Re: Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-08 Thread Tim Cutts
nt on the media required to perform a base install. Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Tim Cutts
d into flash ROM on the card, we wouldn't have a problem, so why is it different when it's held in volatile memory on the card? Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Tim Cutts
oot. Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Tim Cutts
On 11 Dec 2004, at 11:16 pm, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 11 décembre 2004 à 23:12 +, Tim Cutts a écrit : If Debian tries to be too rigid, we run a serious risk of consigning ourselves to history, because people just won't install Debian any more if it doesn't work out-of-the-b

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-02 Thread Tim Cutts
l much anyway, since the same idiotic companies usually have strict support matrices for the exact kernel version they support. 2.6 is still too new as far as most ISVs are concerned, and so Debian shouldn't lower the priority of work on 2.4 kernels too much just yet, in my opinion. Tim -- Dr

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Tim Cutts
ing formally supported by independent software vendors, since stable releases are what they depend on. Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Tim Cutts
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > people?? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > as proprietary SW vendors needing technical information about the way > to support Debian?

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-04 Thread Tim Cutts
(0x4000) and the lim daemon is the only part of LSF which is really architecture-specific, and even then it doesn't do anything really scary; it just reads stuff out of /proc. Hence the fact that their support matrix requires certain kernel versions. Regards, Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 10

Re: NoX idea

2005-03-02 Thread Tim Cutts
retty much the same list of suggestions as this thread to the admin doing our Debian desktop installs. Tim - -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iQEVAwUBQ

Re: Bug#338503: ITP: cvssuck -- inefficient cvs repository grabber using cvs command

2005-11-16 Thread Tim Cutts
On 11 Nov 2005, at 2:32 pm, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, CVSsuck is a mirroring tool for CVS repositories. Unlike other tools such as CVSup or rsync, it uses cvs command to access the repository. So, it works well with remote repositories without a special server or shell account. However it is

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-16 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15 Nov 2005, at 2:34 pm, Steve Langasek wrote: * The mail backlog that `will never be able to be delivered' was (as far as I can tell) all spam that chiark has been properly rejecting. No: there is nothing "proper" about rejecting mail

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2006-01-24 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22 Dec 2005, at 11:15 am, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Miquel van Smoorenburg] I tested this and it works fine. It's also a better solution, since several packages contain directories in /var/run and ofcourse they expect them to still exist after a

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-15 Thread Tim Cutts
On 14 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > It might be good if we would replace smail in hamm with exim. Exim should > > be the standard mailer for hamm: > > Exim doesn't provide UUCP capabilities *at all*, thus it is rather > useless for site

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-15 Thread Tim Cutts
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: > To make this clearer, the only thing that would happen it that exim would > be marked with priority 'important' and smail with priority 'extra'.. > > And yes, I think it'd be a good idea, assuming that exim's .forward syntax > is backward-compatible w

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-16 Thread Tim Cutts
On 16 Jun 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Ofcourse there also needs to be a file (LocalIP with sendmail) to define > IP ranges that may use your SMTP host as a relay - for customers that > use your host as smarthost (Eudora, pegasus, netscape, sendmail null > clients etc). Well, exim certai

Re: Debian's mail daemons

1997-06-16 Thread Tim Cutts
On 15 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Alexander Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > (I'd vote for exim if uucp is guaranteed to work) > > Ok, so what are the arguments for exim over qmail (at least why do you > prefer it?) > > I've heard arguments for qmail and exim over sendmail. qmail is

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-17 Thread Tim Cutts
On 16 Jun 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote: > I meant the possibility for a customer to request the ISP exim to reject > any mail that comes from, say, savetrees.com. You know, what AOL does, > except I want individual customers to be able to configure individual > lists. I don't think that is po

