Re: Patching

2008-01-12 Thread Bryan Haskins
Delta-Debs are already developing, it's just not something we wanted to do yet last I knew. It adds a ton more complication server end. On Jan 12, 2008 3:41 PM, Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently, when a minor patch is uploaded to the update mirrors, Ubuntu > users must download the enti

Patching

2008-01-12 Thread Evan
Currently, when a minor patch is uploaded to the update mirrors, Ubuntu users must download the entire deb package again. When it is a big package (say OpenOffice.org) and it is a small patch of just a few lines of code, this can get somewhat ridiculous. (Update size generally < 50MB) When Windows

Package: hsqldb-server; Version: 1.8.0.8-1ubuntu1; Description: Java SQL database server

2008-01-12 Thread T. Friske
Hi, i found an error in the init script /etc/init.d/hsqldb-server. You find the changes I made attached as a patch file. The command "/etc/init.d/hsqldb-server status" reports that the HSQL server is not running altough the process id in "/var/run/hsqldb/server.pid" is active. This happened du

Re: Patching

2008-01-12 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
On 13/01/2008, Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any change in this area is far too complex for a LTS, however for 8.10 we > have the opportunity to be innovative and create a new patching system > better than that being used by the competition: An interesting discussion of these kinds of changes

Re: Patching

2008-01-12 Thread Bryan Quigley
I believe the best solution to these problems is the use of debtorrent ( http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/) Which is currently in hardy (although might not actually fully work yet). Both solutions mentioned can be implemented eventually through the use of torrents. I don't believe either is imp

Hardy Alpha-3 language selection

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Mancusi
Desktop 386 installation: I selected U.S. English during the installation however the result was not that. I noticed a different sort order in Nautilus and JPilot week started on Monday rather then Sunday. Re-logon with a language selection of English (USA) (American English) created a message t

Hardy Alpha-3 networking

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Mancusi
Desktop i386 install Is the following a bug or can anyone change network settings via System/Administration/Network And can you verify it really changed by looking in the appropriate file. Install took a DHCP address. When completed I tried to change the settings to a static with different D