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<PRE>I have been downloading updates for a while.

When Alpha 2 is released, do I need to download it, or will the brew in the 
cauldron automagically re-brand my system as Alpha 2?  The DVD would be handy 
to have as a more current medium for a re-install.

Doug, MDV 2010.2

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:01:41 am <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mageia-discuss-request at mageia.org</A> wrote:
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</I>&gt;<i> Today's Topics:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i>    1. alpha1 cooker updates? (Tony Blackwell)
</I>&gt;<i>    2. Re: alpha1 cooker updates? (Anne nicolas)
</I>&gt;<i>    3. Re: Fwd: Sound in Mageia? (Colin Guthrie)
</I>&gt;<i>    4. Mirror (Juergen Harms)
</I>&gt;<i>    5. Re: Mirror (Oliver Burger)
</I>&gt;<i>    6. Re: Fwd: Sound in Mageia? (Wolfgang Bornath)
</I>&gt;<i>    7. Re: Mirror (Wolfgang Bornath)
</I>&gt;<i>    8. Re: Mirror (Michael Scherer)
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Message: 1
</I>&gt;<i> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:08:50 +1100
</I>&gt;<i> From: Tony Blackwell &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">t.blackwell at uq.net.au</A>&gt;
</I>&gt;<i> To: <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mageia-discuss at mageia.org</A>
</I>&gt;<i> Subject: [Mageia-discuss] alpha1 cooker updates?
</I>&gt;<i> Message-ID: &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">4D773592.2000704 at uq.net.au</A>&gt;
</I>&gt;<i> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Is alpha1 at the stage where I can point it to a cooker repository so
</I>&gt;<i> urpmi can find what is on cooker? Is there a utility yet so alpha1 will
</I>&gt;<i> notify me when new packages are available for download?
</I>&gt;<i> tonyb
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> ------------------------------
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Message: 2
</I>&gt;<i> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:30:10 +0100
</I>&gt;<i> From: Anne nicolas &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">ennael1 at gmail.com</A>&gt;
</I>&gt;<i> To: Mageia general discussions &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mageia-discuss at mageia.org</A>&gt;
</I>&gt;<i> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] alpha1 cooker updates?
</I>&gt;<i> Message-ID:
</I>&gt;<i> 	&lt;AANLkTimGSybaUF_54=<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">ap+GqAmtz8hzH83KBb1Kc2+No9 at mail.gmail.com</A>&gt;
</I>&gt;<i> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Hi
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 2011/3/9 Tony Blackwell &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">t.blackwell at uq.net.au</A>&gt;:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Is alpha1 at the stage where I can point it to a cooker repository so
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; urpmi can find what is on cooker? Is there a utility yet so alpha1 will
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; notify me when new packages are available for download?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> you mean cauldron ? :)
</I>&gt;<i> sure have a look here:
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://mirrors.mageia.org/">http://mirrors.mageia.org/</A>
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> mdkonline is not yet imported so notification system for updates is
</I>&gt;<i> not ready yet
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Cheers
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; tonyb
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Op dinsdag 08 maart 2011 13:38:36 schreef Wolfgang Bornath:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; 2011/3/8 Colin Guthrie &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>&gt;:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; Out of curiosity, what did you change it from and to? Can you supply
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; the &quot;pacmd list&quot; output (just want to double check that the default
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; profiles/ports are sensible on your h/w).
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; I installed phonon-xine with its dependencies and then in the
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; multimedia section of the KDE configuration I put phonon-xine on top
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; of the list in the backend tab (before it showed only
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; phonon-gstreamer).
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; After that all sound applications worked (dragon, amarok, kscd, vlc,
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; firefox plugins, etc.).
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; See output of &quot;pacmd list&quot; attached.
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; i had a similar problem, but that was codec related of the gstreamer. on
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; my machine, phonon-xine worked a lot better than phonon-gstreamer...
