First date

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at cs.toronto.edu
Tue Sep 30 04:45:01 UTC 2003


It seems that I've deleted Tammy's mail.
To Tammy:  I'm not talking about the Details button, but
individual RPM packages.  During installation it was talking
about selecting individual packages is back in next release.

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Rodrigo Del C. Andrade wrote:

>
> 	There a details button??! Hell, if it were a poisonous snake I would be
> suffering right now....
>
> 	Van
>
>
> Tammy Fox wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 08:34:37PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>So here comes my impressions on my first date with this Core
> >>thing:
> >>
> >>
> >>  * I decided not to install all packages, then I found that I
> >>cannot select individual ones.  So I tried adding packages from
> >>the add/remove program.  Then I selected my packages, and tried
> >>to install them, when found that:
> >
> >
> > I was able to select individual packages during installation by
> > clicking the Details button.
> >
> >
> >>	a) /dev/cdrom is pointed to /dev/hdc, this used to work
> >>on previous Red Hats, but this time I had to calibrate it to
> >>point to /dev/scd0.
> >>	b) Even after that, the add/remove program cannot find
> >>the CD there, and keeps asking for CD.  When I mount the CD, and
> >>press Ok in the dialog, I find it unmounted..
> >
> >
> > I ran into the same problem, so I filed bug #105947.
> >
> >
> >>	c) I even couldn't copy/paste the list of selected
> >>packages, so I wrote them down by hand, to feed them to up2date.
> >>
> >>
> >>  * Then I proceeded with up2date, to install some new packages.
> >>Then I got the following weird error.  Someone let me know if I'm
> >>getting faked packages?
> >>
> >>Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
> >>########################################
> >>apel-10.6-1.noarch.rpm:     ########################## Done.
> >>The package apel-10.6-1 is not signed with a GPG signature.
> >>Aborting...
> >>Package apel-10.6-1 does not have a GPG signature.
> >> Aborting...
> >>
> >>
> >>  * Bitstream-vera fonts are installed, but are not default.  It
> >>was really hard to read the other fonts, after two months with
> >>vera fonts from Ximian.  I took me a while to findout that they
> >>are installed, and are available under name Bitstream Vera, not
> >>Vera.
> >>
> >>  * Many many places here and there, there are still Red Hat's,
> >>that should be replaced by Fedora equivalents.  One funny example
> >>is the Login Screen chooser which has the thumbnail from Red Hat 9.
> >>
> >>  * Cool thing, DRI works!
> >>
> >>  * Nothing more yet.
> >>
> >>behdad
> >>
> >>
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