Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-09-20 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:41:10AM +0200, Marc Chantreux wrote: > zsh provides some things i've never seen in bash, for example : > - file globbing flags, so you can set case insensitivity, That's a thing bash has: "shopt -s nocaseglob". For the rest... -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: init.d script for iptables ruleset

2005-09-20 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:33:47AM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hello Samuel, > > Am Mi den 21. Sep 2005 um 3:12 schrieb Samuel Jean: > > Here it goes. I wondered about a clever way to load my iptables ruleset via > > init.d's script. Surprisingly, I didn't find any with Debian. I didn't > > sea

Re: init.d script for iptables ruleset

2005-09-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:12:38AM -, Samuel Jean wrote: > Here it goes. I wondered about a clever way to load my iptables ruleset via > init.d's script. Surprisingly, I didn't find any with Debian. I didn't search > that much though. Have a look at Shorewall -- it does similar things to what

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Re: init.d script for iptables ruleset

2005-09-20 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Samuel, Am Mi den 21. Sep 2005 um 3:12 schrieb Samuel Jean: > Here it goes. I wondered about a clever way to load my iptables ruleset via > init.d's script. Surprisingly, I didn't find any with Debian. I didn't search > that much though. Well,

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 21:39 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > This is obviously a good idea. Having it in the FHS would be ideal. > > Unfortunately, this sort of standardization seems to be slow by nature. Someone suggested lobbying the app developers. -- ---

Re: hotplug blacklists

2005-09-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Marco D'Itri wrote: It's arguable how much drivers blacklisting is critical. It's uncommon for users to do it, and as long as they read the NEWS.Debian email before rebooting nothing bad will happen anyway. Almost every time a user does it, it's because it's critical. You cannot expect users

Re: last change to save (adopt) some packages

2005-09-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Thomas Bushnell wrote: This is not the correct way to orphan a package. True. However, it is entirely legitimate for a maintainer to decide that a package is worthless and withdraw it, which is what Andres Salomon is planning to do. In fact, it's a kindness to the QA volunteers. The orpha

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This is obviously a good idea. Having it in the FHS would be ideal. Unfortunately, this sort of standardization seems to be slow by nature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

init.d script for iptables ruleset

2005-09-20 Thread Samuel Jean
Hello -- I guess this is the right place to dump an idea, right ? Here it goes. I wondered about a clever way to load my iptables ruleset via init.d's script. Surprisingly, I didn't find any with Debian. I didn't search that much though. I just wrote one that please me and will dump it here so t

Re: hotplug blacklists

2005-09-20 Thread Adeodato Simó
* sean finney [Mon, 19 Sep 2005 06:13:30 -0400]: > echo "# user defined blacklists converted from hotplug" > $tmpfile > cat $blacklist_files | grep -vE '^[[:space:]]*#' | \ > sed -ne 's/^\(.*\)/install \1 /bin/true' > $tmpfile > ucf $tmpfile /etc/modprobe.d/hotplug-blacklists Doesn't modp

Re: Debian Security Host Bandwidth Saturation

2005-09-20 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Josselin Mouette [Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:38:34 +0200]: > Don't worry, we'll still have KDE for that. I know this is just teasing, but anyway: a kdelibs upload (the biggest module) is << 70 mb (*). xorg-x11 is almost 170 mb. (*) Half of which is documentation, which I've been considering

Re: Segmentation fault on xmms startup (NVIDIA graphic driver involved)

2005-09-20 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/9/17, Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Package: xmms > Version: 1.2.10+cvs20050209-2 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i3

New Rabbit Monoclonal Abs from Epitomics

2005-09-20 Thread Epitomics
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Bug#329257: ITP: libstat-lsmode-perl -- Perl module to format file modes like ls -l

2005-09-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libstat-lsmode-perl Version : 0.50 Upstream Author : Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/lsMode/ * License : GPL or Artistic De

Bug#329255: ITP: python-pyrss2gen -- A Python interface for generating RSS 2.0 feeds

2005-09-20 Thread Matthijs Mohlmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthijs Mohlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pyrss2gen Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.dalkescientific.com/Python/PyRSS2Gen.html * License : BSD Description

g77 -> gfortran transition and AMD64 g77 bugs

2005-09-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Dear list, [CC'ed to debian-science since I imagine that's where most of the FORTRAN users are. Please follow up to -devel.] With the latest g++ ABI transition soon to be finished, I have to ask whether a similar transition is planned for g77 to gfortran. It appears that the ABI of code generat

Re: Debian Security Host Bandwidth Saturation

2005-09-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 20 septembre 2005 à 15:05 -0400, David Nusinow a écrit : > The modular packages will prevent this sort of thing from happening in the > future. While this will continue to be a problem throughout the lifetime of > sarge, hopefully for etch and beyond the X packages won't be a culprit for >

Re: Debian Security Host Bandwidth Saturation

2005-09-20 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:11:53PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > The recently released security update of XFree86 in DSA 816 for sarge > and woody has caused the host security.debian.org to saturate its > 100MBit/s network connection entirely. Due to the large number of X > packages, the gross si

Re: Interfaces for dpkg/deb packages

2005-09-20 Thread Christopher Crammond
Michael, That little example is very cool and sure do appreciate you taking the time to help me out.  I got the source code and can take if from here. Thank-you very much. -- christopher Michael Vogt wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 02:40:06PM -0700, Christopher Crammond wrote: I

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] You can't host a full Debian archive on Alioth

2005-09-20 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Sep-20 19:01, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:44:34PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > I currently have no other place to host a public archive for the > > native 64-bit Debian-ppc64 port. Because of this, I did not yet > > delete the debian-ppc64 archive from alioth as you

