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Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:59:52AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Andreas Jochens writes: Wouter Verhelst wrote: - must have successfully compiled 98% of the archive's source (excluding arch-specific packages) Andreas Jochens writes: It is not possible to build 98% of the unmodified source

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Peter Samuelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050823 00:18]: [John Hasler] Make it 98% of the packages buildable on the accepted port with the highest build percentage. That's not fair either, unless you require all packages to be autobuilt (which is a thread we don't need to duplicate now).

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-23 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050823 03:32]: On the other hand I feel that a port with even 80% of all packages available can be very very usefull. Even a port without any X can be usefull if that lack of software is intentional and not just inability to build something.

Re: Snapshot/Rollback using LVM/EVMS

2005-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Goswin, this is what I thought. Now I need someone help me with EVMS steps. How to make a snapshot and rollback. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mar 23 Août 2005 03:37, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : In the end the decision to apply this benchmark will be manual and arbitrary; it's not like a precise way to measure it really matters. As stated elsewhere, at present, nobody except i386 comes even close to 98%. I see an increase

Re: Snapshot/Rollback using LVM/EVMS

2005-08-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:28:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Goswin, this is what I thought. Now I need someone help me with EVMS steps. How to make a snapshot and rollback. This mailing list is for development-related discussion; please use debian-user@lists.debian.org for tech

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-23 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Tuesday, 23 August 2005 07:02, Joe Smith wrote: Ok, I know just about nothing about this. I currently have 2.6 kernel, hotplug, and udev. If I replace hotplug with coldplug, everything should still work barring unexpected bugs? (Once the archive is updated of course, so that udev does not

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Tomas Fasth
Martin Pitt skrev: Hi Wouter! Wouter Verhelst [2005-08-23 1:26 +0200]: So you suggest throwing buildd out of the window and switching to pbuilder, then? Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use pbuilder itself since it is not the most efficient implementation

Re: pvcreate on loopback file with lvm2

2005-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Steve Langasek [2005-08-22 18:09 -0700]: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:34:16PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: W. Borgert [2005-08-22 14:37 +0200]: Quoting Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I used to think that too. I took a wander through queue/reject on merkel. I don't think

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, * Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050823 03:32]: Maybe the 98% rule was just a look at http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-week-big.png or http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph2-week-big.png and then picking a number so that the archs

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 8/23/05, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: The number of buildds required to keep up with the volume of uploaded packages must not be greater than two. There must be that many buildds, in addition there must also be a redundant buildd.

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 8/23/05, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Jochens in particular did a lot of hard work in fixing most of the GCC 4.0 failures and regressions over the last year while porting for amd64. The fact that many maintainers have not

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: script, it should be written to exit if the appropriate binary isn't found. The appropriate binary is a conffile as well. Now, that's not strictly true, is it? /etc/init.d/hotplug invokes /sbin/hotplug, which almost entirely consists of

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Isaac Clerencia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just tried it and it has worked really great, except it has not loaded mousedev module. Everything else has worked, and it's incredible fast (at It's supposed to, do you mind investigating? Do not delete the generated events, etc. Try

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 8/23/05, Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually perhaps software should be built outside of clean chroots. Why? Did someone suggest to disallow that? Why can't you do both?

WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, I have checked in some files into svn.debian.org. The files are in UTF-8 encoding[1], but the web front-end seems to believe in ISO-8859-1. Did I do something wrong when checking in files, or is WebSVN too plain in its assumptions? How/where can I file a bug, if the problem is in

Bug#324632: ITP: gausssum -- Scripts which parse the output of Gaussian and GAMESS

2005-08-23 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: gausssum Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Noel O'Boyle * URL : http://gausssum.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Scripts which parse the output of Gaussian

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-23 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:57, Marco d'Itri wrote: It's supposed to, do you mind investigating? Do not delete the generated events, etc. Try manually running the init script a second time too. I noticed that on my system the first time it's run the ehci_hcd is not loaded, but I have not

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-23 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Marco! On Tue 23 Aug 2005 09:57 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 23, Isaac Clerencia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just tried it and it has worked really great, except it has not loaded mousedev module. Everything else has worked, and it's incredible fast (at It's supposed to, do you

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Tomas! Tomas Fasth [2005-08-23 9:31 +0200]: So you suggest throwing buildd out of the window and switching to pbuilder, then? Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use pbuilder itself since it is not the most efficient implementation around, but

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:18 +0200, Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use pbuilder itself since it is not the most efficient implementation around, but rebuilding the buildd chroots from scratch would help to eliminate many FTBFS

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 10:20, W. Borgert wrote: I have checked in some files into svn.debian.org. The files are in UTF-8 encoding[1], but the web front-end seems to believe in ISO-8859-1. Did I do something wrong when checking in files, or is WebSVN too plain in its assumptions?

