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How to give back a build

2019-09-12 Thread Jeff
retry the build, but my search engine foo is failing me. How can I give back the build? Or will it retry automatically? Regards Jeff [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?arch=all&pkg=gscan2pdf&ver=2.5.6-1 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How to give back a build

2019-09-12 Thread Jeff
On 12/09/2019 19:08, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > If you're a DD, then you can use the service described in > https://debblog.philkern.de/2019/08/alpha-self-service-buildd-givebacks.html Thanks to those who replied so quickly. The instructions worked a treat. Regards Jeff si

Fixing CI bugs for a package on the REJECT list

2022-09-26 Thread Jeff
appreciate any pointers. Regards Jeff OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Appstream + Gnome

2020-01-01 Thread Jeff
pplication as a favorite? Regards Jeff [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-id-generic signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Appstream + Gnome

2020-01-02 Thread Jeff
On 02/01/2020 16:53, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > @Jeff Did your changes include adding a launchable tag? If not, adding > one may already fix this issue. Yes, I had. > When transitioning: > 1) Make sure you add a launchable tag - it may not be essential, but > it certainly is more

Re: Appstream + Gnome

2020-01-02 Thread Jeff
name() is not in the Perl bindings for glib (yet). I'll add it, and confirm whether g_set_prgname() fixes the problem when the updated bindings have filtered down to the users. Thanks for all the help. Regards Jeff signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Appstream + Gnome

2020-01-03 Thread Jeff
o try it. The user has confirmed that this solves the problem. Thanks for your help. > Either way I'd recommend reporting the absence of g_set_prgname() as a bug > (or at least a feature request), since it's sometimes necessary to control > what GLib thinks the program'

Re: Mass bug filing: dependencies on GTK 2

2020-04-29 Thread Jeff
ions in stable, testing and unstable are Perl packages which use libgtk3-perl. Can you explain? Regards Jeff signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Mass bug filing: dependencies on GTK 2

2020-04-29 Thread Jeff
Hi Andreas, On 29/04/2020 12:11, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > reverse-depends -r testing -b src:gtk+2.0 2>&1 | grep gscan2pdf > * gscan2pdf (for libgail-common) > * gscan2pdf (for libgail-common) Thanks! Regards Jeff signature.asc Desc

default email client from gsettings

2020-05-04 Thread Jeff
and I can't find the right incantation to get gsettings to tell me the default email client. Would someone mind putting me on the right track? Thanks and regards Jeff [1]https://sourceforge.net/p/gscan2pdf/feature-requests/112/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: default email client from gsettings

2020-05-04 Thread Jeff
ys do the right thing. It looks as though it is much better, now. Thanks again for the detailed explanation - and also to the others that answered. Regards jeff signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Running tests with xvfb

2017-07-28 Thread Jeff
. Running the test outside the chroot with xvfb still crashes X, because xvfb seems to grab the "real" X if it is there. Is there a way of getting xvfb to ignore the system X? Regards Jeff signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Running tests with xvfb

2017-07-29 Thread Jeff
On 29/07/17 03:31, Paul Wise wrote: > This sounds like an Xorg/nouveau bug, please do report it: > > http://x.debian.net/howto/report-bugs.html I did that six months ago: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857620 Regards Jeff signature.asc Description: OpenPG

Re: Running tests with xvfb

2017-07-29 Thread Jeff
ed when I call it from the wrapper? Regards Jeff signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: User-installable Debian packages?

2017-07-29 Thread Jeff
tuff like this. See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix Regards Jeff signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Running tests with xvfb

2017-08-02 Thread Jeff
is trying to use? Is that the virtual display created by Xvfb, or > is it the actual X session you're running on? Inside xvfb it is now :99 Before I tried all sorts of things to get it to ignore :0. Thanks for all the pointers. Dunno what was going on. Regards Jeff signature.asc Des

Bug#351656: RFH: libapache2-mod-annodex -- Provides server-side support for Annodex media

2006-02-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I've created a mod_annodex package for Ubuntu, and I would love to see it in Debian. Anyone want to lend a hand? :-) deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~jdub/dapper/ ./ deb-src http://people.ubuntu.com/~jdub/dapper/ ./ Thanks, - Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Where's the SCSI support in Debian?

