Re: Snapshot/Rollback using LVM/EVMS

2005-08-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:28:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks Goswin, this is what I thought. > Now I need someone help me with EVMS steps. > How to make a snapshot and rollback. This mailing list is for development-related discussion; please use debian-user@lists.debian.org for tech

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-23 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Tuesday, 23 August 2005 07:02, Joe Smith wrote: > Ok, I know just about nothing about this. > I currently have 2.6 kernel, hotplug, and udev. > > If I replace hotplug with coldplug, everything should still work barring > unexpected bugs? > (Once the archive is updated of course, so that udev doe

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Tomas Fasth
Martin Pitt skrev: > Hi Wouter! > > Wouter Verhelst [2005-08-23 1:26 +0200]: > >>So you suggest throwing buildd out of the window and switching to >>pbuilder, then? > > > Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use > pbuilder itself since it is not the most efficient imple

Re: pvcreate on loopback file with lvm2

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Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Steve Langasek [2005-08-22 18:09 -0700]: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:34:16PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > W. Borgert [2005-08-22 14:37 +0200]: > > > Quoting Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I used to think that too. I took a wander through queue/reject on > > > > merkel. > >

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > * Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050823 03:32]: >> Maybe the 98% rule was just a look at >> http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-week-big.png or >> http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph2-week-big.png and then picking a >> number so that

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 8/23/05, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > The number of buildds required to keep up with the > > volume of uploaded packages must not be greater than two. > > There must be that many buildds, in addition there must also be a redundant >

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 8/23/05, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Andreas Jochens in particular did a lot of hard work in fixing most of > > the GCC 4.0 failures and regressions over the last year while porting > > for amd64. The fact that many maintainers

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > script, it should be written to exit if the appropriate binary isn't > > > found. > > The appropriate binary is a conffile as well. > Now, that's not strictly true, is it? /etc/init.d/hotplug > invokes /sbin/hotplug, which almost entirely

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Isaac Clerencia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just tried it and it has worked really great, except it has not loaded > mousedev module. Everything else has worked, and it's incredible fast (at It's supposed to, do you mind investigating? Do not delete the generated events, etc. Tr

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 8/23/05, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually perhaps software should be built outside of clean chroots. Why? Did someone suggest to disallow that? Why can't you do both?

WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, I have checked in some files into svn.debian.org. The files are in UTF-8 encoding[1], but the web front-end seems to believe in ISO-8859-1. Did I do something wrong when checking in files, or is WebSVN too plain in its assumptions? How/where can I file a bug, if the problem is in svn.debian

Bug#324632: ITP: gausssum -- Scripts which parse the output of Gaussian and GAMESS

2005-08-23 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gausssum Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Noel O'Boyle * URL : http://gausssum.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Scripts which parse the output of Gaussian a

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-23 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:57, Marco d'Itri wrote: > It's supposed to, do you mind investigating? Do not delete the > generated events, etc. Try manually running the init script a second > time too. > I noticed that on my system the first time it's run the ehci_hcd is not > loaded, but I have no

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-23 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Marco! On Tue 23 Aug 2005 09:57 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 23, Isaac Clerencia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've just tried it and it has worked really great, except it has not loaded >> mousedev module. Everything else has worked, and it's incredible fast (at > It's supposed to,

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Tomas! Tomas Fasth [2005-08-23 9:31 +0200]: > >>So you suggest throwing buildd out of the window and switching to > >>pbuilder, then? > > > > > > Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use > > pbuilder itself since it is not the most efficient implementation > > aroun

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:18 +0200, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use >pbuilder itself since it is not the most efficient implementation >around, but rebuilding the buildd chroots from scratch would help to >eliminate many F

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 10:20, W. Borgert wrote: > I have checked in some files into svn.debian.org. The files are > in UTF-8 encoding[1], but the web front-end seems to believe in > ISO-8859-1. Did I do something wrong when checking in files, or > is WebSVN too plain in its assumptions? How/w

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And here the results (differences versus hotplug): As Luca just discovered, it will not work unless you have the /sbin/udevinitsend binary. Get it from the udev build directory or install http://incoming.debian.org/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb . > - o

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:51:52 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:22:11PM +, W. Borgert wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:29:31PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: >> > really matters: can we (the Debian project) maintain the port? Thus I >> > propose

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:16:47AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 8/23/05, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > The number of buildds required to keep up with the > > > volume of uploaded packages must not be greater than two. > > > Th

