moving to usergroups

2015-10-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
ncerns? Grüße, weasel 1. The reverse transition has also been observed with people retiring but still needing access to porter systems but it's a lot rarer. -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The u

Re: moving to usergroups

2015-10-17 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015, Peter Palfrader wrote: > 1 create, for each user in the Debian LDAP, a group named like the >user. > 2 Make the primary group for each user their corresponding group. > 3 Make their former primary group (Debian, guest) a supplementary >group.

Re: moving to usergroups

2015-10-17 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2015, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > 1 create, for each user in the Debian LDAP, a group named like the > >user. > > 2 Make the primary group for each user their corresponding group. > > 3 Make thei

Re: moving to usergroups

2015-10-18 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2015, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > > > 1 create, for each user in the Debian LDAP, a group named like the > > >user. > > >

Re: Namespace question - data.debian.org

2015-12-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
adata.debian.org is already > claimed by ftp-master by way of ftp-master.metadata.debian.org. Yes, but there can be other metadata things. that's why it's ftp-master.metadata.debian.org and not just metadata.debian.org. -- | .''`. ** Debia

shutting down httpredir.debian.org?

2016-04-12 Thread Peter Palfrader
| .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal https://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-https://www.debian.org/

Re: shutting down httpredir.debian.org?

2016-04-12 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > So, it appears as if currently nobody has time or the energy to take > > care of httpredir.debian.org properly. > > > > I suggest we shut down the service for now

Re: shutting down httpredir.debian.org?

2016-04-12 Thread Peter Palfrader
;t helped to improve it. What is needed here is continuous work be put into improving and maintaining the service. A one-off rush won't be sufficient. [Currently SunCamp already has release move stuff on the list of things that need doing.] Cheers, --

Re: shutting down httpredir.debian.org?

2016-04-14 Thread Peter Palfrader
we don't need to change anything. We will see. -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal https://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-https://www.debian.org/

Re: shutting down httpredir.debian.org?

2016-04-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
the (permanent?) HTTP redirect ^^ > recently added. permanent seems like a bad idea. fixed in dsa-puppet git. Cheers, -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal https://

Re: please fix archive.debian.net (was: Expired HTTPS cert)

2017-04-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 06 Mar 2017, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi Frank, > > > The HTTPS certificate for archive.debian.net expired on 19 February > > 2017, and due to HSTS this cannot be bypassed by clients. > > DSA is getting bombarded on its various channels about a > misconfigura

Re: No port 443 (https) available at "security.debian.org"-repository

2017-07-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
he technical details. > We still want to provide this eventually, but it's Hard and Far From Trivial. Mails like the one from the OP are hugely demotivating to everybody who is actually doing work on this. The only thing they do is help delay it even more. --

Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding

2017-11-15 Thread Peter Palfrader
thenticating such requests, even manually, is going to be a PITA. -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal https://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-https://www.debian.org/

Re: Debian System Administration team sprint report

2018-02-07 Thread Peter Palfrader
ng up a mirror over 2 external storage arrays into individual devices provided the extra room there, so we should be fine. -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal https://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-https://www.debian.org/

Re: Support WKD (and WKS) for @debian.org email addresses?

2018-11-07 Thread Peter Palfrader
x27;'`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal https://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-https://www.debian.org/

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-13 Thread Peter Palfrader
e at > which names were reserved Except it's a huge, intensely integrated code-base that currently is very hip. Just like alioth was a few years ago. Small is beautiful. -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter

handling of guest accounts on debian.org machines

2010-09-06 Thread Peter Palfrader
ed at http://dsa.debian.org/doc/guest-account/ and updates to the procedure will be reflected there. DSA would like to thank the NM Front Desk for volunteering their support. For the admins, weasel -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader

Re: Merkel going away

2010-11-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
see. In the meantime, nm has moved to nono, qa to quantz. The dd accessible copy of ftp-master is still on merkel. Cheers, weasel -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www

Re: Please draft a policy for planet.debian.org

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Palfrader
dd and wanna-build folks. At which point is this getting silly? Nothing in Debian is a one-man-show. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `&#

