[Mageia-dev] get-skype package for submission

2011-06-09 Thread Barry Jackson
I have been working on a package to install Skype current stable release and now feel that it is ready for submission for approval. It has already been improved/corrected/adapted many times following discussions on #mageia-mentoring where I have been given lots of help. The idea evolved here

Re: [Mageia-dev] get-skype package for submission

2011-06-10 Thread Barry Jackson
On 10/06/11 18:06, Anssi Hannula wrote: I didn't test it, but the problems I see now: 1. The MD5SUM isn't checked, IMO it should be. I was just discussing that on IRC with Ahmad ;) I now have that working OK 2. On error you exit with || exit 1 but leave the files in /tmp, polluting it.

Re: [Mageia-dev] get-skype package for submission

2011-06-10 Thread Barry Jackson
On 10/06/11 15:08, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Barry Thanks for doing this. I uncompressed the file. What is the difference between the 2 .rpms? You may want to include a readme in the package for people like me. Cheers Marc Marc, It is not really ready for general consumption yet (although it

Re: [Mageia-dev] get-skype package for submission

2011-06-11 Thread Barry Jackson
%{_iconsdir}/skype.png %ghost %{_iconsdir}/SkypeBlue_*.png %ghost %{_datadir}/applications/skype.desktop %ghost %{instdir} %changelog * Sun Jun 12 2011 Barry Jackson zen25...@zen.co.uk 2.2.0.35-7.mga1 - Added tests for failed directory creation, exiting with cleanup. - Added note in %post. - Removed

Re: [Mageia-dev] get-skype package for submission

2011-06-12 Thread Barry Jackson
On 12/06/11 19:35, Angelo Naselli wrote: In data domenica 12 giugno 2011 01:37:53, Barry Jackson ha scritto: - Dot in Summary. ?? I don't see one. Summary:Download and Install Skype.-- Cheers, Ah - sorry, that is a full stop. I was looking for an extraneous dot. I assume

Re: [Mageia-dev] get-skype package for submission

2011-06-13 Thread Barry Jackson
On 13/06/11 09:17, Angelo Naselli wrote: IIRC rpmlint should tell you as a warning. Angelo Thanks Angelo, I never used rpmlint before, so I installed it. It did not warn about the dot, but it did pick up a few spaces/tabs etc. There is a warning about Group: Networking/Instant messaging

Re: [Mageia-dev] get-skype package for submission

2011-06-13 Thread Barry Jackson
On 13/06/11 12:13, Oliver Burger wrote: Barry Jackson zen25...@zen.co.uk schrieb am 13.06.2011 On 13/06/11 09:17, Angelo Naselli wrote: IIRC rpmlint should tell you as a warning. Thanks Angelo, I never used rpmlint before, so I installed it. It did not warn about the dot

Re: [Mageia-dev] get-skype package for submission

2011-06-13 Thread Barry Jackson
On 13/06/11 15:46, Anssi Hannula wrote: It could do both :) Doesn't really matter, this is all extra anyway. Note that if you make it download it, you could also implement: a) make it print md5sum automatically Done that in the attached. It writes it to skype-version.md5 in /SOURCES b)

Re: [Mageia-dev] get-skype package for submission

2011-06-20 Thread Barry Jackson
Ping. Can someone please add this to Mageia ? - latest is attached to :- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154 Barry.

[Mageia-dev] perl-Sys-Mmap package review

2011-08-31 Thread Barry Jackson
Hello, Would someone please review the attached src.rpm for the above, with a view to committing it. It is required by ZoneMinder which I am packaging - albeit slowly. Note my comment in %files section of spec. I still need a mentor if anyone has a slot (tiny crack would do) ;) Thanks, Barry

Re: [Mageia-dev] perl-Sys-Mmap package review

2011-09-01 Thread Barry Jackson
On 31/08/11 23:17, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 31/08/2011 15:20, Barry Jackson a écrit : Hello, Would someone please review the attached src.rpm for the above, with a view to committing it. Here you have... Many thanks Guillaume You'd better use an author-neutral URL for the sources

Re: [Mageia-dev] perl-Sys-Mmap package review

2011-09-01 Thread Barry Jackson
On 01/09/11 23:28, Barry Jackson wrote: Updated version attached. However this builds in mga1 but fails to build in Cauldron. Barry

