Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
> "Roberto" == Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interesting. I have ~1600 packages installed on my development machine > and I do not experience the slowness you talk about. It was installed > about 3.5 years ago. > How much RAM/CPU does the machine have? How fast are the di

Bug#416871: ITP: debreaper -- bring peace to the poor souls of crashed applications

2007-03-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: debreaper Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : myself * URL : None yet (will be on alioth in pkg-gnome if there are no objections) * License : GPL Prog

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-03-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:19:25AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Anyone have any thoughts on where and how this should be documented? > Which documents do we need to make patches for and how detailed should > the description in each document be? I think the appropiate location is the Release No

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-03-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:34:53AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > The current functionality in regard to Xen is seriously broken. A reasonable > person will expect that when a Xen virtual machine is configured with a > single Ethernet interface then it can be restarted at any time and get the >

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Adam Borowski wrote: > It's not that. It's /var/lib/dpkg/available. > > Try this: > > for x in /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages;do dpkg --merge-avail "$x";done > (or "dselect update") > Install+purge of an empty package: > 9-ish seconds on one box (my home desktop, years

Bug#416862: O: mutt-ng

2007-03-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Package: mutt-ng Severity: normal I hereby want to orphan mutt-ng as ist isn't maintained upstream anymore [0]. To synchronise the package with mutt and fix the new and upcoming security issues isn't my intetion as I then have to carry over the upstream work. [0] http://mutt-ng.supersized.org/ T

raptor.d.o down

2007-03-30 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks raptor.d.o is down until at least tomorrow. During a planned system move something got wrong and the machine is now in an undefined state and needs manual intervention by an vm admin. Bastian -- Women are more easily and more deeply terrified ... generating more sheer horror than the m

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Christoph Haas: > What might be the cause? Is there some fragmentation effect? It's probably ext3's directory hashing. It tries to access the files in /var/lib/dpkg/info in hash order, which leads to essentially random disk I/O. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:57:03PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > Indeed it accounts for some part of the problem; after I cloned and > replaced my /var/lib/dpkg/info tree with the copy, the figure dropped > from 22 seconds to 15 seconds. It's not that. It's /var/lib/dpkg/available. Try this: f

was (long time ago) ITP: zenoss

2007-03-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Heya, yesterday I've contacted the original bug submitter of #361253 via personal mail and he told me that he doesn't have the time to take care of packaging zenoss at all and that I should just do it, so I'll hijack this wnpp bug and package zenoss within the next days. If anybody else is working

Re: Poll: Anybody using debpool?

2007-03-30 Thread Andreas Fester
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Magnus, Magnus Holmgren wrote: [...] > Since I liked it very much I immediately started adding and rewriting code > and "me too" ;) > submitting my suggestions for improvement to the BTS, but unfortunately Joel Yes, I also sent him an email s

Bug#416843: ITP: libphp-facebook -- PHP5 client library for Facebook

2007-03-30 Thread Jonny Lamb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonny Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libphp-facebook Version : 0.0.020070306 Upstream Author : Facebook, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : FreeBSD Programming Lang: PHP Des

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > It can also lead to a kind of "fragmentation", since during an initial > install these files tend to be fairly close together on disk while over > time new files will be scattered about and more seeking needed to read > them all. Indeed it accounts for som

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-30 20:29]: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007, Christoph Haas wrote: > > It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database of > > installed packages is terribly slow at times. > > I think dpkg spends a lot of time reading all /var/lib/dpkg/in

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Loïc Minier wrote: > I think dpkg spends a lot of time reading all /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list > files. These are not big and this is typically in cache between dpkg > runs, and I think this is the reason that cold dpkg runs are very very > slow. It can also lead to a kind of "fragmentation", s

Re: Poll: Anybody using debpool?

2007-03-30 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Friday 30 March 2007 12:22, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Pointers? Debpool is a nice tiny tool, but lacks some major useful > features and has a few annoying bugs. It could be improved. It's a pity > it stales. I'd like to suggest, then, that a project be started on Alioth, let's say "savin

Re: many rejects (Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007)

2007-03-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:02:49 -0500, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:23:38 +0200, Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> Hi On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:23:28 +0200 >> Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If you encrypt to yourself, how is the voting syste

Re: many rejects (Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007)

2007-03-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:23:38 +0200, Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:23:28 +0200 > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you encrypt to yourself, how is the voting system supposed to >> decrypt it? > It was encrypted for two keys, both of them can decryp

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007, Christoph Haas wrote: > It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database of > installed packages is terribly slow at times. I think dpkg spends a lot of time reading all /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list files. These are not big and this is typically in cache

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread nextime
debian sid installed about 9 years ago, actually on amd64 (but with 32bit kernel and 32bit userland ) sempron 3300+ with 1 gigs of ram. The system is on a dm-crypted in aes256 device over software raid1 composed by two slow ide disks, (so, I/O is *VERY* slow), i have something like 2500 packages

Incorrectly rejected ballots

2007-03-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On investigation, I found a mishandled corner case in devotee which had caused 4 ballots to be incorrectly rejected (the other 137 rejections, each one of which I have nw manually inspected, are still valid rejections). These four ballots, from 3 individuals, have now been accepted

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 3/30/07, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: what has always annoyed me is now ready to be asked on this list. :) It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database of installed packages is terribly slow at times. I have roughly 1800 packages installed and it sometimes

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:11:46PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Friday 30 March 2007 15:43, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database > > > of installed packages is te

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Christoph Haas
On Friday 30 March 2007 15:43, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database > > of installed packages is terribly slow at times. > > Interesting. I have ~1600 packages installed

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > Dear list... > > what has always annoyed me is now ready to be asked on this list. :) > It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database of > installed packages is terribly slow at times. I have roughly 1800 pac

Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Christoph Haas
Dear list... what has always annoyed me is now ready to be asked on this list. :) It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database of installed packages is terribly slow at times. I have roughly 1800 packages installed and it sometimes takes 20-30 seconds to install a single

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-30 Thread paddy
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:51:52AM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:13:47AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:09:12AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > >Russ Allbery wrote: > > > >So, here's a possibly weird proposal. > > > > > > > >What

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:51:52AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:13:47AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:09:12AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > >Russ Allbery wrote: > > > >So, here's a possibly weird proposal. > > > > > > > >What

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:13:47AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:09:12AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > >Russ Allbery wrote: > > >So, here's a possibly weird proposal. > > > > > >What if we had some mechanism whereby people could indicate interest in > > >maintain

Re: Poll: Anybody using debpool?

2007-03-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 01:42:05AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 27.03.2007, 23:41 +0100 schrieb Magnus Holmgren: > > > DebPool is a Debian package archiver written in Perl by Joel Aelwyn > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Like mini-dinstall it's a lightweight replacement > > for "the re

Re: Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 30 March 2007 00:50, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Logging and blocking can all be done at the proxy, though. No need to > transfer the remote IP to the internal server. Logging can be done at the proxy. Blocking - maybe not. IP address based restrictions on service for

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-30 Thread paddy
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:09:12AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >Russ Allbery wrote: > >So, here's a possibly weird proposal. > > > >What if we had some mechanism whereby people could indicate interest in > >maintaining a package should anything happen to the current maintainer? > >Have it be a

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-03-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I think everyone missed the important part of my message. so I'm soliciting comments on it again. >But perhaps the best "solution" is to document prominently that if you >replace your network hardware, you should delete the line associated >with the removed hardware from >/etc/udev/rules.d/

Re: Anyone

2007-03-30 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 3/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, debian-devel. Yes, this library needed for generating pdf docs from PHP. Could you package it into next version? Which library? -- Andrew Donnellan ajdlinuxATgmailDOTcom (primary)ajdlinuxATexemailDOTcomDOTau (secure) http://a

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>Russ Allbery wrote: >So, here's a possibly weird proposal. > >What if we had some mechanism whereby people could indicate interest in >maintaining a package should anything happen to the current maintainer? >Have it be as non-confrontational as possible by having it not indicate >any feeling about

Re: Anyone

2007-03-30 Thread volk
Hello, debian-devel. Yes, this library needed for generating pdf docs from PHP. Could you package it into next version? -- regards, volk rich web-design mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT