Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 04:06:35AM +0930, Ron wrote: The start of this thread is vague in my memory now, so apologies if I'm off target here, but I would object to any sort of enforced kernel version dependancy on a package. Just because I have the 'correct' kernel version for a package

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-22 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron) writes: I tend to use make-kpkg if I'm building a kernel to use on a different machine than the one I'm building it on, but otherwise I usually dont. Kernel packages are handy if you wish to intstall the same kernel image on multiple machines, but since all my machines

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 01:09:40AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron) writes: I tend to use make-kpkg if I'm building a kernel to use on a different machine than the one I'm building it on, but otherwise I usually dont. Kernel packages are handy if you wish to intstall the

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-21 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:14:49PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: [snip] We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding another Provides: to kernel images

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-21 Thread Ron
Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:14:49PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: [snip] We really should have a policy for things like this. How about

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-20 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: [snip] We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding another Provides: to kernel images (built by the excellent make-kpkg): Because too many people don't use debian kernel images. How about only making

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-20 Thread Chris Waters
Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: [snip] We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding another Provides: to kernel images (built by the excellent make-kpkg): Because too many people don't use

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-19 Thread Edward Betts
On Tue, 18 May, 1999, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 02:26:09PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because too many people don't use debian kernel images. If people don't use the tools, then they don't get the benefits of the tools, which

[ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-18 Thread Justin Maurer
oh, i probably should've mentioned this earlier, but i've been packaging hftpd. i'm mostly done, but need to hack in an /etc/init.d script, and i think i'll be done after that. hftpd is a superb, linux-optimized ftpd. i am going to have a little bit in the postinst that makes note that people

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-18 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:39:31PM -0500, Justin Maurer wrote: oh, i probably should've mentioned this earlier, but i've been packaging hftpd. i'm mostly done, but need to hack in an /etc/init.d script, and i think i'll be done after that. hftpd is a superb, linux-optimized ftpd. i am

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-18 Thread Ben Collins
How about a 2.2 and 2.0 version? We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding another Provides: to kernel images (built by the excellent make-kpkg): Package: kernel-image-2.2.7 Version: tr.pre0 Section: base Priority: optional Architecture: i386

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-18 Thread Joel Klecker
At 15:22 -0400 1999-05-18, Ben Collins wrote: How about a 2.2 and 2.0 version? We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding another Provides: to kernel images (built by the excellent make-kpkg): Package: kernel-image-2.2.7 Version: tr.pre0 Section: base Priority:

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:54:08PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote: hftpd is a superb, linux-optimized ftpd. i am going to have a little bit in the postinst that makes note that people really should roll their own, since it can use a lot of 2.2 kernel features and such. it was written by

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-18 Thread Chris Waters
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding another Provides: to kernel images (built by the excellent make-kpkg): Because too many people don't use debian kernel images. If people don't use the tools, then they don't get

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 02:26:09PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because too many people don't use debian kernel images. If people don't use the tools, then they don't get the benefits of the tools, which is hardly our fault. This is like saying that we