Re: UBC-ECE maintenance window June 9th/10th

2012-06-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Therefore, all of our systems at UBC-ECE will be unavailable on June > 9th, from around 8:00 local time to about 20:00 local time - 17:00 UTC > until 05:00 UTC on Sunday. Actually, 08:00 local time in Vancouver is 17:00 in WLT - weasel local

Report from the DSA Team Sprint 2013-06

2013-06-21 Thread Peter Palfrader
Comrades! We just finished a very productive Debian System Administration team sprint in LinuxHotel, Essen, Germany. All six of the current DSA members (Faidon, Luca, Martin, Peter, Stephen, Tollef) and our recruit (Hector) were present. This was the first time that all of us have met in person

Re: Debian Enhancement Proposals website temporarly broken.

2013-12-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
st because it is on static.d.o doesn't mean it needs to be .org. It can be either. -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System |

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-06 Thread Peter Palfrader
at and listen to somebody else or come up with their own documents as and when they see fit. Cheers, -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System

Re: Debian Enhancement Proposals website temporarly broken.

2014-01-19 Thread Peter Palfrader
#x27;t leave it out. Maybe you want to (partially) copy the -dsa.d.o one. - As for getting the data onto dillon, can't you just clone/checkout the git/svn tree there? Cheers, weasel -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :&#

Re: Debian services and Debian infrastructure

2014-02-07 Thread Peter Palfrader
years. To say there was no interest whatsoever would overstate the amount of excitement those suggestions have received. -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2014-02-08 Thread Peter Palfrader
user should be able to tell their system "give me debian [, I don't care where it comes from]". In the end it matters little how we achieve these goals, but we should work towards them. -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | :

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2014-02-08 Thread Peter Palfrader
s consequence not official). http.d.n is a nice idea, but I think the redirects are expensive latency wise. Even worse, it fails the 'must not visibly break' requirement. We regularly see broken apt-get runs with http.d.n in our sources.lists. -- | .'&#x

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
lly correct. -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-p

Re: Popularity contest

2005-09-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:21:28PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > Scripsit David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 00:04 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > > > >> >> No. > > > > >> > Why not? > > > > >> What would be the poi

Re: No buildd redundancy for alpha/mips/mipsel

2007-11-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
rg #59] New alpha porter machine ready for setup | From: "Peter Palfrader via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | In-Reply-To: | References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Precedence: bulk | X-RT-Loop-Prevention: rt.debian.org |

Re: No buildd redundancy for alpha/mips/mipsel

2007-11-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
hting I need to do here. That'd be great. Looking forward to that. Was it mips or mipsel? Peter -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.or

please clean up your home directory on gluck (people.d.o)

2007-12-10 Thread Peter Palfrader
Once again the filesystem that hosts /org and /home on gluck.debian.org (aka people.debian.org and cvs.debian.org) was coming close to being full. Black choppers have been dispatched to some offenders and with the help of elite units we already have reclaimed some disk space but there's probably s

Re: Misc development news (#8)

2008-05-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dropped] On Sat, 31 May 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > I think this is a great example of why announcements like this should be > sent to debian-devel-announce in the first place, instead of being relegated > to the debian-infrastructure-announce list that most developers aren't

Re: Misc development news (#8)

2008-06-01 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 31 May 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > > People submitting known bad keys to ldap and stuffing those in their > > authorized_keys files also. What else did you think it meant? > > I have no idea, because I don't understand why the above would warrant a > policy change wrt authorized_keys.

Re: Misc development news (#8)

2008-06-01 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 01 Jun 2008, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > know it. I suppose etc/motd will eventually be updated to point to it > > also. > > What's the use if you can't manage to login? Is this just to show that you

Re: Misc development news (#8)

2008-06-01 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 01 Jun 2008, Philip Hands wrote: > If there's some reason that you want specific keys to only give access > to specific hosts, and if the reason justifies the effort, I suppose it > would be possible to come up with a way of tagging which hosts any > particular key should give access to in

Re: Misc development news (#8)

2008-06-10 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Philip Hands > > | While this is initially for our (DSA's) benefit, in that it makes applying > | global changes easier, it's also for user's benefit. -- compare the > | effort required to ensure that there are no copies of a key (that was > | on

transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
[Let's move this to debian-project since there is no debian-admin-public-bikeshedding. I hope mutt doesn't eat my Mail-Followup-To header.] On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > I generally avoid using password authentication to Debian hosts, *except* in > >