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:32:33AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > It doesn't really hurt us right now, so we didn't start to force > building packages in pbuilder. buildd time is cheap compared to > developer time, so introducing mandatory pbuilding would slow down > development quite drastically. I

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:25:41AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:18 +0200, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use > >pbuilder itself since it is not the most efficient implementation > >around, but rebu

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:16:47AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > On 8/23/05, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > > The number of buildds required to keep up with the

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:12:09AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:51:52 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:22:11PM +, W. Borgert wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:29:31PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > >> > really matters:

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:42:50AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:22:47AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > There was discussion in Vancouver about requiring ports to have an > > "upstream" kernel maintainer, FSO "upstream"; perhaps we should be > > considering requiring th

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > WebSVN does not know about the contents of files in the repository period. OK. > As it is just a frontend to svn, you cannot expect it to know about every > weird file format and encoding around. OK. > IMO, the main purpose of websvn is to be able to vie

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 12:45, W. Borgert wrote: > Not all of "my" translators are easy with svn command line. WebSVN > would be helpful, so they see, whether I did my homework and checked > in their latest changes correctly. Could be useful for d-i, too. In my experience some kind of revision

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:42:18AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > one day (as the buildds do) is certainly acceptable. OTOH, lagging > behind for several weeks (which is not unreasonable for folks without > a phat pipe) is certainly not, especially if you are in a period of > massive transitions. Du

Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-23 Thread Edward
Hi there, Is it necessary for the following packages to "Conflict" with the virtual package "imap-server": bincimap-run courier-imap cyrus-imapd(*) cyrus21-imapd (*) dovecot-imapd mailutils-imap4d (*) uw-imapd (*) For example, I recently moved from "uw-imap

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For that you should enable the svn keyword "Id" (using 'svn propset > svn:keywords Id') and add a comment in your English files containing > "$Id:". I will do that, thanks for the hint! (However, my original plea for using UTF-8 in WebSVN remains.) Cheers,

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-23 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:32 +0100, Edward wrote: > My humbly proposed fix: remove the "Conflicts: imap-server" from these > packages, and make the postinst / init scripts more robust to the > failure mode where an imap-server is already running / listed in > inetd.conf. Why not do dpkg -i --force-

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:25:41AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:18 +0200, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use > >pbuilder itself since it is not the most efficient implementation > >around, but rebu

update of (several) config files

2005-08-23 Thread Tomas Davidek
Hello, I am trying to set up a tool for easy update of several computers in our institute. For example, I would like to create a package that updates several config files, e.g. /etc/apt/sources.list etc. What is the best way of doing that ? So far I think about an package that only contains a

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 10:07 -0500, Manoj Srivastava escreveu: > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:29:51 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > The constitution states that no developer can have "democratic > control" imposed on them at all. Indeed, I reject any such control > ove

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-23 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:32:15PM +0100, Edward wrote: > Is it necessary for the following packages to "Conflict" with the > virtual package "imap-server": > > bincimap-run > courier-imap > cyrus-imapd(*) > cyrus21-imapd (*) > dovecot-imapd > mailutils-imap4d (*) > uw

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:48:58AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I'd much rather have seen that point go, but that didn't happen. > > Meaning you would have preferred that there not be a requirement of buildd > redundancy, or yo

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi Joey, Your response was very much what I needed to hear. I'll have to retract most of my worries. On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:20:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > - A personal interest shared by me, tbm, and taggart is to get Debian >working on the various types of cheap mips wireless access

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread John Hasler
Joe Smith writes: > Actually perhaps software should be built outside of clean chroots. Why? > Because if there is a possibility that a dirty chroot will cause the > package to fail, there is a bug in some peice of software. The probability that the developer has the particular package that will c

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-23 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, August 23, 2005 14:14, Gerrit Pape wrote: > $ sed -ne '19,$p' The bincimap-run package provides the virtual package ``imap-server'' and > conflicts with other packages providing ``imap-server''. This ensures > that > bincimap is the only service that listens on the address 0.0.0.0:993 on

Re: update of (several) config files

2005-08-23 Thread W. Borgert
Hello Tomas, this question should better go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Tomas Davidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am trying to set up a tool for easy update of several computers in > our institute. For example, I would like to create a package that > updates several config files, e.g. /etc/apt/so

Re: update of (several) config files

2005-08-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tomas Davidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.23.1401 +0200]: > I am trying to set up a tool for easy update of several computers in > our institute. For example, I would like to create a package that > updates several config files, e.g. /etc/apt/sources.list etc. > What is the best way

Re: Snapshot/Rollback using LVM/EVMS

2005-08-23 Thread Pavel Orehov
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Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:32:33AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > It doesn't really hurt us right now, so we didn't start to force > > building packages in pbuilder. buildd time is cheap compared to > > developer time, so introducing mandatory pbuilding

Bug#324677: ITP: fruit -- Fruit is an UCI-only chess engine.

