Re: Package.gz signing

2003-10-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Jerry Haltom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-04 20:24]: > I've been doing some research into the current state of GPG signing > official apt sources. > > I've found a few conversations on this mailing circa 2000-2001 about > creating a Packages.gpg and a seperate update procedure for updating #203

Re: New glibc with NPTL in experimental

2003-10-04 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:49:17AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:21:21PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > I've just placed a new glibc package for experimental in incoming. > > libc6-i686 is new, so it may be a few days before it shows up in the > > archive. These packag

Package.gz signing

2003-10-04 Thread Jerry Haltom
I've been doing some research into the current state of GPG signing official apt sources. I've found a few conversations on this mailing circa 2000-2001 about creating a Packages.gpg and a seperate update procedure for updating this file, and then verifying Packages.gz against it. I cannot find a

Re: New glibc with NPTL in experimental

2003-10-04 Thread Joel Baker
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:49:17AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:21:21PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > I've just placed a new glibc package for experimental in incoming. > > libc6-i686 is new, so it may be a few days before it shows up in the > > archive. These packag

Re: New glibc with NPTL in experimental

2003-10-04 Thread Brian May
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:21:21PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > I've just placed a new glibc package for experimental in incoming. > libc6-i686 is new, so it may be a few days before it shows up in the > archive. These packages should be considered _extremely experimental_, as > neither the

Re: Package verification and "/usr/bin/install" tool replacements

2003-10-04 Thread Brian May
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:42:36PM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > Although your proposition seems more complete, have you try > debsums and checksecurity? debsums with the following > feature in /etc/apt/apt.conf > > DPkg::Post-Invoke { > "debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/arc

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-10-04 Thread Herbert Xu
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) I was not suggesting very fine grained "modular" patch for each issues. >I was expecting something like 3-4 stage patches. > >* 1st big patch: cramfs etc. which are essential to be Debian kernel >* 2nd big patch: basic bug fixes. (No fe

Discussion - Free the Debian Open Use logo

2003-10-04 Thread Simon Law
Debian Open Use Logo License Copyright (c) 1999 Software in the Public Interest -This logo or a modified version may be used by anyone to refer to the -Debian project, but does not indicate endorsement by the project. +This logo or a modified version may be used by anyone, but does not +indicate

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-10-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, thanks the good maintenance by Herbert, On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:12:43AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I'd really like to hear is a reaction from Herbert to: > > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in

Re: Looking for a co-maintainer for adduser

2003-10-04 Thread John Hasler
Scott James Remnant wrote: > Some of us would like to see Perl taken out of base as well :) Marc writes: > That would be an awfully nice thing to have. But it would not be nice to not have the things that would leave with it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmw

Re: Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)

2003-10-04 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:18:58PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Aptitude is nice power tool for dealing with 6000+ packages (or > whatever it is now) try twice that: $ apt-cache search .\* | wc -l 12204 -- gram, who wonders if this could be getting out of hand signature.asc Description: Di

Re: Looking for a co-maintainer for adduser

2003-10-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 18:49:40 +0100, Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Some of us would like to see Perl taken out of base as well :) That would be an awfully nice thing to have. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Ha

Re: Package verification and "/usr/bin/install" tool replacements

2003-10-04 Thread Fabien Ninoles
Kim Lester wrote: Although debian packages may contain md5sums it seems package verification is not available (unless I have missed something). Although your proposition seems more complete, have you try debsums and checksecurity? debsums with the following feature in /etc/apt/apt.conf DPkg::Post

Re: Annoyances of aptitude (Was: Where are we now?) (Was: Bits from the RM)

2003-10-04 Thread Dylan Thurston
On 2003-10-03, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see. It's a lot simpler, from the point of view of maintainability, > to have a single user's manual for both offline and online perusal. > > One nice way to make this less of an issue would be to rewrite the > documentation in a str

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Re: Annoyances of aptitude (Was: Where are we now?) (Was: Bits from the RM)

2003-10-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:07:00PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > The way this garbage collection is implemented is one of the main > > dislikes I have about aptitude. Aptitude contains a database with > > packages that have been installed through aptitude; as such, it contains > > no information

Re: Annoyances of aptitude

2003-10-04 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 21:40:06 +0200, MichaÅ Politowski wrote: [locating broken packages] > Usually I just press l~b Cool, thanks. I didn't know that trick. (The German translation of the "l" feature is misleading, no it's actually totally wrong... It never occurred to me that this keybinding could

RE: Package verification and "/usr/bin/install" tool replacements

2003-10-04 Thread Kim Lester
debsums only does part of the job. File permissions and ownerships are just as important to completely verify a package. It may not matter to "the guy at home with a linux box" but it greatly matters to "the admin managing a large system". Debian does not appear to cater for this latter group My

Re: How tightly should main be self-contained?

2003-10-04 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:05:17AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:40:27AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > > Some users have approached me about my packaging on tvtime, which lives > > in main. It benefits greatly from libdscaler, a contrib package. They > > are asking that