Idea for system installation/maintenance

2007-03-08 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello debian developers, I'd like to present you a new idea for installation/maintenance of complete installations. Please take a bit of time, read this mail, and if you've got any comments, questions or suchlike, don't hesitate to reply. (This is also a plea for help, in case you might wonder.)

libc6 with support for old kernels

2007-08-07 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello everybody, I'd like to ask for some help. I have some machines running an old kernel (2.4.25, from Suse7.3). Now I'd like to get some newer software running on them, *without* re-installing the whole system. (That would be gnuplot, graphviz, subversion, fsvs, and some others). About a ye

Re: libc6 with support for old kernels

2007-08-07 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello Michael, > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:56:34AM +0200, Ph. Marek wrote: >> I'd like to ask for some help. > > Please ask on debian-user, debian-devel is a development list. will do. I thought that as my target solution would involve a differently compiled libc5 packet that

Re: Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.d extention

2008-01-04 Thread Ph. Marek
[[ Sorry for intruding in a thread read via http://lists.debian.org ... I hope I get the reply-headers correct. ]] > > How feasible would it be to make the pause time a function of the > > number of processes sendsig must reclaim? That seems to make some > > sense to me. Obviously there should