Re: madison not working correctly on merkel

2006-12-17 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006, David Weinehall wrote: > Some entries seem to list newer Debian-versions than upstream > versions... Some watch-files out of sync? The list of GNOME versions is built from the 2.16 tarball repository, but Debian might have cherry-picked some newer upstream releases, such

Re: madison not working correctly on merkel

2006-12-17 Thread David Weinehall
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 04:52:04PM +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > > > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > I've noticed (and I'm not the only one) that the package database as > > > access by madison on merkel is no longer up-to-date. Does anyone know > > > why? Could someone rectify t

Re: madison not working correctly on merkel

2006-12-17 Thread Frederic Peters
Luk Claes wrote: > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > I've noticed (and I'm not the only one) that the package database as > > access by madison on merkel is no longer up-to-date. Does anyone know > > why? Could someone rectify this situation, please? > > The updates have not been reactivated since the m

Re: madison not working correctly on merkel

2006-12-11 Thread Luk Claes
Julian Gilbey wrote: > I've noticed (and I'm not the only one) that the package database as > access by madison on merkel is no longer up-to-date. Does anyone know > why? Could someone rectify this situation, please? The updates have not been reactivated since the move of ftp-master.d.o AFAIK.

Re: madison

2001-09-23 Thread James Troup
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It sounds like all you need is for dpkg-scanpackages or apt-ftparchive to > optionally accept a list of filenames, instead of a list of directories. > I think this would be a useful enhancement. apt-ftparchive already does. -- James

Re: madison

2001-09-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:14:29AM +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 01:19:36PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > There's no need for a database unless you want to maintain multiple > > distributions out of cross-sections of the pool, as Debian does. > > > Or is there a dif

Re: madison

2001-09-23 Thread Admar Schoonen
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 01:19:36PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:15:31PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > madison requires connectivity to a Debian database which is not publicly > > > accessible, s

Re: madison

2001-09-23 Thread Admar Schoonen
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:59:51PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote: > > I think it can be useful for those who want to create their own flavour of > > Debian or want to (partially) mirror Debian. > > dpkg-scanpackages/apt-ftparchive >

Re: madison

2001-09-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Andrew Suffield wrote: > However, the value of a package that would be used by about half a > dozen people in total is probably not all that high. We have packages that nobody uses. I wouldn't mind seeing the whole archive management suite being packaged properly, and I think it would

Re: madison

2001-09-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:15:31PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > madison requires connectivity to a Debian database which is not publicly > > accessible, so it is only useful on a couple of internal Debian > > machines. For this

Re: madison

2001-09-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote: > I think it can be useful for those who want to create their own flavour of > Debian or want to (partially) mirror Debian. dpkg-scanpackages/apt-ftparchive > doesn't work very well for packages which are located in the pool, and the

Re: madison

2001-09-22 Thread Admar Schoonen
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:15:31PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:52:37PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > > > madison seems to be what the debian.org webpage sports as the package > > search over distributions. is it packaged? do you need someone to package > > it? > >

Re: madison

2001-09-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:52:37PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > madison seems to be what the debian.org webpage sports as the package > search over distributions. is it packaged? do you need someone to package > it? madison requires connectivity to a Debian database which is not publicly acces

Re: madison

2001-09-21 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:52:37PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > madison seems to be what the debian.org webpage sports as the package > search over distributions. is it packaged? do you need someone to > package it? > madison has to be run on ftp-master, thats why it is not packaged. If you wan