Re: Notes on packaging PCYNLITX

2019-07-12 Thread Kris Deugau
Bagas Sanjaya wrote: Hello, I've filed RFP for PCYNLITX sometimes ago [1]: In PCYNLITX download page [2], it can be installed by using installation script. However, after examining install script, I noticed following: - PCYNLITX doesn't employ version numbering like any other project/packages.

Re: Bug#922643: ITP: build-alternative -- helper to build Debian package with diet libc

2019-02-22 Thread Kris Deugau
Dmitry Bogatov wrote: [2019-02-21 00:00] Guillem Jover On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 19:37:38 +, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dmitry Bogatov * Package name : build-alternative Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Dmitry Bogatov * Url

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2012-12-31 Thread Kris Deugau
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > $ man debian-distro-info Serious question - is this a real manpage? If so, which package is it in? I don't seem to have it available by default on any Debian system at hand, from etch through wheezy... > Debian OS provides API to query such information. Second serious

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-10 Thread Kris Deugau
Steve McIntyre wrote: > No, really - please *do* do this. The fact that a lot of the software > coming out of RedHat development seems to be designed solely for their > use, including working around the missing/broken features of RPM, I'm curious exactly what you mean by this, since my own experie

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Kris Deugau
Josselin Mouette wrote: For a machine with an IP address assigned by DHCP, which is a very common setup even on servers, ... I have to ask: What sort of overall network setup would you be using, where server IP addresses are assigned by DHCP? I'm having trouble imagining any remotely common

Re: network-manager rant

2011-01-12 Thread Kris Deugau
Anssi Kolehmainen wrote: Hi all, I just updated packages (which upgraded network-manager to 0.8.1-6) and then rebooted computer. I was greeted with a five minute wait while ntpd tried to query dns which was broken since network-manager decided to start, ignore bridge mappings, do dhcp on physica

Re: Syslog file paths in 'metalog'? (#423299)

2007-12-10 Thread Kris Deugau
Milan P. Stanic wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: In general, I would say as a sysadmin that any syslog daemon that does not allow me to configure any given log facility and priority to (at least!) an arbitrary file wherever I want it is inherently broken

Re: Syslog file paths in 'metalog'? (#423299)

2007-12-06 Thread Kris Deugau
Christoph Haas wrote: Fellow Debianistas... At work we are using syslog-ng a lot and it's very useful for a central logging server. However I don't like the syntax because it's verbose and typo-prone. So I was looking at metalog and seeing it orphaned I decided to adopt it (#423299). I've starte

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-06-05 Thread Kris Deugau
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > For the kind of cash the enterprise vendors tend to charge, yes actually > now that you ask, I think I can expect them to figure out dependancies > and making proper packages. ... by making reasonable assumptions about what is on the system based on a standard install of

Re: ADV: Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-06-01 Thread Kris Deugau
Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:51:27PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: >> (Mildly amusing sidenote to this discussion: I'm finally convincing the >> senior systems guy that Packages Are Good, and now developers for the >> upstream OS seem to be telli

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-06-01 Thread Kris Deugau
(I keep looking at what I've written, and thinking "That's not quite right" or "I'm forgetting some critical argument" or "That sounds very argumentative/rude but I can't think of a better way to phrase it". I *have* gotten an interesting discussion out of this thread, however.) Santiago Vila wro

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-31 Thread Kris Deugau
The Fungi wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:46:30PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: > [...] >> On RHEL and derived distros, there's usually a file /etc/redhat-release >> (sometimes renamed, but usually trivially enough that it can be found >> with little trouble) contain

Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-30 Thread Kris Deugau
I've been writing custom utilities and libraries for various systems at work, and with one particular project recently it's become (more) important to know exactly which Debian release it's running on (at some stage or other between version-controlled-code and installed-"binary") so that I don't tr

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-02 Thread Kris Deugau
sean finney wrote: > i imagine the apache maintainers will argue that it should be either (a) > the webapp package or (b) the php apache module's repsonsibility > to specify the additional DirectoryIndex. > > iirc DirectoryIndex does/can append to the list of index files, right? This is exactly w

Re: problem of savelog

2005-02-17 Thread Kris Deugau
Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > I found yesterday that mails were not delivered since about > 6:30 in the morning so I investigated a problem and found > that /var/log/exim/paniclog said /var/log/exim/mainlog had > a wrong owner/permission; [snip] > However I found today that the situation was worse than

Re: recent spam to this list

2003-10-17 Thread Kris Deugau
Julian Mehnle wrote: > Kris Deugau wrote: > > OK, I think I've thought of a sort of a counter-example: > > [...] > > I'm sending "from" myfriendsdomain.com's server, > > but I don't have an account there. ^^^

Re: recent spam to this list

2003-10-15 Thread Kris Deugau
Julian Mehnle wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Julian Mehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's about forging an e-mail sender's identity. By preventing > > > the unauthorized use of domains as the sender domain of e-mails, > > > most of the practiced cases of identity forgery are prevented.