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] You can't host a full Debian archive on Alioth

2005-09-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:44:34PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > I currently have no other place to host a public archive for the > native 64-bit Debian-ppc64 port. Because of this, I did not yet > delete the debian-ppc64 archive from alioth as you requested. Debian have access to two openpower

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-20 Thread Andreas Barth
* Michael Vogt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050910 15:57]: > I'm happy to tell you that apt is able to use those index files > now. Robert Lemmen and I implmeneted the needed support. you might be interessted that secure-testing.debian.net has now "native" support for index diffs (even though only very sh

Re: Interfaces for dpkg/deb packages

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Vogt
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 02:40:06PM -0700, Christopher Crammond wrote: > I was curious as to where I might be able to find out what > non-command-line interfaces into .deb packages are available. For > instance, is there a C interface that could pull out information such as > Name, Version, Release

Re: access to debian mirror pools

2005-09-20 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Em Ter, 2005-09-20 às 09:34 -0500, Carlo Segre escreveu: > Any insights? Is this a bug, if so for what package? I have no idea and haven't investigated what causes this, but it seems like perfectly reasonable behaviour to me, for a simple reason: it's more than one machine, and they all have to s

Re: libsvn-javahl: call for help

2005-09-20 Thread Dalibor Topic
Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > Hi all, > > Now, we have two possible situations for the next days: either someone > will volunteer and get that fixed soon, so it "Just Works (tm)" once > again and we can leave it there for people who really care for it, or it > will be dropped, as, more than und

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] You can't host a full Debian archive on Alioth

2005-09-20 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Sep-20 13:41, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Alioth is running out of space and that's mostly because of the > debian-ppc64 archive. > > Please use the alioth project for what it is: a project coordination > place. Not a Debian repository. > > Please remove the archive and host it somewhere else.

Re: Debian binutils dependency policy

2005-09-20 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings, and thanks so much for your helpful reply! Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have no idea why you've copied this to the binutils upstream list, > debian-devel, et cetera... > Well, upstream for some idea of their release and versioning number plans, debian-devel as th

libsvn-javahl: call for help

2005-09-20 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Hi all, as some might have noticed, the last subversion upload do unstable introduced a package for the java bindings, libsvn-javahl. However, David Kimdom added support for this because people asked and it "Just Worked (tm)", AFAICT. The current situation, though, is that it's completely broken,

Re: Debian binutils dependency policy

2005-09-20 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:42:06AM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: > OK, but this is a pity. I still don't understand why this need be the > case. Because the interface between BFD and binutils is subject to change and does on a regular basis, and there are not enough users to bother doing anything m

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:33:29PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > The remapping features seems not to work with deb-src entries. > > > (SID)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ apt-get -o > APT::URL-Remap::http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian/=h

access to debian mirror pools

2005-09-20 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: I have noticed a behavior which I can't quite understand. I had noticed that some of my computers getting files from http.us.debian.org had consistently lower bandwidths than others pointed to the same source. I have investigated this by grabbing individual files with wget and I

[mass-bug-filing] ant transition

2005-09-20 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm about to send a bug to Java packages that depend on libant1.6-java to change that dependency to 'ant'. Here is the full explanation with the list of packages: http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/ant/ And here is the package list so you don

Debian binutils dependency policy

2005-09-20 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Do we have a plan or policy regarding packages which need to depend on binutils-dev? Is there now or will there ever be in the future a stable binary api, by which I mean one that might be good for a year or more of development on average? In such a case, would binary api compatibilit

Re: Debian binutils dependency policy

2005-09-20 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
I have no idea why you've copied this to the binutils upstream list, debian-devel, et cetera... On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:09:03AM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: > Greetings! > > Do we have a plan or policy regarding packages which need to depend on > binutils-dev? Is there now or will there ever be

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-20 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Interesting, but very specific to the caching example. There are other > useful parts of the proposal, too: e.g. if libraries are in ~/lib then > its easy to have $LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib work on multiple > applications; also > for an install

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 20, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't say it's the only solution, but imho something has to be done to > start fixing mess in ~/. If you want to do something: - useful - which benefits every distribution - requiring little effort then start lobbying application d

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-20 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:01:56PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > What about home-etc[1] approach? > Anything which requires a distribution to modify a very large number of > applications is evil and not worth a discussion. Everything which could make users' headache less nagging is worth discussi

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 20, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about home-etc[1] approach? Anything which requires a distribution to modify a very large number of applications is evil and not worth a discussion. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-20 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:32:21AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > PROPOSAL 2: ~/.etc/${package_name}/ > Renaming every configuration file is insane. Not even worth discussing. What about home-etc[1] approach? This way applications need patches, but it doesn't break anything, and in the same time

"Send a patch" (was: hotplug blacklists)

2005-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:25:39 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >On Sep 19, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Easily done. Conflict with all packages providing blacklist entries by >> themselves, and convert everything else. This will keep things safe for >> si

Can we exchange our site's links?

2005-09-20 Thread Fax Machines HQ
I took a look at your site a couple of hours ago... and I want to tell you that I'd really love to trade links with you. I think your site has some really good stuff related to my site's topic of fax machines and would be a great resource for my visitors. In fact, I went ahead and added your si

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-20 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:12:49PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Interesting, but very specific to the caching example. There are other > useful parts of the proposal, too: e.g. if libraries are in ~/lib then > its easy to have $LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib work on multiple > applications I

Bug#329193: ITP: libdbix-class-perl -- sql to oop mapper, inspired by the Class::DBI framework

2005-09-20 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libdbix-class-perl Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Matt S. Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~agrundma/DBIx-Class/ * License : (Perl: