Re: GDM in sid does not read /etc/environment anymore

2003-08-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Fabio Rafael da Rosa] I upgraded sid two days ago, and starting X via gdm does not set the environment variable I've set in /etc/environment. Anyone has the same problem ..? It is probably a PAM configuration problem. You need the following line in the /etc/pam.d/ file used by gdm: auth

Re: GDM in sid does not read /etc/environment anymore

2003-08-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Daniel Ruoso] I've actually sent him an email but got no answer. I've posted in debian-devel few days ago and nobody complained that GDM could source /etc/environment in the init script. That's an one-line patch (already tagged as patch in bts for more than a year)... Remember that the file

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-08-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bastian Blank] i think the scripts should follow the update-X naming schema. I agree. That would make it consistent of most of the Debian packages providing such hooks.

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Matthew Palmer] Yup. It's been posted before (it's called rc-alert). I've got a copy here; if you can't find it in the archives (recently, like 6 months) e-mail me and I'll send it to you. And if you want to figure out why a valid package still fail to enter testing, you can use

Re: popularity-contest

2003-12-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Gürkan Sengün] I could not reach [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is mentioned on the following page: http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/ Are you aware that the popcon project are now on alioth? URL:https://alioth.debian.org/projects/popcon/ The work stopped up a bit because of the break-in,

Re: Intel f90 compiler for Debian.

2003-12-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Lukas Geyer] The free software community would profit much more from making gcc's Fortran compiler compatible with the Fortran 95 standard. Someone is already working on that. Check URL:http://g95.sourceforge.net/. I'm sure more man-power would be welcome. :)

Re: Bug#364422: libopenobex1-dev: pkg-config should provide correct include-path

2006-04-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Hendrik Sattler] Should kdebluetooth fix the include statements or should the openobex.pc file say that includedir=${prefix}/include/openobex? If the API documentation say openobex/obex.h, then kdebluetooth should use that when including the header. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

APT key maintainence (Was: bits from the release team)

2006-05-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martijn van Oosterhout] Generate the key for 2007 on 1st of December 2006. This gives everyone a month to get the new key before it's used. One month is not enough. CD distributions, offline and stable machines do not get updated every month. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen

Re: Buffer Image

2006-05-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
the content of the video memory with the new content. Anybody there who is working on it. I have no idea. I'm not sure if anyone in the X consider it a problem. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
on them this summer, and switch to dash next spring. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
actually improve the boot time. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
, the popcon vote is not always accurate. It only use files in some directories (like */bin/, but not */lib/*), so most library packages will never get a vote, and most user packages will get votes. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

2006-05-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
and standard compliance is a good thing, so patches are almost always accepted when submitted. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wouter Verhelst] Which, I'm sure, is important for popcon maintainers; however, I don't think it is very relevant in this discussion (unless you can point me towards an editor that is implemented as a library ;-) The problem do not only affect libraries. There are other packages (with user

Re: Changing the default syslogd (again...)

2006-05-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[George Danchev] or some hosts have popularity-contest installed from pure upstream sources instead from a popularity-contest debian package, thus don't have it registered with the dpkg db. That would seriously surprise me, as popularity-contest only is distributed as a Debian package, and

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Java to the schools until the point where a free alternative exist that will fulfill the needs of the schools. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-05-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
was shown and the sorting order was different. This are though minor issues, compared to the situation earlier, when almost no-one knew the current NEW status. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-06-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
and desktop-kde tasks are the most relevant for your live CD, thought I know we have discussed having live CDs for thin client servers to allow them to be completely without local state. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: New LTSP uploaded!

2006-06-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
installations using the official LTSP packages from the LTSP project (as opposed to the muekow approach we are working on in Debian. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rcpar, parallel boot written in C

2006-06-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
there. A similar system to yours was proposed by Olivier Sessink. Check out The thread starting at URL:http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/initscripts-ng-devel/2005-November/000225.html Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Mass bug filing: lesstif1-lesstif2 transition

2006-06-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Kai Hendry] Affected packages are: [...] Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] plan How did you conclude that it depend on lesstif1? Its build depend is 'lesstif2-dev | lesstif-dev', to make sure it build with any version of debian, but I believe it is built by lesstif2 by default

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
fetches the source from disk. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why is procps procps.sh in init.d?

2006-06-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
when executed in a separate process as well. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate

2006-07-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
more consistent. In Debian-Edu, we install and automatically configure several services with SSL certiciates, like imap, ldap and webmin, and it is a pain to handle all the ways SSL-certificates are generated. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
to realize why they should fix it in time for etch. :) I suspect you might wait in wane if you expect someone else to do it. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
to you are available on the first CD as well. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
to a new version of the package. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
the frequency of people treasuring their CPU time too much to spend it on popularity-contest is about the same on all architectures. :) I believe the availability of hardware have a lot more impact on the popcon statistics than the amount of people not running popularity-contest. Friendly, -- Petter

Re: udev vs ldap at startup

2006-08-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
and groups present in /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and libnss-ldap should be configured to not try so long before it give up. I'm not sure what changed, but libnss-ldap with openldap on the same machine work just fine both in woody and sarge. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Mike Hommey] I don't know about the installer, but all filesystems I created with mke2fs recently also have resize_inode, which isn't even in the tune2fs manpage. The default was recently changed in /etc/mke2fs.conf. It make life with LVM a lot easier. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen

Re: System snapshots

2005-01-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Andrew Suffield] Seems like a poor reimplementation of a backup system to me. It's independently useful, and gains nothing from being embedded into the package manager, so why stuff it into the package manager? I recommend reading the article, to gain some insight into the problem it is

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[David Sawyer] Moral of the story: NEVER SHUTDOWN OR REBOOT WITHOUT ASKING. Another moral might be to always test the stuff you plan to do on a production server on a test-server first. I fail to see how it is sensible to browse the net on a production server. And I fail to see how it is

Re: Sparc buildd a cross-compiler?

2001-12-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Mikael Hedin] checking whether the C++ compiler (g++-3.0 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -O2 ) is a cross-compiler... yes If the compile host fails to run it's fresly compiled hello world program, it is assumed to be a cross comiler. The config.log file would tell you why.

Re: 2 package(s) to rebuild on i386/stable

2001-12-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martinf] For further explanation please check the detailed report at http://master.debian.org/~joey/2.2r5/. Is the security problem with libc glob() present i Potato? According to URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-160.html, the bug is present in 2.2.4, and according to

Re: Thoughts on network detection and configuration on Debian

2002-01-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Hood] A master plan does not entail having a master tool, however. Debian could use kudzu or harddrake to automatically adapt to HW configuration changes. There is some work needed to get these to do sensible things with the HW detected (on Debian that is), but both being able to

Re: X autoconf

2002-01-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Sergio Rua] I've a python script to autoconfigure X. It tries to configure your X server using FrameBuffer. If it's not available, using XFree -configure option detect and configure your X. This sounds like a very good idea. How do you pass the configuration information on

Still no fam in Woody

2002-01-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
The current excuse for 'fam' in URL:http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz is - fam (- to 2.6.6.1-4) * Maintainer: Joerg Wendland * 16 days old (needed 10 days) * fam/hppa unsatisfiable Depends: libstdc++3 (= 1:3.0.3-0pre011215) ['gcc-3.0'] * Valid

Re: maintainer for cervisia is MIA

2002-01-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Ulrich Eckhardt] Hi all, I mailed the maintainer of the above package on the eleventh of december and haven't got a reply yet. All the bugs of the package are pretty old, a new version of the proggy is also available upstream, current version is a year old. The same is the situation for

Re: 1 package(s) to rebuild on i386/stable

2002-01-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martin Schulze] For further explanation please check the detailed report at http://master.debian.org/~joey/2.2r5/. libc6 is still not mentioned on this list. Is this on purpose, or did someone forget to let you know? There seem to be a security problem with the current potato/woody glibc.

Re: forking packages and private archive

2002-01-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Peter Jordan] I am not sure if I should create my own installer package (non-interactive) using debian-installer and a forked rootskel [...] This sounds interesting and highly relevant to the work I'm currently doing. Do you have a complete automatic non-interactive installation working?

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Mark Brown] You need to explicitly end Debconf processing in the postinst by calling db_stop. debconf causes child processes to have an extra file descriptor open and waits for these to be closed before exiting and the daemon doesn't know it has this file open so doesn't close it. Is this

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joerg Wendland] If you run stable, use aptwatcher (http://people.debian.org/~lowe/aptwatcher) and each box will mail you when you need to do something to it. Nice tool, seems to be going into some crontabs :-) Is there any deb available for it?

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bas Zoetekouw] Is there anything I can do to get galeon included in woody? Since there are no outstanding RC bugs, I assume there are dependency problems. Did you check URL:http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#galeon? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Some missing packages (built, but not uploaded?)

2002-04-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
The dillo and gpm packages are missing some binaries. The dillo binary for ia64 was built on 2002-03-22, but is still missing from the archive. The gpm binary for powerpc was built on 2002-03-23, but is also missing from the archive. Could someone have a look to find find out what happened.

Where is gpm v1.19.6-12 for powerpc?