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Luca Capello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And here the results (differences versus hotplug): As Luca just discovered, it will not work unless you have the /sbin/udevinitsend binary. Get it from the udev build directory or install http://incoming.debian.org/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb . -

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:51:52 -0700, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:22:11PM +, W. Borgert wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:29:31PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: really matters: can we (the Debian project) maintain the port? Thus I propose we only

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:16:47AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: On 8/23/05, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: The number of buildds required to keep up with the volume of uploaded packages must not be greater than two. There must be

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:32:33AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: It doesn't really hurt us right now, so we didn't start to force building packages in pbuilder. buildd time is cheap compared to developer time, so introducing mandatory pbuilding would slow down development quite drastically. I

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:25:41AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:18 +0200, Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use pbuilder itself since it is not the most efficient implementation around, but rebuilding

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:16:47AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: On 8/23/05, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: The number of buildds required to keep up with the volume

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:12:09AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:51:52 -0700, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:22:11PM +, W. Borgert wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:29:31PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: really matters: can we

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:42:50AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:22:47AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: There was discussion in Vancouver about requiring ports to have an upstream kernel maintainer, FSO upstream; perhaps we should be considering requiring there to be

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: WebSVN does not know about the contents of files in the repository period. OK. As it is just a frontend to svn, you cannot expect it to know about every weird file format and encoding around. OK. IMO, the main purpose of websvn is to be able to view

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 12:45, W. Borgert wrote: Not all of my translators are easy with svn command line. WebSVN would be helpful, so they see, whether I did my homework and checked in their latest changes correctly. Could be useful for d-i, too. In my experience some kind of revision

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:42:18AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: one day (as the buildds do) is certainly acceptable. OTOH, lagging behind for several weeks (which is not unreasonable for folks without a phat pipe) is certainly not, especially if you are in a period of massive transitions.

Unnecessary Conflicts with imap-server packages

2005-08-23 Thread Edward
Hi there, Is it necessary for the following packages to Conflict with the virtual package imap-server: bincimap-run courier-imap cyrus-imapd(*) cyrus21-imapd (*) dovecot-imapd mailutils-imap4d (*) uw-imapd (*) For example, I recently moved from uw-imapd to

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For that you should enable the svn keyword Id (using 'svn propset svn:keywords Id') and add a comment in your English files containing $Id:. I will do that, thanks for the hint! (However, my original plea for using UTF-8 in WebSVN remains.) Cheers, WB --

Re: Unnecessary Conflicts with imap-server packages

2005-08-23 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:32 +0100, Edward wrote: My humbly proposed fix: remove the Conflicts: imap-server from these packages, and make the postinst / init scripts more robust to the failure mode where an imap-server is already running / listed in inetd.conf. Why not do dpkg -i

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:25:41AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:18 +0200, Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use pbuilder itself since it is not the most efficient implementation around, but rebuilding

update of (several) config files

2005-08-23 Thread Tomas Davidek
Hello, I am trying to set up a tool for easy update of several computers in our institute. For example, I would like to create a package that updates several config files, e.g. /etc/apt/sources.list etc. What is the best way of doing that ? So far I think about an package that only contains

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 10:07 -0500, Manoj Srivastava escreveu: On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:29:51 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The constitution states that no developer can have democratic control imposed on them at all. Indeed, I reject any such control over

Re: Unnecessary Conflicts with imap-server packages

2005-08-23 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:32:15PM +0100, Edward wrote: Is it necessary for the following packages to Conflict with the virtual package imap-server: bincimap-run courier-imap cyrus-imapd(*) cyrus21-imapd (*) dovecot-imapd mailutils-imap4d (*) uw-imapd

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:48:58AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I'd much rather have seen that point go, but that didn't happen. Meaning you would have preferred that there not be a requirement of buildd redundancy, or you

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi Joey, Your response was very much what I needed to hear. I'll have to retract most of my worries. On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:20:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: - A personal interest shared by me, tbm, and taggart is to get Debian working on the various types of cheap mips wireless access

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread John Hasler
Joe Smith writes: Actually perhaps software should be built outside of clean chroots. Why? Because if there is a possibility that a dirty chroot will cause the package to fail, there is a bug in some peice of software. The probability that the developer has the particular package that will

Re: Unnecessary Conflicts with imap-server packages

2005-08-23 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, August 23, 2005 14:14, Gerrit Pape wrote: $ sed -ne '19,$p' /usr/share/doc/bincimap-run/README.Debian The bincimap-run package provides the virtual package ``imap-server'' and conflicts with other packages providing ``imap-server''. This ensures that bincimap is the only service that

Re: update of (several) config files

2005-08-23 Thread W. Borgert
Hello Tomas, this question should better go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Tomas Davidek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am trying to set up a tool for easy update of several computers in our institute. For example, I would like to create a package that updates several config files, e.g.

Re: update of (several) config files

2005-08-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tomas Davidek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.23.1401 +0200]: I am trying to set up a tool for easy update of several computers in our institute. For example, I would like to create a package that updates several config files, e.g. /etc/apt/sources.list etc. What is the best way of

Re: Snapshot/Rollback using LVM/EVMS

2005-08-23 Thread Pavel Orehov
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Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:32:33AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: It doesn't really hurt us right now, so we didn't start to force building packages in pbuilder. buildd time is cheap compared to developer time, so introducing mandatory pbuilding would

Bug#324677: ITP: fruit -- Fruit is an UCI-only chess engine.

2005-08-23 Thread Oliver Korff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Oliver Korff [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: fruit Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Fabien Letouzey * URL : http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ * License : (GPL) Description : Fruit is an UCI-only chess engine.

Re: Bug#324677: ITP: fruit -- Fruit is an UCI-only chess engine.

2005-08-23 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:49 +0200, Oliver Korff wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Oliver Korff [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: fruit Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Fabien Letouzey * URL : http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ * License : (GPL)

Re: Bug#324677: ITP: fruit -- Fruit is an UCI-only chess engine.

2005-08-23 Thread Laurent Fousse
Hi, * Oliver Korff [Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:49:34PM +0200]: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Oliver Korff [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: fruit Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Fabien Letouzey * URL : http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ * License :

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:14:28AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:32:33AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: It doesn't really hurt us right now, so we didn't start to force building packages in pbuilder. buildd time is cheap

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:14:28AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: Sure we do, for certain ports (ie: amd64). Really, this just means it'd be better to implement a system along the lines of: source upload fastest/preferred buildd type (i386,

Re: Bug#324677: ITP: fruit -- Fruit is an UCI-only chess engine.

2005-08-23 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:49:34PM +0200, Oliver Korff wrote: * URL : http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ This URL does not mention anything about “fruit” at all; it seems to be a chess tournament for computers or something along those lines. Description : Fruit is an UCI-only chess

Re: Unnecessary Conflicts with imap-server packages

2005-08-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:14:33PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: $ sed -ne '19,$p' /usr/share/doc/bincimap-run/README.Debian The bincimap-run package provides the virtual package ``imap-server'' and conflicts with other packages providing ``imap-server''. This ensures that bincimap is the only

Re: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation withspecialemphasis in security

2005-08-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Thomas Bushnell BSG dijo [Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:02:18PM -0700]: The OBSD crowd have reimplemented many important subsystems because they do not consider GPL-like licenses to be free enough. Yes, also because of technical reasons, but in this case it seems to be about (their version of)

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:40:18AM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: Actually perhaps software should be built outside of clean chroots. Why? Do I need to have root on the debian developer machines? I currently use that machines to build packages for architectures I don't own. Bastian -- The best

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
** Joe Smith :: Actually perhaps software should be built outside of clean chroots. Why? Because if there is a possibility that a dirty chroot will cause the package to fail, there is a bug in some peice of software. It could prevent a user from recompiling on his own system, which thusly

Re: Bug#324677: ITP: fruit -- Fruit is an UCI-only chess engine.