Re: [Mageia-dev] KDE doesn't start after last updates

2011-09-11 Thread Barry Jackson
On 09/09/11 07:05, cazzaniga.san...@gmail.com wrote: What is neccessary? As I said, all errors msgs possible that you can find, all your configuration, ... Thanks probably https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2700

Re: [Mageia-dev] Drakx tools hosed w/today's updates

2011-09-26 Thread Barry Jackson
On 26/09/11 17:56, Frank Griffin wrote: On 09/26/2011 12:36 PM, Thierry Vignaud wrote: nothing related to drakxtools, gtk+ vs libpng* Work-in-progress, or shall I file a bug report ? https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2822

Re: [Mageia-dev] mageia 2 and systemd

2011-10-14 Thread Barry Jackson
On 13/10/11 14:26, Michael Altizer wrote: On 10/13/2011 05:29 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 13/10/11 09:44 did gyre and gimble: Le 13/10/2011 10:08, philippe makowski a écrit : what do we do with %_post_service and %_preun_service ? Those macros will have to

[Mageia-dev] dir-or-file-in-tmp

2011-11-04 Thread Barry Jackson
The BS recently (correctly) rejected a package which attempted to create a dir in /tmp. This was not however found beforehand by rpmlint in the spec. What test is done by the BS to catch this? Why is this not included in rpmlint? Just curious, Barry

Re: [Mageia-dev] Replacing mysql with mariadb

2011-12-01 Thread Barry Jackson
On 01/12/11 20:22, Maarten Vanraes wrote: and furthermore, if we do provide mariadb, we'll have to obsolete mysql eventually. why not complete test it when we have the chance? if we complete this testing before 9 dec, we can easily switch back without any real issues if needed. ZoneMinder is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Replacing mysql with mariadb

2011-12-01 Thread Barry Jackson
On 01/12/11 22:47, Maarten Vanraes wrote: if you have a cauldron, you can enable updates_testing and then: * rpm -e --nodeps all the mysql packages you have * urpmi all the identical mariadb packages OK - I guess the names are similar - not looked yet ;) * then you can build against it, by

Re: [Mageia-dev] Replacing mysql with mariadb

2011-12-02 Thread Barry Jackson
On 02/12/11 00:20, Maarten Vanraes wrote: Op vrijdag 02 december 2011 00:13:28 schreef Barry Jackson: On 01/12/11 22:47, Maarten Vanraes wrote: if you have a cauldron, you can enable updates_testing and then: * rpm -e --nodeps all the mysql packages you have * urpmi all the identical mariadb

[Mageia-dev] Dolphin toolbar default settings in mga2 alpha

2011-12-02 Thread Barry Jackson
Anyone else find the default settings in Dolphin after a clean Alpha1 installation utterly useless? It's not even possible to easily navigate a file system without UP and BACK buttons. For new users I think the toolbar should have all the regularly needed buttons in place out of the box. I

Re: [Mageia-dev] Dolphin toolbar default settings in mga2 alpha

2011-12-02 Thread Barry Jackson
On 02/12/11 16:41, Balcaen John wrote: Le vendredi 2 décembre 2011 14:56:45 Barry Jackson a écrit : Anyone else find the default settings in Dolphin after a clean Alpha1 installation utterly useless? It's not even possible to easily navigate a file system without UP and BACK buttons. For new

Re: [Mageia-dev] Replacing mysql with mariadb

2011-12-02 Thread Barry Jackson
On 02/12/11 16:27, Maarten Vanraes wrote: Op vrijdag 02 december 2011 14:40:40 schreef Barry Jackson: On 02/12/11 00:20, Maarten Vanraes wrote: Op vrijdag 02 december 2011 00:13:28 schreef Barry Jackson: On 01/12/11 22:47, Maarten Vanraes wrote: if you have a cauldron, you can enable

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release courier-authlib-0.63.0-9.mga2

2011-12-02 Thread Barry Jackson
On 28/11/11 14:39, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 28/11/2011 14:46, Mageia Team a écrit : barjacbarjac 0.63.0-9.mga2: + Revision: 173752 - Added ldconfig in %post and %postun This is supposed to be done automatically by file triggers... Yes - I was only reading something about that yesterday,

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release courier-authlib-0.63.0-9.mga2

2011-12-03 Thread Barry Jackson
On 03/12/11 08:37, Jani Välimaa wrote: 2011/12/3 Barry Jacksonzen25...@zen.co.uk: On 28/11/11 14:39, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 28/11/2011 14:46, Mageia Team a écrit : barjacbarjac 0.63.0-9.mga2: + Revision: 173752 - Added ldconfig in %post and %postun This is supposed to be done

