19:03:27 <wilcal> #startmeeting 19:03:27 <Inigo_Montoya`> Meeting started Thu Jul 15 19:03:27 2021 UTC. The chair is wilcal. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 19:03:27 <Inigo_Montoya`> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 19:03:38 <wilcal> Welcome all to another QA meeting 19:03:55 <wilcal> #topic Who's new? 19:04:08 <wilcal> Anyone new here today? 19:05:13 <wilcal> Nope 19:05:22 <wilcal> just a couple things today 19:05:26 <wilcal> #topic M7.1 EOL - Status 19:05:52 <wilcal> So if you have not noticed all of the bugs for M7.1 have been cleared out 19:06:10 <wilcal> I haven't seen a bug come through at least for a couple days 19:06:24 <wilcal> So I think it truly is behind us 19:06:53 <wilcal> M9 testing is many months away 19:07:14 <wilcal> So we only have updates to M8 to test for awhile 19:07:18 <bri_an> good 19:07:32 <wilcal> I have completely switched over to M8 on all my latforms 19:07:42 <wilcal> platforms 19:08:32 <wilcal> M7.1 dragged on for at least an extra 30-days 19:08:36 <bri_an> so it is official ... I can erase the last of my m7 drives. I'll keep the Vbox ones, but the drives are done 19:08:57 <bri_an> ? 19:09:18 <wilcal> I have it on an old 128GB SSD drive for hardware and in a Vbox client 19:10:23 <wilcal> I also no longer have an updating M7.1 local repo. I use the Mageia repo at mirrors.kernel.or 19:11:09 <wilcal> I have a moving M9 repo 19:11:14 <DavidWHodgins> HiYa Sorry I'm late 19:11:42 <wilcal> #chair DavidWHodgins 19:11:42 <Inigo_Montoya`> Current chairs: DavidWHodgins wilcal 19:11:52 <tarazed> So am I - could not get irssi to work - what changed? 19:12:01 <wilcal> we were talking about the status of M7.1 19:12:14 <wilcal> It looks like it truly is behind us 19:13:13 <DavidWHodgins> Hopefully no spectre like issues show up in the next month or so to justify a 7.2 release 19:13:38 <wilcal> Please PLease no 19:14:01 <DavidWHodgins> :-) 19:14:10 <wilcal> Lets move to the hot issue on the ML 19:14:12 <wilcal> #topic M7.1 -> M8 upgrade 19:14:27 <wilcal> I see a LOT of chatter about this old issue 19:14:35 <wilcal> do we really have a problem here 19:14:57 <tarazed> I did all my upgrades months ago. No problems. 19:15:37 <DavidWHodgins> Once I figured out I'd forgotten to skip /etc/urpmi/skip.list I was able to install the rest of the packages for my last uprgrade 19:16:06 <wilcal> Do we need some more testing on this David? 19:16:31 <ZemeMX> Hello Everyone! 19:16:59 <wilcal> Hello 19:17:05 <HDR> hi 19:17:41 <DavidWHodgins> wilcal: I don't think so. I'll add it to the wiki items for preparing for upgrade 19:18:12 <wilcal> delete the reference to the M7.1 repo 19:18:26 <wilcal> llink to the new M8 repo 19:18:29 <wilcal> then run 19:18:31 <wilcal> urpmi --auto-update --auto 19:18:38 <wilcal> works for me 19:18:41 <wilcal> or did 19:18:51 <wilcal> takes awhile 19:19:39 <DavidWHodgins> After changing the repos, I used urpmi --test --auto --auto-select --download-all 2>&1 | tee /root/urpmi.upgrade.log.txt 19:19:57 <DavidWHodgins> Then ran it again without the --test 19:20:38 <bri_an> I just used the applet 19:20:40 <wilcal> It's really easy to do here so I'll give it one more go 19:21:11 <tarazed> Used both methods here without problems 19:21:28 <wilcal> So we're good there 19:21:40 <DavidWHodgins> Yes. Lets