I'm not a grouser ... I know I run unstable and what that means from a
usability standpoint; but I must point out that in addition to a whole
bunch of new reports if things get into testing that there are probably
a bunch of people like me that run unstable but aren't even going to
consider apt upd
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:10:52PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> David B Harris wrote:
> > But it would be feasible to package up a Debian chroot in an RPM. Too
> > bad it would have to be huge to have a reasonable subset of useful
> > Debian packages :)
>
> Don't bother with the chroot, just package
I'm using LVM and XFS filesystems on my computer at home. This
morning, after I pushed "g" from the Gnus *Group* buffer (to get new
mail), it stopped part way through with an error message. Gnus
prompted me in the XEmacs minibuffer saying "no space left on device:
Continue (yes, no)?". My 1
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:37:46PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > I agree completely. With our current testing setup this shouldn't be too
> > difficult to do.
>
> It's already pretty split-up: we have base, we have standard, and we
That's what I meant to say. The only think we don't have is th
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:54:16PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> You can now get POSIX online for free...
URL?
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hi,
i'm starting to play with mng files ( a kind of png with frames ).
btw in these days it seems no resonable ( i'm running a sid :-)) ).
however it seems there aren't apps on debian that display a mng
images http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/mngapps.html
neither konqueror and mozilla do .
i would l
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:18:41 +0100
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ps: please don't cc me on list responses.
Yeah, my apologies. Hit the wrong keybinding :)
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:11:14PM -0500, David B Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:56:58 +0100
> martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > it would be possible, you know. an RPM that basically substitutes
> > every installed RPM by the corresponding DEB. that would rock ;)
>
> Well, what
I think you can probably boot to it with a carefully crafted initrd
that performs a pivot_root into the debootstrapped chroot. Or,
perhaps you could run a UML kernel there? Has anyone tried that?
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I will be building them for him since he is stuck in the limbo known as the
new maintainer queue. ;)
Chris
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:51:41PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020105 02:03]:
> > I will adopt the KDE packages, while Chris &qu
* Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020104 12:59]:
> Do we have a list anywhere of the remaining issues holding up the
> woody freeze/release?
> I know that we need to get rid of as many of the 382 release-critical
> bugs as possible, but beyond that I'm not certain at all. Is that it?
T
Previously David B Harris wrote:
> Well, what you're suggesting isn't really feasible ;)
Someone actually did this a couple of years ago so it is feasible.
Wichert.
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Lex Spoon wrote:
> [snip timeframe on deb creation]
After doing it for years, it can become very much quicker.
With properly designed upstream source(nice build system, configurable
installation, DESTDIR support), making a deb can be done in a few hours.
Lately, I have even b
Hi,
At Thu, 03 Jan 2002 21:07:33 -0700,
Matt Taggart wrote:
> > Is there anyone who utilize dpkg-cross?
>
> I used it for bootstrapping Debian on hppa, it's *very* useful. I didn't need
> to make too many changes. I still need to submit a patch for hppa support. At
> the time I was too distrac
On 04-Jan-02, 09:09 (CST), Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If every system had up-to-date, standards-conforming
> ctype.h support, we wouldn't have to worry much at all.
> But even these days, pretty many systems with buggy macros
> are still in use.
Then fix those systems. Pull the
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, of course we want them all to use Debian; we claim to be the
> Universal Operating System.
> What the exact steps should be to accomplish this goal aren't
> completely clear to me, and I doubt they are to anyone else either.
How about a universal
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > And of course a little consistency and uniformity is too much to ask for
> > in the unix world until it's mandadted by some dead-tree standard for which
> > you have to pay a few hundred bucks.
>
> You can now get P
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:59:58PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Do we have a list anywhere of the remaining issues holding up the
> woody freeze/release? Some sort of well-known "release status" Web page
> would help coordination. (we have an RC bug list, but as far as I know it
> doesn't sho
* Adam Majer
| IMHO, there is a _huge_ amount of servers that are not connected
| from main page... As of a week ago I could not find any links to
| qa.d.o, nm.d.o, buildd.d.o, etc It would be nice to have them at
| d.o/devel
nm.d.o is linked from http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ which is
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