Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises. On 09/07/2010 08:03 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > The concept of a "single user" GT.M is not meaningful. GT.M is > inherently multi-user. Well, one needs to keep apart th

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises. On 09/07/2010 07:53 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > Writabilty of files: I prefer for an installed version of GT.M to not > have *any* writable files, even if root-owned and

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > Unicode version: GT.M itself requires ICU version 3.6 or higher. > However, there is a defect in the way Debian packages ICU, by putting > the version number in the package name (e.g., libicu36). So, there is > no way to define a

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > The concept of a "single user" GT.M is not meaningful. GT.M is > inherently multi-user. Well, one needs to keep apart the concepts. Of course, the database engine itself is (like PostgreSQL) inherently multi-(DB)-user and will alway

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > Writabilty of files: I prefer for an installed version of GT.M to not > have *any* writable files, even if root-owned and only owner-writable. How does GT.M persist data ? Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > Writabilty of files: I prefer for an installed version of GT.M to not > have *any* writable files, even if root-owned and only owner-writable. Debian policy has a read-only mounted /usr partition in mind. While in practice this is

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 01:59:33PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Preference for no root owned files in the .deb distribution files: I have a > > preference for not including any files owned by root in the .deb > > distribution > > files.  This makes it easy for anyone who wants to analyze a pac

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Bhaskar, here are two short comments about unpacking binary packages and dependance on libicu. Le Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar a écrit : > > Preference for no root owned files in the .deb distribution files: I have a > preference for not including any files owned by

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-06 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
I am catching up on e-mail and will try to respond to all the issues thoughtfully discussed by Andreas and Alan in this single response. Preference for no root owned files in the .deb distribution files: I have a preference for not including any files owned by root in the .deb distribution file

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-08-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 06:08:43PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > Andreas, I took your name off the addressee list to avoid duplication. Thanks. > [KSB] I agree that we should target Unstable first. Note that the > bootstrap requires a release of GT.M, not the current release of GT.M > (agai

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-08-03 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Comments below. Look for [KSB]. Andreas, I took your name off the addressee list to avoid duplication. Alan, Jon and Mike, let me know if you want me to leave your names off. Regards -- Bhaskar GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises. On 08/03/2010 02:11 PM, Andreas Tille