Re: migration and installation 50 THOUSAND machines

2007-10-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > As PART of a study about using Debian GNU / Linux for a massive deployment > from 5 thousand > up to 50 thousand machines (desktops AND servers) geographically distributed > across a country, [...] > Do you have some url more suitable for reading? > The similar sized and profile Debian

Re: migration and installation 50 THOUSAND machines

2007-10-11 Thread Henning Glawe
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 05:58:16PM -0700, andremachado wrote: > Please, verify if a relevant tool is missing or if there are errors and or > omissions. well, as one of the FAI developers I must say that it is _very_ well suited for system management (using the "softupdate" feature and a SCM like

Work-needing packages report for Oct 12, 2007

2007-10-11 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 314 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 77 (new: 4) Total number of packages requeste

Re: migration and installation 50 THOUSAND machines

2007-10-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Andre, I would suggest using most of the ideas outlined in http://infrastructures.org/ - though the text on the website is a bit dated, you can manage a large infrastructure of 50K systems combining the conceptual framework laid out by Steve Traugott, with Debian tools and modern configuration

Bug#446321: ITP: docbook-xsl-xalan -- Java extensions for use with DocBook XML stylesheets (Xalan)

2007-10-11 Thread Daniel Leidert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: docbook-xsl-xalan Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Norman Walsh and members of the DocBook project. * URL : http://wiki.docbook.org/

migration and installation 50 THOUSAND machines

2007-10-11 Thread andremachado
Hello, As PART of a study about using Debian GNU / Linux for a massive deployment from 5 thousand up to 50 thousand machines (desktops AND servers) geographically distributed across a country, I searched for some installation, configuration and config management tools for this task size [0], [1

Bug#446316: ITP: ptop -- ptop is a utility that displays current state of PostgreSQL processes

2007-10-11 Thread Adam Majer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ptop Version : 3.6.1~b1 Upstream Author : Mark Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pgfoundry.org/projects/ptop/ * License : BSD License Programming Lang: C Description

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > o Per-locale directory handling has been improved. Directories such > as "fr.UTF-8" may be used for occasions when it is appropriate to > specify the character set but not the country, and so a full > locale name is inconvenient. > > o There is

Re: Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system

2007-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems every other semi-controversial ITP gets an obligatory "why > package this when we have X,Y,Z instead?" reply, although seemingly > never from an ftp-master or mirror maintainer or anyone else who is > actually impacted by archive sizes :-( Consid

Mad promo!

2007-10-11 Thread Rob Pool
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Bug#446292: ITP: libtext-bidi-perl -- Unicode bidi algorithm using libfribidi

2007-10-11 Thread Lior Kaplan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtext-bidi-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Moshe Kamensky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~kamensky/Text-Bidi-0.03/ * License : Artistic Program

Re: Intend to hijack gpsd

2007-10-11 Thread Fathi Boudra
Hi, > The maintainer was pinged by the main sponsor (pere) and me without any > reaction, also the last upload (in February) containing i18n patches > only happened after a ping by mail and an offer to sponsor the upload > (done by bubulle). I pinged current maintainer around june too, without an

Re: Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system

2007-10-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 11 octobre 2007 à 15:01 +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : > It seems every other semi-controversial ITP gets an obligatory "why > package this when we have X,Y,Z instead?" reply, although seemingly > never from an ftp-master or mirror maintainer or anyone else who is > actually impacted by arch

keep Packages.IndexDiff for two weeks please

2007-10-11 Thread jidanni
Can somebody up the time the Packages.IndexDiff and associated files are kept on the mirrors from one week to two please? These very few more bytes would save low bandwidth users hours in case they don't return home within the seven days currently allotted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-11 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > Once we have a consensus on install locations, dh_installman should IMO > be changed to do the recoding automatically; to do this, it needs to be > told the source encoding. Joey, what do you think is the best way to do > this? Options that come to mind are: > > * --languag

Re: Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system

2007-10-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:41:21PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Given the great abundance of revision control systems already packaged > for Debian, what is the point of adding another? Especially when it is > non-free. Firstly, as it is non-free, it isn't really going "into Debian". Second

Bug#446255: ITP: svn-pusher -- Propagate changesets between two different svn repositories

2007-10-11 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package: wnpp Owner: Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: svn-pusher Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://web-cpan.berlios.de/modules/SVN-Pusher/ *

Re: using testing/stable/unstable names with cdebootstrap

2007-10-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is there a reason to not use stable/testing/unstable as the names in >>> config/suites file ? >>> >>> Currently it only has code names like etch/lenny/sid

Re: Bug#446050: Liferea dies with sqlite 3.5

2007-10-11 Thread Lars Lindner
On 10/11/07, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > * Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-11 11:54]: > > tag 446050 help > > thanks > > > > The current version of liferea in Debian unstable (1.4.3-1), as well > > as the latest upstream version (1.4.5) fail if used togethe

UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
I have uploaded man-db 2.5.0-1, which includes the following changes of note: o Per-locale directory handling has been improved. Directories such as "fr.UTF-8" may be used for occasions when it is appropriate to specify the character set but not the country, and so a fu

Re: Bug#446028: ITP: tg3dfsg -- firmware free Broadcom Tigon3 network driver

2007-10-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 09:42 +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: > Hi, > > Robert Edmonds wrote: > > The only rationale for removing the *firmware* is compliance with GR > > 2006-004... > > Am I missing something here? Didn't that GR fail? > > http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_004 There's no need for

Re: Liferea dies with sqlite 3.5

2007-10-11 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-11 11:54]: > tag 446050 help > thanks > > The current version of liferea in Debian unstable (1.4.3-1), as well > as the latest upstream version (1.4.5) fail if used together with > libsqlite3-0 from experimental (3.5.1-1). The program w

Re: [Liferea-devel] Liferea dies with sqlite 3.5

2007-10-11 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: > tag 446050 help > thanks > > The current version of liferea in Debian unstable (1.4.3-1), as well > as the latest upstream version (1.4.5) fail if used together with > libsqlite3-0 from experimental (3.5.1-1). The program works correctly > with the versions in t

Intend to hijack gpsd

2007-10-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, gpsd[1] is an important dependency for several GIS related packages and currently in a very bad shape, it has one (almost 3 years old) RC bug, which resulted in a removal from testing some days ago, there're also 20 other open bugs, many of them including patches. There is also a new upstream

Re: Bug#446028: ITP: tg3dfsg -- firmware free Broadcom Tigon3 network driver

2007-10-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:44:24AM +, Robert Edmonds wrote: > On 2007-10-10, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The attached patch should apply on the pruned version. > Applies but does not compile: Yep. Fixed. There are some magic constants in the code ... Bastian -- Knowledge, s

Re: Bug#446028: ITP: tg3dfsg -- firmware free Broadcom Tigon3 network driver

2007-10-11 Thread Per Olofsson
Hi, Robert Edmonds wrote: > The only rationale for removing the *firmware* is compliance with GR > 2006-004... Am I missing something here? Didn't that GR fail? http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_004 -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T