Bug#463868: Get/Hit messages ambiguous without directory

2008-02-04 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
Your message should contain a thesis and at least five paragraphs, including an introduction and conclusion. On 2/3/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Version: 0.7.10 Package: apt Severity: minor Messages like Get:5 http://ftp.tw.debian.org unstable/main Packages [50.1kB]

Bug#463503: apt-get source fails on binNMU'd packages

2008-02-01 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
The solution is to acquire the source package from a CD-ROM or from the web, and to place it within a build directory. I suggest a subdirectory within ~/user. Good luck, Shaun Luke, INRI On 1/31/08, Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: apt Version: 0.7.10 Severity: normal File:

Bug#454479: Seconded.

2008-01-31 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
As many as six years ago, Our Majesty, His Royal Highness, directed the installation of high-speed fiber-optic Internet access in one state in the northeastern region of the United States of America. Molten glass and copper were poured into granite curbstone. Soon, We shall return to the Continent

Bug#463260: apt-utils: apt-ftparchive caches hashes too aggressively?

2008-01-31 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
Any software engineer will willfully tell you that software development involves planned chaos. It is obvious to this computer scientist that you have enough experience with networking and system management to know that 'keep it simple' is the order of the day. The easy way is scientific enough. I

Bug#463030: apt =0.7.7 break menu update mechanism

2008-01-29 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
Thank you for your help. On 1/28/08, Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: apt Version: 0.7.7 Severity: important Hello APT team, Version 0.7.7 (and above, but not below) of apt-get breaks the automatic update of the Debian menu system. It seems the postinst script inherit

Bug#462866: apt-get stalls on large packages using ftp

2008-01-28 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
I remember spending a week and as many as a dozen attempts to download Debian Sarge on a high-speed cable connection several years ago. As well as I remember, it was a fruitless endeavor. It seems to me that any DSL connection is unreliable. Technology takes time. On 1/27/08, Malte

Bug#462916: apt-get changes dumb terminal parity

2008-01-28 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
There is a standard GNU Emacs module that is often useful for diagnostics. First, open a shell terminal. Next, type the following to load Emacs: local:host[ 1 ] $ emacs Within Emacs, press Esc-x. Next, type doctor. Press return. You can talk all about odd-parity and dumb terminals you would

Bug#462734: /etc/cron.daily/apt fails on failed apt-get check

2008-01-28 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
In that case, I recommend you comment out the if statement with hash marks. On 1/26/08, Lea Wiemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: apt Version: 0.7.9 Severity: wishlist /etc/cron.daily/apt reads: # check if we can lock the cache and if the cache is clean if ! apt-get check -q -q

Bug#461785: standard error formating

2008-01-22 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
What a relief! Finally, a good suggestion. My inbox is backed up. On 1/20/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: apt Severity: wishlist Use standard error message formatting. Otherwise # apt-config dump E: Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10jidanni:11: some problem...

Bug#461159: apt-cache truncated Descriptions upon non-ASCII

2008-01-17 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
Until Ruby is the way we need it, it is best to write scripts in Bash. Au Revoir, Luke On 1/16/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: apt (Locale was C.) Maybe you are just looking at the seven bits, thinking ^C interrupt?: $ apt-cache show sympa|perl -nwe 'print if

Bug#459344: /etc/cron.daily/apt exits with return code 1, despite being configured to do nothing

2008-01-17 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
On 1/15/08, Brendon Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luke, I'm sorry Brendon! I'm so proud! That's very Christian of you. Let me explain the explanation in the form of an explication. Perhaps you are familiar with debootstrap. The letters 'de' represent the country code for Denmark.