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> The downside generally is that phonon-xine is not developed (neither is
</I>&gt;<i> xine itself), full of very annoying bugs, and has terrible support for
</I>&gt;<i> pulseaudio. GStreamer fixes all these issues but obviously introduces
</I>&gt;<i> others. Personally I don't have any problem with GST, but obviously
</I>&gt;<i> milages varies.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> FWIW, Wobo, what you changed was not &quot;Speaker Configuration&quot; as you
</I>&gt;<i> previously indicated... you changed the Phonon Backend. So my reasons
</I>&gt;<i> for asking the question no longer apply, which is good :)
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Col
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 08/03/11 19:18 did gyre and gimble:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; Op dinsdag 08 maart 2011 13:38:36 schreef Wolfgang Bornath:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; 2011/3/8 Colin Guthrie &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>&gt;:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Out of curiosity, what did you change it from and to? Can you supply
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; the &quot;pacmd list&quot; output (just want to double check that the default
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; profiles/ports are sensible on your h/w).
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; I installed phonon-xine with its dependencies and then in the
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; multimedia section of the KDE configuration I put phonon-xine on top
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; of the list in the backend tab (before it showed only
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; phonon-gstreamer).
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; After that all sound applications worked (dragon, amarok, kscd, vlc,
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; firefox plugins, etc.).
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; FWIW, Wobo, what you changed was not &quot;Speaker Configuration&quot; as you
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; previously indicated... you changed the Phonon Backend. So my reasons
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; for asking the question no longer apply, which is good :)
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I was not precise enough. Here is what happened:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 03/03/2011:
</I>&gt;<i>  - I had to install task-pulseaudio with all dependencies AND
</I>&gt;<i>  - backend was only phonon-gstreamer
</I>&gt;<i>  - in speaker settings of &quot;phonon&quot; I  changed sound device from
</I>&gt;<i> &quot;Internal Audio&quot; to &quot;High Definition Audio Controller&quot;
</I>&gt;<i> It worked.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 08/03/2011:
</I>&gt;<i> After updates this setup did not work anymore. So I
</I>&gt;<i>  - installed phonon-xine and put it on top in the backend tab
</I>&gt;<i>  - changed sound device back to &quot;Internal Audio&quot;, the output setting
</I>&gt;<i> to &quot;Internal Audio Analog Stereo&quot;
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Works in stereo with internal speakers and headphone.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> This is the current working setup with all updates installed (no
</I>&gt;<i> /testing repos set).
</I>&gt;<i> This is also the setup I created the &quot;pacmd list&quot; output.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Sorry about the unclear report.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Talking to people at Switch brought up some facts which Mandriva should
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; be aware of:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; ?- There is a heritage of bad experience that has been made with
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Mandriva. ?- It is not the first time that I hear the argument Mageia =
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Mandriva = forgetit.
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; ?- Mageia happens at present to be perceived as &quot;just another one of
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; those distros that appear and disappear to oblivion&quot; (maybe with a
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; component of unfriendlyness towards Linux).
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Yes, I guess this is based on personal opinions and you can't really fight
</I>&gt;<i> that.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; By the way, at my university there was a similar experience: Mandriva was
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; part of the officially supported infrastructure (mirror, consultancy),
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; with fees paid to Mandriva - that broke in dysharmony due to bad
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; administrative response from Mandriva, leaving quite some ill feeling.
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Sorry if I wade through these negative arguments, but these
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; beyond-the-enthusiast-user spotlights count.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> You can't compare this setup with anything related to Mageia. Mageia
</I>&gt;<i> does not ask to become a consultant to Switch and Mageia does not ask
</I>&gt;<i> for any fees. Furthermore &quot;bad administrative response&quot; is one of
</I>&gt;<i> those things about Mandriva that Mageia will avoid by all means. It
</I>&gt;<i> was caused by lack of manpower of a commercial company, something
</I>&gt;<i> which is totally different at Mageia.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; I think that, when the stable release approaches, a small campaign to
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; rectify these prejudices would be an excellent thing.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Time to rectify those prejudices is now, at any time at any place (not
</I>&gt;<i> only with mirror providers but in general).
