Advertise the fact that your a linux guru, bring thousands to your attention

2001-03-11 Thread Charles
Do you have a great website, or a Linux, multi user project, but the daily hits are low, here is a great free way to get traffic to your site way pay $100's even $1000's to get referral's to your site when you can do it yourself, why not it's free. goto http://admart.ca/hits.htm -- To UNSUBS

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-04 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Patrick Strasser wrote: > Philip Charles, the creator of the Debian/Hurd CDs, is located in New > Zealand, and has only low bandwith capacity. He manages to fetch all > necessary packages, but uploading 5 CDs takes much to long on his > connection. So he gives the

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-06 Thread Philip Charles
hurd-i386 is unique to K2, so you have done very well. I will switch off the TRANS-TABLE option next build. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred.

Re: where are the hurd k2 jigdos ??

2003-03-21 Thread Philip Charles
that the Debian GNU/Hurd archive changes considerable every day, after all it is sid. We are working on this. In the meantime you will have to use the CD images. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile

Re: looking for hurd k-4

2003-09-09 Thread Philip Charles
ing of ftp.gnu.org. I posted a set to Attilla Nagy about ten days ago, but they have not arived. If someone has a set of images, or knows where a set is, would they contact Attila Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> so they can be uploaded. ftp.fsn.hu is the site that the GNU images were origina

Re: looking for hurd k-4

2003-09-09 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, jason andrade wrote: > i've got J2 ones.. so a bit more recent than that but not the latest. i used > to have up two date ones once.. any chance of mailing me iso images philip ? :) > Great. Address please. Phil -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Stre

Re: Progeny picax: Replacement for debian-cd

2004-01-15 Thread Philip Charles
-cd to review picax and give feedback (on the > list and to you). Let's see what comes out ! My main worry is that it might too polished to easily hack. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875

debian-cd 2217

2004-03-04 Thread Philip Charles
t the the disc set. I could pick this up if you like. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux &

Re: US - Non US difference.

2004-03-20 Thread Philip Charles
he non-US CD is the same as the US except that it includes the non-US software as well. > > 3. I have both the cds with me now. Is it legal to distribute both in India? India is not part of the US and the US legal restrictions would not apply to India. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paters

Testing CD/DVD jigdo files

2004-05-24 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
lease don't say wget, I like rsync! :-), or is there a better place to grab these files? -- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing CD/DVD jigdo files

2004-05-27 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
nst images for sarge, and have managed to install sarge with root on LVM on RAID (using *SEVERAL* work-arounds). I'm working on writing up the procedure for use by others. /me wanders off to find appropriate list for debian installer issues -- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNS

Testing CD/DVD images "Official"?

2004-06-09 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
cdimage-testing directory seem to be labeled "official" (at least the first one I checked, which was titled: 'Debian GNU/Linux Testing "Sarge" Official Snapshot alpha Binary-1' in the README.txt file ). I just want to be sure, before I mistakenly label something officia

Re: non-US

2004-06-18 Thread Philip Charles
you can't tell." -- Linus > Torvalds Linus is quite right, West Islanders are rather like that. Phil, waiting for an Aussie bite. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9

Re: 700 MB media

2004-06-18 Thread Philip Charles
; People like ourselves use Jigdo extensively, but my observation is that most people who want to download CDs wait until the images are available. I suspect that those who would use Jigdo and who do not have a local Debian mirror would opt for a network installation. Given this I would suggest tha

Re: non-US

2004-06-18 Thread Philip Charles
th all our > binary packages :-) Double sided, double layered for sarge +1 ;) Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: revising the first cd contents...

2004-06-18 Thread Philip Charles
for a reasonable installation. BOTOH, there are distros on a single CD. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: revising the first cd contents... (fwd)

2004-06-24 Thread Philip Charles
the official set. Four CDs is not unreasonable for a good standard installation considering that Mandrake uses three and Fedora four. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL

Re: DVDs - priorities and pruning

2004-09-21 Thread Philip Charles
Do we want to prune them too? As above. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux & GNU/Hurd CDs &

Re: Local .debs not being found.