1997-12-11 Thread Jeff Noxon
However, your card is not a FlashPoint and does not require special support. I have a BT948 and it works as well. But the BT930 and others do not work without special support. The BT930 and other FlashPoint cards are fantastic cards. I hope people don't avoid them because of the Debian

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-19 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
atus,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- pn elm (no description available) 41 root ~ # dpkg --get-selections | grep elm 42 root ~ # echo $? 1 -- Jeff Shein

Re: NPR piece on Linux

1998-04-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
Anyone have a digitized copy of this? :) Thanks, Jeff On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 05:58:26PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > OK, it has played here in the East. Those of you out west still have > some time to find a radio ;-) I think it is the second piece on "All > Things Considered&q

Re: why not mingetty??

1998-04-28 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
you logout. If my idea of a useful default is different from yours, then let us each have her way with a configurable file. Don't cripple either of us by hardcoding the "better" default into the .deb file. Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Jeff Noxon
omething like > > that works with DOSemu... > > Caldera makes one, but it's not Open Source. Last I checked, Dosemu came with FreeDOS, which AFAIK is Open Source. It's not 100% working, but it's good enough to get most users up and running, and they can re-sys their dr

Re: ITP: spca5xx -- Device driver for USB webcams based on the spca5xx chips

2005-04-20 Thread Jeff Carr
Carlos C Soto wrote: Great! I use this module and wold be great to have it on debian. I was thinking on put a RFP bug for it. -- Carlos C Soto :: eclipxe I agree. I just built it again today against 2.6.11-1-686-smp (after using it for several months against 2.6.10-1-686-smp). I talked to the dev

Re: libsilc package policy violations (bug #273871)

2005-04-20 Thread Jeff Carr
l 2) the /usr/lib/libsilc* symlinks are not correct (wrong names or missing needed names) 3) /usr/lib/libsilcclient-1.0.so.2.1.0 is not the right name 4) the package itself is not the right name curiously, Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-20 Thread Jeff Carr
ne symlinks. Almost everyone I know uses sid; I don't think anyone is going to switch to sarge once sid is out. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-20 Thread Jeff Carr
; and the only "stable" version of debian is ancient and too old to use. Enjoy, Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libsilc package policy violations (bug #273871)

2005-04-20 Thread Jeff Carr
ct method of doing things here. Does it sound like I almost understand it right now? Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-20 Thread Jeff Carr
orate enviornment and the kinds of complaints that have been used against debian deployment. Enjoy, Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-20 Thread Jeff Carr
rts each version of their enterprice edition for seven years. I didn't know they had pledged to do that. Interesting. How many days does it take in the US until a bank is bankrupt after a critical part of their computer infrastructure is broken? I don't know. Maybe we should run a test :) Jeff

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-20 Thread Jeff Carr
uggesting that the bar has been raised so high; the standard and expectations set at such a lofty level that the general public might be better served by a more detailed explanation of the releases and the dangers. Again, like the text Adrian wrote a few emails back I think is perfect and

spca5xx -- Device driver for USB webcams based on the spca5xx chips

2005-04-20 Thread Jeff Carr
;smart" in that it uses `uname -r` to determine the kernel headers. So, one can just go into the dir and type make;make install and spca5xx.ko will automatically be loaded the next time the user boots. So I guess I should start by looking at the files in /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.11/

Re: spca5xx -- Device driver for USB webcams based on the spca5xx chips

2005-04-21 Thread Jeff Carr
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:57:02PM -0700, Jeff Carr wrote: Could someone give us a simple rundown of how we would submit a patch to the debian kernel sources to add spca5xx support? The spca5xx driver adds support for a large number of USB cameras. Recently Carlos posted

Re: mplayer 1.0pre7

2005-04-25 Thread Jeff Carr
the work of cleaning up mplayer. I hope it gets included soon. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mplayer 1.0pre7

2005-04-27 Thread Jeff Carr
ing through the queue so fast) - David Nusinow OK, that's great to know. Well, I hope mplayer gets some renewed attention then. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: transcode

