Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 11 בJanuary 2007 00:17, Amos Shapira wrote: > ... with a small twist that I'm more interested in Debian-based packages, I'll point to Fedora tools, but I'm sure Debian has the equivalent to most of them since it has the support infrastructure (apt) long before Fedora existed (and had

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11/01/07, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You also get all the other benefits without extra work: - Repeatability + traceability of the install/update. - rpmverify (who moved my cheese?) - Package signing (not only for security, also to mitigate the usual errors -- mixing test/produc

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 10 בJanuary 2007 11:37, Ishay wrote: > I need a distribution mechanism for software which is running on redhat. The best way is to use the OS practices. In this case: - Package each component in its own RPM (or several RPMs). - Use yum (or apt4rpm) to create repositories. - Use k

Re: How to play quicktime movies

2007-01-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 19:20 +0200, Peter wrote: > $SUBJ says it all. Preferrably with xine. > > thanks, > Peter i386 or x86_64? In general (if you're on i386) just get the win32codec package and install it under /usr/lib/win32 - Gilboa =

Meaning of "emergency upgrade" (was: Re: Distribution mechanism)

2007-01-10 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:24PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > I had the experience of having been forced to perform an emergency upgrade > > of my PC's motherboard. > > Microsoft made a marketing decision to require a re-instalation of the > ope

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:24PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > As it happens, Linux is very good at adapting itself for different > hardware. It is not MS-Windows XP. > > I had the experience of having been forced to perform an emergency upgrade > of my PC's motherboard. At the time I had both MS-W

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Oded Arbel
--=-d2PGQHs32I5gu4sRw2zo Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 11:37 +0200, Ishay wrote: > Hi all, > I need a distribution mechanism for software which is running on redhat. > The distribution audience will only include people in my company. > The instal

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Omer Zak
As it happens, Linux is very good at adapting itself for different hardware. It is not MS-Windows XP. I had the experience of having been forced to perform an emergency upgrade of my PC's motherboard. At the time I had both MS-Windows and Linux partitions on my hard disk. Microsoft's software d

Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Ishay
Hi all, I need a distribution mechanism for software which is running on redhat. The distribution audience will only include people in my company. The installation of this software is very complicated (Apache configuration, Perl module installation and other compilations). Therefore, it is very

Re: Hebrew .doc documents with justified text

2007-01-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/07, Diego Iastrubni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i assume you have a link to that bug...? (just something i read on forums... good to know that it's true ) ביום שלישי 09 ינואר 2007, 20:11, כתבת: > On 09/01/07, Diego Iastrubni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OOo has a bug regarding the impo