Bug#721392: ITP: acr -- autoconf like tool

2013-08-30 Thread Ruben Pollan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ruben Pollan * Package name: acr Version : 0.9.4 Upstream Author : pancake * URL : http://www.nopcode.org/wk.php/Acr * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: shell Description : autoconf like tool ACR is an autocon

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:32:47AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 30 August 2013 20:55, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> [...] using git instead of the file system for storing the contents > >> of Debian Code Search. The hope was that it would lead to fewer disk > >> seeks and less

Re: Introducing dgit - git integration with the Debian archive

2013-08-30 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 01:04:32PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce that dgit 0.7, which is a version of dgit > > suitable for alpha and beta testers, is available in unstable. > > > > >From the manpage: > > > >

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 01:21 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:14:25PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:49:48PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > > Steven Chamberlain writes: > > > > Wouldn't ZFS be a more natural way to do something like this? >

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-30 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 30 August 2013 20:55, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Hi, > >> [...] using git instead of the file system for storing the contents >> of Debian Code Search. The hope was that it would lead to fewer disk >> seeks and less data due to gits delta-encoding > > Wouldn't ZFS be a more natural way to do s

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:14:25PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:49:48PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > Steven Chamberlain writes: > > > Wouldn't ZFS be a more natural way to do something like this? > > Possibly, but I have zero hopes of getting it set up and supp

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 31. August 2013, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > We are much more amenable to "how could I improve X so that it can run > faster" than we are to... I'd like to chime in and say a big thanks to DSA! piuparts.debian.org is running very very smoothly (and fast) now, thanks to the awesome ga

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-30 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Luca, Luca Filipozzi writes: > Why do you say that when you haven't even asked? Because I thought the answer was going to be “not in the Linux kernel, no chance”. > To address this specific thread, the challenge with ZFS is not that we don't > like the idea (I'm keen on it, actually) but that

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-30 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:49:48PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Steven Chamberlain writes: > > Wouldn't ZFS be a more natural way to do something like this? > Possibly, but I have zero hopes of getting it set up and supported by > DSA, so we can’t use it for this service. Why do you say tha

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 30/08/13 21:49, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Steven Chamberlain writes: >> Wouldn't ZFS be a more natural way to do something like this? > Possibly, but I have zero hopes of getting it set up and supported by > DSA, so we can’t use it for this service. Oh I see. That's fair enough, but there i

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-30 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:13:59AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > > I could see a *huge* load on this pool for this reason. > > If so, so what? We are not short of bandwidth and we do have contacts > and offers from CDNs which will make serving this Not A Problem(TM). So should we take tha

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-30 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Steven, Steven Chamberlain writes: > Wouldn't ZFS be a more natural way to do something like this? Possibly, but I have zero hopes of getting it set up and supported by DSA, so we can’t use it for this service. -- Best regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, > [...] using git instead of the file system for storing the contents > of Debian Code Search. The hope was that it would lead to fewer disk > seeks and less data due to gits delta-encoding Wouldn't ZFS be a more natural way to do something like this? A choice of gzip, lzjb and more recently

Where to place small packaging script

2013-08-30 Thread Simon Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a smallish script that takes the .tar file for the Altera QuartusII toolchain and generates .deb packages (non-free, undistributable) from that. Now, ftp-master has asked me not to package this separately as the metadata is similar in size

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-30 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Kevin Chadwick's message of 2013-08-30 10:28:51 -0700: > > I wasn't clear, I don't mean you'll do each one as a special snowflake > > in-place. I mean, 20,000 machines is simply a lot of machines to > > manage. No matter what, upgrading or replacing the OS all within a 1 > > year sch

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I wasn't clear, I don't mean you'll do each one as a special snowflake > in-place. I mean, 20,000 machines is simply a lot of machines to > manage. No matter what, upgrading or replacing the OS all within a 1 > year schedule that you do not control and cannot fully predict, is a > big hassle. W

Bug#721342: ITP: autolatex - an automated system for building LaTeX documents

2013-08-30 Thread Stephane GALLAND
Package: autolatex Version: 22.2-0arakhne0 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, AutoLaTeX is a tool to automate building of LaTeX documents. It provides more features than other building tools such as rubber. It is present on the CTAN network. I'm the author of this tool. And I'm providing a pack

Re: Longer maintainance for (former) stable releases of Debian (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian)

2013-08-30 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 05:31:26PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > So properly maintaining our stable/oldstable is a mandatory first step into > being > able to provide even longer support for random release we start to call the > LTS. > > Whether we achieve that by throwing more manpower into the bun

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Paul Tagliamonte > However, no user (really) is ever going to install incoming into their > sources to test *every* new upload. They'll just want the newest stuff 6 > hours before it's in their mirror. If they so wish, where's the harm in that? > It'd be fine if they added it, tested, remove

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ond$(D+Z(Bej Sur$(D+r(B writes: > Or can you think of any other scenario when it could be useful to end > users? I think running on unstable is bleeding edge enough already, and if > you need some specific fix *right* *now* available from i.d.o, you can > always download it by hand. And now