wvdial postinst script bugs

o" to avoid problems with noninteractive installation. Thoughts? Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsu

Re: Version Control

what you want, but that some amount of configuration is necessary to get good performance given what you are versioning. Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubun

Re: acpi-support, laptop-mode-tools, and hdparm: when will the madness end?

Hi Sebastian, On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 09:00:05PM +0200, Sebastian Breier wrote: > Am Samstag, den 28.06.2008, 14:21 -0400 schrieb Forest Bond: > > Not only does it clobber them, though, it overrides on-battery HDD APM > > settings > > (hdparm -B, hdparm -S) with some prett

acpi-support, laptop-mode-tools, and hdparm: when will the madness end?

on of that is related to difficult hardware, the fact that the power-handling software pieces are so disjointed is also a major contributor. What can we do to sort this out? Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org signature.asc Description: Digital s

Soliciting opinions on #137993

ly in place. Given that, I'd prefer it if plugin packages downgrade this dependency to Recommends. Opinions? Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-dev

Re: Problem with yum etc after installing Ubuntu 7.10.....

;t match the > current version of Python, which is: > 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 13:36:32) Which is not an issue on Debian/Ubuntu, as we have two competing systems that solve this problem (python-support, pycentral). > Can someone help? Hope this helps, however, in the f

midisport-firmware; please replace Ubuntu package with package from Debian

t for these devices. Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

Re: metashell - User Friendly Shell

t;see" competitor trapped in a shell's body, and it thus makes sense to compare metashell to "see". -Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: metashell - User Friendly Shell

Hi, On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:33:55AM +, Fergal Daly wrote: > On 27/01/2008, Forest Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are you advocating the creation of a program called "open"? > > No, I said "alternatives-based". That is, using the Debian >

Re: metashell - User Friendly Shell

Hi, On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 04:10:58PM +, Fergal Daly wrote: > On 27/01/2008, Forest Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:01:56AM +, Fergal Daly wrote: > > > Seems like you could achieve much the same thing by having command > > &g

Re: Proposal: cdrkit vs. cdrtools

to the upstream projects. Hold your horses, folks. Didn't we just move back to cdrtools from cdrkit? Weren't these issues resolved, or something? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270060 Debian seems to be happy. Let's leave it be, hmm? Thank

Re: Need to update GhostScript package in the Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) Repository

kage into 7.10: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates -Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Access denied (403) when trying to fetch security updates for Dapper

rk in progress to improve that. Out of curiosity, what is being done? Is there a specification, etc...? -Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Mo

Re: GetDeb Project

re closely with the Ubuntu project, what was the purpose of your message to ubuntu-devel-discuss and the ongoing dialogue ? -Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.c

Re: Restricted tab-completion is annoying

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:15:07PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote: > On 12/10/2007, Forest Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:07:17AM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote: > > > On 12/10/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: Restricted tab-completion is annoying

_ON_EXTENSION > > that is checked by > > /etc/bash_completion > > before turning on any of the "annoying" features, Enough with the madness. You are free to edit configuration files (files in /etc), and your changes will not be mindlessly overwritten on upgra

Re: apport query

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:16:31PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Tuesday 10 July 2007 19:10, Alex Jones wrote: > > > System -> Open Source -> Error Reporting > > > > It would be nice to throw a lot of little items under such a new menu > > that are relevant to contributing to the Open Source

Re: santa rosa macbook pro in gutsy/feisty

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 06:17:14PM -0500, Brian Barnes wrote: > There are currently many known bugs at ubuntuforums.org that are not reported > in launchpad. Beyond the obvious, there is one big difference between a bug at ubuntuforums.org and a bug in launchpad: the one in launchpad is a lot more

Re: RFC: alias tar="tar --backup" ?

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:42:54AM +, William Tracy wrote: > Actually, I off and on wonder if it would be possible to implement a > filesystem over Subversion, and then just mount /home on that. I'm > sure there's all kinds of gotchas with that idea, but it would be > really cool. Really cool,

Re: /usr/local/bin in $PATH in system scripts?

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:03:30PM -0400, Jim Doherty wrote: > Sorry, I have no idea what ubuntu policy is. But good defensive > scripting practice includes setting your $PATH to something safe. A > good script should always not trust the environment it was handed along > with many other things

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:19:45PM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote: > RFC = ? Request For Comments, I presume. -Forest signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: php-cgi ( 5.1.6 ) compile options?

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:54:12PM -0800, Jeff Griffiths wrote: > I'm currently working on a problem where the php-cgi interpreter in Edgy > causes problems for our products' debugger by not setting > SCRIPT_FILENAME, resulting in this error from PHP: > > " > Status: 404 > X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.

Re: php-cgi ( 5.1.6 ) compile options?

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:54:12PM -0800, Jeff Griffiths wrote: > In debugging this we would like to look at the compile options used in > building php-cgi 5.1.6 in Edgy in order to compare them to the PHP > defaults and see what is going wrong. Is there somewhere where this is > documented? ht

Re: Request to include in Main: splix

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:38:35AM +, Till Kamppeter wrote: > SpliX provides reliable high-quality printing support for all recent > cheap Samsung laser printers, both bw and color models. Due to being > cheap and having fully integrated horizontal paper trays Samsung laser > printers are very

Re: Remote Admin Server Spec. Request for discussion.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:35:23AM +, Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > Quoting Arwyn Hainsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://oss.gonicus.de/project/?group_id=6 > The spec says "robust" and "extensible"; I'd say PHP is pretty much ruled out. Also, I'm not sure if Arwyn is interested in writing a