Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker -- idea.

2001-06-06 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
> "p" == pablito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: p> ... That way, you could have a daily cooker, and those who p> have troubles making these iso files could download weekly iso p> files. If the iso's were uniquely named (by date?) and it was accessble via HTTP, www.swarmcast.com co

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker -- idea.

2001-06-05 Thread Ron Stodden
michael wrote: > Ron: > The requested URL /~ronst/rsync/troels_rsync3.pl was not found on this > server. > > Apache/1.3.12 Server at www.ains.net.au Port 80 Huh? Everything is working correctly. Try: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/rsync/troels.rsync3.pl ie not a _ but a . But the preferr

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker -- idea.

2001-06-05 Thread michael
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 04:14 pm, Ron Stodden pointed out: > Eaon wrote: > > That seems a wee bit daft. In exactly what way does it save > > bandwidth to have someone download 1 Gig of individual RPMs versus > > 1 Gig of ISOs? It's still 1 Gig. > > Users of my troels.rsync3.pl to download Mandra

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker -- idea.

2001-06-05 Thread Ron Stodden
Eaon wrote: > > That seems a wee bit daft. In exactly what way does it save bandwidth to > have someone download 1 Gig of individual RPMs versus 1 Gig of ISOs? It's > still 1 Gig. Users of my troels.rsync3.pl to download Mandrake trees and isos know that while you cannot change the size of an

Re: Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker -- idea.

2001-06-05 Thread Kyle Jacobs
some in Mandrake/iso (8.0) - but > they > >are there. > > > >Eaon > > > >>-Original Message- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blue Lizard > >>Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 5:15 PM > >>To:

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker -- idea.

2001-06-05 Thread Blue Lizard
so (SNF, freq, corpo) and some in Mandrake/iso (8.0) - but they >are there. > >Eaon > >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blue Lizard >>Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 5:15 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >&g

RE: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker -- idea.

2001-06-05 Thread Eaon
ndrake/iso (8.0) - but they are there. Eaon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blue Lizard > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 5:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker -- idea. > > > Th

Re: Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker -- idea.

2001-06-04 Thread Kyle Jacobs
If these weekly files were auto-generated on a weekly basis (on the mirrors themselves), AND Bugzilla had a weekly entry for the "weekly cooker" (dated, of course), then this would be a perfectly viable alternative. On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, pablito ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on the Weekl

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker -- idea.

2001-06-04 Thread andre
> > The big guy at rpmfind got real mad and took off ALL isos cuz it took up > so much bandwidth. See the note he left in the directory. Dont think > he ever put em back up. > This was one day after i was downloading them both at same time > amounting to 600kbs. > > > So now we know who t

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker -- idea.

2001-06-04 Thread Blue Lizard
The big guy at rpmfind got real mad and took off ALL isos cuz it took up so much bandwidth. See the note he left in the directory. Dont think he ever put em back up. This was one day after i was downloading them both at same time amounting to 600kbs.

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker -- idea.

2001-06-04 Thread pablito
on the Weekly Cooker idea -- wouldn't it be possible to write a script that automatically builds iso files of the current cooker every week, and stick it on the mirror sites? The script would run at a certain time every week. That way, you could have a daily cooker, and those who have troubles

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-06-01 Thread Blue Lizard
> > > If I remember it was in the 50's (and maybe the early 60's). > Whichever it was, I was still living with my parents, so it was about > then. > > David > > > Ladies and gentleman, what David doesnt want you to know is that he has no idea, he still lives with his parents. :)

RE: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-06-01 Thread David Relson
At 11:35 AM 6/1/01, Eaon wrote: > > That's just Tin Tin, and I wonder if there are enough characters in > > all those books to keep us in names for a long time. > > >Once we run out of those we could move on to, um, damn, never remember the >short one's name, anyway, "what's his face" and Obelix.

