Severn updates RHN channel
by Elliot Lee
RHN now has a channel populated with Severn updates. It's a great way to
keep up with the bleeding edge of development, aka Rawhide.
You'll have to use the RHN web interface to subscribe to this channel. Its
name is redhat-linux-severn-i386-9.0.93-updates, and on the web interface
its description is "Red Hat Linux (Severn) 9.0.93 - Beta Updates".
Some packages are signed with the new rawhide signing key - to get this,
install the 'rawhide-release' package from the channel, and then import
the rawhide key contained in that package (using 'rpm --import').
I will try to keep the channel updated with rawhide packages on a daily
basis. By subscribing your system to this channel, you accept the risk of
having broken packages installed on your system, since the packages have
not necessarily been QA'd. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
Please let me know if you have any questions,
-- Elliot
20 years, 8 months
Re: Severn updates RHN channel
by Jef Spaleta
Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote:
> Any idea?
My guess is its a technical difficulty and service will be restored as
soon as possible.
-jef"august is international electrical blackout month...red hat is just
celebrating in their own unique way"spaleta
20 years, 8 months
Re: Screenshot tool
by Pat Gunn
> I was looking for a screenshot tool under RH9 graphics menu and could not
>find one directly. I had to google to find out that the Gimp provides such a
>feature.
> Would it be possible for the next release of RHL to have a dedicated
>screenshot tool available (with a name in the menu that suggest it takes
>screenshots; if the name does not give this, then add a quick desc in
>parenthesis near the name (yeah, I know that the comment popup exist, but they
>do not show up on all the menu items at once and thus, the user has to scan each
>of the entries to find out))?
Just so you know, the X Window system does have a standard program to
do that kind of thing.. It's called xwd. However, it's standards for
ease of use are .. well.. very special :)
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20 years, 8 months
Re: Screenshot tool
by Jef Spaleta
>The idea is to have an easy way for newbies to find the tool to perform
>a screenshot, without having to google or ask around.
Hmmm...the actions menu in the dedicated menu panel, panel type has a
specified screenshot action. It is strange that a normal menu button
would not also include screenshot from the actions menu, when it
includes the other action menu items like "open recent" and "run
program." Sounds like a long standing minor usability
oversight....since this inconsistancy is in rhl 9.
Make sure you put this in to redhat's bugzilla if this feature request
is not already in the system...and not already fixed in the beta.
-jef"why are we talking about rhl 9 bugs in the beta list?"spaleta
20 years, 8 months
Wine and Office
by Paul Sery
Has anyone gotten Wine to run MS Word (or Office) under Severn? The
MS installer chokes under Severn.
20 years, 8 months
comps.xml reconfiguration (was Minimal Install Option)
by Jack Aboutboul
Hey All,
As per our earlier discussion, I started working on generating a new
comps.xml file which would strip out the bulk from the "minimal"
install and truly make it for routers/firewalls, as the description
claims. This involved basically stripping out a lot of the stuff in the
@core and @base groups. At this point I can see some issues and just
wanted to address them. The first comment I have to make is this.
There is another thread on the list about dependency hell. This is most
certainly true. Going through the comps file and query some packages
will show you some things that boggle the mind. For instance why does
wget depend on krb5-libs? This was one of the oddest deps I could find,
so I figured I'd ask. Maybe it's my lack of knowledge, but maybe its
not. There are alot of dependency issues we need to fix, so maybe we
can consider this a starting point?
--Jack
20 years, 8 months
was there an advertised ETA for the next beta?
by Robert P. J. Day
no, i'm not just asking when the next beta is. more specifically,
i vaguely recall some mention of mid-august for a renewed beta.
was there such a hint somewhere?
rday
20 years, 8 months
RE: Wine and Office
by Karl Dyson
I personally could not get cxoffice to work with severn, however, it works fine with RH9 (O/T: and Gentoo).
If you want to run Office, work with Outlook and Exchange server, it is certainly the best way to do it IMHO.
Cheers,
Karl
-----Original Message-----
From: Jos Houtman [mailto:macaronipizza@quicknet.nl]
Sent: 24 August 2003 16:44
To: rhl-beta-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: Wine and Office
On Sunday 24 August 2003 15:47, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > i got the same problem with cxoffice and a wine snapshot from 20030813.
> > i heard of a workaround that would mean copying the /opt/cxoffice and
> > ~/.cxoffice from a machine on which the installation worked fine.
>
> cxoffice has worked fine for me on severn, at least to the extent I've
> tried it (installed a couple of apps, made sure they started)
did u also tried MS Office?
jos
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