On 2012-09-12 16:51:35 +0200 (+0200), Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Still it needs to ship a changelog.gz. Which it doesn't.
[...]
Agreed, and someone's already filed a bug on the missing metadata
bits.
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On 2012-09-12 16:04:02 +0200 (+0200), Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> After doing an upgrade from debian 6 to 7, the packge xmess-sdl is
> list as installed but does not contains any file at all.
[...]
According to the package description, xmess-sdl is now a
transitional dummy package depending on the ne
On 2012-09-07 21:11:51 -0500 (-0500), Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> That is what tab completion is for.
Granted, but you still have to remember what you're tab-completing,
and tab completion is a bit of a moving target as you add other
packages which install things with somewhat similar names in your
p
On 2012-09-07 16:40:07 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
> The problem is that the software is called wallet, both the
> software itself and the primary client binary that users invoke.
> [...] I don't think there's another UNIX/Linux binary of that
> name. But, of course, it's still not a
On 2012-09-07 08:56:39 +0800 (+0800), jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
[...]
> Sep 7 08:36:46 jidanni2 kernel: [19394.443080] type=1400
> audit(1346978206.292:11): op=follow_link action=denied pid=19327 comm="cat"
> path="/tmp/bb" dev="tmpfs" ino=275448
[...]
Maybe this?
http://lwn.net/Articles/502
On 2012-08-09 15:54:05 +0200 (+0200), Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Please do not bother.
[...]
Last I recall from that thread, Roger Leigh was coordinating with
Gentoo upstream to incorporate/wrap the necessary functionality to
parse LSB header comments already present in Debian's init scripts.
He also s
On 2012-08-08 03:16:59 +0200 (+0200), Ulrich Dangel wrote:
[...]
> To run a program as root with sudo the user must specify the
> correct path, e.g. sudo /usr/sbin/visudo instead of just sudo
> visudo or su -c visudo.
[...]
Are you certain? For me, 'ifconfig' as a normal user returns
"command not
On 2012-07-26 14:29:14 +0100 (+0100), Ian Jackson wrote:
[...]
> We also need a general word for "someone involved with Debian in a
> positive way". "Participant" is clumsy; "member of the community"
> even more so. "Person" might do but word with a more positive spin
> would be nice.
As a long-ti
On 2012-07-24 13:00:14 +0900 (+0900), Charles Plessy wrote:
[...]
> short, common dictionary words are better be avoided in the
> interest of all.
[...]
For executables launched through automated processes or some GUI, I
can more or less agree. However, for tools invoked regularly from a
shell pro
On 2012-06-27 11:11:12 -0600 (-0600), Holger Levsen wrote:
> what??? -v please.
[...]
Presumably a reference to http://bugs.debian.org/674634 .
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On 2012-06-21 10:53:19 +0800 (+0800), Paul Wise wrote:
> I think you might have missed the point.
[...]
Partly my fault--I should know better than to employ rhetorical
subtlety on technical mailing lists with an international audience.
Wordplay does not translate well, if at all, and is often lost
On 2012-06-20 13:34:22 +0100 (+0100), Philip Ashmore wrote:
[...]
> Has anyone thought about starting a hangout at Google+?
[...]
Sounds intruiging. Is there a Debian package in main so I can run a
Google+ server easily? Setting up my own IRC servers is already
pretty trivial, but if all the cool
On 2012-06-02 08:25:40 -0600 (-0600), Aaron Toponce wrote:
[...]
> I don't understand why services _should_ be started by default
> post-install.
[...]
There are many desktop-oriented home networking applications (file
and printer sharing, media distribution, et cetera) which really do
need to be
On 2012-05-30 17:35:14 +0100 (+0100), Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> Isn't it possible to extract those from snapshot.debian.org
> per-release/per-time ?
Sure, or archive.d.o, but at my day job a lot of the admins I work
with would be hard-pressed to be able to retrieve and extract the
docs from an arb
On 2012-05-30 13:20:24 +0100 (+0100), Philip Ashmore wrote:
[...]