2002-04-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
The gpm v1.19.6-12 binary was built for powerpc on voltaire 2002-03-23, but it is still missing from the archive. Anyone know why this binary is missing? Check URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/distdiff.html.gz and URL:http://auric.debian.org/~pb/shame/powerpc.html for the

Re: exim or postfix for home modem user?

2002-08-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Rob Bradford] Well, yeh but thats relatively recent. And exim does have eximconfig which does work even if it isnt pretty. It does not work well if you want install the packages automatically on several hosts while supplying the configuration answers using debconf. I hope it will soon. :-)

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Matthew Wilcox] I got sick of listening to people discuss the gcc 3.2 transition in an uninformed manner. So I've whipped up a transition plan which will hopefully get us from A to B without causing too much pain. Haha. I'm entirely fallible and I don't pretend to understand all the issues

Re: configure a program -- debconf abuse?

2005-07-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Hamish Moffatt] I thought policy said something stronger than that, but I seem to be wrong. Best practice used to be to ask questions only when there was no sensible default whatsoever. Not to ask everything possible just because you can. Keeping the question priority at 'low' make sure most

Re: configure a program -- debconf abuse?

2005-07-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Olaf van der Spek] Isn't debconf a bit 'expensive' just to allow pre-seeding? No, it is amazingly cheap and simple. Did you have any cheaper suggestions? Having one consistent way to provide install time configuration is important to be able to share configuration settings across custom

Re: configure a program -- debconf abuse?

2005-07-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Olaf van der Spek] Don't debconf questions need to be translated? Non-hidden questions should normally be translated, but the package maintainer can choose if the question should be translated or not (by not using _Description in the template). Hidden questions (the prefered way to allow

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Manoj Srivastava] 4. Make dupload obsolete, and replace with dput. Make dput the default in debrelease. I think dput would have prevented me uploading my unsigned package. ~/.dupload.conf: $preupload{'changes'} = 'gpg --verify %1'; $preupload{'sourcepackage'} = 'j=$(echo %1 | tr

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marco d'Itri] I am considering switching the init scripts of my packages to lsb-base (which means that it will have to be promoted to important priority, at least). If anybody has objections please voice them now. I already did this for discover1, but did this in a way to make it use

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Hood] The package is only 20 kbytes installed. Let's just start Depending on it. I agree. We should start using the LSB, not just talk about trying to be LSB conforming. :) But I made the use optional for discover1 because someone complained and said it was just a fancy way to get

Re: debian mentors ubuntu

2005-07-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martin Pitt] This gave me a good laugh, and it's certainly way better than SuSE or Micro$$$ IIS :-), but still a bit embarrasing... Why is it embarrasing? Are Ubuntu sponsoring the machine, the hosting site, providing the OS, or what? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: about voting for bugs

2005-07-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Andreas Tille] if you ask me any bug is worth fixing, also if only a single user complained about the problem. So why spending effort in rating bugs? To get some indication on the order the bugs should be solved in? As we have limited time and people, it is smart to start with the bugs

Re: popcon (was Re: about voting for bugs)

2005-07-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Jon Dowland] I've been thinking about how popcon might be suggested by debian-installer. A cursory google search shows that this has been discussed in the past: can anyone point me at a summary? The next version of d-i will ask for participation during the installation. It was fixed just

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Lars Wirzenius] The way I'm running it now, it installs and purges each package (plus dependencies), and then compares the state of the filesystem (the chroot) before and after and reports files that have been modified, removed, or created. Can you do upgrade testing as well. It would be

Re: The BTS and bug subscriptions

2005-07-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Florian Weimer] Developers must be careful to Cc: the submitters, otherwise they probably never receive the message. What about the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address? I thought it send a message both to BTS and to the submitter? I use it all the time when I want the submitter to get the message. I

Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
620 without arch info) New in version 1.30 is support for reporting using HTTP POST, to make it possible for machines without working MTA to participate as well. Please direct any questions to popcon-developers at lists.alioth.debian.org. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Michelle Konzack] Are there really only 5398 machines in i386 ? Well, you need to remember the 620 reports without any arch info. 95% of them are probalby running i386 as well. :) I cant belive it... I have already 13 i386 machines with popcon and now I will install it on my Macintosh

Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Erik Schanze] Perhaps more will participate if you zip the report, to reduce traffic. It's requested in bug 149425 for years. [Michelle Konzack] FullACK. - Most of my friends in Turkey and arabic counties too. The HTTP upload is sending a gzip-ed version. I'm working on a version

Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Ron Johnson] Soon after you put it in Experimental, installed it, for that very reason. I got a parse error on this one. I suspect you are unaware that the HTTP option is available in unstable, version 1.30. Maybe a post to d-u would spread the word. Yes, that would be nice. But I leave

