Re: software raid question/confusion

2004-12-15 Thread Sam Morris
what process is calling mdadm-raid. Please advise. --David Dougall You if you delete all the links that match "/etc/rc?.d/S??mdadm-raid" then "/etc/init.d/mdadm-raid start" won't be invoked at boot. Regards, -- Sam Morris

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-09 Thread Sam Morris
f the places where the old devfs is superior to udev. ;) > Regards > mike -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 Fingerprint 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Bug#348209: ITP: smbnetfs -- User-space filesystem for SMB/NMB (Windows) network servers and shares

2006-01-15 Thread Sam Morris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: smbnetfs Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Mikhail Kshevetskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://smbnetfs.airm.net/ License : GPL Description : User-spac

Re: klik, loop mounts, and insecurity [was: statement from one of the klik project members]

2006-01-20 Thread Sam Morris
se klik on the one machine? Either way, it seems quite artificially limiting. If I have an 8th user who wants to use klik, what do I do? Write to lkml. ;) AFAIK Linux only supports eight loopback mounts at a time. This won't be a problem once FUSE becomes more widespread. - Matt -- Sam

Re: How to purge linux-image-2.6.14

2006-01-25 Thread Sam Morris
package. Regards. Cesare. PS - why do packages without any config files get into the config-files state in the first place? :) -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mplayer 1.0pre7

2005-04-25 Thread Sam Morris
ope it's accepted into the archive soon! -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-14 Thread Sam Morris
n over those in the GPL. Obviously, I'm assuming that we are redistributing Firefox under the terms of the GPL because IIRC the MPL is not DFSG-free. /usr/share/doc/mozilla-firefox/copyright would seem to indicate Debian distributes Firefox under the MPL. -- Sam Morris http://robots

Re: Question regarding "offensive" material

2005-06-15 Thread Sam Morris
omplained about that "offensive" material. Perhaps maintainers should publish PICS ratings[0] for each of their packages, which can be placed in the package control information, or incorporated into a debtags offensiveness facet? ;) [0] <http://www.w3.org/PICS/> -- Sam Morris ht

Re: cdrtools

2006-08-14 Thread Sam Morris
oon become a thing of the past. <http://lwn.net/Articles/193516/> indicates that future versions of the kernel will allow userspace to control the list of SCSI commands that are filtered. The cdrecord package can simply empty this list during bootup. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 10

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

2006-08-14 Thread Sam Morris
ds on the size/complexity of the software and your familiarity with it. To answer your question 5, if you think other users might find the software useful then go for it! :) -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSU

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-26 Thread Sam Morris
when Sarge was released. Half of userland would > not fit this hardware, so who cares. How do other long-lived distributions handle this problem? How does one install RHEL 4 on such a machine? -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-27 Thread Sam Morris
. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Sam Morris
. There are >> less and less things that cannot be played by either gstreamer or xine. >> Which both have a *much* saner design, too. > > This is out of scope, however I also have much stuff that I cannot play > on neither of these, but can on Mplayer. And I don't

Bug#388586: /etc/profile contains PATH=/usr/bin/X11...

2006-09-22 Thread Sam Morris
reassign 388586 base-files found 388586 3.1.16 thanks /etc/profile is installed by the postinst of the base-files package; reassigning appropriately. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 signature.asc Description

Re: Starting daemons after install not always what the user wants, but what/how to do ?

2006-09-25 Thread Sam Morris
for this functionality should be split as above. For example, fetchmail-daemon (containing the init script) which depends on fetchmail; spamassassin-spamd depending on spamassassin; bittorrent-tracker depending on bittorrent; and so on. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078

Re: gdm/Gnome/KDE and device permissions

2006-10-11 Thread Sam Morris
possible to e.g., add the user to the plugdev group when they plug in a USB stick. You'd have to add them to plugdev when they log in. I think HAL/PolicyTool/pam_foreground will eventually give us a (slow?) solution to problems like this, but it's some way off at the moment. Being able to a

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

2006-10-15 Thread Sam Morris
ee. It is unfortunate because of the user confusion that it will cause. IMO, the firefox package should not be renamed to iceweasel. The package 'iceweasel' should be a package of the Gnuzilla project of the same name. > Kind regards -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP ke

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

2006-10-16 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:43:51 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > "Sam Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It is unfortunate because of the user confusion that it will >> cause. IMO, the firefox package should not be renamed to iceweasel. > > If it's not

Re: trouble finding source for mail-notification on i386

2006-10-16 Thread Sam Morris
og.Debian for the exact reason why it was rebuilt. > > thanks, > Tim -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: default ext3 options

2006-11-14 Thread Sam Morris
an existing filesystem. However, to get the benefit of the indexing for already-created directories, e2fsck -D should be run after dir_index has been added; therefore it's probably best to just document the procedure in the release notes. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024

Re: Gnome crashing/freezing on testing machine

2006-12-03 Thread Sam Morris
f course, it might be something totally different. ;) -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libesd0 v libesd-alsa0

2006-12-20 Thread Sam Morris
through _another_ release where users will have to put up with programs hogging their sound cards, especially since alsa-lib now has software mixing configured by default. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 --

Re: libesd0 v libesd-alsa0

2006-12-20 Thread Sam Morris
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:55:03 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 20 décembre 2006 à 11:33 +0000, Sam Morris a écrit : >> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:15:47 +0300, Vladimir Kozlov wrote: >> > Somehow I had libesd0 installed while I have alsa as well, and this >> >

Bug#405300: ITP: pyxplot -- A command-line plotting package that produces publication-quality output

2007-01-02 Thread Sam Morris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package name: pyxplot Version : 0.5.8 Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.pyxplot.org.uk/ License

Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog

2006-03-30 Thread Sam Morris
by the hacks necessary to start udev immediatly after the package has been installed, rather than after the system is rebooted. -- vbi -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

2006-04-09 Thread Sam Morris
000 || uid >63434) unless it is redirected with /etc/aliases? cu andreas Or just redirect all such mail to root, that way you don't have to keep /etc/aliases up to date for every package installed that creates a user. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 341

Re: locales broken?

2006-04-21 Thread Sam Morris
hell script (that gets sourced at some point during login). Why not place a script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d that sources it? It can also be sourced in /etc/profile to cover text-mode logins. Maybe it's too late for this anyway, now. :( -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 341

Re: News from the python policy transition

2006-06-29 Thread Sam Morris
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:25:17 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le mer 28 juin 2006 23:20, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >> So you don't have any excuse to not update your packages any more. >> About 60% of the Python modules have already been updated, but 109 >> are left to be done: >> http://bugs.debia

Re: exim4 & spf: #377034 & #258210

2006-07-06 Thread Sam Morris
, ignore it(?) $ bash debian/create-custom-package spf $ fakeroot debian/rules builddaemonpackages=exim4-daemon-spf buildbasepackages=no binary You will then have an exim4-daemon-spf package built in the parent directory. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-06 Thread Sam Morris
way ? Such a package would cause large parts of the archive to be demoted into contrib. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#320213: ITP: pymsnt -- MSN transport for Jabber

2005-07-27 Thread Sam Morris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: pymsnt Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : James Bunton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://msn-transport.jabberstudio.org/ License : GPL Description : MSN t

Re: apt-get in Sid broke sound and /etc/modules?

2005-10-12 Thread Sam Morris
, and look up your card's Vendor and Device IDs in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.pcimap. If the corresponding module is not being loaded then file a bug against udev. IBM T42 .Alejandro -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219

Bug#466120: ITP: bash-doc-reference -- The Bash Reference Manual

2008-02-16 Thread Sam Morris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package name: bash-doc-reference Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : Free Software Foundation, Inc. URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ L

Re: Finding installed packages which aren't part of debian

2008-03-15 Thread Sam Morris
und in _any_ repository known to apt. If instead you want to find non-Debian packages, try: 'aptitude search ~S~i\!~Odebian'. That will also work on sarge. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSU

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Sam Morris
ng by default so that event sounds in apps like gossip would work. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Where should DLL files go?

2009-08-25 Thread Sam Morris
t much matter, as long as the people who need to find the DLL can do so easily. Thoughts? -- Sam Morris https://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-10 Thread Sam Morris
e Model (which can be found at http:// www.climate.be/jcm) it failed to work with openjdk. > My personal feeling is that we either need to remove it or fix it up. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Barry deFreese -- Sam Morris https://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA0

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-10 Thread Sam Morris
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:14:20 +, Sam Morris wrote: > On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:44:21 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: >> There has also been some similar discussions in Ubuntu with some users >> reporting that some web sites and packages don't work with openjdk but >>

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-28 Thread Sam Morris
ars now. Setting an equivalence > between localhost and the hostname causes all manner of problems due to > hostname canonicalization. Details in <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316099>. I do wonder, however, why the system hostname has to appear in /etc/hosts

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-28 Thread Sam Morris
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:03:12 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2009-12-28 23:41:38 +0000, Sam Morris wrote: >> Details in <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316099>. I >> do wonder, however, why the system hostname has to appear in /etc/hosts >> at all?

