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On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 07:54:00PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
personally the plain text database is one of dpkg's greatest assets.
its a royal pain to repair a binary database when it gets fscked. and
yes i have already been saved from a total reinstall through the
ability to fix dpkg's
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm the developer of the aacraid driver. I've noticed some old posts on your
web site w/r/t this driver. If the maintainer of the debian kernel is
including this driver, he/she should contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to make sure they have
Hi Folks,
I have just started working with a group here in Portland that is taking in
old machines and recycling them - putting linux on as the OS (of course ;}).
See http://www.freegeek.org for more. Its a non-profit all volunteer thing;
and actually one of the people has posted to one of
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 12:15:50AM -0800, Erik Winn wrote:
Here is the first obstacle - not really a big one, but I spent all day
digging around and couldn't really find any tools for this one: we want to be
able to clone the machines easily over the local net.
boot floppy that asks only
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On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:41:54 -0500, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 06:46:46PM +, Marc Haber wrote:
You'd have to have a ton of precautions. The task at hand seems
trivial, but it isn't :-(
init does a good job of this; if there were an easy, error-proof way
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:47:00PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
Hello!
I'm starting work on a new linux package manager. The idea is to be able to
replace rpm, dpkg, apt, dselect (backend) with one,written mostly from scratch
and designed to be as simple (code, not features) and
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:41:54 -0500, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
However, I would say that if the program dies so frequently that it needs a
wrapper like this, it should probably be fixed.
console-log uses less syslog which dies every time the user types Q.
And it needs to die if the
* Ethan Benson
| personally the plain text database is one of dpkg's greatest assets.
| its a royal pain to repair a binary database when it gets fscked. and
| yes i have already been saved from a total reinstall through the
| ability to fix dpkg's broken database with a text editor.
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 01:29:44PM +, Marc Haber wrote:
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:41:54 -0500, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
However, I would say that if the program dies so frequently that it needs a
wrapper like this, it should probably be fixed.
console-log uses less syslog
Hello,
when looking into /etc/rcS.d (it's the first directory with RC scripts that
are processed at boot, isn't it?) I found this order of scripts:
README
S05keymaps-lct.sh
S10checkroot.sh
S20modutils
S30checkfs.sh
S30procps.sh
S30setserial
S35devpts.sh
S35mountall.sh
S40hostname.sh
Joseph Carter wrote:
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 07:54:00PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
personally the plain text database is one of dpkg's greatest assets.
its a royal pain to repair a binary database when it gets fscked. and
yes i have already been saved from a total reinstall through the
Dwayne C . Litzenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
-- On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:44:13AM -0500, Adam Lazur wrote:
Dwayne C . Litzenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
So my question is: What do you wish for in a package
manager?
Relocatable packages so a user can do an individual package
install
Previously Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
after being asked so by the upstream author i declare my intention
to orphan (from now) the following packages:
Why does upstream want you to orphan them?
Wichert.
--
_
/
Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Wichert Akkerman's letter:
Previously Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
after being asked so by the upstream author i declare my intention
to orphan (from now) the following packages:
Why does upstream want you to orphan them?
he developed popy and
Dwayne C . Litzenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So my question is: What do you wish for in a package manager?
I want a system where I can install multiple versions of a library (or
any package really) and say which version I want each program on the
system to use, possibly on a per-user
Hi Aaron,
Thanks very much for the pointer - I'm reading the docs for it and it looks
very promising. Might even be worth building a couple of debs from it ... no
promises on that right now though :).
Happy whicheveryouprefer!
Erik Winn
On Monday 25 December 2000 01:08, Aaron Lehmann
Erik Winn wrote:
Hi Folks,
I have just started working with a group here in Portland that is taking in
old machines and recycling them - putting linux on as the OS (of course ;}).
See http://www.freegeek.org for more. Its a non-profit all volunteer thing;
and actually one of the people
Hi, fwiw the current and generally working version of my partial mirror
script is at http://cvs.kitenet.net/joey-cvs/bin/debmirror
--
see shy jo
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
I just noticed that `apache-doc' puts the documentation under
http://.../doc/apache;, while `debconf-doc' puts it under
http://.../debconf-doc/;.
Eh? (Debconf-doc is a package, that contains some documentation files.
It doesn't touch the web space at all.)
--
see
Joey Hess schrieb:
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
I just noticed that `apache-doc' puts the documentation under
http://.../doc/apache;, while `debconf-doc' puts it under
http://.../debconf-doc/;.
