Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ng in > > that moment. > > Then don't call it renice*d*, please. > Agreed, the name makes me think that it is a daemon that monitors for new processes starting up and *then* renices the processes based on the provided regex. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez

Use of generic init script names [WAS Re: Status of inetd for etch]

2006-08-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
name (as they all conflict with each other anyways). The same should probably go for pop3d, httpd, inetd and so on. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?- [was: dak now supports ~ in version numbers]

2006-08-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
r was to the right of the decimal, making the zero significant. I think you will be hard pressed to find a mathematician who supports dropping significant zeros for no good reason. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: cdrtools

2006-08-10 Thread Dale C. Scheetz
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:44:57 +0200 Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stuff deleted for brevity > > > All of this, without even taking into account your brain-dead > > licensing mix between CDDL and GPL - which are intentionally > > incompatible licenses, according to Sun guys. > > If yo

Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?- [was: dak now supports ~ in version numbers]

2006-08-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 02:21:04AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez [Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:47:36 -0400]: > > > Except that the final comparison ignores that the number was to the > > right of the decimal, making the zero significant. > > Er, read Policy 5

Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?- [was: dak now supports ~ in version numbers]

2006-08-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
r, to put it another way: your numbers are not our numbers. > I never said I was a mathematician :-) The original comparison, though, was 0.09 and 0.9. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: VMware packaging

2006-08-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
emu, bochs e.g.) ? Because the performance of qemu is quite bad without the non-free accelerator module and bochs is generally very slow and targeted at hobbyists. I'm not trying to say anything bad about them, just that their target markets are generally different than the target market

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

2006-08-14 Thread Carlos C Soto
been released under GPL so I guess it would be ok to do a fork? Well, If you do a fork why do not use in your fork autotools? this only depends to you. If you do a fork you will release it under the GPL and there are no problems to include into debian. Carlos C Soto :: eclipxe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ecific machine in order to send mail to Alioth. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:18:12AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Roberto C. Sanchez said: > > Is the mailing list software on Alioth broken or misconfigured? If I > > send from any host on my network other than the one which happens to be > > t

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ROTECTED]> It did not help. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
; purely-informative Sender header. :-) > Interesting. My previous attempt at solving this was to have mutt explicitly set the Return-Path header. However, it did not work. I don't know if it was because postfix on my gateway host stripped it or rewrote it, or if it is j

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:06:37AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez [Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:45:30 -0400]: > > > Interesting. My previous attempt at solving this was to have mutt > > explicitly set the Return-Path header. However, it did not work. I > &

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:59:21AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > accessible mail server. The point is that I only experience this > > problem with Alioth and SourceForge lists, where they use braindead call > > back mecha

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:24:31AM -1000, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez [Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:10:22 -0400]: > > > > Nope, that won't help. Knowing you use Mutt, and unless your MTA is > > > configured in a quite restrictive way, this should solve your pr

Re: Bug#387926: ITP: eaccelerator -- PHP opcode cacher and compilation optimizer

2006-09-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
problem is that the GPL is not compatible with the PHP license. There is no way around it, other than a clean rewrite of eacclerator by people who have not seen the mmchache-derived code. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#387926: ITP: eaccelerator -- PHP opcode cacher and compilation optimizer

2006-09-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. If you are interested I can provide you with the source package that I created so that you are not reinventing the wheel. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-19 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi, > > * rxvt > as a user of rxvt I like to see it remain in Debian. I'm not a Debian > developer Same for me. I'd also take rxvt and am no DD either. Michael, maybe you'd like to agree on some kind of team maintenance? My workload is quite low at the moment, but will rapidly increase in about f

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-19 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi Josip, > If you two don't manage to get to it, I'm a backup. :) We need an O wnpp bug > report to record this... may I take that as an offer to sponsor us? :) I've created an ITA bug against wnpp now. (Don't know the number yet, the BTS bot is slow, and I'm in a hurry...) Regards, Jan sig

