Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-10-17 Thread Phillip Susi
Onno Benschop wrote: > I am subscribed to the list, there is no need to send this to me directly. Fair enough. I will remove you for now, but if you wish to not get such replies regularly, you should set your Reply-To: header to point to the mailing list. > I have personal experience where "a

Re: Fwd: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Stefan Potyra
Hi, Am Dienstag 16 Oktober 2007 22:35:08 schrieben Sie: > Hello, > You can get a snapshot of the current app tables: > http://www.getdeb.net/tmp/getdeb_db_16_Oct_2007.sql.gz > > I don't have a detailed data model documentation, here is a quick guide for > the apps info: > gd_app -> Application inf

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 10:15, João Pinto wrote: > > I disagree. If I'm pulling a .deb from LP over https, I have a lot more > > confidence in that than one that's signed, but from some external site. > > Not > > > ideal, but it's better. > > Scott, > if your trust is based on the URL of the

Re: GetDeb Project (Why I participate)

2007-10-17 Thread João Pinto
Hello, I have done the pidgin packaging. First we provided a singe package, which would not conflict with gaim, it would just provide "pidgin", it could be used together with gaim. Later, we backported the package as provided on Debian. I did not had any special considerations that were not covered

Re: GetDeb Project (Why I participate)

2007-10-17 Thread Peter (Ubuntu List)
Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le mercredi 17 octobre 2007 à 09:24 -0400, Peter (Ubuntu List) a écrit : > >> The main reason why I started creating packages for Getdeb was the fact >> it was so easy to participate. I created an updated package and within >> two days it was up on the site. I tend to cre

Re: GetDeb Project (Why I participate)

2007-10-17 Thread Daniel Holbach
Am Mittwoch, den 17.10.2007, 09:24 -0400 schrieb Peter (Ubuntu List): > I did check to see if I could help out creating packages for as some > call it, the inside Ubuntu community. All I could find was becoming a > MOTU which is a whole process and I wasn't, and I'm still not, ready for > that. ht

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread João Pinto
> I disagree. If I'm pulling a .deb from LP over https, I have a lot more > confidence in that than one that's signed, but from some external site. Not > ideal, but it's better. Scott, if your trust is based on the URL of the download and not on the PGP signature validation, then you do not care

Re: GetDeb Project (Why I participate)

2007-10-17 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le mercredi 17 octobre 2007 à 09:24 -0400, Peter (Ubuntu List) a écrit : > The main reason why I started creating packages for Getdeb was the fact > it was so easy to participate. I created an updated package and within > two days it was up on the site. I tend to create packages I use myself > or

Re: GetDeb Project (Why I participate)

2007-10-17 Thread Peter (Ubuntu List)
OK, I don't want to hijack this thread but after reading mostly negative comments I would like to say somethings about why I participate in GetDeb. A little bit of history, I stumbled upon GetDeb when I was looking for Pidgin. Back then it wasn't available in Feisty and I wanted to use the latest

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 06:47, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: > Scott Kitterman napisał(a): > > I was thinking about this some more. My objection isn't to the > > installation method, but to the packages. Someone earlier in the thread > > mentioned the benifits of the web front end that Getdeb pro

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Ming Hua napisał(a): > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:45:04AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> Scott Kitterman napisał(a): >>> Generally I enable backports, install what I want, and the disable it >>> again. >>> That I think most people can do. >> Maybe they can, but: >> a) they have to know about

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Scott Kitterman napisał(a): > I was thinking about this some more. My objection isn't to the installation > method, but to the packages. Someone earlier in the thread mentioned the > benifits of the web front end that Getdeb provides. > > Rather than remove something like gnucash from getdeb

Re: You devs rock. Thanks for your work.

2007-10-17 Thread Chris Warburton
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 13:21 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's a fresh relief to see positive comments once in a while :) > > Thanks for your kind words. Like many occupations, this is one where doing a good job means that people don't realise you're there. This means that most of the attenti

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Ming Hua
Hi João Pinto, On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 12:46:59PM +0100, João Pinto wrote: > Hello, > I am the GetDeb project founder and manager, I would like to present GetDeb, > current status and planned goals. Thanks for sending this mail to the Ubuntu lists. It's apparent that GetDeb meets the need of qui

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Ming Hua
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:45:04AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: > Scott Kitterman napisał(a): > > Generally I enable backports, install what I want, and the disable it > > again. > > That I think most people can do. > > Maybe they can, but: > a) they have to know about it They have to know