Eh? (Debconf-doc is a package, that contains some documentation files.
It doesn't touch the
Hi
Mark Seaborn schrieb:
I want a system where I can install multiple versions of a library (or
any package really) and say which version I want each program on the
system to use, possibly on a per-user basis. The present system is a
disaster waiting to happen: If I install a package from
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 11:48:32PM +0100, Arthur Korn wrote:
Joey Hess schrieb:
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
I just noticed that `apache-doc' puts the documentation under
http://.../doc/apache;, while `debconf-doc' puts it under
http://.../debconf-doc/;.
Eh? (Debconf-doc is a
Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russell On Saturday 23 December 2000 09:13, KORN Andras wrote:
I feel that there exists a general confusion among some Debian
developers as to what user ids such as 'nobody' should be used
for. I suggest that the policy be
Dwayne == Dwayne C Litzenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dwayne Hello! I'm starting work on a new linux package manager.
Dwayne The idea is to be able to replace rpm, dpkg, apt, dselect
Dwayne (backend) with one,written mostly from scratch and
Dwayne designed to be as simple
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:13:13AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
However, the idea of one UID per daemon is (IMHO) a really horrible
solution, too, as you end up having more UIDs for daemons then
users.
Why is that a problem? There are 65536 available UIDs.
Hamish
--
Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:48:35AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:13:13AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
However, the idea of one UID per daemon is (IMHO) a really horrible
solution, too, as you end up having more UIDs for daemons then
users.
Why is that a problem?
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:13:13AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
However, the idea of one UID per daemon is (IMHO) a really
horrible solution, too, as you end up having more UIDs for
daemons then users.
Hamish Why is
Hi Thomas,
I got back to working on ontology, and I'd like to give an answer to
one of your previous remarks. Your last e-mail was a bit harsh but
I'm hoping that you will find my view worthwhile. ;)
Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
I think that logic has a great deal to do with semantics.
I
Brian May wrote:
2. Get rid of maintainer scripts (don't ask me how...) so that
upgrading packages is guaranteed not to destroy your computer, even if
the package came an from untrusted source. This could be carried
further by saying no daemons can be started by UID=root without
express
Mistakenly sent to debian-devel. This is off topic.
Merry Xmas to you all!!
Cheers,
--
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
Brian May wrote:
- harder to administrate /etc/passwd as more users exist.
I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm
annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that
reall necessary?
cu,
--
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:29:22AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
Hi Thomas,
[snip - lengthy email]
All of which is fine and dandy. None of which belonged on a public
mailing list though. Your email is tangentially related to Debians'
effort to determine new categories.
In future please
Anand Kumria wrote:
In future please send those kinds of emails privately.
mis-take. :)
--
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
Another thing I would like is something like the BSD ports -
download the source, have my machine do the compile, but still have
all the dependencies properly worked out (sort of an expanded apt-get
-b source).
--
jeff smith
exa == exa Eray writes:
exa Brian May wrote:
- harder to administrate /etc/passwd as more users exist.
exa I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm
exa annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that
exa reall necessary?
I don't do that on
exa == exa Eray writes:
exa You need to devise a package description/configuration
exa language that is declarative rather than procedural.
exa What comes to my mind would be some sort of logical
exa language, maybe something based on Prolog. That the
exa statements as your
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
Brian May wrote:
- harder to administrate /etc/passwd as more users exist.
I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm
annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that
reall necessary?
It's
Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm
annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that
reall necessary?
It's useful when you're in a development environment where
Brian May wrote:
exa == exa Eray writes:
exa Brian May wrote:
- harder to administrate /etc/passwd as more users exist.
exa I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm
exa annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that
exa reall
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 12:15:50AM -0800, Erik Winn wrote:
Hi Folks,
I have just started working with a group here in Portland that is taking in
old machines and recycling them - putting linux on as the OS (of course ;}).
See http://www.freegeek.org for more. Its a non-profit all
Eray == Eray Ozkural exa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eray Yep. I discovered that umask issue. I guess it's still a
Eray problem.
zsh has in /etc/zshrc:
[[ $UID == $GID ]] umask 002 || umask 022
My only dislike is it overrides my default setup in ~/.zshenv of 077.
It seems wrong to put
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm
annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that
reall necessary?
No, but it's a good idea. It makes it much easier to work in
directories shared with
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