Re: Plan to release a gplv3 compliant debian-based release

2013-07-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
is left as an exercise for reader. Since it was over a decade ago, I seriously doubt anyone would use anything that ancient as a basis for a modern kernel. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@sbih.org http WARNING: I cannot b

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-21 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
remove comments, or compare against the skeleton (which did get counted, but I removed README) Not that I think it matters at all, but I did also find 30 occurences of sleep being called. Anywhere from .1 seconds, up to 5 seconds. -- John H. Robi

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] sean finney > > | export PATH=/usr/lib/nodejs:$PATH > | > | and problem solved, right? > > PATH isn't considered for #! lines, so not really. It is if you use #!/usr/bin/env node -- John H. Robinson, IV

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
s-2.3.pdf pg 19 [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.pdf pg 5 -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cat

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM, John H. Robinson, IV > wrote: > > Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > > That's not our problem, is it? > > > > It is, if we are trying to be as compatible as possible. > > Compatible with what? Bug

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-25 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
ut the subsequent ones? As mentioned, and mirror seeding would have to be synced anyway. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
not, since the project decided to include > the kfreebsd architectures. That's part of porting. What is wrong with porting kfreebsd behaivour instead? -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I can

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:38:58PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > This is one place where Solaris has gotten this right: /etc/nodename > > refers to the system itself, while each interface has its own (cf: > > /etc/hostname.hme0). >

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
, etc. I generally like to assume my computer isn't > going to break badly because I have to change the output hostname -f returns. This is one place where Solaris has gotten this right: /etc/nodename refers to the system itself, while each interface has its own (cf: /etc/hostname.

Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

2009-11-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
omeone is on the > whatwg/w3c lists and would like to bring this up there, that would be > great. +1 -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above,

Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

2009-11-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
basically like Firefox. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html

Re: dir-or-file-in-var-www on single-HTML file web "apps" or the like

2009-11-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
> file, usually) > - add an index.html -> file.html symlink in that dir We have webservers other than Apache. % aptitude search -F %p '~Phttpd'|wc -l 22 Only 4 of those are Apache. apache2-mpm-(event|itk|prefork|worker) -- John H. Ro

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
ad? What about those packages that have multiple lintian blockers? One NMU for each, as they are unrelated, and have the problem that they are all blocked due to other outstanding lintian blockers, or have one giant NMU that touches various pieces parts? -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.

Re: renamings to remove extensions

2009-09-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:05:29AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-send > > /command/supervise > > DJB bug. The correct answer: Difference of opinion. > (And a symlink doesn't make the software FHS-compli

Re: renamings to remove extensions

2009-09-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
solve the first one with /var/qmail/bin being a symlink to /usr/sbin. We don't solve the latter one at all. Debian bug, or DJB bug? -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-05 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
h was RHEL 5.2) I was still given the option of making a separate partition for /usr. I have never installed Fedora or SuSE. The last time I installed Ubuntu was multiple years ago, so I don't know what they are doing currently. Thank you for clearing up this point of confusion. --

Re: dpkg and hardlinks

2009-03-24 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
2 kept the old index node, but ls gets a brand new index node, thus showing that, indeed, dpkg will break hardlinks upon upgrade. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held respons

Re: cgroup mount point

2009-02-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
I was leaning towards /sys/cgroup until this point was brought up. /var/lib does seem like the best default place. If a particular site needs it available before /var is available, then that site is free to mount it on /cgroup or /container or whatever they desire. -- John H. Robinson,

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
signs. Why is everyone leaving? What is so bad about the area? What do they know that I don't? -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org (

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
s not come when expected (as per the original call for votes). I woud like to see this vote run its course. I see no need to modify the ballot at all. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-11-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
e it a Beer Sprint. The winners receive a package with the local > > brew from the people who didn't manage to fix their bugs. I'm offering > > German beer to five winners, just as Joss did for cookies. > > But ... *who* is gonna want the aussie beer? :) Anybody t

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
?term=sloshball Bug Sloshing Party, anyone? -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type.

