tiotest packaged, need sponsor

2000-03-09 Thread bug1
Hi, ive created a package of tiotest, which is a small relatively need benchmarking program being used a lot recently for raid benchmarks. Its the first package ive made, its only been packaged as i386, i havent tried getting it working on other platforms. Its a bit short on documentation, but if

Re: tiotest packaged, need sponsor

2000-03-09 Thread bug1
Seems ive been beaten to it. ftp://ftp.cm.nu/pub/debian/ Oh well, plenty more potential packages out there bug1 wrote: > > Hi, ive created a package of tiotest, which is a small relatively need > benchmarking program being used a lot recently for raid benchmarks. > > Its the fi

Re: A "progressive" distribution

2000-03-15 Thread bug1
"Bernhard R. Link" wrote: > > After reading this nice diskussion with all it's aspects, I want to > complete the mess and suggest a "distribution" called > e.g. "progressive" beetween stable(frozen) and unstable. > > As I understood the problem, at the moment, only the stable > distribution is ab

Re: Embedded(/RT) Debian? Embeddian GNU/Linux?

2000-03-16 Thread bug1
Hi, ive been hanging around boot-floppies for a while, and am interested in minimum debian systems. I think what your trying to do could well cover a lot of ground boot-floppies tries to cover, if your not familiar with how the debian boot floppies work, you may get a bit out of it, i love the mkl

[package] drakxtools; diskdrake partition manager

2000-03-30 Thread bug1
Hi, ive made my first debian package, Mandrakes drakxtools, it contains a number of configuration tools, but my primary reason for packaging is to provide diskdrake. Diskdrake is a graphical partition manager, it allows resizing parititions etc. I originally thought this would be good during insta

build dependencies

2000-08-16 Thread bug1
It would be cool if packages had better support for build dependencies so its easier/more reliable to build from source. There would probably have to be a set of source base packages defined somewhere that are required as a base for building, but not a base for regular usage as base is currently d

Re: build dependencies

2000-08-17 Thread bug1
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > bug1 wrote: > > > It would be cool if packages had better support for build dependencies > > so its easier/more reliable to build from source. > > Something like this? > > Source: gri > Section: math > Priority: optional