On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:55:54AM +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Yes, that's the ideal solution. In the real world, my suggestion may
> improve the situation faster.
>
> Just got an other idea, slower too, but makes the "ideal solution" more
> realistic: Someone writes a tool
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, OcFt 04, 2006 at 09:32:16AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> However, I'd like to point out that this problem is not special to TeX.
>> Many programs create ~/.progname directories when run for the first time
>> - and these directories contain configur
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
In order to speed up the production of the package when a new upstream
release becomes available, I'd like to get help. Being able to upload
the package within short delay is greatly appreciated.
YOU don't have to be an official Debian Developer to help.
Please con
* Gabor Gombas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 05:25:57PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
>
> > Shouldn't it be possible to move the alternatives around in an atomic
> > fashion? ln -sf bar foo.tmp ; mv foo.tmp foo . Or am I missing
> > something?
>
> - If you set up the alternat
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> My point is that `dpkg-reconfigure exim4` is what users seem to
> expect to work (without reading documentation). Therefore I
> suggested adding some additional information at the point that
> doesn't behave to what users expect. I didn't propose how t
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 07:22:29PM +0200, HXC wrote:
> I am wondering if it is possible to use the Minix kernel in Debian. If
> so wouldn't that be an interesting project to release a Debian minix
> version? (just like Debian BSD and Debian Hurd :-) )
Hi HXC,
with FLOSS, there is nothing preventi
Simon Josefsson wrote:
http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments
A useful thing to add to that page would be simple instructions on how
those authoring IETF documents could make them available under a
DFSG-free licence (presumably in parallel to the IETF one) - perhaps
some sample boilerpl
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 05:25:57PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> Shouldn't it be possible to move the alternatives around in an atomic
> fashion? ln -sf bar foo.tmp ; mv foo.tmp foo . Or am I missing
> something?
- If you set up the alternatives in preinst, then there is a time when
the symlink
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:09:21PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: wishlist
>
> "general" is not the best package to report this to, but since there's
> no "buildd" package, and I don't want it to be completely forgotten,
> I'll report it here. I'm quoting from a bugrepo
Hi,
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> NOKUBI Takatsugu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:37:25 +0200 (MEST),
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is Masayuki Hatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?
> I can see his activity on a Japanese local SNS, so he would forget or
> filtered as a spam.
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 06:30:33PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> If I tell the Maintainer: "I am connecting over ssh2 using keys
> to two of my servers in Tehran, I want to install something and
> I choose aptitude for better searching, aptitude crashs and kill
> the ssh session", he/she will c
On 10/16/06, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
HXC wrote:
> I am wondering if it is possible to use the Minix kernel in Debian. If
> so wouldn't that be an interesting project to release a Debian minix
> version? (just like Debian BSD and Debian Hurd :-) )
This same question has
HXC wrote:
I am wondering if it is possible to use the Minix kernel in Debian. If
so wouldn't that be an interesting project to release a Debian minix
version? (just like Debian BSD and Debian Hurd :-) )
Why Minix?Do you like kernel development?Minix just have an application
in teaching
On Wed, OcFt 04, 2006 at 09:32:16AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> However, I'd like to point out that this problem is not special to TeX.
> Many programs create ~/.progname directories when run for the first time
> - and these directories contain configuration options which might cause
> trouble, si
* Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Gustavo Noronha Silva writes ("Re: anticipating the upstart migration"):
> > The alternatives system is quite mature; it suffered from leaving
> > dangling alternatives, but that was ages ago...
>
> The alternatives system must not be used for any of the
Manoj Srivastava writes ("Making SELinux standard for etch"):
> We are at a point where we can support a targeted SELinux
> policy, at least in permissive mode. Everything seems to work for
> me; I can fire up targeted SELinux UML's and only see a few harmless
> log messages.
I am deep
Gustavo Noronha Silva writes ("Re: anticipating the upstart migration"):
> The alternatives system is quite mature; it suffered from leaving
> dangling alternatives, but that was ages ago...
The alternatives system must not be used for any of the essential
files of an essential package.
This is b
John Wright writes ("Re: Bug#390754: O: piuparts -- .deb package installation,
upgrading, and removal testing tool"):
> I would be interested in co-maintaining this package. I don't think I
> have the time to give it the full attention it would need (e.g. filing
> bugs on packages that fail), bu
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 15:34, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Today, I've received at least two reports about people who have set
> Acquire::HTTP::Proxy "false"
>
> From reading apt.conf manpage, the correct configuration is "DIRECT".