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-12 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
tomatic per-user temporary directories [2] % aptitude show $(dpkg -S $(which mktemp tempfile) | sed 's/:.*//') | grep -E '^(Pa|E)' Package: mktemp Essential: yes Package: debianutils Essential: yes [3] I liked [2] too much to remove it. Sorry. -- John H. R

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-23 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
rt, so none of the above comes into play. One could just start the application and its windows in a bare X; no window manager running at all. Xnest is a great tool for this. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http W

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-22 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
ndering agent. For simplicity, they should be all the same format. I would suggest PNG. I am less certain how to handle the full/medium-sized images vs the thumbnail. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http (

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-22 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
epplets, which are similar to dockapps. Window managers[1] deserve their own screen shots, where you would want the whole desktop. X Display Managers[2] should be eligible, too. [1] I count roughly forty-three window managers. [2] Five of

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-21 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
lt is a poor choice if the desire is to ensure that there are no files being served by default. /var/lib/www anyone? -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above,

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-21 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
know that I test the Debian bugs prior to closing. I don't test Ubuntu builds - so I wold find it very presumptuous to close an Ubuntu bug. Or am I missing what LP: ### does? -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange file problem

2008-07-06 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
py of the whole partition before attempting the --rebuild-tree option. Good luck. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
arsed by the front ends. I am willing to work on formats and debugging. I don't really want to mess with apt* internals. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-26 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
tations, > translations, mail lists, ... that we have in Debian distribution > makes Debian to have an _elephantastic_ size ! PostgreSQL already uses an elephant in their logo. While ths does not preclude us from using it, it could be taken as an endorsement of one particular DB engin

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-26 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
uins take a vacation. http://www.threadless.com/product/1057/Penguins_On_Holiday (My son has this shirt, and he loves it) > Bah, mascots. Cute fuzzy shwags are nice, though. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-12 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > echo() { /bin/echo "$@" } echo() { /bin/echo ${1+"$@"}; } I believe you mean. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2007-12-21 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > There are *way* better MTAs [than qmail] out there that dont need > tons of patches applied just to fulfill basic requirements for a MTA. No, there are not. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
e-wide settngs for foo-bin and oof-bin SEE ALSO: foo2oof(1), oof2foo(1), foo.cgi(1), foo.rc(5) This will work in xman a lot better than dpkg -L. This is also value-added over dpkg -L. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
erivative document? No. Can Pierre download it from the Internet? Yes. RFCs are not seeming too free, are they? -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above,

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:05:05AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > >>> I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately > >>> /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every platform, >

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
> > No. tar != gtar. I think you will find that answer to be yes. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as appare

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
g-buildpackage should unset TAPE...? > No, a bug against tar. I assume you mean to make the documentation match the behaivour. Rememer it is a Tape ARchival program. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
abbreviated da. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learn

Re: /foo has been mounted xx times... check forced

2007-02-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
a check is due. Perfect time: you already know you are in a hurry. It could be possible to use other tricks to shorten the boot cycle. I can't think of any at the moment, but that does not mean that they don't exist. Does XFS require fscks? Reiserfs does not. Maybe it is time to di

Re: RFC: use readable $(cmd) syntax instead of unreadable `cmd`

2007-02-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
t wontfix and leave it as such. Even with a patch. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how

Re: Bell's theorem refuted. More information at ...

2006-12-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Ilija Barukcic wrote: > > Bell's theorem is refuted! I submit this as the oddest spam on a Debian list this year. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible fo

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-10 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
u do not like, and to do so honestly and sincerely. I, personally, have seen many such examples. A lot of which are involved in professional settings, but I have also seen and experienced it in personal environments. -- John H. Robinson, I

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
friendly vi-like editor than nvi. One of the first things I do on any debian install is to install vim, and set that to be a far higher priority for editor than anything else imaginable. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-04 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
ng source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held re

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-07-05 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
t system to guess. I'd like to see a linda/lintian warning for such things. In the case of application and application-lib built from the same source, this is easy. When you have applications outside of the source package, then it would get a bit tougher. Can linda/lintian be extended to read t

