Re: how to exclude the packges in dist-upgrade

2007-06-27 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/27/07, Bhasker C V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I tried on the apt-get manual. But could not get to my requirement. I have some of the packages in my deb box which i do not want to upgrade/remove/uninstall during an apt-get dist-uprade. How do i specify the exclude list ? You nee

Re: Eaccelerator package, where?

2007-06-27 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/27/07, Arnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all!! Does anybody know where I can find a packaged version of eaccelerator? I tried to install it some weeks ago following the http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/eaccelerator.htm instruccions and it gave me a segmentation fault. What about the unof

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/15/07, Philippe Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Hi, I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a FreeBSD 6 server soon. There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there is a way of having that on Debian too: (...) 2) Under freebsd, po

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

2007-04-06 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 4/6/07, eklektik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I installed Etch recently, with the help of the good people of this mailing list. Now, it works perfectly, but I hate its look. So I decided that I completely redesign the desktop. Now the work is complete and I wrote a short article in my b

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 4/2/07, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am a desktop user that is currently using Etch. Hi Wei, Are you using GNOME, KDE or Xfce ? You know that Etch is about to release. This means that new features and software will not get into

Re: Debian for Desktop [Was: Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock]

2007-03-23 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 3/23/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:25:09AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > to happen. Debian includes desktop users but is not focused on them. > > But recently there was some interest in a 'desktop' group in de

Re: vote for Debian on Dell computers

2007-03-15 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 3/15/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:21:32AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > Buy an HP,they support Debian. > Out of curiousity, which HP laptop models are supported for Debian? Hi, AFAIK none, but they support Sarge on some servers and it seems t

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-01-31 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 1/31/07, Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/31/07, Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[...] > I've a question on behalf of the Debian Ombudsman Team: > - Is there any current issue you would like to see solved into our > post-etch release (

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-01-30 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 1/30/07, Dave Witbrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, (...) Since Etch is nearly ready to be released, I decided that my best bet was to keep the new kernel and replace everything else! ;-) I chose to dist-upgrade to Etch. I've been using Etch now since Sunday night, and everythin

Re: 2 weeks as a Debian user: a report back

2006-12-24 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/24/06, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Debian Users (...) I admit that I am also using a new machine than the one I Ran Slackware on, and I am using a new kernel than that which I used with Slackware. I have always been a little daunted by the prospect of rolling my own and imploding

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-20 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/16/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: kevin bailey wrote: > Something I've never known how to do?!?! > > Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and > I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner. > > Now I take it that during inst

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/15/06, Jacques Normand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:26:22PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >While you are right, I see one special case. It is not the case here but > >if you change your booting devices, you will need to rebuild the > &g

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/15/06, Jacques Normand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:42:17PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > The hardware is detected during the boot process too and not only > during the installation, unless you've changed it manually. > > Answering about

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-15 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/15/06, csanyipal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:14:27PM +, kevin bailey wrote: > > Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the > various modules were selected and loaded. How to I tell the system to load > the new modules required? C

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/12/06, Justin Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure you're wrong. Debian was showed as #1 in the web servers that > publishes the distribution info by Netcraft some time ago (nothing > more than 1 or 2 years ago). I'm sure I am and I was really making this statement based on my own

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/12/06, Justin Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forgive me if I am posting this to the wrong list but I am not sure where this kind of a email would be posted to. That said, I am interested to find out people's perspective on running Debian stable as a web server in a production environmen

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:30:47PM -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > > available on this mail

Re: Debian install to init 3?

2006-12-08 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/8/06, Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just installed Debian form the binary-1 CD and Internet. The system used Gdm/Genome by default. How do I make not to start X-windowes so that I can up dist-upgrade etc. (I think that it is level 3)? Are you using d-i etch RC1 ? If yes, i

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 11/14/06, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, so Java's GPL'd now: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp (Also http://java.net/ ) How soon will we see packages in main at long last? Granted, a buildable JDK isn't expected until Spring of next year... Hi Gregory, Short

Re: number of machines running Debian?

2006-09-17 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 9/17/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:50:51AM +, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > FYI, we had more than 1.2 million web servers (yeah, just web servers) > running Debian[0] in 2005. > > If you add Debian web servers not publis

Re: number of machines running Debian?

