Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 02:59:17PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I can mostly live with the current apt-proxy, except for the > fact that it does not seem to want to play nice with debbootstrap: > debbootstrap just hangs. Happens here too.. my apt-proxy and debootstrap client

Re: gfreeamp playlist inquiry

2004-10-22 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 11:42:57PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:05:30PM -0400, Siqueland-Gresch wrote: > > > > Hello and good evening from Rhode Island ! Go Red Sox! > > I have been using the Freeamp program for years and I am in love with its > > simplicity. No gimmick

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:48:25 +0200, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Selon Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I'm thankful you're taking the discussion to this list, where >> probably more people will be able participate as well. > I hope so. > [...] >> > Some improvements have al

Re: gfreeamp playlist inquiry

2004-10-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:05:30PM -0400, Siqueland-Gresch wrote: > > Hello and good evening from Rhode Island ! > > I do not know whether you can help me. Right up front, I am not a programmer > at all. No clue. Not a sausage.So if I sound ignorant it is because I am. > But here it is: > I ha

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:20:51 +0200, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Debian developers, on the contrary, run unstable and rarely run > testing, which means that they don't really know about the shape of > what they release. The reason I run unstable is because tat is where I upl

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:48:01 +0200, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> However, if unstable would be frozen at the same time, would >>> development stop? Probably not. I'm pretty sure that several >>> would start with separate repositories and th

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:56:31 -0300, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: jh> When we used to freeze unstable before a release, one of the jh> problems was that many updates were blocked by that, and once the jh> freeze was over, unstable tended to become _very_ unstable, and jh> took months

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > Here's an idea I just had about apt-proxy/apt-cacher NG. Maybe this > could be interesting, maybe it's just crap. Your call. rapt proxy is an actuall http proxy that caches debian packages. It's written in ruby and since all you have to do to use it

Re: Does the Debian gpg key infrastructure support multiple sub-keys?

2004-10-22 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:09:53PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Rob Browning wrote: > > If I added a new sign/encrypt sub-key to my Debian key, would I be > > able to use that to sign and upload packages? Would the Debian > > Yes, mostly. Some stuff (db.d.o an

Re: ITH: basket ( was: About Basket packaging status)

2004-10-22 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:18:40AM +0200, Jos? Luis Tall?n wrote: > Since i have not received any answer since Oct 5th, i prepare to > hijack Basket's ITP in 2 days' time barring > answer from the OP (101 days in preparation) > > I believe that Basket is an useful application to have in Debian, an

gfreeamp playlist inquiry

2004-10-22 Thread Siqueland-Gresch
Title: Message   Hello and good evening from Rhode Island !   I do not know whether you can help me. Right up front, I am not a programmer at all. No clue. Not a sausage.So if I sound ignorant it is because I am. But here it is: I have been using the Freeamp program for years and I am in l

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:44:12 +1000, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manoj> Hi, I can mostly live with the current apt-proxy, except for Manoj> the fact that it does not seem to want to play nice with Manoj> debbootstrap: debbootst

ITH: basket ( was: About Basket packaging status)

2004-10-22 Thread José Luis Tallón
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since i have not received any answer since Oct 5th, i prepare to hijack Basket's ITP in 2 days' time barring answer from the OP (101 days in preparation) I believe that Basket is an useful application to have in Debian, and will take care of maintaining

Re: Does the Debian gpg key infrastructure support multiple sub-keys?

2004-10-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Rob Browning wrote: > If I added a new sign/encrypt sub-key to my Debian key, would I be > able to use that to sign and upload packages? Would the Debian Yes, mostly. Some stuff (db.d.o and vote.d.o come to mind, but I am not sure about that) require you to always sign using

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread D. Starner
> But, hey, why t.f. do you not just go and fix some bugs instead of > writing another useless message? Maybe beginning with your own packages, > or looking at some RC bugs? To avoid a flame war, you curse at me, flame me, tell me what do and to boot are hypocritical in the last part (as you too a

Does the Debian gpg key infrastructure support multiple sub-keys?

