R P Herrold wrote:
> Rex Dieter replied:
>> If you can identify particular cases where collaboration, as
>> outlined in the above policy draft, was not followed, I will
>> personally break out a can of whoop-ass, and work to fix
>> things.
>>
>> Remember
Les Mikesell wrote:
> How does a user identify packages that have come from this repository in
> order to fix or control any incompatibilities?
rpm -qi
Look for "Vendor" and/or "Packager" tag.
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Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>> How does a user identify packages that have come from this repository in
>>> order to fix or control any incompatibilities?
>>
>> rpm -qi
>> Look for "Vendor"
Les Mikesell wrote:
> I don't see why
> a particular package couldn't be served from more than one repository.
> Is there some rule about that?
Nope. As a matter of fact, this sort of thing is likely when mixing repos,
and is why a commitment to collaboration is essential.
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Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> This is a problem space that sure could use some love and attention, with
>> better solutions and tools. No doubt about it. And before anyone
>> suggests
>> it, repotags are not the end-all-be-all sol
Anne Wilson wrote:
> The only obstacle now to running this box as the mail server is that I do
> read
> and send mail on it occasionally, while working on something. I need
> gpg-agent, but can't find how to get it. Is it merged into another
> package, or do I simply have to look at other reposi
Anne Wilson wrote:
> As to starting and stopping gpg-agent, please advise the best method to
> use.
Here's what we use in fedora (and kde-redhat packaging):
Grab gpg-agent-* scripts from:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/kde-settings/
Put into either
(global): /etc/kde/env , /etc/kde
William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 14:17 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Before using CentOS, I've spent a few years with Slackware. This
>> distribution doesn't come with many packages, so I had the habit of
>> building a lot of stuff myself. One of the first things I instal
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to build cmake on CentOS 5 from a Fedora Core 6 source rpm (I
> need it for another package I'm trying to build from a source rpm,
> xmlrpc-c). When I start the build, I get this error:
>
> error: Failed build dependencies:
> xmlrpc-c-devel is ne
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 11:06 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> cmake is in epel:
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/
>
> Crap - I didn't even know that existed. Thanks!
>
> I wouldn't mind adding that repo to the CentOS 5
Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, JC Júnior wrote:
>
>> I received a message about EPEL repository, I would like to know if this
>> repo is long term support too.
>
> Let me add that an effort to make sure EPEL is compatible with RPMforge
> failed as EPEL wants to become the only reposito
drew einhorn wrote:
> Dumb question.
>
> Can't we identify the source of the package by looking at the signature.
Signature, vendor, etc... right. Pretty much why epel (so far) didn't see
the need/value in the complexity/overhead of introducing repotags.
That said, my personal opinion is/was t
Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> It's quite a stetch from "no repotags" to
>> conclude "EPEL has no interest" in compatibility.
>> In fact, epel (and fedora) repo is, by design and policy, supposed to be
>> compatible and co
Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On 9/9/07, Timothy Kesten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I've tried to install kaffeine on CentOS 5 but I get following error
>>
>> Transaction Check Error:
>> file /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-mplayer2.desktop from install of
>> kaffeine-0.7.1-1.2.el5.rf c
Craig White wrote:
> Anyway, KDM is display manager and I am only getting grey screen with X
...
> # tail -n 3 /usr/share/config/kdm/Xaccess
> # The following line was added by ltspcfg
> #
> *# Allow remote connects
>
> how do I enable non local logins?
That's the right setting, but you (som
Steven Vishoot wrote:
> Not sure if this is what your asking about,
> find / -name Xaccess
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess
> /etc/kde/kdm/Xaccess
> 4.5 with kde installed.
el5 doesn't include xdm (grr...)
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Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 06:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> That's the right setting, but you (sometimes) need to completely restart
>> X (or maybe only kdm?) for any changes in Xaccess to take effect.
>
> I wasn't sure how to restart kdm so
mark pryor wrote:
> I'm suprised that an SRC.RPM from the rhel5 repo needs a file from FC7.
Your build environment is likely faulty (likely missing defining epel
macro), the built binaries in epel-5 are fine.