Re: [Mageia-dev] Replacing mysql with mariadb

2011-12-03 Thread Barry Jackson
Update: I built a test package of ZoneMinder git master against MariaDB. This version supports my mjpeg USB webcam, so I have been able to test the full functionality. No problems :)

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release courier-authlib-0.63.0-9.mga2

2011-12-03 Thread Barry Jackson
On 03/12/11 10:21, Barry Jackson wrote: On 03/12/11 08:37, Jani Välimaa wrote: 2011/12/3 Barry Jacksonzen25...@zen.co.uk: On 28/11/11 14:39, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 28/11/2011 14:46, Mageia Team a écrit : barjacbarjac 0.63.0-9.mga2: + Revision: 173752 - Added ldconfig in %post

Re: [Mageia-dev] Welcome New Packagers: barjac and Malo

2011-12-12 Thread Barry Jackson
On 12/12/11 20:14, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all, I'm proud to announce that Barry Jackson (barjac) and Pierre-Malo Denielou (Malo) have both graduated from their packager mentorship process and got submit rights. Welcome to the Mageia Packaging Team! Regards, Shlomi Fish Thanks

Re: [Mageia-dev] crond was not set to start

2012-01-28 Thread Barry Jackson
On 28/01/12 18:59, Olav Vitters wrote: I noticed crond wasn't running, nor enabled to start. Enabled it now, but are others seeing the same? I'm very sure it used to work after switching to systemd. Something after I switched to systemd broke it I think. Yes - I just realised earlier today that

Re: [Mageia-dev] java-rpmbuild-1.7.5-15.mga2.x86_64 won't install

2012-01-28 Thread Barry Jackson
On 28/01/12 20:01, Barry Jackson wrote: Since update today:- A requested package cannot be installed: java-rpmbuild-1.7.5-15.mga2.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied jpackage-utils[== 1.7.5]) tv - thanks for fixing it :)

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release c++-gtk-utils-2.0.4-1.mga2

2012-02-17 Thread Barry Jackson
On 15/02/12 08:45, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 14/02/2012 21:44, Jani Välimaa a écrit : Commit msgs %mkrel spelling error and del *.a looks now in changelog like -.mga2- del *.a. BTW, using cryptic change messages is quite useless for end user, the main target of package changelog. '%mkrel'

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bug 107

2012-03-01 Thread Barry Jackson
On 01/03/12 07:19, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: Ok, I just finished reading all the bug comments. I'll start looking at this tomorrow (2:20 am here :P). cheers, You may also want to read https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787 which although closed is related and was never really resolved.

[Mageia-dev] fatback - can we distribute it?

2012-03-01 Thread Barry Jackson
I have uploaded fatback to svn but would like a review regarding the license or rather the manual wording re. it's use before submitting. It is all explained in https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634 where I have also temporarily linked to copies of the rpms which are very small. It's

Re: [Mageia-dev] fatback - can we distribute it?

2012-03-02 Thread Barry Jackson
On 02/03/12 06:17, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: On Friday 02 March 2012 06:52, Charles A Edwards wrote: Did you look at COPYING? I did, yes. As a header above the GPLv2 license: And in the AUTHORS file it is written that the rest of the program is written by Nicholas Harbour of the DoD

Re: [Mageia-dev] NVidia fallback to Nouveau after latest Kernel updates

2012-03-02 Thread Barry Jackson
On 02/03/12 16:31, Bertaux Xavier wrote: and I think both nvidia and fglrx tickets are the same problem Xavier Le 02/03/2012 17:27, Bertaux Xavier a écrit : Le 02/03/2012 16:44, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : 2012/3/2 EatDirtdirt...@gmail.com: On 02/03/12 09:38, Robert Fox wrote: Since last

Re: [Mageia-dev] NVidia fallback to Nouveau after latest Kernel updates

2012-03-02 Thread Barry Jackson
On 02/03/12 16:53, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2012/3/2 Wolfgang Bornathmolc...@googlemail.com: whould be fixed with coming updates. should be fixed Sorry. Seems this was not the problem for you, but my FX series card has had no nvidia available since x11 was updated before Christmas. I