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-04 Thread Tim Cutts
ages which conflict with each other for no reason. In this case, that's fair enough, because they're two variants of the same thing, but I don't think this sort of thing should be done in the general case. Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-08 Thread Tim Cutts
On 4 May 2005, at 6:39 pm, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 04:35:25PM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote: On 1 May 2005, at 8:53 am, Wouter Verhelst wrote: True. However, it does no harm to add the conflicts, while it does make it easier for your users. When presented with a bug in another

Re: distributed batch processing

2005-05-11 Thread Tim Cutts
ndamentally broken (and it got removed from woody as a result). GridEngine is rather different in its organisation, but a lot of people swear by it. Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: distributed batch processing

2005-05-13 Thread Tim Cutts
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=56931&archive=yes Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: distributed batch processing

2005-05-18 Thread Tim Cutts
it's less non-free than LSF. :-) Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159

Re: launchd and lookupd

2005-06-11 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2 May 2005, at 9:14 am, martin f krafft wrote: Apple has just released launchd, a init/cron/watchdog/etc. replacement. Has anyone looked at it? It seems like a bit of work to port it to Linux, but then it's also possibly a great tool which could

Re: Silly Packaging Problem

2006-08-09 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8 Aug 2006, at 10:48 pm, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Michael S. Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.08.2239 +0100]: The next time there's an upgrade for courier-authdaemon, won't it overwrite my version of /etc/courier/authdaemonrc with i

Re: Deploying configuration as packages

2006-08-31 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30 Aug 2006, at 7:23 pm, Josselin Mouette wrote: First question to the developers, what are you using for deploying configuration on your servers? cfengine. Currently being used to manage configuration files on about 1,500 machines here (m

Re: arches and etch

2006-11-03 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31 Oct 2006, at 3:07 am, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/06 14:43, Bill Allombert wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: [snip] Because we never had ? We have dropped

Re: arches and etch

2006-12-18 Thread Tim Cutts
On 3 Nov 2006, at 5:30 pm, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 04:55:04PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: The 486 was the first CPU in the X86 family to have an integral FPU. Only the 486DX; the 486SX didn't. Being thoroughly pedantic, yes it did, but it was disabled i

Re: Downgrading the priority of nfs-utils [was: Re: Upgrading the priority of ucf]

2006-12-18 Thread Tim Cutts
On 6 Nov 2006, at 9:26 am, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 02 novembre 2006 à 05:22 -0800, Josh Triplett a écrit : I would suggest b); reducing the "standard" set of packages seems like a feature, it won't break upgrades (if installed, the package will stay installed), and new installs don'

Re: Downgrading the priority of nfs-utils

2006-12-18 Thread Tim Cutts
On 7 Nov 2006, at 3:40 am, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Le jeudi 02 novembre 2006 à 05:22 -0800, Josh Triplett a écrit : I would suggest b); reducing the "standard" set of packages seems like a feature,

Re: Downgrading the priority of nfs-utils

2006-12-18 Thread Tim Cutts
On 7 Nov 2006, at 11:17 pm, Brian May wrote: "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED] tuebingen.de> writes: Goswin> But wouldn't you be surprised if "mount -tnfs server:/path Goswin> /local/path" suddenly wouldn't work anymore in a fresh Goswin> install? Not really, no

Re: status of disk i/o per process

2007-01-09 Thread Tim Cutts
On 31 Dec 2006, at 6:34 pm, liran tal wrote: Thanks for the reply Steinar. The blktrace is a tool and I was wondering if there's something in / proc itself that I can use to get some info regarding the disk i/o per process. Yes, there is. echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump causes the kernel

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-17 Thread Tim Cutts
On 15 May 2006, at 1:13 pm, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> More generally, Perl modules to send mail rather than using /usr/sbin/sendmail are often useful with web applications (or other applications that need security isolation) that are running in a chroo

Re: Section of -dev packages

2006-05-18 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 May 2006, at 10:46 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I found this more instructive: $ apt-cache search -n .\*-dev\$ | sed 's/ -.*//' | xargs apt-cache show | grep \^Section: | sort | uniq -c 1 Section: admin 1 Section: comm