>
> Why are people setting this value "false", and do I need to supp
Hi,
it seems that there are problems with section 7.4 of the
developers reference[0].
At the moment the devref says:
"One big problem are packages which were sponsored - the
maintainer is not an official Debian developer. The echelon
information is not available for sponsored people, for
examp
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> Cons: Untranslated message
>> Pros: less annoying by not interrupting installs and upgrades, easy to
>> implement
>
> Cons: Can't be easily seen in non-console frontends, dissapears off of
> the screen
Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote:
On 10/16/06, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
HXC wrote:
> I am wondering if it is possible to use the Minix kernel in
Debian. If
> so wouldn't that be an interesting project to release a Debian
minix
> version? (just lik
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 21:25, Steve Kemp wrote:
> I've recently orphaned all my packages whilst being on a
> bit of hiatus from project work.
>
>* driftnet
>* dsniff
I'll take driftnet. What would a network admin do without it? ;)
I saw that Christian Kujau showed interest in dsniff
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:10:42 +0200
Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:36:20PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
>
> > That's not an argument someone can just 'chown :plugdev' something.
>
> Crap. I knew I'd overlook something. I think you could still prevent
> that wit
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> Cons: Untranslated message
>> Pros: less annoying by not interrupting installs and upgrades, easy to
>> implement
>
> Cons: Can't be easily seen in non-console frontends, dissapears off of
> the scree
I found a FAQ of a project called Preventa, that aim make this port to Minix3:
http://www.braincells.com/debian/index.cgi/search/item=126
the project seems up to date, but not interesting in help of community,
possibly waiting for release with a little maturity.
;), I like this in university en
I've recently orphaned all my packages whilst being on a
bit of hiatus from project work.
Several packages are still unclaimed, although people have
offered on some of them. Please take a look at the list if
you're interested:
* debian-builder[O][O]
* driftnet
* dsniff
* fla
--- Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> On Oct 10, HXC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I am wondering if it is possible to use the Minix kernel in Debian. If
> No.
Why?
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On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 06:30:33PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
>
> > If aptitude kills your ssh session, I'd be inclined to believe more was
> > wrong
> > on your machine than just aptitude, but I guess that's up to whoever ends up
> > debugging this to find out.
>
> The problem is, that the
On 10/09/06 07:42:03PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> Actually, it can't do even that. According to installation
> instructions, it can be run without root privileges, as long as it has
> read/write access to a rather small subset of files in the /sys tree.
> That's how I plan to make it work in t
Am 2006-10-06 18:06:47, schrieb Mikhail Gusarov:
> Do aptitude checks terminal even for 'aptitude install' or 'aptitude
> search'?
Good question! The two offending Servers use Monocrom-Graficcards.
Maybe aptitude can not enter a colormode and crash?
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Ko
Am 2006-10-06 12:34:35, schrieb Steinar H. Gunderson:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 02:42:43AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > And HOW do you install/remove packages if the TUI from aptitude crashs?
>
> You file a bug at the appropriate severity against aptitude?
A bugreport about what?
If I tell
Am 2006-10-06 12:30:27, schrieb Bas Wijnen:
> However, the procedure is outlined on
> http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-beyond-pkging.en.html#s-mia-qa,
> and that mentions debian-devel should be asked before [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is
> this a bug in the developers' reference, or have I
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Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bug #390664 inspired me to look in source packages for IETF RFC/I-D's
> too, and the situation seem to be more problematic. I've put a list
> of packages in testing (as of a few days ago, my mirror is slow) that
> appear to contain IETF RFC or I-D's a
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Cons: Untranslated message
> Pros: less annoying by not interrupting installs and upgrades, easy to
> implement
Cons: Can't be easily seen in non-console frontends, dissapears off of
the screen rapidly, etc.
Using echo to inform the user of thi
On Oct 10, HXC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am wondering if it is possible to use the Minix kernel in Debian. If
No.
> so wouldn't that be an interesting project to release a Debian minix
> version? (just like Debian BSD and Debian Hurd :-) )
As in the Chinese meaning, maybe.
