Re: When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ?

an-edu-doc, where the master document is fetched as docbook from wiki.debian.org, passed to translators as .po files and in the end both HTML and PDF versions of the documentation is generated. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Re: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

itude behaviour is worse than that of apt-get. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen Pretending d-i developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fl4ofg250d@login2.uio.no

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

orrect. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flaap45dpx@login2.uio.no

When the init.d script exist, the service should be operational

faster than before. If you maintain a package with a service started during boot using a init.d script, please make sure your service is operational when the init.d script exits. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

More advanced home directory creation in Debian?

en move on to change other packages to use this location too. I suspect it is best to create a new tool for creating the home directory, to make sure all user creation tools call these .d scripts the same way. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

ntation on exactly how the /etc/insserv.conf.d > files work. It will add it to the existing line. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

d before those depending on $time will start. PS: Peter Reinholdtsen is my cousin. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://list

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

[John Hasler] > No, wait. Chrony depends on things that depend indirectly on $time > (so does ntp, IIRC). Yes, such change need to be done very carefully and in stages, to avoid dependency loops. See #542602 for a discussion on the ntp order relative to $syslog. :) Happy hacking, --

Re: Update Lenny to Squeeze

we will have to live with this upgrade pain for Lenny->Squeeze. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fly6cfam4r@login2.uio.no

Re: More advanced home directory creation in Debian?

? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100810203658.gd18...@login1.uio.no

Re: status of /etc/environment?

eated during installation and for Squeeze will be updated when DHCP replies arrives. Is there an alternative for setting environment variables for all processes? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Init dependency between nfs-kernel-server and name server

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Re: Init dependency between nfs-kernel-server and name server

erv and a discussion within the LSB standardization framework would be a good way to bring this topic forward. :) Feel free to look into it if you got the spare time to spend on it. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Init dependency between nfs-kernel-server and name server

[Tollef Fog Heen] > Sounds like a bug in insserv, then. As far as I can tell it is a design decision. > Did they provide any reasoning for this? See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.init.sysv.devel/66 > for the thread. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release

-one does, they stay very slim. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2floca9f0ju@login1.uio.no

Re: Squeeze Artwork: selection of default theme

ision, and am happy there are people working on the visual profile in Debian. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debi

How many are using oldstable, stable, testing and unstable?

to 100%, because some machines are not using the current versions from these repositories. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#604728: general: Cannot play anything in totem or gnome-mplayer while a flash movie is running in iceweasel

now, we will change the default in Debian Edu to use pulseaudio by default by editing our /etc/asound.conf file to do this. We earlier only enabled this for thin clients, but if it make sure Adobe Flash audio do not block other programs, it seem a good default to have for non-thin clients too. Happ

Re: Bug#604944: Please move libgcrypt to /lib

ystemd can use the libcryptsetup1 library. I believe this is up to the package maintainer, and to me the arguments for moving the libraries to /lib/ would be enough to move them. The libraries are needed during early boot, when only / might be available, and thus should be in /lib/. :) Happy hacking, -- P

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

ers, and tried to kill them. Workaround is implemented there, but other packages might have similar problems. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

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Re: Testing debconf scripts

Try setting DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer to see the communication between the debconf frontend and the client. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: Bitcoin donation

coin more to spend their bitcoins on. :) 1 Extracted using "lynx -dump http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt|grep Received:|grep Block|awk '{sum = sum + $6} END { print sum}'". Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSC

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

rces, as there is currently no way to figure out which packages contain firmware and it is out of the question to unpack all packages to look for firmware packages. We should find a better way to identify firmware packages, allowing hw-detect to find the correct ones without unpacking. Happy ha

Re: runit package changes /etc/inittab ?

