Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-23 Thread Brian May
ns parameter Chris> (in version 1 & 2) No, max_versions is not correct. It will only work if all my computers use the same distribution; if some computers use unstable while others use stable for example, then the stable version will get deleted after n revisions of the unstable version of the package. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-24 Thread Brian May
n. The other part comes from the fact apt-proxy 1.9.18 in unstable is probably v2. (As for why it is not in testing, see bug #267880 + others). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Brian May
s, then. -- Joe Wreschnig Joe> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If we did this, we would allow people to create CDs, if they desired, without the offending software. This would solve complaints along the lines of "I want to distribute Debian without accidently upsetting parents by distributing Adult software that is useless anyway...". -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-01 Thread Brian May
emoved the software). In much the same way I have seen people get upset when they discover commercially available Windows software comes with free erotic photos (sorry, I can't remember what software now), I think the same applies here. (Admittedly it is worse, IMHO, when it gets installed without your consent). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283751: ITP: fakepop -- fake pop3 server to warn users that only pop3-ssl is available

2004-12-01 Thread Brian May
sage to the user, users frequently (read: close-to-always) are unable to *read* error messages (in my experience) and will interpret the error as "invalid password" regardless of what was actually displayed in the message box. These people won't be able to tell technical support any more

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Brian May
ldn't stop you from downloading illegal content, it would make it possible to distribute Debian legally in the given countries. Just a thought. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Brian May
it was intentional or not, however a number of students got to see it. According to the media, it was very distressing to concerned parents. If we want everybody to use Debian, including schools, then this is an important issue we cannot ignore. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Brian May
because it's Andrew> primarily used as a vehicle for delivering porn. Not my point. My point was for somebody thinking along the lines: "I want to distribute Debian to this target audience but I don't want to risk upsetting anybody or risk getting arrested and I don't want to have to do it in secret". -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Brian May
now that it exists? I might be naive, but am somewhat skeptical... Also, to the best my knowledge the kernel doesn't contain any pictures of naked people either. I might be mistaken. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-05 Thread Brian May
ram from being configurable. If you really want the image of the naked woman, then you can download the image (from non-Debian website) and install it in the appropriate directory, and it could automatically be used instead. I think such a solution would kill off all the complaints I have seen so far... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Brian May
7;t mind or understand... I think the issue, for the general case (some cultures may be different), isn't so much "seeing the naked body is bad", rather, seeing pictures that present the body as a sex item is seen as bad. There is a fine line between the two, people will have different opinions. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Hot-Babe non-controversial images

2004-12-06 Thread Brian May
;-) An extra good reason not to overwork your poor overloaded CPU ;-). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Brian May
re them and it seems to work). There probably are better photos if you looked. While some photos are rather erotic (unfortunately), there are some very decent photos, too. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Brian May
be violating your Ron> ISP's AUP. So are you saying I should take my web pages of my naked dogs down? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: package rejection

2004-12-06 Thread Brian May
bset of Debian that doesn't {do,use,require,consume,kill,display,say,etc} XYZ. No - I am not volunteering. This also raises lots of issues, like how to do it with minimum fuss and who is legally responsible (if anybody) if mistakes occur. No - I am not volunteering here either. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: handling bugs of udev

2005-01-04 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Nico" == Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nico> i think this should be created be default, but thats the Nico> decision of the maintainer. Looking at the script, I was under the impression it is created by default. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#292666: ITP: autoreply -- A safe, rate-limited auto-responder

2005-01-31 Thread Brian May
Chris> * URL : http://www.nemeton.com.au/sw/autoreply/ Chris> * License : BSD Chris> Description : A safe, rate-limited autoresponder Chris> Autoreply is a simple autoresponder useful for replying to Chris> email upon receipt. May I suggest that

Re: Bug#292572: ITP: praat -- program for speech analysis and synthesis

2005-01-31 Thread Brian May
nly part that means anything is "you can redistribute". No rights to modify, implies non-DFSG. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-03 Thread Brian May
art, whether digital images, digital video, writing, etc. I really think we need to draw the line somewhere. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing problemes with deluser