2002-12-11 Thread Philip Charles
th the old and new packages onto the CD, but disables some desirable features. I did this for the early GNU/Hurd CDs. Unfortunately I have long forgotten what I did. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-04 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Patrick Strasser wrote: > Philip Charles, the creator of the Debian/Hurd CDs, is located in New > Zealand, and has only low bandwith capacity. He manages to fetch all > necessary packages, but uploading 5 CDs takes much to long on his > connection. So he gives the

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-06 Thread Philip Charles
hurd-i386 is unique to K2, so you have done very well. I will switch off the TRANS-TABLE option next build. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred.

Re: where are the hurd k2 jigdos ??

2003-03-21 Thread Philip Charles
that the Debian GNU/Hurd archive changes considerable every day, after all it is sid. We are working on this. In the meantime you will have to use the CD images. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile

Re: SID on CD?

2003-05-13 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Jan Kesten wrote: > If not: is there any spec describing the structure of Debian-CDs? I > mean, so that they can be used via apt and the installer. Take a look at debian-cd in cvs.debian.org/debian-cd Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedi

Re[2]: Up-to-date images of Sarge and Sid are where?

2003-05-13 Thread Philip Charles
eb but found no idea what's happening. COMPLETE=1 in build.sh Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/

Re: looking for hurd k-4

2003-09-09 Thread Philip Charles
ing of ftp.gnu.org. I posted a set to Attilla Nagy about ten days ago, but they have not arived. If someone has a set of images, or knows where a set is, would they contact Attila Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> so they can be uploaded. ftp.fsn.hu is the site that the GNU images were origina

Re: looking for hurd k-4

2003-09-09 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, jason andrade wrote: > i've got J2 ones.. so a bit more recent than that but not the latest. i used > to have up two date ones once.. any chance of mailing me iso images philip ? > :) > Great. Address please. Phil -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson S

Re: Progeny picax: Replacement for debian-cd

2004-01-15 Thread Philip Charles
-cd to review picax and give feedback (on the > list and to you). Let's see what comes out ! My main worry is that it might too polished to easily hack. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875

debian-cd 2217

2004-03-04 Thread Philip Charles
t the the disc set. I could pick this up if you like. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux &

Re: US - Non US difference.

2004-03-20 Thread Philip Charles
he non-US CD is the same as the US except that it includes the non-US software as well. > > 3. I have both the cds with me now. Is it legal to distribute both in India? India is not part of the US and the US legal restrictions would not apply to India. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paters

Re: Volunteers wanted to help with final testing of Etch CD/DVD images

2007-04-04 Thread Philip Charles
27;s as far as it goes. There are four items missing from ../tasks/task.list* in the latest svn version of debian-cd british british-desktop gujarati-desktop tamil These omissions lead in turn to gaps in the task-full-etch* lists. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dune

Re: Volunteers wanted to help with final testing of Etch CD/DVD images

2007-04-05 Thread Philip Charles
ave started the Easter Triduum here. However, if the jigdos are available early enough I will be able to test i386, amd64. Anything in particular you want us to look at? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875

Disc Testing

2007-04-07 Thread Philip Charles
Easter Day. Going to bed. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - business I sell GNU/Linux & GNU/Hurd CDs & DVDs.

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-17 Thread Philip Charles
dware with CD drives and no DVD drive, and poor/expensive internet connections. So I would say keep the complete sets, but give some guidance about the number of discs needed. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64

4.0r1 disc images

2007-08-20 Thread Philip Charles
I have just completed building 4.0r1 i386 cd images using debian-cd from svn and discovered a kernel/module mismatch. This meant that I could not see if "apt-cdrom add" was working properly. Is there an eta for the iso images and is "apt-cdrom add" working? This is an equiry, not a complaint.