2005-05-03 Thread Jeff Carr
licensed under the GPL and should be included in Debian. No codecs are packaged inside of transcode & it is completely usable with OGG/OGM. Jeff PS: of interest to the mplayer thread: motion.c allows mpeg-1 & mpeg-2 support for non-commercial software. AKA: GPL/LGPL'd implemen

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-21 Thread Jeff Bailey
nd you details of any corrigenda """ The 009695399 in the www.opengroup.org URI looks to be a publication number of some sort (one digit shy of an ISBN though); it is used by the wikipedia entry (where I first found it), and the similar 9-digit bit of the URL in the Debian susv3 in

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-22 Thread Jeff Stevens
the original definition is now somewhat archaic. Amateur Radio, however, is the more formal and widely accepted term. 3. http://www.arrl.org/ 4. http://www.arrl.org/pio/bwhatis.html -- See Section 5 -Jeff KE7FRJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ELF ncurses

1995-11-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
this? Thanks, Jeff

Re: Bug#1896: fsck won't go because of elf?

1995-11-24 Thread Jeff Noxon
I think we need to make ELF part of the kernel for Debian-1.0. It doesn't make sense to have it as a module anymore. Jeff > > Package: e2fsprogs > Version: 1.01? > > During boot up the harddisk is checked before the modules (binfmt_elf) > are loaded. The fsck/e2fsck u

Re: Bug#1895: run-parts does not run scripts without #!/...

1995-11-25 Thread Jeff Noxon
I think I am going to rewrite run-parts in C. I don't know perl and don't have the time to learn it just to fix run-parts. :) Jeff > Harald Schueler writes ("Bug#1895: run-parts does not run scripts without > #!/..."): > > Package: miscutils > > Version

miscutils snag/questions for all

1995-11-25 Thread Jeff Noxon
rograms in util-linux and where they appear in the Debian distribution. Thanks, Jeff PS - should I also post this to debian-user? - snip - util-linux program - debian package name disk-utils/ fdformat - miscutils fdisk - miscutils fsck.minix- m

Re: miscutils snag/questions for all

1995-11-26 Thread Jeff Noxon
I wish that all of the programs we need from util-linux > were distributed separately, that way we could package them individually. > I'd prefer to split util-linux into smaller packages, if you have time > to do that. I'd prefer it that way. I'll work on it. If anyone else has any comments, please send me a note. Thanks, Jeff

Re: Bug#1895: run-parts does not run scripts without #!/...

1995-11-26 Thread Jeff Noxon
Ian Jackson writes: > The whole design of system() in Perl isn't conducive to good > error-trapping. I suppose it might be better to use fork oneself. > > Jeff (you're the maintainer of this package, aren't you?) - would you > like me to send you an update that uses

Re: miscutils snag/questions for all

1995-11-26 Thread Jeff Noxon
Ian Jackson writes: > Bruce Perens writes ("Re: miscutils snag/questions for all"): > > [Jeff Noxon:] > > > Do we really want > > > programs like fdisk to evolve differently in different distributions? > > > > Fdisk is a special issue. There is a n

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-26 Thread Jeff Noxon
do on a heavily loaded system. The BogoMips calculation was only intended to calibrate delay loops in the kernel. Regards, Jeff > > fleabag> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep BogoMips > > BogoMips: 33.55 > No - the /proc/cpuinfo doesnt get updated as the time goes by. It only

Re: Bug#1895: run-parts does not run scripts without #!/...

1995-11-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Absolutely. Jeff

Re: Setting console font STILL broken

1995-12-06 Thread Jeff Noxon
I agree: I don't see why the setfont command needs to be there at all. I think most people are used to the default font their video card provides. Why change it? Jeff > A friends system recently installed with Debian just booted in 80x50 > and set the font incorrectly, resu

Re: ncurses build options...

1995-12-07 Thread Jeff Noxon
ackage for developers, after all. :) Jeff

Re: -O2 or -O3 ?

1995-12-07 Thread Jeff Noxon
B and 8MB machines have the most to lose here. Let's save -O3 for packages that can benefit from it, like X servers and math applications. Jeff

Re: ncurses build options...

1995-12-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
tered with 7 different ncurses libs, all incompatible. There must be a Better Way. Jeff > ncurses1.9.8 will be released really soon now and contains: > dist.mk == > # If a new ncurses has an incompatible application binary interface than > # previous one, the ABI version should be changed. > VERSION = 1.9.8 > SHARED_ABI = 2.2

Re: ncurses build options...

1995-12-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
> On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > If the ncurses guys are going to keep blowing off binary compatibility, > > then perhaps we should not mess with ncurses at all. > > I suspect, especially now that we've got the package load spread around > more, that D

Re: ncurses build options...

1995-12-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
> On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > I have several months of the ncurses list archived. If anyone is interested > > in having a copy of the archive, please let me know how to deliver it. :) > > How big is it? 1.3MB uncompressed, 450K gzipped. Jeff

Re: ncurses for ELF released

1995-12-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
I wrote: > I've been waiting for this, waiting, waiting, and now it's out! Hmm, that's the first time an autoreply has gone back to the list instead of the original author. Guess it'll teach me to check twice.. :) Jeff

Bug#1978: man: default pager should be less

1995-12-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
es it a bad format to store documentation in. I believe there is already a program to do info->html, but if I recall it uses 10's to 100's of megabytes of VM to do its job. Not exactly a well-written program... :) Any programmers out there itching for something to write? Jeff

Bug#2002: Missing manpages

1995-12-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
trick Volkerding about this a few months ago. I've attached a piece of our correspondence. I think it would be great if we could add these manpages. Something is better than nothing. I can't stand `info'. :) Jeff >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 16 17:01:10 1995 Return-Path: [EMA

Bug#2002: Missing manpages

1995-12-12 Thread Jeff Noxon
to put in man pages but say they're not maintained. I still don't see what's wrong with the FreeBSD manpages. They were written specifically for the GNU programs we're using, and they have been useful to me on a number of occasions. Jeff

Re: coming soon

1995-12-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
(In fact /var is a separate filesystem on mine.) In fact, isn't /etc guaranteed to be on the root filesystem? I don't see how a system can boot without it. Why move initrunlevel at all? I think other distributions will leave it in /etc. Jeff

Re: dip/CSLIP trouble (again)

1995-12-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
ng ifconfig or route for some reason. Jeff

Re: dip/CSLIP trouble (again)

1995-12-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
ny case, I can't get SLIP or CSLIP to work with DIP. On *my* machine, it works fine. I'm not sure why; our kernels are almost identical. Thanks, Jeff

Re: Bug#2065: single user isn't

1995-12-25 Thread Jeff Noxon
This has been reported before as a bug. This time I just thought i'd chime in and say "me too." Thanks, Jeff > > Package: base > Version: 0.93.6-13 > > It is utterly unreasonable for the system to try and do fsck's when the > system is booted with '

Re: Bug#2063: scsi driver sequence unreasonable

1995-12-27 Thread Jeff Noxon
27;re still excellent products. :) Merry Christmas! Jeff

Re: Bug#2063: scsi driver sequence unreasonable

1995-12-31 Thread Jeff Noxon
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > : It doesn't really matter if a 152X gets detected before a high-power > : whiz-bang SCSI-matic 2010 PCI adapter, because you can still put root > : on any SCSI controller you like. > > You are correct, of course, J

Re: Bug#2063: scsi driver sequence unreasonable

1995-12-31 Thread Jeff Noxon
n a device-order basis, the way things work now. Does anyone know how NT does this? I guess I could play around with it and see what Norton Disk Doctor turns up. Thanks, Jeff

Re: Bug#2083: machine hangs when ftping large file

1996-01-03 Thread Jeff Noxon
so _highly_ recommend the DEC PCI cards, and also the Kingston PCI cards. The Kingston cards use the DEC ethernet chip, work with the DE4X5 driver, and cost $60-$70. Not bad for 1MB/sec transfers. Jeff

Re: Bug#2088: README.fdisk gone missing.

