Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Felix Feyertag
Evan wrote: IIRC, it was going to provide delta updates. Smaller server load, smaller downloads, etc. It's a great idea, but seems to be dead. All of the pages I can find that mention it are early 2007. Is there any particular reason that it never went anywhere? In 2006 I participated

Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Evan
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Felix Feyertag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 2006 I participated in summer of code to implement this, the project website is: https://launchpad.net/apt-sync The code is functional and I'm using it successfully on my home computer (usually saving around

Re: Compiling subversion 1.5.0

2008-06-28 Thread Benno Korn
I finally made the sources built correctly. First I used the Intrepid sources instead of the debian sources. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/subversion/1.5.0dfsg1-1ubuntu2 But this was not the problem. As you said correctly, the problem was that the headers of the nested

acpi-support, laptop-mode-tools, and hdparm: when will the madness end?

2008-06-28 Thread Forest Bond
Hi, Nearly everyone has probably heard of the Ubuntu destroyed my hard drive controversy, which made headlines all over the Internet with stories such as these: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=ubuntu+load_cycle_countbtnG=Search In the end, it was proclaimed that the problem is not Ubuntu's

Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Felix Feyertag
Evan wrote: If the code is functional, shouldn't this be pushed to Ubuntu to be used by their repositories? Or would the CPU drain for aptsyncmake on that many packages be too much? I would like to set up a repository of aptsync files, and if this can be done on the Ubuntu servers, that

Re: acpi-support, laptop-mode-tools, and hdparm: when will the madness end?

2008-06-28 Thread Sebastian Breier
Am Samstag, den 28.06.2008, 14:21 -0400 schrieb Forest Bond: Not only does it clobber them, though, it overrides on-battery HDD APM settings (hdparm -B, hdparm -S) with some pretty aggressive settings that can, in fact, lead to people's hard drives dying early. Users that think they are

Re: acpi-support, laptop-mode-tools, and hdparm: when will the madness end?

2008-06-28 Thread Forest Bond
Hi Sebastian, On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 09:00:05PM +0200, Sebastian Breier wrote: Am Samstag, den 28.06.2008, 14:21 -0400 schrieb Forest Bond: Not only does it clobber them, though, it overrides on-battery HDD APM settings (hdparm -B, hdparm -S) with some pretty aggressive settings that

Ubuntu Wanted Site

2008-06-28 Thread Sense Hofstede
A while ago I posted an idea at Brainstorm [1] about the creation of a website where team administrators can post roles in their teams. This includes static tasks(bug triaging, MOTU) and tasks that are just suitable for one person(maintainer of package X, leader of team Y). The team administrator