Bug#290536: ITP: acedb -- Object-oriented genome database system

2005-01-14 Thread Tim Cutts
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: acedb Version : 4.9t Upstream Author : Ed Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.acedb.org License : GPL, portions are LGPL Description : Object-oriented genome database system ACeDB (originall

Re: LVM packages up for adoption

2005-01-18 Thread Tim Cutts
.. co-maintaining sounds like a sensible thing to do. Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts Informatics Systems Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute GPG: 1024D/E3134233 FE3D 6C73 BBD6 726A A3F5 860B 3CDD 3F56 E313 4233 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: LVM packages up for adoption

2005-01-18 Thread Tim Cutts
On 18 Jan 2005, at 4:06 pm, Patrick Caulfield wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 03:46:18PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: On 17 Jan 2005, at 5:42 pm, Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:28:56AM +, Patrick Caulfield wrote: lvm2 - in active development, upstream helpful but often busy

Re: long long support on all archs?

2005-08-31 Thread Tim Cutts
On 31 Aug 2005, at 9:54 am, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Ondrej Sury] I am unsure if such patch would be accepted upstream, since Cyrus runs on more then Linux and *BSD variants. Does Solaris/AIX/whatever(tm) has ? I believe both SOlaris and AIX got it. It is a POSIX standard header. C

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-02-20 Thread Tim Cutts
The colors were introduced for distinction, to speed up hopping from bug to bug of a certain type. I decided against coloring the legend because it (probably, didn't try) looks ugly and because in my view it was not important which color ITP is. But that's just my view. I plan to open up t

Debian's use in the Human Genome Project mentioned in the The Guardian

2008-03-11 Thread Tim Cutts
A couple of weeks ago The Guardian ran a story about computing and DNA sequencing where I work at the Sanger Institute, and it's nice to note that they actually mention that we use Debian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/28/research.computing Just thought you might like to read

Re: Debian's use in the Human Genome Project mentioned in the The Guardian

2008-03-12 Thread Tim Cutts
On 12 Mar 2008, at 8:15 am, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:28:31PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: Just thought you might like to read that as a break from the flame wars. Thanks, this kind of interruptions have indeed chance of breaking flamewars :-) However, you might be

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-03-14 Thread Tim Cutts
On 13 Mar 2008, at 9:33 pm, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Tim Cutts wrote: A minor niggle, but the colours you have chosen are not good for the 5% of your male viewers who have deuteranopia or protanopia, the two most common forms of colour-blindness. I don't have either condition m

Re: table view wnpp page now on wnpp.debian.net

2008-03-17 Thread Tim Cutts
On 17 Mar 2008, at 3:35 am, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Tim Cutts wrote: Hm, can you help with creating a good set of colors? There are a number of programs around which can help with this. I use Color Oracle: http://colororacle.cartography.ch/ It sits in a Gnome panel, and will temporarily

am-utils and recent kernels

2008-05-07 Thread Tim Cutts
Hi people, I'm here to ask for your thoughts about what I should do with the am- utils automounter in Lenny. Recent kernels are more picky about some aspects of NFS, which has exposed a bug in am-utils. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479884 http://bugzilla.kernel.or

Re: Automatic debiian installation

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Cutts
On 7 Jun 2008, at 1:37 pm, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [sorry for cross-posting, I guess this thread should move away from debian-devel, but I'm not subscribed to any of the others] Hello, I would like to use a system to install automatically all my debian pc. But i don't know wich could be

Bug#407446: [Fwd: Re: Bug#407446: general: automatic mount network share in filesystem.]

2007-01-26 Thread Tim Cutts
On 24 Jan 2007, at 10:08 am, Jean-Michel wrote: [am-utils] This seems to works with NFS. But what's about Samba? Out of the box, no, but it can do so if you create your maps correctly; am-utils supports using arbitrary mount programs, so you can tell it how to use smbmount, for example.

