Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, W. Borgert wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:55:11PM -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > > whether to compress the README and similar files, I always end up > > typing less /usr/share/doc/blah/README.Debian[.gz] using tab > > completion and have to go back and correcting my c

Re: automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-29 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, sean finney wrote: > well the trouble is, if you're not running an smp kernel, the kernel > doesn't know bout multiple cpus to begin with, right? That's true. > afaik there'd only be one cpu entry in /proc/cpuinfo if you're not > running an smp kernel But it's a good defaul

Re: automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-29 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, sean finney wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 06:45:21PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > Can you detect smp from non-smp kernel? > > i would guess not... Just count the processors in /proc/cpuinfo, here is an example: $ grep "^proc" /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 processor

Re: Packages file (long email) [WAS: Splitting Packages]

2002-04-01 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jens Ruehmkorf wrote: > On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > Any complexity theorist will tell you that optimizing away constant > > factors gains you nothing in the long run, especially when you lose > > robustness by doing so. > > If at least

Re: Packages file (long email) [WAS: Splitting Packages]

2002-04-01 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
thing like 1-epsilon, we can care less (and maybe it's even 1+epsilon). Jens -- ruehmkorf at informatik dot uni hyphen koeln dot de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable

2001-09-07 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
le to answer any questions. Kind regards, Jens -- ruehmkorf at informatik dot uni hyphen koeln dot de