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; But I think that on the long-run there are lessons to be learned from the
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; discussion with Switch - mirrors for a stable Mageia should be preferably
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; hosted at professionally run mirror sites (who make the kind of
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; consideration I quoted above), university solutions should come as
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; additional icing. In case of a second round of discussion on how to
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; organise Mageia mirrors, it might be a good idea to have that discussion
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; with some participation from the mirror sites.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I can not confirm nor agree to this. As Oliver wrote, 2 universities
</I>&gt;<i> already set up a mirror for Mageia and when looking around worldwide
</I>&gt;<i> who is hosting a Mandriva mirror you will notice that educational
</I>&gt;<i> institutions (aka universities) are the majority.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Using MirrorBrain may or may not be an improvement (I can't judge
</I>&gt;<i> this) but IMHO it should not be a criterium to mirror or not.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Of course, if Switch wants it that way then it is up to the Mageia
</I>&gt;<i> sysadmins to decide what is the better way - implementing MirrorBrain
</I>&gt;<i> to please Switch or not implement it and forget about Switch - not
</I>&gt;<i> speaking about other advantages/disadvantages which may come with
</I>&gt;<i> Mirrorbrain.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; I have now arranged for a mirror to be set up at CUI - my old lab at the
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; university of Geneva - I hope it will come up in time for alpha-2.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> That sound great, thanks.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; CUI is glad to help, but that is not a permanent solution - CUI normally
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; does not provide this kind of service - permanent mirroring services
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; should be provided by Switch as soon as a stable Mageia release becomes
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; available. I will pursue the discussion with Switch.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Ie, not permanent, do you know how and why this would stop ?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Talking to people at Switch brought up some facts which Mandriva should
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; be aware of:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;   - There is a heritage of bad experience that has been made with
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;   Mandriva. - It is not the first time that I hear the argument Mageia =
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;   Mandriva
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; = forgetit.
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;   - Mageia happens at present to be perceived as &quot;just another one of
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; those distros that appear and disappear to oblivion&quot; (maybe with a
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; component of unfriendlyness towards Linux).
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> IMHO, our best bet for such case is to wait, so people can make their
</I>&gt;<i> minds and reconsider their position. I am not sure that trying to push
</I>&gt;<i> now is good. It take time to recover trust and make people forget where
</I>&gt;<i> do we come from.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Our problem is that if we say &quot;we are a mandriva fork&quot;, people think of
</I>&gt;<i> their bad experiences. If we don't, we appear as just yet another
</I>&gt;<i> distro.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> So maybe it would be better to engage first with people that do not have
</I>&gt;<i> negative experience with Mandriva rather than trying to convince people
</I>&gt;<i> who did have ?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; By the way, at my university there was a similar experience: Mandriva
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; was part of the officially supported infrastructure (mirror,
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; consultancy), with fees paid to Mandriva - that broke in dysharmony due
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; to bad administrative response from Mandriva, leaving quite some ill
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; feeling. Sorry if I wade through these negative arguments, but these
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; beyond-the-enthusiast-user spotlights count.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Well, we should make clear to people that we started the project for the
</I>&gt;<i> same reasons that they broke from Mandriva, and that we are aware of the
</I>&gt;<i> problems. But IMHO, we should not try too hard to convince them to help
</I>&gt;<i> us, just say that we agree with them. The rest will come by itself.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; I think that, when the stable release approaches, a small campaign to
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; rectify these prejudices would be an excellent thing.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> That sound like a delicate task ( for the aforementioned reasons of
</I>&gt;<i> PR ). How would you start ?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Talking with the people at Switch who maintain the Switch mirroring
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; service, there were also some concrete and technical arguments - I
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; quote, translating from German:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;   &quot;the communication with the mirror sites at Mandriva had already been
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; minimal, compared with other distros: announcing releases, checking the
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; availability at the mirrors (QA), etc&quot; (which is a mere quote, dont ask
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; me to interpret).
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Switch is reluctant to maintain a mirror at &quot;assembly language level&quot;
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; (&quot;just run rsync every 2 hours&quot;), they would prefer solutions using
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; something like MirrorBrain - but probably Mandriva experiences are part
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; of the background to this argument.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Well, what do they need more precisely ?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> We understand well that they do not want to micromanage the mirror ( I
</I>&gt;<i> think no one does ), but then they can for sure understand that we
</I>&gt;<i> cannot adapt to everybody too on our side ( ie, another kind of micro
</I>&gt;<i> management ).
