Bug#285773: ITP: smartpm -- A alternative package manager that works with dpkg/rpm

2004-12-15 Thread Michael Vogt
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2004-12-15 Severity: wishlist * Package name: smartpm Version : 0.28 Upstream Author : Gustavo Niemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://linux-br.conectiva.com.br/~niemeyer/smart/files/ * License : GPL Description : A

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Vogt
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:02:05PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Daniel Leidert wrote: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345823 > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345891 > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345956 > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/b

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:26:41AM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:13:06PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > > > These are all notable in > > > > > > a) being RC > > > b) not having any response from an apt maintainer > &

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:22:50AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Michael Vogt] > > Sorry for the delay. I'm preparing a new upload that adds the 2006 > > archive key to the default keyring. > > Sounds good. Will this automatically take care of the key update

Translated packages descriptions progress

2006-07-29 Thread Michael Vogt
Dear Friends, the current version of apt in debian/experimental has support for translated package descriptions and we have a the current translations available for sid on the mirrors (currently not on ftp.debian.org itself because of the mirror split I suspect). This means that everyone with no

Re: Translated packages descriptions progress

2006-08-01 Thread Michael Vogt
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:06:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 08:26:02AM +0200, Michael Vogt a écrit : > > > > 1. send a Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject 'GET 3 cs' > > (use cs da de eo es fi fr hu it ja nl pl pt_BR p

Re: Translated packages descriptions progress

2006-08-01 Thread Michael Vogt
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:47:05PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On 7/30/06, Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As someone who has been loosely following this for a while and > translated a few descriptions, I have a few little questions/comments: > > 1. Th

Re: bits from the release team

2006-05-13 Thread Michael Vogt
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:05:03AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Le Ven 5 Mai 2006 18:41, Florian Weimer a écrit : [..] > Except that apt-get fails if any of the signatures are unknown or > expired. So you still need both keys and not just one

alternatives

2000-03-23 Thread Michael Vogt
Dear Friends We have a "/etc/alternative/editor", but not a "x-editor". Wouldn't this a usefull addition for the alternative-system? best regards Michael -- GPG Fingerprint = EA71 B296 4597 4D8B 343E 821E 9624 83E1 5662 C734 /"\ o \ / ASCII RIBBON CA

Debconf question

2000-03-27 Thread Michael Vogt
Dear Friends I am working on debconf support for libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap. Since both share some common information (ldap-server and ldap-base-dn) I want to have a shared debconf entry (say shared/ldapns/ldap-server,base-dn). I tryed adding this to the template and config file of both packages

Re: Debconf question

2000-03-28 Thread Michael Vogt
> > I tryed adding this to the template and config file of both packages and > > hoped that after installing one lib, "db_get shared/ldapns/ldap-server" > > for the other lib would return the value entered in the first lib. > > But it didn't work. Any help would appreciated :) > > Hm. That should

Re: Debconf question

2000-03-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 03:00:43PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Vogt wrote: > > Ok, stupid me. I had a line likes this in my debian/config: > > "db_input medium shared/ldapns/ldap-server || true" > > So, the question is allways asked. > > I don't

Re: WNPP

2000-03-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:39:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Someone should package AIDE (http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html). It's > a free tripwire replacement. I packed aide for my personal needs some weeks ago. I just uploaded a polished version to http://members.xoom.com/mydebs/debian/aide

Re: WNPP

2000-03-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 11:25:46PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Vogt wrote: > > I packed aide for my personal needs some weeks ago. I just uploaded a > > polished > > version to http://members.xoom.com/mydebs/debian/aide. > > Cool! Do you want me to sponsor this

apt with index diff support

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Vogt
Dear Friends, the idea to have some sort of incremental update support for the archive index files (Packages,Sources) in the archive and in apt has been around for some time now [1]. Anthony Towns analysed the problem in [2] and came up with the idea to use ed-style diffs to solve the problem. A

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-11 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi Andreas, thanks for your feedback. On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 04:46:09PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > 2. merkel does not have the actual package files [..] > Having to specify this at the commandline is messy, is there a

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-12 Thread Michael Vogt
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Michael Vogt: > > Andreas Barth implemented the server side of the index diffs > > generation and has a test-repository (with only the index-files) at > > [3]. > > By the way, the secure-testing p

Re: apt with index diff support

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:33:29PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > The remapping features seems not to work with deb-src entries. > > > (SID)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ apt-get -o > APT::URL-Remap::http://merke

Re: Interfaces for dpkg/deb packages

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Vogt
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 02:40:06PM -0700, Christopher Crammond wrote: > I was curious as to where I might be able to find out what > non-command-line interfaces into .deb packages are available. For > instance, is there a C interface that could pull out information such as > Name, Version, Release

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-11-01 Thread Michael Vogt
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:06:22AM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:15:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > (And yes, we still need a solution to speed up the actual deb file > > downloads..) [..] > if zsync would be taught to handle .deb files as it does .gz files, and > a meth

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:55:26PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > Today: apt0.7.23 and bang: > $ apt-get update > .. > 99% [11 Packages rred 2154496] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for > headers]Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > > WARNING to everyone. Thanks for your warning. > Program

Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:41:23PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 28 Aug 2009, Michael Vogt wrote: > > the compression types should be used. I can not reproduce this > > failure, Could you please send me your sources.list and the > > architecture you are using? >

APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-06 Thread Michael Vogt
Dear Friends, I plan to do an apt 0.7.2 upload for sid this weekend. It's a big merge of the version in debian/experimental and the version in Ubuntu. It will break the ABI, so all packages that depend on libapt will need a rebuild against this version (so expect a bit of a transition until ever

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Vogt
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:44:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Michael, Hi Steve, > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:59:38AM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: > > I plan to do an apt 0.7.2 upload for sid this weekend. It's a big merge > > of the version in debian/experimental an

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Vogt
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:49:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Vogt wrote: > > - support for the new dpkg "Breaks" field (thanks to Ian Jackson for > > his work on this) > > Although dpkg still doesn't have Breaks support, so we still can't us

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-08 Thread Michael Vogt
> > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:59:38AM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: [..] > How is what you describe different from what cron-apt already does? Reinhard descriped the main diverce quite nicely already. unattended-upgrades comes with a default configuration that will only apply security

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-08 Thread Michael Vogt
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:54:16AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 07 Jun 2007, Michael Vogt wrote: > > I plan to do an apt 0.7.2 upload for sid this weekend. It's a big merge > > of the version in debian/experimental and the version in Ubuntu. > &g

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-10 Thread Michael Vogt
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:59:38AM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: > I plan to do an apt 0.7.2 upload for sid this weekend. It's a big merge > of the version in debian/experimental and the version in Ubuntu. [..] I just uploaded apt, python-apt and synaptic. If binNMUs could be arran

Re: screenshots.debian.net

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:12:26PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:46:27PM +0100, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > On Sonntag, 16. November 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:18:26PM +0100, Christoph Haas > > <[EMAIL PR

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Michael Vogt
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:28:27PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 01, Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We, the APT Development Team, will change apt to install recommended > > packages by default on October 1st. This should give enough time to &

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Michael Vogt
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:35:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is not a question of removing choice. This change in apt is the > > only thing that *gives* you a choice of installing recommends via apt. > > That the solution for disabling this

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Michael Vogt
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:35:40PM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: > Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > Joey Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Shouldn't we then remove recommends entirely and turn them into > > > regular Depends? > > > > The sometime 'soft dependencies' called feature of Recommen

Re: packages with hook interfaces and no documented hook policy

2011-01-21 Thread Michael Vogt
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 01:08:36AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > Also; You said, the hook breaks suspend/hibernate. I don't agree this is the > > case. If there is no upgrade running, the hook will exit immediately. > > If there is an upgrade running, the hook simply blocks unt

Re: packages with hook interfaces and no documented hook policy

2011-01-21 Thread Michael Vogt
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:54:12PM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Neil Williams writes: > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:43:23 +0100 > > Bjørn Mork wrote: [..] > Sorry, I still don't see what's so special about the unattended-upgrades > cron job. Couldn't e.g. logrotate just as well argue that it should

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Vogt
B1;2703;0cOn Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:55:36PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:26, Andreas Tille wrote: > > What I'm missing in the summary and what was probably not discussed is > > another user oriented service:  ddtp.debian.net.  Translating > > descriptions of packa

Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?

2011-03-10 Thread Michael Vogt
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:22:29AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > What would it take to get cdn.debian.net become a service provided by > > the project? In other words, cdn.debian.org, instead of cdn.debian.net. [..] > I'd really like to see support

Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?

2011-03-11 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:08:15AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Michael Vogt wrote: > > > There is a "mirror" method in apt since some time that is a bit of a > > combined cdn/README.mirrors approach. Its not much used and probably

Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?

2011-03-11 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:20:14PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Michael Vogt wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:22:29AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > > What would it take to get c

Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?

2011-03-15 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:29:08AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:55:47PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > > One missing feature is that it needs to send along info about the > > release/arch its looking for or the returned list needs to be extended >

Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?

2011-03-21 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:35:23AM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: [..] > P.S. apt also provides a "mirror" method (just like http, ftp, etc) but I > consider it to be suboptimal and a poor way to tackle the problem. Why exactly do you feel this way? What problems do you see with it? I see some

Re: apt-rpm article -- the features we don't have

2003-12-02 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, [please CC me, I'm not on the list] > To install a package directly, with apt downloading any necessary > dependencies: > apt-get install rpmver-2.0-13498cl.i386.rpm Gustavo (maintainer of apt-rpm) has a version ready that supports http and ftp installs beside local files. This is nice and

Re: [bdale@gag.com: Bug#141688: FTBFS: config.sub/guess out of date]

2002-04-08 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:25:55PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Sending this bug report to debian-devel so that hopefully the maintainer > of this package will see it. > > Please rename your package. Yes, my fault. I renamed it to "libxbase" and just uploaded it again. Sorry for any trouble I

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-04-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 02:53:26PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Hi, > > I hereby request comments on changing APT to pre-depend on > ${shlibs:Depends}. The reason is simple: > > When we upload a new version of APT, depending on a newer > library version (due to new symbols,

Re: unattended-upgrades by default?

2016-11-05 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 03:38:38PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:47 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: [..] > > To solve the issue and provide security updates by default, I'm > > proposing that we should switch to installing unattended-upgrades by > > default (and enabling it too) *unl

Re: unattended-upgrades by default?

2016-11-05 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 02:36:27PM +0100, Alexandre Detiste wrote: > 2016-11-04 13:29 GMT+01:00 Roland Mas : > > Tangentially related: is there something similar for kernels? My > > monitoring setup currently compares the age of the most recent file in > > /boot with the uptime, but I feel there m