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Roger Leigh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 6/27/05, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (and thusly /usr/bin) between architectures. You can w

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 6/27/05, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > > On 6/25/05, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I can see where the game would be installed on the client syst

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 6/25/05, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can see where the game would be installed on the client system, and > > the data would live on the file server under /usr/share. Currently, the > > only way to do this is

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-24 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
installed broken packages, and to copy the /etc/amphetamine files from the filer onto the client. vim and vim-common seem to suffer the same, except vim-common has nothing outside the /usr/share directory. In my case, though, I would likely have installed vim onto the filer, also. -- Joh

Re: Orphaning recover and makeztxt

2005-05-04 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > About makeztxt, it is a nice program to convert text files into ztxt > > files, apt for reading in a Palm with the (GPLed) Weasel reader. It > > has a simple regex engine used to create the TOCs, and

Re: Orphaning recover and makeztxt

2005-05-04 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Palm, so I cannot do much with > it. I will happily pick this up for you. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
I am not subscribed to debian-legal Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:01:05PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > I'm saying that a package built with ecc (or icc or whatever) is not > the same package that you'll get if you build the same so

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
be harder to track down, but not from a ``it is a different package'' because of using icc instead of gcc. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
I am not subscribed to debian-legal. Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:28:01PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > Note the exact words (I am assuming that Glenn copied them verbatim): > > the package in main must be buildable with tools in main >

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
hich neatly sidesteps the entire ``intent of buildable with tools in main'' issue entirely. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html

Re: Bug in cron postinst

2003-09-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:40:51PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > there:[~] /bin/bash > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ foo="a b" > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for x in $foo; do echo "$x&q

Re: Bug in cron postinst

2003-09-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:20:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% bash > > > bash-2.05b$ L=`find` > > > bash-2.05b$ for i in $L; do echo $i; done > > > . > > > ./a > > > b > > > > No wonder. You aren't quoting correctly! Use 'e

Re: Bug in cron postinst

2003-09-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Jan Schulz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmp$ IFS=" > " > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmp$ for i in $L; do echo $i; done > . > ./a b > > Jan, learned the hard way... except for filenames with embedded newlines. use "$i", and worry no more. -john

Re: vrms and contrib installers (was: Re: "non-free" software included in contrib)

2003-09-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
I don't need to be CC:'d, thanks. Mathieu Roy wrote: > > Basically, if Microsoft Office someday works for GNU/Linux, we may > have a free software in contrib that will install it, without the > possibility to remove it with the standard debian tools. my experience with the installer .deb's is l

Re: vrms and contrib installers (was: Re: "non-free" software included in contrib)

2003-09-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:00:58PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 12:38 US/Eastern, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > > >He might even be running vrms - and vrms > > >will not complain about the non-free software he has installed! > > > > Th

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Cardenas wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:22:00PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Some people were talking me into proposing Mexico for a future > > Debconf, but I don't think it would be that good an idea until we > > had some more developers in the country, but... Maybe for 2006? :-) > > Is thi

Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-25 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Herbert Xu wrote: > Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * New upstream release (closes: #123) which includes: > > - tmpfile race condition fix (closes: #124) > > - manual page included (closes: #125) > > > > The thing is: It helps the users and the person who reported the bug to >

Re: Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)

2003-06-24 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > * Package name: debbackup > > > > - installing/updating required packages, restoring configuration files, > > and more. > > Tell me when you upload this, so I can file an rc bug against it, for > modifying other packages conff

Re: Every spam is sacred

2003-06-16 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Mathieu Roy wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > > > The 127th Ferengi rule of acquisition: Even if you got it for > > free, you paid too much. > > But the Rule 37th says otherwise: "If it's free, take it and worry > about hidden costs later". > > But the 96th confi

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-25 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > The West coast may be more expensive to get to for foreign visitors. > But I like the other suggestion of Florida. Lot's of cheap flights to > there. i live on the west coast (san diego, specifically), but if there was a debconf held in southern florida (fort lauderdal

