed that if http_proxy is set (via > > > /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh) rpmdrake will use it. > > That's > > > pretty neat. I'm wondering if

[Cooker] rpmdrake ftp url problem

Mandrake 9.2 Beta 1 I installed from a network install (ftp) When going into rpmdrake I found that I could not activate the checkboxes of packages to install with the mouse, but if I first focused on the package I wanted then hit the space bar, I could in this way check the box. After hitting the

Re: [Cooker] RPMdrake enhancement

Leon Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just ran across a small misfeature of RPMdrake (IRL the whole RPM > system, which I've touched on before). I selected (using RPMdrake) a > whole flock of packages to add to a base install, and between the time > I selected them and the time URPMI got

Re: [Cooker] RPMdrake enhancement

On Sun Jul 27 13:24 +0200, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > It would also hppen for the updates directory. However updates come so rarely (maybe 1-2 packages a week per version), that I doubt that the problem of having the proverbial rug pulled out from under you is too much of a problem. -- Levi Ram

Re: [Cooker] RPMdrake enhancement

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:48:24PM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 11:24 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: > > I just ran across a small misfeature of RPMdrake (IRL the whole RPM > > system, which I've touched on before). I selected (using RPMdrake) a > > whole flock of packages to add to

Re: [Cooker] RPMdrake enhancement

On Saturday 26 July 2003 11:24 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: > I just ran across a small misfeature of RPMdrake (IRL the whole RPM > system, which I've touched on before). I selected (using RPMdrake) a > whole flock of packages to add to a base install, and between the time > I selected them and the time

[Cooker] RPMdrake enhancement

I just ran across a small misfeature of RPMdrake (IRL the whole RPM system, which I've touched on before). I selected (using RPMdrake) a whole flock of packages to add to a base install, and between the time I selected them and the time URPMI got to downloading them (maybe 8-9 hours, it was bus

[Cooker] rpmdrake-2.1-25mdk doesn't want to select packages.

Subject says everything ps. the previous version still had the memory problem of wanting to in/uninstall packages which were deselected

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake-2.1-25mdk doesn't want to select packages.

andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Subject says everything uses space for now. i'll investigate it.

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake-2.1-24mdk broken

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Fox wrote: > Thanks for your clarification. You may be correct, but is could also be > that I did a fresh Cooker install a few days ago and the Perl libraries > were possibly not all up to date on the main mirror! > > Is there any solution for

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake-2.1-24mdk broken

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 12:38, Duncan wrote: > On Wed 16 Jul 2003 03:36, Robert Fox posted as excerpted below: > > rpmdrake-2.1-24mdk barfs when I try to run it: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rfox]# rpmdrake > ... > > Can't locate object method "STRING" via package "Gtk2::GType" (perhaps > > you forgot t

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake-2.1-24mdk broken

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 12:38, Duncan wrote: > On Wed 16 Jul 2003 03:36, Robert Fox posted as excerpted below: > > rpmdrake-2.1-24mdk barfs when I try to run it: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rfox]# rpmdrake > ... > > Can't locate object method "STRING" via package "Gtk2::GType" (perhaps > > you forgot t

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake-2.1-24mdk broken

On Wed 16 Jul 2003 03:36, Robert Fox posted as excerpted below: > rpmdrake-2.1-24mdk barfs when I try to run it: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rfox]# rpmdrake ... > Can't locate object method "STRING" via package "Gtk2::GType" (perhaps > you forgot to load "Gtk2::GType"?) at /usr/sbin/rpmdrake line 625. I

[Cooker] rpmdrake-2.1-24mdk broken

rpmdrake-2.1-24mdk barfs when I try to run it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rfox]# rpmdrake examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD (ftp1).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Contrib CD (ftp3).cz] would install instead of upgrade package kernel-2.4

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

El s?, 28-06-2003 a las 03:41, Bernard Varaine escribió: get this error after upgrading as of cooker last night Can't call method "signal_connect" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/libDrakX/ugtk2.pm line 1282. BErnard This probrelm is solved in new cooker package. M. Ignacio Monge Gar

