Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-21 Thread Rahul Jain
reason to compile a custom kernel image, then the conclusion is clear. Unless you care about performace. Which is the main reason to use different packages for each CPU type. -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\- http://linux.rice.edu/~rahu

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Rahul Jain
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:09:12AM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:28:02PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > > Unless you care about performace. Which is the main reason to use different > > packages for each CPU type. > > I compile my own kernels, and have

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Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Rahul Jain
need to be setgid? I think it's terrible to have any user able to burn or screw up a burn... why can't they use sudo or su? -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\- http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul -=- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -/- <-

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Rahul Jain
n > to a CD. Also, X authority stuff is messy to transfer between > users. I don't see how sgid cdrom will help here. Just make it non-sgid, and if they're a member of group cdrom, they can burn a cd, period. X authority is easy, just su, don't s

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-26 Thread Rahul Jain
erstand why MMX or 3dnow apps can't be used if the kernel isn't compiled to support them. Only the K7 configuration adds 3dnow support, but 3dnow in mpg123 works (or at least seems to) on my k6-3 with k6 chosen for the cpu type in the kernel config. -- -> -

Re: Problem with installing Postgres throught APT

2001-04-26 Thread Rahul Jain
merged, so at least it will help there. -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\- http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul -=- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -/- <- -> -/- "I never could get

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-26 Thread Rahul Jain
DE drives cannot do disconnect/reconnect like SCSI drives can. The best way would be to have one IRQ used for each IDE drive, which is pretty tough to do on an x86 system. Hopefully your BIOS can allow this sort of setup, since IRQ sharing still causes a bit of a performance hit. -- -

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-27 Thread Rahul Jain
faster. The best part is > that the card only costs about $25. Yep, but the problem there is figuring out how to get each channel on a unique IRQ. With some BIOSes, it's just not possible. -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- ->

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-27 Thread Rahul Jain
run > on it's own, I think that this is a limitation of CPU and bus performance > (which will be the main factor when you have 8 drives in an array). Are you sure they two channels are not sharing an IRQ? -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-29 Thread Rahul Jain
e there should be meta-packages for packages that have embedded version numbers like that. Or maybe the build-dep on libstdc++2.10-dev indicates that the package relies on some g++ brokenness ;) -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\- htt

Re: Gnome bug 94684Subject: Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-29 Thread Rahul Jain
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:39:42PM +0800, zhaoway wrote: > > Bureaucracy is integral to an organization such as Debian. > > I beg to disagree. :) Maybe we need a subcommitte to determine the validity of that statement ;) -- -> -/-

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Rahul Jain
es (which I don't think > master provides). I think someone was working on ETRN recently, which is also > supported by fetchmail... hrm... having fetchmail ssh in and grab the mail directly from the spool would be kind of cool... :) -- -> -/-

Re: SGI's xfs

2001-05-02 Thread Rahul Jain
e SGI acl package, which I don't believe has been put into unstable by Nathan yet. However, the source from SGI is debianized, so building debs should be quite simple. -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\- http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul -=

Re: SGI's xfs

2001-05-03 Thread Rahul Jain
t; > and how do you solve the requirement to use gcc version 2.91.66 > for compiling? the gcc 2.95 in unstable works great. it's gcc 2.96 that's the real problematic compiler. (of course) -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\

Re: Bug#95430 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-03 Thread Rahul Jain
7; > x- > -x > Identical behavior with zsh from unstable here. -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- -> -\- http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul -=- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -/- <- -> -/- "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." - HHGTTG

Re: debian.org

2001-05-06 Thread Rahul Jain
viewer? > > If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. > > Your opinion will be appreciated. > How interesting. I wonder what drugs posessed them to think we'd be interested in this... :) -- -> -/- - Rahul Jain -

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-06 Thread Rahul Jain
hat. > These are the only errors I get... This must be some bug in gcc on powerpc as > it compiles cleanly on i386 (and from looking on ftp.debian.org on other > platforms also). I don't even have idea how to bite this... I'm only on x86 here, so all

Re: RaiserFS PPC status

2001-05-07 Thread Rahul Jain
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:00:34PM +0200, Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:58:02PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:03:43AM +0200, Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote: ... > > you should stick to gcc 2.95 for compiling the kerne

Re: [users] Re: Where's lame

2001-05-07 Thread Rahul Jain
bian.org/90091 > > Maybe looking on the web for "unofficial apt sources" will help you > find some .debs (or should I say ".debz"? ;-) the offical lame sources (latest beta) include a debian/ directory, so building a deb is as easy as debian/rules binary (a