2006-09-16 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 9/15/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Somebody estimated Ubuntu to be installed in over 6 million machines*. Are there any estimates for Debian? * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue13 FYI, we had more than 1.2 million web servers (yeah, just web servers)

Re: Installing Etch: how to select KDE instead of GNOME?

2006-08-22 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 8/22/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco wrote: > When leaving a conference, being asked 'hey, how can i install > kde/gnome desktop by default?' i would be able to answer 'type > installdesktop or installdesktopkde and press enter'. Th

Re: Installing Etch: how to select KDE instead of GNOME?

2006-08-22 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 8/22/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco wrote: > If the user wants to use the GUI frontend it would be ''installgui > tasksel/first=kde-desktop', right? > > Couldn't we change the options adding 'installdesktop'

Re: Installing Etch: how to select KDE instead of GNOME?

2006-08-22 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 8/22/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > How cai I select Kde instead of Gnome during a fresh install? Type "install tasksel/first=kde-desktop" at the installer's boot prompt. Hi Joey, If the user wants to use the GUI frontend it would be ''installgui tas

Re: How to use d-i b3 with sarge?

2006-08-17 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 8/17/06, Stephan Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Can I use the new debian-installer (beta 3, netinstall.iso) to install Sarge? The Sarge installer doesn't recognize my hardware. If I boot in expert mode, I can select or enter a mirror and a proxy, but not a distribution. The new debian

Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request

2006-07-27 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 7/27/06, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matej Cepl writes: > and keep running "aptitude update; aptitude upgrade" from time to time -- You will want to use 'dist-upgrade' to upgrade from Sarge to Etch. Right, and if you're a desktop user probably you will be happy keeping up with 'd

Re: GFS

2006-06-22 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/22/06, David Siroky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I'm trying to build a debian cluster with GFS storage. I have big problems compiling GFS sources. I have a distribution kernel 2.6.16. Package kernel-patch-2.6-gfs is useless because it is old (it is for 2.6.10 kernel). Keep an eye on b

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/14/06, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) Some DDs don't even acknowledge/close a fixed bug, 3-4 years after its been fixed. It's of course not in the Debian's best practices list and you're welcome to help us fixing the problem sending a summary to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've s

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/14/06, Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry, couldnt resist http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026 Hi Brent, Since the author made a lot of wrong points about the Debian project, release cycle and distribution i wrote this blog entry (as seen on planet.debian.org): http://st

Re: Tor

2006-06-10 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/10/06, Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Anybody had any personal experience of this project, or the individuals involved with it? http://tor.eff.org/ Yes, EFF is http://www.eff.org/about/ Just wondering about integrity. Grateful for any information. Well, tor "just works" b

Re: Is there a mailling list for package maintainers/developers?

2006-06-05 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/5/06, Redefined Horizons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a separate mailing list for Debian Package maintainers? I'd like to try creating some Debian packages, but I couldn't find a specific mailing list for package developers. Is this type of traffic handled on the normal development l

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-06-02 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/2/06, Koos Meijering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am trying to create on a nfs file server a partition with the size of 4TB every time after a reboot the system reports there is only a 2 TB partition and an unused part of the disk. The system is an AMD Optron server, with Debian Sarg

Re: Debian install hangs on "detecting network hardware"

2006-05-29 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 29 May 2006 15:38:10 -, robert b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My Debian install hangs with "detecting network hardware" with "Starting PC Card services..." at the bottom. I'm doing an "hd-media" install of Sarge since I don't have a floppy nor CD-ROM drives on this Sony VAIO PCG-5312 nor

Re: 2.6.16 update, lost wireless - seems not a udev issue

2006-05-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/25/06, Richard Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded Debian unstable and installed the 2.6.16-12 linux-image. All seems well except I am unable to bring up my wireless connection. ifup freezes when it tries to run dhcpd on the wireless card: (...) Hi Richard, Since you

Re: Comparison of aptitude hold and pinning?

2006-05-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/25/06, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently used the `aptitude hold` command. It seems to be doing what I expected but I'm curious -- what are the differences between this and pinning a package in /etc/apt/preferences, and where does aptitude hold store the information? (`grep -

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/25/06, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just curious, Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? (...) It seems that the lists.debian.org MX (murphy.debian.org) is with problems right now, huge queu