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2017-11-06 Thread bob
Hi everyone, I work for UFC - Que Choisir (a French consumer association) and we just released (GPL3) version 2.0 of our job scheduler evQueue. Here is the website : http://www.evqueue.net/ We are providing debian packages (debian 8 and 9) but would like to know if it is possible to get some

Re: Replacing apt's http method (dropping curl)

2017-06-27 Thread Bob Weber
acher-ng connect to the debian mirrors using https? Or could the apt-cacher-ng install generate a local certificate that the local machines could be set to accept as a valid debian cache/mirror and have apt-cacher-ng use https to the debian mirrors? ...Bob

Re: Bug#812885: general: Bluetooth doesn't work

2016-01-27 Thread Bob Weber
adcom (BCM20702A0) adapter that I used a similar fix to get its firmware to load. Basically you download fw-04ca_2009.hcd and rename it to /lib/firmware/brcm/BCM43142A0-04ca-2009.hcd. You might have to create the directory firmware and brcm if they dont exist on your system. If you run lsusb you should see an ID 04ca-2009 listed. If not then this wont help you. ...bob

Re: GNU IceCat?

2015-09-08 Thread Bob Holtzman
> Ah, that's a good set of default settings. Perhaps a modified > settings.js and an explanation of how to use it could be included with > the iceweasel package? +1 > > Also, what advantages does IceCat have over the Tor Browser? (Debian > doesn't have the Tor Browser either, due to the impossibility of long > term maintenance, but just wondering.) Have a look at torbrowser-launcher in synaptic -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.

Re: httpredir.debian.org, your mirrors redirector

2015-05-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Joachim Breitner wrote: > schrieb Raphael Geissert: > > infrastructure under the name of httpredir.debian.org. > > will http.debian.net continue to work? Or better yet could http.debian.org be set up to work too? Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Sand casting parts

2015-04-08 Thread Bob
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Re: Using USB serial device with a cdc-acm driver

2014-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
ok at? I want to turn this process off. Look in /var/log/syslog and hopefully something will be logged there. Look in 'ps -ef' and see if anything is shown associated with the tty device. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Bob Proulx writes: > > > > Maybe I am missing a better alternative? > > > > > > update-rc.d disable > > > > No. That is too late. By the time you are disabling something it has &

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Russ Allbery wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Maybe I am missing a better alternative? > > update-rc.d disable No. That is too late. By the time you are disabling something it has already been installed and started in postinst scripts. Using policy-rc.d is the only way to

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-17 Thread Bob Proulx
those unrepresented people! Here is an actual live production policy-rc.d from a system where the web server is being run inside of a chroot. I think the intention is obvious. Is there any other way to accomplish this other than using the policy-rc.d? Trying to manage the startup with update-r

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-15 Thread Bob Proulx
James McCoy wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > James McCoy wrote: > > > I keep contemplating packaging ex-vi and advocating to replace vim-tiny > > > with that. After all, the intent is to have something providing > > > /usr/bin/vi, as one expects to have

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-15 Thread Bob Proulx
apt-cache show nvi Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: calling maintainer scripts with a clean environment?

2014-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
us from having them because humans are clever and will find a way to do what we want anyway. It simply makes it more painful for us to have them. Therefore I think if an admin sets up a custom environment that this environment should be used. Or at least not actively prevented from being used. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#758178: general: screen resolution reverts to minimum when not selected by KVM

2014-08-14 Thread Bob Michael
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I have 3 or 4 debian machines attached to a Zonet KVM3304 4 port KVM switch. I usually keep at least 2 of them on most of the time. Thus

Bug#755522: ITP: r-cran-beeswarm -- The bee swarm plot is a one-dimensional scatter plot like "stripchart", but with closely-packed, non-overlapping points.

2014-07-21 Thread Bob Dybian
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Dybian * Package name: r-cran-beeswarm Version : 0.1.6 Upstream Author : Aron Charles Eklund * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/beeswarm * License : Artistic-2.0 Programming Lang: R Description

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-14 Thread Bob Proulx
atus -sPackage -n -FStatus "deinstall ok config-files") Don't forget about the "deborphan" and "orphaner" packages either. Bob P.S. AWK is design to operate by fields. I am sure I am not the only one who saw the "if $2" above and thought it should be like this: awk '$2=="deinstall"{print$1}' signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#751570: ITP: openbugs -- BUGS for Bayesian MCMC analysis.