2005-08-23 Thread Oliver Korff
Thanks for all the good advice, I will be more descriptive with the short and long description, as I see that this is really necessary. And I will be more careful while using reportbug, because I don't want to bother people with Fruit is ..., Fruit is ..., Fruit is... -- sorry Where I don't

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:06:41PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: I vehemently disagree. I think exactly the opposite: debbuild and/or dpkg-buildpackage should *always* build a package inside a clean and minimal chroot jail. This way, (1) every package will predictably build from

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:29:10AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: WebSVN does not know about the contents of files in the repository period. As it is just a frontend to svn, you cannot expect it to know about every weird file format and encoding around. Subversion is encoding-clean, the frontend

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-23 Thread Joe Smith
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Human error, or poluted chroot/compilation env is more likely to happen on the developper machine than in a buildd. Maybe this has already been discussed once, but I think that binary uploaded packages (except the

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:28:22PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:06:41PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: I vehemently disagree. I think exactly the opposite: debbuild and/or dpkg-buildpackage should *always* build a package inside a clean and minimal chroot

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
On Tuesday 23 of August 2005 17:28, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:06:41PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: I vehemently disagree. I think exactly the opposite: debbuild and/or dpkg-buildpackage should *always* build a package inside a clean and minimal chroot jail.

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Gustavo Noronha Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The constitution also states that no developer can work actively against the implementation of such a decision made by the project[0]. Not doing the work and not letting anyone else do it would constitute 'working actively againt'. Quite the

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Bushnell] Quite the contrary; it seems to me that this is to work *passively* against something. Not doing the work is working passively against it, while prohibiting others from doing the work is working actively against it. If you do both, you are working actively against it. --

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
** Bastian Blank :: You have a linux kernel ready, which allows chroot as normal user? Please share it with us. It's called QEMU :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Thomas Bushnell] Quite the contrary; it seems to me that this is to work *passively* against something. Not doing the work is working passively against it, while prohibiting others from doing the work is working actively against it. If you do

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 00:34 +0300, Riku Voipio escreveu: jffs2 image, which is then flashed to a pile of devices. Walking through d-i every time would be very clumsy, so there is no use for a working installer for those systems. There's no use for a full-blown stable release for such things,

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/23/05, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Jochens in particular did a lot of hard work in fixing most of the GCC 4.0 failures and regressions over the last year while porting for

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 01:32 +0200, Marco d'Itri escreveu: The (still not uploaded) coldplug package conflicts+depends+provides hotplug. The issue is that since all the important parts of hotplug are conffiles they are not deleted when the package is removed, and this is bad (as in the system

Re: Is dpkg --compare-versions canonical?

2005-08-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.23.1908 +0200]: case, I wanted to double-check and be sure that dpkg --compare-versions is the canonical ordering for version numbers. I'm pretty sure it is, but better safe than sorry to check. Yes. Is there a document anywhere outside of

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Gustavo Noronha Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The (still not uploaded) coldplug package conflicts+depends+provides hotplug. The issue is that since all the important parts of hotplug are conffiles they are not deleted when the package is removed, and this is bad (as in the

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 19:45 +0200, Adrian von Bidder escreveu: On Monday 22 August 2005 11.25, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: [ the 'must have a working installer' requirement ] Trivial. debootstrap does that. Debootstrap is not an installer, in very much the same way that tar

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:15 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Think hotplug events loop. So, a hotplug event could load and run code (which happen to be in conf files, and therefore cannot be diverted) in the old hotplug package. The problem you're facing, it seems, is that while code should be

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:01:24PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: On Tuesday 23 of August 2005 17:28, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:06:41PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: I vehemently disagree. I think exactly the opposite: debbuild and/or dpkg-buildpackage

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:26:25PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:01:24PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: Use fakechroot. Yes, it is ugly hack, but it allows me to recompile the ^^^ packages without root privileges. We all use fakeroot. The question

Is dpkg --compare-versions canonical?

