Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread blind Pete
andre999 wrote: [snip] I see your point. In most cases, a backport for mga1 would be essentially identical for mga2 (except package file name and corresponding changes in the spec file). It would only differ if dependancies differ, which I suspect is unlikely for wesnoth or most other games,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread blind Pete
Samuel Verschelde wrote: I re-read the backports policy, and there's a part I think needs to be pointed out before people start to backport packages. I haven't, so if I get things badly wrong don't hesitate to tell me. We need to ensure that upgrades never fail: cauldron must always have a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread blind Pete
AL13N wrote: Op vrijdag 8 juni 2012 20:40:04 schreef Samuel Verschelde: Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 16:58:24, andre999 a écrit : [...] But wouldn't current tools update backports if backports are active ? No, they wouldn't :) but isn't this a bug? just like nonfree/tainted... etc... Yes.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread blind Pete
Samuel Verschelde wrote: Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 20:20:54, David W. Hodgins a écrit : On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:22:41 -0400, Samuel Verschelde sto...@laposte.net wrote: I think you missed my point. If Mageia 1 backports has higher versions than Mageia 2 release (not backports), upgrade can

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread Sander Lepik
09.06.2012 10:06, blind Pete kirjutas: andre999 wrote: [snip] I see your point. In most cases, a backport for mga1 would be essentially identical for mga2 (except package file name and corresponding changes in the spec file). It would only differ if dependancies differ, which I suspect is

Re: [Mageia-dev] coreutils runuser pam config (aka cyrus-imapd refuses to start on mga2).

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Backlund
08.06.2012 11:54, Colin Guthrie skrev: @tmb: ping! As you are maintainer I don't want to push this without your ACK. Col Sorry for missing this earlier. Looks good to me, so ACK :) -- Thomas 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 04/06/12 10:50 did gyre and gimble: Hi, After

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread Sander Lepik
08.06.2012 11:38, Samuel Verschelde kirjutas: I re-read the backports policy, and there's a part I think needs to be pointed out before people start to backport packages. We need to ensure that upgrades never fail: cauldron must always have a higher version/release than in stable

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread blind Pete
Sander Lepik wrote: 09.06.2012 10:06, blind Pete kirjutas: andre999 wrote: [snip] I see your point. In most cases, a backport for mga1 would be essentially identical for mga2 (except package file name and corresponding changes in the spec file). It would only differ if dependancies

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread andre999
blind Pete a écrit : Samuel Verschelde wrote: Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 20:20:54, David W. Hodgins a écrit : On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:22:41 -0400, Samuel Verschelde sto...@laposte.net wrote: I think you missed my point. If Mageia 1 backports has higher versions than

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread andre999
Sander Lepik a écrit : 08.06.2012 11:38, Samuel Verschelde kirjutas: I re-read the backports policy, and there's a part I think needs to be pointed out before people start to backport packages. We need to ensure that upgrades never fail: cauldron must always have a higher version/release

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread Thomas Backlund
09.06.2012 13:29, andre999 skrev: OK. To backport from Cauldron to mga1, we have to backport from Cauldron to mga2, (bumping the revision in cauldron to ensure that is is higher), then backport from mga2 to mga1, ensuring that the revision is lower in mga1 than in mga2.(e.g. revision

[Mageia-dev] Don't get it -

2012-06-09 Thread Robert Fox
I have a newly installed Mageia 2 box which I then updated to Cauldron - When I try to install the Newshosting client (which worked before) - I get the following: [rfox@foxbase Downloads]$ ./newshosting-1.2.1-linux-installer.run

Re: [Mageia-dev] Don't get it -

2012-06-09 Thread Pascal Terjan
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: I have a newly installed Mageia 2 box which I then updated to Cauldron - When I try to install the Newshosting client (which worked before) - I get the following: [rfox@foxbase Downloads]$

Re: [Mageia-dev] Don't get it -

2012-06-09 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 09/06/2012 15:24, Robert Fox a écrit : Error: There has been an error. Error running /home/rfox/newshosting-1.2.1/newshosting.sh : /home/rfox/newshosting-1.2.1/newshosting: error while loading shared libraries: libgthread-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Re: [Mageia-dev] Don't get it -

2012-06-09 Thread Robert Fox
On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 15:32 +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 09/06/2012 15:24, Robert Fox a écrit : Error: There has been an error. Error running /home/rfox/newshosting-1.2.1/newshosting.sh : /home/rfox/newshosting-1.2.1/newshosting: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: [Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

2012-06-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:26:20 -0400 andre999 andre999...@laposte.net wrote: Hi everyone, Since my last post, we have 2 new apprentice candidates looking for a mentor. simplew (Pedro), who is a longtime user of various rpm-based distros, is most interested in Gnome and KDE packages. As

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release viewvc-1.1.13-2.mga3

2012-06-09 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 9 June 2012 18:10, zezinho buildsystem-dae...@mageia.org wrote: zezinho zezinho 0:1.1.13-2.mga3: + Revision: 258863 - add a suggests for python-svn, as it does not work on svn repos without it As most people would use SVN these days, I think it's better to usee a require instead

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread Sander Lepik
09.06.2012 13:29, andre999 kirjutas: OK. To backport from Cauldron to mga1, we have to backport from Cauldron to mga2, (bumping the revision in cauldron to ensure that is is higher), then backport from mga2 to mga1, ensuring that the revision is lower in mga1 than in mga2.(e.g.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread Angelo Naselli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 09/06/2012 12:39, Thomas Backlund ha scritto: OK. To backport from Cauldron to mga1, we have to backport from Cauldron to mga2, (bumping the revision in cauldron to ensure that is is higher), then backport from mga2 to mga1, ensuring that

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-09 Thread Angelo Naselli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 09/06/2012 20:38, Sander Lepik ha scritto: I see backports as the way to get some new stuff from cauldron before cauldron is fully stable. There is no point to backport from cauldron to n-2 (mga1 at the moment). If the user wants so much newer

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:Backports_update_applet

2012-06-09 Thread andre999
blind Pete a écrit : Samuel Verschelde wrote: Following Backports opening due soon, and since our policy is that backports are supported (security, bugfix), we need a way to push backport updates for users who installed backports. Otherwise, we can't really say that we're providing

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:Backports_update_applet

2012-06-09 Thread Angelo Naselli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 09/06/2012 22:53, andre999 ha scritto: - Just marking all backport repos as update repos is almost enough to solve the problem, in terms of the tools installing the backports. Great idea ! We just have to tweak the tools so that a backport is

[Mageia-dev] Crashes with Firefox 13 + Flash (inc. fix)

2012-06-09 Thread Colin Guthrie
Hi, Just in case others are experiencing this, I've noticed recently that since Cauldron went to Firefox 13 I've seen frequent crashes, most often when interacting with Flash. After getting annoyed enough about it today, I did some digging, got a (rubbish but mildly usable) backtrace and managed

Re: [Mageia-dev] Crashes with Firefox 13 + Flash (inc. fix)

2012-06-09 Thread Simple .
2012/6/9 Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie: Hi, Just in case others are experiencing this, I've noticed recently that since Cauldron went to Firefox 13 I've seen frequent crashes, most often when interacting with Flash. After getting annoyed enough about it today, I did some digging, got