heimdal & KCM

2006-08-20 Thread Brian May
Hello, I have been requested to add KCM to the Debian packages - see bug #379245. Based on my limited understanding, KCM is a system wide daemon that keeps track of user's Kerberos tickets, in memory, so they don't need to be stored in /tmp. This presumably means an /etc/init.d/* script will be

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

2006-08-20 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 2006-08-21 00:40:09, Michael Banck wrote: libc6 is only available on GNU/Linux, you probably mean glibc. If that is the case, then it should probably be fine Correct:-) -- Hilsen/Regards Michael Rasmussen Get my public GnuPG keys: michael rasmussen cc http://keyserver.veridis.com:1137

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

2006-08-20 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:24:49PM +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > Which non-linux versions are you referring to? If the compile with > option -std=c99 and -pedantic showing no warnings or errors the ought > to be able to compile on any arch with gcc-4.1. Only dependency for > building it i

ITP: markup -- python XML-based template engine

2006-08-20 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Package: wnpp Owner: Arnaud Fontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: markup Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Edgewall Softwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://markup.edgewall.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

2006-08-20 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 2006-08-20 20:00:57, Guillem Jover wrote: If the current build system supports those arches, and yours does not, You can hardly call it the "Current build system" as it is a number of Makefiles in which you need, manually, to add some defines. What I have made is a generic package which

Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions

2006-08-20 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: aa Version : 5.6 Upstream Author : Steve Moshier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.moshier.net/ * License : under discussion (probably GPL) Programming Lang:

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

2006-08-20 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 23:10:04 +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On 2006-08-14 22:33:49, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > Do you plan to support other system than linux in a fork? If no, there > > is > Well, the software is already prepared to support *BSD, Solaris and > Linux, but I only intent to supp

Re: Question about different kernel versions included on Etch

2006-08-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
carlopmart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I need to deploy several xen servers under Debia nEtch next week, and > I have one doubt. Which is the difference between these kernels: > linux-image-2.6.16-2-xen-686 and linux-image-2.6.16-2-xen-vserver-686? > What does it means -vserver suff

Bug#383913: RFA: xdiskusage -- Displays a graphic of your disk usage with du

2006-08-20 Thread Cyril Bouthors
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm asking for someone else to maintain xdiskusage because I'm not using it anymore because I've switched to fsview (package konq-plugins). -- Cyril Bouthors pgpITfCDyLs0z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-08-20 kello 18:08 +0200, Wouter Verhelst kirjoitti: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 03:59:17PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > [...] > > fprintf(stderr, "Could not read file: %s: %s\n", filename, > > strerror(errno)); > > > > Please consider the above a minimal requirement for an

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bullshit. The above could also have been done as > sprintf(buf, "Could not read file %s", filename) > perror(buf); There's a buffer overflow waiting to happen. > or, perhaps (depending on what the file actually was): > perror("Could not read config

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 03:59:17PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: [...] > fprintf(stderr, "Could not read file: %s: %s\n", filename, > strerror(errno)); > > Please consider the above a minimal requirement for an error message: it > reports the operation that was attempted (reading a

Re: These new diffs are great, but...

2006-08-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* Goswin von Brederlow: > What code do you need there? If the rred method keeps the full Index > file in memory during patching it can just be fed all the patches one > after another and only write out the final result at the > end. Combining the patches is a simple cat. #383881 suggests that I/O

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-08-20 kello 12:48 +0200, Hendrik Sattler kirjoitti: > And there is always perror() which is something like: > printf("%s%s%s\n",(s?s:""),(s?": ":""),strerror(errno)); > So, using something like: > perror(__FUNCTION__); > of > perror(NULL); > is probably a good idea. Not if you care

Re: Time to rethink ifupdown

2006-08-20 Thread Jamin W. Collins
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: Greetings to everybody on this list, it's my first post here. ifupdown, the official Debian network configuration tool, is great for configuring interfaces like Ethernet adapters. However, as time goes, more and more use cases occur which are hard to fulfill with ifu

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

2006-08-20 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Samstag 19 August 2006 17:28 schrieb Steve Greenland: > On 18-Aug-06, 16:48 (CDT), Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, %m is, according to printf(2) manpage: > > m (Glibc extension.) Print output of strerror(errno). No argument > > is required. > > > > So why isn't > > pri

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-20 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Samstag 19 August 2006 15:25 schrieb Marc Haber: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:21:22 +0200, Hendrik Sattler > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The suggestion to use "nodaemon" as default for exim4 when only handling > > local mail will probably be rejected? > > Of course. You won't get any queue runs

Re: Time to rethink ifupdown

2006-08-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.20.0858 +0100]: > Having summarized the conceptual problems of the current ifupdown, I'll > describe my vision of what it should look like. Please take a look at http://wiki.debian.org/netconf . It would be great if you could help fles

Re: Time to rethink ifupdown

2006-08-20 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 20 August 2006 08:58, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > Greetings to everybody on this list, it's my first post here. > > ifupdown, the official Debian network configuration tool, is great for > configuring interfaces like Ethernet adapters. However, as time goes, more > and more use cases occu

Re: Time to rethink ifupdown

2006-08-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:58:25PM +0700, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > My guess is that it's time to rethink the philosophy > behind ifupdown and give it some natural development. Interesting post. Many of these problems (and others not listed) also apply to the ifup/down suite in other distributi

Time to rethink ifupdown

2006-08-20 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
Greetings to everybody on this list, it's my first post here. ifupdown, the official Debian network configuration tool, is great for configuring interfaces like Ethernet adapters. However, as time goes, more and more use cases occur which are hard to fulfill with ifupdown as it is. My gues