2005-02-07 Thread Brian May
e it will check the home directory for obvious directories that it shouldn't delete. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Brian May
bout this a while ago on debian-devel and was told (IIRC) that a major rewrite was happening in order to make Povray DFSG compliant. Is this still the case? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-10 Thread Brian May
You obviously need to run "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" on your car more often. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: One question: Brian> I asked about this a while ago on debian-devel and was told Brian> (IIRC) that a major rewrite was happening in order to make Brian> Povray DFSG compliant. Bri

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
Cut twice, measure once. Ron> Google it! Loose it! Notes: [1] I was debating putting a smiley face here, but then remembered some recent court cases... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
ile). Its a bit more Goswin> complex algorithm but works even better than rsyncable Goswin> files and rsync. zsync looks suspiciously like it might have similar patent issues which killed the rproxy project. Then again I am no expert; Please tell me I am wrong... -- Brian May <[EMAIL

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-14 Thread Brian May
However, based on Robert's response it would appear that patent issues have been considered for zsync and considered OK. I would speculate this is because information is pre-calculated at the server and stored in *.zsync files. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Brian May
g users. I consider that a bug. If something like this is different, then not only should Debian supplied documentation reflect the change, but a list of differences should appear in README.Debian. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-27 Thread Brian May
lean target Christoph> anyway, so it doesn't hurt to move instead of copying Christoph> it. A benefit of moving files, rather then copying, is that you get to see at a glance what files your package left behind and missed in debian/tmp (e.g. if upstream adds new files to the packages b

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-27 Thread Brian May
essage). So what appears to be to separate messages contained in mbox format in mutt can be interpreted as only one message by formail (see bug #295604 for example). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-28 Thread Brian May
o far exclusively uses mbox files. Sure, these are implementation issues that could be solved, but currently mbox wins. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-proxy

2005-11-13 Thread Brian May
tunately, as I seem to be running behind with my own packages, I don't think I can spare time to help with other packages at this point in time. I am glad to hear though that it is still being worked on. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-proxy

2005-11-13 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> I wrote approx for exactly this purpose. It's now in Eric> testing. Is a back port available for sarge? If not, how feasible would it be to create on? Does it depend on anything n

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-13 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russ> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * Find out what is required to keep AFS support working >> (assuming I don't already have it). Russ> Well, what so

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-13 Thread Brian May
ing duplicate symbols or using a version that is incompatible. * Upload Heimdal. * Rebuild above packages. * If packages don't rebuild then it may be because it requires krb4 support => drop krb4 support (cyrus-sasl?), or entire package (arla?). * Drop kerberos4kth. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-16 Thread Brian May
krb524 working with Heimdal. I had to insert enable-524 = true in /var/lib/heimdal-kdc/kdc.conf (the man page for kdc lead me to believe this was the default). and add: [login] enable-524 = true in /etc/krb5.conf -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Brian May
pass SMTP level SPAM controls, but taken to the extreme, you would have to also do this to every server that forwards you email (perhaps even every mailing list server?). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Brian May
ges never uploaded to Debian, maybe not). * others I am too lazy to think of. Matthew> I've never seen dpkg-sig mentioned before, only debsigs, Matthew> so I'm not familiar with the tool itself, but the concept Matthew> is one that needs a lot more exposure. I would

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Marc" == Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I've never seen dpkg-sig mentioned before, only debsigs, >>> so I'm not familiar with

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-25 Thread Brian May
es on to trace SPAM (which have no cryptographic signature). I also believe that the threat of somebody being tricked into installing a Trojan package is a very real possibility, and we should do everything we can do to aid our users prevent this from happening. Notes: [1] Assuming you have a car,

Re: Heimdal autotools dramas

2005-11-25 Thread Brian May
glob$U.lo and glob$U.o. I asked upstream Heimdal and got no response. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. PS. Source code is Heimdal in Debian experimental. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Heimdal autotools dramas

2005-11-26 Thread Brian May
ail on the heimdal-discuss list... I sent the message to heimdal-bugs. Maybe heimdal-discuss would be more appropriate? Unfortunately, my laptop computer is throwing one of its "I will not power on unless you remove my power source and batteries for several days" tantrum, so I can't dou

Re: something strange with rsh/ssh + bash/tcsh is happening. Please advise

2005-12-29 Thread Brian May
able this implicit shell, either with ssh or rsh? I really don't like it. I would rather each parameter be passed straight to the remote executable via exec without being parsed by sh first. Then, if I want to use the shell, I can say so. I don't like this business of the command line b

