Re: Possibly hijacking netcdf

2009-09-21 Thread Warren Turkal
;t make any real progress. I had a good reason until the dependencies for netcdf 4 were in debian. The responsible thing for me to do at this point is give the package up to another interested party, so please feel free to take it over. Warren Turkal Linux Enthusiast and Libre Software Advocate

Re: what happened to g77-3.4-doc?

2007-07-21 Thread Warren Turkal
so, you can connect to [1] with read-only webdav if that's useful to you. [1]http://www.penguintechs.org/~wt/debian/refblas3/ wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#428877: ITP: callweaver -- Community-driven open source PBX software

2007-06-15 Thread Warren Turkal
allows contributors to maintain their own copyright on the code. wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI drives for donation

2007-06-11 Thread Warren Turkal
lins, CO. Some of the HP Linux Labs people live here. Are any of them on the list and care to speak up? wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI drives for donation

2007-06-11 Thread Warren Turkal
Exporting them would have to be investigated. Thanks, wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SCSI drives for donation

2007-06-11 Thread Warren Turkal
I personally have 6 or 7 U320 73GB 10K RPM SCSI drives that I am not using for anything interesting. Can anyone tell me if these would be useful to Debian or recommend another free software group to donate them? Thanks, wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-11 Thread Warren Turkal
hotplugging drives. wt -- Warren Turkal

Re: Why not move Apt to a relational database

2007-06-04 Thread Warren Turkal
box include an implementation of dpkg? wt -- Warren Turkal

Re: start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-04 Thread Warren Turkal
[...] This looks like it may be what I need. The runit solution just didn't seem like it was intended for my use case. I will check this out. wt -- Warren Turkal

Re: Why not move Apt to a relational database

2007-06-04 Thread Warren Turkal
No need with the above approach, as the dpkg from busybox could still use the raw files. wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-02 Thread Warren Turkal
see how to separate the functionality for running and keeping a service started upon user login and stopping it on logout. Do you have any suggestions? BTW, is Debian planning on using something other than init in future versions? wt -- Warren Turkal

Re: start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-02 Thread Warren Turkal
On Saturday 02 June 2007 21:45, Russ Allbery wrote: > Take a look at runit.  It's quite a bit like daemontools without the weird > licensing. Runit doesn't appear to be useful for non-system tasks, like starting jackd and restarting it if it dies (i.e. on suspend/resume). wt -- Warren Turkal

start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-02 Thread Warren Turkal
Hello, Is there anything like daemontools in main? I would like it to work with user processes. I would like to use it to make sure a user process stays running while I am logged in. Does anyone have any suggestions? wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: python, then C++, or C++ from the start?

2007-05-30 Thread Warren Turkal
/C++ code to work together so that you can transition from one to the other and aren't just strictly porting from one to the other at the "end" of the project. wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get

2007-05-18 Thread Warren Turkal
ptitude for all package installation/uninstallation tasks. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: initramfs-tools postinst causes system inconsistency?

2007-05-15 Thread Warren Turkal
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 15:54, maximilian attems wrote: > afaik uswsusp does not support full > 2.6.15 range, > so better stay on the safe side. What about > 2.6.18? I am not sure Debian should be that worried about kernels before the one that shipped with the last stable. wt -- W

Re: Mounting Oracle Cluster Filesystem during boot

2007-05-06 Thread Warren Turkal
is should be solved in a generic way. In order to make this more useful, shared network block storage like AOE and ISCSI should be part of this solution. wt -- Warren Turkal

Re: Bug#422297: ITP: g95 -- The G95 fortran compiler

2007-05-04 Thread Warren Turkal
7;s default compiler for Fortran should be gfortran from the GCC. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science

New netcdf packages in experimental

2007-05-01 Thread Warren Turkal
build them against the netcdf library in experimental? If you have problems, I will be more than happy to help find and fix the issue. If I am missing any packages, please let me know. Thanks, wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dep

Re: should an init-script print output, if verbose is set to no in /etc/default/rcS or by /lib/init/vars.sh?

2007-04-28 Thread Warren Turkal
Could you elaborate on this thought? It may be useful to think about for extending the LSB semantics and rolling them into the standard. wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Development environments.

2007-04-23 Thread Warren Turkal
p is > your friend. Speaking of which, will aptitude ever have this functionality? It would be nice to get the markauto goodness from aptitude when installing builddeps. wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

2007-04-11 Thread Warren Turkal
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 20:52, Don Armstrong wrote: > Presumably the wig-and-pen source format will (eventually?) support > this? Is progress on dpkg-source v2 actually being made? wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, De

Re: 64-bit transition deadline (Re: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers)

2007-04-10 Thread Warren Turkal
it easier to quickly do something without reinventing the wheel. Sometimes the reason is as simple as someone doesn't want to have to learn a new software package or port all there stuff to a new software. These are hard barriers to overcome. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associa

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-03-27 Thread Warren Turkal
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 11:55, Matthias Julius wrote: > I almost wrote that myself, but they have different names and dont > compete for numbers. That's not necessarily true. My IPW2200 has eth2 on my laptop. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Col

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-03-27 Thread Warren Turkal
machines that currently have the volume mounted see. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems packaging a kernel using cdbs

2007-03-26 Thread Warren Turkal
ed. Is that correct? wt -- Warren Turkal

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-03-26 Thread Warren Turkal
isks swap device files on each boot. It's pretty annoying when my nfs volumes switch which device name is used to mount them. wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#414534: ITP: sucrack -- multithreaded su bruteforcer

2007-03-12 Thread Warren Turkal
ons. I could see someone demonstrating breaking weak passwords with such a tool. wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-28 Thread Warren Turkal
to consider the use case that someone might want to treat a block device like a block device instead of a filesystem container. If you don't want to consider it non-responsive, it was at least really unproductive and frustrating. [1]http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/10/msg00451.ht

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-26 Thread Warren Turkal
d be appreciated. Also, that same maintainer has been downright insulting, which doesn't make me want to help out at all. [1]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387552 [2]http://penguintechs.org/~wt/debian/aoe_stuff/aoe-block.tar [3]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bu

Re: block device served over network connections

2006-12-20 Thread Warren Turkal
the wheel when doing this. If that wheel has not been invented, I would like to help do so. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: block device served over network connections

2006-12-20 Thread Warren Turkal
aoe-block.tar -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

block device served over network connections

2006-12-18 Thread Warren Turkal
package should implement their own way of dealing with this problem, and I hope some kind of normalized way of dealing with this problem can be made available, if it is not already available. Thanks, wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept.

Re: Do not use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for bug ping-pong

2006-12-12 Thread Warren Turkal
So even if it's a relevant bug, the result will never be to leave the bug open until it's fixed? wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Downgrading the priority of nfs-utils

2006-11-07 Thread Warren Turkal
"essential"? > Do I don't think it > needs to be in the default installation even if 70% of the users will > use it. IMHO Word. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Thanks!

2006-10-26 Thread Warren Turkal
vision we have that Debian will be. To all the developers, thanks for your tireless work on Debian itself and evangelism for the Debian cause. Thanks, wt -- Warren Turkal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Warren Turkal
t saw its prime many years ago. AMD64 also has a much larger user base considering that most of the m68k machines I know of are more toys than workhorses. Also, I think it could be that the Debian folks saw a strategic advantage is shipping a more normal version of Debian for the AMD64 arch. wt -

Re: Lack of transparency of automatic actions

2006-10-13 Thread Warren Turkal
fun project. I am not sure how much utility having it for the CLI would be considering that pmount is available to do it manually. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science

Re: support of aoe devices and aoetools package

2006-10-12 Thread Warren Turkal
On Thursday 12 October 2006 17:50, David Martínez Moreno wrote: > El miércoles, 11 de octubre de 2006 17:44, Warren Turkal escribió: > > First of all, the implementation aoetools include to enable mounting the > > aoe devices at boot time is severely lacking. This support was >

support of aoe devices and aoetools package

2006-10-11 Thread Warren Turkal
). wt [1]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387552 [2]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/etc.tar.gz?bug=387552;msg=20;att=1 wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: mozilla 1.6b

2003-12-12 Thread Warren Turkal
Thomas E. Vaughan wrote: *snip* > Any help appreciated. Did you see the mozilla-snapshot package? Try installing it. wt -- Warren Turkal President, GOLUM, Inc. http://www.golum.org