Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-10-02 Thread Craig Sanders
t;. pros: simple. takes <20 seconds with vi. minimal change, so follows principle of least surprise. easy to remember. init.d scripts are conffiles so it won't be automatically replaced at the next upgrade. cons: you have to re-do the change if you ever upgrade and answer "Y" t

Re: Is this a bug in grep, or is it me...

1999-10-02 Thread Craig Sanders
grep "^PACKAGENAME " override.potato will do the job, and is probably significantly faster than an awk script. craig -- craig sanders

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-02 Thread Craig Sanders
. libssl is completely free software in the free world, but encumbered by a patent problem in the world's favourite police state. craig PS: the RSA patent expires in 2001 (or is it 2002?), anyway. -- craig sanders

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-02 Thread Craig Sanders
m just as they get home from work or sit down to dinner can say "PUT ME ON YOUR DO-NOT-CALL LIST IMMEDIATELY!". write the software so that it is trivially easy for the telemarketer to add numbers to that list. craig -- craig sanders

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 10:50:06PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Oct 03, Craig Sanders wrote: > > IMO, this is morally akin to writing free software specifically to make > > spamming cheaper and easier. > > No, it isn't. Survey research is an important part of th

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 01:02:55AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:13:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > even opt-out lists are the wrong solution...because they don't work very > > well (especially when usage of them is optional). telephone

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:29:15PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:13:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > it may be an important tool, but that doesn't give you or anyone else > > the right to pester people in their own homes. it really does no good >

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-05 Thread Craig Sanders
at not using it would be unethical, but i certainly agree that this usage IS an ethical and appropriate use of this kind of software. craig -- craig sanders

Re: Secret Holy Code revealed to Seekers of Truth!

2000-03-10 Thread Craig Sanders
ret holy code should be available to non-genuine seekers of truth, and to seekers of falsehood (genuine or not) too. god told me to write this so you better believe it. craig -- craig sanders

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Craig Sanders
f this is to take advantage of our biggest advantage - if you compare "unstable" with any of the other dists (commercial or otherwise), then we are way ahead of them for most programs/packages. the perception that debian is behind is only true for those stuck with stable. craig -- craig sanders

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Craig Sanders
ian "unstable" - many of us are willing to risk our important systems to it. rather than seeing that as a problem, we should be working to take advantage of "unstable"'s stability and quality. craig -- craig sanders

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-14 Thread Craig Sanders
ing release. As has been said > before, Debian isn't commercial. It doesn't have to behave like it is > with releases. well said! and you make an important point that most people overlook - that the whole commercial product style release cycle may not be thet best way for debian releases to be made. craig -- craig sanders

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-14 Thread Craig Sanders
7;s release in the same terms as a commercial operating system. the only viable way to speed that up is to implement the package pool idea, coupled with reasonably frequent "snapshot" releases and less frequent but fully-tested "stable" releases. craig -- craig sanders

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-14 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:02:50AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:01:15PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:08:43AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > We are knee deep in a release cycle. We should not be expending our > > &g

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-14 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 11:02:20PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:42:07AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > this same empirical evidence has also proved that 'stable' is LESS > > stable and reliable and secure than 'unstable'. the few de

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-15 Thread Craig Sanders
he needs of our users for operation in many different > kinds of computing environment. We won't object to commercial software > that is intended to run on Debian systems, and we'll allow others to > create value-added distributions containing both Debian and commercial &g

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-15 Thread Craig Sanders
are) fixed in stable, too! most are. craig -- craig sanders

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-15 Thread Craig Sanders
many others over the years). amongst numerous other benefits, snapshot CDs will take the pressure off the release team and allow them to take as much time as they feel is necessary to produce the 'perfect' release. craig -- craig sanders

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:23:42PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 14-Mar-00, 18:58 (CST), Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > actually, it's really sad that you haven't learnt that closing down > > 'unstable' is a disastrously bad idea. you&#

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:35:35AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 06:06:24PM +1100, Craig Sanders écrivait: > > and fuck you too! how dare you fucking misrepresent my position and > > twist what i said in such a reprehensible manner? > > >

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-15 Thread Craig Sanders
27;t fixed in stable are the worst > release-critical bugs. most are. most of them even in a timely fashion. craig -- craig sanders

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-15 Thread Craig Sanders
's warning that i was going to orphan it - nobody cared enough about it to bother adopting it in that time). most of the rest have actually been fixed, but i must have got the BTS syntax wrong when closing the bugs in the changelog. craig -- craig sanders

Re: Becoming a developer

2000-03-15 Thread Craig Sanders
STV to replace the QT > > calls with GTK calls, but that would be a last ditch idea. > > It truly would, QT is FAR superior to GTK!! if you only want to work in C++, and if you don't care that it's incompatible with the GPL. craig -- craig sanders

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:07:51AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:03:18PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > i haven't yet decided what to do about vtun. i'll probably get around > > to upgrading it to the latest version one day, but i made a mistak

Re: A "progressive" distribution

2000-03-15 Thread Craig Sanders
> implented in our lifetime. I recall reading that it was being prototyped on lully...but lully is currently waiting for some replacement hardware. craig -- craig sanders

Re: A "progressive" distribution

2000-03-16 Thread Craig Sanders
ably be used mostly by developers and bleeding-edge type users. 'snapshot' will be used by those with fewer guinea-pig genes, who want something up-to-date but with major obvious problems resolved. 'frozen' is for those who just can't wait for stable or who want to help with final testing. 'stable' is for everyone. craig -- craig sanders

Re: A "progressive" distribution

2000-03-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 11:02:31AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > ??? - packages auto moved to here after basic criteria met (e.g. > in unstable for 2 weeks with no bug reports). can't remember > what this stage was to be called. i feel a need to w

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:41:01PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 15-Mar-00, 01:06 (CST), Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DO NOT PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH. > > > > your "argument" for want of a better term is obviously so poor that you > >

Intent to Package udmsearch

2000-03-16 Thread Craig Small
udmsearch is a website indexer and, I'm going to package it! More info about it at http://mysearch.udm.net/ -- Craig Small VK2XLZ, PGP: AD 8D D8 63 6E BF C3 C7 47 41 B1 A2 1F 46 EC 90 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[E

blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors)

2000-03-19 Thread Craig Sanders
ry difficult to see where you are going. fixed with: COLOR:1:cyan:black COLOR:5:brightcyan:black vim too. fixed with the folling in ~/.vimrc: set background=dark hi Commentterm=bold ctermfg=Cyan guifg=Cyan hi PreProcterm=underline ctermfg=Cyan guifg=#ff80ff craig -- craig sanders

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-19 Thread Craig Sanders
ng the pine emulation bindings but they were more trouble for me than just learning the mutt keys. i've been using mutt for long enough now that pine's key bindings seem clumsy and awkward. craig -- craig sanders

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-20 Thread Craig Sanders
the only annoying thing is that if you are already at the end of a message, then PgDn takes you to the next message. this should be optional behaviour. maybe it already is...it has never annoyed me enough to find out. > The key binding are so insame that prevent people (newbies) fom > using mutt, they first must to learn how to change those defaults to > something acceptable. it's not that bad. if newbies can pick up emacs' horribly contorted key bindings then mutt's a doddle. craig -- craig sanders

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-20 Thread Craig Sanders
at in pine without copying the file to /root/mail or making a symlink. craig ps: if you prefer pine, then just use it. there's no need to make every mail client as bad as pine...some of us like mutt the way it is and don't want to see it mangled into an awkward pine clone. -- craig sanders

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-20 Thread Craig Sanders
favour of adding them as comments in /etc/Muttrc, along with an explanation of what they do and why someone might choose to uncomment them - a summary of your comments in this thread would be perfect. craig -- craig sanders

Re: blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors)

2000-03-22 Thread Craig Sanders
to mention that until after i'd sent the message. blue on black is just a bad idea - too little contrast between fg & bg to be readable. craig -- craig sanders

Re: blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors)

2000-03-22 Thread Craig Sanders
raviolet. :) now that you have discovered the awful secret of debian, the secret cabal will have to take care of you. wait right where you are. there will be a knock on the door shortly. craig -- craig sanders

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Craig Sanders
or sudo environment). moving these programs to different directories will break those scripts. the minimal benefit of moving them is greatly outweighed by the damage it would cause. in short, add the sbin directories to your PATH and move on. craig -- craig sanders

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Craig Sanders
them). it only takes a few seconds to do so i don't care much what the default is. craig -- craig sanders

