from debian-freshmeat, where we are talking about setting up the new DFMR
(Debian Freshmeat Repository)
Seth:
b) apt-get able, so it's a ftp and/or http site, and a
single line to stick into etc/apt/sources.list
Jeff Covey of freshmeat:
this would rock.
we'll have to work with the apt codi
At 07:26 PM 09/13/2000 +0300, Pekka Aleksi Knuutila wrote:
Spong is a simple systems and network monitoring package. It does not
compete
with Tivoli, OpenView, UniCenter, or any other commercial packages. It is not
SNMP based, it communcates via simple TCP based messages. It is written in
perl
> BTW, the rant has been a long time coming - this just keyed it.
>
> Purpose of Rant: Stir up the coals ...
Hey erik, grow up. Debian has enough flamewars without you stirring the
coals intentionally. 'The broken update happened 20 minutes before the
rant' HUH?
Geez.
Seth
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, erik wrote:
> I just can't keep my mouth shut about this any longer and the
> unnecassary divisions (read demolitions) of KDE packages are the last
> straw: I've been tracking the development of KDE2 for months and running
> it quite successfully using "unofficial" debs (chee
I was getting both user and devel as digests, and both went quiet.
I subscribed to both as digest again, in case I'd been knocked off the
list, and still nothing, so I subscribed as non-digest and I'm getting
email, enough that it should have kicked out a digest, but still no digest.
Looks like
At 10:13 PM 09/07/2000 +, you wrote:
I don't object to a web-browser, personally. I do object to having to
install and configure a Web server (!!) to set up the machine, for the same
reason I object to needing a Web server to view documentation (eg, doc-central
depends on apache).
Webmin has
> This is good for Debian, since we want something cross-platform, and
> possibly even cross-kernel (Hurd, anyone?). Adding a network config for
> Debian,
Rene Mayrhofer said he was making a start on this. He's away for a few
weeks, when he gets back, I'll find out how far he's come.
> a dpkg/a
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Linuxconf is very broken (and it's documented in the Readme's provided
> with the .deb) on Debian, and it mangles perfectly good config files
> into nasty-looking ones that sysadmins who prefer vi usually dislike
> reading.
Another point in webmin's favor.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Frederic Peters wrote:
> > Agreed. If you want to do something USEFUL, write a better webmin, debconf
> > or linuxconf module.
> - webmin: I think it is useful (and nice) not to have to launch mozilla
>to add an user or change a password.
Excuse me? if you don't want to
So, yes, why reinvent the wheel, if there are allready n^x conftools
around with a new one popping up monthly (webmin, COAS, linuxconf,
debconf, yast, ..., ..., ...) ? It's not going to make anything
easier.
Agreed. If you want to do something USEFUL, write a better webmin, debconf
or linuxconf m
Offtopic, very much so. But the answer is, it's totally suitable...
and commericial Linux based solutions exist, if they don't want to roll
their own
(for liability reasons, they might not). Try www.watchguard.com for one
such answer.
please follow up via email... this list is not the right for
> > Author is excited about getting this packaged for Debian.
> > Homepage is http://biomail.sourceforge.net
> NIce news. This saves me some work I wanted to do since I visited
> the lession about BioMail on the conference in Bordeaux. Go for it!
>
> > I think this will go into contrib, since it
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2000-08-19
Severity: important
Author is excited about getting this packaged for Debian.
Homepage is http://biomail.sourceforge.net
License is GPL
I think this will go into contrib, since it uses PubMed's database,
and it is pretty useless without access to t
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> It's not *entirely* clear that including the above in the .deb itself
> is even the best way of doing things though. Everything in the above
> is entirely package-independent except for the "doc" lines, and they
> can be determined simply by saying "ever
Joost> What I am missing is a praise tracking system. It would
Joost> operate similarly to the b.t.s.; users could:
>Sounds like a good idea, eg to help motivate maintainers fix
bugs.
I think it would be good just to alert people to real well done packages
(for instance, excellent debcon
> I recall reading a few months ago about a plan to merge ALL of the
> existing hardware detection routines into one lump, in order to
> consolidate work and effort. The proposal was met with acceptance by many
> (if not all) of the major developers (Mandrake, Redhat, Suse, Turbo)
>
> please post
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> > Has anyone has looked into porting this [Kudzu] to Debian?
>
> Mandrake, too, includes a hardware detection libarary (libdetect).
> Some time ago, Dan Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Cc'ed him), was busy
> packaging it. Dan, have you had any luck yet ad
I've been browsing cdimage. Do we release a base system as a 30/40-ish meg
ISO that can network to enable apt handling retrieval of anything else? One
would be really useful to me, and I'm sure to others too. The base packages
(for floppies etc) aren't always so easy or convienient, and I think an
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