Moin Thiemo!
Thiemo Seufer schrieb am Sonntag, den 06. Februar 2005:
> > Archive bloat is still a problem, though.
>
> Not if mirror admins can select if they want to mirror -dbg.
> This means: -dbg must be a separate archive.
Agreed. And (where it make sense) we should also move static librarie
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:03:18AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am asking for discussion about bug #290623. The bug basically says
> that it is a bad idea to generate system accounts with primary group
> "nogroup", which I feel is a valid report.
(...)
If it's a system user, I would say
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:02:10PM +0900, Nobuhiro IMAI wrote:
> Description : the Delicious (http://del.icio.us/) bindings for Ruby
>
> This package contains the delicious (http://del.icio.us/) bindings for
> Ruby language.
Wouldn't it be better to say something like (taken from the webs
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Previously Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:11:28AM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The default interface name of the ipw2X00 driver is, has always been and
> > will continue to be, eth%d.
>
> It is and has always been eth%d for a stupid reason. That's
Hi Adam,
how are you? I'm writing again for a Xen 2 update.
How does the packaging of Xen 2.0(.4) proceed ? I've started myself
the packaging in the hope I can help you with my work.
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* Raphael Bossek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-07 16:35]:
> How does the packaging of Xen 2.0(.4) proceed ? I've started myself
> the packaging in the hope I can help you with my work.
He has posted an update recently, see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/02/msg00217.html and in
particular
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:34:22PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Previously Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:11:28AM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The default interface name of the ipw2X00 driver is, has always been and
>
ma, 2005-02-07 kello 16:50 +0100, Mike Hommey kirjoitti:
> Debian is a distribution which tries to provide good software, implying
> changes if necessary.
I completely agree with this. If changing a program makes it better,
Debian should do it even if upstream doesn't. Such changes should be
justi
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 18:17 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> neutral about the name and the name isn't particularly significant to
> users either. If one is worried about which interface name corresponds
> to which physical device, guessing from the name is not a good way.
> Using ifconfig or iwconfi
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:17:20 +0200, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ma, 2005-02-07 kello 16:50 +0100, Mike Hommey kirjoitti:
> > Wireless interfaces should be called wlan%d, not eth%d
>
> Why is this important? Why does the name of a network interface matter?
> All the tools in Debian
On Monday 07 February 2005 16:17, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> ma, 2005-02-07 kello 16:50 +0100, Mike Hommey kirjoitti:
> > Debian is a distribution which tries to provide good software, implying
> > changes if necessary.
>
> I completely agree with this. If changing a program makes it better,
> Debian
David Goodenough wrote:
> ifrename can of course be used to rename an interface, and it is also
> worth noting that MadWifi uses ath%d, and the RealTech driver uses
> ra%d.
The ralink driver is changing from ra%d to eth%d as eth%d is more
commonly used.
Personally I use nameif to rename my devic
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On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 18:17 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> ma, 2005-02-07 kello 16:50 +0100, Mike Hommey kirjoitti:
> > Wireless interfaces should be called wlan%d, not eth%d
>
> Why is this important? Why does the name of a network interface matter?
> All the tools in Debian that can deal with n
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:06:17 +0200, Petri Latvala
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 12:15 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable
>> regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The
>> --force-badname option will
Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Naming wired network eth%d and wireless wlan%d would make things a lot
> easier. For example, it is easier to find out whether to start ifplugd
> or waproamd when the interface is created.
There's other (more resiliant) ways of doing that. In 2.6, wireles
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Raphael Bossek wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> how are you? I'm writing again for a Xen 2 update.
>
> How does the packaging of Xen 2.0(.4) proceed ? I've started myself
> the packaging in the hope I can help you with my work.
Er, you aren't paying attention.
xen 2.0.4 was uploaded sat
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 18:45 +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Naming wired network eth%d and wireless wlan%d would make things a lot
> > easier. For example, it is easier to find out whether to start ifplugd
> > or waproamd when the interface is created.