> By the way, this extends to man/info pages too, but as they're
> versioned, you can refer to a specific version through the package
> version.
[...]
I've always liked the way OpenBSD provides Web-indexed manpages
versioned by OS r
On 2012-05-29 21:01:24 +0200 (+0200), Martin Bagge / brother wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012, Brian May wrote:
>
> >I don't see the problem, github is just a hosting provider. Unlike,
> >say Bitkeeper, you are free to make git clones anywhere, entirely with
> >open source software, and are in no way
On 2012-05-04 09:03:19 +0100 (+0100), Jon Dowland wrote:
[...]
> So some form of access to the machine would be required to create
> the problem, be it physical or remote. The same access should be
> used to fix the problem.
[...]
I think this is part of the misunderstanding. If these systems are
On 2012-05-02 14:49:09 +0200 (+0200), Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> On the other hand, if renaming both of them is the only possible
> outcome if both parties cannot agree, it makes it more likely both
> sides will actually be willing to discuss the matter, instead of
> just issuing demands, hoping the
On 2012-03-29 11:15:30 +0100 (+0100), Philip Hands wrote:
[...]
> I'd only use either to make flipping between wireless networks something
> where I don't need to keep the comandline incantations in my head
[...]
And indeed, I just "keep the commandline incantations in my head"
for ifupdown, wirel
On 2012-03-21 15:57:23 +0100 (+0100), Josselin Mouette wrote:
> This is a reasonable position to take, but if it is the general
> position of kFreeBSD developers, it completely dismisses the
> shrieks of all those asking to not choose a solution that
> currently doesn’t work for kFreeBSD.
I've bee
On 2012-02-23 05:54:49 -0800 (-0800), Russ Allbery wrote:
> I probably missed some key thing that makes this work, but the
> last time I tried, using startx when you want to launch a desktop
> environment like GNOME or Xfce was quite painful and confusing.
[...]
Ahh, yes... I don't try. I'm just u
On 2012-02-22 23:52:09 + (+), Ian Jackson wrote:
> On my netbook I'm running a pretty vanilla install of squeeze,
> although my personal desktop session is very different to usual.
>
> I wanted to add a command-line option to my X server. I spent 15
> mins trawling through docs and greppin
On 2012-01-26 13:06:31 +0100 (+0100), Martin Bagge / brother wrote:
[...]
> There are several articles about the problem with CC NC licenses,
> exactly what that means is not clear. Make sure to study the field
> before picking anything based on NC.
> Pick license and pick it wise.
The historic qu
On 2011-12-21 10:42:56 -0800 (-0800), Josh Triplett wrote:
> People expect that they can use all the capacity of their disk
> without having to take unusual steps like resizing partitions and
> filesystems. After installing Debian on a 1TB drive, "df -h"
> should say that you have just under 1TB of
On 2011-12-18 18:48:53 +0100 (+0100), Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
[...]
> lvresize, resize2fs, done
[...]
> 2) LVM with partitions kept small and free space to grow them as
> needed
[...]
Since the advent of logical volume management I personally find this
the easiest solution and use it whenever
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:14:39PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
[...]
> Can we make full-disk encryption more convenient?
[...]
I'm not sure it could be any more convenient than it already is to
configure, at least as far as D-I is concerned. It has a
partitioning option or two which are guided with
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 09:41:12AM +0200, Rolf Kutz wrote:
[...]
> An encrypted /home can still be backuped easily by administrators
> without being able to see inside.
An administrator (assuming by administrator you mean root or an
account with access to root-level privs) can easily trojan the
ne
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:22:39PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
[...]
> It might be better to extend it further, like "all network daemons
> using dpkg-buildflags properly and enabling PIE"
[...]
And since many network daemons are implemented in interpreted
languages, it might be nice to include packag
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:41:07AM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> AIUI, the .postinst scripts may be re-executed with
> dpkg-reconfigure(8).
[...]
In fact, for years I've relied on precisely this behavior to
regenerate SSH host keys when cloning machines (virtual or
physical)...
sudo rm /etc/ssh
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:19:52AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> I meant I would help you to add kFreeBSD/xen support to d-i
> directly.