2014-06-14 Thread Bob Dybian
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Dybian * Package name: openbugs Version : 3.2.3 * URL : http://www.openbugs.net/ * License : (GPL 3) Programming Lang: (Component Pascal and C) Description : BUGS for Bayesian MCMC analysis. I create a package

Bug#746208: ITP: r-cran-ape -- GNU R package for Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution

2014-04-27 Thread Bob Dybian
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Dybian * Package name: r-cran-ape Version : 3.1-1 * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ape/index.html * License : (GPL-2+) Description : GNU R package for Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution I am

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 04:32:05AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 10:16 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau > > > wrote: > > > &g

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Bob Tracy
driver, mention is made of the fact XAA support went bye-bye, and the attempted use of EXA causes looping segfaults on X server startup. Only current workaround is to disable acceleration. Truly a case of "bad breath is better than no breath". --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-07-02 Thread Bob Proulx
nd be done with it. That is still the way I do things on servers. But on servers I don't install resolvconf. However on mobile devices that roam from network to network resolvconf rocks! Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: default MTA

2013-06-16 Thread Bob Proulx
#x27;re > running a non-desktop system (by this I take it to mean that you're not > using a GUI), why would you worry about GNOME's dependencies anyhow? Here is an example: The emacs24-nox package, a typical headless server package for many of us, depends upon dbus. Feature creep. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-25 Thread Bob Proulx
r others to use)" does that mean this will count as a vote toward having systemd as a default? If I respond that "I don't want systemd in Debian (as a default)" will that count as a vote that systemd should not be available in Debian as an option for others? Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > > for jessie. > > How about setting default umask for users (uid >= 1000) to 002? +1. It would be a useful default. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Bob Proulx
things were changed to force users to create a dummy top level page and enable the server then it would add additional required work over what is done now. > The RedHat assumptions on this issue make me as unhappy as the Debian > ones appear to make you unhappy. I suggest that this is jus

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
to making this easy for users to do. They could then simple follow recipies to good practices. Without good clear documentation they will be left to their own and will do what is easiest. http://wiki.debian.org/PHP Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Bob Proulx
the doesn't build twice problem. > > > > And/or on the technical side, make the buildds always build twice. > > Sounds like a waste of resources. Not every architecture needs to build twice. If only the fastest building architecture built twice it would catch almost all of the problems with no change in resources elsewhere. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Graphic card installation problem

2013-02-19 Thread Bob Proulx
r usage question and so should go to the users mailing list not the development mailing list. For support in your problem I would start here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuUsersListFAQ Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
corruption it > ussually screws up more than the files covered by the md5sums. The use case for debsums is for *detection* of corruption. And neither is it a security mechanism. But it is a useful integrity check mechanism. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Renaming packages: maintscripts

2012-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
27;rm -f' since it avoids the query. Since I don't think that will ever produce a bad result. (Is there ever a bad result case?) Of course if there is a plan to move the /var/lib/dpkg/info path elsewhere then the path should be obtained dynamically and properly quoted. But is that ever really a potential possibility? Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-07 Thread Bob Proulx
is in /bin/ip and always available in PATH. It is the currently recommended swiss-army chainsaw network tool. Give it a try. $ ip addr show Or: $ ip addr show eth0 And of course you can add the sbins to your PATH in .profile so that you have what you want always. (I always add the sbin&#

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Bob Proulx
h is of course what it would show) then how would having this data help or hinder either side? I will be one of the disenfranchised if /usr is deprecated. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Bob Proulx
esize2fs, and probably most file > systems. Online shrinking is a very rare feature. Even when offline it is not univerial to have shrinking available. For example xfs does not provide a way to shrink a filesystem either online or offline. A sorely missed feature in an otherwise excelle

Re: Is anyone using the Units program in a script? [and 1 more messages]

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Ian Jackson wrote: > Bob Proulx writes ("Re: Is anyone using the Units program in a script?"): > > Ian Jackson wrote: > > > (b) ask on info-gnu. > > > > Just fyi for the future but info-gnu isn't the place to ask questions. > > It is for

Re: Is anyone using the Units program in a script?

2011-11-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Ian Jackson wrote: > (b) ask on info-gnu. Just fyi for the future but info-gnu isn't the place to ask questions. It is for official GNU announcements only, no follow-ups, no discussions. Discussions should happen on other lists. Bob -- Wearing my info-gnu moderator hat. signa

Re: Is anyone maintaining (the ham radio tool) node?

