Re: looking for a list of *useful*, git-related fedora RPM packages

2017-04-17 Thread Ted Roche
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > yes, i realize there are a *ton* of additional packages, but > students are regularly asking me how to do things that aren't > immediately supported in git, Not sure I can can help you here, but could you tell me what students are doi

looking for a list of *useful*, git-related fedora RPM packages

2017-04-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
kind of a wide-open question, but i'm updating both an intro and advanced git course, and as i teach them both on fedora, i'm interested in which of the large number of *additional* git-related fedora packages people find useful on a regular basis. yes, i realize there are a *ton* of addition

Re: Fedora 14 Kmess 2.0.6 RPM Packages (i686 & x86_64) :P

2011-03-17 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Manuel Escudero wrote: > Hope these things help the official Maintainer... > Open a bug report and post these packages there. There is no guarantee he/she will be able to see it here. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list

Re: Fedora 14 Kmess 2.0.6 RPM Packages (i686 & x86_64) :P

2011-03-16 Thread Manuel Escudero
ly" Rix > > On Wed 16 March 2011 03:24:16 Manuel Escudero wrote: > > I bring to you 32 & 64 bits RPM packages for Kmess 2.0.6.1-0 to install > on > > your F14 Systems!!! > > > > I've just finished building and testing them, you can download the > packag

Fedora 14 Kmess 2.0.6 RPM Packages (i686 & x86_64) :P

2011-03-16 Thread Manuel Escudero
I bring to you 32 & 64 bits RPM packages for Kmess 2.0.6.1-0 to install on your F14 Systems!!! I've just finished building and testing them, you can download the packages from here: 32 Bits Systems: http://goo.gl/Us6pt 64 Bits Systems: http://goo.gl/eNrgh P.S. I also have the &

Re: deltarpm with old RPM packages

2011-01-31 Thread Paul B Schroeder
On 01/31/2011 12:44 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 11:04 -0600, Paul B Schroeder wrote: >> >> On 01/30/2011 02:35 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: >>> On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 12:21 -0600, Paul B Schroeder wrote: >>>> Hello all.. >>>>

Re: deltarpm with old RPM packages

2011-01-31 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 11:04 -0600, Paul B Schroeder wrote: > > On 01/30/2011 02:35 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 12:21 -0600, Paul B Schroeder wrote: > >> Hello all.. > >> > >> We have some RPM packages which have been built on a syste

Re: deltarpm with old RPM packages

2011-01-31 Thread Paul B Schroeder
On 01/30/2011 02:35 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 12:21 -0600, Paul B Schroeder wrote: >> Hello all.. >> >> We have some RPM packages which have been built on a system with RPM >> version 4.4.2.3 and are being installed on F14 based systems with

Re: deltarpm with old RPM packages

2011-01-30 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 12:21 -0600, Paul B Schroeder wrote: > Hello all.. > > We have some RPM packages which have been built on a system with RPM > version 4.4.2.3 and are being installed on F14 based systems with > 4.8.1.. We are creating the delta RPM packages on the

deltarpm with old RPM packages

2011-01-30 Thread Paul B Schroeder
Hello all.. We have some RPM packages which have been built on a system with RPM version 4.4.2.3 and are being installed on F14 based systems with 4.8.1.. We are creating the delta RPM packages on the F14 system with makedeltarpm 3.6. So package foo version 1 installs on the F14 systems just

Re: Appropriate values for gitversion, gitdate when building RPM packages

2010-11-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Friday 05 November 2010 08:32 PM, Nick Urbanik wrote: > On 05/11/10 20:00 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: >> On 5 November 2010 18:53, Nick Urbanik wrote: >>> How do you determine the appropriate gitversion and gitdate values >>> with the result of a git clone? >> >> git describe ? > > Thank you. Wha

Re: Appropriate values for gitversion, gitdate when building RPM packages

2010-11-05 Thread Nick Urbanik
On 05/11/10 20:00 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: >On 5 November 2010 18:53, Nick Urbanik wrote: >> How do you determine the appropriate gitversion and gitdate values >> with the result of a git clone? > >git describe ? Thank you. >Or do you mean something else? No, I'm a git newby. And gitdate is ju

Re: Appropriate values for gitversion, gitdate when building RPM packages

2010-11-05 Thread suvayu ali
On 5 November 2010 18:53, Nick Urbanik wrote: > How do you determine the appropriate gitversion and gitdate values > with the result of a git clone? git describe ? Or do you mean something else? PS: Please don't CC the old redhat address. It has been deprecated for many months now. -- Suvayu

Appropriate values for gitversion, gitdate when building RPM packages

2010-11-05 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Team, Inspired by Dave Witbrodt's success in getting free ATI drivers working with his HD 5750 described here: http://www.pubbs.net/201011/xorg/75-evergreen-accel-works-great-on-my-radeon-hd-5750.html I am building some RPM packages to make my wife and son's iMac 27-inch machin

Re: rpm packages

2010-10-10 Thread Mamoru Tasaka
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote, at 10/11/2010 12:48 AM +9:00: > On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 15:22 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 17:53 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Before (fedora 10), the list of the installed packages was available >>> in /var/log/rpmpkgs. >>> this dir

Re: rpm packages

2010-10-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 15:22 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 17:53 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Before (fedora 10), the list of the installed packages was available > > in /var/log/rpmpkgs. > > this directory does not exists any more. > > Where can I get the li

Re: rpm packages

2010-10-09 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 17:53 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Before (fedora 10), the list of the installed packages was available > in /var/log/rpmpkgs. > this directory does not exists any more. > Where can I get the list of installed packages ? > > Thank. > Thew simplest way is to run

Re: rpm packages

2010-10-09 Thread A. Racca
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 17:53 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Before (fedora 10), the list of the installed packages was available > in /var/log/rpmpkgs. > this directory does not exists any more. > Where can I get the list of installed packages ? > > Thank. > > -- > --- > ==

Re: rpm packages

2010-10-09 Thread Todd Zullinger
Patrick Dupre wrote: > Before (fedora 10), the list of the installed packages was available > in /var/log/rpmpkgs. this directory does not exists any more. The /var/log/rpmpkgs file was created via a daily cron job. In order to drop the dependency on cron, it was split out of the base rpm packag

Re: rpm packages

2010-10-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 17:53 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Where can I get the list of installed packages ? rpm -qa -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://ad

rpm packages

2010-10-09 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Before (fedora 10), the list of the installed packages was available in /var/log/rpmpkgs. this directory does not exists any more. Where can I get the list of installed packages ? Thank. -- --- == Patrick DUPRÉ

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-08-02 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> > sounds good. > tho i would think SA-Fedora12 would be more appropriate. > do not forget that there is DSL, Damn Small Linux. > Thanks, yeah, you are right. let me talk about this with my team-mate (SA-Fedora12). Thanks for remind me about DSL, but we have two different point of view, DSL=Min

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-08-01 Thread g
siavash ghiasvand wrote: > By now, system can come up with just 95 packages and it seems that > to reduce "Basic FC12" to "Minimal FC12" which we named it "SA-Linux" > ;) sounds good. tho i would think SA-Fedora12 would be more appropriate. do not forget that there is DSL, Damn Small Linux.

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-08-01 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> i elected to wait a little while so i could ask following questions. :) > > how many are you down to now? > > when are you going to post a link to a list? Dear geleem, By now, system can coming up with just 95 packages and it seems that nothing can be reduced any more. but I must prove that (9

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-29 Thread g
siavash ghiasvand wrote: > Thank you very much for your help, I will read them ASAP. welcome very much. i elected to wait a little while so i could ask following questions. :) > P.S: after removign many packages, now, my current "minimal fedora", > has less than 100 packages! ;) how many are

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-16 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> Fedora is not a minimalist distro.  Therefore, you are looking at the > wrong things. > > If you examine embedded systems, you won't find very many Fedora based > verses, say debian. > > Cisco makes home market routers that have 8MB ROM to store the OS.  Try > that with Fedora sometime. :) > > Mu

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-16 Thread Phil Meyer
On 07/14/2010 03:51 AM, siavash ghiasvand wrote: > Dear All, > > For some reasons I want to know what are "Minimum Required RPM > Packages" for installing fedora on a PC. > At installation time, we can remove all optional packages and after > removing them Fedora

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-16 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> i went back to google to do another search with new parameters; > >  yum rpm fedora "minimal+system" > > which found some possibles; > > a list removables; [yes, it is fc5, but list might catch any you have missed] > http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/Fedora5MinimalInstall071 > > > a kickstart file; >