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Craig Brozefsky
It's just an illustration of the problems of attempting to enforce your preferred policies upon others. -- Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Scheme/Lisp Software http://www.red-bean.com/~craig "Hiding like thieves in the night from life, illusions of oasis making you look twice. -- Mos Def and Talib Kweli

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Craig Sanders
if they are unable to test you..) > > I don't know anything about DUL. that's OK, neither does Joseph. As usual, he's shooting his mouth off about stuff he couldn't even begin to comprehend. craig -- craig sanders

Re: 0 days till bug horizon

2000-03-27 Thread Craig Brozefsky
-20.4/lisp/gnus which is in the xemacs20-support package. Even with -no-site-file xemacs still will find that directory if it wasn't removed by a user. Unless someone else can reproduce this bug, I suggest we either close it, or downgrade it to normal. I suspect it was an issue with the use

Re: 0 days till bug horizon

2000-03-27 Thread Craig Brozefsky
of emacs is broken; does it justify yanking > bbdb despite the fact it works for a large number of people? And as I pointed out previously, it worked for me using xemacs20, both with and without the seperate gnus package. -- Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: 0 days till bug horizon

2000-03-27 Thread Craig Brozefsky
oduce the bug, and due to the fact that even if it were to mysteriously manifest it only effected xemacs20 users without gnus installed, I see no reason for this to be an RC bug. -- Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Scheme/Lisp Software http://www.red-bean.com/

Re: how about a real unstable?

2000-03-29 Thread Craig Sanders
b, and one that grows enormously for every release. we had around 2000 packages for slink. we now have approx 4000 for potatoand already nearly 5000 for woody - and potato isn't even out the door! i'm glad i don't have to wait. unstable is more than good enough for use on production servers (and has been the entire time i've been using debian - almost 5 years now) craig -- craig sanders

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Craig Sanders
r deliberately spreading misinformation. craig -- craig sanders

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Craig Sanders
a dialup address - SMTP delivery to dynamic IP addresses just doesn't work reliably, and can not work reliably even if the end-user does make use of one of the dynamic dns services) > The anti-spam bigots enjoy seeing catch-22's like this. the anti-DUL bigots love spreading disinformation and bullshit like this to backup their shaky claims. craig -- craig sanders

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Craig Sanders
eening out spammers from abusing the service - but that may not be such a problem, setting up uucp would be a barrier to entry for most spammersand you could require new subscribers to send a PGP signed scan of a photo id card to prove their identity (just like debian does for new developers).

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:16:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:58:22AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > yep. the DUL lists dynamic (dialup) IPs, it doesn't list static IPs. > > that's why it's called the MAPS Dialup User Li

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 07:14:58PM +, Alexander Koch wrote: > DUL is interesting. I changed my mind on that. I rather say we use it > since the amount of spam is certainly increasing the last weeks and > DUL is understandable. > > Craig? obviously, i agree - i've been a

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Craig Sanders
C-1648 ("Postmaster Convention for X.400 Operations"), and RFC-2142 ("MAILBOX NAMES FOR COMMON SERVICES, ROLES AND FUNCTIONS"). craig -- craig sanders

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:19:34PM -0800, Lawrence Walton wrote: > Craig I meant you need those things to have a smtp HOST. You know; to > send and recive email, I was not commenting about DUL in any form. So > to say I was spreadding FUD is foolish, maybe you could of asked for

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:41:15PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > debian developers should have the option of a uucp account from one > > of the debian servers (trivially easy for us to set up). > > I think we have been over thi

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:36:37AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > yep. the DUL lists dynamic (dialup) IPs, it doesn't list static IPs. > > that's why it's called the MAPS Dialup User List. > > Well then I have

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:17:55AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > DUL is very effective in doing that. it prevents spammers from > > hiding their activities from their ISP...which ensures that they > > will be caught and

Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
ted (with quality ranging from poor to truly excellent). most programming tools (e.g. make and gcc) have excellent documentation. the problem isn't so much being able to find docs, as knowing where to start. craig (not a real programmer, but i pretend to be one from time to time) -- craig sanders

Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
(and is doomed to cause significant problems in the near future). > Anyway, you didn't answer to my question ! yes i did. my answer was that you were asking the wrong question. craig -- craig sanders

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-31 Thread Craig Sanders
(and yes, i do happen to think that SAUCE is insane, but my opinion - like yours - is irrelevant because it's his mail server, not yours or mine). on your machines, your policy applies. on his machines, his policy. simple. your right to free speech does not include the right to force anyone else to listen. craig -- craig sanders

