Re: kiba-dock howto for FC6 (an Eye Candy from the Beryl family)

2007-01-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Sun, 14 Jan: > On 14/01/07, Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >Doing cvs update in the middle of somebody's big commit, you risk > >getting an inconsistent state. With a project having such frequent > >commits, this risk is non-negligible. >

Re: Convince me to switch to Digikam (Was: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone)

2007-01-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 15/01/07, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks. Why doesn't Google know about that page? The latest they seem robots.txt, or that google-invented web site map? to have available for download is 0.8.2-3. 0.9.x are in experimental and I don't see how to get at them. If you could r

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 15/01/07, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually you just need to provide a set of packages for each host. That nicely fits into data that is handled by gmake (space-separated lists) and thus debian/rules can handle it well. You do need to automate the generation of debian/control,

Re: Convince me to switch to Digikam (Was: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone)

2007-01-15 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Amos Shapira wrote: > On 16/01/07, *Dotan Cohen* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Thanks, I did install libkipi0-dev and libexiv2-dev via apt-get. > However, it still complains about exiv2: > config.status: config.h is unchanged > config.status: executing

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-15 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Oren Held wrote: > A. VMware Server (formerly GSX) which is free for use. > B. Dan Aloni's coLinux (Not full virtualization but very interesting > and good for some purposes) - http://colinux.sf.net . However you need > a windows X Server (i.e. Hummingbird Exceed or Cygwin Xorg) to get the > GUI.

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 06:41:25AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 16/01/07, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >aptitude seems to have all the relevant infrastructure in place. I have > >no idea, though, how it tracks "installed" vs. "auto-installed" > >packages. So with it you could a

Re: Convince me to switch to Digikam (Was: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone)

2007-01-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 15/01/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 16/01/07, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, I did install libkipi0-dev and libexiv2-dev via apt-get. > However, it still complains about exiv2: > config.status: config.h is unchanged > config.status: executing depfiles command

Re: Convince me to switch to Digikam (Was: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone)

2007-01-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16/01/07, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, I did install libkipi0-dev and libexiv2-dev via apt-get. However, it still complains about exiv2: config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles commands On Etch (testing) they have just downgraded from 0.9.x

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16/01/07, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: aptitude seems to have all the relevant infrastructure in place. I have no idea, though, how it tracks "installed" vs. "auto-installed" packages. So with it you could actually use a per-host task package. Yes, I'm aware of this and use it

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-15 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 15 בJanuary 2007 08:16, Gabor Szabo wrote: > I have a Windows Machine I would like to install Linux over that. 1. Insert a install CD of your favorite distro. 2. In the partitioning state, choose to remove existing partitions. 3. Complete the installation. You successfully installed Li

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:09:26PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 15/01/07, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Your keyword here is preseed . > > > >> > >> The software I'm thinking about will take all this configuration > >information > >> and build a host-specific package (or maybe

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-15 Thread Alan Rubin
Have you considered dual booting? Alan Gabor Szabo wrote: I have a Windows Machine I would like to install Linux over that. What are my options? Does VMware have a free (and unlimited in time) version that I can use to install Linux on it? Yes, VNware server (was "VMware GSX") it's free of

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 15/01/07, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Windows Machine I would like to install Linux over that. What are my options? Does VMware have a free (and unlimited in time) version that I can use to install Linux on it? Is there any other solution? VMWare Player is free as in bee

Re: Convince me to switch to Digikam (Was: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone)

2007-01-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 15/01/07, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm trying to install the latest tarball (0.9.0) however it compalins > that it needs libkipi (installed) and exiv2 (installed). So my > experience is on 0.8.2 which is the latest available for > Kubuntu/Debian. Do you h

Re: Renaming RPM packages - upgrade problems

2007-01-15 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Ugly hack: have a newer (but empty) version of A require B. On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:13:45PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: > Hi, > > Yet another RPM problem... > > I have an RPM install (lets call it A). I want another RPM to replaces it > (lets call it B). > > I've tried the Debian way [0] for t

Re: Convince me to switch to Digikam (Was: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone)

2007-01-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm trying to install the latest tarball (0.9.0) however it compalins > that it needs libkipi (installed) and exiv2 (installed). So my > experience is on 0.8.2 which is the latest available for > Kubuntu/Debian. Do you have the dev versions of the libraries installed? apt-get i

Re: what beeps when email comes in ?

2007-01-15 Thread Peter
Problem not solved. It still beeps. No MUA is open, and incoming mail beeps. What causes this ?! thx, Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command e

Re: Convince me to switch to Digikam (Was: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone)

2007-01-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thanks, Amos. I'm giving Digikam every opourtunity for fit our needs, but it won't cooperate. I'd love to get rid of the only Gnome app on my system. (although I will miss the F-Spot mailing list- the developers have really helped me out there) I'm trying to install the latest tarball (0.9.0) how

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-15 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 07:06 +, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 08:51 +0200, doron wrote: > > Gabor Szabo wrote: > > > I have a Windows Machine I would like to install Linux over that. > > > What are my options? > > > Does VMware have a free (and unlimited in time) version that I can

Renaming RPM packages - upgrade problems

2007-01-15 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi, Yet another RPM problem... I have an RPM install (lets call it A). I want another RPM to replaces it (lets call it B). I've tried the Debian way [0] for this situation: RPM B provides A and obseletes A in the same time. Which is similar to what I found on fedora [1]. The idea is that while

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 15/01/07, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your keyword here is preseed . > > The software I'm thinking about will take all this configuration information > and build a host-specific package (or maybe a "task" in debian world?) which > the host will just apt-get (either after a PXE b

Re: Convince me to switch to Digikam (Was: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone)

2007-01-15 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 20:35 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 15/01/07, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > pictures. I don't mind doing it with sqlite, but I need to > know that > it can be done. The tags are in utf-8 Hebrew. > > Haven't tried Hebrew tags but maybe t

Re: Convince me to switch to Digikam (Was: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone)

2007-01-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 15/01/07, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - If your camera store orientation info in the photo (mine do), you can >autorotate as many photos as you like in one operation (each would be >adjusted to its correct orientation). BTW, even if you don't touch the >photos themse

Re: what beeps when email comes in ? [solved]

2007-01-15 Thread Peter
The local(8) delivery agent from postfix has a biff setting. If this is on (default) and there is no biff&comsat service you get a beep instead. Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe"

Re: what beeps when email comes in ?

2007-01-15 Thread Peter
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Nadav Har'El wrote: There are X-windows based mail notifiers, such as "xbiff"; I assume you'd notice if that was what causing the beeps. Finally, there is "biff". Biff (which used to be common on BSD-like machines, but doesn't seem to be popular nowadays) is not something

Re: what beeps when email comes in ?

2007-01-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007, Peter wrote about "what beeps when email comes in ?": > > I finally have a question: What makes beep when new email comes in. I > believe it is the user's shell when there is no notifier or biff > running. Is this correct ? > > Btw, I have MAIL, MAILCHECK and MAILPATH all