gmane.linux.mageia.devel

remove python-distribute

Thomas Spuhler — 2013-05-24T23:53:28

We still have python-distribute.
I am listed as the maintainer. As far as I remember, we made it obsolete about a year ago because 
there are other packages that provide the same thing. I remember breaking the BS when I imported it.
But now I see Kharec imported it again on 2/22/13
It needs an update. Do we need to keep it?

Submit privileges?

Joseph Wang — 2013-05-24T13:47:33

Can I get submit building privileges to the new cauldron?

I've packaged the following and would like to start building them for
Mageia, I've been working with people upstream to fix some of the problems
with Mageia 3.  In particular, I've been working with the cinnamon people,
and the issue that caused problems for Mageia 3 have been fixed.

The other thing is that I've been working pretty closely with Fedora to get
some of the astronomy packages working with RPM.  In particular iraf is the
main package for astronomy image processing, and people have been trying to
get this packaged for linux since the late 1990's (there were licensing
problems from hell, followed coding issues from hell).

   - gretl
   - quantlib
   - python-pyp2rpm
   - leocad
   - leocad-data
   - python-cgen
   - python-codepy
   - python-opencl
   - python-opengl-demo
   - python-pip
   - python-py
   - python-test
   - python-tools
   - nightfall
   - vstar
   - python-h5py
   - cython
   - python-yt
   - vassal
   - virtualmoon
   -

UEFI/GPT/cauldron questions

Joseph Wang — 2013-05-24T13:51:23

Since I'm the adventurous type, would it be more useful to try some of the
newer boot managers to see if I can get my UEFI laptop to work than to just
try with GRUB2?

[RFC] x11-server-1.14

Thierry Vignaud — 2013-05-24T12:29:17

Hi

x11-server-1.14.1 and rebuild drivers are in */update_testing.

The following drivers were not rebuild: x11-driver-video-sun*
(I didn't even bother tried)

Status:

- major driver that were tested and works OK:
 o video: ati/radeon
 o input: evdev wacom


- major driver that need being tested:
 o video: fglrx intel nvidia* nouveau
 o input:  synaptics

- drivers that need being tested for the installer:
 o video: fbdev vesa
 o input: keyboard mouse

- less major driver that would be nice to test:
 o video: openchrome sis vmware
 o input: joystick vmmouse

- minor driver that would be nice to test:
 o video: apm ark ast cirrus chips glint i128 i740 modesetting
neomagic nv r128 rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sisusb tdfx
tga trident tseng voodoo xgixp
 o input: acecad aiptek evtouch fpit hyperpen mutouch penmount

Please test.

See you

Skype for Linux now updated to 4.2 !

Robert Fox — 2013-05-24T10:59:32

Now that Cauldron is open . . . .

Our get-skype package only supports the 4.1 version - would be nice to
get the updated 4.2 

We can't use the Fedora or SuSE versions unfortunately.

Cheers,
R.Fox

Updates for stable

Claire Robinson — 2013-05-24T10:18:50

Hi all

When sending updates for mga2 or mga3 could you remember to list RPMs &
SRPMs and also an advisory on the bug report please when you assign it
to qa-bugs. Also to add yourself into CC.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy#Maintainer_.28or_any_interested_packager.29

QA test RPMs but ask for SRPMs to be pushed so both are needed. The
advisory is there so we know what the update is for and what to test,
but it is also used on updates-announce ML and the wiki.

ie. https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/


Many thanks

Claire

can a rpm belong to a parent group?

Christian Lohmaier — 2013-05-24T09:22:06

Hi *,

Mageia's group policy did split some categories into multiple ones -
what once was

Applications/Communications

is now

Communications/Bluetooth
Communications/Dial-Up
Communications/Fax
Communications/Mobile
Communications/Radio
Communications/Serial
Communications/Telephony

and as you can only assign one single group in rpm (AFAIK), what to do
with an application that covers multiple of those? Fax, Telephony &
Dial-Up for example. Is it permitted to use the group "Communications"
or does one have to pick one from the list?

ciao
Christian

Imagemagick

Thomas Spuhler — 2013-05-24T01:37:52

Funda:
Could you please look at Imagemagick.
I saw you built it a few times. Locally, I am getting worse errors just as wrong pointers in 
Ghostscript.
I need to update for a php-magickwand upgrade

Cauldron is open again

nicolas vigier — 2013-05-23T17:20:32

Hello,

Cauldron is open again (as can be seen with long build queue).

Happy Cauldron breaking !

adding Mageia to upstream WEB sites

Thomas Spuhler — 2013-05-23T17:14:38

Sorry, for posting this here, but I don't want to subscribe to additional list if possible.

I have added Mageia to an upstream WEB site as discussed earlier.
http://musescore.org/en/download

Some other Distri's provide a direct link. Maybe we have a WEB designer that could provide me with 
the code needed to do this?



