Re: Announcing a new book: The Debian System -- Concepts and Techniques
Looks good!!! I went to amazon.co.uk to order a copy, but it isn't listed yet :-( They often list books *before* they become available so you may want to contact them and provide details. Steve martin f krafft([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-27 03:05: Dear all, I am pleased to announce the availability of my new (English) book The Debian System, which Open Source Press[0] introduced at the Linuxtag 2005. I would like to thank all who have followed its development over the last year, and apologise for the delay and the long wait you have endured. As opposed to the initially planned 350 pages, I am proud to offer a total of 608 now, so the wait wasn't for nothing. You can find more information about the book on its web site[1]. 0. http://www.opensourcepress.de [German only -- for now] 1. http://debianbook.info The book is not a regular user's handbook, but rather a book for people who want to understand and make more out of their Debian installation(s). It explains the systems's (and project's) concepts and analyses the techniques that make up the Debian Way of system administration -- you will not find any discussion of Linux tools or concepts, graphical desktop environments, server software, or user programmes in here! Just 608 pages of pure Debian, written for the Linux/Unix administrators switching to Debian and existing Debian users alike. In addition to examples and common pitfalls, the book explains just why the Debian developers chose certain approaches over others. As it explores the motivations behind the Debian solutions, the reader is given a peek at the level of experience and sophistication that has flowed into the various system components, and s/he learns to embrace their elegance. This book aims to be the resource on Debian GNU/Linux as well as an enticing companion on one's path towards advanced Debian administration. The hardcover edition will be available in stores in the beginning of July. A list of online shops stocking it is kept up to date on the web site[2] (please let me know which ones I'm missing). 2. http://debiansystem.info/order An announcement mailing list[3] exists, as well as an RSS feed[4] of updates (errata changes), news and events related to the book, and quotes about it. There is even a forum[5] (currently based on experimental software though). 3. http://lists.madduck.net/mailman/listinfo/debianbook-announce 4. http://debiansystem.info/updates/RSS 5. http://debiansystem.info/readers/forum I would herewith also like to thank all who have made this book possible: all contributors to the Debian project, and each one of the individuals who have worked on parts of the text with me to get it to where it is now. I am also greatly indebted to my publisher, Open Source Press[6], who has simply spoiled me with this first book of mine. 6. http://www.opensourcepress.de [German only -- for now] I am also greatly indebted to the Zope[7], Plone[8], and Apache[9] projects for the products that power the book's web site. 7. http://www.zope.org 8. http://www.plone.org 9. http://httpd.apache.org I appreciate if people would spread the word about this book. If you would be willing to link to the book's pages from your web site, please see [10]. Also, feel free to forward this message verbatim. 10. http://debiansystem.info/public Thanks for your attention. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to create a 3.0r1 repository on disk?
I have an official Debian 3.0 dvd plus an official r1 CD. Can any tell me how to copy them both onto hard disk and combine them into a single 3.0r1 repository that apt can use. I have scanned the docks but cannot find a description - if the answer is a RTFM, could someone point me to the correct fine manual :-) Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update
I am also having trouble with squirrelmail under Debian. As a new user, I am puzzled about what happens when stable contains a broken package. Since the package doesn't seem to work, will a bug fix be released into security.debian.org or do we have to wait until 3.0.0r2? Steve On Thursday 16 January 2003 06:16, Steve Lamb wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:56:24 +0100 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you read the second message to that bug? Actually, no, I hadn't. My apologies. Odd considering that I submitted the original bug. I've not gotten any updates to that bug in my mailbox so I had falsely presumed there had been none. Commenting that line doesn't do it for me. Leaving that line in produces empty pages. Ok. Have you tried isntalling 1.4.0rc1 and throwing away your config.php? After 1.4.0rc1 was packaged up conf.pl has a complaint that the 1.2.0 config.php may not be completely compatible. It will still load and modify it but it will complain every time that you load it up. I copied the config.php aside to refer to and created a new one from scractch with conf.pl. Squirrelmail worked from that point on. Well, aside from the fact that it doesn't recognize any of the themes. This prevents the users from choosing a theme but they are able to log in. I'm sorry if this has been gone over already. I just joined the list a day or so ago and didn't see the beginning of this thread. Just trying to help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Big difference in antialiasing
I thought I was alone in hating AA fonts. To me they just look blurred even on a very high res monitor. I turn them off. Steve On Tuesday 14 January 2003 00:10, Richard Beri wrote: You're right, gtk 2.2 brings in Xft2. It's very pretty. Does anyone else find AA fonts annoying? I hate them, sure they look smoother, but I find that it just seems blurred and they are hard to read. Makes me feel something is wrong with my eyes. It hurts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Image thumbnailer
apt-get install curator On Sunday 12 January 2003 15:42, Trey Sizemore wrote: I have a lot of photos (jpeg's) that I would like to be able to batch thumbnail possibly rename. Any suggestions for a program to 'easily' do this? I will explore all the functionality of Gimp at some point, but wanted to know of alternatives. Thanks. -Trey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to set up apt-get archive
Hi Could someone please point me to the document that describes the procedure for setting up and populating a set of directories for use with apt. I have some deb files and want my end users to be able to upgrade using apt-get just like they do from the debian site. I just can't seem to find a document describing the procedure for putting the deb files into an archive/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to set up apt-get archive
Perhaps this isn't documented? Could someone give an overview of how one creates the /dists... directory tree for a set of deb files? Steve On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:55, Stephen Birch wrote: Hi Could someone please point me to the document that describes the procedure for setting up and populating a set of directories for use with apt. I have some deb files and want my end users to be able to upgrade using apt-get just like they do from the debian site. I just can't seem to find a document describing the procedure for putting the deb files into an archive/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to set up apt-get archive
Thank you guys, I couldn't see the wood for the trees. All working now. Steve On Tuesday 10 December 2002 20:03, Alan Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 10 December 2002 7:09 pm, Stephen Birch wrote: Perhaps this isn't documented? Could someone give an overview of how one creates the /dists... directory tree for a set of deb files? I think it depends on how many .deb files you have. If you want a mirror of a large chunk of a debian distribution, then use apt-move, or apt-proxy. If you have only a few files (for instance I have the 284 packages that make up qt, kde and kdevelop) then proceed as follows 1) Create an override file. You can probably get one from a debian archive, I build mine from hand - I decided to put all the packages in a single subdirectory. I created mine in /var/www/debian (where my document root for the web server is /var/www) If you want to create one by hand its very simple - each package goes on a single line package name optional subdir Where optional is the actual text and is the priority of the package (obviously if you want something different then change it) So a small part of my override file is ... amoroptionalkde ark optionalkde arts-devoptionalkde artsbuilder optionalkde artsoptionalkde cervisiaoptionalkde eyesapplet optionalkde fifteenapplet optionalkde flashkard optionalkde gideon-data optionalkde gideon-dev optionalkde gideon-doc optionalkde gideon optionalkde kaboodleoptionalkde ... (I don't think they have to be in alphabetical order - I just did it that way) 2) Put all the debs into the appropriate subdir (in my case /var/www/debian/kde ) 3) Run dpkg-scanpackages . override | gzip Packages.gz 4) put the following into your /etc/apt/sources.list line deb http://www.yourdomain.com/debian/ ./ [ensure you have all the right / and . s] 5) apt-get update And then select the packages that you want. (Note the order of your sources.list lines matter if the version numbers from the debs in your archive and from other places are the same) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
