Re: *-dbg packages and lack of documentation

2008-09-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Russ Allbery: > Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Kind of implies that it is an executable and at least I became >> confused. A single sentence README would address the confusion of the >> ignorant! > > Yeah, that's probably not a bad idea. Adding a small README.Debian to > *-dbg pack

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ben Hutchings: > Depending on the architecture, this and several other files in /proc may > be required by the Boehm garbage collector which is part of gcj's > implementation of the Java virtual machine. The quoted message comes > from this: > > ptr_t GC_linux_stack_base(void) > { > /*

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 12:54 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:43:40AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. > > What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? Can packages assume > > that /proc/self/stat exist

Re: RFC: DKMS - Dynamic Kernel Module Support

2008-09-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 10:02 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > That may be true for an out-of-tree modules. However, let's recall that > Fedora ships with Latest kernel and Debian (Stable) doesn't. Hence > Debian should be more concerened with backporting. Right now Debian does have the latest stable

Bug#498921: ITP: liborlite-perl -- Extremely light weight SQLite-specific ORM

2008-09-14 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: liborlite-perl Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/ORLite/ * License : same as Perl (GPL-1+ or Artistic)

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-14 Thread Daniel Baumann
John Goerzen wrote: > I'm a bit surprised they wouldn't include mdadm for the -desktop images, because the desktop tasks do not include it (and it's already too big anyway). for the rescue image flavour, it's included. however, the point is to build your own anyway.. we can't prebuild images for

Re: Should selinux be standard?

2008-09-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 14 September 2008 20:40, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although I agree with your basic question, I do wonder how it can be a > regression from Etch as selinux was also "priority standard" for Etch. > It was my impression that selinux installation had become faster recently > aft

Re: Should selinux be standard?

2008-09-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 14 September 2008 19:08, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to ask whether selinux should really be installed by default. > On the Linksys NSLU2, a very popular device with only 32 MB of RAM, > installing selinux-policy-default takes at least half an hour (with > heavy

Re: Should selinux be standard?

2008-09-14 Thread Frans Pop
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I'd like to ask whether selinux should really be installed by default. > On the Linksys NSLU2, a very popular device with only 32 MB of RAM, > installing selinux-policy-default takes at least half an hour (with > heavy swapping) or possibly even more.  This is a major regr

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:43:40AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. > What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? Can packages assume > that /proc/self/stat exist in a buildd environment? There are packages that require it. I

Re: Should selinux be standard?

2008-09-14 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 14 September 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I'd like to ask whether selinux should really be installed by default. > On the Linksys NSLU2, a very popular device with only 32 MB of RAM, > installing selinux-policy-default takes at least half an hour (with > heavy swapping) or possibly eve

Should selinux be standard?

2008-09-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I'd like to ask whether selinux should really be installed by default. On the Linksys NSLU2, a very popular device with only 32 MB of RAM, installing selinux-policy-default takes at least half an hour (with heavy swapping) or possibly even more. This is a major regression from the installer experi

Bug#498893: ITP: libfile-localizenewlines-perl -- Localize the newlines for one or more files

2008-09-14 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libfile-localizenewlines-perl Version : 1.10 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-LocalizeNewlines * License : same a

Re: RFC: DKMS - Dynamic Kernel Module Support

2008-09-14 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim, 2008-09-14 at 09:15 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 13 septembre 2008 à 07:08 +, Tzafrir Cohen a écrit : > > And as I mentioned before, the problem with those generated debs is > that > > you can not install two of them on your system if you have two > different > > kernel va

Re: RFC: DKMS - Dynamic Kernel Module Support

2008-09-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 13 septembre 2008 à 07:08 +, Tzafrir Cohen a écrit : > And as I mentioned before, the problem with those generated debs is that > you can not install two of them on your system if you have two different > kernel variants. Then it is a bug in the Debian dkms package, and one that shou