2005-08-23 Thread Oliver Korff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Oliver Korff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: fruit Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Fabien Letouzey * URL : http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ * License : (GPL) Description : Fruit is an UCI-only chess engine. Descrip

Re: Bug#324677: ITP: fruit -- Fruit is an UCI-only chess engine.

2005-08-23 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:49 +0200, Oliver Korff wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Oliver Korff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: fruit > Version : 2.1 > Upstream Author : Fabien Letouzey > * URL : http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ > * License

Re: Bug#324677: ITP: fruit -- Fruit is an UCI-only chess engine.

2005-08-23 Thread Laurent Fousse
Hi, * Oliver Korff [Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:49:34PM +0200]: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Oliver Korff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: fruit > Version : 2.1 > Upstream Author : Fabien Letouzey > * URL : http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ > * Licens

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:14:28AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:32:33AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > It doesn't really hurt us right now, so we didn't start to force > > > building packages in pbuilder. buildd time is c

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:14:28AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Sure we do, for certain ports (ie: amd64). Really, this just means it'd > > be better to implement a system along the lines of: > > > > source upload > > fastest/preferred buildd type

Re: Bug#324677: ITP: fruit -- Fruit is an UCI-only chess engine.

2005-08-23 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:49:34PM +0200, Oliver Korff wrote: > * URL : http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ This URL does not mention anything about “fruit” at all; it seems to be a chess tournament for computers or something along those lines. > Description : Fruit is an UCI-only chess

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:14:33PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > $ sed -ne '19,$p' The bincimap-run package provides the virtual package ``imap-server'' and > conflicts with other packages providing ``imap-server''. This ensures that > bincimap is the only service that listens on the address 0.0.0.

Re: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation withspecialemphasis in security

2005-08-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Thomas Bushnell BSG dijo [Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:02:18PM -0700]: > > The OBSD crowd have reimplemented many important subsystems because > > they do not consider GPL-like licenses to be free enough. Yes, also > > because of technical reasons, but in this case it seems to be about > > (their versio

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:40:18AM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > Actually perhaps software should be built outside of clean chroots. Why? Do I need to have root on the debian developer machines? I currently use that machines to build packages for architectures I don't own. Bastian -- The best dipl

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
** Joe Smith :: > Actually perhaps software should be built outside of clean chroots. Why? > Because if there is a possibility that a dirty chroot will cause the package > to fail, there is a bug in some peice of software. It could prevent a user > from recompiling on his own system, which thusly

Re: Bug#324677: ITP: fruit -- Fruit is an UCI-only chess engine.

2005-08-23 Thread Oliver Korff
Thanks for all the good advice, I will be more descriptive with the "short" and "long" description, as I see that this is really necessary. And I will be more careful while using reportbug, because I don't want to bother people with ""Fruit is ..., Fruit is ..., Fruit is..." -- sorry Where I d

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:06:41PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: > I vehemently disagree. I think exactly the opposite: debbuild and/or > dpkg-buildpackage should *always* build a package inside a clean and > minimal chroot jail. This way, (1) every package will predictably > build from (u

Re: WebSVN of svn.debian.org uses wrong encoding

2005-08-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:29:10AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > WebSVN does not know about the contents of files in the repository period. > As it is just a frontend to svn, you cannot expect it to know about every > weird file format and encoding around. Subversion is encoding-clean, the frontend

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-23 Thread Joe Smith
"Pierre Habouzit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Human error, or poluted chroot/compilation env is more likely to happen on the developper machine than in a buildd. Maybe this has already been discussed once, but I think that binary uploaded packages (except the b

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:28:22PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:06:41PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: > > I vehemently disagree. I think exactly the opposite: debbuild and/or > > dpkg-buildpackage should *always* build a package inside a clean and > > minimal ch

