Re: RFS: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:11:04AM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > On 09/05/27 11:03 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... > > Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package 'febootstrap'. > > > > My Debian package is available here: > > > > http://www.annexia.org/tmp/debian/ > > Is t

Re: RFS: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 09/05/27 11:03 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... > Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package 'febootstrap'. > > My Debian package is available here: > > http://www.annexia.org/tmp/debian/ Is the latest verison of the package is in the febootstrap directory? I noticed from the p

ITR: febootstrap [Was: Re: RFS: febootstrap]

2009-05-27 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 09/05/27 19:11 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:20:27PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > > On 09/05/27 11:03 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... > > > Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package 'febootstrap'. > > > > > Are there compelling reasons

Re: RFS: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:20:27PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > On 09/05/27 11:03 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... > > Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package 'febootstrap'. > > > > As the name may suggest, it's a program like 'debootstrap' that > > bootstraps Fedora root

Re: RFS: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
Hi Daniel, On 09/05/27 09:25 -0700, Daniel Moerner said ... > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag > wrote: >> Are there compelling reasons why one would want to use febootstrap as opposed >> to mach? [1]. > > The last upstream release of mach was on April 19, 2007. The list of

Re: RFS: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: Are there compelling reasons why one would want to use febootstrap as opposed to mach? [1]. The last upstream release of mach was on April 19, 2007. The list of supported distributions in the control file seems to predate the Fedo

Re: RFS: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
Hi Rich, On 09/05/27 11:03 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... > Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package 'febootstrap'. > > As the name may suggest, it's a program like 'debootstrap' that > bootstraps Fedora root filesystems. In reality, it's a smallish shell > script around the 'y

RFS: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package 'febootstrap'. As the name may suggest, it's a program like 'debootstrap' that bootstraps Fedora root filesystems. In reality, it's a smallish shell script around the 'yum' command (already in Debian), and uses fakeroot and fakechroot to do i

Re: Not RFS: febootstrap (ITP #530425)

2009-05-26 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:47:19PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > > filelight is useful to find out which parts of the filesystem are > > consuming too much space. [...] > > However filelight is a very large dependency (pulls in large > > parts of KDE + X11) so it's

Re: Not RFS: febootstrap (ITP #530425)

2009-05-26 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > filelight is useful to find out which parts of the filesystem are > consuming too much space. [...] > However filelight is a very large dependency (pulls in large > parts of KDE + X11) so it's only a suggestion. What about suggesting filelight | gnome-utils, then? gn

Re: Not RFS: febootstrap (ITP #530425)

2009-05-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:11:20AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > > I'd like people to file bugs against upstream. Doesn't really help me > if they are filed in Debian, unless they are Debian-specific packaging > bugs. What would you suggest instead? Maybe you can drop an explanation in

Re: Not RFS: febootstrap (ITP #530425)

2009-05-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 04:17:13PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > This isn't (yet) a request for sponsorship.  Just hoping that someone > > will take a look at this package to see how I've done.  It's been > > quite a number of years sin

Re: Not RFS: febootstrap (ITP #530425)

2009-05-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > This isn't (yet) a request for sponsorship.  Just hoping that someone > will take a look at this package to see how I've done.  It's been > quite a number of years since I did any Debian packaging, so I've > probably made any number of

Not RFS: febootstrap (ITP #530425)

2009-05-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
'febootstrap' is like 'debootstrap', but it bootstraps Fedora root filesystems. It's just a set of shell script wrappers around 'yum/rpm' (also in Debian now), and just like debootstrap it uses fakeroot and fakechroot so you don't need to be root. This isn't (yet) a request for sponsorship. Just