[Nikita V. Youshchenko] > Is modifying /etc/inittab from postinst ok for random debian package > these days? It is unlikely to cause upgrade problems, at least. :) The file is copied in place by the sysvinit postinst only if it is missing. Vennlig hilsen, -- Petter Reinholdtsen

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

CPE entries. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flaaip46qu@login2.uio.no

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

elevant CVEs and make it trivial to compare Debian and Ubuntu derivatives for the packages originating from Debian. Perhaps something like: Xs-CPE: cpe:/a:bash:bash in debian/control would do it? To get a versioned CPE, ":$version" could be appended. Happy hacking, -- Petter R

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

nds are to be installed by default. > > Shouldn't the non-free firmware deb end up installed just from that? I'm not sure. But I know hw-detect discover what file the kernel module is asking for, and want it to be possible to map from this file to the package providing this file

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

package, perhaps in debian/control using "Xs-CPE: " or similar, to allow cross-distro mapping of packages and make the security teams work easier. :) I've started on a package map from Debian source package to CPE ID in the testing security team svn, data/CPE/list. I now

Re: CPE lists was Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

ct track CVEs in a structured way? Note that there are several duplicate CPE entries used by NVD. A list of the ones I have identified so far is in data/CPE/aliases. Note that there is a bug in your list. xen is claimed to be grub-legacy. Perhaps check your code? Happy hacking, -- Petter Rei

Re: Upstart and sysvinit in packages - Policy needed

. I believe we need to come up with a way where most or all package maintainers (perhaps those handling kernel events and early boot stuff should be expected) only need to maintain one boot setup for their package, and this boot setup should be used by all the different boot systems. Happy hacking

Re: Are circular dependencies inside a source package OK?

bad idea. Are there other problems with dependency loops? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flk4glzdm5@login2.uio.no

Re: popularity-contest

[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? https://alioth.debian.org/projects/popcon/> The work stopped up a bit because of the break-in, b

Re: Intel f90 compiler for Debian.

[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 http://g95.sourceforge.net/>. I'm sure more man-power would be welcome. :)

Re: Bug#274957: ITP: susv3 -- Fetch and install SUSv3 documentation

[Hamish Moffatt] > Why is it useful to fetch this documentation and install it through a > Debian package, rather than say with your favourite web browser? Offline reading?

Re: discover or alsa?

[Thomas Hood] > Given these facts, what should the ALSA packaging team do? It seems > that the alsa packages should Conflict with discover and discover1. Isn't this only a problem with discover1? I thought discover (v2) had a mechanism to detect if OSS or ALSA was used. It is probably better to

Re: Right Way to make a configuration package

[Thomas Hood] > Debconf wasn't designed to serve the purpose to which you are trying > to put it. "Debconf is not a registry." Actually, debconf was designed for first-time configuration of packages, and is well suited for the task. Your mantra "debconf is not a registry" does not apply here. >

Re: Right Way to make a configuration package

[Enrico Zini] > One of the suggestions that came out is using dpkg diversions. > > I remember diversions came out in the past, and I don't remember how > come they didn't come out again. Was there something wrong with them? I believe they are forbidden or don't work for conffiles. And we need t

Re: Testing Large File Support (LFS)

[Anand Kumria] > I'm hoping there is some automated tool we can use rather than > having to find and then report bugs as we go. Perhaps you can use 'nm binary' and check if it is using the 64-bit version of the libc function calls?

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

I agree that hotplug and discover must be able to co-exist on a system. And I believe they mostly do, as I have both installed. :) [A Mennucc] > Unless someone may go and rewrite xserver-xfree86 to suggest > 'hotplug | discover', and use any of the two. (hotplug has a much > wider list of rdepend

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

[Marco d'Itri] > Hotplug does not know about X drivers and is not supposed to. Right. That is what I suspected. So it can not replace discover, kudzy, or any of the other packages capable of providing X driver info. > I think that the correct solution is to ship discover with > autoloading of U

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

[Marco d'Itri] > discover cannot load hotplugged devices, so to me it looks like a good > idea to use the same program to do both. Reliably reproducible bugs are > better than inconsistent behaviour. :-) I'm not really interested in participating in that discussion. Anyway, if you make a patch, p

Re: Security updates for sarge?