2004-10-22 Thread Rob Browning
If I added a new sign/encrypt sub-key to my Debian key, would I be able to use that to sign and upload packages? Would the Debian keyserver and the Debian upload infrastructure be able to handle it? If not, would I at least be able to add the sub-key for non-Debian uses without causing trouble w

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Oct-04, 05:25 (CDT), J?r?me Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to Ubuntu, we now have a good example of what's proven > to work. Yes, pay 30 (40?) developers to work fulltime on stabilizing a subset of Debian. Somehow I don't think that's going to work for the Debian Project. Steve

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 03:53:28PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Canonical work because they consist of a small set of people that work > > together and who don't let egos get in the way. They work because they > > have a strong leader who provides fi

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 02:48:01PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When we used to freeze unstable before a release, one of the problems > > was that many updates were blocked by that, and once the freeze was > > over, unstable tended to become _very_ unstabl

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you saying that technical choices do not contribute to the success > of Canonical? For instance, deciding to target the distribution at > most popular architectures only? Supporting a reduced range of both targets and software makes life slightly eas

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 04:04, Brian May wrote: > * If the above point wasn't bad enough by itself, the apt-proxy binary has > hard coded: > > WGET_CMD="$WGET --timestamping --no-host-directories --tries=5 > --no-directories -P $DL_DESTDIR" Hmm, seems you are talking about version 1, which has be

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Jérôme Marant
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Canonical work because they consist of a small set of people that work > together and who don't let egos get in the way. They work because they > have a strong leader who provides firm direction. They work because they > don't have the flaws Debian has

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or do you really believe that mega-threads help much? Do you really > think that Canonical/Ubuntu is more successfull because they discuss > more and let everyone publish its 0.02$ that everybody needs to read? Do > you really think that the explosion of r

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Romain Francoise
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And your point is..? ..lost on you, obviously. > It is our right to hide things. We do not hide problems, we hide > possible solutions. This is ludicrous. > And before you think about writing another message, think about the > reason for having the d

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Jérôme Marant
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> However, if unstable would be frozen at the same time, would >> development stop? Probably not. I'm pretty sure that several would >> start with separate repositories and the like to make more recent >> versions of the software available which they mainta

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * D. Starner [Fri, Oct 22 2004, 11:31:10AM]: > > And before you think about writing another message, > > think about the reason for having the debian-private ML. And why do you move parts of my message around?! To place your part of the "answer" in the beginning, to look more important?

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041022 22:15]: > Sure but not we have the experimental distribution to deal with it > while we are stabilizing the unstable and testing distribution. The > current problem is experimental is not a full distribution and doesn't > have buildd systems. Actually,

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
|| On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:52:05 -0400 || Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: jh> Martin Schulze wrote: >> Logbooks are suited for a lot, but not for discussions. They're more >> suited for experiences, statements and the like. >> >> I'm thankful you're taking the discussion to this list, where

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread D. Starner
> And before you think about writing another message, > think about the reason for having the debian-private ML. The reason why debian-private exists is so people can talk about sensitive issues without posting them on the web, especially things involving personal or private things between people.

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:22:57PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.22.2011 +0200]: > > This rapidly turns from a plain 404 error script into a somewhat > > nontrivial Perl-or-Python-or-whatever doument handler. > > It's still rather simple.

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Schulze wrote: > Logbooks are suited for a lot, but not for discussions. They're more > suited for experiences, statements and the like. > > I'm thankful you're taking the discussion to this list, where probably > more people will be able participate as well. Indeed.. > However, if unsta

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Jérôme Marant
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20041022T134825+0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> Before "testing", the RM used to freeze unstable and people were >> working on fixing bugs. There were pretest cycles with bug horizons, >> and freezes were shorter. > > That's not true (unless yo

Re: NMU for libpaper

2004-10-22 Thread Roger Leigh
Giuseppe Sacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that libpaper package is unmaintaned, but i would like to do an > NMU using a large patch. The relevant bug report (with patch) is #188899 > and this would also close hylafax bug report #269184. > > Does anyone see any problem in applying this

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.22.2011 +0200]: > >> exec wget -O - $MIRROR/$RPATH | tee $LPATH > > > Don't forget > mkdir -p "$(dirname "$LPATH")" Why the extra two processes? mkdir -p ${LPATH%/*} > The above pipe needs either bash 3 or a subshell, if you want to >

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Romain Francoise [Fri, Oct 22 2004, 06:04:12PM]: > > Is the entire world on crack and I just failed to notice until now? > > Don't worry, we're preparing an internal General Resolution to address > this crack problem, but you're not supposed to know about it. This is > how we fix pro

Re: requirements regarding 'priorities'

2004-10-22 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > What can be done, regarding this package, and also every other packages > which could be in this situation? At the moment? Not much. It's a low-priority problem. -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.20.1155 +0200]: >> #!/bin/sh -e >> >> echo 200 OK >> echo Content-type: application/x-debian-package >> echo >> >> exec wget -O - $MIRROR/$RPATH | tee $LPATH > Don't forget mkdir -p "$(dirname "$LPATH")" Th

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20041022T134825+0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Before "testing", the RM used to freeze unstable and people were > working on fixing bugs. There were pretest cycles with bug horizons, > and freezes were shorter. That's not true (unless you are talking about something that was ceased several years