Re: something strange with rsh/ssh + bash/tcsh is happening. Please advise

2006-01-01 Thread Brian May
y, the shell isn't required, no splitting of the parameters is required, and this makes the script more secure. Unfortunately, it seems the same methods have yet to come to rsh/ssh, etc. Hmmm. I think sudo supports it though: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo 'id; echo hi' sudo: id; echo hi: comma

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-03-01 Thread Brian May
drivers optional? If ndiswrapper moved to contrib would this package have to move to? I am not providing an opinion here, but I didn't notice these issues being discussed earlier. back to your regular program... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Processed: block 322762 with 355341

2006-03-06 Thread Brian May
341 What does the "block" command do? I have never seen it documented anywhere, including at http://bugs.debian.org/>. Did I miss something? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Processed: block 322762 with 355341

2006-03-09 Thread Brian May
m it is listed: --- cut --- Blocking bugs added: 355341 Request was from Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Full text and rfc822 format available. --- cut --- 2. is it possible to list all bugs that are not blocked? 3. does blocking imply any action will automatically be taken

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Brian May
appear that NEW is blocked for some reason. However, no changes in my upload are critical (at least none that I am aware of), and there are no known security bugs, so I am not complaining. Just curious. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

2006-03-14 Thread Brian May
un, and this meant I couldn't run any executables that required libc6. Eventually I was able to run ldconfig from a preexisting chroot, and my system was fine. Maybe it has changed now, but it didn't look like the applications were falling back to ld.so.conf when this happened. -- Bria

Re: ITP: moleinvasion -- Jump'n run game with Tux

2006-03-15 Thread Brian May
trchr(lang,"_"); if (ptr) *ptr='\0'; memset(buffer,'\0',sizeof(buffer)); snprintf(buffer,sizeof(buffer)-1,"txt/%s_%s",getenv("LANG"),LONG_TXT_FILE); --- cut --- -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-15 Thread Brian May
new packages with known source code end up in the NEW queue? The source code has already been examined for the US export legislation. e.g. if soname changes on shared library, it requires the package be renamed which appears as a new package. Could be an issue if such an upload contained securit

Re: Request of expulsion of Zeke the Cat from the Debian Project

2006-03-16 Thread Brian May
treated equally to the other candidates, despite her superior, bossy, know-it-all cat attitude. Wouter> Besides, I don't like cats anyway. You should be expelled instead! ;-) Wouter> ... then again, maybe this isn't. Huh ? ;-) Wouter> Get over yourself. Please. No! T

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-16 Thread Brian May
have done this, realize there is only one thing left to do. Find the guilty party. There is only one guilty party. IT WAS ALL TUX' FAULT! TUX IS EVIL! EXPEL TUX NOW! BURN TUX! -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-17 Thread Brian May
cpu. What the heck? Are you implying that would be a suitable well-formed patch suitable for inclusion? Or did I miss some sarcasm? Apart from the NULL pointers, strdup only takes one parameter... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-17 Thread Brian May
ven "make him go away"? Would it make him lose interest? Or would the arguments continue either with Sven (from outside the project) or somebody else to take his place? Would the next step be to ban Sven from participating in our public mailing lists? Has the world gone completely crazy? --

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-17 Thread Brian May
header set: Mail-Followup-To: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org was this intentional? I think Sven is subscribed to this list... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-17 Thread Brian May
are still making machines that use a non-Intel based CPU, as it makes me nervous that Intel and AMD have such a huge monopoly. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-17 Thread Brian May
fact the source code is in Debian would imply that the ftpmasters have already checked the licensing, legal issues, and other things? In contrast it is possible to upload packages containing new upstream source code (but no new packages) that has no manual checking. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTE

rebooting, non-root raid, udev

2005-01-26 Thread Brian May
#x27;t observed anything like this behaviour with devfs, so I suspect this is udev specific. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#292813: ITP: construo -- 2D construction toy using wireframe objects and physical forces

2005-01-29 Thread Brian May
removes all these potential nasty flame wars about the pros/cons of various licenses. I wanted to verify the license, but the upstream web page of http://www.example.org/> didn't work for me. I suspect contacting the upstream author at "Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" would

Re: Idea: about package installation under chroot.