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mark pryor wrote:
> I'm going to try this question again. The first time I botched it and the
> answers I got were useless.
>
> I want to use rpmdevtools to help with some packaging chores. There is no
> C5 version that I can find.
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/rpmdevtools-5.
Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> I want to use rpmdevtools to help with some packaging chores. There is
>>> no C5 version that I can find.
>>
>>
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/rpmdevtools-5.3-1.el5.noarch.
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I'm able to get ./configure to get past the Qt error but now it complains
> that kdelibs isn't installed, or the version of qt doesn't match kdelibs.
## Builddeps
$ yum install kdelibs-devel
## to define QTDIR,QTINC,QTLIB:
$ source /etc/profile.d/qt.sh
## go!
$ ./configure
Jim Perrin wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2007 1:12 PM, Florin Andrei
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Following Fabian's blog post re: RPMForge being rebuilt for EL5, I've a
>> question:
>>
>> Are there any compatibility problems between RPMForge and EPEL? In other
>> words, if I enabled EPEL previously, will
R P Herrold wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>> Huh? In fact, work is underway to codify the opposite:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/RepositoryCollaboration
>
> James 2:14-26
If you can identify particular cases where collabora
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> Not to start a repo flame war,
nice try.
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Kenneth Porter wrote:
> FYI for others who might encounter this.
>
> I just did a yum update (C5.1) and after a very long download of packages
> I get a transaction test failure:
>
> Transaction Check Error:
> file /usr/lib/libc-client.so.2007 from install of
> libc-client2007-2007b-1.el5 conf
Paul Johnson wrote:
> Today I installed the newest Centos I could find and encountered the
> old software problem. I couldn't find any third party repositories
> that have TexLive to replace tetex. Ii tried the Fedora version, but
> it calls for a different libpoppler. LyX in Centos is aged as
Les Mikesell wrote:
> If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you
> get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09
> version. Is this intentional and desirable? I thought epel generally
> did not replace stock components with newer versions.
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>> If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you
>>> get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09
>>> version. Is this intentiona
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>> If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you
>>> get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09
>>> version. Is this intentiona
Rex Dieter wrote:
> OK, found it, I'll go knock some skulls @ epel.
Bug filed,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504189
folks poked, hopefully will see a resolution soonish.
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Gary Greene wrote:
> On 6/20/09 5:43 AM, "Timothy Murphy"
>> But I have worked out that the cause of the problem
>> is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, "uidvalidity",
>> which is listed among the folders on the kmail page
>> but does not in fact seem to exist in my maildir on the server.
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>>> But I have worked out that the cause of the problem
>>>> is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, "uidvalidity",
>>>> which is listed among the folders on the kmail page
>>>> b
Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 01:41:07 Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> I know what distribution packagers do, I am a Fedora KDE packager. And we
>> ask users to report their bugs upstream unless there is evidence that
>> they're specific to Fedora. The vast majority of bugs which are repor
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>> The moral of my story is to prevent issues languishing downstream
>> indefinitely, to avoid the kind of comment "this bug has been around
>> forever, why is it still a problem and not fixed?", which does no one any
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
>>
>> OTOH, Dag is in a funny position: he's the main maintainer of RPMforge,
>> which has 2 main issues:
>> (1) It's broken, at least partially. Try install audacious for one.
>> (2) It's incompatible with EPEL. Try install MPlayer and VLC with
Dag Wieers wrote:
> Now, I always thought that RPMforge wouldn't have the resources to
> start making the repositories compatible, but apparently the Fedora
> projecy is simply not even interested in doing this.
Dag, we had a lengthy thread on the rpmforge list not long ago to debunk
this, and I
Dag Wieers wrote:
> I don't see any effort from the Fedora side to do anything about this.
True, no one goes out of their way to proactively test things, but that same
argument goes both ways.
What I'm more interested in is concrete examples of problems not being
addressed. Are there any? I'
drew einhorn wrote:
> epel is not concerned about their
> compatability with other 3rd party repos.
Please, stop the FUD.
> And there is
> a lot of lingering animosity. Just mentioning epel in some
> places is enough to evoke a bitter response.
and thank you so much for perpetuating the prob
MGW-Discussions wrote:
> What repo do I need to install to be able to install ktorrent?