1996-01-03 Thread Jeff Noxon
bably retain this one in some shape or form just to keep familiar users happy. In any case, I expect to release a new version of miscutils this weekend, depending on my health after some minor surgery on Friday. :) Thanks, Jeff > Package: miscutils > Version: 1.3-5 > > The BU

Re: beware sysvinit 2.58 installation

1996-01-03 Thread Jeff Noxon
Something similar happened last time I upgraded init -- to Bruce's ELF version. Shouldn't packages doing stuff like that do some postinst _after_ rebooting the machine? They could just add an rc file that removes itself once it executes. Thanks, Jeff Helmut Geyer <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Bug#2086: installation bugs/inadequacies

1996-01-03 Thread Jeff Noxon
omeone wants to fix the PCI probing so it works as a module. Doing so is completely safe, but for some reason the driver won't do it. Thanks, Jeff

Re: Bug#2092: procps needs an update for kernels > 1.3.53

1996-01-04 Thread Jeff Noxon
Note that current 1.3.x kernels seem to have everything in /proc/ksyms, instead of just one page. Using that information, psupdate and System.map are completely unnecessary. Jeff

Re: Problems with dselect...

1996-09-25 Thread Jeff Prothero
Re comments such as: | > Getting dselect to install the packages I wanted was a real pain [...] | Yep, I didn't care much for dselect either. [...] 1) I think dpkg / dselect / ... are tremendously important and impressive! I'm used to the convenience of the SGI package management system,

Re: GNU libc, crypt and legal stuff..

1996-09-28 Thread Jeff Prothero
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Until now, the Linux community has always ignored | the problem with the crypt() function; it is part | of the Linux library, both the source and binary | releases but _officially_ you are *not* allowed to | export this from the US! Do we know this to be true? I'm not up to

Re: pine in other distributions?

1999-09-29 Thread Jeff Teunissen
. You can make local versions, you just can't give them to anyone else unless it's in the form of a patch. -- | Jeff Teunissen -- President, Dusk To Dawn Computing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Disclaimer: I am my employer, so anything I say goes for me too. :) | dusknet.ddns.org is a black

Re: ITR: intent to rename poc to objc

1999-09-30 Thread Jeff Teunissen
fusion somehow.] The POC handles Objective-C by translating it to C++, IIRC. -- | Jeff Teunissen -- President, Dusk To Dawn Computing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Disclaimer: I am my employer, so anything I say goes for me too. :) | dusknet.ddns.org is a black hole for email.Use my Reply

ITP: epm (ESP Package Manager)

2000-03-12 Thread Jeff Licquia
I intend to package EPM, the Easy Software Products Package Manager. (Actually, I've already packaged it, so this is more an "intent to upload to woody".) License: GPL. Package: epm Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 110 Maintaine

Re: unmets in potato

2000-03-15 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:34:54PM +0100, Matthias Berse wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 03:16:56PM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote: > > compile devicd3dfx-source and you are done :) > Am I the only one where make-kpkg modules-image fails on devicd3dfx? I > have to do it manually! But maybe that's relat

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-16 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:17:56AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > However, I'ld like to see a standard meta-info files about > > the package, which had informations necessary to create a packages, like > > compilation commands, files (including inf

Re: Turbo Vision non-free? (Was Re: Another packages wishlist)

2000-03-17 Thread Jeff Noxon
It seems like they've given up their rights by calling it public domain in a public forum... Debian needs a lawyer for things like this. Regards Jeff On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:51:51PM -0800, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > Damian M Gryski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: &

CUPS (cupsys) 1.1.2 Available

2000-08-20 Thread Jeff Licquia
CUPS 1.1.2 packages have been installed into woody. I know, I know: if you wanted package updates, you'd subscribe to debian-changes. But, I've received several requests via private E-mail as well as in the BTS, so I thought a more general announcement was warranted, since it seems to be in some

Re: Qt2.2 released under the GPL

2000-09-04 Thread Jeff Teunissen
;ll be willing to ITP > some. Qt 2.2 hasn't been released yet. Supposed to be released soon (Thursday?) though. -- | Jeff Teunissen - Pres., Dusk To Dawn Computing - deek at dusknet.dhs.org | Disclaimer: I am my employer, so anything I say goes for me too. :) | Core developer, The

