Mirror List

1998-07-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
I would like to update my mirror list to something more machine friendly. The orginal version some of you know was designed as an example for APT. My new concept follows along the idea of a package file and attempts to encode alot of information to allow the user to make the best selection. An

Re: Summary[2]: dpkg and alpha/beta versioning

1998-07-24 Thread Yann Dirson
Raul Miller writes: > Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, could someone please explain what a *negative* meaning would be > > good for ? I think I already argumented against that earlier in this > > tread (or was it a private mail to Jason ?), but so far I read no > > arguments *i

Re: Summary[2]: dpkg and alpha/beta versioning

1998-07-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Yann Dirson wrote: > > What about 1.1 < 1.1--1 ? (ie repeating the - to get the two meanings: > > the first as a seperator, the second as a negative-sign). We don't even > > have to modify dpkg to do that IIRC.. > > Hey, could someone please explain what a *negative* mean

Re: Summary[2]: dpkg and alpha/beta versioning

1998-07-24 Thread Yann Dirson
Wichert Akkerman writes: > Previously Rob Browning wrote: > > All that said, I think "-" has problems. As Jason mentioned, we may > > not want to have: > > > > 1.1 < 1.1-1 > > > > and, as Adrian pointed out, I agree that it is somewhat hard to parse > > visually. > > What about 1.1

Re: nouser/nogroup clarification

1998-07-24 Thread Herbert Xu
Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does it not open the log file before it switches? That ought to work. Not if the log file is mounted over NFS :) PS I was baffled when apache couldn't log over NFS. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>