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Andrew Suffield] AMs aren't much better, as a group. The FD checks their applications so as not to waste the DAM's time reviewing bogus ones, and the DAM checks them to filter out people who shouldn't get in. The reason why we need both these checks is most simply explained by pointing out

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Andrew Suffield] How about 'not second guessing people without cause'? Sounds like a good idea. I am not sure how this comment is connected to the message you replied to. I tried to avoid second guessing you, by asking the following question: You seem to assume that all rejections are

Re: jack transition status notes

2005-08-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh] I will probably drop arts support on the floor to be able to be happy once again (also known as not needing to care about a dependency hell the size of a small mountain to add almost no useful functionality whatsoever to timidity), if KDE does not transition

Re: NMUs wanted: C++ library packages in need of uploading

2005-08-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marcelo E. Magallon] The list and script can be found in http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/gcc-transition/ Are you going to keep it up to date? Is it generated using a cronjob, or do you update it manually? It would be great if someone could add a link to your updated graph from

Re: status of jackd? (bug #318098)

2005-08-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Eldon Koyle] Maybe I'm missing something? I suspect you are. Are you aware of URL:http://secure-testing.alioth.debian.org/? If you see through URL:http://dc5video.debian.net/2005-07-12/08-Securing_the_Testing_Distribution-Joey_Hess.mpeg, you will hear more about it. The status of testing

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
with upstream as well, to try to make the choosen name used in other distros. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bashisms in init scripts

2005-08-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Piotr Roszatycki] I've tried to replace /bin/sh with /bin/posh and it was completly disaster. Did the same happen using /bin/dash as /bin/sh? I believe it is comparable in size with posh. The system was fucked up. I've found the errors in critical init scripts: file-rc (/etc/init.d/rc),

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Timo Aaltonen] Single-user mode is a fiasco, because in /etc/rcS.d/* there are a number of services that really should not belong there. Examples: -network -all disks (including NFS) mounted ..and those that depend on them. Yes, singleuser in debian is not working very

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Simon Richter] I'd counterpropose to make this optional. I very much like the fact that the runlevels have no default meaning and would prefer it to stay that way, although I can see the issue of LSB compliance. Care to share with us on why you like the current setup? Personally, I hate that

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Miquel van Smoorenburg] If you don't want NFS mounts in single user mode, don't put them in /etc/fstab ... Your simple solution do not match all installation. For those installation with NFS mounts in fstab and no automount setting, it would be useful with a singleuser mode without mounting

Re: Bug#322282: ITP: swapspace -- Dynamic swap space manager

2005-08-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
author is good, it is not such a big deal. And the communication between a debian maintainer and upstream should alwasy be good for the maintainer job to be done properly. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Please notify your rdepends' maintainers if you break an interface

2005-08-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt] After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that gets used by other people and you break the API, you should notify them. Really. A good idea. Perhaps we should have a tool in the

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[W. Borgert] as a conclusion of many discussions at DebConf5, I propose to maintain all packages by teams. I agree that it is good to maintain packages in teams, to make sure the project is less vulnerable to single maintainers going on vacation, becoming sick, being run over by a bus or other

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[John Hasler] You would have a team maintain 'units'? That's silly. I guess it is equally silly as it is to maintain prebaseconfig in a team. The prebaseconfig package is very simple, and maintained by a team together with a lot of other very simple packages. It works quite well to maintain

Multi-User X machine (Was: runlevels remodeled)

2005-08-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Steinar H. Gunderson] How do you make this work? Last time I tried it, X would only show the one connected to the ???active??? virtual console, and blanked the other. It need some patches to the kernel and X. I'm not sure how many of these are included in the mainstream kernel and X

Re: Multi-User X machine (Was: runlevels remodeled)

2005-08-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Daniel Stone] Ubuntu implements this from the installer down (although only for the special cases of four nVidia, MGA, or ATI cards, and even then you may need to fiddle with the configuration a little bit), with a bunch of patches to xorg -- no kernel patches required. Those patches are

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Alexander Schmehl] Do you realy think you can enforce teamwork? I don't think so. Either some people will work together as a team or individuals will do it their own way. And I don't think it will be a good idea, to force those individuals to work in a team. I agree. There will always be

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Roberto C. Sanchez] OK. Please identify the most important packages in Debian :-) Hint: this is not easy. There would need to be some sort of metric or heuristic for deciding the importance of a package. I do not see the need for a waterproof definition capable of splitting the archive in

Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway? (Was: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal)