Bug#412399: ITP: islsm -- Driver for Prism54 "softmac" 802.11 wireless LAN adapters

2007-02-25 Thread Sam Morris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package name: islsm Version : git-20061017 Upstream Author : Jean-Baptiste Note, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Feyd, Denis Vlasenko, M

Bug#415641: ITP: xchat-idle -- XChat plugin that marks you /away and /back automatically

2007-03-20 Thread Sam Morris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package name: xchat-idle Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://robots.org.uk/src/xcha

Re: video codecs in HTML 5

2007-03-23 Thread Sam Morris
ys, Microsoft will ignore it and only implement Windows Media formats, which everyone will use, and we'll be screwed. :( -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: video codecs in HTML 5

2007-03-24 Thread Sam Morris
x27;t matter if is transformed to > on-the-fly. I thought that HTML was going in the other direction--deprecating in favour of the already-existing and perfectly logical . I really can't see what the point of this tag is in the first place. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-17 Thread Sam Morris
age. :) BTW, is the data used to generate http://popcon.debian.org/stat/ release.png available from anywhere? There are now so many versions that the legend gets cut off, which is a shame. I guess I'm looking for historical versions of (the top of) . -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/

Re: Debian base system package list

2007-05-15 Thread Sam Morris
opts to activate any 'tasks' during installation then even more packages will be installed. See '/usr/share/tasksel/debian- tasks.desc' for the list of tasks, and '/usr/share/doc/tasksel/README.gz' to see how to interpret the contents of the debian-tasks.desc file. -- Sam Morr

Re: Making a multi-binary-kernel-module-package

2007-05-29 Thread Sam Morris
h 'dpkg-source -x mga-vid_*.dsc'. (This is just a script that extracts the tar archive and applies the patch). You can do all of that automatically if you run 'apt-get source vga-mod'. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-20 Thread Sam Morris
units that volume sizes are displayed in remain baase-10)... :) -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Annoying GTK2 file dialogue - where to file the BUG?

2008-08-09 Thread Sam Morris
ult GNOME theme then things will look much better. You can do this by running gnome-appearance-properties which appears to work by fiddling with the values of the gconf keys under '/desktop/gnome/interface'. > Regards > Rudi -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP ke

Re: Annoying GTK2 file dialogue - where to file the BUG?

2008-08-09 Thread Sam Morris
the browsing user. In fact, there is already a bug about this: <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ show_bug.cgi?id=325095> -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-11 Thread Sam Morris
ere will always be some programs that don't look at the TMPDIR environment variable and directly use /tmp. Isn't there some fancy thing in current kernels that allows /tmp to be mounted individually for each user? -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 E

Re: Etch->Lenny upgrade mutes some/many old laptops.

2008-08-27 Thread Sam Morris
in the future it will hopefully be possible for udev(?) to get the 'missing firmware' event from the kernel; udev will be able to tell HAL(?) about the event, and HAL will be able to announce the missing firmware on the system message bus. Then a program that runs as part of the user&

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: Summarizing the choices

2008-11-09 Thread Sam Morris
tified, is it legal for Debian to distribute them? They seem to fall into the category of DFSG-free-but-illegal software such as dvdcss or the patented software that we refuse to distribute. So unless the project bends a little here, users are never going to get working hardware no matter what h

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: Summarizing the choices

2008-11-09 Thread Sam Morris
at the installer, or something hooked up to udev/hal, etc., will be able to automatically install the packages that the user requires. Currently, the user needs to be an expert Linux user in order to recognise the symptoms of missing firmware, and then go and track that firmware down and manually in

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-06 Thread Sam Morris
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:06:26 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >putty > => hotwire, a plain terminal… According to <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/ port-unix-gtk2.html>, PuTTY trunk will build against GTK+ 2

Bug#435020: ITP: p54 -- Driver for Prism54 "softmac" 802.11 wireless LAN adapters

2007-07-28 Thread Sam Morris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package name: p54 Version : 20070728-6e46e62 Upstream Author : Jean-Baptiste Note, NetChip Technology, Inc., David Brownell, Mich

Re: Bug#435020: ITP: p54 -- Driver for Prism54 "softmac" 802.11 wireless LAN adapters

2007-07-28 Thread Sam Morris
ss hardware working under Linux, and if it lets upstream get _any_ useful feedback or bug reports. PS, please CC me in your responses as I read debian-devel though Gmane and may miss out on your messages. :) -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-01 Thread Sam Morris
in all our documentation, all the documentation they find elsewhere on the web and in our mailing list archives, all the conversations they have on IRC while trying to find help, etc... -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FD

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Sam Morris
to get rid of oh so non-free firmware. Could someone *please* look at #401482? gdb has been totally useless on i386 for almost a year now, and no one has responded to my bug report that includes a patch for the issue? -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA

Re: Enabling and installing of "risky" ("patented") codecs - made easy

2007-10-23 Thread Sam Morris
see why d-i can't enable the source by default. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Sam Morris
use gethostbyname(). Please, provide better way. The admin should supply it in the program's configuration, since only the admin is able to know the correct value. -- Sam Morris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Sam Morris
o/.net second. > > I don’t like the name either, but can you think of a better one? We > could use “mono”, but it’s the implementation name. 'clr' (common language runtime)? It's the acronym that MS uses quite a bit. Or 'msclr'? 'dotnetclr'? --