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-11 Thread Jeff Teunissen
re along the line, this quite reasonable, non-derisive suggestion was turned into "I demand you beg my personal forgiveness for violating the GPL, and by the way, GNOME is still going to bury you", which is completely derisive and completely unreasonable...and which never happened. --

agentcell.org 1.0 GPL'd & released today

2005-08-15 Thread Jeff Carr
I hope a developer out there with access to commit packages can take the initiative to package up agentcell. The authors settled on releasing this software package under the GPL. It's a great contribution to the scientific community. Just thought I'd pass on the word, Jeff -- To U

Re: agentcell.org 1.0 GPL'd & released today

2005-08-16 Thread Jeff Carr
On 08/15/2005 01:16 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Jeff Carr wrote: > >> I hope a developer out there with access to commit packages can take the >> initiative to package up agentcell. The authors settled on releasing >> this software package und

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-08 Thread Jeff Stevens
"localhost". Just as a sanity check, Solaris ships with: 127.0.0.1 localhost loghost FreeBSD ships with: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain myname.my.domain I don't have access to AIX, HPUX or other major Unices, but I bet in the hosts file, 127.0.0.1 is immediately

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-08 Thread Jeff Stevens
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 23:04 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 08 October 2005 22:07, Jeff Stevens wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 16:26 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > "localhost.localdomain" and "localhost" must be swapped. The first > > entry

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-13 Thread Jeff Stevens
ults in the resolver properly returning localhost when resolving 127.0.0.1. In summary: (1) It's reasonable to expect DNS and file based resolution to function the same in regard to 127.0.0.1/localhost (proper DNS resolution of 127.0.0.1 is documented in RFC 1912). (2) There is a long histor

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-14 Thread Jeff Stevens
of 127.0.0.1 to return localhost? That is, localhost shall precede any other aliases in /etc/hosts. Again, thank you. Attention to detail is quite important; in this case detail is the location and/or existence of a mere 21 bytes. -Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#462027: ITP: libactiverecord-ruby -- library that ties database tables to classes in Ruby

2008-01-24 Thread Jeff W
where as if you package it for just Rails, other Ruby users may be missing out. .Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-17 Thread Jeff Carr
On 01/17/07 00:22, Loïc Minier wrote: > The Debian menu system is completely useless to me, and I expect to > most GNOME and KDE users. You've hit the nail on the head. That whole thing came about from earlier times. I wish you every luck in purging it from existence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-17 Thread Jeff Carr
On 01/16/07 20:22, Steve Langasek wrote: > Thus their goal is to help win market share, That's an important goal. Have you heard this before: the fear is that not gaining significant market share will allow Microsoft to effectively render free software unusable by the average user. > not to he

Re: Bug in apt-mirror (0.4.4-4 Stable)?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeff Welling
that is so, however apt-mirror is scripted so one could also argue that this expectation is unjustified. Thanks for your thoughts and your time, Jeff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-25 Thread Jeff Carr
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 22:22, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It should not take us an indefinite time to release with > firmware blobs gone. I'll stake my reutation that the period involved > is not indefinite, and there is a upper boundary to it. > >Testing out th

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-26 Thread Jeff Carr
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 09:21, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can that be? (That is an ernest question) Because that's how the hardware works. If you are making a widget and you need a fpga or hybrid chip of any sort, then you generate a binary blob using the chip manufacturers too

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-26 Thread Jeff Carr
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 07:21, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Your argument boils down to: There is function that will never > be supported by free software. Annoying people by asking them to expose > their function by freeing the software just irritates them, so we > shou

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-27 Thread Jeff Carr
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:35, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 06:38:53PM -0700, Jeff Carr wrote: >> Because that's how the hardware works. If you are making a widget and >> you need a fpga or hybrid chip of any sort, then you gener

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-27 Thread Jeff Carr
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:26, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would expect anything on opencores.org to be perfectly readable VHDL Hardly perfectly readable - I put up code there too :) > code, which is the prefered format for manipulating it. So what was > your point again? B

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-27 Thread Jeff Carr
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 05:36, Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> similar tools to modify the blob (even if it is only useful to do so on >> a different board / with a different chipset)? > > Ish. Someone else should be able to use the same tools (barring > development environment issues) b

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-27 Thread Jeff Carr
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 03:10, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just want to find out: Under what circumstances does the blob need to > be modified and who gets to do that modification? Probably only the hardware engineers. > Are these "chip manufacturer tools" physical tools/machine

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