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
On Tuesday 23 of August 2005 17:28, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:06:41PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: > > I vehemently disagree. I think exactly the opposite: debbuild and/or > > dpkg-buildpackage should *always* build a package inside a clean and > > minimal chroot j

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The constitution also states that no developer can work actively against > the implementation of such a decision made by the project[0]. Not doing > the work and not letting anyone else do it would constitute 'working > actively againt'. Quite t

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Bushnell] > Quite the contrary; it seems to me that this is to work *passively* > against something. Not doing the work is working passively against it, while prohibiting others from doing the work is working actively against it. If you do both, you are working actively against it. --

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
** Bastian Blank :: > You have a linux kernel ready, which allows chroot as normal user? > Please share it with us. It's called QEMU :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Thomas Bushnell] >> Quite the contrary; it seems to me that this is to work *passively* >> against something. > > Not doing the work is working passively against it, while prohibiting > others from doing the work is working actively against it. I

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 00:34 +0300, Riku Voipio escreveu: > jffs2 image, which is then flashed to a pile of devices. Walking > through d-i every time would be very clumsy, so there is no use > for a working installer for those systems. There's no use for a full-blown stable release for such thing

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8/23/05, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Andreas Jochens in particular did a lot of hard work in fixing most of >> > the GCC 4.0 failures and regressions over the last year while p

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 01:32 +0200, Marco d'Itri escreveu: > The (still not uploaded) coldplug package conflicts+depends+provides > hotplug. The issue is that since all the important parts of hotplug are > conffiles they are not deleted when the package is removed, and this > is bad (as in "the syst

Re: Is dpkg --compare-versions canonical?

2005-08-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.23.1908 +0200]: > case, I wanted to double-check and be sure that dpkg --compare-versions is > the canonical ordering for version numbers. I'm pretty sure it is, but > better safe than sorry to check. Yes. > Is there a document anywhere outsi

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The (still not uploaded) coldplug package conflicts+depends+provides > > hotplug. The issue is that since all the important parts of hotplug are > > conffiles they are not deleted when the package is removed, and this > > is bad (as i

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 19:45 +0200, Adrian von Bidder escreveu: > On Monday 22 August 2005 11.25, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > [ the 'must have a working installer' requirement ] > > > > > Trivial. debootstrap does that. > > > > > > Debootstrap is not an installer, in very much the same way

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:15 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Think "hotplug events loop". So, a hotplug event could load and run code (which happen to be in conf files, and therefore cannot be diverted) in the old hotplug package. The problem you're facing, it seems, is that while code should be diver

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:01:24PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > On Tuesday 23 of August 2005 17:28, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:06:41PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: > > > I vehemently disagree. I think exactly the opposite: debbuild and/or > > > dpkg-buildpacka

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:26:25PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:01:24PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > > Use fakechroot. Yes, it is ugly hack, but it allows me to recompile the ^^^ > > packages without root privileges. > > We all use fakeroot. The quest

Is dpkg --compare-versions canonical?

2005-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
dpkg --compare-versions provides exactly the ordering that I want, namely that 1.4rc1 < 1.4.0 so by omitting the final patch number in the RC revision I can use the correct upstream version without using epochs or strange-looking version numbers. However, since this is a bit of an edge case, I wan

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-23 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:57, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 23, Isaac Clerencia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just tried it and it has worked really great, except it has not > > loaded mousedev module. Everything else has worked, and it's incredible > > fast (at > > It's supposed to, do yo

Bug#324730: ITP: libperldoc-search-perl -- Index and search local Perl documentation

2005-08-23 Thread Florian Ragwitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Ragwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libperldoc-search-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Mike Schilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Perldoc-Search/ * License : Perl (GPL/Ar

Bug#324732: ITP: libswish-api-common-perl -- Perl interface to the Swish index engine

2005-08-23 Thread Florian Ragwitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Ragwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libswish-api-common-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Mike Schilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/SWISH-API-Common/ * License : Perl (GP

Re: Is dpkg --compare-versions canonical?