2011-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
have to type in "some-specific-name-to-some-program" either. The balance in the middle isn't trivial. Bob cul es 73 de kf0uw signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#645723: general: asks for root password instead of user password

2011-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
tion. If sudo is to be used then of course sudo itself needs to be configured and working too. Again the debian-installer does this automatically if only a user password is given at install time. Hope this helps, Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Doesn't popcon itself send reports by email? Meaning that 100% of all > > reports from popcon have an MTA installed? > > No, popcon can also report through HTTP. Ah... Very good. I stand corrected. And what's m

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Luca Capello wrote: > I disagree on that, according to popcon we have 19.27% of users has > postfix installed, which could mean that ~90% of users has an MTA > installed. Doesn't popcon itself send reports by email? Meaning that 100% of all reports from popcon have an MTA i

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
hreads.html The web mail archive doesn't thread across months. Here are continuing months of discussion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2010-12/threads.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2011-01/threads.html Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: oldstable-security signing key

2011-03-26 Thread Bob Proulx
problem yesterday. Thank you for working to fix it. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-02 Thread Bob Proulx
L: ... No need to install postfix since it is already installed. ... # service sendmail stop # chkconfig --del sendmail # alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix # checkconfig postfix on # service postfix start Example for setting up Postfix on Debian: # apt-get install postfix Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Trying to install Oracle9i R2 on

2011-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
nothing and die after some time. You should remove the symlink. Then install the package. > I'm new with Debian. Would to help me? For future help the debian-u...@lists.debian.org mailing list would be a better place to ask these types of questions. Please ask future questions ab

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
cribe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had done. And once I realized that it did that I resolved not to use such packages. If they would do that then what other nasty business would they include that I didn't find?) Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Bob Proulx
init.d/bind9 script does not call 'lsb_release' and therefore this issue seems to have been addressed in the latest Squeeze. Bob P.S. On my 2004 1.8GHz Pentium M laptop: $ time lsb_release -is Debian real0m0.135s user0m0.116s sys 0m0.016s signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-21 Thread Bob Proulx
t not ultimately enabled to break things. Sure they can try a social engineering attack against root to break in but I try to avoid working with such antisocial people. The 'staff' group is a useful shade of grey that lives between the black and the white. I think it would be bad to overl

Re: Broken us mirror

2006-08-10 Thread Bob Tanner
oth http.us.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org, and > notified that it's having a problem. > Any status on this issue? Mirror seems to still be broken. -- Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500

Bug#355610: ITP: libeqimbase -- a set of C++ classes to encapsulate the EQIM protocol

2006-03-06 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert J. Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libeqimbase Version : 2004.12.15 Upstream Author : Tai Mai Shu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://teqim.sourceforge.net/?p=eqimbase * License : GPL Description :

Bug#338701: ITP: python-testgears -- TestGears extensions to unittest

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-testgears Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Kevin Dangoor * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/testgears/ * License : http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-licen

Bug#338698: ITP: python-ruledispatch -- Rule-based Dispatching and Generic Functions

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-ruledispatch Version : 0.5a0dev Upstream Author : Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/download/eggs/RuleDispatch-0.5a0d

Bug#338692: ITP: python-pyprotocols -- Open Protocols and Component Adaptation for Python

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pyprotocols Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> * URL : http://peak.telecommunity.com/PyProtocols.html * License

Bug#338676: ITP: python-turbogears -- front-to-back rapid web development

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-turbogears Version : 0.8a3 Upstream Author : Kevin Dangoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/ * License : http://www.opensource.org/

Bug#338571: ITP: python-pylib -- python unit testing framework

2005-11-10 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pylib Version : 20051109 Upstream Author : Holger Krekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/test.html * License : Copyright

Bug#338382: ITP: python-formencode -- FormEncode is a validation and form generation package.

2005-11-09 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-formencode Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://formencode.sf.net * License : PSF Description : For

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-26 Thread Bob Proulx
ers when they are installed. > Perhaps we finally get to the conclusion that it doesn't belong there. > :) Let's hope so. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread Bob Proulx
his message to avoid getting spam. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
h. And at least someone will contrive an example that matches but is otherwise valid and complain about it. Perhaps we should call upon everyone who reads Debian lists to, as their sacred duty, blog somewhere at least three hits to the upstream sites as a way to artifically promote them higher? :-/ (

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
range of (avoding the name here) in Google so that when they search for it that Google actually points them to the right place. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-31 Thread Bob Proulx
mail MTAs installed. It is the same problem as being discussed with imapd. This mechanism could be used there too. An alternative is the xdm/gdm/kdm way of coordinating between the packages. That works too. It could be enough to have packages that listen on a port coordinate with each other.