[...]
So I gathered--it's much appreciated! I'll give it a try and let
you/d-b know if I run into any issues. Once I get it working, I can
submit the appropriate
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:04:03AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Producing a Linux d-i image which worked in a domU was reasonably
> easy (assuming a suitable kernel flavour exists in the archive),
> if you are interested in doing the same for kFreeBSD I'd be more
> than happy to give some guidance/
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:49:51PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
[...]
> The fact that we have not heard from them should be a big enough
> clue...
I'll throw my hat in the ring on that one--I do in fact run
kFreeBSD, and further, I do it within DomU on Debian/squeeze i386
Xen Dom0 hosts (though I ha
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:20:09PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
[...]
> Any thoughts, or have I found a non-existent problem?
A very-existent problem (the scientific package maintainers deal
with this at least as much as the games package maintainers from
what I gather). It's come up a lot ove
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:43:03AM -0700, Luke Cycon wrote:
[...]
> It is effectively an LGPL rewrite of the closed source Minecraft
> server.
[...]
I gather that it's a partial reverse-engineer-and-patch layer for
Minecraft (so arguably a derivative work), and its legality is
currently under disp
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:26:02AM +0430, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote:
[...]
> This program should periodically check the bug tracking system for
> bugs in installed packages and report to the system administrator.
[...]
While not necessarily a perfect match for the criteria you mention,
you'll prob
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:53:06PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:02:34PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > shuffle will randomize the order of lines in a file. In other
> > words, if you have a sorted file, shuffle will undo the sort.
> sort -R
[...]
Also worth notin
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:05:42PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
[...]
> Should something added to or removed from the dependency list?
Not so much a vote for or against the main idea of the meta package
itself, but a glaring omission in my mind is piuparts, which is
great for package QA.
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On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:41:35AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
[...]
> I've always found it strange that, as a volunteer project, we are
> creating a product that is mainly used in professional
> environments.
[...]
I see that as a side effect. The same qualities of stable which lead
me to rely o
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 04:07:11PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
[...]
> Then, you use UTC date+time, that's two digits for the
> best-practice leading of "0.", plus 13 digits for MMDDTHHMM,
> which is quite precise enough most of the time. Add two more for
> seconds, and it is alm
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:18:34PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
[...]
> The above is just an idea, little more than a brain-dump, for
> finding a compromise among the real needs of people with bandwidth
> problem and the social issues revolving around developer
> sloppiness.
[...]
I expect par
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:57:29PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote:
[...]
> How should new people know that they don't get a copy of replies
> to their messages unless they explicitly request one?
Maybe it's a generational difference... as I expect did authors of
the code of conduct, I came up on bulleti
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:06:03PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> If one has or downloads a list of mirrors, what's a good way to
> choose the best one? Ping time?
Package: netselect-apt
Description: speed tester for choosing a fast Debian mirror
This package provides a utility that can choose th
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 09:13:51PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Care to make a point for the gpg stuff around it within bug
> #612657?
Gladly! Restating and Cc'ing...
While I agree that moving away from SHA-1 is necessary, SHA-512 is
not part of the compatibility set according to the gpg(1) manp
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:05:02PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> What indications are there that SHA-512 is weak?
It might be worth approaching from a pragmatic perspective... why
generate SHA-512 checksums when you're only going to be signing a
SHA-256 digest of that list (that is unless you wa
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:57:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> It doesn't seem to work for me.
[...]
> $ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u"\u00a3"'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in
> position 0:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:29:38AM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
[...]
> It's like having to install a package with "pear" because horde
> upgrade scripts once again requires a module that is not packaged
> in Debian (which was the case for Lenny and is also the case for
> Squeeze :-( ). Can those
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:19:07AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
[...]
> I assume that a spell checker can be configured that way that it
> can distinguish between writing an English text with some /
> several mistakes and a text with say 50% error rate which is
> probably not understandable anyway.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:21:38PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
[...]
> To some extend the problem also exists for several command line
> applications.
