I should do, or is there another solution I am overlooking; or
> do we need more functions; or does the whole system need to be reworked?
I think if you have a serious worry about stderr, you probably should
2> to a temporary file, then cat it after the failure message if
necessary.
e.g. something like:
f=`tempfile`
log_action_begin_msg "Will do foo"
foo 2>>$f
log_action_end_msg $?
if [ -s $f ]; then
cat $f >/dev/fd/2
fi
rf -f $f
That idiom might be worth putting into a function in init-functions; I dunno.
Hope this helps...
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> I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed
> distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate
>
> woody
> sarge
> etch
> sid
> hoary
> breezy
> dapper
>
> Prior to etch I was using lsb-release but it seems /etc/lsb
dpkg --status includes the Origin: header for those packages that
specify it; reportbug already uses this to decide what BTS to use, but
it could also be included in the report.
Chri
e it searches just fine to
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nice to Joe User and not clobber their /etc files
without asking :-)...
And this probably does need to be advertised better (especially since I've
been using /usr/src for everything under the sun).
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s for each port (which have constant locations) this wouldn't be
a problem.
Of course, this is further complicated because the kernels that aren't
developed in the master tree don't have consistent release timetables,
so they tend to skip master tree versions.
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restrictions, or any
other laws" (per Policy) and would not compromise the ideological
purity of the DFSG.
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hat I dug out of my mail archives:
>From quango Mon Mar 17 17:50:24 1997
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 17:50:24 -0600
From: Chris Lawrence
To: "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian netpbm
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4 years of nothing
happening with it.
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aving both lsb and lsb-release with one
maintainer will simplify things.
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This p
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under $200).
The software will be GPLed.
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On Oct 03, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:22:11PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
>
> > For the unfamiliar, CATI programs are used to to conduct surveys over
> > the telephone (although they can also be used in other contexts).
> > Think of an "inst
On Oct 02, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> On Oct 03, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:22:11PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > > For the unfamiliar, CATI programs are used to to conduct surveys over
> > > the telephone (although they c
opinions on the survey topic). And unless you physically go
door-to-door (or use followup phone calls), the response rates are
atrocious.
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> Package: mkhybrid (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 60119 mkhybrid: patch required for making sparc bootable CD's
Just uploaded with this patch; it's
en in woody for at least 3 weeks.
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On Aug 16, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Mandrake, too, includes a hardware detection libarary (libdetect).
> Some time ago, Dan Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Cc'ed him), was busy
> packaging it. Dan, have you had any luck yet adapting it to Debian?
Dan has reasonably up-to-date packages of libdetect and
On Aug 21, Dan Brosemer wrote:
> Debian officially recommends something? That's news to me.
I believe we ship exim as the "standard" MTA (we changed from smail in
hamm or slink); I don't know if that makes it recommended or not.
Personally, I'd like to see postfix as the standard MTA, but we'd n
out
> to debian.
--email changes your From address, *not* the address the report is
sent to. RTFMP :)
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ut 5 lines at the bottom of the screen with the
messages scrolling by at ridiculous speed).
The other solution is to collect all of the copyright messages and
stick them in a separate message buffer that is displayed at the end
of booting. It would definitely be a cleaner approach... but you'd
ne
At 10:27 PM 1/2/2001, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:16:22AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> Branden Robinson wrote:
> >
> > You know, kinda like the way I went nuclear on Wichert when he
broke vim.
>
> You use vi? Emacs rules.
CAN'T YOU READ THE HEADERS OF MY MAILS, Y
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bian 3.1 even frozen (much less released) by then.
See PEP 283: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0283.html
> Just in case that would make any difference...
It would if sarge were targeted for a November release. Sarge isn't.
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ge than "Q4 2002".
(Note that debian-python is probably the most appropriate list for
followups.)
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roject that uses .desktop.in.
Once I get back from Michigan I will have time to concentrate on
fleshing out the details...
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something that is standard or higher"
rule in action... although I'm not entirely sure why it would conflict
with elvis-tiny etc. (that's why we have alternatives, after all).
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foomatic release; it's currently in DELAYED/?-days (I think ?
is 4 at the moment).
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but they'd need extra RAM or
disk space to keep up (and more people to keep an eye on them).