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* License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
Description : Linux Instrumentation for Enterprise
Hi Adam,
> It's still sitting in NEW however.
Nice. I've downloaded the 2.0.4-3 packages from people.d.o and created
kernel-image-2.6.10 packages with Xen applied. Everybody who is interesed
in Xen 2.0 can use this APT repository:
deb http://einstein.sdg.speech-design.de/~br/kernel-image-xen ./
d
On Fri, Feb 04 at 09:28:19 (+0100), Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Actually, that /is/ a needed file. Some programs look up the name of a
> user before doing stuff (or look up the UID of a username), and without
> that file they do very strange things
If you need /etc/passwd, for example, the better way
Hi Adam,
> I'd prefer it if there were *no* official kernel-image-xen packages.
> The reason, is that it's an increased load on the security team.
> Plus, maintaining the config.
this repo is *not* official ;) It's there for everybody like me who
are interesed in Xen and like to evaluate it. Th
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Raphael Bossek wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> > It's still sitting in NEW however.
> Nice. I've downloaded the 2.0.4-3 packages from people.d.o and created
> kernel-image-2.6.10 packages with Xen applied. Everybody who is interesed
> in Xen 2.0 can use this APT repository:
>
> deb http:
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:50:27PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Debian is a distribution which tries to provide good software, implying
> changes if necessary. Wireless interfaces should be called wlan%d, not
> eth%d, and upstream doesn't want to change because "There are fewer
> compatability issue
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On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 21:36 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:50:27PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Debian is a distribution which tries to provide good software, implying
> > changes if necessary. Wireless interfaces should be called wlan%d, not
> > eth%d, and upstream d
hi i was wondering if i can get call wave off my computer i dont want it any
more and i dont know how to get rid of it thank you very much christine
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Wichert Akkerman wrote:
And here I thought Debian was a distribution which did not needlessly
change upstream policies.
You are aware that a) that will mean all existing documentation on the
ipw2100 and ipw2200 drivers will not work for Debian users and b) that
when the drivers is merged into the m
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:03:36PM -0800, Christine Dawson wrote:
> hi i was wondering if i can get call wave off my computer i dont want it
> any more and i dont know how to get rid of it thank you very much christine
>
Please see
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-devel@lists.debian.org/msg10
Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 18:45 +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Naming wired network eth%d and wireless wlan%d would make things a lot
>> > easier. For example, it is easier to find out whether to start ifplugd
>> >
Moin Oliver!
Oliver Kurth schrieb am Montag, den 07. Februar 2005:
> > > I'll encourage Debian kernel maintainers to make the adequate changes.
> >
> > No, it's a totally arbitrary and pointless change.
>
> It isn't pointless, but it is certainly better to convince upstream and
> have a quasi st
The OpenOffice web site gives clues for running the 1.9 test releases on
Debian at
http://installation.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=609
These hints, for OO 1.9m51, are out of date for recent snapshots.
I have gotten 1.9.74 to work on Debian unstable relatively easily:
1) downlo
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:52:52PM +0100, Rafal Lewczuk wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: life
When I hear "life" in the context of computers, I automatically think of
Conway's version... and so I'm sure do many many other people.
Bad choice of name by upstream I
Hi,
Drew Parsons wrote:
> The OpenOffice web site gives clues for running the 1.9 test releases on
> Debian at
> http://installation.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=609
>
> These hints, for OO 1.9m51, are out of date for recent snapshots.
>
> I have gotten 1.9.74 to work on Debian
> "Marc" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marc> I will leave that explanation to people knowing the project
Marc> better. The issue that killed your system would not have
Marc> happened if you had used the default configuration or if you
Marc> had refrained from tryin
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 08:16 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
>
> Drew Parsons wrote:
> > I have gotten 1.9.74 to work on Debian unstable relatively easily:
> >
> Umm. Why don't you use the debs we get as the output of upstreams
> builsystem directly? :) They have been announced some days ago:
> http:
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