[Cooker] rpmdrake

get this error after upgrading as of cooker last night Can't call method "signal_connect" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/libDrakX/ugtk2.pm line 1282. BErnard smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 14:16, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: > True. > On top of that we can think a little bit about rpmdrake and linux > system. With linux user can't easily install an app if the app is : > 1°/ a package that requires others libs ? That's exactly what rpmdrake is for. > 2°/ not a rpm

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

> > PS : please, no one, no offense, but I'm becoming rather tired to > discuss that point again and again. I think points are > clear, enough time has been lost on that, and we now have > other interesting subjects to discuss. No offense taken, fair answer :) Do the changes, and w

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

Eric Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Yes, why not having rpmdrake-1 back? :)) > > :) > But actually the solution to make rpmdrake installer search in > installed by default is, finally, exactly what rpmdrake 1 was > doing !! You will have both installed and to-be-installed "exactly", I

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FACORAT Fabrice wrote: > Le jeu 26/06/2003 à 10:09, Eric Fernandez a écrit : > > True. > On top of that we can think a little bit about rpmdrake and linux > system. With linux user can't easily install an app if the app is : > 1°/ a package that requi

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

Le jeu 26/06/2003 à 10:09, Eric Fernandez a écrit : > But actually the solution to make rpmdrake installer search in installed > by default is, finally, exactly what rpmdrake 1 was doing !! You will > have both installed and to-be-installed packages in the same search list ! > The point was : why

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: "Good idea" was rather refering to showing installed software in searches, not specifically to providing a checkbox option for it. And I said I think best solution would be to do it by default. Why not doing a "browse packages" interface, independent from any install

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

"Eric Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> -It would be nice if by default rpmdrake would show software that is > >> installed. IMHO, there should be an options dialog, which has things > >> like "show installed software in searches". > > > >It's a good idea[1] but I still don't see how to

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (utilizing user input). I personally believe this was a decision handed > down from management ("ergonomics team") and not a developer's decision; > which I stand ready to be corrected on this from Buchan, GC, or whomever > else may have better historic

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

Le mar 24/06/2003 à 11:15, Eric Fernandez a écrit : > Why not doing a "browse packages" interface, independent from any > install/uninstall consideration, with all information we can find in the > install rpmdrake. And then depending on the fact the package is already > installed or not, there wou

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

>> -It would be nice if by default rpmdrake would show software that is >> installed. IMHO, there should be an options dialog, which has things >> like "show installed software in searches". > >It's a good idea[1] but I still don't see how to integrate well >an options dialog. I don't want to add a

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 05:02:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 17 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > > mandrakeclub (or do a telephone poll for registered users, but that will > > > be more expensive). > > > > I don't like mandrakeclub much. > why? This is ofcourse a bit oftopi

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake: could the changelog appear above the file list?

On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 02:08, Andrew M Neitzke wrote: > Since we're discussing rpmdrake, I would like to suggest a much smaller > change which would save me a significant amount of time. Sometimes I want > to skip upgrades to large packages when the changes are relatively > inconsequential. So I v

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed * software

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:37, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 05:54, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > No, Lyvim. For everyone else on this list, this is a simple practical > > matter of what is the best way for rpmdrake to function. No-one on this > > list, to the best of my knowledge, bein

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2003 01:38 schrieb Pierre Jarillon: > Le Samedi 21 Juin 2003 00:39, Steffen Barszus a écrit : > > 1) synaptic > > - > > ( a newer screenshot from debian-3.0 : > > http://linuxinstall.org/screenshots/release-3.0/synaptic.jpg) > > > > It is for softwaremanagment , inc

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2003 01:49 schrieb w9ya: > That's what I was saying ! > > (Now be prepared for some flames.) > > Bob Never intended to flame. Its just my opinion from "outside" the discussion. Steffen

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2003 02:49 schrieb Lyvim Xaphir: > This is absolutely correct. > > > Looking to the "outside world" only to interfaces are somewhat comparable > > to rpmdrake-1.4-alike. > > Correct again. Look at Windows 98SR2 at the software "Add/Remove > Programs" applet in the control pan

[Cooker] rpmdrake: could the changelog appear above the file list?

