also sprach Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.19.1832 +0200]:
> > Come on. `useless debconf proliferation'? The question has medium
> > priority. I can also make it an configration option somewhere and use
> > that, but it was just a convenient why to get info from a user.
>
> I'd also say
[Gabor Gombas]
> I'd also say a debconf question is overkill. People who understand what
> the option means can edit a config file by hand.
Remember that using debconf allow the setting to be preseeded during
installation. Editing a config file by hand is less convenient for
preconfigured instal
On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:52:28 +0200, Magnus Holmgren
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But since svn checkout doesn't give you the whole thing, how do you
>prefer to work (especially with respect to creating patches)? Do you unpack
>the orig tarball on top and set the svn:ignore property to ".", or alw
On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:52:28 +0200, Magnus Holmgren
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But since svn checkout doesn't give you the whole thing, how do you
> prefer to work (especially with respect to creating patches)? Do you
> unpack the orig tarball on top and set the svn:ignore property to ".",
> or a
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:08:02AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
Anyway, I propose that update-initramfs just loses the -k switch or
provides a new wrapper that packages like cryptsetup and mdadm just
call without worrying whether it will update all initrds or just the
current one.
I agree...us
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On 18-May-07, 15:41 (CDT), Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal,
>
> I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become
> nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read
> our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetati
On 20-May-07, 04:08 (CDT), martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> also sprach Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.19.1832 +0200]:
> > > Come on. `useless debconf proliferation'? The question has medium
> > > priority. I can also make it an configration option somewhere and use
> > > th
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:59:20PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Remember that using debconf allow the setting to be preseeded during
> installation. Editing a config file by hand is less convenient for
> preconfigured installations.
But why would you want to install _multiple_ kernels in
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:52:44AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> A field in the control file is unlikely to have enough space to
> truly state the reasons (remember, the maintainer has alsready stated
> that in their judgement the packages belong togethe
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:08:02AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> They can set their debconf priority. It's not something to avoid,
> adding debconf questions.
Debconf has a much higher maintenance cost than a config file - you have
to provide translations, you must write maintainer scripts etc.
[Gabor Gombas]
> But why would you want to install _multiple_ kernels in a preseeded
> install while _not_ building an initrd for some of them?
I'm not talking about installing multiple kernels. I'm talking about
setting the wanted configuration for how multiple kernels should be
handled on the i
Please cc: the bug report
On Sun, 20 May 2007 16:35:27 +0200
David Härdeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:08:02AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> >They can set their debconf priority. It's not something to avoid,
> >adding debconf questions
> >
> >Anyway, I propose that
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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:28:49AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 09-May-07, 04:02 (CDT), Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not entirely sure about the specifics, and especially not across
> > architectures; but regardless, doing a PLT lookup is more expensive than
> > doing a
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:35:27PM +0200, David Härdeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:08:02AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> >Anyway, I propose that update-initramfs just loses the -k switch or
> >provides a new wrapper that packages like cryptsetup and mdadm just
> >ca
also sprach Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.20.2102 +0200]:
> That sounds to me like addressing the wrong problem. Maybe what should
> be done is that update-initramfs updates *all* the images, whatever
> happens, but a copy of the kernel and initramfs images used to boot the
> system as i
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 23:06 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.20.2102 +0200]:
> > That sounds to me like addressing the wrong problem. Maybe what should
> > be done is that update-initramfs updates *all* the images, whatever
> > happens, but a copy
Hi folks,
For a package problem I'm trying to solve (#414422), it would be nice to
have a tool that could find duplicate files (ala fslint[1] or fdupes[2])
and turn them into symlinks.
I could create something that does this just for this package, but does
anyone know of such a pre-existing to
On 20-May-07, 13:41 (CDT), Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:28:49AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > On 09-May-07, 04:02 (CDT), Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm not entirely sure about the specifics, and especially not across
> > > archi
> "Don" == Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> But then you could just say: "Useful in case template databases
>> get corrupted". There is no need to go and explain details.
Don> If you're not going to explain what it actually does, why
Don> bother writing it at all?
> "Hendrik" == Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hendrik> Perhaps. But first, but not all packages are actually
Hendrik> strict about that and I do not want to bloat my
Hendrik> installation and second, if it is really that important
Hendrik> (read: essential part of
On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:38:58 +1000, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> "Hendrik" == Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hendrik> Perhaps. But first, but not all packages are actually strict
Hendrik> about that and I do not want to bloat my installation and
Hendrik> second, if it i
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:42:56PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> For a package problem I'm trying to solve (#414422), it would be nice to
> have a tool that could find duplicate files (ala fslint[1] or fdupes[2])
> and turn them into symlinks.
If hardlinks are okay too, see the "perforate"
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