Re: Emdebian links in Debian pages and local mirrors

2010-10-23 Thread Philip Hands
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:18:09 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: ... > I'm also looking for volunteers who could support the Emdebian > archive with local mirrors to reduce the load on the current machine. > (Standard mirroring tools should work, albeit on a pull method rather > than a push, please.) I'

Re: Emdebian links in Debian pages and local mirrors

2010-10-23 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:38:44 +0100 Philip Hands wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:18:09 +0100, Neil Williams > wrote: ... > > I'm also looking for volunteers who could support the Emdebian > > archive with local mirrors to reduce the load on the current > > machine. (Standard mirroring tools shoul

Re: Emdebian links in Debian pages and local mirrors

2010-10-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:18:09PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > 3: Separate translation packages for those embedded installations which > actually might need to present translated strings from the base system. Shameless plug, what is the status of "DEP-4: Translation packages in Debian (TDebs)" h

bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Mike Bird
Seen in Lenny. Is it really necessary to run apt-cache in order to shut down BIND? 10852 ?Ss 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/rc 6 11470 ?S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /etc/rc6.d/K85bind9 stop 11471 ?S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /etc/rc6.d/K85bind9 stop 11472 ?S 0:00

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 05:46:38 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > Seen in Lenny. Is it really necessary to run apt-cache in order > to shut down BIND? > Is it really necessary to send your bug reports to debian-devel? Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Emdebian links in Debian pages and local mirrors

2010-10-23 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:59:50 +0200 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:18:09PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > 3: Separate translation packages for those embedded installations > > which actually might need to present translated strings from the > > base system. > > Shameless

Bug#601114: ITP: ffms2 -- An FFmpeg based source library and Avisynth plugin for easy frame accurate access

2010-10-23 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Reinhard Tartler * Package name: ffms2 Version : 2.13 Upstream Author : Fredrik Mellbin, Mike Matsnev * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegsource * License : MIT (but debian packages will be GPL'ed because of linking a

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat October 23 2010 06:21:35 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 05:46:38 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > Seen in Lenny. Is it really necessary to run apt-cache in order > > to shut down BIND? > > Is it really necessary to send your bug reports to debian-devel? (1) It's a question, not

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 10/23/2010 11:55 AM, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sat October 23 2010 06:21:35 Julien Cristau wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 05:46:38 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: >>> Seen in Lenny. Is it really necessary to run apt-cache in order >>> to shut down BIND? >> >> Is it really necessary to send your bug repo

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-23 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 16:48 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > If we decide to reject 'admin', I think we should use sudo. I find the > argument that admin is confusing given the presence of adm fairly > convincing -- It's all too easy to say something like "could you add > fred to the adm group" over t

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat October 23 2010 10:58:54 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On 10/23/2010 11:55 AM, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Sat October 23 2010 06:21:35 Julien Cristau wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 05:46:38 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > >>> Seen in Lenny. Is it really necessary to run apt-cache in order > >>> to

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Brian May
On 24 October 2010 11:30, Mike Bird wrote: > Maybe someone here would care to address the actual question? My /etc/init.d/bind9 has: DISTRO=$(lsb_release -is 2>/dev/null || echo Debian) lsb_release seems to call apt-cache policy. On one hand, the value of $DISTRO doesn't seem to be used anywh

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike Bird wrote: > Seen in Lenny. Is it really necessary to run apt-cache in order > to shut down BIND? The Lenny package's /etc/init.d/bind9 script calls 'lsb_release -is' to determine the distribution and if the 'lsb-release' package is installed then the lsb_release script calls 'apt-cache pol

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat October 23 2010 18:20:11 Brian May wrote: > On the other hand, so what if it calls apt-cache policy - does that > matter? Maybe apt-cache policy is broken on Mike's system? It takes about fifteen seconds for apt-cache to run on a system that hasn't previously accessed those files. That's a