[Mageia-dev] oce (opencascade) license issues

2012-03-02 Thread Barry Jackson
I have been working on oce, but need help deciding on where to put it and with what license. Oce is the OPENCascade Community Edition. Earlier versions are/were packaged by Mdv and Fedora, and recently Deb has included it. It seems from OPENCascade's own license literature to be LGPL-like with

Re: [Mageia-dev] oce (opencascade) license issues

2012-03-04 Thread Barry Jackson
On 04/03/12 11:01, Michael Scherer wrote: See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458974 ( notably the comment from #10 ). I would push this to non-free, because that would be a problem for a company. OK - Is that: --define section=non-free/release (I never used that before) What

Re: [Mageia-dev] NVidia fallback to Nouveau after latest Kernel updates

2012-03-06 Thread Barry Jackson
On 06/03/12 09:45, Robert Fox wrote: This was fixed once, but since the latest kernel updates (3.3.0) - the problem has returned: Since last Cauldron kernel update, I have two nvidia based system which now fallback to nouveau when starting X - stating nvidia cannot be loaded. checking in

Re: [Mageia-dev] Minimum install of cauldron don't start console

2012-03-06 Thread Barry Jackson
On 06/03/12 12:46, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2012/3/6 Olivier Thauvinnanar...@nanardon.zarb.org: * Colin Guthrie (mag...@colin.guthr.ie) wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 06/03/12 09:24 did gyre and gimble: Hi there, I just try to install a cauldron to setup a test IPv6

Re: [Mageia-dev] oce (opencascade) license issues

2012-03-09 Thread Barry Jackson
On 04/03/12 11:01, Michael Scherer wrote: Le vendredi 02 mars 2012 à 23:46 +, Barry Jackson a écrit : I have been working on oce, but need help deciding on where to put it and with what license. Oce is the OPENCascade Community Edition. Earlier versions are/were packaged by Mdv and Fedora

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 Beta 2 is available

2012-03-16 Thread Barry Jackson
On 15/03/12 19:45, Anne nicolas wrote: Hi there Beta 2 is available now for tests. Here is the announcement: http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/03/15/mageia-2-beta-2-near-the-goal/ This is the last beta for Mageia 2 and before RC. We need your tests and reports more than ever! Thanks again all

Re: [Mageia-dev] systemd network.service issues

2012-03-16 Thread Barry Jackson
On 16/03/12 03:45, Anssi Hannula wrote: Hi all! So, I've just upgraded my home server to mga2/cauldron. Something seems fishy in the network.service handling, systemd thinks it has failed: # systemctl status network.service network.service - LSB: Bring up/down networking Loaded:

[Mageia-dev] urpmi problem in iurt in cauldron host?

2012-03-19 Thread Barry Jackson
Running iurt in Cauldron for all builds 1/cauldron now fail. Using the same $HOME and configuration everything is working fine using an mga1 host. Initialize log attached with error from cauldron host 3.3k Initialize log attached without error from mga1 host 42.6k Initially it was only builds

Re: [Mageia-dev] urpmi problem in iurt in cauldron host?

2012-03-21 Thread Barry Jackson
Ping - any ideas anyone? - this is driving me nuts! Just confirmation that it WFM would be a help. This is also after a re-install of Cauldron, but my configuration is as before, and the same as in 1 where it works fine.

Re: [Mageia-dev] urpmi problem in iurt in cauldron host?

2012-03-21 Thread Barry Jackson
On 21/03/12 11:36, Pascal Terjan wrote: I think this is a bug introduced by tv (always using --buildrequires when calling urpmi) that I fixed in svn I don't remember if I have updated the package since fixing Ah - thanks, svn is at 3646 package is 3264 !! ... so maybe an update is due? ;)

Re: [Mageia-dev] urpmi problem in iurt in cauldron host?

2012-03-21 Thread Barry Jackson
On 21/03/12 13:04, Barry Jackson wrote: On 21/03/12 11:36, Pascal Terjan wrote: I think this is a bug introduced by tv (always using --buildrequires when calling urpmi) that I fixed in svn I don't remember if I have updated the package since fixing Ah - thanks, svn is at 3646 package is 3264

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: syntek

2012-03-27 Thread Barry Jackson
Please push syntek. New version - fixes bug 5109 which is a critical bug causing system failure. Thanks.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push: syntek

2012-03-27 Thread Barry Jackson
On 27/03/12 09:14, nicolas vigier wrote: Submitted. Thanks ;)

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: zoneminder

2012-04-09 Thread Barry Jackson
Please push zoneminder to core and tainted. Various bug fixes - tested OK locally and in use 24/7. Thanks.

