Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-10-27 Thread 李白|字一日
2010/10/28 Aurélien Naldi > Hi, > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:34 AM, 李白|字一日 wrote: > > > > 2010/10/28 Evan Huus > >> > >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Daniel Gross > > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > The main benefit for such a setup, is that it allows reinstalling > Ubuntu > >> > without loosing

Re: Mainstream Developers Repository

2010-10-27 Thread Bilal Akhtar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Assalam alaikum Usama, This is a good idea. But I think backports and GetDeb [1] are implementing something that is close to this? [1] http://www.getdeb.net/ Bilal Akhtar. On 10/28/2010 07:02 AM, Usama Akkad wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-10-27 Thread Aurélien Naldi
Hi, On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:34 AM, 李白|字一日 wrote: > > 2010/10/28 Evan Huus >> >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Daniel Gross >> wrote: >> > >> > The main benefit for such a setup, is that it allows reinstalling Ubuntu >> > without loosing the users data, which would be safely sitting in a >>

Mainstream Developers Repository

2010-10-27 Thread Usama Akkad
Hi, I would like to know your opinion on an Idea of having (Mainstream Developers Repository) please read the draft wiki page on this subject https://wiki.ubuntu.com/damascene/Decentralized%20Ubuntu%20Repository Sometimes user need to get the latest version of a software but he/she will have to

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-10-27 Thread 李白|字一日
2010/10/28 Evan Huus > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Daniel Gross > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have finally taken the plunge and installed the latest Ubuntu instead > > of Windows XP (while still running Windows xp in a VM). > > Congrats :) > > > It would be great if a tool existed that supp

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-10-27 Thread Evan Huus
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Daniel Gross wrote: > Hello, > > I have finally taken the plunge and installed the latest Ubuntu instead > of Windows XP (while still running Windows xp in a VM). Congrats :) > It would be great if a tool existed that supports moving the home folder > from the "b

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-10-27 Thread 李白|字一日
+1 2010/10/28 Daniel Gross > Hello, > > I have finally taken the plunge and installed the latest Ubuntu instead > of Windows XP (while still running Windows xp in a VM). > > It would be great if a tool existed that supports moving the home folder > from the "boot" partition to a "data" partition

Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-10-27 Thread Daniel Gross
Hello, I have finally taken the plunge and installed the latest Ubuntu instead of Windows XP (while still running Windows xp in a VM). It would be great if a tool existed that supports moving the home folder from the "boot" partition to a "data" partition. Ideally, the tool would support creating

Unity Interface in 10.10 Netbook Edition

2010-10-27 Thread Tarun Khanna
I had posted this earlier on the Ubuntu Users mailing list and it was suggested that I discuss it in the development list. Are these known issues and if so, are there any changes suggested for the next release? I have run into a few issues with the new Unity interface in the latest (10.10) Ubuntu

Re: help on ubuntu packaging

2010-10-27 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:54 AM, David Henningsson wrote: > On 2010-10-26 13:26, travis+ml-ubuntu-devel-disc...@subspacefield.org > wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I'm packaging up some stuff, and finding that the process is, well, >> confusing. > I believe this list is what you're looking for: > https:/

Re: help on ubuntu packaging

2010-10-27 Thread David Henningsson
On 2010-10-26 13:26, travis+ml-ubuntu-devel-disc...@subspacefield.org wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm packaging up some stuff, and finding that the process is, well, > confusing. > > I've got something that works with older debhelper stuff (prior to the > rules file being made into one target/command),

Re: maverick-proposed queue freeze

2010-10-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:23:26 pm Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jamie Bennett > > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > According to the Linaro release process [1] the maverick-proposed queue > > will be frozen tomorrow. After this date no uploads should be accepted