2005-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
dpkg --compare-versions provides exactly the ordering that I want, namely that 1.4rc1 1.4.0 so by omitting the final patch number in the RC revision I can use the correct upstream version without using epochs or strange-looking version numbers. However, since this is a bit of an edge case, I

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-23 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:57, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 23, Isaac Clerencia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just tried it and it has worked really great, except it has not loaded mousedev module. Everything else has worked, and it's incredible fast (at It's supposed to, do you mind

Bug#324730: ITP: libperldoc-search-perl -- Index and search local Perl documentation

2005-08-23 Thread Florian Ragwitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Ragwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libperldoc-search-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Mike Schilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Perldoc-Search/ * License : Perl

Bug#324732: ITP: libswish-api-common-perl -- Perl interface to the Swish index engine

2005-08-23 Thread Florian Ragwitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Ragwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libswish-api-common-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Mike Schilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/SWISH-API-Common/ * License : Perl

Re: Is dpkg --compare-versions canonical?

2005-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Thanks for the confirmation! martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also sprach Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.23.1908 +0200]: Is there a document anywhere outside of the dpkg source that explains the algorithm for how version numbers are ordered by the archive software?

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 06.44, Joe Smith wrote: By the way, i386 does not make the cut according to the vancouver prospect due to the number of buildds required. So are we left with 0 archs in etch? :) That will certainly speed up the release. LOL. Release NOW! Release now, damnit! I

Bug#324739: ITP: libsysadm-install-perl -- Perl module to simplify typical installation tasks for system administrators

2005-08-23 Thread Florian Ragwitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Ragwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libsysadm-install-perl Version : 0.20 Upstream Author : Mike Schilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Sysadm-Install/ * License : Perl

Bug#324737: ITP: libshell-posix-select-perl -- The POSIX Shell's select loop for Perl

2005-08-23 Thread Florian Ragwitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Ragwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libshell-posix-select-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Timothy F. Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~yumpy/Shell-POSIX-Select-0.05/ * License :

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:09:48PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 01:32 +0200, Marco d'Itri escreveu: The (still not uploaded) coldplug package conflicts+depends+provides hotplug. The issue is that since all the important parts of hotplug are conffiles they are

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, a hotplug event could load and run code (which happen to be in conf files, and therefore cannot be diverted) in the old hotplug package. The problem you're facing, it seems, is that while code should be divertable, conf files aren't, but

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 22 August 2005 23.51, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:22:11PM +, W. Borgert wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:29:31PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: really matters: can we (the Debian project) maintain the port? Thus I propose we only limit on the number

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:50 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: The init file does, but /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug does not. Why is this file a conffile? I didn't see any obviously configurable parts in it. If it were either wholly be moved elsewhere (/sbin) or the guts of it moved

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway? (Was: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal)

2005-08-23 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello David, * David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED], [2005-08-21 19:44 -0400]: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:29:51PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Wouter Verhelst] b) the three beforementioned teams could already refuse to support a port anyhow, simply by not doing the work.

Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Walter Landry
Wouter Verhelst wrote: Vancouver has gotten a very specific meaning in the Debian community: one of a visionary proposal[1] that received quite its share of flames from many Debian contributors, including myself. Since it appeared to many of us that the intentional result of this proposal

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:50 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: The init file does, but /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug does not. Why is this file a conffile? I didn't see any obviously configurable Historical reasons? It does not really

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually perhaps software should be built outside of clean chroots. Why? Because if there is a possibility that a dirty chroot will cause the package to fail, there is a bug in some peice of software. It could

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:04:57PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Not a kernel feature, but see http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/schroot Does not help, each chroot needs to be setup by root and you need root priviledges to install packages in it. Bastian -- Madness has no purpose. Or

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Wouter! Wouter Verhelst [2005-08-23 1:26 +0200]: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:08:37PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Hamish Moffatt [2005-08-22 23:47 +1000]: There is the possibility that developer builds get extra features enabled due to other

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Tomas Fasth
Martin Pitt skrev: Hi Tomas! Tomas Fasth [2005-08-23 9:31 +0200]: As a side note, I have myself thought about extending pbuilder using unionfs and overlays to avoid the tarball extraction for each build. Indeed I referred to the overhead of tarball extraction and the like. unionfs is a

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Tomas! Tomas Fasth [2005-08-23 9:31 +0200]: So you suggest throwing buildd out of the window and switching to pbuilder, then? Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use pbuilder itself since it is not the most

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:25:41AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:18 +0200, Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use pbuilder itself since it is not the most

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