Bug#455914: Debian Install CD, process needs to support i386 EFI version

2007-12-12 Thread Charles Abdouch
systems. I am trying to create a NETINST CD which meets the suggestion above to verify it would work with both and I would be happy to work with the individuals working on this to help refine the process and test it out. Thank you, Charles Abdouch

BusyBox workaround

2007-12-18 Thread Charles Abdouch
all and testing? Thanks guys, Charles

RE: BusyBox workaround

2007-12-18 Thread Charles Abdouch
it allowed me to continue. I am trying it again to figure out exactly how I got around it and if the install will complete and work. Charles _ From: Charles Abdouch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:12 PM To: debian-cd@lists.debian.org Subject: BusyBox w

RE: BusyBox workaround

2007-12-18 Thread Charles Abdouch
linux-image-2.6.22-3-486 linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 none Thanks again in advanced, Charles _ From: Charles Abdouch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:12 PM To: debian-cd@lists.debian.org Subjec

RE: BusyBox workaround

2007-12-18 Thread Charles Abdouch
ome command I could issue from the 2nd tty session during the install to pull down busybox-static or something which would allow the build to progress normally. Thanks again, Charles -Original Message- From: Daniel Dickinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-16 Thread Philip Charles
gt; > 3. For some arches, should we just provide the first couple of CDs > and a full set of DVDs? This is a bit of a compromise option - if > a given machine will not boot from DVD, but can boot from CD and > get the rest of its packages from a network share then all&#x

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Philip Charles
popular packages in popcon. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-18 Thread Philip Charles
eal with a new tool if > the tool explains itself intuitively. > It's command line typing which is building up the barrier :) Note the previous comments by some mirror masters, Jigdo loads their systems more than a normal download. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Ab

Package source requirements for cloud images (Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud)

2015-11-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ss, while it is a best practice to use signed apt sources, does it have to be strictly mandatory, or can requirements regarding reproducibilty and auditability be enough to ensure that an image does not contain malwares, non-Free software or simply third-party programs that are not redistributed by Debian ? Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Reproducibility of image building (Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud)

2015-11-22 Thread Charles Plessy
uld be good to provide their list and an explanation on why they vary, although it is not a stict requirement. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-23 Thread Charles Plessy
s opposed to: "send an enquiry and read 100 answers"). Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-23 Thread Charles Plessy
, I found a Wheezy image made by a contributor. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/kazumihirose/debiangnulinux70wheezy/ A duckduckgo search shows that he presented his work in 2013 at the Tokyo Debian study group. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Reproducibility of image building (Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud)

2015-11-24 Thread Charles Plessy
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:04 AM Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > Altogether, for reproducibility, would the following be acceptable ? > > (Wording, of course, can be improved) > > > > * When building an image twice in a row with the same package source > >

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-24 Thread Charles Plessy
otstrap-vz side, and I think that it gives us stakes in the decision-making process. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

About non-Stable files in Cloud images: create a Blend ? Distribute image builders on ftp.debian.org ? More liberal Stable updates ? (Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud)

2015-11-25 Thread Charles Plessy
pdates. In the case of cloud-init for instance, I think that it would be possible to coordinate such updates on this list, without rushing and with giving all needed attention if there is feedback requesting to not do the updates. This may open the possibility to have 100 % Stable images. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

About non-Stable files in Cloud images: More liberal Stable updates ? (Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud)

2015-11-25 Thread Charles Plessy
es to give strong guarantees to the Stable release team, such as "all updates will have been tested succesfully on all platforms providing an 'official' Stable image". Apart from cloud-init, what other packages may need to be updated in Stable ? Have a nice day, -- Charles

cloud-init: backports, stable updates and collaborative maintenance.

