Re: help regarding whom excatly i should contact.

2011-12-05 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi! On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 12:14:47AM +0530, joy chalissery wrote: > here is the link where is gave something in writing > http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28923/ > please do read the comments following the idea > admin talked about getting involved with development team. Thanks for your intere

Re: Ubuntu System Restore

2011-11-08 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 09:19:28PM +0530, Gaurav Saxena wrote: > Hello Michael Hi Gaurav, sorry for my slow reply. > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Michael Vogt wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 05:15:14PM -0600, Bear Giles wrote: > > > I've written a few prot

Re: Ubuntu System Restore

2011-10-07 Thread Michael Vogt
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 05:15:14PM -0600, Bear Giles wrote: > I've written a few prototypes and this comes down to four issues. Some of > the details below are debian/ubuntu-specific but the same concepts will > apply to redhat. [..] > 2. Packages should NOT be backed up. All you need is the packag

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 36, Issue 10

2009-11-04 Thread Michael Vogt
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 10:38:35AM +0200, Davyd McColl wrote: > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:07:58 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > > I don't think that the OP provided enough information to understand > > what went wrong during his upgrade; it does seem that he may have tried > > update-manager first an

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Vogt
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:53:23PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > > Yes, after the upgrade the system will be jaunty until the next > > reboot, then the writable overlay is removed and the system is exactly > >

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:51:52AM +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > When doing something like this one should be careful because here you > have a copy of all files that are modified during the upgrade. > Applications keeping these files open will write to the old copies, and > applications whic

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 02:27:16AM -0400, John Vivirito wrote: > On 03/14/2009 10:13 AM, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > > Olá Michael e a todos. [..] > > This idea seems like a really nice idea, and one that in some other form is > > requested by users/testers. > > I would like to add to points:

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 02:13:24PM +, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > Olá Michael e a todos. > > On Friday 13 March 2009 18:19:28 Michael Vogt wrote: > > during the last UDS we talked informally about using the "aufs" > > overlay filesystem layer for rel

Re: kvm sandbox upgrade tester

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Vogt
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 02:54:21PM +0100, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: > Olá Michael e a todos. Hi, sorry for my late reply, I was on vacation. > On Friday 08 August 2008 13:05:36 Michael Vogt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to ask for feedback/testing of t

Re: Thank you for the new Quick Search on Synaptic

2008-06-19 Thread Michael Vogt
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:24:47PM +0100, Russell Green wrote: > 2008/6/17 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Thank you for the new Quick Search on Synaptic. It looks great and makes > > searches much, much, much faster and easier. > > That's (one of the things) why I love Ubuntu and

Re: Making apt-get powercut-proof

2008-05-15 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:06:35PM +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: > That's a pretty handy tool - would you be interested in an option to > start the remote recovery that's being discussed in a nearby thread? The design of friendly-recovery makes it easy to drop-in scripts, I wasn't following thi

Re: Making apt-get powercut-proof

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:57:36PM +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: > A friend of mine was upgrading to Hardy, and (so far as we can tell) > there was a power cut while it was halfway through, which left his > system in a not-especially-useful state. I think the best solution is > to have a /etc/i

Re: [ubuntu-devel-announce] Feature Freeze in Place, Tribe 5 Next Week

2007-08-20 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 12:36:36PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:09:52AM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > If you do want new packages, new versions of packages in or are still > > working on new features which you think will not add more problems > > than they take a

Use of the XS-Vcs-bzr (or -git, ...) debian/control field

2007-03-01 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, I would like to start a discussion about adopting the XS-Vcs-* debian/control field in our packages. The value of the field should be the location of the version control system used to maintain this packages, e.g. XS-Vcs-Bzr: http://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/python-apt/ubuntu Debian is