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
can remove leaving configuration files or you can purge taking off the configuration files too. I think you are asking for a new type of install target where a package is only partially installed. I could see the utility of that but there is no support for it in the code at this moment. Bob si

Re: version numbering

2005-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
oaded as 7.3.3 instead. The epoc is designed to handle this problem and allows 1:0.7.3.3 to be later than 7.3.3 to fix that situation. But that is not the case here and the epoc can be avoided. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-06 Thread Bob Proulx
intentionally sources the user's ~/.cshrc file so as to report user aliases. The Debian which is really a completely different command. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: multiarch?

2005-07-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Sure, native code is always better. But that still won't help when > > sharing binaries from other distros to and from Debian. Because those > > other commonly available binaries of which people think are so > >

Re: Drop the minor release number

2005-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.07.08.1750 +0200]: > > Counting numbers start at one. > > Not in the computer world. How do you explain RCS/CVS? The first revision after a checkin is 1.1. :-) Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Bob Proulx [Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:24:07 -0600]: > > > * why the different implementations? > > > It is there for BSD job control functionality. That way you can say > > 'kill %1' and kill the background jobs by job control number. The

Re: Drop the minor release number

2005-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
cond release of etch. So really it should be 4.1 for the first release of etch and 4.2 for the second release and so on. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
, etc. in coreutils. It is now one of the FAQs in coreutils[1].) > * why the different implementations? It is there for BSD job control functionality. That way you can say 'kill %1' and kill the background jobs by job control number. The standalone version does not know about the

Re: multiarch?

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
at will just drive people away from Debian and to another distro and that is not really good for anyone. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Shared library versioning

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
to link the project library code as an archive library for Debian. That should avoid most of the problems. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-03 Thread Bob Proulx
nd. I don't believe the IP address is really significant and I turn that off in my config. CheckHostIP no This prevents the IP from being stored in the known hosts file. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OT: No unsubscribe signature?

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Pascal Hakim wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I guess if you don't want a footer on your messages you can always > > send them out with a quoted-printable encoding. :-) > > In my experience as a listmaster, the people who like to complain about > the fact that we add

Re: OT: No unsubscribe signature?

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Proulx
le encoding. :-) Of course base64 works too, but that is a strong spam sign and your message might get dropped by people scoring based upon that so I would recommend against using base64 encoding for plain text messages. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Compiling and using glibc-2.2 under Debian Sarge

2005-06-27 Thread Bob Proulx
ight be somewhat outdated for our purpose. Maybe I > can find a backport or something, tho. > Think I'll try that. Be sure to look into Adrian Bunk's woody backports of gcc-3.3. They were very useful to me. deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-27 Thread Bob Proulx
gt; - > should not suffer from greylisting. Remember that all subsequent messages after the first one are not in any way delayed. The effect there is the same as not having greylisting. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Compiling and using glibc-2.2 under Debian Sarge

2005-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
h to an older distribution if possible, as Sarge comes > with Subversion and gcc-3.3.5. > > I'd really appreciate any help or ideas. Is a chroot for development acceptable? Is a chroot for a production build process with development in sarge acceptable? Is shipping all shared libs used with a wrapper to use those acceptable? Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
tanding problem causing the default ntpdate configuration to fail out of the box when used in conjuction with a local caching nameserver. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245338 Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
n user-visible changes. I am not sure upstream inactivity by itself is a good measure. For example compare this to GNU rcs. GNU rcs has not had an upstream modification since 1995. I would hate to see this argument applied there that we should remove or rename RCS commands. Bob -- To UNSUBS

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Jesus Climent wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > Jesus, meet policy-rc.d. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man policy-rc.d > No manual entry for policy-rc.d Look here: /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d.gz http://people.debian.org/~hmh/invokerc.d-policyrc.d-specification

Re: Running daemons without root access?