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
[Trimming lists] On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > - install sendfile/saft on all machines so you can do > > sendfile foo.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > The crypto stuff could b

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
ill fetch a full TGT on the source host when they want to copy stuff to another host since the default mode of login will probably stay ssh keys. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrad

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
to copy stuff to another host since the default mode of > > login will probably stay ssh keys. > > Well, a way around that is to not give users kinit on the Debian hosts, > and/or implement ACLs on the KDC that prohibit issuing TGTs to Debian hosts. Not sure how feasable that woul

Addition to DSA team

2008-08-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi, this is to let you know that we in DSA have invited Martin Zobel-Helas to join us. Fortunately for us he accepted, so with a bit of luck we can now go back to doing nothing and let the rookie do all the work. Cheers, weasel signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-09-01 Thread Peter Palfrader
hardware will result in it being removed from the keyring for good. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-

people.debian.org -> ravel change

2008-09-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi, as previously announced people.debian.org will move to ravel.debian.org. Currently we plan to change DNS on Thursday (2008-09-18) around noon UTC. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Cheers, Peter http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/08/msg00012.html https

changes to the use of sudo on project machines

2008-09-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
lowly updating the machines to use the new config. Please see https://dsawiki.debian.org/dsawiki/New-Sudo for per machine progress status. Cheers, weasel [is there a list that all buildd admins are on?] -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux **

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
much better. Also see bike-shedding. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-http://www.debian.org/ -- T

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
ack. Just because *you* don't get it doesn't mean it's stupid. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System

Re: Release notes

2008-10-06 Thread Peter Palfrader
available? Probably because nobody bothers to tell DSA when services are no longer required. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System

Re: Release notes

2008-10-07 Thread Peter Palfrader
deity, and tetex moved to, similar to what is available from the READMEs in /srv/cvs.debian.org/cvs/qa. Can you provide that? -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `'

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
tructure to maintain such people's keys etc. Having NMs in a keyring, maintained by keyring-maint, would probably solve this, and we could provide access to our porter machines when there is the need. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfra

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
't think trying to get this particular piece of information into the debian LDAP would be particularly straight forward. Also I question what good it would actually do. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
g it's still theoretically possibly to give such contributers access, practically tho it means it just isn't done. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > * > The keyrings shall be maintained in a way that > allows any member to change them, Since you refused to explain on IRC, please explain the rationale and use-cases here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
a list of people who have neither set a new password since the SSL thing nor uploaded ssh keys we might get a list of candidates. Contact DSA if you want to look into it (echelon is public, keys can be found in /var/lib/misc on project machines, passwords you'll have to ask f

obsolete CVS repositories (was: Release notes)

2008-10-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
debian-tex/ Ditto. > > moved to, similar to what is available from the READMEs in > > /srv/cvs.debian.org/cvs/qa. Can you provide that? > HTH. Thanks. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal ht

Re: obsolete CVS repositories (was: Release notes)

2008-10-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
ld probably add a README, but moving it to obsolete and making it a-w not so much. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System

Re: obsolete CVS repositories (was: Release notes)

2008-10-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 10:27:20 +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > > Could you also update dak's README to point to: > > > > > > <http://ftp-master.d

ports.debian.org

2008-11-21 Thread Peter Palfrader
7;'`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

new RT addresses

2009-02-04 Thread Peter Palfrader
icket #777. Cheers, weasel -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBS

Re: new RT addresses

2009-02-05 Thread Peter Palfrader
visible to the queue owners. So probably you always want to use replies. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System

Re: Creating a public list for wanna-build team? Input needed.

2009-02-18 Thread Peter Palfrader
;s the difference anyway? weasel -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-http://www.debian.o

Re: Genericly-named debian.net domains for private use (was Re: Point to semi-official backported packages?)

2009-03-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
t agree more. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

state of the DSA nation

2009-03-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
s still sitting on debian's t1000 at osuosl. last status I heard was that he wanted to install solaris on it. I'm way past caring about it by now. fabbione brought up a potential t2000 a while ago (#1144) - ping him again. = other stuff = there are still a couple of porter chroots t

Re: Genericly-named debian.net domains for private use (was Re: Point to semi-official backported packages?)