move on 19:21:53 <wilcal> #topic Mageia 8 using and testing 19:22:10 <wilcal> List is way shorter 19:22:53 <DavidWHodgins> Thanks everyone for getting the list down to what it is now so the m7 updates could be pushed 19:23:06 <wilcal> Super job 19:23:18 <wilcal> No kernels on the present list 19:23:26 <Guygoye[m]> Hello all sorry to be late 19:23:45 <bri_an> no issues Guygoy 19:23:46 <wilcal> We're takung using and testing M8 19:23:56 <wilcal> Any issuses 19:24:29 <DavidWHodgins> s /takung/talking/ :-) 19:25:04 <Guygoye[m]> No issues at home 19:25:10 <wilcal> I've not run into any real issues using M8 19:25:27 <DavidWHodgins> Same here 19:25:37 <wilcal> Lots of little issues I was naving with M7.1 are all gone on M8 19:25:37 <tarazed> None here either 19:26:17 <bri_an> same here - it seems the UI's that I use have matured and stabilized 19:26:24 <wilcal> FWIW I was easily able to link to my AWS account and move data up and down to that. No Problema 19:26:25 <tarazed> Bluetooth works much better in mga8 19:27:15 <wilcal> I had a lot of stress that that was going to be difficulat to set up again 19:27:26 <Guygoye[m]> There was little problem grub in french community this week 19:27:28 <wilcal> Worked first time 19:27:31 <ZemeMX> For your info.. I was able to join a Megeia 8 Server and Desktop to a Windows Domain and are able to login great... But I had to uses some packages from Fedora.. 19:27:51 <DavidWHodgins> One issue I've noticed is that the icon for mgaapplet is not in the system tray unless there have been updates found. The tray is configured to always show all entries 19:27:55 <bri_an> ZemeMX what tool did you use for RDP? 19:28:00 <tarazed> wilcal: yes much smoother 19:28:56 <bri_an> or are you talking AD 19:28:58 <bri_an> ? 19:29:22 <DavidWHodgins> ZemeMX: ^^ 19:30:10 <ZemeMX> Mageia 8 Working great, hard as a rock.. it detected my RAID 5 with no problems while Rocky Linux did not.. LOL 19:30:36 <DavidWHodgins> What was the issue with samba? 19:30:55 <ZemeMX> I am talking AD.. 19:31:41 <ZemeMX> Fedora 34 Packages not available in mga8. realmd, oddjob, oddjob-mkhomedir, adcli.... 19:31:41 <wilcal> ANything else about M8? 19:31:42 <DavidWHodgins> Ah. Ok. Not many people here use window active directory for login 19:32:26 <ZemeMX> I know.. I used Mageia for login as my primary system at Work.... Sorry.. 19:32:26 <DavidWHodgins> Please move on. 19:32:34 <wilcal> #topic Anything else? 19:32:41 <wilcal> Nothing from me 19:32:43 <DavidWHodgins> Nothing else from me 19:32:49 <tarazed> No 19:33:00 <Guygoye[m]> I've tested emmabuntus linux 19:33:15 <Guygoye[m]> There is a MGA Welcom like 19:33:22 <DavidWHodgins> A fork of ubuntu I assume 19:33:40 <wilcal> So many Ubuntu forks 19:33:56 <Guygoye[m]> It configure alle environnement and distro with user and it is very cool 19:34:14 <wilcal> Anything else 19:34:19 <Guygoye[m]> No it's Debian fork now 19:34:40 <wilcal> Lets count it down and see ya'all next week 19:34:44 <DavidWHodgins> Look like countdown time for the meeting then. 19:34:47 <wilcal> T-5 19:34:57 <wilcal> T-4 19:35:01 <wilcal> T-3 19:35:05 <wilcal> Bye all 19:35:07 <DavidWHodgins> Thanks wilcal and everyone 19:35:08 <wilcal> T-2 19:35:09 <ZemeMX> Bye Wilcal 19:35:10 <wilcal> Thanks Dave 19:35:16 <ZemeMX> Bye all 19:35:16 <wilcal> #endmeeting