What's in there now is:



<table cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" class="content-table">
<tr>
<td id="download-windows"><a href="/en/download/musescore.exe"><img 
src="http://s.musescore.org/images/windows.png" alt="Windows" height="150"></a></td>
<td id="download-apple"><a href="/en/download/musescore.dmg"><img 
src="http://s.musescore.org/images/apple.png" alt="Mac" height="150"></a></td>
<td id="download-linux"><a href="#linux"><img src="http://s.musescore.org/images/linux.png" 
alt="Linux" height="150"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="/en/download/musescore.exe">Windows 8 (32 - 64 bit)
Windows 7 (32 - 64 bit)
Windows Vista
Windows XP</a>
<a href="/en/download/musescore-portable.exe">Po

please refrain from updating perl modules

Jerome Quelin — 2013-05-23T13:01:21

Hi,

Please refrain from updating perl modules when cauldron reopens, since I
need to update perl to 5.18.0 (which is out for 4 days).
I'll send a notification when doing the update & when it's done.

Thanks, Jérôme

gkrellm aborted: Sensors (update_monitor)

Robert Fox — 2013-05-23T10:49:48

On a heavily updated Cauldron machine - has all the latest updates.
Strangely, Gkrellm aborts randomly with an xwindow which states: gkrellm
aborted: Sensors (update_monitor)

Not sure what is causing this - on this machine I have always run
Gkrellm without and problems.

Any hints would be welcome.

Cheers,
R.Fox

More Mirrors for Mageia?

Pierre-Malo Deniélou — 2013-05-22T18:43:19

Dear friends,

The last message from Alexei highlights that Mageia does not have many 
mirrors. Maybe we should start a concerted effort to contact mirrors 
which already have several distributions. It requires sending emails to 
their managers and then crossing fingers.

As an example, last year, MrsB, barjac and me coordinated to find a 
mirror in the UK (there wasn't at the time). We contacted several, but 
only one came through (after 6 months) and we can now use it (so do many 
users btw). The success rate is low, but only a few more mirrors can 
make life much easier for many users and for us developers.

So, besides Russia, it seems we lack mirrors in:
- Spain, Portugal
- North Africa,
- India,
- Middle-East.

Also I guess that some zones are covered, but the mirrors are not that 
fast, and they would gain anyway to have additional mirrors. Do you know 
which ones?


Maybe each local community could try to investigate and look at fedora 
or debian mirrors in their area and contact them to see if they

I can't found Performous

Gonzalo Igartua — 2013-05-22T18:11:38

Hello, I have a question about performous karaoke game

I see performous into BS since 2 months ago

http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/performous/

But now with Mageia 3 newly installed, I can't see performous in mageia 3
repos

Why does this happen?

Thanks a lot

Regards

Is there any scheduled date for Cauldron?

David — 2013-05-22T17:14:18

First. My congratulations for a great Mageia 3 release.

But is there a scheduled date for reopening Cauldron?

We need mirror for Russia

Алексей Логинов — 2013-05-22T16:45:50

By default Mageia provides mirrors from yandex.ru. But this mirror is very
bad. Users have many problems with this mirror. For example if to install
10 packages, then 1 of 10 will be with error.
Now Mageia 3 was released, but mirrors from yandex.ru don't work - no
packages.
Please, find another mirror for Russia by default.

Can we commit to cauldron?

José Jorge — 2013-05-22T16:34:47

I tried, as it seems it was opened, but I get :

Envoi          SPECS/guake.spec
Transmission des données .svn: E165001: Échec de la propagation 
(commit), détails :
svn: E165001: Commit blocked by pre-commit hook (exit code 1) with output:
this repository is restrected to user umeabot

chroot FATAL: kernel too old?

Jean-Marc Pigeon — 2013-05-22T16:23:19

Bonjour,

Trying to setup a mag3 VPS on a openvz  HOST,
to do some convenient mag3 development.

I am not able to do a chroot, command:
chroot /mag3
return FATAL: kernel too old

The HOST kernel is 2.6.32-042stab076.8, any luck
someone met and successfully bypass that kind of trouble?

Many thanks.

urpmq -a

Richard Couture — 2013-05-22T14:56:39

I have noted in MGA3 that urpmq -a more often than not produces
an error message:

urpmq -a gnome
No package named gnome

Is there a new way of querying??



Richard

Mageia 3 post-mortem

Anne Nicolas — 2013-05-22T12:26:54

Hi all

While Mageia 3 release is still in minds, let do a break for coming days 
and work on post-mortem.

For all teams, please have a look on wiki page and see how you can list 
there things that worked well (in order to reproduce it) but also things 
that need to be improved.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia3_Postmortem

This is important for all of us in order to improve the Mageia 
community. Thanks for the time you will spend on it.

Let say the deadline for it is 3rd of may. Then we will write a sum up 
and communicate on it

Cheers

FAQ

AL13N — 2013-05-22T05:52:21

i made a preliminary FAQ: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/FAQUseMageia

The idea is that if you find people who are asking questions to ask them if a 
FAQ is a good idea and then ask them to put questions in there... this way we 
convert more users into contributors :-)

you can also add stuff in there that gets asked all the time on ML and IRC