Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Oded Arbel wrote: That's the gist of it - I don't want to do a full upgrade. I want to update select packages, but keep the basic system. I wouldn't recommend you doing that, since the Fedora packages don't have a policy of maintaining package dependencies for such cross-distro scenario. If an

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 00:34, Oded Arbel wrote: > Funny. upgrading between different brands of the same company works in > every other Linux I've used - SLE<->NLD<->SuSE, Ubuntu<->Kubuntu, > Mandriva<->NMS<->Corporate Stop thinking of Fedora as RedHat. > I can see plenty of reasons to change R

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 20:59 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > I doubt that you'll be able to pull a clean upgrade between RHEL and FC > > > using yum... it may even fail to upgrade between different consecutive > > > Fedora versions. (Hence it's unsupported...) > > > > That's really sad - I've bee

RE: Google SOC.

2006-05-30 Thread Tzahi Fadida
First, I appollogize in advance for posting to everyone but due to some communication problems it can't be helped. Hi Oded, Please contact me off list as soon as you can about SOC. 10x. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oded Shimon >

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 17:50 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 16:13 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > Problem: what I want to install eventually requires me to upgrade python > > > from the CentOS version (2.3) to the Fedora Core 4 version (2.4), and > > > due to this it needs to upg

RE: ICQ in sendsms 3.11 broken

2006-05-30 Thread Tzahi Fadida
I recommend to use vicq. I use it in my pop2sms script. works great. Basically it's a terminal icq program that can also perform command line tasks like sending sms. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nadav Har'El > Sent: Tuesday, May

Perl-IL Meeting on 5-June-2006

2006-05-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! On 5 June, 2006 (Monday) the Israeli Perl Mongers will hold their regular monthly meeting. The program: * 18:00-18:30 -- Assembly and very light refreshments * 18:30-19:30 -- Gabor Szabo: Test::Live - live testing of a CPAN module. * 18:40-20:10 -- Doron Abraham: Stupid things

RE: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 13:46 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AFAIK no, by yum logic it would mean that the repository is incorrect > and will not accept the update. I don't think fedora would agree to correct their FC4 repository for me :-( > Did you try yum localinstall? (download the rpm first

Re: ICQ in sendsms 3.11 broken

2006-05-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, May 30, 2006, Arieh Skliarouk wrote about "ICQ in sendsms 3.11 broken": > Hello Nadav, Hi. Glad to know that linux-il is my personal mailing list :-) > Seemingly ICQ decided to stop the SMS sending from their web interface, and > now allow only in-protocol SMS sending. Page > http://www.i

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 14:23 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: > Hi list. I'm trying to work with CentOS 4.3 (RHEL 4.3 based distro) but > some of the stuff it uses is too old for my needs, so I thought I'd > upgrade some of the stuff to Fedora Core 4 (which IIRC is the closest > Fedora Core release that is

ICQ in sendsms 3.11 broken

2006-05-30 Thread Arieh Skliarouk
Hello Nadav,Seemingly ICQ decided to stop the SMS sending from their web interface, and now allow only in-protocol SMS sending. Page http://www.icq.com/sms/login.php returns an error, and alternative web page is nowhere to be found.-- Arieh

RE: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Ohad.Levy
AFAIK no, by yum logic it would mean that the repository is incorrect and will not accept the update. Did you try yum localinstall? (download the rpm first and then try) Cheers, Ohad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oded Arbel Sent: Tues

Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Oded Arbel
Hi list. I'm trying to work with CentOS 4.3 (RHEL 4.3 based distro) but some of the stuff it uses is too old for my needs, so I thought I'd upgrade some of the stuff to Fedora Core 4 (which IIRC is the closest Fedora Core release that is newer then RHEL 4.3 - and it includes what I need). Problem

Re: projectors and Linux

2006-05-30 Thread guy keren
note that: 1. various projectors support a limited resolution (e.g. up to 800x600). 2. various projectors support a limited refresh rate (e.g. up to 75Hz). if you try to feed them with a higher resolution/refresh rate, they go blank. what you might want to do, is prepare an alternative X config

projectors and Linux

2006-05-30 Thread Gabor Szabo
I am always struggling with this, maybe someone can help. Nearly always when I connect my notebook to projector I have to reboot the notebook so it will recognize the projector. Then when it boots it is always in 640x480 resolution and I don't even have higher resolution in Screen Resolution Pre