Re: Package Lists and Size
Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So, i think if there .diff's exist, maybe apt-get can patch the >> Changes into the files on the client, or a small wrapper arround >> apt-get can do this.. > > Goodness, you are the second person to ask for this in a month. Diff is not > suitable since there are many versions the file could be diffed against. You > need rsync, anoncvs, or similar. > > Some of the servers run rsync, which works well for the Packages file, but > does not work for the packages themselves. Other mirrors do not run rsync > since it puts extra CPU load on their server. Perhaps you could find/use a > mirror with public rsync access. To do this, just replace http with rsync in > your sources.list With which apt version ? I don't find any usr/lib/apt/methods/rsync :(
Re: Bug#203818: ITP: geeklog -- the ultimate weblog system
Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: ISO-8859-1, 29 lines --] > > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 23:25, Bruno David Rodrigues wrote: > >> Package: wnpp >> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-01 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> * Package name: geeklog >> Version : 1.3.8 >> Upstream Author : Tony Bibbs and geeklog community >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> * URL : http://www.geeklog.net >> * License : GPLv2 >> Description : the ultimate weblog system >> >> Geeklog is a 'blog', otherwise known as a Weblog. It allows you to >> create your own virtual community area, complete with user >> administration, story posting, messaging, comments, polls, calendar, >> weblinks, and more! It can run on many different operating systems, and >> uses PHP4 and MySQL. >> > Read http://people.debian.org/~walters/descriptions.html and try again. > > "ultimate" is an opinion and definitely shouldn't be in the > description. "blog" -> "weblog" doesn't really describe what this > does. Is the "and more!" really necessary? Do I have to install it to > find out what the "and more" is? > > Scott I'm still analysing this software and its plugin system and I'll get a better description later (I'll reply back to my ITP with it). I'm just "announcing" that I'd like to take care of this and I've copy/pasted from theyr short description on webpage. > > [-- application/pgp-signature, encoding 7bit, 8 lines, name: signature.asc --] > [-- Description: This is a digitally signed message part --] >
Re: Integrate Knoppix in Debian
Keegan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Knoppix hard-disk > installer creates a system that bears little resemblance to the base > system we all know and love. Can you please detail this? thx
Re: Debian IS for the enterprise
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:07:23PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> > Could you point me at the specific paragraph in either the constitution >> > or the social contract, or in perhaps any other official document by the >> > Debian project as a whole that supports this statement? >> >> Especially since stable doesn't even install on recent server boxes... > > Oh, I guess you must be talking about things like our new rack-mount > PowerEdge 2650 with aacraid built in? A machine that the stable CD > installed with no trouble whatsoever? Which doesn't support hyperthreading nor the network cards ? I have a bunch of 1650 and 2650, where debian installer didn't work at all. I had to install redhat in it, then debootstrap a debian inside and then move debian to root and remove redhat. Nevertheless I had to leave redhat's kernel because debian didn't support it (redhat 2.4.18-5? and debian 2.4.18 something). This was last year. Later, at around debian's kernel 2.4.20 or 22, when it got e1000 and tg3 driver, I did install debian kernel in dell's 1650, but I still keep redhat's ones in 2650 due to lacking hyperthreading support in debian (see below). example for two equal machines, dell1 with a debian kernel and dell2 with a redhat kernel, both with the same debian system (dd'ed from one to the other): dell1:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" | head -1 model name : Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 1.80GHz dell1:~# uname -a Linux dell1 2.4.22-1-686-smp #5 SMP Sat Oct 4 14:35:05 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux dell1:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor processor : 0 processor : 1 dell2:~# uname -a Linux dell2 2.4.20-20.9smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 11:32:15 EDT 2003 i686 GNU/Linux dell2:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor processor : 0 processor : 1 processor : 2 processor : 3 I also got a Tecra M1 where nor old debian installer nor the new one did work at all. I had to run knoppix in it, knx-hd-install and then upgrade to debian's unstable. In conclusion: I tend to suggest to my friends to just bootup knoppix, see if everything works ok, and then update to debian. And I just say "don't complain about debian installer being worst than redhat or suse. use knoppix and just forget debian installer". Can't we just make an installer like a mini-knoppix ?
Re: Bug#223772: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Subject: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc) >> Package: general >> Version: N/A; reported 2003-12-12 >> Severity: normal >> Tags: security > > Every package has a md5sum in the Package file. > > Some packages have a useless and space wasting md5sums file inside the > package. Due to its uselessness the existance is rather a bug than its > omission. > > Please close this bug, read the threads on debian-devel about this and > if you still want md5sum files help making actually usefull ones. I guess he means md5sum for files inside package, as in: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ debsums bc debsums: no md5sums for bc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ debsums debsums usr/bin/debsums OK usr/sbin/debsums_gen OK (...) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ ls *.list | wc -l 1135 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ ls *.md5sums | wc -l 1042 Looking at the source: CHROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/code/bc/bc-1.06$ grep md5sums debian/rules # dh_md5sums -pbc # dh_md5sums -pdc It would be nice to fix those packages to enable a simple system testing without requiring installing something like tripwire.