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Hi,
Today, I've received at least two reports about people who have set
Acquire::HTTP::Proxy "false"
From reading apt.conf manpage, the correct configuration is "DIRECT".
Why are people setting this value "false", and do I need to support it
in apt-listbugs?
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:36:20PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> That's not an argument someone can just 'chown :plugdev' something.
Crap. I knew I'd overlook something. I think you could still prevent
that with SELinux though :-)
On the other hand I was thinking about if in your case basically a
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:15:51AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> That is fine for a home network. However, on a network of 1000
> workstations, having to specify group memberships on the clients is kind
> of a pain.
It's not different than having to specify what NFS file systems to mount
or
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:46:58PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:16:45AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > I guess that if the deployment were on a new network, it would be easier
> > to affect how the gids are assigned, since you would be looking for
> > issues like
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:20:26AM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:36:56AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
>
> > That is no longer a reality with groups like plugdev, powerdev and
> > netdev, which users need to be a member of to be able to get the wonders
> > of automatically m
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:08:29 +0200
Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:33:43AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
>
> > Hmm, pam_group doesn't sound to secure to me... what if on one machine
> > gid 110 is www-data and on another plugdev. Then if a user logs in on the
>
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> /var/{run,lock} could be mounted as tmpfs in early userspace. Other
> distributions are already doing this, and a few weeks ago, there was
> discussion about doing this in debian as well.
For various reasons, Debian will go with /lib/init/rw as the ea
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:33:43AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> Hmm, pam_group doesn't sound to secure to me... what if on one machine
> gid 110 is www-data and on another plugdev. Then if a user logs in on the
> second
> machine it will get access to gid 110, make some suid executable, which on
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:16:45AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> I guess that if the deployment were on a new network, it would be easier
> to affect how the gids are assigned, since you would be looking for
> issues like that. However, for an existing network, this can be more of
> a problem
Hi,
On Mon, 09.10.2006 at 21:47:06 +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:42 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > Aurélien GÉRÔME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > As soon as I send a mail, the deamon restarts... Good news! ;)
> > Yep. Thanks magic elve
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> sean finney wrote:
>> funny, i'd have said the ultimate solution was finding a way to make the
>> users learn about looking at README.Debian :)
>>
> I think users can be forgiven not reading every README.Debian in
> packages which are installed by defau
On 10/10/06, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The current plan is to ship GNOME 2.14 in etch [1]. This was a hard
decision to make, but we prefer shipping a rock-solid and polished 2.14
version rather than a buggy 2.16 version with which Ubuntu is having
many issues.
[1] http://oskur
[Tim Dijkstra]
> Hmm, pam_group doesn't sound to secure to me... what if on one
> machine gid 110 is www-data and on another plugdev. Then if a user
> logs in on the second machine it will get access to gid 110, make
> some suid executable, which on another machine ... Well the nfs
> mount is nosui
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:20:26 +0200
Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:36:56AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
>
> > That is no longer a reality with groups like plugdev, powerdev and
> > netdev, which users need to be a member of to be able to get the wonders
> > of a
sean finney wrote:
funny, i'd have said the ultimate solution was finding a way to make the
users learn about looking at README.Debian :)
I think users can be forgiven not reading every README.Debian in
packages which are installed by default.
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:36:56AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> That is no longer a reality with groups like plugdev, powerdev and
> netdev, which users need to be a member of to be able to get the wonders
> of automatically mounted usb-sticks, tweakable power management and
> whatever comes with
At Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:37:25 +0200 (MEST),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is Masayuki Hatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?
I can see his activity on a Japanese local SNS, so he would forget or
filtered as a spam.
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:39:07 -0500
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [Roberto C. Sanchez]
> > That is a problem if I want to server everything up out of LDAP.
> > There really should be a "reserved" range, maybe 100-499 of Debian
> > gids, where they are assigned in a predertmined way
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> "how to reconfigure exim4" is one of the most frequently asked
> questions on #debian.
How about a simple 'echo' when reconfiguring?
When upgrading/installing the exim packages, users most probably won't
notice this. When a user issues a 'dpkg-rec
Alex Pennace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:16:51PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
>> I propose another solution. Introduce init-common with wrappers:
>> * /sbin/init is a binary that
>> - reads a configuration file with the init system name and
>> - creates a file /v
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