Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread Clint Adams
> I'm interested in constructive feedback. I think fix_maintainer in utils.py should do something to compensate for raw Latin-1 in the Maintainer field, or packages containing such should be rejected.

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:54:09AM +, James Troup wrote: > > All you need is a documentation like README.first with "to disable > > sending unsolicted mails do X,Y,Z". > > Sorry but given your track record I can't see that having helped. Actually I thought I was doing quite a good job learnin

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - rose creates initial directories (actually some where missing; I can't > > > remember which onces were missing and which ones were misconfigured > > > though now). > > > > rose uses the provided config file; it'd be hard for her to "misconfigure"

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:31:49AM +, James Troup wrote: > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - Change paths to config files in utils.py. > > Sigh, you don't need to do that. See /etc/katie/katie.cnf on > e.g. auric. I don't have the config files installed in /etc yet. > > - rose

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First you were encouraging us to learn to use it, now your > discouraging us from even trying Err, no I wasn't. I don't encourage people to use katie, in fact I actively discourage it. Even the README now tells people to use something else and that's

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:35:21AM +, James Troup wrote: > *sigh* all the mail sent by the python scripts is done by > utils.send_mail(); if you want to ensure they don't send any mail make > that function a nop. But it's becoming increasingly clear to me that > the source should probably be s

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that will fix the problem. *sigh* all the mail sent by the python scripts is done by utils.send_mail(); if you want to ensure they don't send any mail make that function a nop. But it's becoming increasingly clear to me that the source should proba

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread James Troup
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Change paths to config files in utils.py. Sigh, you don't need to do that. See /etc/katie/katie.cnf on e.g. auric. > - rose creates initial directories (actually some where missing; I can't > remember which onces were missing and which ones were misco

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:10:18AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:49:03AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > - when new package is accepted it will inform uploader and package > > maintainer; the maintainer might confuse this E-Mail as an > > unauthorised upload to the Debian arc

Re: dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:49:03AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > - when new package is accepted it will inform uploader and package > maintainer; the maintainer might confuse this E-Mail as an > unauthorised upload to the Debian archive. I am not sure what the best > solution is here. I thought

dinstall/debian-installer

2002-12-10 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:39:43PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > There is some documentation for using it, but is there any for the > initial setup? > > I certainly have read the docs from CVS, but I'm stuck at the > installation stage. I can see what installs where from the debian/* > packaging, b