Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Ming Hua
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:45:04AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: Scott Kitterman napisał(a): Generally I enable backports, install what I want, and the disable it again. That I think most people can do. Maybe they can, but: a) they have to know about it They have to know about

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Ming Hua
Hi João Pinto, On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 12:46:59PM +0100, João Pinto wrote: Hello, I am the GetDeb project founder and manager, I would like to present GetDeb, current status and planned goals. Thanks for sending this mail to the Ubuntu lists. It's apparent that GetDeb meets the need of quite

Re: You devs rock. Thanks for your work.

2007-10-17 Thread Chris Warburton
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 13:21 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a fresh relief to see positive comments once in a while :) Thanks for your kind words. Like many occupations, this is one where doing a good job means that people don't realise you're there. This means that most of the attention

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Scott Kitterman napisał(a): I was thinking about this some more. My objection isn't to the installation method, but to the packages. Someone earlier in the thread mentioned the benifits of the web front end that Getdeb provides. Rather than remove something like gnucash from getdeb,

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Ming Hua napisał(a): On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:45:04AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: Scott Kitterman napisał(a): Generally I enable backports, install what I want, and the disable it again. That I think most people can do. Maybe they can, but: a) they have to know about it They

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 06:47, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: Scott Kitterman napisał(a): I was thinking about this some more. My objection isn't to the installation method, but to the packages. Someone earlier in the thread mentioned the benifits of the web front end that Getdeb provides.

Re: GetDeb Project (Why I participate)

2007-10-17 Thread Peter (Ubuntu List)
OK, I don't want to hijack this thread but after reading mostly negative comments I would like to say somethings about why I participate in GetDeb. A little bit of history, I stumbled upon GetDeb when I was looking for Pidgin. Back then it wasn't available in Feisty and I wanted to use the latest

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread João Pinto
I disagree. If I'm pulling a .deb from LP over https, I have a lot more confidence in that than one that's signed, but from some external site. Not ideal, but it's better. Scott, if your trust is based on the URL of the download and not on the PGP signature validation, then you do not care

Re: GetDeb Project (Why I participate)

2007-10-17 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Mittwoch, den 17.10.2007, 09:24 -0400 schrieb Peter (Ubuntu List): I did check to see if I could help out creating packages for as some call it, the inside Ubuntu community. All I could find was becoming a MOTU which is a whole process and I wasn't, and I'm still not, ready for that.

Re: GetDeb Project (Why I participate)

2007-10-17 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le mercredi 17 octobre 2007 à 09:24 -0400, Peter (Ubuntu List) a écrit : The main reason why I started creating packages for Getdeb was the fact it was so easy to participate. I created an updated package and within two days it was up on the site. I tend to create packages I use myself or I

Re: GetDeb Project (Why I participate)

2007-10-17 Thread Peter (Ubuntu List)
Sebastien Bacher wrote: Le mercredi 17 octobre 2007 à 09:24 -0400, Peter (Ubuntu List) a écrit : The main reason why I started creating packages for Getdeb was the fact it was so easy to participate. I created an updated package and within two days it was up on the site. I tend to create

Re: GetDeb Project (Why I participate)

2007-10-17 Thread João Pinto
Hello, I have done the pidgin packaging. First we provided a singe package, which would not conflict with gaim, it would just provide pidgin, it could be used together with gaim. Later, we backported the package as provided on Debian. I did not had any special considerations that were not covered

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 10:15, João Pinto wrote: I disagree. If I'm pulling a .deb from LP over https, I have a lot more confidence in that than one that's signed, but from some external site. Not ideal, but it's better. Scott, if your trust is based on the URL of the download

Re: Fwd: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Stefan Potyra
Hi, Am Dienstag 16 Oktober 2007 22:35:08 schrieben Sie: Hello, You can get a snapshot of the current app tables: http://www.getdeb.net/tmp/getdeb_db_16_Oct_2007.sql.gz I don't have a detailed data model documentation, here is a quick guide for the apps info: gd_app - Application info entry

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-10-17 Thread Phillip Susi
Onno Benschop wrote: I am subscribed to the list, there is no need to send this to me directly. Fair enough. I will remove you for now, but if you wish to not get such replies regularly, you should set your Reply-To: header to point to the mailing list. I have personal experience where a