[...]
> To implement this idea we should probably define a reasonable
> default xterm to get some consistency and put this information in
> the usag
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:28:49PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Quoting from base-passwd again:
[...]
> ... so in practice, staff is root-equivalent, but in principle it's not meant
> to be. (Yay.)
Right, which was why I also chose to use it for "staff" who I
trusted with root access, but wanted
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 09:48:58AM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
[...]
> On the other hand, is it really necessary a new group? Can't adm
> or operator be overloaded with this new functionality? (think
> Ockham's razor).
Maybe similarly overloaded, but I've used the built-in "staff" group
for th
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:45:04PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Of course,.. but only because your /usr is on the root-fs.
>
> And there are many good reasons to put it on its own fs, as already
> outlayed here...
[...]
No disagreement there... I'm much in favor of continuing to suppo
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:47:04PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Yes, because the initr makes only the root-fs available,... and
> perhaps resume devices. But not things like encrpyted /usr, etc.
> pp.
This argument is somewhat circular, in that the machine from which
I'm typing this me
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 02:43:04PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
[...]
> And Debian still don't have a live distribution to be used for
> rescue,
Well, there's this, which I've had great experiences with so far
(though the automatic reassembly of md devices and activation of
volume groups was
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 02:34:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> That's a good idea. I'm not sure if all UNIX group systems allow
> one to ask how many users are a member of a particular group, but
> if there's a way to ask that question at least in those group
> systems that support it, the impleme
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:20:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
> The most common convention adopted was to permit including a directory
> full of configuration files, where anything dropped into that directory
> would become active and part of that configuration. As that convention
> became m
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:35:07AM +0100, Xavier Vello wrote:
[...]
> The proper way would be to use a live-CD, but I can't think of an
> official one based on squeeze.
[...]
Daniel Baumann mentioned on debian-live a little over a month ago
that it's in the works:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-l
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:22:00PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> I made some tests, and it seems that we could allow,but not require, GPG
> signed checksum-file. sha256sum will ignore invalid lines by default
> (unless you specify --warn option).
>
> Similarly, the policy could state that GPG cle
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 08:21:02PM +0100, Andreas Marschke wrote:
> Lets say this package is maintained on Launchpad that also
> "maintainance" for debian or would this have to be on
> mentors.debian.org to be a valid maintainance? (Just curios as
> there use to be some discussion between the blogg
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 06:32:43PM -0300, Juan Cruz wrote:
> Hi everybody, I'm new developing for linux. I'm developing a new
> application written on python, and i don't know how to make a
> .deb from it and how to upload my application to your
> repositories.
>
> I'll appreciate if somebody can
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:07:12PM +, David Claughton wrote:
[...]
> It is always possible to modify free software in ways that effectively
> make it non-free - for example if you remove all the copyright
> statements from a BSD covered program.
[...]
This is untrue, at least for modern 3-clau
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:28:59PM +, David Claughton wrote:
[...]
> You might want to, but AFAICT you would not be able to distribute
> the result if the user cannot be told how to get the source to the
> AGPL parts you included. That doesn't mean the original software
> isn't DFSG free, at le
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:12:07AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
[...]
> Iceweasel breaks many, many web apps by virtue of not using the
> Firefox user-agent string.
[...]
I've been relying on the User-Agent-Switcher extension to solve this
issue for at least a couple years (also lets me work around
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:21:14PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> A good one. It appears that I quite something changed since I last looked
> at this. No, I didn't test it because I remember it's how things worked
> before. But that was long before ;)
>
> As of coreutils-6.0, coreutils suppor
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 07:13:25PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
[...]
> And as others in #debian pointed out the overlooked obvious, `chown -R'
> follows symlinks. So it's sufficient to put a symlink to /etc/passwd into
> /var/lib/nsd3 to get the system 0wned.
[...]
Not to downplay the original
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 06:31:43AM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> FWIW, my 24" LCD has 1920x1080 (16:9 HD).