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-04-01 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:08:53PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:18:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > your right to free speech does not include the right to force anyone > > else to listen. > > Then this principle must apply universally. I

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-04-01 Thread Craig Sanders
of it then i could agree with you. > Thanks for clearing this up for me. you're welcome. you be sure to have a nice day now. craig -- craig sanders

Re: [Election Results] Official and Final

2000-04-02 Thread Craig Sanders
drugs, hypnosis and alien mind-control devices) made us all forget the torture session. craig ps: there is no cabal. -- craig sanders

Re: APT problem

2000-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
# dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag package(s) as held. # # by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26. This script is hereby placed into the # public domain. # # BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking. this is not good. if [ -z "$*" ] ; then echo "Usage:"

Re: Machine-specific optimizations

2000-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
how it should be. (Ever used dselect on a > 9600 serial console? It's fun ;). twice in one day...this must be the 4th or 5th time i've posted this script to this list over the years. ---cut here--- #! /bin/bash # dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag package(s) as held. # # by Cr

Re: Machine-specific optimizations

2000-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
because going through dselect just takes too long). craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Project Gutenberg

2000-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
erg packages. personally, i think that a script which regularly downloaded the index of available texts, providing a searchable database, and capable of automatically fetching any one or more of them for you would be more useful... and it would be useful to non debian users too. think of it as the ap

Re: MIDI Notation Software

2000-09-04 Thread Craig Sanders
ads to a better product and a dedicated user community. We sincerely hope this will happen also to Jazz++ and that all users will benifit from this change of license terms. As a contributing developer, you can really make a difference! craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: MIDI Notation Software

2000-09-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 09:07:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:31:03PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 03:12:40AM +0200, Enrique Robledo Arnuncio wrote: > > > I have not found any other free graphical MIDI notator for >

Re: Debian, daemons and runlevels (was: Re: X and runlevels)

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
m to make sure that everying is running (or not running as the case may be) exactly as you intend it. take appropriate action when you encounter any divergence from your desires. no package manager can read your mind. you're still going to have to do some of the work yourself. craig -- c

Re: Python 1.6 released and GPL incompatible

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
. another significant issue is that the US state of Virginia has adopted the DMCA, so accepting that jurisdiction means accepting all of the onerous terms allowed (and enforced) by the DCMA. craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, daemons and runlevels (was: Re: X and runlevels)

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
.. > > After all error checking is stripped off. fine, sounds good. i have no problem at all with that. quite the opposite, in fact. craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
of reasons. if i've got the time i'd even be willing to experiment with the certificate based relay control in postfix-tls (so far i only use it for smtp encryption, not relay control) craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:48:17AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:09:31PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > it's simple - if you want a service that's worth having, you > > pay whatever it costs. if you don't want that, then pay for a > >

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
e with a clue. if your current ISP can't even get something simple like DNS working properly then it's unlikely that they can get anything workingthey don't deserve your money. craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Craig Sanders
resolves to the IP address of the incoming connection. these have nothing to do with reverse DNS lookups, and the question of whether they are good policy or not is debatable (IMO the former is OK, the latter is not). craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Craig Sanders
gging him off for being stand-offish and rude. > RMS should IMHO publically apologize with the KDE people for this > condescending part of his otherwise correct article. He should be > wise enough to be careful about the context in which other people > might consider certain stateme

Re: CGI bug scripts

2000-09-11 Thread Craig Sanders
t; line to "#! /usr/bin/speedy". mod_perl still has it's uses - speedy and mod_perl perform similar but far from identical tasks. for some jobs, mod_perl is better while for other jobs, speedy is better. craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-26 Thread Craig Sanders
s of libc6 or the last 10 versions of xbooks would waste an enormous amount of disk space). if i really need more than one version of a library installed, i can compile it in /usr/local and set LD_PRELOAD appropriately. craig -- craig sanders

ITP ilisp

2001-01-02 Thread Craig Brozefsky
ILISP is a emacs interface to various lisp-like systems, including CMUCL and guile (which are already packaged for Debian). I've already coordinated with the upstream maintainer to have the debian subdir in the upstream CVS archive.

