Re: QR code scanning

2024-11-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Michael Hennebry said: Any suggestion on what QR code reader to use with firefox on FC39 or FC40? If CLI is okay, save an image (take a screenshot if needed) and use zbarimg from the zbar package. Thanks. I wanted a recommendation

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2024-11-26 at 09:02 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I assumed that when dnf retrieved it's metadata it was updating the > standard system locations which a normal user can't update, I didn't > know it was caching the data elsewhere. If you haven't given the magic password, no command is goi

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/25/24 5:02 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 22:47 +, Will McDonald wrote: What's been updated *on a local system,* is separate, distinct. I would guess that the source of truth here would be the rpmdb, maybe with a scattering of DNF data sources for speed, I've not looked

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 22:47 +, Will McDonald wrote: > What's been updated *on a local system,* is separate, distinct. I > would guess that the source of truth here would be the rpmdb, maybe > with a scattering of DNF data sources for speed, I've not looked into > it in any detail. I was under

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 08:21 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > If you have not tried Brave Browser, you > should. It uses the "Blink" rendering engine > (same as Chrome), has automatic ad blocking, > does not spy on you, has a private windows > with TOR, and is considered grandparent safe. > >

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/25/24 1:49 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 25/11/24 18:42, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/24/24 2:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have to questions around what that command is doing. 1).    Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositories:"and "Repositories loaded." wi

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/25/24 2:02 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 25/11/24 22:43, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 09:04 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: 1).Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositories:" and "Repositories loaded." with nothing between them which means that it didn't do

Re: QR code scanning

2024-11-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/25/24 2:08 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Any suggestion on what QR code reader to use with firefox on FC39 or FC40? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/qrcode-scanneroffline/ -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: QR code scanning

2024-11-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michael Hennebry said: > Any suggestion on what QR code reader to use > with firefox on FC39 or FC40? If CLI is okay, save an image (take a screenshot if needed) and use zbarimg from the zbar package. -- Chris Adams -- ___ users mai

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion

2024-11-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Bob Mar?an via users wrote: I am a retired Sysadmin who fully understands all the frustrations brought about by the SW installation without real control. Although only for my system, I regularly build a SW package (RPM) for SW,

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Will McDonald
On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 at 22:23, Stephen Morris wrote: > With the explanation of what dnf is doing, if an end used runs the dnf > clean command with whatever obligatory sub-command they chose will their > repositories lose all knowledge of what packages have been updated, or will > dnf update/upgrad

Re: QR code scanning

2024-11-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, Stephen Morris wrote: On 26/11/24 09:08, Michael Hennebry wrote: Any suggestion on what QR code reader to use with firefox on FC39 or FC40? I haven't seen any QR code scanners with firefox, the only method I've seen or used is to scan the QR code with a scanner on my mobi

Re: QR code scanning

2024-11-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/11/24 09:08, Michael Hennebry wrote: Any suggestion on what QR code reader to use with firefox on FC39 or FC40? I haven't seen any QR code scanners with firefox, the only method I've seen or used is to scan the QR code with a scanner on my mobile phone. Does that work or do you need it t

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/11/24 09:05, Will McDonald wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 at 21:46, Stephen Morris wrote: On 25/11/24 09:58, Will McDonald wrote: On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 at 22:21, Stephen Morris wrote:     1).    Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositori

Re: Curl Errors During DNF Repository Refresh

2024-11-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/11/24 10:30, Will McDonald wrote: And, just for the record because I still had the Vagrant box running: [vagrant@localhost ~]$ id uid=1000(vagrant) gid=1000(vagrant) groups=1000(vagrant) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 [vagrant@localhost ~]$ dnf check-upgrad

QR code scanning

2024-11-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
Any suggestion on what QR code reader to use with firefox on FC39 or FC40? -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods -- __

Re: Curl Errors During DNF Repository Refresh

2024-11-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/11/24 10:13, Barry wrote: On 24 Nov 2024, at 21:54, Stephen Morris wrote: I've been in the situation where running a dnf check-upgrade has refreshed the two Fedora Updates repositories and then issued dnf upgrade immediately after and had it refresh the two updates repositories again.

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Will McDonald
On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 at 21:46, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 25/11/24 09:58, Will McDonald wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 at 22:21, Stephen Morris > wrote: > >> 1).Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading >> repositories:" and "Repositories loaded." with nothing between them >>

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/11/24 22:43, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 09:04 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: 1).Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositories:" and "Repositories loaded." with nothing between them which means that it didn't do anything? This functionality is independent

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/11/24 18:42, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/24/24 2:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have to questions around what that command is doing. 1).    Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositories:"and "Repositories loaded." with nothing between them which means that it

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/11/24 09:58, Will McDonald wrote: On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 at 22:21, Stephen Morris wrote:     1).    Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading repositories:"and "Repositories loaded." with nothing between them which means that it didn't do anything? This functionalit

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-25 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-25 11:21, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 11/25/24 07:18, Frank Bures wrote: I do not use Firefox as my default browser I have eight browser installed.  Firefox is "currently" the default, but is varies. I use them all for various things. If you have not tried Brave Browser, you s

Re: winehq.repo baseurl not update revision

2024-11-25 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 25 Nov 2024 at 8:10, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Date sent: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:10:18 -0800 To: Community support for Fedora users Subject:winehq.repo baseurl not update revision Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users Fr

Re: winehq.repo baseurl not update revision

2024-11-25 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 11/25/24 08:33, Doug H. wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2024, at 8:10 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 41 (from fc 40) wine-staging 9.21 & 9.17 (WineHQ) I noticed that `dnf upgrade wine-staging` left me on 9.17. On investigation, I found that my /etc/yum.repos.s/winehq.repo's baseurl

Re: winehq.repo baseurl not update revision

2024-11-25 Thread Doug H.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024, at 8:10 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > Fedora 41 (from fc 40) > wine-staging 9.21 & 9.17 (WineHQ) > > I noticed that `dnf upgrade wine-staging` left me on 9.17. On > investigation, I found that my /etc/yum.repos.s/winehq.repo's > baseurl was still on "40". vi'

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-25 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 11/25/24 07:18, Frank Bures wrote: I do not use Firefox as my default browser I have eight browser installed. Firefox is "currently" the default, but is varies. I use them all for various things. If you have not tried Brave Browser, you should. It uses the "Blink" rendering engine (same as

winehq.repo baseurl not update revision

2024-11-25 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, Fedora 41 (from fc 40) wine-staging 9.21 & 9.17 (WineHQ) I noticed that `dnf upgrade wine-staging` left me on 9.17. On investigation, I found that my /etc/yum.repos.s/winehq.repo's baseurl was still on "40". vi'ing (editing) it to "41" solved the issue. Question: when I upgrade Fedora f

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-25 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-25 06:52, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2024-11-24 at 17:04 -0500, Frank Bures wrote: The above sequence is: --> Firefox -> File -> eMail link Cheers Frank Aha! You're not clicking on an email mailto: address in a page, like I thought you were doing. You're emailing someone a link to the p

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-25 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2024-11-24 at 17:04 -0500, Frank Bures wrote: > The above sequence is: > > --> Firefox -> File -> eMail link > > Cheers > Frank Aha! You're not clicking on an email mailto: address in a page, like I thought you were doing. You're emailing someone a link to the page you're browsing (som

Re: What is DNF Check-upgrade Actually Doing

2024-11-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 09:04 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > 1).Why is it producing the messages "Updating and loading > repositories:" and "Repositories loaded." with nothing between them > which means that it didn't do anything? This functionality is > independent of whether the command is

Re: tip: Firefox -> File -> eMail link: Thunderbird is already running

2024-11-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 17:38 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > > > Yes. I have had to force it to quit sometimes. It doesn't always > > > handle things gracefully if it can't access one of the mail servers. > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > Try taking it offline and on again (connection icon in the