Re: [Mageia-dev] rpmbuild error

2012-04-09 Thread Barry Jackson
Use :- desktop-file-validate foo.desktop to test the file - it will report any errors.

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push - quota

2012-04-20 Thread Barry Jackson
Please push 'quota' package. Fixes bug 3053 :) Thanks

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push request: uhd and gnuradio

2012-04-21 Thread Barry Jackson
Please push uhd and gnuradio. Note:- Make sure uhd is built and updated in repos before pushing gnuradio. Reason:- A final version of the 3.5.x API of gnuradio was released a week ago. I have been working with upstream to fix a bug causing a build fail in Mageia since then, and it is now

Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push - quota

2012-04-21 Thread Barry Jackson
On 20/04/12 15:06, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 20 April 2012 16:00, Barry Jackson zen25...@zen.co.uk wrote: Please push 'quota' package. Fixes bug 3053 :) That is? Like for packages description, one should always include a one liner description of the actual issue. Thanks. Fixes incorrect

Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push - quota

2012-04-22 Thread Barry Jackson
On 21/04/12 21:57, Jani Välimaa wrote: On 21.04.2012 23:31, Barry Jackson wrote: On 20/04/12 15:06, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 20 April 2012 16:00, Barry Jackson zen25...@zen.co.uk wrote: Please push 'quota' package. Fixes bug 3053 :) That is? Like for packages description, one should

Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push request: uhd and gnuradio

2012-04-23 Thread Barry Jackson
On 21/04/12 20:43, Barry Jackson wrote: Please push uhd and gnuradio. Note:- Make sure uhd is built and updated in repos before pushing gnuradio. Reason:- A final version of the 3.5.x API of gnuradio was released a week ago. I have been working with upstream to fix a bug causing a build fail

Re: [Mageia-dev] List of packages on svn but not in the packages repository

2012-05-02 Thread Barry Jackson
On 02/05/12 09:05, Pascal Terjan wrote: On May 2, 2012 4:34 AM, Johnny A. Solbu coo...@solbu.net mailto:coo...@solbu.net wrote: On Wednesday 02 May 2012 00:21, nicolas vigier wrote: or imported but never submitted. I have a feeling that many packages are imported but not submitted

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: zoneminder

2012-05-04 Thread Barry Jackson
I just noticed that tmb updated spec with a buildrequire and pushed it, but forgot tainted. Please push it to tainted. mgarepo submit zoneminder --define section=tainted/release Thanks.

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: zoneminder

2012-05-11 Thread Barry Jackson
Please push zoneminder to core *and* tainted. Bug fix for https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5805 Thanks, Barry

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: drakx-installer-help 'final'

2012-05-12 Thread Barry Jackson
Please push drakx-installer-help (again). Added Portuguese translations. ...followed by drakx-installer-stage2 (I already bumped release) Thanks, Barry

[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: drakx-installer-help

2012-05-17 Thread Barry Jackson
Added German translations and many other adjustments from doc team which would be good to see in Mga2. Please also re-build drakx-installer-stage2 NOTE I have *not* bumped release in drakx-installer-stage2 spec just in case this update is too late and cannot be included. Thanks, Barry.

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release grub2-2.0-1.4379.mga3

2012-05-29 Thread Barry Jackson
On 29/05/12 09:03, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 29 May 2012 01:43, barjacbuildsystem-dae...@mageia.org wrote: Description : This is the second version of the GRUB (Grand Unified Boot-loader), a highly configurable and customizable boot-loader with modular architecture. It supports a wide range of

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release firefox-13.0-4.mga3

2012-06-04 Thread Barry Jackson
On 04/06/12 08:45, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 4 June 2012 09:35, Olav Vitterso...@vitters.nl wrote: Anyone notice this firefox not rendering some text properly? If I mouse over some text it sometimes gets distorted, some text doesn't render at all (like the text is transparent), etc. I filed

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release firefox-13.0-4.mga3

2012-06-04 Thread Barry Jackson
On 04/06/12 09:42, Barry Jackson wrote: On 04/06/12 08:45, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 4 June 2012 09:35, Olav Vitterso...@vitters.nl wrote: Anyone notice this firefox not rendering some text properly? If I mouse over some text it sometimes gets distorted, some text doesn't render at all (like

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 Installer - Possible License bug