Since we're discussing rpmdrake, I would like to suggest a much smaller change which would save me a significant amount of time. Sometimes I want to skip upgrades to large packages when the changes are relatively inconsequential. So I very often want to look at the changelog. At the moment, to l

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:39, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 21:36 schrieb Buchan Milne: > > > > IMHO, the fact that you need 17 screenshots says enough about it's > > complexity, and although there seem to be some nice features > > (disk-free-space meter and it seems to be able

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

That's what I was saying ! (Now be prepared for some flames.) Bob On Friday 20 June 2003 05:39 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 21:36 schrieb Buchan Milne: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Steffen Barszus wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

Le Samedi 21 Juin 2003 00:39, Steffen Barszus a écrit : > 1) synaptic > - > ( a newer screenshot from debian-3.0 : > http://linuxinstall.org/screenshots/release-3.0/synaptic.jpg) > > It is for softwaremanagment , includes as far as I can see source managment > and looks very powerfull

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 21:36 schrieb Buchan Milne: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steffen Barszus wrote: > > Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 20:26 schrieb Buchan Milne: > > > > [... UI review ] > > > > SuSE 8.1 as far as I understood. (http://lwn.net/Articles/10061/) > >

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, if anything constructive is going to come from this, someone needs > to put this somewhere where it won't be forgotten, either in a wiki of > some description (cooker?) or in bugzilla (BTW, this is one of my issues > with hugs discussions on cooker,

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -It would be nice if by default rpmdrake would show software that is > installed. IMHO, there should be an options dialog, which has things > like "show installed software in searches". It's a good idea[1] but I still don't see how to integrate well an o

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 20:26 schrieb Buchan Milne: > > [... UI review ] > >>SuSE >>- >>I haven't used SuSE much, and can't find a screenshot now ... > > > Here I can help out. > > http://www.suse.de/~sh/YaST2-Packag

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

well, can you place your document on the wiki ? > Synaptic > > http://distro.conectiva.com.br/prjs/synaptic/filter.jpg > (I don't know how recent this is ...) very very old :) > Ok, even for a pretty advanced user, this is serisously complicated, > and overly so (IMHO). The UI toolkit i

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 20:26 schrieb Buchan Milne: [... UI review ] > SuSE > - > I haven't used SuSE much, and can't find a screenshot now ... Here I can help out. http://www.suse.de/~sh/YaST2-Package-Manager/screen-shots.html .This is from SuSE 8.1 as far as I understood. (http:/

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 w9ya wrote: > On Friday 20 June 2003 12:22 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: > Now that is very funny. There aren't any bad Mandrake rpms. and just not > possible to create one eh ? > Not without being spammed to death ;-) (I get more spam from rpm-bots tha

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed*software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 w9ya wrote: > On Friday 20 June 2003 03:18 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>In summary >>- -the fact that some people here find urpmi more convenient doens't mean >>we think newbies should use it, but it means we don't use rpmdrake much >>- -Windows isn't m

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

On Friday 20 June 2003 12:56 pm, Levi Ramsey wrote: > On Fri Jun 20 11:22 -0500, w9ya wrote: > > Finally; and I cannot be any more specific that this. Why not make a > > better tool than Windows has, so new users can clearly see a superiority > > right off the bat. Make it gui and play in their wor

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

On Friday 20 June 2003 12:22 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 16:50, w9ya wrote: > > > > I *AM* saying that a user watching me install could easily think it > > > > was too hard. And I will maintain that having to hit all these damn > > > > buttons, in the right order, to use the

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

On Fri Jun 20 11:22 -0500, w9ya wrote: > Finally; and I cannot be any more specific that this. Why not make a better > tool than Windows has, so new users can clearly see a superiority right off > the bat. Make it gui and play in their world -view. The beauty of Open Source and Free Software is

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed* software

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 16:50, w9ya wrote: > > > I *AM* saying that a user watching me install could easily think it was > > > too hard. And I will maintain that having to hit all these damn buttons, > > > in the right order, to use the rpmdrake tool to find, get, and then > > > install a program is

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and newbies: they sometimes miss *installed * software

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:37, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > It was never a simple matter because it involved the public at large, it > *is* a free public debate involving history and different ideas about > the best way for rpmdrake to function, and the fact that we all have > different ideas on this subje

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