2015-11-26 Thread Charles Plessy
e package, but I take the opportunity to review all issues in the BTS, so please be patient or contribute to the bug cleaning :) I can upload sooner to Experimental if people would like. Also, there is always `debcheckout -a cloud-init`, it is on collab-maint... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Cloud images with backports APT-enabled.

2015-11-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:40:01AM +0100, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > On 11/25/2015 04:06 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > in practice, the Debian "Stable" images for AWS and now Azure contain bits > > that > > are not from Stable, for instance the cloud-i

Re: Cloud images with backports APT-enabled.

2015-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Thomas and everybody, > On 11/28/2015 03:08 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > In the case of cloud images, wouldn't that problem be solved by pinning the > > backports suite at a low priority, and pinning the installed backports > > (cloud-init, etc.) at a h

Re: Cloud images with backports APT-enabled.

2015-12-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:31:14PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > I started a discussion on the debian-backports mailing list. Let's see how it > goes. > > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2015/11/msg00067.html> Hello everybody, To summarise the origi

Re: Debian images on Oracle Compute Cloud Service

2016-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
re minimal. In my opinion, if there is no competition or challenge within the Oracle cloud about which images should be used by default when somebody wants Debian, then by all means they are official. Have a nice day. Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Call For Participation Debian Cloud Sprint

2016-08-12 Thread Charles Plessy
 me too » from this side of the world ! -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-06-27 Thread Charles Chambers
And I'll add my 2¢ as an end user. The live images exist IMHO to test compatibility before committing to installation, and to install what was just tested and demonstrated, regardless of environment. It's a nice feature (arguably an essential feature) that the actual install mirror *exactly* the

Issues with installing with Live edition that includes the nonfree repository

2017-06-27 Thread Charles Chambers
Where are issues with installation of the live images reported?

Bug#866186: Installation issues with Live distribution including nonfree repository

2017-06-27 Thread Charles Chambers
Package: cdimage.debian.org Version: 9.0.1 I'm attempting to install from Debian Live with nonfree respoitory support included as a USB image, and the installation process does not include or offer support for networking hardware. I'm installing onto a Dell GX620 midtower with a BroadCom NetXtr

Bug#866186: Additional details

2017-07-01 Thread Charles Chambers
The install process ignores an integrated BroadCom BCM5751 and does not detect a USB wireless that uses the r8712u driver in Debian 8.x. The BCM5751 was formerly supported in the standard installation, the USB wireless requires the nonfree repository. I've tried the following installation media:

Copying repository for offline install

2017-07-02 Thread Charles Chambers
I'm trying an offline install with DVD media. When an offline install gets to the stage where it is copying the install media's package list(s) to the target computer - just before package selection - and the user needs to change shuffle the DVD, the DVD drive door is still locked and won't open.

Bug#866186: Network detection on inatall

2017-07-02 Thread Charles Chambers
Additional details: Half of the reported behavior is resolved. There is no difference in behavior between "not detected" and "not connected" in the install process. The only variation occurs when the network port (one automatically detected and configured) gets an IP address - the DHCP graph fini

Bug#866186: Installation issues with Live distribution including nonfree repository

2017-07-03 Thread Charles Chambers
ng Debian 8.7 on the desktop and the wifi is still working fine. On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi Charles, > > Sorry for leaving you hanging - I've been swamped then away for a > couple of days. > > Hint: please try to also CC @bugs.debian

Re: Scheduling 9.1, maybe 8.9

2017-07-04 Thread Charles Chambers
Might a lowly user propose taking an extra month so that more of the bugs installing 9.0 can be worked out? It is summer, after all. On Jun 25, 2017 12:10 PM, "Jonathan Wiltshire" wrote: > Hi, > > A month or so from 9.0 bring us to about 15th July. How would any of these > suit? Is 8.9 at the

cvs and debian-cd

2000-06-13 Thread Philip Charles
Is cvs up to date, i.e includes the patches and modifications used for the current test cycle CDs? Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: LOCAL working???