Re: abiword package lacks maintenance

2009-03-22 Thread Sam Morris
>> package nearly unusable on amd64 [2]. > >> [1] http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/ [2] >> http://bugs.debian.org/514525 As the submitter of that bug, I'd certainly appreciate it very much if a fixed version would make the next Lenny point release. :) -- Sam Morr

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

2012-08-05 Thread Sam Morris
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:16:32 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 18:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : >> This is expected in the absence of 3D acceleration, which is not yet >> supported in qemu so far as I know. VirtualBox is supposed to support >> it, but a standard instal

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

2012-08-05 Thread Sam Morris
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:58:24 +, Sam Morris wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:16:32 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 18:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : >>> This is expected in the absence of 3D acceleration, which is not yet >>> supp

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

2012-08-06 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:26 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:54:16 +0000, Sam Morris wrote: > > > I figured it out. The instructions at <http://www.mesa3d.org/ > > llvmpipe.html> seem to work. I had some difficulty getting > > LD_LIBRARY_PAT

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-17 Thread Sam Morris
| grep 'DLL Name'» will output a list of dependant DLLs. The bad ones to look for match at least «msvc[pr] [0-9]+.dll» or «mfc[0-9]+.dll» (case-insensitively). I'd do this myself, but I don't have the hard drive space nor the bandwidth here, sorry. Regards, -- Sam Morri

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-17 Thread Sam Morris
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:35:07 +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Sam Morris wrote: > >>>> > So yes, we have the problem for precompiled windows DLLs in a >>>> > source package. >>>> >>>> Interes

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

2012-09-26 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 12:36 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:45:31 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > > > IIRC I built mesa with 3.0. I'll take a look at the patches. I also just > > realised that I didn't run the X server with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set...

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Sam Morris
r had been a server in a rack on the other side of the planet), > and gave me several problems related to switching from X11 to vt and > vice versa. If you haven't already, please file bugs for these issues so that they can be investigated and fixed. -- Sam Morris https://robots.org

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-18 Thread Sam Morris
ard, it was *never* easy to spot. I recall at least 30 mixer sliders and 15 switches, most of which did nothing except when they made audio output stop working. God help you if you ever wanted to hook up surround sound kit! Just looking at <http://haakoh.at.ifi.uio.no/emu10k1/> bri

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-18 Thread Sam Morris
ting audio playback, of course). And, having wasted far too many hours of my life screwing around with .asoundrc, I can say with certainty that there is nothing simple (or indeed, even usally documented) about the contents of that file. :) (Apologies for not rolling this in to my previous reply)

Re: [RFC] locking down rsyslog.service

2023-10-11 Thread Sam Morris
if running without CAP_SYS_ADMIN, so for it to be effective you'd have to set it explicitly. -- Sam Morris <https://robots.org.uk/> PGP: rsa4096/CAAA AA1A CA69 A83A 892B 1855 D20B 4202 5CDA 27B9

Re: use long keyid-format in gpg.conf (Re: Key collisions in the wild

2016-08-10 Thread Sam Morris
9EE6, created: 2010-09-14 > > > voila. FYI, --search-key looks like this by default in 2.1. And when listing keys and in other operations, the output is even more verbose: $ gpg2 -k sam@robots pub rsa4096 2014-04-08 [SC] [expires: 2019-04-07]

Re: Naming of network devices - how to improve it in buster

2017-07-27 Thread Sam Morris
ssage in journalctl: > > Failed to add dependency on foo.link, ignoring: Invalid argument You'd have to use BindsTo=sys-subsystem-net-devices-blah.device. But BindsTo= and device units are a bit fiddly, see <https://github.com/ systemd/systemd/issues/4413>. -- Sam Morris <https://robots.org.uk/> PGP: rsa4096/CAAA AA1A CA69 A83A 892B 1855 D20B 4202 5CDA 27B9

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Sam Morris
] ExecStart=/usr/bin/foo --disable-unauthenticated-remote-admin-feature The user will only notice this change and copy it into their own local override if they use apt-listchanges, or periodically run systemd-delta. -- Sam Morris https://robots.org.uk/ PGP key dsa1024/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1

Re: Bug#808414: ITP: ms-sys -- Program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records

2015-12-19 Thread Sam Morris
than XP one". http://sourceforge.net/p/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g/ci/5efc87cce89e46b73af5467da21a527fcc0f5043/log/?path=/ntfsprogs/boot.c If boot_array isn't an independent implementation (doubtful IMO due to the comments & the lack of real source code) then it too contains proprietary code taken from Windows. -- Sam Morris https://robots.org.uk/ PGP: rsa4096/5CDA27B9 CAAA AA1A CA69 A83A 892B 1855 D20B 4202 5CDA 27B9