2005-03-24 Thread Brian May
l packages in the filesystem structure of a Jorge> remotely-booted machine. If a package directly uses /etc/init.d/ in its scripts, file a bug report. It should use invoke-rc.d instead. man invoke-rc.d It should work for chroots, and does work for pbuilder. -- Brian May <[EMAIL

Re: gluck available again / filesystem shaked

2005-04-07 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Joerg" == Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joerg> You know, our userdir-ldap manages ssh keys. You dont need Joerg> to put them manually in .ssh dirs. How do you set the ssh key in LDAP? I can't see any settings in db.d

Re: Bug#304570: ITP: codeblocks -- Code::Blocks is a free C/C++ IDE built

2005-04-14 Thread Brian May
free software based there. Just look at the ITPs here. Unfortunately the website doesn't seem to be working right now. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More about GFDL

2005-04-23 Thread Brian May
as Maciej> well? It might be better to ask this question on debian-legal. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-10 Thread Brian May
#x27;t want to use an initramfs to initialize it. Or if you want /usr to be shared between computers but don't want to share all of /. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and--disabled-login

2005-05-14 Thread Brian May
0:53 snoopy sshd[15846]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for jan from localhost [3] "Account deactivated" option in "LDAP Account Manager". I haven't worked out how this is stored in LDAP yet. No messages displayed to the user. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and--disabled-login

2005-05-15 Thread Brian May
have any downside. Perhaps the only exception I can think of is if the account is locked due to "too many login attempts" as opposed to "password expired" or "account has expired" or some other predictable reason. Then, yes, that would be a problem. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Against which package should this go?

2005-05-15 Thread Brian May
have the time or patience to learn that awful-programming-language-that-requires-lots-of-nested-brackets... errr... I mean LISP... right now. ;-) However, this won't work anyway for people stuck using lesser MUAs (e.g. mutt), fake MUAs (e.g. evolution), or worse (e.g. anything written b

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-18 Thread Brian May
s kept accurate via some other means. You could argue based on this, /lib isn't designed to be shared, so you still need to split it into /usr/lib and /lib. Alternatively you could argue only /lib/modules isn't sharable, I guess. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUB

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-18 Thread Brian May
what the point would be. Peter> You would put up with all *that* for a 6-megabyte savings Peter> on your root filesystem? It would be more then 6 megabyte savings on the root file-system if /usr was moved to /. That was the original point I responded to. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PRO

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-19 Thread Brian May
rect solution to fix the file system? Disclaimer: I don't care too much either way. It is perhaps worth noting that a package I maintain does use /usr/lib/$packagename/* for inetd servers, and this reduces file conflicts with other packages. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

kernel security bug #307900

2005-06-04 Thread Brian May
? Does this mean people who want secure pre-compiled kernels have to resort to unstable until the issue is fixed? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel security bug #307900

2005-06-05 Thread Brian May
rnel-source version 2.6.8-16"? Again, I think it would be much quicker, easier, and less prone to errors if the DSAs where mentioned in the relevant kernel-image-change too. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
and had mounted additional filesystems - the only solution I could come up with was to stop the daemon in the chroot before unmounting the file-system). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
o very complicated networks. The difficulty with supporting firewalls is that people will expect "if I install package X, then it should automatically adjust the firewall to allow it to work". I really do *not* want to go down this path. The firewall is up to the administrator to decide on, not the package maintainers. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Upgrading to Debian sarge

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20_powerpc.deb 69301110f8865edd7f2f93d79ad6a715 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20_powerpc.deb Then again, this package looks old, so maybe the entire mirror is old, and no longer usable. My point though that aptitude should tell you what went wrong

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
t; there for only 1 symbol on 2.4; didn't check 2.6), and so on Joey> might just make it work. klibc? Not yet in Debian, is there any reason for this? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
ed, using what I believe to be the standard process[1][2][3][4][...]: 1. I claim to be "Brian May". I have a passport that proves that I am in fact "Brian May". I have a drivers license that proves that I am "Brian May". The photos are identical to what I look l

Re: Upgrading to Debian sarge

2005-06-12 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache show libc6 | grep MD5sum MD5sum: Brian> ab0895ee6d8d2cf3b6906eb5228e5c25 Brian> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# md5sum Brian> /var/cache/apt/archiv

shared libraries, bug 313094

2005-06-14 Thread Brian May
hs behind. I don't think the bug reporter used hurd though. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#313094: shared libraries, bug 313094