2005-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
> If so, how? > > sudo - userslogin command arguments > on call to executable at /etc/init.d/daemon > then links in aproppiates /etc/rcX.d/ But installing to /etc requires root access which is what the original poster was asking how to avoid. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
d defaulted to yes. They are an annoyance when installing and better handled differently. Using policy-rc.d is the superior solution. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Bob Proulx
level 3 fix this problem? Your X config is still broken. If your X configuration is broken and your X won't start then that is effectively the same thing as the proposed run level 3 anyway. So what is the point? > 2. it is defined in the LSB Can't argue with that. Bob --

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-14 Thread Bob Proulx
his way. Pipe the message to /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi. :0 | $SENDMAIL -oi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Version Updating Question

2003-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
ways to plan ahead then the version would go away without either. In general this is only a problem when people forget to plan ahead. Bob pgpvnVyjtPXgo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#215556: ITP: gsysutils -- Set of utilities useful to system administrators

2003-10-18 Thread Bob Proulx
to it. They are aliases to the same program providing different names. ln -s fromdos $(tempdir)/$(package)/usr/bin/todos ln -s fromdos $(tempdir)/$(package)/usr/bin/dos2unix ln -s fromdos $(tempdir)/$(package)/usr/bin/unix2dos Bob

Re: Bug#215556: ITP: gsysutils -- Set of utilities useful to system administrators

2003-10-16 Thread Bob Proulx
27;t claim that is common conception. > > > Well, I can back that up. A Gnome association swept to the surface of > my mind when I read the package name, too, If you are asking for votes then I as well prefer something other than gsysutils and gnu-sysutils seems appropriate. Bob

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
ul. touch --no-create configure.ac \ && touch --no-create aclocal.m4 \ && touch --no-create configure \ && touch --no-create config.h.in \ && touch --no-create $(find . -name Makefile.in) Bob pgpw2HbJuTrYW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
he timestamps of the files for when the patch was made and remove the build depends on automake. Although the previous discussion made good arguments both directions. I believe either of the methods are good as long as you champion the process to completion. Bob pgpEOgit0lNED.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Looking for a co-maintainer for adduser

2003-10-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Almost all languages are easy to write badly. But some are easier than others. Both C++ and Perl come to my mind when I think of bad programming practices and swiss army chainsaws. Bob pgppvqBwloD23.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-09 Thread Bob Proulx
all. I am just talking about portable script style and advocating defensive programming in general. Bob pgpNm7Dq74zIX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
'. But I did find at least one commercial system that had not gotten around to documenting it that they had done it. So by reading the man page there you would still be thinking that it had not. Bob pgpHxmUdat8B0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Branden Robinson wrote: > test -n and -z exist for a reason, even if one has to come up with > pretty dodgy mnemonics for remembering them. -n Nonzero size string -z Zero size string Dodgy mnemonics? I find them very mnemonic! Bob pgpJpoX4Xwb2h.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
rne shell which also exists in the Korn shell which became the basis for the POSIX shell much later. For example on HP-UX: /bin/sh -c 'var=-f ; [ "$var" ] && echo yes' /bin/sh: test: Specify a parameter with this command. Everywhere: /bin/sh -c 'var=-

Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-09-01 Thread Bob Proulx
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.01.0853 +0200]: > > Abbreviated example: > > make-pkg --append-to-version -2-686-smp kernel_modules > > Produces: > > /usr/share/man/man4/bcm5700-2-4-21-2-686-smp.4.gz > > N

Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-09-01 Thread Bob Proulx
ype of kernel and the version of the configuration of that kernel. I have to ask if this is really enough of a problem to justify any handling at all, special or otherwise? Bob pgpdu9yeFHFLr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ITA freedict

2003-08-28 Thread Bob Hilliard
advertised now. I had set the value of LOCPATH earlier in the rules file, but I didn't export it. PEBCAK! Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm

Re: ITA freedict

2003-08-26 Thread Bob Hilliard
). Both return invalid locale, which is the error message dictfmt emits when it cannot open the specified locale file. The locale _is_ generated in $LOCALE_PATH. Is the environment variable LOCPATH used by setlocale(3)? Can anyone suggest what I need to try to make this work? Regards,

ITA freedict

2003-08-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
eedict packages. Would this be acceptable? Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559

/usr/bin/pager

2003-08-07 Thread Bob Hilliard
Is /usr/bin/pager a Debianism, or is it common to other distributions and/or unices? Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm City, FL 34990 USA

Re: [custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

2003-07-28 Thread Bob Proulx
er to make every shell a login shell and source their profiles. Which I think is a less than optimal configuration and I avoid that myself. Bob pgpMenSL60IBd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

2003-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
xsession file and instead just starts up KDE in the way that it does now without sourcing any user environment. The "default" menu selection is always what you want when you want to run the $HOME/.xsession file. The "KDE" menu selection is what you want when you suspect a problem with the user environment and want to avoid it for debugging or other purposes. Bob pgpEOHjgbU7WD.pgp Description: PGP signature

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