2000-06-13 Thread Philip Charles
am still have problems with the sources. Hope this helps. Get back to me if you think I can assist. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

todos

2000-06-15 Thread Philip Charles
I did a successful upgrade of my main system last week using CDs. It went well. However I seemed to have lost "todos". I know that it is hidden in a package somewhere, but I have not been able to locate it. Could someone give me a pointer. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a P

RE: todos

2000-06-15 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Jim Westveer wrote: > > On 15-Jun-2000 Philip Charles wrote: > > I did a successful upgrade of my main system last week using CDs. It went > > well. However I seemed to have lost "todos". I know that it is hidden in > > a package some

apt-get from HDD

2000-06-23 Thread Philip Charles
ary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mob

Re: apt-get from HDD

2000-06-24 Thread Philip Charles
Sorry, typo. I meant a mounted HDD not CD On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Philip Charles wrote: > > > I am having problems with apt-get accessing the archive on my CD. It is > > not picking up the non-US and local directories.

Re: local packages

2000-06-27 Thread Philip Charles
my local sources onto the CD, but that does not worry me too much. An override-local file is needed as is a properly constructed Packages file built with dpkg-scanpackages. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell

Re: local packages

2000-06-27 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Philip Charles wrote: > > > An override-local file is needed as is a properly constructed Packages > > file built with dpkg-scanpackages. > > using /dev/null for the override-local file works just fin

CD1 sizes

2000-07-10 Thread Philip Charles
ng, non-free was excluded. It seems that this command builds a complete disc set regardless of COMPLETE=0 being set. CD1 878 MB CD1_NONUS 883 MB CD2 769 MB CD2_NONUS 770 MB (There was some non-US on this CD) CD3 100 MB Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a

Re: adding files to root of cd

2000-07-19 Thread Philip Charles
ectory of the CD. Can I do it, > and if so, how? > > -- > see shy jo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbo

debian-cd

2000-07-24 Thread Philip Charles
Is the current cvs version of debian-cd the version being used to produce the images for TC3? Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: debian-cd

2000-07-25 Thread Philip Charles
On 26 Jul 2000, Philip Hands wrote: > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is the current cvs version of debian-cd the version being used to produce > > the images for TC3? > > There are a couple of minor tweaks from BenC that went into the CVS to >

task-* problem

2000-07-26 Thread Philip Charles
CDs of both sets, mainly on CD 3. Is this the case with the TC3 images? When I rebuilt the trees with only export NONUS switched on everything went well. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http

Re: task-* problem

2000-07-27 Thread Philip Charles
On 27 Jul 2000, Philip Hands wrote: > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CUT*** > Presumably, all that packages that make up those tasks failed to fit > on CD#1, so there's not much point putting the task on #1 and taunting > the people that have got

Re: task-* problem

2000-07-30 Thread Philip Charles
list (cpp output) with doubles and spaces > $(BDIR)/rawlist: > ifdef FORCENONUSONCD1 > @find $(NONUS)/dists/$(CODENAME) | grep binary-.*/.*deb | \ > sed 's/.*\///g;s/_.*//g' | sort | uniq > $(BDIR)/Debian_$(CODENAME)_nonUS > endif Thanks, I will get

Re: task-* problem

2000-07-30 Thread Philip Charles
can't duplicate the Official CD set with debian-cd. If FORCENONUSONCD1 is switched on and NONUS switched off I am told to reconfigure. If FORCENONUSONCD1 and NONUS switched on I get two sets of CDs. CD? and CD?_NONUS with packages all over the set. The cvs Makefile is dated 26 July. Any s

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-01 Thread Philip Charles
initely happening in a couple of weeks ;-) > > > >2.2r1 The first revision, after the initial release > > > >2.2r2 etc. > > > > Right? IIRC, the second release of 2.1 was called 2.1r2 to avoid the confusion I am in the process of creating. We may m