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-20 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi Qingning, > Yes, mrxvt is quite nice with its tab support, and other features. And, > mrxvt is being actively developed by the upstream authors. > Unfortunately, I have not been able to spend much time on mrxvt > lately (being busy with the real life). Indeed, I would like to give > mrxvt awa

Re: Bug#388278: ITP: doc-debian-uk -- Debian Manuals and other documents in Ukrainian

2006-09-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I would have guessed that -uk refers to the > United Kingdom. > UA is also the ISO standard two-letter code for Ukraine: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html#sz Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: local copies of libs

2006-10-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ecurity. If a vulnerability is discovered in ffmpeg, then the seucrity team knows that they have to update ffmpeg. However, if five other packages are vulnerable and the security does now know about them, we have a bad situation. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
er --force-badname to > create accounts with @ in user names? > I'm thinking of this slightly obscure service called email. It might possibly be affected by such brain damage. Why can't the bug submitter make to with +, ., and other such characters? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 12:39:39PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:34:35PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I'm thinking of this slightly obscure service called email. It might > > possibly be affected by such brain damage. Why can't the bug s

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
3DFC603) Then, on the receiving mail server, it stripped off the @the.real.host and then proceeded to deliver it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, I don't know the effect if that were a system account, but it certainly works with virtual accounts. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http:/

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 02:39:03PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Well, I'm surprised to say the least. I have some virtual domains on a > server. So I did `mail "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"@the.real.host` and sent a > test message. Surprisingly, to me anyway, I

gids assigned non-deterministically

2006-10-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
er, for an existing network, this can be more of a problem. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: gids assigned non-deterministically

2006-10-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 07:09:14PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have started working with transitioning a network to LDAP. I am still > > experimenting with this at home before implementing it "for real." T

Re: gids assigned non-deterministically

2006-10-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:39:07PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Roberto C. Sanchez] > > That is a problem if I want to server everything up out of LDAP. > > There really should be a "reserved" range, maybe 100-499 of Debian > > gids, where they are assi

Re: gids assigned non-deterministically

2006-10-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
housands of > members can cause headaches. > Yes. Of course, if you have more than a handful of machines, what you are describing is a management nightmare. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: gids assigned non-deterministically

2006-10-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:46:58PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:16:45AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I guess that if the deployment were on a new network, it would be easier > > to affect how the gids are assigned, since you would be looking

Re: Orphaning most of my packages

2006-10-12 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi, > Bug#392665: O: nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi I'll take nvi if no one objects. Regards, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ckage is not suited for a specific > architecture? > I would think that by definition a user of a package is the last person who would be qualified to make a determinitation as to whether a particular pacakge is suitable for a particular architecture. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. San

Bug#391118: This probably belongs in the kernel bug tracker

2006-10-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I would think that keyboard repeat rate is the domain of the kernel's keyboard driver. Since there are multiple kernels which can underly Debian, I don't see how this is feasible. Especially since each will have its own mechanism for that sort of thing. Regards, -Roberto --

Re: Orphan party, relax...

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I have the right knowledge. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

The Debian cyrus-sasl2 team is in need of your help!

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
behalf of the Debian Cyrus SASL Team) -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
will be basically identical. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

New cyrus-sasl2 packages

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
you have any questions. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com Package nameDepend status Build status - asteriskbogus [0] OK

I forgot to set M-F-T!!! [WAS: Re: New cyrus-sasl2 packages]

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Argh. I forget to set Mail-Followup-To properly on the last message. Please don't reply to every single package's address. Regards, -Roberto On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:18:02AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Greetings all, > -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.c

Re: The Debian cyrus-sasl2 team is in need of your help!

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:36:14AM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 16:09 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Ok. If I have not managed to scare you off yet, then I hope you would > > like to get the packages and help us find bugs. Here is what you do: &g

Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
se follow up to debian-x. > IIRC, the majority of the "I ended up at a text prompt, what do I do now?" questions we see on d-u are not X configuration problems. They are newbies who pick all the defaults and up without X on their systems entirely. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C.

Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
gt; > If it can be made so that this message only appears when X is installed > but not running on the system, then even better. > Again, not necessary. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ses *should* be enough, but since MS neutered the command.com interface a long time ago to the point where it ceased to be useful, I don't see how having such things would be helpful to any but a diminishingly small minority of users. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.conn

Re: The Debian cyrus-sasl2 team is in need of your help!

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:09:32PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Greetings fellow Debian users and developers, > > The Debian Cyrus SASL Team is working at a breakneck pace to try and get > the new upstream version ready in time for Etch. For that to happen, we Hello again e

Re: New cyrus-sasl2 packages

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:18:02AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Greetings all, > > As part of the transition to the new cyrus-sasl packages I have built > all the package which expressed some sort of dependency on any of the > cyrus-sasl2 packages. These were built in a cle

Re: Alioth upgrade -- done

2006-10-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
llent. Thanks for the hard work. This is not a problem, per se, but rather a question. I saw that the new Alioth server has 8GB of RAM, but now swap space. I understand that 8GB is quite a bit, but I was wondering what the rationale was for no swap. Regards, -Roberto -- Rober

Re: Bug#395333: ITP: counter -- Simple and light web hits counter

2006-10-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
: Simple and light web hits counter > > A PHP script with the ability to show the number of hits with text > or images. This script runs into web site directory and uses GIF > images in graphical mode. You can use your custom GIF images. It > isn't a CGI program. > > URL:

Re: Debian Installer etch RC1 released

2006-11-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:01:48AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:58:00AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I understand that the line must be drawn somewhere. However, I am > > concerned about Etch shipping with a 2.6.17 kernel because of Xen. &

Re: Debian Installer etch RC1 released

2006-11-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
see that Xen be treated as a "first-class citizen" in Debian. If I am wrong, I apologize. I am going from discussion I recall seeing on the pkg-xen list. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Fwd: FC6 downloads and installs

2006-11-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
give out that > data). > Not just that, but people using solutions like apt-cacher, apt-proxy and debmirror to create local caches will be underreported. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#399305: ITP: subversive -- The Subversive is a Eclipse plug-in that provides Subversion support

2006-11-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
not possible or too hard with JavaSVN. This means that if you want to use your svn+ssh repo in half-way secure fashion, you can't with this plugin. Probably better to stick with subclipse. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.conne

Re: Bug#399305: ITP: subversive -- The Subversive is a Eclipse plug-in that provides Subversion support

2006-11-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 05:59:52PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Compatibility is not the question. It is clearly inferior. For one, it > > has no support for JavaHL. At least everything I can find on the > > upstream web s

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-23 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi Klaus, > >from the bash manpage: > /dev/tcp/host/port > /dev/udp/host/port This has been discussed several times [1][2], and the outcome was every time that this should not be a feature of the shell, but of more specialized tools like nc. Use those or recompile your

Re: Fwd: FC6 downloads and installs

2006-11-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
even close to a reasonable > lower bound, though. > I'd say that zero is a perfectly reasonable lower bound. There is no way it can be lower than that. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Question about "Depends: bash"

2006-11-25 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
quot; is a perfectly valid, legal filename. Treating some legal filenames differently than others is a bug. Period. -- Dwayne C. Litzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-25 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
x27;s more likely than it might sound. A proper way to implement the /dev/tcp/ feature (if you're going to implement it at all) would be to use FUSE, and it wouldn't surprise me if someone did that within the next 5 years. -- Dwayne C. Litzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-25 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
ntainers won't notice that their package depends on bash, and the ones that do should probably just remove the bashisms. -- Dwayne C. Litzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BTS: Why no "invalid" or "notabug" tag?

2006-12-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
he top or after the RC bugs). Then people will see them and you can have some sort of explanation attached so that people can see why the maintainer does not consider it a bug. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BTS: Why no "invalid" or "notabug" tag?

