similar to: How to encourage maintainers to update their software

On 10/27/2017 2:54 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > I do that with a number of packages that are either newer or simply not available in the various Centos repos. In many cases it's as easy as downloading a new tar source file and adding it to the existing source rpm, doing three seconds of editing on the spec file to account for the new update, and compiling the result. Sometimes it's

On 10/28/2017 02:07 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 10/28/2017 12:28 PM, Japheth Cleaver wrote: >> On 10/27/2017 2:54 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >>> I do that with a number of packages that are either newer or simply >>> not available in the various Centos repos.? In many cases it's as easy >>> as downloading a new tar source file and adding it to the existing

On October 27, 2017 5:54:45 PM EDT, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote: >On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:32:03 -0400 >H wrote: > >> How do I best encourage maintainers to update the software they are >> responsible for in various repositories? > >If it's something that you need or want and it's not available in a >repo that you currently use you can compile

Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora src.rpms? On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 12:42 AM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:15:01 -0400 > H wrote: > > > The graphical configuration utility for fcitx (fcitx-configtool) is > missing > > I don't know anything about Chinese text rendering. > > > - The

On 10/28/2017 12:28 PM, Japheth Cleaver wrote: > On 10/27/2017 2:54 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >> >> I do that with a number of packages that are either newer or simply >> not available in the various Centos repos.? In many cases it's as easy >> as downloading a new tar source file and adding it to the existing >> source rpm, doing three seconds of editing on the

On 10/27/2017 05:35 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:27:22 -0400 > H wrote: > >> What is the best tool to compare file hashes in two different >> drives/directories such as after copying a large number of files from one >> drive to another? I used cp -au to copy directories, not rsync, since it is >> between local disks. > diff --brief -r dir1/

Hello, I'm trying to do a yum update and only apply the security patches. I'm aware of yum update --security , however when I do that it fails to install any updates. I've tried this on a fresh 7.8.2003 (core) system, as well as the Centos 7 AMI on AWS, specifically ami-04a25c39dc7a8aebb and I get the same results. There are definitely security updates to apply. For each package

On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:32:03 -0400 H wrote: > How do I best encourage maintainers to update the software they are > responsible for in various repositories? If it's something that you need or want and it's not available in a repo that you currently use you can compile it yourself. I do that with a number of packages that are either newer or simply not available in the various

On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:15:01 -0400 H wrote: > The graphical configuration utility for fcitx (fcitx-configtool) is missing I don't know anything about Chinese text rendering. > - The geany editor is missing the markdown plugin, this however, may shortly > be resolved. Check on my website. :) The rest of your stuff is easily dealt with by compiling the relevant Fedora rpms. >

We have several CentOS 6.x systems that are incorporated into suites of special test equipment.? One of the requirements for these systems is that they be kept up to date and they are kept up to date using yum once per week or more frequently, as needed. All of our CentOS 6.x systems have at least 2TB system disks and were installed with essentially everything that was available on the DVD at the

On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 14:40:56 +0100 vychytraly . wrote: > Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora > src.rpms? The complexity of doing this will vary a lot with what you're trying to compile, but for userland programs like email clients, text editors, games and the like it can be very easy to do in a lot of cases. As Johnny says, you don't really want

On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:07:41 -0500 Johnny Hughes wrote: > But trying to convert CentOS Linux into Fedora is not only redundant > (Fedora already exists .. use it) .. a bastardized version of CentOS > with hundreds of newer manually maintained components is not really > CentOS, and Fedora is likely more stable than that monstrosity anyway. There's a difference between upgrading

I'm trying to use Evolution on the latest CentOS 7. Whenever I try to receive or send mail, there's always a 90-second delay before the connection works. Since the delay is always exactly 90 seconds, I think I may be waiting for something to time out. Perhaps this is a clue. My address is user at example.com. I have to log in to pop.example.com or imap.example.com as user, not as user at

We have some small networks with connectivity to the Internet through firewall routers.? The smallest has one Windows 7 system and three Linux systems including both CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 machines.? The Windows 7 systems have full Adobe packages that are updated regularly and are trouble free. On the Linux systems, evince has been our go to product for viewing and printing .pdf documents.? This

The currently available fix for Firefox doesn't work with ESR, but there's a temporary fix that works. At least, it's working for me: Go to about:config and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false. The Firefox folks say that a fix for ESR will be coming at some point, but at least this gets things working again in the short term. It's not clear to me if the fixed ESR (when

On 02/11/2016 01:48 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:42:39 -0500 > ken wrote: > >> Maybe I haven't run the correct yum commands or looked in the right >> repo, but I haven't found a utility called 'gmessage'. Anyone know >> where to find it? > > gmessage has been more-or-less superseded by zenity. > That's nutz. From docs

Op 14-dec.-2015 22:02 schreef Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com>: > > On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:43:54 +0100 > Patrick Bervoets wrote: > > > I need the ability to make signed PDFs in LibreOffice, so I tried LO 5 and LO > > 4.4 rpms from LO.org but they are useless (menu and toolbar are black). > > Anyone been able to use a higher version of LO? >

Hi, I've been trying to install Zimbra Desktop 7 on CentOS 5.5 using the usual perl script provided. The issue is, I get a warning that my system does not have ia32 libs. I dug a bit on google and found out that 'there is no such package as ia32 libs for Centos'. I also tried all the suggested work arounds like glibc & stuff, can anyone shed more light on this? Oh, the zimbra

What is the best tool to compare file hashes in two different drives/directories such as after copying a large number of files from one drive to another? I used cp -au to copy directories, not rsync, since it is between local disks. I found a mention of hashdeep on the 'net which means first running it against the first directory generating a file with checksums and then running it a second

On 29 October 2017 at 13:40, vychytraly . <vychytraly at gmail.com> wrote: > Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora > src.rpms? > > You may find this a useful read: https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/11