2009-03-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
hen that's a different thing. But it should then be reflected in the slapd ACLs, and people should be informed about the change. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.pa

Re: state of the DSA nation

2009-03-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 28 March 2009, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > [note to -project readers: this mail was written with -admin as an > > intended audience in mind and not you, but I figured I'd CC you > > anyways. Please excuse the style a

Re: state of the DSA nation

2009-03-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Peter Palfrader wrote: > = osuosl = > > rietz' storage subsystem is really weird. It seems to hang for seconds > to minutes at times. Maybe rietz is really really overloaded or the > hardware is not well. > > rietz currently is bugs-master and sy

Re: Genericly-named debian.net domains for private use (was Re: Point to semi-official backported packages?)

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Palfrader
't scale, there are non-abusive users of clashes right now (buildd, www), and it wouldn't solve the backports thing. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System

Re: Genericly-named debian.net domains for private use

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Palfrader
, I certainly don't want to be the person that will have to run after people if they violate some rules. I have better things to do with my time. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http

forums.debian.net disabled

2009-04-19 Thread Peter Palfrader
forums.debian.net is a debian.net service run by a set of DDs for the community. It's not an official Debian service run or maintained by the project or DSA (then it would be forums.debian.org). Nevertheless it was hosted on debian.org hardware since sometime last year because the original system

Re: state of the DSA nation

2009-05-15 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Peter Palfrader wrote: > = vancouver = > > We got a nice msa2ki storage from HP at UBC/ECE. Currently it's > resyncing/growing its raid because I want to see how it handles stuff. > Once this is done we can start moving stuff onto kvm domains on >

Re: state of the DSA nation

2009-05-15 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 15 May 2009, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > == s390 == > > > > > > we have two porterboxes here. zelenka is new and fast and has nice > > > network but is a little short on disk space. raptor has more

Re: debian 2.0

2009-06-13 Thread Peter Palfrader
http://archive.debian.net/hamm/ > http://ftp.de.debian.org/archive/debian/dists/hamm/ The official place is of course http://archive.debian.org/ and there http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/ -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Pet

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
ng to be a DM for some time before tying up the resources for the whole NM process does sound like a good idea. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating

Re: DAM queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
advisory board to the DAM if you want to call it that. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: DAM queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
y. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project

Re: DAM queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
count' step. If you want to have a step there it's 'DAM sends request to keyring-maint/DSA', but I suppose that's identical to "finishes review with a positive result". -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' :

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Something is definitely wrong here, IMHO. Maybe it's your assumption or assertion that the only point of NEW is checking the copyright file. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux **

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
only interesting piece of information in 10+k of email would be the To-line. weasel -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System

dsa metting minutes

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Palfrader
27;s slow. zobel/sgran - need a ud-ldap talk / discussion - pergolesi is back, still no eric access -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating Syste

Re: dsa meeting minutes

2009-07-22 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Peter Palfrader wrote: > (again, internal work notes) > > dsa 20090720 > > - get rid of sarti hosted at rapidswitch (weasel talks to philh) > - mirror planet to a different machine so we can reboot things > more easily (mirroradm/Ganneff) > - s

Re: Opera in your repos

2009-08-08 Thread Peter Palfrader
has weird licenses about modification and following redistribution in non-free. I hardly expect stuff that one is not even allowed to use. But maybe that's just me. :) Cheers, -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader |

Re: snapshot.debian.{net,org} and spending Debian money

2009-09-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
site in the UK to get racked. I'd hate to go live without having a backup of the data. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating Syste

Re: snapshot.debian.{net,org} and spending Debian money

2009-09-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > provide this info there and ask the .jp admins to also put some > information about the status online. Unlikely. The person who operated s.d.n is overworked as it is. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linu

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Palfrader
Most if the time it involves re-creating installer media because debian can't be arsed to be useful by default. Is that what you mean with very easy? -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http:

Re: [nm-admin] Identification step in the current scheme (Re: Fe

2000-07-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Jim! On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Jim Westveer wrote: > However, by signing an ID, or the email, I have demonstrated > that I do infact, possess that private key. IIRC, it was required that you sign your application with the key. I don't know wheter this is still true however.