[Jan Niehusmann] > Question to the security team: What's holding back security support > for sarge? (This is not a complaint - I'm just curious) Debian-edu is trying to form a separate security team for debian/testing, working on keeping the testing distribution secure in paralell with the debian/

Re: Security updates for sarge?

[Don Armstrong] > Is there anything that those of us who are not these two people can > do to help with this, short of not bothering them about it? I'm not sure how to help on the infrastructure. But if you want to help with securing sarge/testing, you can help Joey Hess and the rest of us checki

Re: exim or postfix for home modem user?

[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

[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 issu

Re: ElectricFence question

[Ravindra Sunkad] > I'm am trying to debug a memory corruption problem using > ElectricFence 2.1 on Linux I believe valgrind is better for this. Check out http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/>. Sorry, but I do not know anything about your mmap problem.

Re: Debian Usability Research

[Enrico Zini] > What would a Debian Usability project do? What about looking at the new installer, and give suggestions to how it can be made easier to understand and user for new users?

Updated package diff stats for testing/unstable

http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/distdiff-all.html.gz> Statistics from update_excuses.html generated 2003.04.21 23:32:16 +. - 2274 packages total. - 2269 packages with differences. - 1106 valid packages. - 365 buggy packages. - 1634 packages over age. - 570 pac

Re: Debian MIA check

[James Troup] > On the 12th March I sent out a maintainer ping to 191 possibly > inactive Debian developers. The list of developers was generated by > looking first at all maintainers who didn't have a source package > signed by (one of) their key(s) in unstable and then excluding from > that anyo

Re: Sparc buildd a cross-compiler?

[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

[Martinf] > For further explanation please check the detailed report at > . Is the security problem with libc glob() present i Potato? According to http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-160.html>, the bug is present in 2.2.4, and according to http:/

Re: Thoughts on network detection and configuration on Debian

[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 detec

Re: X autoconf

[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 informatio

Still no fam in Woody

The current excuse for 'fam' in 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 candi

Re: maintainer for cervisia is MIA

[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

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

[Martin Schulze] > For further explanation please check the detailed report at > . 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

[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? Pl

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

[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

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

[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

[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 http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#galeon>? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Some missing packages (built, but not uploaded?)

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?

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 http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/distdiff.html.gz> and http://auric.debian.org/~pb/shame/powerpc.html> for the latest statu

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

nd the boot loader configuration. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: deprecated server packages in lenny?

panded when the mounting happen, and not during boot of the server. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: handling group membership in and outside d-i

up should be installed instead. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Transition of initscripts to new order / sequence number

just removing symlinks directly in /etc/rcX.d/. As long as file-rc exist and is supposed in Debian, I believe it is a bad idea. :( Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Why do we have to support tmpfs for /var/run (policy changes in 3.8.1)

flash disks and files with problems with their file systems), and I believe this is a clear advantage. Having tmpfs there also make it more obvious that the content of /var/run/ will be erased at boot. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

l and pm-utils > which add (if there are) any missing bits from acpi-support. Perhaps hotkey-setup should be made obsolete too? Is it still work keeping? http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hotkey-setup.html >. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-req

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

operly in Debian. Of the around 1000 packages with init.d scripts in Debian, I suspect at most 100 of them would need to provide upstart/systemd configuration to make the boot robust and correct, and the rest of the packages can keep using their existing init.d scripts. -- Happy hacking Petter Rei

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

[Adam Borowski] > Am I supposed to fetch a copy of initscripts and manually compare > scripts it ships with those on 'dpkg -L initscripts'? Or is there > some other obscure way? Try this one instead: dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' initscripts | grep obso

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

You can also install file-rc. It only handle the static script ordering, and when switching the static ordering is activated. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

hemselves to override their dependencies, and risk them going away during upgrades. I created the possibility for the system administrator to insert overrides in /etc/insserv/overrides/ for just this use case. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

not to do it. 2) Machines switching to/from file-rc. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flsjg06w7w@login2.uio.no