2005-08-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wouter Verhelst] b) the three beforementioned teams could already refuse to support a port anyhow, simply by not doing the work. This is not really a valid argument. If a team in debian refuses to accept decisions made by a majority of debian developers, or rejects democratic control,

[PATCH] Simple parallellized boot sequence (and a plea for LSB complience)

2005-08-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Recently, I have been investigating how to speed up the boot process in Debian, and during this work, I found a simple way to change /etc/init.d/rc to run all init.d scripts with the same sequence number in parallell. Patch included below. For this change to work as it should, we need to make

Re: [PATCH] Simple parallellized boot sequence (and a plea for LSB complience)

2005-08-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marcelo E. Magallon] Isn't just: wait enough? In this case, yes. In the general case, it is unknown if a background process was forked off earlier in the script, so you want to control which processes to wait for. I suspect 'wait $pid || true' or similar is needed though, as the

Re: [PATCH] Simple parallellized boot sequence (and a plea for LSB complience)

2005-08-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martin F Krafft] The place to discuss issues like this would be the initscripts-ng project on alioth. There's a mailing list... Good idea. I'll head over there. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] Simple parallellized boot sequence (and a plea for LSB complience)

2005-08-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marco d'Itri] I'm sure that a fair number of critical scripts (e.g. some dealing with networking) are not. Yeah, me too. I've seen incorrect init.d ordering several times. And to be able to detect and fix incorrect boot order, we need to know dependencies. I hope as many as possible will

Re: [PATCH] Simple parallellized boot sequence (and a plea for LSB complience)

2005-08-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:59:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:32:48 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, me too. I've seen incorrect init.d ordering several times. And to be able to detect and fix incorrect boot order, we need to know dependencies

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Bushnell] Quite the contrary; it seems to me that this is to work *passively* against something. Not doing the work is working passively against it, while prohibiting others from doing the work is working actively against it. If you do both, you are working actively against it. --

Re: [PATCH] Simple parallellized boot sequence (and a plea for LSB complience)

2005-08-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Tollef Fog Heen] This doesn't handle the case of dynamic dependencies: That is correct. So to handle those, one need to support override files loaded from somewhere else. This also make it possible to add dependency info for scripts currently missing it. I got a sketch package working as a

Re: Fun with the NEW queue

2005-08-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joerg Jaspert] You can find this list at http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html in the future and that one will also be updated if we need to. Nice list. What about linking it in from URL:http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Xvidcap, mplayer and rte (was Re: Fun with the NEW queue)

2005-08-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña] Either case they should be REJECTED with a proper reasoning as to why they have been rejected. And please add this information to the WNPP request, for the rest of us to see it. It is hard to fix the remaining issues if we need to track down a description of

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña] Any free GIS anyone? Lots of Free GIS software around. Check out URL:http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Robert Lemmen] db.debian.org contains (optional) fields for the location of each developer, an information which currently is only used to generate edwards's fancy maps. there are other potential uses for this, like making it possible to find fellow debian developers at some place that you

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Goswin von Brederlow] Nothing is available before init is started, init is always the first thing to start, even on initrd or initramfs (some archs call init linuxrc though). You suspect you miss the point. bootchartd is a init _replacement_. We use it by passing init=/sbin/bootchartd to the

Re: Any reason why libmotif3 vanished for Sparc

2005-08-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Andreas Tille] ... I'm not skilled enough to fix this. :-( Try using lesstif instead. It is a motif clone. I recommend installing lesstif2-dev instead of the motif development package, and try again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: long long support on all archs?

2005-08-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Ondrej Sury] I am unsure if such patch would be accepted upstream, since Cyrus runs on more then Linux and *BSD variants. Does Solaris/AIX/whatever(tm) has stdint.h? I believe both SOlaris and AIX got it. It is a POSIX standard header. Check

Re: an idea for patch of the /etc/init.d/rc script

2005-09-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Delian Delchev] I'm very new to debian development, but I'm old debian fan. I don't know is that the right list for suggestions because I'm really new. Please somebody to read that mail and to show me the right way :) I'm working on similar things. My approach is to add dependency

Re: long long support on all archs?

2005-09-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Florian Weimer] typedef int64_t long long; There are 64-bit architectures which whose C compiler does not support long long. long long is a C99 feature, too, but it's much older than stdint.h (it was supported by the GNU compiler in the early 90s, IIRC). Any examples of an 64-bit

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Allyn, MarkX A] I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing on this and some other email lists. The latest was a bit offensive for me in my work environment. The debian lists are not doing a great job in blocking spam. You might want to consider reading the lists using

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
wish the debian mail server would do an equally good job. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen Linux user #14 with the Linux Counter, URL: http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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