RE: [Leaf-devel] weblet & the like

2002-02-07 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >No...that's exactly what I'm thinking. There should be a consistent way to >configure/manage a package, so multiple front-ends can be driven w/o >requiring changes to the basic package. Maybe even a set of low-level tools >to deal with modifying configuration files,

RE: [Leaf-devel] weblet & the like

2002-02-05 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
>Nothing nailed down so-far...the "whole enchalida" is up for grabs! I'd >especially like to see a clean, extensible, understandable method for >setting up complex networking configurations & static routes, since we're Something like a meta-defninition that goes in the package (currently /var/li

[Leaf-devel] weblet & the like

2002-02-04 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
Lynn wrote regarding the Mosquito distribution: > I have been busy looking at some CGI options myself lately. :) Personally, I think there's something fundamentally wrong with managing a firewall/router through a web-based interface, but it seems that I'm the only one who feels this way... I'v

[Leaf-devel] Question on Oxygen 1.8.0 boot CD

2001-12-28 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
Dave, I've noticed that the cdrom.cfg, smallnet.cfg, etc. configuration files on the bootable cd are not in the root directory of the cdboot.ima image on the CD. Instead, they are inside the root.lrp, in /var/boot/config. This is different from the standard floppy boot images, where the .cfg fi

RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates

2001-12-20 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
>You're seeing this error because the default configuration is linux - >which is for a floppy-based boot. The most recent CDROM should use >cdrom as the default config. Ah. Thanks. The default screen is the "linux" config screen. F1 will make the cdrom/largenet/firewall/etc." options appear,

RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates

2001-12-19 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
>David, others, is there a reason for using syslinux instead of isolinux? >I'd say it's easier to use isolinux and forget about floppy images on >the CD. FWIW, ISOLinux worked great on the initial load, but there were some problems with LINUXRC. If I recall correctly, it seemed to want to mou

RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates

2001-12-19 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
Luis.F.Correia wrote: >When booting from a CD, the only floppy formats supported are 1.44 and 2.88. >Check which format Oxygen-CD is using and correct your config file. Luis, Thanks. Just as a clarification, the CD-image I'm using is (currently dated Dec 17) and at: http:le

RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates

2001-12-18 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
David Douthitt wrote: >Also, the Oxygen Bootable CDROM has been updated, but the 'largenet' >configuration is still SegFaulting at the end. Please help me find >out why It's very puzzling, as there is plenty of RAMdisk space >and other configurations work fine. In case it is any help to

[Leaf-devel] cryptographically signed .LRPs

2001-12-11 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > Yeah, I think it's pretty big, plus I believe most of these packages require > openssl and other huge add-ons to run. The basics of public-key > cryptography, however, are pretty simple, so I think it'd be possible to > make a small (a few K, pe

RE: [Leaf-devel] Updated Oxygen Development Image - and lrp/ source directory

2001-12-11 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
>If people could bang away on the Oxygen development image, I'd >appreciate it. I'd like to hear from some testers before I release... Finally got a chance to download (and test), so far looks good. The config.lrp handling works nicely now. Thanks! As an observation, /dev/boot seems to be a

RE: [Leaf-devel] packages and filesystems

2001-12-04 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >Yeah, I think it's pretty big, plus I believe most of these packages require >openssl and other huge add-ons to run. The basics of public-key >cryptography, however, are pretty simple, so I think it'd be possible to >make a small (a few K, perhaps) binary that would

RE: [Leaf-devel] packages and filesystems

2001-12-03 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
David Douthitt wrote: >About all that can be asked for is a "comment-like" tag that package >creators use to detail dependencies. Agreed. That's what I was thinking of - comments for things the maintainer knows of, with no guarantee that its accurate or comprehensive. And I see what you mean

RE: [Leaf-devel] packages and filesystems

2001-12-03 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
David Douthitt wrote: > I have a strong faith in the current format - even if we package up > "newfangledsoftware 2.2.2" as a *.lrp with glibc 2.0, it'll still work > in that LRP 2.9.4 somebody's running. > > If we add a new file (*.desc) to the /var/lib/lrpkg directory, the > package STILL works

RE: [Leaf-devel] packages and filesystems

2001-12-03 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >How do your fields compare against those stored by rpm & deb? > A quick cruise over to debian and rpm.org produced this for me (Sorry, Dave, if I'm speaking out of turn) rpm debianDave NamesourceName Version Version

RE: [Leaf-devel] packages and filesystems

2001-12-03 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And for this reason I'm thinking that versioning in the filename is a >convenient nice-to-have. If the version and author attributes are kept >on the web server that should be enough to enable accurate downloads, >though there are still troubleshooting issu

[Leaf-devel] chrony NTP package

2001-11-26 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
In response to KP Kirchdörfer & David Douthitt's comments on ntp vs rdate, chrony has been working for me: http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/chrony Its an ntp client & server that's designed for dialup connections, and machines that aren't always on. It uses ntp when available, and the hardware

RE: [Leaf-devel] Re: How to keep config files separate from the packages

2001-11-07 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
- Original Message - From: "arne @ loopback . org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would go a step further. make a minimal busybox only containing very few > applets(tar,msh as shell,mount,ls,cat,...) And link it statically with > uClibc. This will result in a quite small binary and you don't need

[Leaf-devel] Re: How to keep config files separate from the packages

2001-11-07 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
"Angelacos, Nathan" wrote: > load_disk_package contains this line: > > [ "${PKG##*/}" = "${CONFIG##*/}" ] && return 0 > > which if I read correctly, exits if the current package is the config > package. That seems like the