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Craig Sanders
more 'unstable' boxes as i need them. i'm sure that most debian developers have similar experiences with unstable. it may be too much trouble for the completely clueless but it's fine for anyone who's not afraid of getting their hands dirty. the new 'testing' di

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Craig Sanders
lunteer is > if you have anything at all to do with debian. there's no need to be so pompous and pretentious. you're just another volunteer, not the Thought Police. craig -- craig sanders

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Craig Sanders
-To header created by the original author of a message. the Reply-To header exists for the *person* who originally sent the message to be able to direct replies to their preferred destination. it is not there so that mailing lists can screw with it. craig -- craig sanders

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Craig Sanders
f both programs is readily available it should be easy enough to check this allegation. craig -- craig sanders

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:11:50PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: > > Mail-Followup-To is the correct header to use. > > Mail-Followup-To isn't even a registered header! The closest thing to a > registry that RFC822 implies is in the han

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:15:23PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:23:55PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > the new 'testing' distribution (sid) should be even better - nearly > > all the benefits of 'unstable' but tested to at least

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Craig Sanders
t;always" in place of "poster". These usages are deprecated, but followup agents MAY observe them. craig -- craig sanders

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:43:05AM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > [ Craig Sanders writes ] > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:26:25AM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > > > And in the case of the debian mailing lists, you should "reply to" the > > > list. > > s

Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-06 Thread Craig Sanders
blem solved with a minimum of user support calls. there's really no excuse for running (non-ssl) telnetd any more. good free ssh clients are available for just about every operating system. craig -- craig sanders

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-09 Thread Craig Sanders
. changing it to -j means that an upgraded GNU tar is no longer a drop-in replacement for older versions of GNU tar. both options suck. craig -- craig sanders

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
't care about > > compiled in. > > IMHO, with the current 2.4.* setup, the difference between compiling your > own and using the preexisting one is so minimal that most people will be > able to use the precompiled one rather than building their own. there's good reason

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
el .config files and kernel versions. kernel-package is an outstanding piece of work...manoj has done some lots of other cool work too, but this by itself is more than enough to earn a great deal of respect. if users don't know that this exists or don't realise how useful it is, then that c

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
; > exist" bugs against all the excess kernel-image bugs. > > Go ahead, I'll close them as soon as they're filed. and i'll open them again or file new ones. what you are doing is broken. > And what does this have to do with our discussion? it's about as rele

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
*helps* new users. what you want to do doesn't help at all, in fact it causes harm. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
stions, and only prompts you to input answers to new questions. > I agree that it is not too hard to compile your own kernel. I never > use Debian's standard kernel-image packages (except on my 68K Mac, > where it takes too long to recompile). is there such a thing as cross-compilati

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 03:36:02PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:33:43AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > is there such a thing as cross-compilation for the kernel? > > Yes - porting to new architectures would be nearly impossible > otherwise. yep, tru

Re: Dual CPU compilation.

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
reliably when you use make -j. this won't be fixed until Keith Owens and others have got their fixed kernel build system into the kernel tree - that won't happen until 2.5.x i believe. i've successfully compiled several kernels using -j3, but it's not something i'

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sanders
of > kernel images needed on boot floppies to one. you're missing the point again. nobody is disputing that using initrd was a good idea - it's a useful tool. what is being disputed is the package bloat of having dozens of kernel-image packages taking up approx 110MB for EACH kernel v

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sanders
6 kernel-headers-2.4.2-k7 kernel-headers-2.4.2-pentium4 kernel-headers-2.4.2-pentiumiii kernel-headers-2.4.2-pentiumiii-smp ? it's only one kernel, one source tree...so where do all these different header files come from? what's the point of them?

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sanders
if they don't want to do it, they don't have to. if they can't be bothered, they're not even going to notice the difference between a 386 kernel and a k7 kernel. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:39:00AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:20:42AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > what, exactly, is the difference between kernel-headers-2.4.2 and: > > > > kernel-headers-2.4.2-386 > > kernel-headers-2.4.2-586 &

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:37:35AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:15:03AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:24:13PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > How are they going to compile a kernel if they haven't even installed > &g

Re: Unofficial projects related with Debian.

2003-05-25 Thread Craig Small
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IPv6 is an official subproject founded by Craig Small, even if we host > experimental packages outside Debian for various reasons. I think that might be way, way too formal for what it is. I'm not too fussed what it is calle

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