Re: Glint

2000-09-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Frank Hale wrote: >> Obviously not - we would have included it in the 7.0beta if we had >> done so. I can't really see why anybody liked it either - it sucked. >> I've much preferred the cli ever since I started using rpm. > >On a scale of 1 - 10, how hard would it be to make

Re: Glint

2000-09-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Frank Hale wrote: >Anyone remember that nice app called Glint which was a GUI front-end to >RPM? I loved that app so I had this brilliant idea to go download it and >try to use it on RHL 6.2 but it sadly doesn't work. Is there any plans >to update this very nice app? Unlikely

Re: Helix Code

2000-09-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Matt Wilson wrote: >Something that most people don't understand is that "Helix" GNOME is >just a distribution of GNOME 1.2. There is not much more to it than >that. Any distribution that includes GNOME 1.2 will have very much >the same features that you find in "Helix" GNOME

Re: RPM 3.0.5 issues

2000-09-04 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Frank Hale wrote: > Whats up with RPM 3.0.5, I've been treading water for the last 3 or 4 > days using it. I kept getting packages that wouldn't build exiting with > weird errors. Then after I switched back to RPM 3.0.4 things started > working again. What changed so much in 3.

Re: SMP question ?

2000-09-04 Thread Venkatesh Krishnamurthi
Hi, > Yes I know, but what I was looking for was a portable system call that could > be used from inside an application to detect the number of CPU's, how about > other UNIX systems, do they have a proc/cpuinfo to ? As far as I can see, Solaris (SunOS 5.5) does not have a /proc/cpuinfo. The "p

RPM 3.0.5 issues

2000-09-04 Thread Frank Hale
Whats up with RPM 3.0.5, I've been treading water for the last 3 or 4 days using it. I kept getting packages that wouldn't build exiting with weird errors. Then after I switched back to RPM 3.0.4 things started working again. What changed so much in 3.0.5 that would break many src.rpms??? -- ICQ

Re: adaptec IDE raid card

2000-09-04 Thread Luke C Gavel
Hi, You may be interested in looking at this, even though it may not be directly compatible with Adaptec IDE Raid cards. It's the source code (I think) and compiled binary provided by www.promise.com for their UltraATA/66 IDE RAID cards to run on Red Hat 6.0 systems. If you know about this alr

Re: adaptec IDE raid card

2000-09-04 Thread John Summerfield
> Hello all, > > the kernel 2.4 test7 isn't supporting IDE RAID card ;( > but there is something interessting: "SCSI - ATA IDE Emulation" what's > this? Emulates SCSI devices; one can use SCSI software on IDE hardware. Useful for cdrecord to record on IDE CD writers. __

Re: Glint

2000-09-04 Thread Frank Hale
> gnorpm, the replacement for glint, TOTALLY sucks. > Big time. I tend to agree. However I wonder what actually needs updating in Glint to make it work with newer versions of RPM. Is there any RPM experts out there that could shed some light on this? Frank = ICQ: 7205161 http://sapphir

Re: SMP question ?

2000-09-04 Thread Mikael Aronsson
Hi ! Yes I know, but what I was looking for was a portable system call that could be used from inside an application to detect the number of CPU's, how about other UNIX systems, do they have a proc/cpuinfo to ? Mikael - Original Message - From: "Derek Tattersall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Glint

2000-09-04 Thread John Summerfield
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hale ) writes: > > > Anyone remember that nice app called Glint which was a GUI front-end to > > RPM? I loved that app so I had this brilliant idea to go download it and > > try to use it on RHL 6.2 but it sadly doesn't work. Is there any plans > > to update this very n

adaptec IDE raid card

2000-09-04 Thread Michel MENGIS
Hello all, the kernel 2.4 test7 isn't supporting IDE RAID card ;( but there is something interessting: "SCSI - ATA IDE Emulation" what's this? Michel. - Original Message - From: "Chmouel Boudjnah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 2:51 PM

Re: custom dist based on Redhat

2000-09-04 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Freivald, Joseph A, GOVMK wrote: > > > I thought one of the other things about Mandrake is they included > > non-exportable encryption, which is not an option for RedHat. No? > > No, since they're based in France, they'r

Re: SMP question ?

2000-09-04 Thread Derek Tattersall
* Mikael Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000904 03:16]: > > Hi ! > > What is the best way to detect the number of CPU's ?, I guess I could look in >/proc/cpuinfo, but is there a better more portable way to do it ? > > Mikael > grep -c "processor" /proc/cpuinfo gives the number of processors. -

Re: Glint

2000-09-04 Thread Tony Nugent
On Sun Sep 03 2000 at 18:12, Trond Eivind wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hale ) writes: > > > Anyone remember that nice app called Glint which was a GUI front-end to > > RPM? I loved that app so I had this brilliant idea to go download it and > > try to use it on RHL 6.2 but it sadly doesn't

SMP question ?

2000-09-04 Thread Mikael Aronsson
Hi !   What is the best way to detect the number of CPU's ?, I guess I could look in /proc/cpuinfo, but is there a better more portable way to do it ?   Mikael