In fact, more and more computers these days are being connected to
digital inputs on HDTVs which only grok a limited number of ATSC
video modes. For example, my Sony HDTV's HDMI inputs sup
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:41:22PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> Have you reported this as a bug upstream so proper quirks can be
> added?
Not yet, as I was only just this week able to easily test KMS (now
that it works with PAE in an official Linux kernel release packaged
for Debian). Support fo
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:56:27PM +0200, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> Pass modeset=1 as a parameter to the module.
Yes, this has been working for me with 2.6.31 (putting
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="video=i915:modeset=1" in
/etc/default/grub, to be specific). Still waiting to be able to add
custom modeli
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:10:27PM +, The Fungi wrote:
[...]
> ...so I guess just adding i915.modeset=1 to the kernel command line
> should make it go.
[...]
Just to follow up, Sven Arvidsson confirmed over on intel-...@lfdo
that video=i915:modeset=1 on the kernel command line couple
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 04:40:09PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521596#10
>
> I don't remember how to enable it, though.
I do see this this in the changelog for 2.6.29-1:
* [x86] unset DRM_I915_KMS due to upgrade path from Lenny override
with modes
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 12:01:13AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
[...]
> But it has been pointed out a few times (including a couple of
> private messages) that experimental has what I desire (thanks for
> the advice everyone).
[...]
Now if only it had CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS and CONFIG_HID_WACOM enable
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:19:34PM +0530, shampavman.cg wrote:
> Is there a way to convert .pkg --> .deb ?
[...]
This question is more appropriate to the "Debian User" mailing list
(MFT set accordingly).
You probably want to install the "alien" utility. The description
from its manpage:
"alien i
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 01:59:34PM +0100, Rondal wrote:
[...]
> there are currently no other IRC Services packages in the
> repositories
[...]
Unless I misunderstand your assertion or am taking it out of
context, I would hold up at least the dancer-services package as a
counterexample (though I ex
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 07:56:01PM -0600, Andrew Deason wrote:
[...]
> Label names could be generated to minimize collisions. Something like
> ${hostname}-/ instead of /, or maybe something even more specific.
[...]
The namespace here is, unfortunately, pretty limited. The manpages
for mkreiserfs
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:05:47AM +0100, Kjeldgaard Morten wrote:
> Hundreds of machines accessing proxies, and thousands having
> private IPs. Are these numbers something you know or are you just
> throwing them around? Otherwise they can of course be accounted
> for in the total estimate ;-)
I
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:18:14AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> It's worth bearing in mind that that's a bad assumption, too. We
> use a local security mirror in full knowledge that it's not
> recommended, but we watch it closely and will manually sync if
> need be. We do this because we have syste
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:29:26AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
> I think installing tcpdump is sufficient; adding ethtool on top of
> it seems like overkill to me.
[...]
It seems mii-tool from the net-tools started falling by the wayside
for a while, as gigabit Ethernet had become standard in
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:10:37AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> I saw the name and initially thought it was related to blender.
[...]
It struck me as a coffee reference, since the term often gets used
to describe blends of coffee beans from the same region. Then again,
perhaps I drink too much coffee
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
[...]
> I can't find the Lenny release notes (particularly the upgrade
> part) anywhere. [...] Could you tell me where they are
[...]
For now, it looks like you can at least browse DocBook sources for
it on svn.debian.org:
http://svn.
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 06:07:46AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I used to use aptitude, and even dselect, but I found one needed to
> use their full screen modes to use them to their full extent, which
> was too exciting for me, so retreated to the simpler apt-get
> dselect-upgrade to stay on
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:26:09PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> "This main purpose of specifying this is so that _users_ may
> find the location of the data files for particular service, ..."
>
> Note how it only talks about users, not the operating
> system/distribution.
Also note that it says "
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:14:48AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> Apart from what everyone else has said, I can't help put being slightly
> puzzled that it calls fork two times. This just seems weird...
>
> Or did I miss something?
See chapter 13 from "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment"
(ISB
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 04:56:03PM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
[...]