2012-06-24 Thread Barry Jackson
On 22/06/12 18:02, Remco Rijnders wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:14:55AM +0100, Colin wrote in 4fe4378f.3070...@colin.guthr.ie: 'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 21/06/12 19:35 did gyre and gimble: To me, Mageia and Mageia looks exactly the same, so here it would seem to be a search

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! ---- Instructions

2012-07-23 Thread Barry Jackson
Updating an i586 Cauldron VM I am getting this:- Preparing... # 1/52: filesystem #

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! ---- Instructions

2012-07-24 Thread Barry Jackson
On 24/07/12 07:21, Sander Lepik wrote: 24.07.2012 02:32, Barry Jackson kirjutas: Updating an i586 Cauldron VM I am getting this:- Preparing... # 1/52: filesystem

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! ---- Instructions

2012-07-24 Thread Barry Jackson
On 24/07/12 10:25, Colin Guthrie wrote: do you have /var/run.runmove~ and /var/lock.lockmove~ files?) Cheers Col Hi Col, Yes I have both of those. (they are dirs not files) Barry

Re: [Mageia-dev] Update of the rpm group policy

2012-09-10 Thread Barry Jackson
On 08/09/12 19:07, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote: Any other suggestions for the groups? gnuradio is development software for software enabled radio, so Communications/Development Amateur Radio is needed as a group for packages like grig and xlog, so maybe: Communications/Amateur Radio

Re: [Mageia-dev] Any progress on the NFS mount problem? - One step further

2012-09-21 Thread Barry Jackson
On 21/09/12 19:54, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/09/12 21:37, Guillaume Rousse wrote: If everything else fails, you may also inhibit IPv6 completly: just add 'install ipv6 /bin/true' in any file under /etc/modprobe.d, and reboot. Using MCC, I

[Mageia-dev] lib64usb1.0_0-1.0.13-1.mga3 conflict

2012-09-22 Thread Barry Jackson
Since update of libusb: Installation failed: file /usr/lib64/libusb-1.0.so.0.1.0 from install of lib64usb1.0_0-1.0.13-1.mga3.x86_64 conflicts with file from package lib64usbx1.0_0-1.0.12-1.mga3.x86_64

Re: [Mageia-dev] need some help to build a linuxsampler.rpm

2012-09-23 Thread Barry Jackson
On 22/09/12 23:02, PhilippeDidier wrote: Ok ! That's what I try...but there are several makefiles ! You may want to try the latest dev version from the linuxsampler svn as many issues may already be fixed upstream. This will produce a current linuxsampler.tar.gz to test with:- svn co

Re: [Mageia-dev] need some help to build a linuxsampler.rpm

2012-09-24 Thread Barry Jackson
On 23/09/12 21:16, zezinho wrote: svn export gives a better tarball... Yes - thanks for the correction - maybe even better to use: svn co https://svn.linuxsampler.org/svn/linuxsampler/trunk linuxsampler tar -czf linuxsampler.tar.gz linuxsampler/ --exclude-vcs .. which strips the svn stuff

[Mageia-dev] grub2 integration into installer and drakx tools

2012-09-25 Thread Barry Jackson
We already have a grub2 package which needs integrating into Mageia tools. This is beyond my capabilities, so I am calling for developers who are able to do this work. The package already handles kernel updates. The installer, drakboot etc. will need some work.

Re: [Mageia-dev] grub2 integration into installer and drakx tools

2012-09-26 Thread Barry Jackson
On 26/09/12 09:10, Thierry Vignaud wrote: send me what a typical config file would look with the corresponding grub1 conf file. I think I can see where you are heading. Grub2 generates it own grub.cfg using os-prober, so maybe some work not needed. Additional entries to the grub2 menu

Re: [Mageia-dev] grub2 integration into installer and drakx tools

2012-09-26 Thread Barry Jackson
On 25/09/12 23:17, AL13N wrote: should this be made as an alternative to lilo, grub, grub-text ? to add grub2 to that list? and make it actually generate proper code? That may be a good way to introduce grub2 whist keeping grub as a fall-back Not sure what you mean about proper code or are

Re: [Mageia-dev] RPM groups policy

2012-09-27 Thread Barry Jackson
On 27/09/12 11:07, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote: Le 27/09/12 10:51,Pascal Terjan nous adresse ces quelques mots : On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Pierre-Malo Deniélou For PulseAudio, Sound/Mixer is fine. I don't agree If someone wants to install a mixer, pulesaudio in the list will probably

[Mageia-dev] Firefox 16 - security issue - withdrawn

2012-10-11 Thread Barry Jackson
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19909106 Maybe we should revert in Cauldron?

