Re: On bz2 compression in debs

2007-08-21 Thread Romain Francoise
Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/10/msg02053.html > The above link says it should be 3.0 for bz2 compressed binary debs: I know, that's why I mentioned it. But it's from 1999. -- ,''`. : :' :Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Thanks.

2007-08-21 Thread icelinux
Thanks for all of the input and suggestions, even the criticisms. Thanks also for all of the hard work that goes into Debian. I am enjoying working until the wee hours of the morning on the project, and hopefully Debian, and a lot of people with older computers will gain some benefit from it.

Re: New PAM in experimental needs testing

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 06:36:45PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Several of the Debian-specific patches should probably be removed. > For example, the @include (Debian-specific) syntax should be replaced > by the include mechanism added by upstream; we should make this a > release goal for Lenny IMO.

Re: Is Ricardo Cardenes (rcardenes) MIA?

2007-08-21 Thread Nacho Barrientos Arias
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 02:04:00PM -0700, Cameron Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to reach Ricardo Cardenes (rcardenes) for a while > now, and not gotten any response. Does anyone know if he's MIA? I'd say he is not MIA, perhaps he's overloaded with work. Moreover, IIRC I met him on IRC no

Bug#439050: ITP: ircd-ratbox -- advanced, stable and fast ircd

2007-08-21 Thread Arnaud Cornet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arnaud Cornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ircd-ratbox Version : 2.2.6 Upstream Author : Aaron Sethman , Lee Hardy , Edward Brocklesby * URL : http://www.ircd-ratbox.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Des

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Thomas, On 21 August 2007 at 19:02, Thomas Weber wrote: | Hi, | | Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 11:11 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: | > E.g. a good example of how it's nice to have the code in one place (as | > opposed to dozens of debian/rules files) is that just recently I learned abo

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Thomas Weber
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 11:11 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > E.g. a good example of how it's nice to have the code in one place (as > opposed to dozens of debian/rules files) is that just recently I learned about > a neat x11 framebuffer server wrapper, Which package is that? I mi

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Soeren, On 21 August 2007 at 11:20, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: | OK, I just had a look at r-cran-fseries, it is indeed a one-liner as you | said. So creating debian packages from cran-r-packages seems easy. What Yes. debian/rules just calls /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk which has the required s

Re: Package cache

2007-08-21 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduard Bloch wrote: [...] > If you want to keep the files aside but ie. > compressed than you should use a compressing filesystem. > But if you want something working on access, expect it to perform very bad. > Ie. if you want to install the files fro

Bug#439008: ITP: daemonlogger -- simple network packet logger and soft tap daemon

2007-08-21 Thread Chris Taylor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: daemonlogger Version : 0.91 Upstream Author : Martin Roesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.snort.org/dl/daemonlogger/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Descrip

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Dirk Eddelbuettel dijo [Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:26:31PM -0500]: > > UseR! 2007 at Iowa State University, Ames, IA, August 8-10, 2007 > (...) Wow - Congratulations, this paper is quite interesting to me - partly because next week I will be presenting one quite similar to it ;-) http://vienna.yapc

Re: Debian + pkgsrc

2007-08-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:33:03PM +0200, ciol wrote: > Hello, can you provide binaries from pkgsrc current built with debian > stable? We don't provide pkgsrc; the NetBSD people do. They put quite some time in making sure it works on most POSIXy environments, so theoretically using pkgsrc on Deb

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-21 Thread paddy
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:50:38PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had considered releasing an extra-light version as well but it surely you mean "lite" ? ;-) Regards, Paddy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#438983: ITP: libdnet -- libdnet provides a simplified, portable interface to several low-level networking routines

2007-08-21 Thread Thomas Creutz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Creutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libdnet Version : 1.11 Upstream Author : Dug Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://libdnet.sourceforge.net/ * License : (G

Re: Package cache

2007-08-21 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:31:39AM +0200, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote: > 2007/8/21, Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm not going to implement this though. > > Doesn't auto-apt do this? It uses a bit different approach - preloaded > library to overwrite stat(), open() and so on, then pauses p

Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

2007-08-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:11:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I came up with nothing on Google for stem linux., and DeliLinux > looks to be turkish so I don't know if we would even be to > communicate. I should try talking with them, their desktop looks > pretty nice. I have already d

Re: Package cache

2007-08-21 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
2007/8/21, Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not going to implement this though. Doesn't auto-apt do this? It uses a bit different approach - preloaded library to overwrite stat(), open() and so on, then pauses program until package is installed. Regards, -- Krzysztof Burghardt <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Package cache

2007-08-21 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:29:55PM +0200, Gonsolo wrote: > Would it be feasible to add something like a package cache to Debian? > > This way only a minimal Debian system would be installed locally on > the hard disk. All other packages are fetched only when used. For example, > user Joe sets his

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 20:15 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Hi Soeren, Hi Steffen Hi Dirk, [lots of agreement that would want to have more high quality R packages] > | > Btw, wouldn't you be interested to join our effort? I'd offer sponsoring > | > SHOGUN for Debian as a compensation :-) > |

Re: Short report on Debian at UseR! 2007 conference at Iowa State Univ.

2007-08-21 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 02:10 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > On Saturday 18 August 2007 22:45:56 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 14:44 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > > On Saturday 18 August 2007 12:36:41 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > [...] > > Well I don't know how much should be

Re: Package cache

2007-08-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Gonsolo [Sat, Aug 18 2007, 07:29:55PM]: > Hi! > > Would it be feasible to add something like a package cache to Debian? What you describe is not a cache and even less a _package_ cache. > This way only a minimal Debian system would be installed locally on > the hard disk. All other p

Re: Debian From Scratch 0.99.0

2007-08-21 Thread H.T.R Makawa
Hi John I installed DFS on my machine using the command: cp –preserve –R /{bin,dev,etc,home,lib,root,sbin,usr,opt,var} /mnt/hda2 mkdir /mnt/hda2 /{boot,mnt,proc,sys,tmp} then copied the contents of boot. The reason I did that was my CD was scratched and I had no access to internet. I ma