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Martin Schulze wrote: > Because they have set up and maintain the buildd network. Other people have set up, and are maintaining, their very own buildd networks, and thus might be assumed to be qualified to add t-s support and/or whatever else is missing. Me, for example. (I think I've menti

Re: Mail Delivery (failure dailyhoroscope@mailer1.astronet.com) (KMM1187634

2004-10-22 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:07:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > "Today will not be a good day. You will receive many snarky responses to > your message to debian-devel complaining about your missing horoscope. > More bad news to follow in other messages". Please, don't not make the spam problem wo

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 06:13:46PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Because they have set up and maintain the buildd network. Yes, nice, well done, thank them for their initial work, but it seems as if it's up for others now to take over that job, because they obviously failing continuously doing i

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 22 octobre 2004 à 11:26 +0200, Martin Schulze a écrit : > > It still (as written on -project one or two weeks ago) lacks the > > infrastructure as in a working buildd network that processes the > > target ``testing-security''. This is something that two people

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Romain Francoise
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Jerome, please, you could have asked me. I prepare an internal GR draft >> for exactly this issue, but it is to be made public on the day of the >> release, and better not before. We should concentrate on making the >> Sarge release ready, NOW. Do not

Re: Mail Delivery (failure dailyhoroscope@mailer1.astronet.com) (KMM1187634

2004-10-22 Thread John Hasler
Stottalex writes: > Did not receive my daily horoscope for Friday 22 Oct 04 only the summary > which does not give access to extended horoscope for that day. Here you go: "Today will not be a good day. You will receive many snarky responses to your message to debian-devel complaining about your

raptor crippled

2004-10-22 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks raptor is currently crippled to one cpu. It uses nfs to import most of the storage and was regulary hit by the problem described in #275673. Bastian -- We'll pivot at warp 2 and bring all tubes to bear, Mr. Sulu! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.22.0019 +0200]: > store_avg_object_size should have no impact on what is and is not > cached. Ah, interesting. I guess my testing results were influence by my expectations then. Thanks for your tips! -- Please do not CC me when replying to

Re: NMU for libpaper

2004-10-22 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi Hamish, Il ven, 2004-10-22 alle 15:39, Hamish Moffatt ha scritto: [...] > Rather than NMU just for this bug, you could try to contact the > maintainer again and adopt the package if unsuccessful, or with his > consent. Echelon says Stephen Zander was last seen in early August. Thanks for your

Re: Bug#277582: ITP: kwin-baghira -- A MacOSX-like theme for Apple junkies ;)

2004-10-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:31:52AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > I would suggest a name like kde-$FOO-style to be used (e.g., > kde-baghira-style) for packages that provide a widget style for > QT/KDE, and include kwin decoration (if they exist) in the same > package. (*) For the sake of c

Re: NMU for libpaper

2004-10-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 07:27:32PM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > It seems that libpaper package is unmaintaned, but i would like to do an > NMU using a large patch. The relevant bug report (with patch) is #188899 > and this would also close hylafax bug report #269184. > > Does anyone see any prob

Re: RE: Mail Delivery (failure dailyhoroscope@mailer1.astronet.com) (KMM1187634

2004-10-22 Thread Stottalex
Did not receive my daily horoscope for Friday 22 Oct 04 only the summary which does not give access to extended horoscope for that day. Thank you for your service

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 22 octobre 2004 Ã 11:26 +0200, Martin Schulze a Ãcrit : > It still (as written on -project one or two weeks ago) lacks the > infrastructure as in a working buildd network that processes the > target ``testing-security''. This is something that two people in > Debian can set up. (This

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Jérôme Marant
Selon Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm thankful you're taking the discussion to this list, where probably > more people will be able participate as well. I hope so. [...] > > Some improvements have already been proposed by Eduard Bloch and > > Adrian Bunk: freezing unstable while keep

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerome, please, you could have asked me. I prepare an internal GR draft > for exactly this issue, but it is to be made public on the day of the > release, and better not before. We should concentrate on making the > Sarge release ready, NOW. Do not start a

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Jérôme Marant
Selon Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > #include > * Jérôme Marant [Fri, Oct 22 2004, 10:20:51AM]: > > > Some improvements have already been proposed by Eduard Bloch and > > Adrian Bunk: freezing unstable while keeping testing. > > Jerome, please, you could have asked me. I prepare an internal

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Andreas Barth: > There are no autobuilders for testing-security. So what's missing at this stage? Machines? An active local system administrator? Or someone who is trusted enough to integrate the buildds into the security build infrastructure? If it's machines or the local system administra

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Bug#53121:

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Bug#277766: ITP: moniwiki -- MoniWiki is yet another WikiEngine written in PHP. It is fast, light and easy to install. Also it has many enhanced and new features. Moni is slightly modified sound which means What? or What is it? in Korean. The name also indicates that MoniWiki is nearly compatible with the MoinMoin. MoniWiki WikiFormattingRules were inspired and adopted from MoinMoin. Check MoniWikiFeatures to see what MoniWiki has to offer.

2004-10-22 Thread Ki-Heon Kim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: moniwiki Version : 1.0.9 Upstream Author : Won Kyu Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://http://moniwiki.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : MoniWiki is yet another WikiEngine written in PHP. I

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Jérôme Marant [Fri, Oct 22 2004, 10:20:51AM]: > Some improvements have already been proposed by Eduard Bloch and > Adrian Bunk: freezing unstable while keeping testing. Jerome, please, you could have asked me. I prepare an internal GR draft for exactly this issue, but it is to be made

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
Joey writes: >Jan Niehusmann wrote: >> Question to the security team: What's holding back security support for >> sarge? (This is not a complaint - I'm just curious) > >It still (as written on -project one or two weeks ago) lacks the >infrastructure as in a working buildd network that processes the

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Jérôme Marant wrote: > It's too bad that interesting discussions take place in blogs rather > than in Debian mailing lists, especially for those who don't blog > but would like to participate. Logbooks are suited for a lot, but not for discussions. They're more suited for experiences, statements

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Jan Niehusmann wrote: > Question to the security team: What's holding back security support for > sarge? (This is not a complaint - I'm just curious) It still (as written on -project one or two weeks ago) lacks the infrastructure as in a working buildd network that processes the target ``testing-s

Re: Security updates for sarge? (was: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org)

2004-10-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jan Niehusmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041022 11:10]: > Question to the security team: What's holding back security support for > sarge? (This is not a complaint - I'm just curious) There are no autobuilders for testing-security. See the latest release update http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-an

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Jan Niehusmann] > Question to the security team: What's holding back security support > for sarge? (This is not a complaint - I'm just curious) Debian-edu is trying to form a separate security team for debian/testing, working on keeping the testing distribution secure in paralell with the debian/

Security updates for sarge? (was: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org)

2004-10-22 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:20:51AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Debian developers, on the contrary, run unstable and rarely run > testing, which means that they don't really know about the shape > of what they release. I would immediately upgrade at least one, probably more, woody machines to sar

Re: NMU for libpaper

2004-10-22 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Giuseppe Sacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It seems that libpaper package is unmaintaned, but i would like to do an >> NMU using a large patch. The relevant bug report (with patch) is #188899 >> and this would also close hylafax bug report #269184. >

Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-22 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, It's too bad that interesting discussions take place in blogs rather than in Debian mailing lists, especially for those who don't blog but would like to participate. Scott James Remnant said something interesting about Ubuntu release management: Ubuntu people run the distribution that gets r

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Adeodato Simó [Fri, Oct 22 2004, 04:40:52AM]: > > Further, I wish there could be pre-caching. Means: if a file was > > downloaded and that file was mentioned in packages-file A and after the > > next update, A has a newer version of this package than the package > > could be downloaded.

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists

2004-10-22 Thread Brian May
> "Petter" == Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Petter> At least it sounds like a good idea to have such option. Petter> The work is done in the init.d-script. I'm sure patches Petter> to make it optional to load kernel modules at boot time Petter> are welcome. :

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Hampson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 02:21:17PM +1000, Jonathan Oxer wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 13:43 +1000, Paul Hampson wrote: > > > Is there anything such a system would want to fetch from a Debian > > mirror that doesn't show up in Packages.gz or Sources.gz? > Yes, lots of things as I found out the ha

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Brian May
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: martin> also sprach Jonathan Oxer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> martin> [2004.10.21.0617 +0200]: >> So it's necessary to keep fetching the Packages files within >> their expiry time or the cache gets nuked. martin> Why delete

Bug#277748: ITP: libsbml -- Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML)

2004-10-22 Thread Andrea Tasso
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libsbml Version : 2.2.0 Upstream Author : Ben Bornstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sbml.org/software/libsbml/ * License : LGPL Description : Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) LibSBML is a libr

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Brian May
> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manoj> Hi, I can mostly live with the current apt-proxy, except Manoj> for the fact that it does not seem to want to play nice Manoj> with debbootstrap: debbootstrap just hangs. Strange. I have never had any problems with d

Bug#277746: ITP: mesord -- A stochastic simulator of coupled chemical reactions and diffusions in space

2004-10-22 Thread Andrea Tasso
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: mesord Version : 0.1.9 Upstream Author : David Fange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mesord.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : A stochastic simulator of coupled chemical reactions and diffus