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> And for mirrorbrain, I do not see how this relate to rsync, as the
</I>&gt;<i> software is used on distro side to distribute mirrors lists, if I
</I>&gt;<i> understand well. Rsync is still used to mirror around.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> If I remember, the problem of switch was &quot;there is not enough users to
</I>&gt;<i> justify the mirroring&quot; ( as you explained before ), and I do not think
</I>&gt;<i> this will be solved until one or two years, nor that mirrorbrain will
</I>&gt;<i> produce more users by magic.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> So maybe we should just wait to be credible when asking something to
</I>&gt;<i> them and be honest about that ?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; At present, putting a mirror on a univeristy site puts it into an
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; environment which is in good match to the straightforward rsync approach
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; - correct for the alpha period of Mageia.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Given the high number of university for all others distributions, I
</I>&gt;<i> think this is a good match for most of them :)
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; But I think that on the long-run there are lessons to be learned from
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; the discussion with Switch - mirrors for a stable Mageia should be
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; preferably hosted at professionally run mirror sites (who make the kind
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; of consideration I quoted above), university solutions should come as
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; additional icing. In case of a second round of discussion on how to
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; organise Mageia mirrors, it might be a good idea to have that discussion
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; with some participation from the mirror sites.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I do not understand what you mean by &quot;professionally run mirror&quot;. I
</I>&gt;<i> think this doesn't mean what you want it to mean.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Switch.ch core &quot;business&quot; is not to run mirrors, this is to sell
</I>&gt;<i> connectivity ( to swiss schools ). The core &quot;business&quot; of a university
</I>&gt;<i> is not to host mirrors, but researchers and students.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> From my point of view, there is 2 motivations ( that can be
</I>&gt;<i> overlapping ):
</I>&gt;<i> - people who run mirrors to help free software
</I>&gt;<i> - people who run mirrors because this help them on various level
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> A mirror can help to save bandwidth ( for example, free.fr is a french
</I>&gt;<i> provider, all linux user will likely go on their mirror as this is
</I>&gt;<i> faster ), or to leverage this for peering/trafic negotiation ( see
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/09/peering-and-transit.ars">http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/09/peering-and-transit.ars</A> , I
</I>&gt;<i> also recommend to see <A HREF="http://www.blogg.ch/uploads/peering-playbook.pdf">http://www.blogg.ch/uploads/peering-playbook.pdf</A> ,
</I>&gt;<i> given at the end of the article ).
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I think most universities does this to help free software, and because
</I>&gt;<i> they use internally. I think most volunteer-run mirrors, like the one of
</I>&gt;<i> Wobo fall in this category too.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> On the contrary, I suppose that most operators ( like switch to some
</I>&gt;<i> extend, but for free.fr, belgacom, etc ) does this for peering/trafic
</I>&gt;<i> reasons, and that mean they need to have enough traffic for this to be
</I>&gt;<i> useful for them, and enough users to justify the need. For now, I do not
</I>&gt;<i> think we are in a position to be interesting to this kind of mirrors.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> So what we could do is to ask for some metrics so we could now when we
</I>&gt;<i> will be able to reach a agreement, and try to have a multiple step
</I>&gt;<i> plan :
</I>&gt;<i> - first, we try to engage some universities ( or likely minded admins,
</I>&gt;<i> such as kernel.org, or others ), to cope with the load of the
</I>&gt;<i> distribution. Some being 4/5.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> - based on the feedback, we make sure that the documentation is correct,
</I>&gt;<i> that our procedure works, etc, etc.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> - once we have more and more people ( with metrics that have to be
</I>&gt;<i> found ), we try to find more mirrors.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> - once we are interesting enough to engage people in the connectivity
</I>&gt;<i> business, then we try to engage them ( likely not before one or two
</I>&gt;<i> years, maybe more ).
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