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-01 Thread Philip Charles
ease" and so would see 2.2 as > > being identical with 2.2r1. > > > > But still, if we are going to make that assumption, then we should call > this one 2.2r1, and not skip the nomenclature. It's confusing. Agree about it being confusing. If we want to keep "r&

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-02 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Martin Schulze wrote: > Philip Charles wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > > > > > > > IIRC, the second release of 2.1 was called 2.1r2 to avoid the confusion I > > > > am in the process

Debian-faq

2000-08-03 Thread Philip Charles
A suggestion. Imho it would be a good idea to untar debian-faq.html.tar.gz in /doc/FAQ of the official CD1. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Release: things to do ???

2000-08-11 Thread Philip Charles
ecking the rest of this into CVS, go ahead, or alternatively could > someone do it for me please. Could cvs be completely updated please. The current Makefile is dated 26 July. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420

Re: Question for the boot floppies team.

2000-08-13 Thread Philip Charles
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Official images

2000-08-14 Thread Philip Charles
Are the Official images starting to circulate yet? Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: DAT - installation ??

2000-08-18 Thread Philip Charles
I find time. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two more corrupt .debs found from 2.2_rev0 images

2000-08-20 Thread Philip Charles
for much longer than > was really necessary. > > Of course, if it seems likely that 2.2_r1 will be with us in a week or > two, then we should probably just wait for that. > > If anyone's found anything more disastrous wrong with the current crop > of CDs, then we sho

Suggestions for 2.2 r1

2000-08-20 Thread Philip Charles
which I am including on my customized CD set. These have be revised and can be downloaded from my site if anyone is interested. 5. Move /upgrade/source to the last CD? 1.8 MB may not be enough to worry about. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New

Re: Suggestions for 2.2 r1

2000-08-28 Thread Philip Charles
n't need them. > This is what I do on my customized CDs, but then I live in an English speaking country. I have my doubts about doing this on an Official (and international) CD set. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 26

Re: Suggestions for 2.2 r1

2000-08-30 Thread Philip Charles
and in other parts of Asia. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suggestions for 2.2 r1

2000-08-30 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Christian Surchi wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:31:26AM +, Philip Charles wrote: > > I am a hopeless linguist and I am fortunate to be a native English speaker. > > What about the poor linguist whose native language is not English and who > >

Re: Suggestions for 2.2 r1

2000-08-31 Thread Philip Charles
l/doc and in ../disks-i386/current/doc. Let's get rid of the second. If the size of the non-English documentation got up to 20 MB (about 3% of the first CD) then I think it would be time to look at this again. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818

Re: [Patch] for new Package format

2000-09-05 Thread Philip Charles
Are all the patches to be found in cvs? Phil. On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > I've done this and checked the result in. Any more patches that people > would like to see? > - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025

Re: What about Debian GNU/Hurd CDs/CD images?

2000-09-13 Thread Philip Charles
NU/Hurd installation CD which works. There is a lot to be done yet, however it is usable. Marcus Brinkmann is looking at it at the moment and we hope to get it onto a server in the near future. Contact me for more info. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64

Re: stuck on local task packages.

2000-09-24 Thread Philip Charles
has to be high on the list. Also debian-cd is very fussy about what it accepts. If there is anything wrong with the package it will not be included. For example, I discovered that butchering an existing package just does not work Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, N

Re: Debian Hurd CDs

2000-10-12 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > I've made the Debian Hurd CDs online, provided by Philip Charles of > Copyleft, NZ. > > There are two CDs, the first includes the system, the second contains > non-US packages. > > Filenames: > 4893e2ea9e

Mirror problems

2000-11-12 Thread Philip Charles
/admin. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mirror problems

2000-11-12 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Philip Charles wrote: > > > The problem is with locales (several) where the the package name does not > > match the name in Packages. Cure, run dpkg-scanpackages? > > I think you ran yo

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