2005-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Thanks for the confirmation! martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.23.1908 +0200]: >> Is there a document anywhere outside of the dpkg source that explains >> the algorithm for how version numbers are ordered by the archive >> software

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 06.44, Joe Smith wrote: > > By the way, i386 does not make the cut according to the vancouver > > prospect due to the number of buildds required. So are we left with 0 > > archs in etch? :) That will certainly speed up the release. > > LOL. > > Release NOW! Release now, da

Bug#324739: ITP: libsysadm-install-perl -- Perl module to simplify typical installation tasks for system administrators

2005-08-23 Thread Florian Ragwitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Ragwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libsysadm-install-perl Version : 0.20 Upstream Author : Mike Schilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Sysadm-Install/ * License : Perl (GPL/Ar

Bug#324737: ITP: libshell-posix-select-perl -- The POSIX Shell's "select" loop for Perl

2005-08-23 Thread Florian Ragwitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Ragwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libshell-posix-select-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Timothy F. Maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~yumpy/Shell-POSIX-Select-0.05/ * License

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:09:48PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 01:32 +0200, Marco d'Itri escreveu: > > The (still not uploaded) coldplug package conflicts+depends+provides > > hotplug. The issue is that since all the important parts of hotplug are > > conffiles they

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, a hotplug event could load and run code (which happen to be in conf > files, and therefore cannot be diverted) in the old hotplug package. > The problem you're facing, it seems, is that while code should be > divertable, conf files aren't,

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 22 August 2005 23.51, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:22:11PM +, W. Borgert wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:29:31PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > > really matters: can we (the Debian project) maintain the port? Thus > > > I propose we only limit on the

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:50 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > The init file does, but /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug does not. Why is this file a conffile? I didn't see any obviously configurable parts in it. If it were either wholly be moved elsewhere (/sbin) or the guts of it moved elsewher

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway? (Was: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal)

2005-08-23 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello David, * David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2005-08-21 19:44 -0400]: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:29:51PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Wouter Verhelst] > > >b) the three beforementioned teams could already refuse to > > >support a port anyhow, simply by not doing the w

Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-23 Thread Walter Landry
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > "Vancouver" has gotten a very specific meaning in the Debian > community: one of a visionary proposal[1] that received quite its > share of flames from many Debian contributors, including > myself. Since it appeared to many of us that the intentional result > of this propos

Re: how to fully replace another package

2005-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:50 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > The init file does, but /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug does not. > Why is this file a conffile? I didn't see any obviously configurable Historical reasons? It does not really m

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually perhaps software should be built outside of clean > chroots. Why? Because if there is a possibility that a dirty chroot > will cause the package to fail, there is a bug in some peice of > software. I

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:04:57PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Not a kernel feature, but see > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/schroot Does not help, each chroot needs to be setup by root and you need root priviledges to install packages in it. Bastian -- Madness has no purpose. Or

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Wouter! > > Wouter Verhelst [2005-08-23 1:26 +0200]: >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:08:37PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: >> > Hamish Moffatt [2005-08-22 23:47 +1000]: >> > > There is the possibility that developer builds get extra features >> > > enabled d

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Tomas Fasth
Martin Pitt skrev: > Hi Tomas! > > Tomas Fasth [2005-08-23 9:31 +0200]: > >>As a side note, I have myself thought about extending pbuilder using >>unionfs and overlays to avoid the tarball extraction for each build. > > > Indeed I referred to the overhead of tarball extraction and the like. > unio

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Tomas! > > Tomas Fasth [2005-08-23 9:31 +0200]: >> >>So you suggest throwing buildd out of the window and switching to >> >>pbuilder, then? >> > >> > >> > Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use >> > pbuilder itself since i

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:25:41AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:18 +0200, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use >> >pbuilder itself since it i

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:25:41AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:18 +0200, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use >> >pbuilder itself since it is not th

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:42:18 +0200, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>Something like this is in fact considered. Probably Ubuntu won't use >>pbuilder itself since it is not the most efficient implementation >>around, but rebuilding the buildd chroo

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:14:28AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: >> source upload >> fastest/preferred buildd type (i386, amd64, whatever) attempts build >> --> Success >> Other buildds attempt to build > > That would introduce some delay which, tho

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:04:57PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Not a kernel feature, but see >> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/schroot > > Does not help, each chroot needs to be setup by root a

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:52:22PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: > ** Bastian Blank :: >> You have a linux kernel ready, which allows chroot as normal user? >> Please share it with us. > It's called QEMU :-) Or pbuilder-uml, once someone gets onto the user-mode-linunx package (and kernel

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Pierre Habouzit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Human error, or poluted chroot/compilation env is more likely to happen >>on the developper machine than in a buildd. Maybe this has already been Also for each upload we h

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