Re: an idea about upgrades

2015-05-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 12 May 2015 11:53:38 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > > It would be a great idea if Fedora would provide > a way to downgrade to the immediately previous release > (from which the upgrade was performed), if the user > decides (for some reason) to return to the previous > release. This would complet

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-13 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, I think Matthew responded with a much more detailed review. I'll just comment on the couple of questions you posed below. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:41:28PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > > Just rename the tarball to the new name and you are good. The %{name} > > macro takes the value f

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-13 Thread Chris Conn
My experience with Fedora has been really good. I've run FreeBSD, Slackware and SUSE over the past 18 years and Fedora is the easiest to install and upgrade. I installed Fedora 20 on my little Dell Optiplex from an image on a flash drive and then used fedup to upgrade to 21 and then again to up

Re: an idea about upgrades

2015-05-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/12/2015 04:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I only see a plugin for dnf. Is there also one for yum? I thought there was, but I could be wrong. Memory, and all that. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapro

Re: How To preserve file attributes (chattr/lsattr) when copy it to another location

2015-05-13 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 12/05/2015 alle 17.01 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto: > Apologies for my earlier reply. After hitting Send I noticed that you > had in fact tried the archive option. Yes, I have try also this option. Then?, there is a solution or not to my question? I have try also copy the f

Re: How To preserve file attributes (chattr/lsattr) when copy it to another location

2015-05-13 Thread poma
On 12.05.2015 17:13, Dario Lesca wrote: > I must copy a dir with some file with 'i' attribute set, but rsync (or > cp) do not copy this attribute. > > See this little example: > > # touch testfile > # chattr +i testfile > # rsync -aAX testfile testfile2 > # lsattr

Re: an idea about upgrades

2015-05-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 05/12/2015 04:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> I only see a plugin for dnf. Is there also one for yum? >> > > I thought there was, but I could be wrong. Memory, and all that. yum-plugin-fs-snapshot Rahul -- users mailing

Re: an idea about upgrades

2015-05-13 Thread jd1008
On 05/13/2015 01:22 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2015 11:53:38 -0600, jd1008 wrote: It would be a great idea if Fedora would provide a way to downgrade to the immediately previous release (from which the upgrade was performed), if the user decides (for some reason) to return to

Re: Cannot find combination.hpp in Fedora boost

2015-05-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> > >> >I have installed Boost with >> > >> >yum install boost-devel >> > >> >However, I cannot find >> > >> >combination.hpp. >> > >> >Could you please help me? >> >> I don't think it's even part of Boost nowadays. > > Indeed, it's not in the la

Oracle no longer builds VB for latest Fedora release

2015-05-13 Thread jd1008
I am curious as to why Oracle decided not to build and distribute VB built with latest Fedora release. I sent the question to Oracle. Awaiting their reply. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/l

pdftk

2015-05-13 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, It looks like that the last version of pdftk is pdftk-1.44-11.fc19.x86_64 for fc21! it provides me an error: pdftk: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib64/gcj/itext/itext-2.1.7.jar.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Where can I get: itext-2.1.7.jar.

Re: pdftk

2015-05-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> It looks like that the last version of pdftk is pdftk-1.44-11.fc19.x86_64 > for fc21! > it provides me an error: > pdftk: error while loading shared libraries: > /usr/lib64/gcj/itext/itext-2.1.7.jar.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory > > Where can I get: > itext-2

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Matthew, > I guess the so-called easiest way involves me writing to Phil. I have done > that. Let us see what he says. Phil responded that there is an authoritative 0.3.0 release on pypi.python.org with source. I think that I will just change the directions, etc to that. > > > Release:

Re: Oracle no longer builds VB for latest Fedora release

2015-05-13 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/13/2015 02:34 PM, jd1008 wrote: > I am curious as to why Oracle decided not to build and distribute > VB built with latest Fedora release. > > I sent the question to Oracle. Awaiting their reply. > The RPMs are there: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/21/ -- -- Steve --