EPEL has it too (maintained by me).
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Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:28 PM, kevin kempter
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi List;
>>
>> where can I find the showfoto tool for CentOS v5 ? do I need to enable
>> another yum repo somewhere?
>
> digikam is available from the KBS-Extras repository (
And EPEL (I'm assumin
kevin kempter wrote:
> HI LIst;
>
> What version of KDE is included in the latest version of CentOS ?
>
> Also, is there a way to get KDE4 in CentOS ?
It's possible, but no one has yet done the work to build/package kde4 for
CentOS (would require upgrading some "core" components, one of which.
Gopinath Achari wrote:
> I need Koffice-kivio package for centos 5.2 (i386)
> I downloaded this package from kde.org site. when i installed. It
> generated lots of dependency errors even though the dependency packages
> are installed
> please Help me out . I need kivio ( Equiva
Lanny Marcus wrote:
> OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into
> warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or
> RedHat.com please tell me.
redhat probably. We saw similar issue(s) in fedora awhile back, and patched
k3b to auto-demount media
Mr.Vandeley wrote:
> I have an error while try to install twinkle:
> # yum install twinkle
> [...]
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package twinkle.i386 0:1.2-1.el5.rf set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libresolv.so.2(GLIBC_PRIVATE) for package:
> Any id
Paul Johnson wrote:
> I installed Centos on some machines that need long term support. I'm
> running up against some simple user convenience issues.
>
> How to play MP3?
>
> I've been really puzzled today that the addon rpm sites like livna,
> rpmforge, rpmfusion, epel, don't seem to have somet
John Doe wrote:
>
> From: Steve Huff
>> > What am I missing?
>> [sh...@srdce ~]$ yum provides /usr/bin/gpg-agent
>> gnupg2.i386 : Utility for secure communication and data storage
>
> I have Base and rpmforge repo and "No Matches found"...
> Which repo provides this package? Fedora?
EPEL
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Stuart Jansen wrote:
> I recently upgraded an internal build server from C5.2 to C5.3 and now
> I'm experiencing problems initializing the mock buildroot. Specifically,
> I'm getting the following error:
>
> --
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 6: cat: command not found
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062:
Rex Dieter wrote:
> Stuart Jansen wrote:
>
>> I recently upgraded an internal build server from C5.2 to C5.3 and now
>> I'm experiencing problems initializing the mock buildroot. Specifically,
>> I'm getting the following error:
>>
>> --
>&
Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Rex Dieter
> wrote:
>
>> interestingly, I can no longer reproduce this failure myself on a
>> recently upgraded centos-5.3 box using mock-0.9.14 (from epel).
>
> So, we can use mock-0.9.14 from EPEL on CentOS 5.3
Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Rex Dieter
> wrote:
>> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>
>>> So, we can use mock-0.9.14 from EPEL on CentOS 5.3 (with the current
>>> CentOS yum) without any issue?
>>
>> of course. (what would make you think o
Rex Dieter wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote
>>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 6: cat: command not found
>>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 7: rm: command not found
>>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 22: install: command not found
>>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 2
Paul Johnson wrote:
> In Centos 5.3, a bad problem has surfaced in user land. We want to use
> either Evince or Adobe acroread as the pdf view, but the update of
> kdegraphics has somehow screwed up these systems so that the odious,
> horrible, awful pdf viewer kghostview is used.
It's most lik
Martin Jungowski wrote:
> I'm evaluating CentOS 5.4 for our company and one of our requirements is
> that it must also run on laptops. I've managed to get everything working
> so far except for wireless networks. The problem here seems to be that
> CentOS fails to provide a knetworkmanager package
Dieter Best wrote:
> I need a newer version of gcc (gcc 4.4.3), with yum install I got
> 4.1.2. Has anyone figured out how to configure for the gcc 4.4.3 build
> to go through?
yum install gcc44
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CS DBA wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am switching from Fedora20 to CentOS7 since I now run all my Linux
> development in a VM and I get a more robust feature set (i.e. shared
> folders with the host that "just work", etc)
>
> The only issue I have thus far is VPN connections. Looking at what's
> instal
Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> Hi CentOS folk,
>
> In an RPM post-install script, is it possible to know the previous
> version number, and the new version number of a package if it's an update?