Re: update on binary upload restrictions

2007-01-30 Thread Tim Cutts
On 25 Jan 2007, at 1:23 am, James Troup wrote: (a) we don't currently have the buildd infrastructure for this - it would require a minimum of 2 (preferably 3) machines dedicated to being i386 buildds. It would also make i386 uploads much more sensitive to delays and really requ

Re: Debian in Sanger (Re: update on binary upload restrictions)

2007-02-01 Thread Tim Cutts
On 1 Feb 2007, at 1:00 am, Charles Plessy wrote: (Sorry for the noise, I reply on the list since Sanger's mail server thinks I am a spammer. Does it? I am very interested to hear that Sanger is using Debian on thousands of machines. Do not hesitate to tell us a bit more on [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Debian in Sanger (Re: update on binary upload restrictions)

2007-02-01 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1 Feb 2007, at 1:30 pm, Steffen Moeller wrote: Have you installed the popularity-contest package? No. The network admin didn't like the idea of all the mail messages. I think I might just ignore him though. :-) There is probably no poin

Re: Debian in Sanger (Re: update on binary upload restrictions)

2007-02-02 Thread Tim Cutts
On 2 Feb 2007, at 10:28 am, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:10:56PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: What I'd actually like is some sort of non-root packaging system so that users could build software with decent dependency checking for their shared software infrastructure. Can

Re: Debian in Sanger (Re: update on binary upload restrictions)

2007-02-06 Thread Tim Cutts
On 6 Feb 2007, at 11:22 am, Wouter Verhelst wrote: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/install/xe_on_debian.html (dunno whether that's what you need, but Oracle does support their products on Debian these days, if I understand them correctly) Yes, I know about that (and indeed have gi

Re: I *love* goodbye-microsoft.com

2007-02-25 Thread Tim Cutts
On 24 Feb 2007, at 12:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strangely, I feel a tiny pang of guilt. I now have an apple box for the first time in decades. One of the main deciding factors was to buy unixy goodness :-) That was my main reason for buying an Apple four or so years ago. but also

Re: Alpha for developers?

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Cutts
On 10 Apr 2007, at 1:54 am, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Bernd, On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:27:05PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Sam Hocevar mentioned on his platform that there is no Alpha machine available for developers. As we have a few standing around in a cellar at work I'd be willing to

Large static datasets like genomes (Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?)

2007-06-06 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jun 2007, at 9:47 pm, Roger Leigh wrote: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:28:53PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:09:07AM +0200, Michael Hanke a ?crit : My question is now: Is it r

Re: Large static datasets like genomes (Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?)

2007-06-06 Thread Tim Cutts
On 6 Jun 2007, at 12:00 pm, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Tim Cutts wrote: ... (some interesting points) There were many valid points in your mail but even if the issue was raised at the example of biological data it is a more general issue for others as well. It might be that

Re: Large static datasets like genomes (Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?)

2007-06-11 Thread Tim Cutts
On 10 Jun 2007, at 6:38 pm, Steffen Moeller wrote: On Sunday 10 June 2007 17:20:54 you wrote: On 9 Jun 2007, at 11:27 am, Steffen Moeller wrote: Once a (computational) biologist starts a new project, (s)he wants the latest data no matter what and anything older than three months (or a week so

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-12 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11 Jun 2007, at 9:22 pm, Josselin Mouette wrote: You seem to strongly believe the cheap desktop hard disk is different from the server hard disk. This is entirely wrong. Apart from 10k and 15k rpm disks, these are all strictly the same. Only the

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2 Dec 2007, at 2:21 am, Daniel Schepler wrote: I finally got through the test builds of all the source packages in sid for i386 using dpkg-buildpackage -j3 on a dual core machine. The results as before are at http://people.debian.org/~schepl

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3 Dec 2007, at 12:43 pm, Daniel Schepler wrote: Control files of package am-utils: lines which differ (wdiff format) Depends: libamu4 (= 6.1.5-7), portmap, {+libamu4,+} libc6 (