Re: Request For Sponsor : NWS - Grid monitoring infrastructure

2004-06-04 Thread Mats Rynge
* Martin Quinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-03 13:20:32 -0700]: I have packaged the NWS, a computational grid monitoring infrastructure (ITP #167891, which I just enhanced), and I'm not seeking for a sponsor. Hi Martin, I'm Mats from ISI, and I know Larry at UCSB has tried to introduce us

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-04 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:30:12PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: Geert Stappers wrote: The proper way is to simply not upload to mentors.d.n with 'official' debian revision numbers. Assuming the offical version will be 1.0-1, use for example 1.0-1~mentors1 (if mentors.d.n accepts ~ in

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Geert Stappers wrote, Friday, June 04, 2004 7:38 AM: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:30:12PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: Geert Stappers wrote: [...] Gee, I real need to find back that document that wrote to use 1.0-0.1, 1.0-0.2, 1.0-0.3 etc for non official debian packages. I don't

Executing with root priviliges

2004-06-04 Thread David A. Riggs
I'm in the process of writing (and with help, packaging) a piece of software which needs to be executed as root. It happens to be a graphical app for configuring a laptop, and is the sort of thing that regular non-root users on a single user system would want to run. Looking through installed

Employment going back up they said

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Re: Executing with root priviliges

2004-06-04 Thread Millis Miller
Just for the record, there is also the command 'sux' (package has the same name) that will let you get root permissions and transport your X settings. Millis

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-04 Thread Matt Brubeck
Geert Stappers wrote: Matt Brubeck wrote: Geert Stappers wrote: Gee, I real need to find back that document that wrote to use 1.0-0.1, 1.0-0.2, 1.0-0.3 etc for non official debian packages. I don't think this is a good idea, because those numbers are used for non-maintainer

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Geert Stappers wrote, Friday, June 04, 2004 7:38 AM: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:30:12PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: Geert Stappers wrote: [...] Gee, I real need to find back that document that wrote to use 1.0-0.1, 1.0-0.2, 1.0-0.3 etc for

Re: Executing with root priviliges

2004-06-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Millis Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just for the record, there is also the command 'sux' (package has the same name) that will let you get root permissions and transport your X settings. Millis There is also ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -X foobar. MfG Goswin

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 16:57, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] If the current version in the archive is 1.1, and you upload an NMU of 1.2, that NMU should be 1.2-0.1 (so that a maintainer upload of 1.2-1 supersedes it). It should be 1.1-0.1 so a

Re: Long double alignment test

2004-06-04 Thread Brett Cundal
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 09:16:57AM -0700, Brett Cundal wrote: The issue is with a test for long double alignment which reports an incorrect value on ia64 (and probably other archs). On a RedHat mailing list I have found the following code which is claimed to correctly detect long double

Needing a sponsor - PHP-GTK and GtkScintilla

2004-06-04 Thread Luiz Carlos Querino Filho
Hello mentors, I am a PHP-GTK developer, and recently noticed that the php-gtk package wasn't available for "sarge". Then I made contact with the php-gtk package mantainer, bigpaul, and was told by him that he had to orphan that package. So, after he encouraged me to, I got the most

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-04 Thread Matt Brubeck
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: If the current version in the archive is 1.1, and you upload an NMU of 1.2, that NMU should be 1.2-0.1 (so that a maintainer upload of 1.2-1 supersedes it). It should be 1.1-0.1 so a maintainer upload of 1.2 superseeds it. But if the NMU is a new upstream

Re: Request For Sponsor : NWS - Grid monitoring infrastructure

2004-06-04 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:20:32PM -0700, Martin Quinson wrote: Hey dudes, I have packaged the NWS, a computational grid monitoring infrastructure (ITP #167891, which I just enhanced), and I'm not seeking for a sponsor. Erm. s/not/now/, of course. Mt. -- Testing can only prove the

Re: Executing with root priviliges

2004-06-04 Thread Eike \zyro\ Sauer
Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: There is also ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -X foobar. ...and kdesu... Ciao, Eike

Re: Request For Sponsor : NWS - Grid monitoring infrastructure

2004-06-04 Thread Mats Rynge
* Martin Quinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-03 13:20:32 -0700]: I have packaged the NWS, a computational grid monitoring infrastructure (ITP #167891, which I just enhanced), and I'm not seeking for a sponsor. Hi Martin, I'm Mats from ISI, and I know Larry at UCSB has tried to introduce us

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-04 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:30:12PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: Geert Stappers wrote: The proper way is to simply not upload to mentors.d.n with 'official' debian revision numbers. Assuming the offical version will be 1.0-1, use for example 1.0-1~mentors1 (if mentors.d.n accepts ~ in

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Geert Stappers wrote, Friday, June 04, 2004 7:38 AM: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:30:12PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: Geert Stappers wrote: [...] Gee, I real need to find back that document that wrote to use 1.0-0.1, 1.0-0.2, 1.0-0.3 etc for non official debian packages. I don't

Executing with root priviliges

2004-06-04 Thread David A. Riggs
I'm in the process of writing (and with help, packaging) a piece of software which needs to be executed as root. It happens to be a graphical app for configuring a laptop, and is the sort of thing that regular non-root users on a single user system would want to run. Looking through installed

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-04 Thread Matt Brubeck
Geert Stappers wrote: Matt Brubeck wrote: Geert Stappers wrote: Gee, I real need to find back that document that wrote to use 1.0-0.1, 1.0-0.2, 1.0-0.3 etc for non official debian packages. I don't think this is a good idea, because those numbers are used for non-maintainer

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Geert Stappers wrote, Friday, June 04, 2004 7:38 AM: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:30:12PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: Geert Stappers wrote: [...] Gee, I real need to find back that document that wrote to use 1.0-0.1, 1.0-0.2, 1.0-0.3 etc for

Needing a sponsor - PHP-GTK and GtkScintilla

2004-06-04 Thread Luiz Carlos Querino Filho
Hello mentors, I am a PHP-GTK developer, and recently noticed that the php-gtk package wasn't available for "sarge". Then I made contact with the php-gtk package mantainer, bigpaul, and was told by him that he had to orphan that package. So, after he encouraged me to, I got the most

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-04 Thread Matt Brubeck
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: If the current version in the archive is 1.1, and you upload an NMU of 1.2, that NMU should be 1.2-0.1 (so that a maintainer upload of 1.2-1 supersedes it). It should be 1.1-0.1 so a maintainer upload of 1.2 superseeds it. But if the NMU is a new upstream

Re: Request For Sponsor : NWS - Grid monitoring infrastructure

2004-06-04 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:20:32PM -0700, Martin Quinson wrote: Hey dudes, I have packaged the NWS, a computational grid monitoring infrastructure (ITP #167891, which I just enhanced), and I'm not seeking for a sponsor. Erm. s/not/now/, of course. Mt. -- Testing can only prove the

Re: Executing with root priviliges

2004-06-04 Thread Eike \zyro\ Sauer
Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: There is also ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -X foobar. ...and kdesu... Ciao, Eike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Rekall - Comments please.

2004-06-04 Thread Edgar
Hi, I've been working on packaging Rekall - a KDE-based Access-like graphical database frontend. I would be interested in any feedback on my packages which are available at: http://www.edgar.org.uk/debian/packages/ To get it to run you probably need to install my xbsql package as well.