Re: [Mageia-dev] Firefox 16 - security issue - withdrawn

2012-10-11 Thread Barry Jackson
On 11/10/12 12:29, Sander Lepik wrote: 11.10.2012 13:58, Barry Jackson kirjutas: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19909106 Maybe we should revert in Cauldron? Well, it's cauldron and the bug will be fixed before we get it reverted. We just have to wait a day or two. 16.0.1 candidate

Re: [Mageia-dev] Firefox 16 - security issue - withdrawn

2012-10-15 Thread Barry Jackson
On 11/10/12 18:59, AL13N wrote: Op donderdag 11 oktober 2012 19:19:33 schreef Sander Lepik: 11.10.2012 18:32, Barry Jackson kirjutas: On 11/10/12 12:29, Sander Lepik wrote: 11.10.2012 13:58, Barry Jackson kirjutas: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19909106 Maybe we should revert

Re: [Mageia-dev] Notes about live CD

2012-10-26 Thread Barry Jackson
On 26/10/12 12:46, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2012/10/26 Olivier Blin mag...@blino.org: JA Magallón jamagal...@ono.com writes: - the installer asks to remove the unused harware support, but the wording for the choice is misleading: [ ] Unsued hardware support What does it really

[Mageia-dev] Small project for a Python programmer

2012-10-28 Thread Barry Jackson
OK here's the challenge. When we view rpm specs in svn using viewvc like this :- http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/acidrip/current/SPECS/acidrip.spec?view=markup ...the highlighting is incorrect, because viewvc uses pygments to generate the language highlighting and it sadly has no

Re: [Mageia-dev] Distrib-coffee big failure of the century

2012-10-30 Thread Barry Jackson
On 30/10/12 20:16, Olivier Thauvin wrote: I do my best to restore the service as soon as possible. At time, 26GB of Mageia are restored. Regards. Good news! I switched temporarily to rsync://fr2.rpmfind.net but now find that it is also now empty. It was working OK for most of the day. I

Re: [Mageia-dev] Distrib-coffee big failure of the century

2012-10-30 Thread Barry Jackson
On 30/10/12 21:29, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2012 22:21, Barry Jackson wrote: I will set --max-delete=500 locally in future. Any better ideas? I always run rsync manually twice. The first run I use «-n» to make sure my mirror isn't wiped, and then run rsync normally. I

Re: [Mageia-dev] Distrib-coffee big failure of the century

2012-10-31 Thread Barry Jackson
On 30/10/12 21:49, Barry Jackson wrote: On 30/10/12 21:29, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2012 22:21, Barry Jackson wrote: I will set --max-delete=500 locally in future. Any better ideas? I always run rsync manually twice. The first run I use «-n» to make sure my mirror isn't

Re: [Mageia-dev] Distrib-coffee big failure of the century

2012-11-01 Thread Barry Jackson
On 31/10/12 22:53, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: On Wednesday 31 October 2012 23:29, Barry Jackson wrote: I wrote the attached script. It checks several mirrors until it finds one that has the normal number of files and does not fail for any other reason. If you feel inclined to use it please feel

Re: [Mageia-dev] Distrib-coffee big failure of the century

2012-11-01 Thread Barry Jackson
I fixed a bug and cleaned up some clunky bash, so use this:- http://paste.kde.org/587864/51779286/ It's half way there :) From ~/cronsync_error.log :- 01/11/2012-14:05: Only 79199/141855 files in rsync://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr:/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib

Re: [Mageia-dev] Distrib-coffee big failure of the century

2012-11-01 Thread Barry Jackson
On 01/11/12 19:58, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: Why do you have both «--delete-after» and « --delete»? The last one is redundant, and should be dropped. :-)= Thanks, I missed the (which is implied) in the man pages. There was a useful file error (fixed now) in distrib-coffee after it completed

Re: [Mageia-dev] Distrib-coffee big failure of the century

2012-11-01 Thread Barry Jackson
On 01/11/12 20:51, Barry Jackson wrote: See how it goes :) Last update - honest - added proper file lock as the existing method was flakey - it's finished and I'm leaving it alone now :) Attached and also here:- http://paste.kde.org/588158/12522135/ #!/bin/bash # ~/cronsync by barjac # Run