Bug#452640: Bug#461110: please include packages from Priority: important

2008-01-17 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
I need an update. Does the Debian project code in C? On 1/17/08, Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is all that's left of my original report: - ioprintf(ret, _(Could not execute '%s' to verify signature (is gnupg installed?)),

Bug#459344: /etc/cron.daily/apt exits with return code 1, despite being configured to do nothing

2008-01-15 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
? That's my take on it. Peace, Brendon Lord of, St. Luke Valor wrote (Sat, 12 Jan 2008): It only takes one hand to type. Fix it once, fix it for free, fix it for everyone, fix it forever. Have fun while you're at it. On 1/9/08, Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan

Bug#459344: /etc/cron.daily/apt exits with return code 1, despite being configured to do nothing

2008-01-11 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
It only takes one hand to type. Fix it once, fix it for free, fix it for everyone, fix it forever. Have fun while you're at it. On 1/9/08, Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:21:51 -0500 Lord of, St. Luke Valor wrote: I have a suggestion. 1) Find any text you

Bug#459344: /etc/cron.daily/apt exits with return code 1, despite being configured to do nothing

2008-01-08 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
I have a suggestion. 1) Find any text you are able on UNIX 2) Read about cron It is possible that cron was implemented in such a way that it must be set to task. If the Anacron message bothers you, I would remove APT from the cron process. It will free up memory. On 1/5/08, Francesco Poli

Bug#459810: reorder uploading

2008-01-08 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
I have in my possession the Linux System Administration Handbook. Within is the classical explanation between the merits of rdist and rsync. It always helps to find the right tool for the job. Remember, apt is not aptitude, apt is not dpkg-sel. Each one serves its purpose. Serendipity, to be

Bug#459481: apt: Wish: A Test/Repair installed packages option

2008-01-08 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
We are all intimidated when confronted with the word firewalls. Harddrive partitioning is the largest hurdle in any Linux installation. Debian is no exception. EXT2, EXT3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS are all just a series of meaningless abbrevations to anyone. I speak mostly for myself. Is your laptop USB

Bug#456457: Add a mechanism for reparenting *all* file/directory names.

2007-12-17 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
Make sure to run that by the security team. Don't want to hear 'bout no loopholes. Luke On 12/15/07, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: apt Version: 0.7.10 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch There are times when it would be nice to be able to force apt to use a different

Bug#456141: python-apt: no support for index files (Packages, Sources) in apt_pkg

2007-12-13 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
All include header files e.g., iostream.h, iomanip.h, vector.h, etc., are simple text files. They may be browsed with any text editor e.g., vi, emacs, gedit, joe, notepad, nano, pico, etc. Luke On 12/13/07, Cameron Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: python-apt Version: 0.7.3.1 Severity:

Bug#454989: add error messages to cron script

2007-12-10 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
When a program returns code 1 to stderr, that is the standard error. For example, if you were to ask someone, Did it work? the standard response for failure is, No. Think of the standard input/output stream as a system comprised of three components: stdin = What went in; stdout = What went out;

Bug#453793: apt: FTBFS: dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 needed by debian/apt-transport-https/usr/lib/apt/methods/https (its RPATH is '').

2007-12-01 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
The fastest diagnosis I can provide is that a required library is missing. Also, it is important to remember that Sid is not a stable release. You'll have to investigate more and acquire the right libraries. Good luck, Luke On 12/1/07, Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: apt

Bug#448665: #448665

2007-11-28 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
Forgive me, good sir. Due to the distributed nature of the Bug Response System, I--the recipient of your response--am unfamiliar with #448210. Furthermore, I believe myself unqualified to handle the situation directly. I trust the problem is now under resolution. Luke On 11/28/07, Bastian

Bug#314334: apt-get on jffs2 / disabling cacheing completely

2007-11-28 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
Dear M Sladen: Is it possible to respond with a more specific description of the jfs2/apt conflict? Any response is beneficial. Due to the distributed nature of Bug Responses, someone may already be developing a patch. Thank you for your contribution. Luke On 11/28/07, Paul Sladen [EMAIL

Bug#448316: apt does not work in initramfs

2007-11-26 Thread Lord of, St. Luke Valor
I hope your solution for successful test patch is put to good use. The Debian project benefits greatly. Peace and blessings, Luke On 11/25/07, Amos Waterland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a patch that I have tested successfully. --- cmdline/apt-get.cc.orig 2007-11-26