Re: Oracle no longer builds VB for latest Fedora release

2015-05-13 Thread jd1008
On 05/13/2015 04:21 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 05/13/2015 02:34 PM, jd1008 wrote: I am curious as to why Oracle decided not to build and distribute VB built with latest Fedora release. I sent the question to Oracle. Awaiting their reply. The RPMs are there: http://download.virtualbox.org/vi

Re: Oracle no longer builds VB for latest Fedora release

2015-05-13 Thread alan
> On 05/13/2015 02:34 PM, jd1008 wrote: >> I am curious as to why Oracle decided not to build and distribute >> VB built with latest Fedora release. >> >> I sent the question to Oracle. Awaiting their reply. >> > The RPMs are there: > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/21/ That i

Re: Oracle no longer builds VB for latest Fedora release

2015-05-13 Thread jd1008
On 05/13/2015 04:33 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: On 05/13/2015 02:34 PM, jd1008 wrote: I am curious as to why Oracle decided not to build and distribute VB built with latest Fedora release. I sent the question to Oracle. Awaiting their reply. The RPMs are there: http://download.virtualbox.

Re: an idea about upgrades

2015-05-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 12:41 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > On 05/12/2015 04:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > >> I only see a plugin for dnf. Is there also one for yum? > >> > > > > I thought there was, but I could be wro

texmacs

2015-05-13 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, texmacs does not seem to have been update in fc21: TeXmacs-1.0.7.19-4.fc20.x86_64 In addition, it provides and error: Loading corktounicode TeXmacs] Loading cork-unicode-oneway TeXmacs] Loading tmuniversaltounicode TeXmacs] Loading symbol-unicode-oneway TeXmacs] Loading symbol-unicode-mat

HP Stream 7 and Fedora ??

2015-05-13 Thread Mickey
Does anyone know about weather you can Install the latest Fedora on thisHP Stream 7 tablet and trash Window 8.1 ? I would like to use Linux to calibrate and control my 6 motor Drone, the Operating System on the Drone is Linux. I'm using a 10" tablet with Android to control one of my Drones. But

Re: an idea about upgrades

2015-05-13 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:53:38AM -0600, jd1008 wrote: > It would be a great idea if Fedora would provide > a way to downgrade to the immediately previous release > (from which the upgrade was performed), if the user > decides (for some reason) to return to the previous > release. This would compl

Re: an idea about upgrades

2015-05-13 Thread jd1008
On 05/13/2015 06:20 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:53:38AM -0600, jd1008 wrote: It would be a great idea if Fedora would provide a way to downgrade to the immediately previous release (from which the upgrade was performed), if the user decides (for some reason) to return

Is this usb wifi plug supported?

2015-05-13 Thread jd1008
I am considering buying such a plug. It is described as: Mini AC600 High Performance 2.4GHz 5GHz Dual Band WiFi Wireless USB Adapter Features: 100% Brand New and High Quality This AC600 dual band adapter delivers powerful wireless AC technology to your desktop or notebook computer. Simply plug the

Re: an idea about upgrades

2015-05-13 Thread Roger
On 13/05/15 17:22, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2015 11:53:38 -0600, jd1008 wrote: It would be a great idea if Fedora would provide a way to downgrade to the immediately previous release (from which the upgrade was performed), if the user decides (for some reason) to return to the pre

Re: Is this usb wifi plug supported?

2015-05-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.05.2015, jd1008 wrote: > Mini AC600 High Performance 2.4GHz 5GHz Dual Band WiFi Wireless USB Adapter Can you please post the output of "lsusb -v" for this adapter? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: pdftk

2015-05-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.05.2015, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > You can only wait for a few more weeks while the alternative > pdf-stapler is approved. Or you can use poppler-utils, and you could also install F19 (the latest Fedora with a working pdftk) on an USB stick. That's what I did to tailor my documents. It's qui