Re: [Mageia-dev] Barry's cronsync script - Bugs

2012-11-06 Thread Barry Jackson
On 05/11/12 19:36, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: I have problems customizing it for my own use. (I'm testiing manually for the time being) It won't exclude the things I say it should exclude. My copy have this line: == myexcludes=--exclude={debug/,backports_testing,updates_testing/} == It does Not

Re: [Mageia-dev] Barry's cronsync script - Bugs

2012-11-06 Thread Barry Jackson
Damn!! I left a 'n' (dry run) on the options in the live run section after testing on line 148 - just remove it once you are happy with it. I'll paste it again later. Barry

Re: [Mageia-dev] Barry's cronsync script - Bugs

2012-11-06 Thread Barry Jackson
On 06/11/12 14:18, Barry Jackson wrote: Damn!! No thrice damn!! - I did remove it but from the wrong section (line 109). Ignore the previous paste as it's dangerous. This *is* correct. http://paste.kde.org/598106/ I think I need more sleep :\

Re: [Mageia-dev] Small project for a Python programmer

2012-11-12 Thread Barry Jackson
On 11/11/12 17:35, 1 wrote: Barry Jackson zen25000@... writes: What is needed is a lexer for rpm spec files. https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main/pull-request/124 Thanks for the heads up - good. I guess that this will take time to filter through to a release version?

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release grub2-2.0-5.mga3

2012-11-15 Thread Barry Jackson
On 11/10/12 09:16, Olav Vitters wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:12:31PM +0200, barjac wrote: Name: grub2Relocations: (not relocatable) Packager: barjac barjac URL : alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/grub/ That is not an URL. Indeed No idea how that happened

Re: [Mageia-dev] On new rpm group

2012-11-15 Thread Barry Jackson
On 15/11/12 22:10, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: Funda Wang schreef op vr 09-11-2012 om 16:50 [+0800]: Hello, I noticed that there are two rpm group named 'Geography' and 'Sciences/Geosciences'. Are there any differences? It would appear to me that geography is more concerned with the names

Re: [Mageia-dev] On new rpm group

2012-11-15 Thread Barry Jackson
On 15/11/12 22:56, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote: That's the opposite ... Geography is for the satnav, gps and mapping softs, while Geoscience are for all geology, climate, oceanography related software. /o\ ;)

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release libqwt-6.0.1-2.mga3

2012-11-19 Thread Barry Jackson
On 18/11/12 15:28, Jani Välimaa wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:15:13 +0200 Sander Lepik sander.le...@eesti.ee wrote: 18.11.2012 16:52, zezinho kirjutas: Now to fix the mess: - create libqwt5 package Done, but cannot submit it because a libqwt5 package already exists. Any hint? You

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release libqwt-6.0.1-2.mga3

2012-11-19 Thread Barry Jackson
On 19/11/12 19:21, Jani Välimaa wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:57:21 + Barry Jackson zen25...@zen.co.uk wrote: Ping me when it's sorted out and I will rebuild python-qwt and gnuradio. It's all sorted out. Python-qwt is now build against the old libqwt5 [1]. Maybe you should build

Re: [Mageia-dev] What the hell is wrong with MGA2s suspend/sleep/hibernate?

2012-11-20 Thread Barry Jackson
On 20/11/12 12:47, Frank Griffin wrote: On 11/20/2012 07:32 AM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: Note: This is Not the automatic sleep/hibernation after X min of inactivity. This is hibernation by accidently pressing the «SLEEP» key on a keyboard. Ah, didn't realize that you wanted to disable the Sleep

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release libqwt-6.0.1-2.mga3

2012-11-20 Thread Barry Jackson
Also, to quote library policy: The goal is to be able to install libfoo1 and libfoo2 on the same system. [root@jackodesktop baz]# urpmi lib64qwt6 installing lib64qwt6-6.0.1-4.mga3.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Preparing...

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release libqwt-6.0.1-2.mga3

2012-11-20 Thread Barry Jackson
On 20/11/12 17:16, Nicolas Lécureuil wrote: Le mardi 20 novembre 2012 17:13:14 Barry Jackson a écrit : Also, to quote library policy: The goal is to be able to install libfoo1 and libfoo2 on the same system. [root@jackodesktop baz]# urpmi lib64qwt6 installing lib64qwt6-6.0.1-4.mga3.x86_64.rpm

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