Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-09 Thread Horms
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:40:53AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Mark Eichin wrote: > > I was questioning the "exactly one release which hasn't been touched > > in 14 months", rather than the actual number; it is a general rule > > that the first public exposure of something is *not*

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Mark Eichin wrote: > I was questioning the "exactly one release which hasn't been touched > in 14 months", rather than the actual number; it is a general rule > that the first public exposure of something is *not* good enough for > real use, and I find it hard to imagine 14 months going

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-08 Thread Mark Eichin
> That is Horms-versioning. He starts version numbers at 0 instead of I was questioning the "exactly one release which hasn't been touched in 14 months", rather than the actual number; it is a general rule that the first public exposure of something is *not* good enough for real use, and I find it

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Mark Eichin wrote: > google finds supersparrow 0.0.0 from Feb 2001 on supersparrow.org and > sourceforge, and nothing more recent -- is there any life to it? it > certainly sounds interesting... That is Horms-versioning. He starts version numbers at 0 instead of 1 (which (almost) did c

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-06 Thread Mark Eichin
> (insert standard promotial rant about Super Sparrow here). google finds supersparrow 0.0.0 from Feb 2001 on supersparrow.org and sourceforge, and nothing more recent -- is there any life to it? it certainly sounds interesting... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Mark Eichin wrote: > I wonder what it would cost to just have Akamai support our mirrors We don't actually need Akamai, a few Debian developers already do that for their own websites already and if we ask nicely we can probably get them to set us up. (insert standard promotial rant abou

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 03:30:09PM -0500, Mark Eichin wrote: > I wonder what it would cost to just have Akamai support our mirrors Way more than we've got. :) -- Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-04 Thread Mark Eichin
> So, who wants to add support to apt-spy for querying BGP routing tables? When I worked for Adero, that was *hard* information to get. However, that inspires the thought of another approach: Akamai (the far more successful vendor in that space) already builds pictures of the net from BGP and lo

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:05:13PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:03:27PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 13:38, Rob Bradford wrote: > > > Ooh nice, maybe you could integrate with apt-spy or something to find > > > the fastest for the user? > > > > I

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:38:56PM +0100, Rob Bradford wrote: > > Aptconf will allow users to configure sources.list via debconf. It > > will also contain a configlet for setting up sources.list via the > > GNOME Control Center, in druids, and potentially other settings. > > Ooh nice, maybe you c

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-04 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:03:27PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 13:38, Rob Bradford wrote: > > Ooh nice, maybe you could integrate with apt-spy or something to find > > the fastest for the user? > > I don't see why not, though I'd be more inclined to add pin support > first.

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-03 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 13:38, Rob Bradford wrote: > Ooh nice, maybe you could integrate with apt-spy or something to find > the fastest for the user? I don't see why not, though I'd be more inclined to add pin support first. I had a crazy idea of doing directed graphs for country support, so you c

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-03 Thread Rob Bradford
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 18:11, Jeff Licquia wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > Aptconf will allow users to configure sources.list via debconf. It > will also contain a configlet for setting up sources.list via the > GNOME Control Center, in druids, and potentially other settings. Ooh

Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-03 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Aptconf will allow users to configure sources.list via debconf. It will also contain a configlet for setting up sources.list via the GNOME Control Center, in druids, and potentially other settings. The architecture will treat the existing sources.list as the cano