Re: Unable to start postgresql on Debian

2009-05-11 Thread Joseph Rawson
en I install postgresql with a preseed file in the debian installer, but I don't know why you have this problem. To fix this, try this command (as root): pg_createcluster 8.3 main --start > > I checked all the postgre .deb files in my /var/apt/cache/archives > directory. None of the

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-11 Thread Joseph Rawson
o the terminal/shell (I don't know which) that originally authenticated. So, if you are using sudo in one terminal, then quickly start another terminal and use sudo in that terminal, you will have to authenticate again. -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-06-25 Thread Joseph Rawson
only one Subversion library, > not the whole thing. It's not just a distributed SVN in that sense ... also > see: <http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/SVKAntiFUD> > > // Oliver -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-07-08 Thread Joseph Rawson
re interested in it, look it over, maybe try it out and let me know. It may be outdated, but bringing it back up to date shouldn't be too difficult. -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Rawson
nd he keeps telling me that they have a better system for building packages with the options the you select. I decided to try and make my own quick, sloppy build system using multiple buildd's with cowpoke as an example. I've had mixed results with some packages honoring those options and other packages ignoring them. It's been a very interesting experiment. -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Rawson
ng. I leave it to you to > suggest some sane method my which this can be achieved. > using ~ decreases the version. Try this: dpkg-source -x dscfile pushd $src-$ver dch -l mybpo dpkg-buildpackage -S (It's rare, but sometimes you may need a builddep installed for this, such as po4a). pop

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:18:11 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > Using reprepro makes it easy to upload the new packages to an > > "experimental" dist for testing, then call "reprepro -b /path/to/repos

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:18:11 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > Using reprepro makes it easy to upload the new packages to an > > "experimental" dist for testing, then call "reprepro -b /path/to/repos

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-29 Thread Joseph Rawson
the time to fiddle with it myself. It's cool to learn something new every day! :) Do you have an estimate of when it will appear in sid? -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.