2006-12-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:43:55PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roberto C Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You mean so that different people can file the same bug over and over > > again? Personally, I'd like to see a notabug tag so that you can have a &g

Re: Is bug #399214 release critical? (Upgrade from version not in debian currently)

2006-12-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
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Re: Can ftpmasters do ONE SIMPLE THING?

2006-12-31 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 03:51:38PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Afaik, it can't be removed from unstable before oldstable is removed > from the main archive. > AFAICT, his point is that they belong in oldstable, since boot-floppies went away after Woody. Regards, -Rober

RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
good way to get started? (*) As far as getting started: * Would this need to start on debian.net? * What would be the requirements/limitations/guidelines? Did I miss anything? I would really appreciate any comments and suggestions on this. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://peop

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 05:41:35PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:32:52PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I'd be interested in knowing: > > > > * Would such an idea be feasible? > > Yes, it only requires somebody to

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
of > their own. > > With the same process described, a package_0.3-1.dscr will have a bunch > of screenshots of package. > I'm not sure this is a great idea. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
accomplished by making dummy packages automatically redirect to either their dependency (if only one) or a page listing their dependencies. Kind regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
which provided small animations or videos of the programs *being*used* which > is cooler (and could be easy to implement provided there is an > infraestructrure for static images) :) OK. Once we get this up and running, you are more than welcome to take it from there and extend it to video clip

Re: Parrellel Device

2007-01-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
and not a develoeprs list. Second, please learn how ask smart questions [0] and then ask again. Regards, -Roberto [0] http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: This is not a proposal that can be implemented in make

2007-01-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
27;t use it). A misbehaved hard dependency is a bit tougher. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Etch Software RAID Upgrade Trouble & Suggested Installer Improvements

2007-01-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
the user whether or not to start the set. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Etch Software RAID Upgrade Trouble & Suggested Installer Improvements

2007-01-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ooking at the first few bytes of a file to identify its MIME type. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug "last active" indicator?

2006-03-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
e consensus is that this is generally a good idea, then I intend to file a bug against bugs.debian.org to request the feature. Though, looking at the list of bugs (and their ages) filed against bugs.debian.org I would welcome any suggestions on how I can help to get this implemented. -Roberto --

Re: I like the new Release

2006-03-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
, this mail is sent from the same machine > as the original fake. > $ host 128.187.0.165 165.0.187.128.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer tmcb-u110-3N1E-CE2.byu.edu. It must be SCO. They have cleverly disguised themselves as BYU students. :-) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://fami

Re: Local woody mirror?

2006-04-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > I'm still running Woody on all my mirrors and I'd like to have my own, > local, repository of only (!) woody... > > The page http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror doesn't describe this... Look at the debmirror package. Works like a char

Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
? >> > > If this is your first upload of that version then X=1. > The correct list for these types of questions is > debian-mentors. > > I *think* that he has enough experience with Debian to know the correct list on which to ask a question: http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Closing a bug vs. tagging wontfix

2006-04-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
r [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308791 -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Archiving bugs with version info (Was: Re: Closing a bug vs. tagging wontfix)

2006-04-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Otavio Salvador wrote: > > What's the current consensus right now? > > IMHO, we should display every bug that still affect stable so we won't > receive duplicated reports so often. > What about oldstable while it is supported? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanch

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
revision (X11R7.0 <http://wiki.x.org/wiki/X11R70Release>) that looks > like have fully support for my driver, see link > <http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/trident.4.html>. > Do you have any recommendation how to do it in the best way for my > Debian system ?? > Backports: http://backports.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-x11/ Or, if you feel comfortable doing it, then upgrade to Etch or Sid. Besides, is this not a bit OT for -devel? Perhaps this discussion is more suited to -user. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Testing security archive move

2006-05-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
o debian-user and debian-announce, and maybe even debian-security-announce. I know that there are many folks that participate in debian-user and watch the other lists that are not also subscribed to debian-devel or debian-devel-announce. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasan

Re: using /usr/bin/nologin instead of /bin/false in adduser?