> I was thinking of the reusability problem, and came up with the following:
> When an user/group is removed, it's placed in quarantine. That ID
> isn't used unless the same user/group is recreated, or that all other
> possible
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:43:26AM -0500, Drake Wilson wrote:
[...]
> Possibly an automated check for bad permissions on files that
> exist in Debian packages would be another improvement (I searched
> the Web for an existing program that does that, but didn't find
> anything).
This might make a g
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:20:07PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> bootp/dhcp.
Some old hardware needs rarp to netboot from firmware. Same argument
can be made for mop as well... I own (and use) examples of both.
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On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 08:09:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Could you explain the rationale for this? My impression was that DSA
> was recommended over RSA.
DSA was recommended over RSA in years gone by for reasons of
freedom, until late 2000 when MIT's 17-year US patent (4405829)
expired on the
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:41:54AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
[...]
> Where can I obtain the FQDN of the system instead?
[...]
You can't, necessarily. Especially if the MTA is running on RFC 1918
addresses behind a NAT and relying on external DNS (which I expect
is becoming quite common these days).
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:20:10PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
[...]
> I strongly recommend not to use lzma on embedded architectures.
I suppose that depends on how it's used, but Wikipedia's article on
the algorithm even goes so far as to state:
"Small code size and relatively low memor
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:07:48AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> I'm going to contact upstream and ask if they would consider
> releasing a new version so that this can get cleaned up.
Wouldn't prepending an epoch be less drastic? Doesn't sound like the
mistake was upstream's...
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:59:13PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
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> I'd suggest to file wishlist bugreports against any package
> management frontend (not including apt) that does not in some way
> mark packages that are no longer available in the archive (or
> rather, in the sources defined in the
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2007-09-17 19:46:20, schrieb David Given:
[...]
> > Now you have both a compiler and a kernel, you can use your
> > compiler to generate a userland --- as set of basic binaries to
> > get your system up and running --- and then
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:29:31PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> How about modern brain availability? You'll just get a lot of annoyed
> people changing it back; for example, makepasswd still uses a minimum
> length of six.
And pwgen defaults to eight... the length recommended by IETF RFC
408
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 05:26:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> This thread has concentrated on fixing packages, but I would appreciate
> a little insight into why someone might set TAPE in their environment by
> default. Surely if you set it by default, you must realse that you're
> asking any such i
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 03:24:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, I was also being polite. The developer community is not
> exactly friendly to newcomers in general either. some persons are,
> but those people tend to have less to say then the ones who are
> not.
Not to defend some of the
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:04:08PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The
> second one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies
> and is removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable,
> but still remains in oldstable.
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:46:30PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote:
[...]
> On RHEL and derived distros, there's usually a file /etc/redhat-release
> (sometimes renamed, but usually trivially enough that it can be found
> with little trouble) containing both the distro code name and the
> version number.
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:23:27PM +0530, arnuld wrote:
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> Debian repositories do not have any Yahoo Voice-Chat client. Can we
> have "Gyach Enhanced" in Debian ?
See the WNPP bugs filed for...
220981: ITP gyach-improved (opened 2003, updated 2006)
335174: ITP gyach-improved (opened 20
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:32:40AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
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> aptitude [...] does everything apt-get does...
[...]
Well, analogies to 'apt-get source' and 'apt-get build-dep' were
still missing the last time I tried, but these days I have little
trouble remembering to type apt-get instead
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:10:20PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 17-Apr-07, 13:25 (CDT), Glenn Moeller-Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > *If I want or need command xxzz, which packages can give me that?
>
> You'll need to explore the packages website.
Or try out 'apt-file search xxzz' if
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:23:16PM +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote:
[...]
> Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running
> Edgy ;)
[...]
If you're developing packages for Debian, not Ubuntu, I would
suggest at a minimum that you do your builds in a Sid chroot
(pbuilder and/o
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:09:48AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> one of the most famous desktop boards for pentium 3 slot cpus was the
> asus p3b-f. it can handle 4 dimms with a total capacity of 1gb (lucky me
> had such a machine in 2000/2001. :).
Just for another data point, I *presently* use o
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