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-16 Thread g
siavash ghiasvand wrote: > For sure I've googled it carefully before sending this email. ok. but still not a final intent for use. which makes your request more intriguing. after re-reading your post, being that you have eliminated obvious types of server and still not mentioning final intent,

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-15 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> rpmreaper is a nice little ripper & stripper I use for this > > ..dex Thank you Dexter, I read the overview it would be nice. Till now I used a lot of shell scripting to do some recursive dependency removing. But it would be more easier now, with this little app. Thanks ;) -- users mailing list

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-15 Thread dexter
On 15 July 2010 10:08, siavash ghiasvand wrote: >> As I said, to determine your own minimum, start with a base install and >> work down from there.  Look at requires/depends with rpm, and run "yum >> remove foo" (and answer "n" if you don't like what is going to be >> removed). > rpmreaper is a n

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-15 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> I have a headless machine that serves as a router, a web and mail server, > and a firewall. I stripped it down as much as possible, while still leaving > a usable system that can be upgraded normally. > > Right now, there are 458 rpm packages on it. > > There are no developm

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-15 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> While I think I understand your criteria for a package being "essential" (in > the sense that the system fails to boot if this package is not present), I am > still confused. Booting the system is a process that takes several stages. At > what point exactly do you consider that the system has fin

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread JD
On 07/14/2010 07:02 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thursday, July 15, 2010 00:03:28 siavash ghiasvand wrote: I'm looking for a LIST of RPM packages which are sufficient to bring up a simple kernel and nothing more. I can erase files from an installed system and create a live disk from

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday, July 15, 2010 00:03:28 siavash ghiasvand wrote: > I'm looking for a LIST of RPM packages which are sufficient to > bring up a simple kernel and nothing more. > > I can erase files from an installed system and create a live disk from > them , even I can use someth

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik said: > I have a headless machine that serves as a router, a web and mail server, > and a firewall. I stripped it down as much as possible, while still leaving > a usable system that can be upgraded normally. > > Right now, there are 458 rpm pac

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Sam Varshavchik
4,470 hits; g Dear g, For sure I've googled it carefully before sending this email. I saw those links and none of them did the trick which I want, Cause I'm looking for a LIST of RPM packages which are sufficient to bring up a simple kernel and nothing more. I have a headless machine tha

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread siavash ghiasvand
gt; g Dear g, For sure I've googled it carefully before sending this email. I saw those links and none of them did the trick which I want, Cause I'm looking for a LIST of RPM packages which are sufficient to bring up a simple kernel and nothing more. I can erase files from an instal

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread g
siavash ghiasvand wrote: > For some reasons I want to know what are "Minimum Required RPM > Packages" for installing fedora on a PC. 'For some reasons' is very broad and allows for a maximum possible reasons. and, almost as many replies as you have received. as h

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> Okay, as I mentioned in my earlier post, for disk space requirements you > can try febootstrap. it is available in the Fedora repositories. > But this might not reduce your list of installed packages to something > as small as you are looking for. Maybe you can try the method I outlined > earlie

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 10:50 AM, siavash ghiasvand wrote: >> > tell us_why_ you want this "extreme minimal" install > The first reason is: "Minimal disk drive" and the second reason is: > "Prevent any future conflict" which means, on that "extreme minimal > linux" all packages can be installed

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> I use this in rhel 5 right before I list the extra packages I want > such as tar/openssh etc... Thanks Joseph. It would be helpfull. > I would make a minimal LiveCD from a kickstart file. Then boot a virtual > machine with the iso. I would then try to remove what I consider "not > required" a

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:38 AM, siavash ghiasvand wrote: >> Everybody's list of "essential" packages is different. For example, >> ... >> remove and what is required by basic system packages). > >> There is no such description in all of fedora's documentation. >> Also, your description of "unw

RE: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Cause first I need to know what are those essential packages! after >that, as you and other guys said I can use kickstart to picking up >them. I use this in rhel 5 right before I list the extra packages I want such as tar/openssh etc... %pre #!/bin/bash yum groupinfo base | perl -we 'my $in_mand

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> Everybody's list of "essential" packages is different.  For example, > ... > remove and what is required by basic system packages). > There is no such description in all of fedora's documentation. > Also, your description of "unwanted" is too vague and may well > be ill defined. Thanks chris a

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread JD
On 07/14/2010 02:51 AM, siavash ghiasvand wrote: > Dear All, > > For some reasons I want to know what are "Minimum Required RPM > Packages" for installing fedora on a PC. > At installation time, we can remove all optional packages and after > removing them Fedora

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, siavash ghiasvand said: > Each package which is NOT essential for booting the system. > Some of those important but not essential packages are: > - passwd > - openssh > - sudo > - dirmngr > - file > and many more... Everybody's list of "essential" packages is different. For exa

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/14/2010 08:30 PM, siavash ghiasvand wrote: >> You didn't answer why you can't use kickstart and pick your own set of >> packages? >> >> Rahul >> > Cause first I need to know what are those essential packages! after > that, as you and other guys said I can use kickstart to picking up > th

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> Hi, > I have found a project called JeOS = "Just enough Operating System" > that deals with similar issues. >  http://orangejeos.sourceforge.net/ > JB Thank you very much, I read that project description and it looks similar to mine. but for further reply I must spend some time there. Siavash -

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> You didn't answer why you can't use kickstart and pick your own set of > packages? > > Rahul Cause first I need to know what are those essential packages! after that, as you and other guys said I can use kickstart to picking up them. BTW, thanks for your attention And if you have any idea about

Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread JB
siavash ghiasvand gmail.com> writes: > 1- What are Minimum Required RPM Packages for installing Fedora? (just > booting up the system with kernel and then, a simple command line > access) > 2- How can I reach this minimal system? (As I described above those > dependencies mak

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/14/2010 08:18 PM, siavash ghiasvand wrote: >> Be specific. Which packages? Why can't you use kickstart? >> >> Rahul >> > Each package which is NOT essential for booting the system. > Some of those important but not essential packages are: > - passwd > - openssh > - sudo > - dirmngr > -

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread siavash ghiasvand
> Be specific.  Which packages?  Why can't you use kickstart? > > Rahul Each package which is NOT essential for booting the system. Some of those important but not essential packages are: - passwd - openssh - sudo - dirmngr - file and many more... These packages are very important but they are no

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/14/2010 05:32 PM, siavash ghiasvand wrote: > Dear JB > > >> have you looked into >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo >> Why not create that barebone live cd and see what good, bad, and ugly went >> into >> it ? >> > Thanks, I will take a look at it now, may be

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread siavash ghiasvand
Dear JB > have you looked into >  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo > Why not create that barebone live cd and see what good, bad, and ugly went > into > it ? Thanks, I will take a look at it now, may be it could help me. But you know, the problem is Official Fedora Release

Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread JB
siavash ghiasvand gmail.com> writes: > > 1- What are Minimum Required RPM Packages for installing Fedora? (just > booting up the system with kernel and then, a simple command line > access) Hi, have you looked into http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo parag

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread siavash ghiasvand
Dear Chris > Did you try a kickstart install with '%packages --nobase'? This gets you > 189 packages (at least in rawhide). Yes, I've tried it but unfortunately many unwanted packages like "wireless" will be installed with this option. Thanks for that link, I will check it out. Dear JB > S

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Kloiber
know what are "Minimum Required RPM Packages" for installing fedora on a PC. At installation time, we can remove all optional packages and after removing them Fedora will install with nearly 200 packages! But, many of these packages are not necessary, for example OpenSSH, WireLess, etc. T

Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread JB
siavash ghiasvand gmail.com> writes: > > Dear All, > > For some reasons I want to know what are "Minimum Required RPM > Packages" for installing fedora on a PC. Hi, Search Google for: fedora minimal installation kickstart The first hit http://fedoraproject.org/w

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Spike
Hi, On 07/14/2010 11:51 AM, siavash ghiasvand wrote: > 2- How can I reach this minimal system? (As I described above those > dependencies make it impossible to remove unwanted packages after > installation and also there is no option to remove unwanted packages > before installation) Did you try

Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread siavash ghiasvand
Dear All, For some reasons I want to know what are "Minimum Required RPM Packages" for installing fedora on a PC. At installation time, we can remove all optional packages and after removing them Fedora will install with nearly 200 packages! But, many of these packages are not nece