2006-05-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
tries to login and /usr is unavailable? If the shell is set to something in /bin, it will still be used. What is the default action when the user's shell is not available? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
the default.] > Except that many ISPs now block outbound port 25 (at least on consumer-level service), except for what is relayed through their mail servers. I guess it is a bit of a catch-22. What about modifying it to work through something like an http POST? -Roberto -- Roberto C.

Re: I want to modify the gnome panel deb package

2006-05-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
with that, but you may wany to consider hiring a Debian consultant [0] to help the process go smoother. -Roberto [0] http://www.debian.org/consultants/ -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Most people don't run their own mail servers and can easily be convinced by the ISP to use a mail client like Lookout, which is pointed at the ISP's outbound mail server. Personally, I think it is a responsible thing for mass market ISPs to do. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez ht

Re: Section of -dev packages

2006-05-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
-n .\*-dev\$ | sed 's/ -.*//' | xargs apt-cache show | grep \^Section: | sort | uniq -c 1 Section: admin 1 Section: comm 3 Section: contrib/libdevel 256 Section: devel 5 Section: doc 1 Section: electronics 1 Section: games 3 Section: gnome 3 Se

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ill want to use their ISPs mail servers. If you have a mail server available from your ISP, you can configure your system to use it by default by following these steps." That would probably help to eliminate much confusion. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
if Exim is the same. Also, it has been a while since I setup Postix in this manner, so I forget whether it asks you on which addresses to listen. In any case, if the default were 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0, then even users without a firewall would be in reasonably good shape. -Robert

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:08, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>Except that most customers don't know what a port is, nor much less care >>that any are blocked (unless it prevents them from playing everquest or >>chatting). Most pe

Re: Unidentified subject!

2006-05-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
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Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
t trust to do certain things. I think this is hardly an earth-shattering revelation. -Roberto [0] At least as far as those things have been previously known. -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Arch, which I simply cannot understand. I have spent quite a while reading through the documentation and messing with it, but Arch seems to me to not make any rational sense. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
;>Arch, which I simply cannot understand. I have spent quite a while >>reading through the documentation and messing with it, but Arch seems to >>me to not make any rational sense. > > > Neither to me. Bazaar (as made and used by the Ubuntu staff) seems to be > a "be

Re: adding ddccontrol to debian

2006-05-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
thcoming which fixes the build issues with gcc 4.x. Once it is out, the package will be updated and uploaded. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: adding ddccontrol to debian

2006-05-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Fabrice Lorrain wrote: > > Hi Roberto. > > Thanks a lot for the quick answer and your work on this package. > > @+, > Fab > No problem. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: adding ddccontrol to debian

2006-05-31 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
e > this > could be utilized or extended for such stuff? > > HS That is an interesting idea. Have you considered proposing it to the upstream devs? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
sure: I am not a DD I am in the NM queue I have posted a few dozen times to debian-legal I am not some sort of legal analyst or expert I think this whole mess is rather absurd Flame away -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
nts are ignored (for a completely different reason). -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:45:11AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> - something it already had (admins who really wanted Sun's Java could >>always go to java.sun.com and install it themselves or use java-package) > > > Come on;

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:45:11AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>Christian Perrier wrote: >> >>>And isn't another "small cabal" of freeness junkies, who cannot accept >>>that it is actually possible to work with c

Re: New LTSP uploaded!

2006-06-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. I will hopefully be able to start work on an update to that package in the coming weeks. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: New LTSP uploaded!

2006-06-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
p-utils package. I only expressed an interest in it since it was orphaned and I am using LTSP at my church. I am rather busy with some of the other packaging efforts I have joined. So please, feel free. If you would still like my help, I will let you know when I am ready to join in a few

Re: New LTSP uploaded!

2006-06-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
before I take to transition to a new LTSP :-) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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