master mail problems: A temporary workaround

2005-12-18 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 01:41:55AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:33:54PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Lionel Elie Mamane: >>> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:30:52PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The fact that my primary MX is only available through IPv6, an

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> use nameif. > > This has been suggested before but AIUI nameif has problems/limitations > renaming eth0. Well, you just cant use existing names (this could be fixed, however i am not sure if this is needed) I am currently not sure which limitation t

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:34:04PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > I don't know of any autobuilders that build packages from sid against > build-dependencies in experimental. So that's one problem. Another (mentioned previously) is the case of two packages, A and B that often should be installed t

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 07:38:41PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > is there any possibility > > of putting it under /lib/run or /boot/early-writable-fs instead of > > introducing a new directory on / that's of very limited use? > That is certainly possible, but I don't see anyt

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:14:19PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 18 December 2005 15:34, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > I hope this will be solved soon! > > use nameif. > This has been suggested before but AIUI nameif has problems/limitations > r

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Bug#343662: fsck errors halting boot after upgrade]

2005-12-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Theodore Ts'o wrote: > (for example if the US Congress > changes the definition of daylight savings time), That should be "when", not "if", unfortunately. AFAIK, they've already done it. On my system, /bin, /etc, /lib, and /sbin together are 156M; /usr/share/zoneinfo is 5.5M. So, while a 3.5% in

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:27:36PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Steinar H. Gunderson: > > > My comments are about the same as on IRC: > > > > - Disk space is cheap, bandwidth is cheap. > > Depends. Decent IP service costs a few EUR per gigabyte in most parts > of the world. I wish we coul

Re: udev event completion order (was: Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting))

2005-12-18 Thread Kay Sievers
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 09:52:42AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 18, Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > An alternative appears to be to process events in series... or maybe > > delaying > This was the precedent approach, and it's much slower (also, it cannot > be implemented anymo

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > If /run is tmpfs, it means everything stored there eats virtual memory. > So a musch metter strategy would be to move everything from /run to > /var/run at the end of the boot process. tmpfs stores run ressources in vm more efficiently (since they are ot

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marco d'Itri said: > On Dec 18, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > FWIW I asked Chris Yeoh for his opinion on the name and he said that > > /run sounded preferable to both /etc/run and /lib/run. > Competition with /root in tab-completion, for a start. Well,

Re: xmcd

2005-12-18 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 the mental interface of adrian told: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 15:40:46 +0100 (+0100), Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 the mental interface of > > adrian told: > [snip] > > > Hi, sorry for not responding earlier, I've less and less time for > > > Debian stuff

Bug#343940: ITP: gecode -- generic constraint development environment

2005-12-18 Thread Kari Pahula
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gecode Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Christian Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL : http://www.gecode.org/ * License : BSD Description : generic constrai

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A simple assurance that your package will be rejected from the NEW queue if no ftp-master approves it with

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 12/18/05, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:15:31PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > I guess what I'm asking is, why are tar and other applications using > > gzip instead of a generic library that handles all > > compression/decompression and can be

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:11:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Among other things, because it doesn't do the obnoxious auto-indent thing > that you have to work around with :set paste. I have no objections to vim Well, this is a matter of configuration, not really a matter of editor. Debian's vi

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:05:40PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Oh, another possible advantage to having vim-tiny in base is that it > includes the vimtutor command, which is a fairly good way to learn how The vimtutor content is not available if vim-runtime is not installed, and it wont be in the ba

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:44:13PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Glenn Maynard wrote: > > ":set compatible" will switch Vim's behavior for all of these, except for: > > Nope, I was running vim in compatible mode (the default without a > ~/.vimrc) for all of them. /etc/vim/vimrc sets "nocompatible", a

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Anthony Towns] > I realise your heart's set on /run, but is there any possibility > of putting it under /lib/run or /boot/early-writable-fs instead of > introducing a new directory on / that's of very limited use? /lib is no more appropriate than /sbin. That it is already overloaded in the FHS

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:54:42PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Will it work fine over a serial console? Is it fine for ex-Solaris/HP-UX > /AIX admins who may have got used to nvi? As an ex-Solaris/AIX admin I can say that I used vim there too (except when the filesystem containing vim did n

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
Glenn Maynard wrote: > ":set compatible" will switch Vim's behavior for all of these, except for: Nope, I was running vim in compatible mode (the default without a ~/.vimrc) for all of them. > In "compatible", arrow keys don't work at all in insert mode, like vi > ("set esckeys" to revert). They

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:03:37PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > 1. POSIX (or at least SuS v3) does not gaurentee the existence of /dev/shm, > or that if it does exist, that it can be be read as a block device, or that > if it can, it has a file system on it. AFAIK /dev/shm is just an internal deta

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:24:40PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Reality check: packages have been using it for a long time and the world > has not fallen yet. Emphasis on "yet". /dev/shm was created to be used uniquely by shm_open(), and violating this _will_ cause some problems after a certain l

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:57:17PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I'm one of the people who prefers nvi over vim. I do so quite strongly, > > because I find that nvi obeys my fingers and vim does not. The > > differences are minute, of course, but they are really irritating. >

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:15:31PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > I guess what I'm asking is, why are tar and other applications using > gzip instead of a generic library that handles all > compression/decompression and can be easily extended. General complexity, I'd guess. If you want “easily

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Steinar H Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:23:56PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> Why would that stop working if you switch compression schemes? I guess >> tar is coded to use gzip with -z and bzip2 with -j, but why is there no >> generic way to add coders/de

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:50:33AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:57:35AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> Under Linux, can't all of this be done with mount --move anyway? I'm not > >> convinced that we actually need a /run

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 12/18/05, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:23:56PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > Why would that stop working if you switch compression schemes? > > I guess tar is coded to use gzip with -z and bzip2 with -j, but why is > > there no generic way to

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:54:42PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> Count me as an nvi person. Vim is great - but not as the default in >> the most basic system, no matter how stripped down. > Why is nvi better if the size of nvi and vim-tiny are comp

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Rich Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Dec 18, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> FWIW I asked Chris Yeoh for his opinion on the name and he said that >> /run sounded preferable to both /etc/run and /lib/run. > Competition with /root in tab-completion, for a start. Under what circ

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:09:05PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Given the need, and now the reality, of /run, is there any need for a > separate /var/run? I vote we migrate to /var/run -> /run, at least in > the default install. If /run is tmpfs, it means everything stored there eats virtual

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:23:56PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Why would that stop working if you switch compression schemes? > I guess tar is coded to use gzip with -z and bzip2 with -j, but why is > there no generic way to add coders/decoders (codecs) to tar (and other > applications that w

Re: xmcd

2005-12-18 Thread adrian
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 15:40:46 +0100 (+0100), Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 the mental interface of > adrian told: [snip] > > Hi, sorry for not responding earlier, I've less and less time for > > Debian stuff as time goes by (busy). There are substantial changes > > upstream i

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 09:08:21PM +0100, Luca Brivio wrote: >> Not to mention that a DVD-R can fit about three million times as much >> data as a floppy disk, which was the dominant way of distributing >> software at the time. We can continue keep playing these number >> games, but I don't really

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
Lars Wirzenius wrote: > In the name of reducing base's size, I would support a policy change > here, excempting vi clones, but I suspect I'd be shouted down. > Personally, I think "standard" would be the appropriate priority for for > the vi clone. In which case it wouldn't really reduce base's si

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2005-12-18 kello 14:57 -0500, Joey Hess kirjoitti: > Yeah, I understand the feeling (coming at it from the exact opposite > side). It would be helpful if there were an analysis of the major differences > somewhere; the ones I am most aware of incude: I'm not personally very interested in this.

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Luca Brivio
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:02:55 +0100 "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to mention that a DVD-R can fit about three million times as much > data as a floppy disk, which was the dominant way of distributing > software at the time. We can continue keep playing these number > games

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
Oh, another possible advantage to having vim-tiny in base is that it includes the vimtutor command, which is a fairly good way to learn how to use vim (or any vi; it avoids most vim-isms). The tutor is how I finally learned (to love) vi after years of badly using and loathing it as the base editor

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Will it work fine over a serial console? Yes, vim works fine over a serial console. You might want to turn off part of the status line if using it at less than 9600 baud. > Is it fine for ex-Solaris/HP-UX > /AIX admins who may have got used to nvi? I imagine they might

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I'm one of the people who prefers nvi over vim. I do so quite strongly, > because I find that nvi obeys my fingers and vim does not. The > differences are minute, of course, but they are really irritating. > Unfortunately, I can't enlist them properly, since my fingers don't

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:54:42PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:38:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > There are obviously users who will prefer nvi to vim (and others who > > prefer some other vi), but I get the impression there are rather more who > > prefer vim, it's

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:34:04PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > > > Six months is a lot of time; and experimental should provide you with > > the space and machine power to handle the rebuilding. > > I don't know of any autobuilders that build packages from sid against > build-dependencies in e

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Mikhail Sobolev
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:23:56PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 12/18/05, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:56:10PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > > Why would this be huge? > > > Why is it that hard to plugin another codec? > > > > You'd hav

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Dec 18, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 1. POSIX (or at least SuS v3) does not gaurentee the existence of /dev/shm, >> or that if it does exist, that it can be be read as a block device, or that

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-18 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:24:39AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> > No, that would be "unsuitable for release". Which is a problem that >> > should either be fixed quickly, or means you're trying to make a big >> > enough change that you should be working out how to get it d

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2005-12-18 kello 20:18 +0100, Marco d'Itri kirjoitti: > > Sounds it sounds to me like it is a bad idea to use it. > Only because you have no clue of what you are talking about. Marco, would please keep the discussion technical, and not attack the people taking part, even if you think they're

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Andreas Metzler: > Afaict from the webpage 7zip (LZMA) is quite a bit slower bzip2. - > Have you perhaps run some benchmarks? Memory use during decompression would be interesting, too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:34:56PM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > Hi > > I've run some scripts to find out the size of binary pakcages in debian > and how theycould be made smaller, here's the results: > > http://www.linuks.mine.nu/sizematters/ FWIW : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Dpkg7Zip Actual mai

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2005-12-18 kello 20:17 +0100, Norbert Tretkowski kirjoitti: > * Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > In fact, given that it's good for base to be small, I'd like to > > suggest that we don't have more than one editor there. > > We already have two editors in the base system, nvi and nano. Yes, that bein

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:03:37PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > 1. POSIX (or at least SuS v3) does not gaurentee the existence of /dev/shm, > or that if it does exist, that it can be be read as a block device, or that > if it can, it has a file system on it. > 2. Neither does FHS. > 3. The Linux 2.6

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steinar H. Gunderson: > My comments are about the same as on IRC: > > - Disk space is cheap, bandwidth is cheap. Depends. Decent IP service costs a few EUR per gigabyte in most parts of the world. > Thus, anything sacrificing lots of human power and CPU power to save on disk > or bandwidth

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> A simple assurance that your package will be rejected from the NEW queue >>> if no ftp-master approves it within 2 weeks would actually be a benefit. >> Why?

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 12/18/05, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:56:10PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > Why would this be huge? > > Why is it that hard to plugin another codec? > > You'd have to rewrite about every single tool in the world handling .debs, > make up a t

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 18, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW I asked Chris Yeoh for his opinion on the name and he said that > /run sounded preferable to both /etc/run and /lib/run. Competition with /root in tab-completion, for a start. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 18, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. POSIX (or at least SuS v3) does not gaurentee the existence of /dev/shm, > or that if it does exist, that it can be be read as a block device, or that > if it can, it has a file system on it. > 2. Neither does FHS. > 3. The Linux 2.6 device li

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 18, "Andrew M.A. Cater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will it work fine over a serial console? Is it fine for ex-Solaris/HP-UX Sure, I often use vim over serial consoles. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Lars Wirzenius wrote: > In fact, given that it's good for base to be small, I'd like to > suggest that we don't have more than one editor there. We already have two editors in the base system, nvi and nano. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2005-12-18 kello 13:38 -0500, Joey Hess kirjoitti: > One argument I can think of for keeping nvi in base is that it is the > closest to bug-compatible with the original vi. However, I don't think > that will prevent hardcore vi users from easily using vim-tiny if > it's in base. I'm one of the

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Thomas Hood
Anthony Towns wrote: > is there any possibility > of putting it under /lib/run or /boot/early-writable-fs instead of > introducing a new directory on / that's of very limited use? That is certainly possible, but I don't see anything wrong with putting it at the top level either. FWIW I asked Chr

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:38:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > There are obviously users who will prefer nvi to vim (and others who > prefer some other vi), but I get the impression there are rather more who > prefer vim, it's probably the most commonly used vi in linux these days. Count me as an nvi

switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
As you can see below and in the BTS, vim's maintainer has managed to create a vim-tiny package that is vim without some of the extras such as syntax highlighting. It's now only marginally larger than nvi, which is the standard vi included in the base system (amazingly, it's smaller than nano, the o

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 12:59 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:34:56PM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > > I've run some scripts to find out the size of binary pakcages in debian > > and how theycould be made smaller, here's the results: > > My comments are about the same

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:02 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:41:03AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >> - CPU doesn't grow nearly as fast as those three. > > In 1995 I had a Pentium 166 and a 56 kbps modem. Now, today the fastest > > CPU you can get from Intel is 3

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Joe Smith
"Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Furthermore, /dev/shm is a mount point with a _very_ specific function. It's a bad idea to start using it for something else. Reality check: packages have been using it for a long time and the world has not fallen yet

Re: Please test new sysvinit, sysv-rc, initscripts

2005-12-18 Thread Joe Smith
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I won't complain, I'll just send a friendly assassin to your house :-) A friendly assasin? Is that the type that comes in, talks with you for a while, and eventually offers you a poisioned beer? -- To UNSUBS

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Dec 18, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How strongly can I put this? /dev/shm is for *shared memory*, not for >> random junk. /dev/shm is for POSIX shared memory and semaphores > /dev/shm is

Bug#343897: ftp.debian.org: Please remove all webmin related packages

2005-12-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist I am asking for the immediate removal of the following source packages and all their binaries: usermin usermin-contrib webmin webmin-cluster webmin-contrib webmin-exim webmin-extra webmin-optional webmin-snort webmin-virtual-server It should be blindin

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 18, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How strongly can I put this? /dev/shm is for *shared memory*, not for > random junk. /dev/shm is for POSIX shared memory and semaphores /dev/shm is a tmpfs which happens to be used by POSIX SHM. I have not seen yet a good reason why it should n

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 18, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not needed (since we have /dev/shm/), so it's harmful. > Does not follow. Cars aren't needed either (you can always take the > train, or go by bus), but that doesn't make them harmful. Cars and trains are different thigs, but a tmpfs i

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:26:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It does matter, because /run needs to be usable before other > filesystems I realise your heart's set on /run, but is there any possibility of putting it under /lib/run or /boot/early-writable-fs instead of introducing a new dir

Kernel 2.4 in Etch (was: Re: Re: /run vs /var/run)

2005-12-18 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Are we seriously expecting to ship etch with 2.4 kernels? Is anyone still doing active security support for it? This point isn't too bad yet. As you've seen 2.4 had a security update a few days ago. Sure, it's from August, but 2.6 isn't doing better anyway. Some Debian kernel team people (suc

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> A simple assurance that your package will be rejected from the NEW queue >> if no ftp-master approves it within 2 weeks would actually be a benefit. > > Why? > > It seems like, if that's the way that you want

Bug#343887: ITP: libpod-tests-perl -- Perl extension for excts embedded tests and code examples from POD

2005-12-18 Thread Jonas Genannt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Genannt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libpod-tests-perl Version : 0.18 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/ * License : GPL Description : Perl extensi

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 18 December 2005 15:34, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > I hope this will be solved soon! > > use nameif. This has been suggested before but AIUI nameif has problems/limitations renaming eth0. The correct solution seems to be to use udev rewriting

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Have you perhaps run some benchmarks? Thanks to Kingsley Morse Jr.: http://adn.diwi.org/debian/p7zip/7za.jpg Even more precise at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8051 -- adn Mohammed Adnène Trojette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I hope this will be solved soon! use nameif. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Bernd Eckenfels wrote: >> and if it is placed in a tmpfs (which is really the best thing >> anyway) it doesnt matter under which mountpoint it is located. > > It does matter, because /run needs to be usable before other > filesystems are mounted, and a f

Re: xmcd

2005-12-18 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 the mental interface of adrian told: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:28:18 +0100 (+0100), Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 the mental interface of > > Matthew Palmer told: > > > > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:37:28PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > does

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > However there a big differences: /var/run is much smaller than /run, and if sorry i meant to say: /var/run is much smaller (bytewise) as /usr/lib. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:37:28PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 18, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have yet to hear any strong reason why we should _not_ implement > > /run. > > I do not count "It's ugly!" as a strong reason. > It's not needed (since we have /dev/shm/)

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:56:10PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Why would this be huge? > Why is it that hard to plugin another codec? You'd have to rewrite about every single tool in the world handling .debs, make up a transition plan and upgrade from that. Not to mention that you'd have to

Re: buildd administration -- TeX related FTBFS

2005-12-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I realize TeX is tough program to maintain. Thanks to Frank. One quick and easy way to avoid TeX related build issues are to avoid using TeX related tools during build time. So the results will be Debian only ships documentations in plain text and HTML. (No PS and no PDF). But is it what w

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:41:03AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >> - CPU doesn't grow nearly as fast as those three. > In 1995 I had a Pentium 166 and a 56 kbps modem. Now, today the fastest > CPU you can get from Intel is 3.6 GHz. However, the fastest dial modem > you can get today is still

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Dec 18, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have yet to hear any strong reason why we should _not_ implement >> /run. >> I do not count "It's ugly!" as a strong reason. > It's not needed

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 12/18/05, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:34:56PM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > > I've run some scripts to find out the size of binary pakcages in debian > > and how theycould be made smaller, here's the results: > > My comments are about the same as

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 12/18/05, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that the biggest problem is really updates. Packages like > XFree86 (no X.org) and Openoffice.org are *huge*. A simple security > update to one of those packages causes all subordinate binary packages > to get a version bump. That

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Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:34:56PM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote: I've run some scripts to find out the size of binary pakcages in debian and how theycould be made smaller, here's the results: My comments are about the same as on IRC: - Disk space is cheap, bandwi

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 18, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have yet to hear any strong reason why we should _not_ implement > /run. > I do not count "It's ugly!" as a strong reason. It's not needed (since we have /dev/shm/), so it's harmful. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digita

Re: xmcd

2005-12-18 Thread adrian
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:28:18 +0100 (+0100), Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 the mental interface of > Matthew Palmer told: > > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:37:28PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > does one know why xmcd isn't upgraded since 31 of May in 2003? The > > > pa

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Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(OK, this time reformatted to make my webmail composer happy.) Marco d'Itri wrote: > I do not remember a consensus about this. Perhaps the last hold-outs can be convinced this time? :) Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > and if it is placed in a tmpfs (which is really the best thing > anyway) it doesnt

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marco d'Itri wrote: > I do not remember a consensus about this. Perhaps the last hold-outs can be convinced this time? :) Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > and if it is placed in a tmpfs (which is really the best thing anyway) > it doesnt matter under which mountpoint it is located. It does matter,

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
2005/12/18, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've run some scripts to find out the size of binary pakcages in debian > > and how theycould be made smaller, here's the results: > > > http://www.linuks.mine.nu/sizematters/ > > Afaict from the webpage

Re: Debian menu entries(was Re: Debian and the desktop)

2005-12-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:23:54PM -0800, Eduardo Silva wrote: > As a lurker to debian-devel, I would like to point to > all a deficiency in the current KDE way of naming > menus, and hope that if Debian menu goes this way, it > should improve on it. > > The current way KDE names programs is: > Ty

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've run some scripts to find out the size of binary pakcages in debian > and how theycould be made smaller, here's the results: > http://www.linuks.mine.nu/sizematters/ Afaict from the webpage 7zip (LZMA) is quite a bit slower bzip2. - Have you perhaps

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:34:56PM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > I've run some scripts to find out the size of binary pakcages in debian > and how theycould be made smaller, here's the results: My comments are about the same as on IRC: - Disk space is cheap, bandwidth is cheap. - CPU doesn't

Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-18 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Hi I've run some scripts to find out the size of binary pakcages in debian and how theycould be made smaller, here's the results: http://www.linuks.mine.nu/sizematters/ Comments are welcome... Yours, Gürkan

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Re: Please test new sysvinit, sysv-rc, initscripts

2005-12-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:39:53AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> Changes in Debian are generally decided by package maintainers, not by >> consensus. > Good to know. So I'm happy that nobody will complain when I will make > udev mandatory. I won't complain, I'll just send a friendly assassin to yo

Re: Please test new sysvinit, sysv-rc, initscripts

2005-12-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marco d'Itri] >> > I do not remember a consensus about this. >> Changes in Debian are generally decided by package maintainers, not by >> consensus. > Good to know. So I'm happy that nobody will complain when I will make > udev mandatory. You seem to have mixed up lack of complaints with decision

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