RE: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-06-01 Thread Sebastian Dransfeld
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Eaon wrote: > > That's just Tin Tin, and I wonder if there are enough characters in > > all those books to keep us in names for a long time. > > > Once we run out of those we could move on to, um, damn, never remember the > short one's name, anyway, "what's his face" and Obeli

RE: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-06-01 Thread Eaon
> That's just Tin Tin, and I wonder if there are enough characters in > all those books to keep us in names for a long time. > Once we run out of those we could move on to, um, damn, never remember the short one's name, anyway, "what's his face" and Obelix. The short Viking-looking guy and his bi

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-06-01 Thread Blue Lizard
1)U guys are too damn smart for me. 2)I think you should name this one after elven lord (was the name gilgalad or something? he's my first choice. following that:not obvious ones like elrond or aragorn, must be elven, or numenorian, or best yet since mandrake is the highest of linux distribut

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-06-01 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Ainsi parlait michael : > How about > "orouborous" - it even sounds French!!! You seems to have a rather strange view of french language :-) Ainsi parlait Gary : > h> something about France, birthplace of Rin Tin Tin. >That's just Tin Tin, and I wonder if there are enough characters in >all

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-31 Thread michael
How about "orouborous" - it even sounds French!!! Hoyt wrote: > A while back, I suggested naming the releases after famous magicians (when > Mandrake had meaning as the name of a Magician and the logo was a magician's > hat and wand and Lothar was . . . ). The rejection of that schema wa

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-31 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
> "h" == hduff2 writes: h> . . . The rejection of that schema was based on an h> infringement of copyrighted names. Damn lawyers. Fortunately, there are many public-domain magicians which can go all the way back to Albertus Magnus if you include those who practiced alchemy. Anot

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-31 Thread Hoyt
On Thursday 31 May 2001 08:15 pm, you methodically organized electrons to state: > BTW anyone come > up with name for 8.1 other than cooker? I loved the essay on mating > habits of traktopels :).) > A while back, I suggested naming the releases after famous magicians (when Mandrake had meanin

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-31 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
> "B" == Blue Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: B> Must say if any frying of fish is to be done, it should be done B> by canadian cottage-dwellers Well, since I probably most resemble that remark, I'll tell you that, in Canadian cottage-country old-copper almost-56k end-of-the-line

Re: Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-31 Thread Kyle Jacobs
My comment was to the idea that a weekly release could be tested to ensure minimal functionality before being release for one weeks worth of testing. The originial idea is that only one or two cookers a week could not only simplify the development process, but also streamline it. Instead of ha

Re: Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-31 Thread Vincent Meyer
I thought the testing was OUR job! We find the bugs, they squash the bugs, no? V. On Thursday 31 May 2001 04:57 pm, you wrote: > If the cooker releases were reduced to just 1 or 2 a week, then the > Mandrakesoft staff would actually have time to test, before releasing a > cooker to ensure the

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-31 Thread Blue Lizard
Hmm. Canada boy is making me hungry for either fried penguin or raw fish...? His idea of having a general mirror of weekly isos or something, Im not sure what, is nice. Kinda follows the philosophy behind the kc-cooker(slightly behind sched. thanks to vox) that people wanna be in the know or

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Kyle Jacobs am Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:57:53PM -0400: > release came because of the philosohy of the gaurenteed daily releases. 24 > hours isn't enough time for people to do a good job until the next release. Uhm, where does Mandrake say anything like 'daily releases'? And, what's a

Re: Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-31 Thread michael
What makes a new cooker? Some days I update and it's 25 megs. Today, after a few days wait, it was 330 megs. Maybe a better approach would be to wait as a user a week between updates...I am sure that as the daily changes are made, the people working on the packages appreciate the feedback and w

Re: Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-31 Thread Kyle Jacobs
If the cooker releases were reduced to just 1 or 2 a week, then the Mandrakesoft staff would actually have time to test, before releasing a cooker to ensure the minimal functionality of installing, and booting. I just think that a majority of problems that weren't addressed in the 8.0 release

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-31 Thread guran
On Thursday 31 May 2001 06:42, you wrote: > This is starting to make real sense uh-oh! Hi I think this scenario is somewhat more complicated. Pixel wrote about a month ago that the staff is mainly concerned by bugs reported to bugzilla. Today they are about 1865, noticed and then confirmed and

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-30 Thread fred
This is starting to make real sense uh-oh! what sayeth the (penguin)powers that be??? Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: > > I like the weekly cooker idea, except that it is very often too > convenient to have the latest and greatest as soon as it's ready. > > I sympathize with the idea, though, I ju

Re: [Cooker] The Weekly Cooker

2001-05-30 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
I like the weekly cooker idea, except that it is very often too convenient to have the latest and greatest as soon as it's ready. I sympathize with the idea, though, I just don't want to loose the smooth flow of the cooker --- so I propose a third tier to our penguin food chain process: The Frida