2005-06-18 Thread Brian May
it with Steve> a grain of salt for now. :) Sounds like a much needed feature, IMHO. Good like for getting your changes integrated into debhelper. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-06-18 Thread Brian May
Brian Mays doesn't seem to be watching this thread...) My point though is that I could have taken my dodgy key into a keysigning session, and people adhering to many standard keysigning would not notice anything wrong, even if I couldn't intercept the mail. This would mean: * If I was a n

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-20 Thread Brian May
P server... e.g. network tunnels and DNS servers both might need to be started first before the NTP server can be contacted. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: raidtools2 -> mdadm change: woes and problems

2005-06-22 Thread Brian May
ed assembling the RAID with the --update=super-minor option (as well as all the other options), but it didn't seem to help. In the end, I gave up and changed /etc/fstab to the new system. I no longer have access this machine, the other machine doesn't seem to have the problem anymore. How

Re: Bug#315298: ITP: yaird -- Yet Another mkInitRD

2005-06-22 Thread Brian May
in Debian be able to use klibc in Debian for all the user tools (I believe there is already an ITP for klibc). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GCC version change / C++ ABI change

2005-07-05 Thread Brian May
an application that uses this library in the one source, by the above criteria I could rebuild the library but not the application, which seems pointless. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-uk] Sun have (probably) patented apt-get

2005-07-06 Thread Brian May
ivist Network, said: "The fact that somebody, just by claiming to own a word, can intimidate large companies and powerful law firms shows the damage, to an extent, is already done." In the movie realm, Stoller says that he wrote to Sony in March, objecting to Columbia Pictures' plan t

Re: [Debian-uk] Sun have (probably) patented apt-get

2005-07-06 Thread Brian May
counts as prior-art if you published it in some public forum (not sure of the exact criteria). If it was a private thing, then it doesn't count. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-09 Thread Brian May
quently went very slowly until it was unusable. It took me two reboots of the computer before I finally realized the DOS attack was from *my* own script! It took me another reboot to fix the problem properly. Sometimes it pays to use the full pathname to the executable... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-09 Thread Brian May
x27;t give you access to your newly created package. 4. Make dupload obsolete, and replace with dput. Make dput the default in debrelease. I think dput would have prevented me uploading my unsigned package. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-10 Thread Brian May
don't think it will work from X-Windows when the system is too bogged down to switch to a text console though... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-10 Thread Brian May
time, regardless of regular interruptions, that I am incompetent? You must be perfect! Which means the fact I could not have any definitions of [1] or [2] in your message must be my fault. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-29 Thread Brian May
ding disabled. debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Entering interactive session. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new host key?: Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-30 Thread Brian May
ving old entries from ~/.ssh/known_hosts, I can Osamu> update host key and login. Yes, I got that. Osamu> PS: It would have been nicer if old hosk identification was Osamu> backuped and used in new system. They may have been concerned that the old host identification had been

Re: new host key?: Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-30 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> (note: I am using ssh-krb5 - not that should matter - it Brian> authenticated OK). Brian> This is weird. Maybe I will need to experiment more. I just tried the standard ssh in sa

renaming network interfaces in udev

2006-07-30 Thread Brian May
ed): udevd_event: rename_net_if: error changing net interface name eth1_temp to eth0: timeout which seems really confusing, IMHO. Thanks for any advice. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new host key?: Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-30 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> (note: I am using ssh-krb5 - not that should matter - it Brian> authenticated OK). Brian> This is weird. Maybe I will need to experiment more. Brian> I just tried the standa

Re: Building in chroots hides bugs?

2006-08-01 Thread Brian May
the build - I probably wouldn't notice that there is a minor (perhaps obsolete) feature enabled with no corresponding build-depends. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-03 Thread Brian May
7; in systems like CVS or SVN and we refer to them as 'checkouts'. (bzr also supports "lightweight checkouts", which are like local checkouts, and aren't branches at all.)" Can anyone confirm/deny? My central dislike of bzr is bugs like: http://bugs.debian

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-04 Thread Brian May
:)). No, this was a conversion from baz. Might be the same bug though, hopefully. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

udev vs ldap at startup

2006-08-05 Thread Brian May
ng weird (and perhaps ancient history) on my computer? What should be creating the above users/groups? Could udevd be changed to make debugging these issues easier, e.g. maybe some sort of verbose mode? Should I file any bug reports, if so what packages? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECT

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