Re: Many questions about translators

Hi, On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 03:07:22PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 01:59:16PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Fri 16 Apr 2010 11:52:04 +0200, a écrit : > > > > 4. Is it possible for a translator to provide different > > > > views

Re: The Hurdish Package Manager

Hi, On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:21:58AM +0200, Patrik Olsson wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 04:28 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > Is it necessary to have access to the CVS server to do the conversion > from CVS to Git? Depends on the import tool used. For simple cases (which I'm pretty su

Re: /dev/klog is empty

Hi, On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:39:46PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Do you have syslog installed? In that case it already logs it into > /var/log/kern.log. The strange thing is that I have removed (but not purged) syslog, and the messages still end up in /var/log/dmesg... No idea what puts th

Re: uid_t vs. gid_t

Hi, On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:07:05AM +0200, Patrik Olsson wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 04:24 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > I wonder whether it wouldn't be smarter just to abolish gid_t > > alltogether instead -- they are not likely to ever differ in > > technical terms, and there

Re: Many questions about translators

Hi, On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:52:04AM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > Yes, a translator can attach itself to multiple nodes, but if a > translator takes an active role in attaching itself it cannot be set > as a passive (start on demand) translator. Eh? Why not?... > It is also possible to

Re: Building software for the Hurd

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 06:39 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:09:39PM +0200, Patrik Olsson wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 22:47 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > > > Why not build it inside Hurd? You don't need any cross compiler or > > > anything

Re: New IRC meeting schedule

Hi, On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:49:14AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 7. April 2010 02:50:42 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > > As usual, I forgot to mention that we decided to change the meeting > > time again, > I updated the wiki (and wrote on identi.ca and twitter Tha

Re: Dealing with thread storms

Hi, On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:37:59PM +0200, Sergio Lopez wrote: > - Implement a queue in libdiskfs to deal with m_o_data_return > requests and a static amount of consumers which will do the real > work. Each time the kernel sends us a m_o_data_return, we just add > the request to the qu

Re: Building software for the Hurd

Hi, On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:09:39PM +0200, Patrik Olsson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 22:47 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > Why not build it inside Hurd? You don't need any cross compiler or > > anything, just build it normally inside a Hurd environment. > > > > Well, it's a bit i

Re: Many questions about translators

Hello Fredrik, On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 11:52 +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:47:49PM +0200, Patrik Olsson wrote: > > To design HPM (Hurd Package Manager) I need answers to the following > > questions (at least to begin with): > > > > 1. Is it possible

Re: The Hurdish Package Manager

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 04:28 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:44:38PM +0200, Patrik Olsson wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 12:16 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > > > Yeah, that's why the project description mentions Hurdextras -- > > > there are