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Marc Singer wrote: > (Unintentionally, I first sent the reply to you directly.) > > On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 02:09:24PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > Incidentally "North America" != "USA". > > And your point is, what? that north america contains not one, but three countries: Candada, USA, and

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:19:33PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > >The amendment uses the concept of a Quorum requirement to inhibit > >"stealth decisions" by only a handful of developers. While this is a > >good thing,

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > You actually propose two separate amendments. Please don't do that, it > smells of politics. :-/ the changes are related, if just 2 was changed, then the majority requirements in 3 have an undesired side-effect. let me find that message . . = http://lists.debian.org

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
s preferred over option A by the voters. Under the original proposal, Option B would be discarded due to insufficient quorum requirements, and A would win. Under the amended proposal, option B would win. Please join the discussion on debian-vote. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaqque () debian ()

Re: /usr/{share/man,bin} vs /usr/X11R6/{man,bin} (policy 12.8.7)

2003-04-13 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > My question is: how to interpret policy section 12.8.7. Is to mean: > > "All packages using imake should puth files where imake-generated > makefile would put them, period." > > or > > "Everything should go to /usr/{bin,share/man}, but if your package uses > imake,

Re: keyserver.debian.org.com

2002-12-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Philip Brown wrote: > Has anyone noticed that someone has pseudo-hijacked > keyserver.debian.org.com .org.com has a wildcard pointing to it, so if you spell .org wrong, your browser is likely to append a .com to it, and off to .org.com you go. i pointed my cache to my own dns server that serves

Re: [RFH] The need for signed packages and signed Releases (long, long)

2002-11-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 03:24:15AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > > Yes, and avoiding binary uploads by maintainers can make the system a bit > > more transparently auditable. > > Not to mention making it break a lot more. > > Quit beating that horse, it's already b

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Russell Coker wrote: > > > > that is _NOT_ what a CNAME is for. a CNAME is for when the hostname is > > in a domain that is OUTSIDE of your control. > > > > ie: evil.debian.org -> www.msn.com = CNAME (we don't control the msn.com > > domain) > > forge.debian.org -> quantz.debian.org = A (we control

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Ben Armstrong wrote: > Bah, that's what CNAME is for. that is _NOT_ what a CNAME is for. a CNAME is for when the hostname is in a domain that is OUTSIDE of your control. ie: evil.debian.org -> www.msn.com = CNAME (we don't control the msn.com domain) forge.debian.org -> quantz.debian.org = A (w

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > I like maintaining the idea of forge, so my proposal is VULCAN > (from Roman mithology). i prefer greek: hephaistos then there is the Celtic mythos: brigid Irish (Bride in Scotland), great triple goddess. Fire goddess and crafts-smith. Christians turned he

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-22 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Jim Lynch wrote: > > (small point on kde 3.1 final existing before announcement disposed of: > it won't be "final" until it's "announced". by definition. also, there > may be current reasons why the announcement has not been made.) unless Gentoo is refering to a CVS tag i see a difference betwee

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Fabien Penso wrote: > > I think you will hear soon than the person who posted that to Slashdot > was wrong and misunderstood the license. i think the PR firm is trying to cover up something. the license page makes no exception for freely distributed decoders. -john

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-11 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:35:31AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:38:14PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > > On Thu Apr 11, 2002 at 08:31:55PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Seriously: everyone reading this mail, burn a copy of Raphael's test image > > > on a CD and try boo

Re: kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3, initrd and ext3

2002-01-11 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:17:13PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > if not, the i would not recommend the use of auto in that case. > > It is a patch for mkinitrd well, you answered my questions! it seems then ``type auto'' would be fine, especially since the patches in question don't affect the

Re: kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3, initrd and ext3

2002-01-11 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:44:54PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > All this will be easier if you use "auto" as fs type and WHEN Herbert > Xu finally applies MY PATCH submitted a while ago. would type auto work with a fresh, hand compiled kernel from kernel.org? if not, the i would not recommend t

Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2002-01-01 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:09:41PM +0100, Marc L. de Bruin wrote: > > Therefore it is up to the root-user (and his filesystem) where the files > should end up after installation. > > Is this possible? Thanks again, if this is the case, then i would strongly recomend distributing it as a tarball

Re: Source-only uploads

2001-12-31 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:59:04AM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > Conversely, I would sometimes like to be able to get my arch-specific > and arch-independant packages built by the build daemons in order to > detect build time errors that don't show up on my own system (missing > build deps, for exa

Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2001-12-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:03:15PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > > For something that multiple users could potentially want to use, > really the best thing to do is provide a tarball in the package, and > let the end-user be responsible for unpacking it where they feel is > appropriate; this is the

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:53:54PM +, Adam Olsen wrote: > How about we post a list of orphaned packages in the weekly news? not every week! news is for _new_ stuff, not the same-old from the previous week. perhaps a monthly/biweekly post to #debian-devel, or some other (moderated) list set up

Re: why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-26 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:08:34PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Robinsonitis seems to be a contagious disease... grr, i'm _always_ nice, and *never* rude. -john -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFS Kernel image packaging

2001-09-25 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:47:00PM -0600, Russel Ingram wrote: > > > Okie dokie. Does anyone have an answer for me on how to get around the > custom-1.00 tag on my packages? take a look at the source for kernel-image apt-get source kernel-image-2.2.19 -john

Re: XFS Kernel image packaging

2001-09-25 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:02:01AM +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote: > > There are _no_ kernel images for patched kernels as far as i can tell. kernel-image-idepci and kernel-image-reiserfs for a couple. -john

Re: /bin/ls is impure!

2001-09-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:14:24PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Norbert Veber wrote: > > > Interesting. How did you obtain the environment dump? > > "set", with no arguments. May be a bashism, though. Not sure. it is not a bashism. -john

Re: neat mutt bug.

2001-09-17 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:17:37AM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > > Interesting highlighting bug in mutt -- could confuse an unsuspecting person > into thinking Branden actually signed this. except for that long pause for the signature checking itself that was conspicously missing. -john

Re: root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/ man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-12 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:52:45PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > You notice this on ext2 when an inode has been corrupted. There's a 50% > chance the immutable bit may have been set, leading people to wonder why > they can't delete the file even as root. > > I don't know whether reiser

Re: Bug#111309: ITP: xtail -- like "tail -f", but works on truncated files, directories, more

2001-09-06 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:09:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:08:21 +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Do you want to go for another name then ? I find it quite confusing. mtail or > >multitail might be clearer. > > Changing the upstream name for this

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:08:54PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > > And? Due to the limitations of your technology, you're misdisplaying > the character in the iso8859-15 rxvt. no, it was user-error. since i don't see the content-type header, i did not think to change it to the -15 revision that i

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:04:17PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > nope. your content-type was the same; and i opened it up in two > > different rxvt's one (the smaller one) spawned like this: > &g

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:09:57PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > it depends upon the font that you use. the latin-9 font contains the > > sideways quake two symbol, ¤, (some fonts will show that as a o wit

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:03:28PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > Does anybody knows where is the problem and also how this can be > solved? it depends upon the font that you use. the latin-9 font contains the sideways quake two symbol, ¤, (some fonts will show that as a o with four lit

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:00:14PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: > Hi all, > > maybe it is a stupid question, but can debian packages be installed in other > places than / ? i was thinking about this myself. i suppose in theory it is possible, and the data.tar.gz has all the files that are inst

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:30:36PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:03:18AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/LC]% LANG=hr_HR ls -A > > .A .B .C .a .b .c A B C a b c > > Probably because your locale.gen isn

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:28:16PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > hmm, what's LC_COLLATE for again? > > ? I was referring to this: > > % touch a b c .a .b .c A B C .A .B .C > % LANG=C ls -A > .A .B .C .a .b .c A B C a b c > % LANG=hr_HR ls -A > a .a A .A b .b B .B c .c C

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