Re: [nm-admin] Identification step in the current scheme (Re: Fear the new maintainer process)

2000-08-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Dale Scheetz writes: > > > I just can't understand the reluctance to satisfy this requirement except > > that it is viewed by some as being too hard. I cannot, for the life of me, > > You've not been reading my emails then. I don't want random peop

Re: The highest quality distributor(s) of Debian Official CDs.

2001-03-12 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Simmons-Davis! On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Simmons-Davis wrote: > I have set up Debian and the X Windows System and whenever I boot up > my computer it automatically starts XDM. I would like to know how to > get Debian to automatically start in text mode at the command line. > Please advise. > > Than

Re: about: Debian Free Software Guidelines

2001-06-07 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Andreas! On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > In german, "darf nicht" means: "is not allowed to" whereas > in english, "may not" is more like "is allowed to not ..." > conversely, the english "must not" is stronger than the german "muss nicht". Are you sure you're not confusing 'need

Re: Debian GNU/Linux in a Human Rights environment?

2001-08-18 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > - There should exist the possibility to send "anonymous" email. This mail > > should be untraceable to protect the sender to the untomst extent. > > You'll probably need to deploy a chain of suitable email hubs that anonymize > email for

Re: Debian GNU/Linux in a Human Rights environment?

2001-08-22 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, techt wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 07:45:45 Peter Palfrader wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > - There should exist the possibility to send "anonymous" email. > > > > > > You'll

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-14 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi tluxt! On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, tluxt wrote: > Actually, the more I think about what such a list should be about, > and what it's name should be, the more I think we should have two lists: > > debian-woody-user > debian-sid-user It should be debian-user-woody debian-user-sid _or_ debian-u

Re: Progress; & How create a mail list for Woody Users?

2001-09-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, tluxt wrote: > Thus, applying the principles of accuracy, and the procession from > general toward specific, gives us the result for the name: > debian-woody-user. I don't like the name for various reasons: - woody is just the name of the next release and current testing

Re: Project Adamastor - Portugal

2002-03-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
[CCed, as I'm not sure you are on debian-project] Hi Pedro, On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Pedro Cavaco wrote: > The Project Adamastor is Portuguese project with the function of > publish and promote Linux Operating System. Our work is not supported > for no one, and we don't have any support or payment f

Re: irc.debian.org

2002-08-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: > Once again, what do you people think? I would welcome a move to OFTC too. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > I assume this means local time for auric, but it might be nice to add > > > the timezone identifier. > > > Oh come on! If you ask somebody on the street f

Re: admins: please clarify /etc/motd on auric

2002-08-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > the local time and our own time. The cronjobs are in local time anyway, > > Which is annoying as well, but we have to cope with that :-) We could set the system timezone to GMT. hint, hint. your

Re: Bug#159511: project: debian smtp servers should be able to support secure SMTP (SSL/TLS)

2002-09-04 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 04 Sep 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Noel Koethe wrote: > > please support secure SMTP (rfc2487) to have a secure and > > private communication on none-official mailinglists. > > FWIW, SPI already supports this :) Then it would be nice if master (and its backups) would suppo

Re: debian cd-image mirrors and US export restrictions

2002-11-05 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 05 Nov 2002, Andrew Lau wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:32:15PM +0100, Harald K. wrote: > > In contrast to the package servers, the debian cd image mirrors are > > not separated according to this circumstances. Also the ones located > > in the US are containing the non-us variant of th

Re: From a Linux Teacher

2002-12-01 Thread Peter Palfrader
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder schrieb am Sonntag, dem 01. Dezember 2002: > On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 03:36, Faisal Ahmed wrote: > > Hello Sir, > > > > I am a Teacher teaching Red hat in Pakistan for almost 3 years .I will > > feel great pleasure to introduce your product to my students.Can u p

Re: Debian as a social group and how to develop it better

2002-12-02 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 02 Dec 2002, Xavian-Anderson Macpherson wrote: > On Monday 2002 December 02 02:50, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > I just tried to find SONAME using man. How can I find out what this is? > > > Will the LSB eliminate this? What about the new UnitedLinux > > > distribution. > > > > Because the

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