/usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-09-22 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
/usr partition, correct? Maybe I have it all wrong. Enlighten me please ;) -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people in

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-21 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
ure themselves with data from the database after installation. Whether questions are (all) asked before or after installation is a secondary point -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian G

To grok grep output....

1999-09-20 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
the second pair of numbers specific to the new version of the file in some way? Please help me out by explaining, you will be my new hero ;) -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian

Re: [PRE-ANNOUNCE] DPKGv2 Project

1999-05-20 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:47:22AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: [snip] > Do not worry, everyone will have a chance to view the code in an anonymous > CVS server (which is already setup). There will be ample documentation > and views on the current spec will be heard. Please consider this a semi > form

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)

1999-05-20 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:54:45PM +1000, Daniel James Patterson wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:44:39PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Speaking of baser instincts, Rationale Rose isn't free software, is it? > > > > Are there any nice (or even not-nice) OO design tools that are? > > > > No

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
nt end, or how you > > might use Java, etc. > The answer is - you can't... All the languages you mentioned have clean C > interacing methods, but no C++ ones. The reason is that C++ is not > interoperable. No, no, no! one word for everyone. CORBA! -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe

time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
; you've made your arguments. I just would like to see an end to this fledgling flamefest ;P -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org "...Noth

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
didn't mean to downplay the largeness of this project. I MEANT to say that it would be a matter of time, while the latter issue would take more than just that... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consor

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
onally to anyone ;P) > > Whether or not the community approves of this, > > I will pursue it, and let the chips fall where they may. > > Good luck, FWIW. I've no doubt you'll need it. As far as writing it, no. As far as getting something like this accepted, it's

Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
uctive feedback and ideas is encouraged to respond, but negative responses will be ignored. Whether or not the community approves of this, I will pursue it, and let the chips fall where they may. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin:

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
should be entirely > possible > to mass install debian, if debian would put some work twords it. dpkg needs some work before this will become feasible. Many people have proposed ideas, but only one has done any work. Anyone know where doogie's dconfig scripts are? -- ..Aaron Va

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
an? It's simply impossible -- complete, new debian installations take at least two hours of babysitting. This makes debian a product VA is incapable of marketing. Of course, there are ways around this, like imaging drives and whatnot. But, as someone else mentioned, it costs them money, and th

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
me to > build. But my feelings won't be hurt if he decides against it. > > In the meantime, Johnie Ingram has been making glibc 2.0 versions of my > potato XFree86 packages available at <http://www.netgod.net/x/>. Which work quite well, by the way ;P. I was forced t

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org "...Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing..." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
the gnome packages built on slink (if everything works smoothly) within a week or so. But first, I don't quite understand the 'proposed-updates' process. someone will need to explain this to me... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ber

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
h 1.7MB isn't good ... Anybody remember the old slackware adage? The kernel can load its root FS (compressed or not) from a separate floppy. this would bring us up to a measly three floppies for floppy install. Besides, most ppl will be doing CD boots anway -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-10 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
rsion of perl should not influence debian's final freeze date, in the same way that no other package can... except for necessity, such as libc and kernel versions for boot-floppies, et al. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin:

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-10 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
w features in perl 5.005 are both underdeveloped and buggy. In the same way, debian does not depend on them at all However I agree they are useful. But, getting them into potato should carry the same importance as some popular python module... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Bug#37345: PROPOSAL] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND

1999-05-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 09:40:01AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 11:27:49PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > > On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 02:10:27AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > PROPOSAL > > > > > > > > > (1

Re: Bug#37345: PROPOSAL] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND

1999-05-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
s will be required for LSB compliance anyway, so we might as > well get going on it. second seconded. Too bad we load QA with another burden by this ;P. Oh well, everyone who doesn't comply just gets a 'normal' bug... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 09:28:33PM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 03:35:01PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > > On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 05:57:15PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > > I disagree. One of the major complaints I get about Debian by

Re: Freeze date for potato?

1999-05-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
he logical answer seems quite clear to me. Besides, there's nothing at all wrong with using homegrown or unofficial .debs. Another two cents ;P I've got a big stack of pennies here... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
ges per release there are, the closer we'll be to making this a reality -- and thus, nobody will have any reason to worry about the 'latest' version of anything... Just my two cents -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: ht

Re: Intent-to-package: XGGI

1999-01-31 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 09:22:28PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > > XGGI is an X server based on XF86 code that will run under any supported > > libGGI target. > > Currently, other than a few XF 3.3.3.1 compliance points, XGGI > > works

Intent-to-package: XGGI

1999-01-27 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
;s tried AA yet. G'day ;) -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. -- Seneca

Re: What happened to hwclock?

1999-01-21 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
scription +++-===-==- ii util-linux 2.9g-3 Miscellaneous system utilities. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..~$ Sorry about some of the characters being messed up, joe doesn't take backticks nicely for some reason. Anyway, it's showing up for me. -- ..Aar

Re: Developers in Cali...

1999-01-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
aces, sign keys, etc? > I would be interested. If a convenient day were picked and the meeting were held somewhere near the Bay Area (Sn Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland...) I just might be able to come. cheers -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berli