Oh, by the way, hurd-i386 and the *BSDs will want all of these
optimizations too. Better double your estimate :-)
Chris, glad he picked up a 120GB drive the other day so he can build
custom C
ctures because they can't keep up (due to lack of
developer interest), but that hasn't happened yet.
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pecific about it, although the
detect.py module is probably a bit Linux-centric.
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On Nov 26, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 19:42, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> > After about 10 hours of me pulling my hair out due to the complete and
> > utter lack of documentation for GNOME2 and its Python bindings, I have
> > produced "foomatic-gui".
phical su"s in Debian already).
FWIW, the GNOME System Tools root prompts don't seem to work for me...
Probably the best approach would be to use something like gksu in the
menu entry; why reinvent the wheel?
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of "power" among them ;)
At least in the case of foomatic-gui, the backend is pretty universal;
all it needs are foomatic-printjob and foomatic-configure in the path
(although it does need to reload CUPS if it's not in the path; CUPS
dumps raw PostScript to a new printer until it&#x
ent user' as a standard option
that could be enabled if needed.
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equest a
CC or X-Debbugs-CC to the list. By the way, if you use 'reportbug wnpp'
it will handle this for you automagically.
For now, I recommend just sending an email to debian-devel that lists
all of the ITPs along with the "standard info" you submitted to the
bts for
hing. Read Shakespeare, he used all sorts of
spellings...)
Now as for the behavior of the C locale where it's not defined by the
standards... well, leave me out of that flamefest :-)
Just my 2/100 Euro. (What are fractional Euros called in English
anyway? Cents?)
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On Apr 06, Anthony Towns wrote:
> pfaedit
The "RC" bug appears to be in an out-of-date version of the package.
Furthermore, it's been closed for over a week...
> popularity-contest
Fixed for several days in NMU.
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my CDs with ISOLINUX. If the
project wants to go off and Don Quixote towards imaginary windmills
because we haven't spent months testing something that's been in
production use for years, that's all the better for me, since I'll be
shipping better discs than .
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root disks and just use the cdrom for packages.
>
> For most of the machines I install, I expect the iso loader will be a
> big help.
Mike:
Is this a regression? (i.e. does the machine boot standard El Torito
cd images, like potato CD #1?)
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uess
is that we won't see a hard freeze until all the RC bugs are done, I
like the chances of any package in unstable making it into woody.
The only packages in unstable that aren't in woody (testing) are in
the update-excuses output:
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> So something doesn't make sense somewhere: if my package doesn't care
> which version of R it's building against, but R itself cares, then
> surely there should be some way of querying r-base-dev during the
> build process to enquire which ver
no intention of
making it DFSG-free), and even posts from RMS in the distribution.
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ect sir!"
Still, you might want to see if he'd be amenable to changing the license.
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, it
gets the best results and (b) it fixes the problem immediately.
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our Linux
implementations "Linux" :-p) instead of pursuing Unix branding.
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me license or to any
license that meets these guidelines."
> The license my not impose restrictions on third-party software that
> merely resides on the same system or distribution as the licensed
> software.
distribution -> medium
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DFSG... perhaps it would mean that the Social Contract as interpreted
by individual developers would govern what packages are acceptable,
subject to a majority vote to overrule that decision.)
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with the FBDev server on m68k. Dunno
if he had to patch it any or not...
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ve to use the HFS options for PowerPC too (so the code's
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uess that narrows it to PReP ;-)
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e" feature, which doesn't
appear to have worked in the original anyway. I've also included a
lot of wishlist items from the original bug command (as enumerated
above) and avoided most of the whoppers documented therein.
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" effort, it could
incorporate that too (perhaps in lieu of using "GNU/Linux", though I
guess that would be up to a majority of the paying participants in the
ad).
Any comments?
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(or at least was) notorious for this.
5. Packages that require a specific Debianization aid installed
(debhelper, debmake, yada...).
Some of these can be detected automatically (#5 could be discovered with a
grep on debian/rules, for example), but some can't.
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his
project... just a few (or, better yet, a bunch of) Debian CD vendors
pooling some resources to (a) give an in-kind contribution of free (to
SPI and everyone else) PR to Debian and (b) give ourselves some
publicity we simply couldn't afford to buy on our own.
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months ago that still hasn't cleared the bank.
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posed).
I'll have to sit down and hack on dpkg-dev to implement it, which may
overcome some of the objections.
Anyway, look in debian-policy's archives from the last 3-4 months.
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