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

ased, not sequence based. There are other scenarios where the boot often fail too, but I guess you get the idea. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

bed. The removal of the big kernel lock made the kernel less predictable, and is the source of these issues. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: MIA check: Jan Christoph Nordholz

[Dmitry Smirnov] > Petter, you sponsored last maintainer's upload back in 2009 - do you > happen to hear from Jan lately? Nope. Been busy elsewhere. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

e to give each user a different /tmp > through mount namespaces. I'm not sure whether that's compatible > with historical use of /tmp by the X window system.) This sound a bit more scary, yes. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Re: Maintainer responsible for or only doing maintenance?

your view on the responsibilities of a package sponsor in Debian? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fl62bbmloo@login2.uio.no

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

o work the same way the default installation in Debian work. They use read-only NFS-mounted file systems and a writable tmpfs mounted on /tmp/. - It reduces the number of disk writes on a laptop, allowing it to spin down the disk a bit longer. -- Happy hacking, Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

nless the administrator has explicitly made a more > limited choice. While I agree that tmpfs should be the default, I suspect this argument isn't solid enough to make it worth it. There are luckily other arguments too. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Dependency-based boot ordering and sysvinit in unstable

% of the population do so already, and there is an upward trend, so it might even lead to success. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen One of the people who brought you dependency based boot sequencing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Future of update-rc.d in wheezy+1

by Kel. The patch has been available for more than two years. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2012062

Re: Audit of Debian/Ubuntu for unfixed vulnerabilities because of embedded code copies

s. I hope to come up with other and perhaps better ideas to motivate people to provide CPE codes with the packages. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: Debian development and release: always releasable (essay)

kend storage and user/group/etc lookup. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flsj1ag54h@login1.uio.no

Re: [Popcon-developers] Encrypted popcon submissions

key to decrypt them. For Jessie, I hope we have time to figure out a solution, but for Wheezy we are not going to rewrite that part of our system. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen One of the Debian Edu developers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: [Popcon-developers] Encrypted popcon submissions

heezy and earlier. I created http://bugs.debian.org/712996 > to track its inclusion yesterday. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Is updating utmp when logging in a user a requirement in Debian?

to only update consolekit, or if utmp must be updated too. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fl61wxqsgg@diskless.uio.no

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on

ipt could replace each other, and those needing the wrapper could depend on the virtual package. I suspect all that is needed is someone to focus on the problem to figure out and implement a solution. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

dard to be the way you >always wanted it to be. Same as with science, I guess. :) "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." (M

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

. See metainit and bug report #651004 for some ideas on how this could be done for init.d scripts. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

to sysvinit. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flvcmwo0pt@login1.uio.no

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

and gdm scripts have priority. There is a list in the source, but I do not remember the details. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:

Re: Network Security Toolkit

er free GPL license, and all of them are very useful for > imagination results. xtraceroute is a similar tool which was in Debian/Lenny. Check out http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xt.html >. I do not know why it was removed, but suspect it was unmaintained and dead upstream. I miss

Re: On init in Debian

kages with init.d scripts at the start of the dependency based boot sequence work. Back then, it was around 1000 binary packages. I used apt-file search /etc/init.d/ to count. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Audit of Debian/Ubuntu for unfixed vulnerabilities because of embedded code copies

e time to do so myself. :( If you want more direct feedback from me, we could meet on IRC to exchange knowledge. Otherwise, you can ask using email. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Status of circular dependencies in Sid

weeks (as detected by jenkins.debian.net). See http://bugs.debian.org/655382 > and related BTS reports for the details. I really hope we can get rid of the circular package dependencies. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

poweroff. Thus, having stuff in / depend on libraries in /usr/ can cause real problems during shutdown. See http://bugs.debian.org/120340 > and http://bugs.debian.org/159771 > for the old story about bash and LDAP NSS blocking umount. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

[Philipp Kern] > What in LVM should need to be shutdown? No idea. I have just seen messages about the LVM subsystem being busy at shutdown. I have not investigated where they came from. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

affect the boot times? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fl4njf5dd6@diskless.uio.no

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