>
> I need to know this, because for a certain package, if updating from
> version 1.x to 2.x, I need to run
CS DBA wrote:
> Hi All;
>
> I'm runing a new install of CentOS 7, enabled the epel repo and ran:
>
> # yum install kmymoney
>
> I get this:
>
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package kmymoney.x86_64 0:4.6.6-1.el7 will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: kmy
Rex Dieter wrote:
> CS DBA wrote:
>
>> Hi All;
>>
>> I'm runing a new install of CentOS 7, enabled the epel repo and ran:
>>
>> # yum install kmymoney
>>
>> I get this:
>>
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> --> Runni
John Horne wrote:
> I find it very odd, to say the least, that if I tell CentOS/RHEL 6 to
> install KDE and not Gnome, it goes ahead and uses GDM rather than KDM.
That's a bug that was fixed in fedora at some point, probably after rhel6
branched development
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Max Pyziur wrote:
> The alpine mail rpm indicates that it comes packaged with configuration
> files (/etc/pine*conf*). However, they aren't there. Possible?
It's a packaging trick, those files are marked
%ghost %config
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m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Does anyone know how to make gwenview *not* try to use nepomuk? I liked it
> under 5.x, but in 6.x it *constantly* complains about things like tagging
> is not enabled... but won't open, when I log in, with gwenview running and
> showing the same picture I'd logged out on
Rock wrote:
> Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native?
I like knode (in kdepim rpm)
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Toralf Lund wrote:
> Or is the thinking that the
> suffixed ("-qt4") version of commands will always be used?
That is one relatively safe approach.
Another (non-exclusive) one is to always manually prepend the output from:
rpm --eval "%{_qt4_bindir}"
to your $PATH.
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oglop wrote:
> Hi All,
> i'm a happy 6.4 user, but got some problems running pyqt4 on it.
> i installed all pyqt4 packages.
> but when i run from PyQt4.QtCore import *, i got the following
> error message
>
>
> >>> from PyQt4.QtCore import *
> Traceback (most recent call last):
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> What I can't find is how to
> edit the start menu for "leave": that's *down* below what the regular menu
"Leave" isnt part of the applications menu, so you cannot edit it.
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m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> "Leave" isnt part of the applications menu, so you cannot edit it.
>
> Then what *is* it part of? How did the KDE "menu updater" screw this
> pooch?
It's simply a hard-coded (via code) part of the application launcher.
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m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>>> What I can't find is how to
>>> edit the start menu for "leave": that's *down* below what the regular
>>> menu
>>
>> "Leave" isnt part
mark wrote:
> I guess you missed the beginning of this thread: I wanted to add gqview to
> the menu, so I ran the KDE menu updater... and it broke leave - clicking
> leave give me the submenu, bot lock screen does *nothing* at all. I'm
> trying to restore it, rather than having to type my alias fo
Gabor Boros wrote:
> I want to install minimal KDE on minimal CentOS 7 installation.
> How can I do this?
Depends on your definition of "minimal", but you can start with:
$ yum install kde-workspace
and work your way up to:
$ yum install @kde-desktop
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Devin Reade wrote:
> Just a heads up, if anyone is doing QT development with the EPEL
> RPMs, the update from RHEL 6.5 to 6.6 breaks the current qt5 RPMS.
> In fact, I had to uninstall qt5 to perform the update.
>
> I've submitted a bug report upstream, so hopefully it'll get resolved
> before to
James B. Byrne wrote:
> In my continuing investigation of CentOS-7 I did yet another minimal
> install. Subsequent to that I ran yum update kernel, and then yum group
> install KDE.
>
> Now, KDE installed about 480Mb of stuff, which compares favourably to
> Gnome's
> 971Mb. However, when I run s
Frank Bures wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded from CentOS 5 to 7. I have been running KDE. In
> version 5, if there was a pending update, an icon would appear in the
> panel, notifying about the update.
> There is no such icon in CentOS 7 - KDE 4.
>
> Is there a way to get this very conveni
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