debian: how to build package of drbd 8.2.5 / 8.2.6rc

2008-06-17 Thread Bruno Voigt
Hi, I'm currently using the binary drbd8-utils/module packages 8.2.4-1 from debian/experimental and would like to upgrade to a newer drbd version. Was anyone succesful in building debian packages from the 8.2.5 or 8.2.6rc sources from drbd.org ? Unfortunately the debian build stuff in the git -

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Lale
Alan Chandler wrote: > Chris Lale writes: >> Daniel Burrows wrote: >> [...] >>> For instance, today I wanted to read up on git hook scripts. I >>> checked the manual page git(1), and saw the note: >>> Read hooks[9] for more details about each hook. >>> ... >>> 9. hooks >>>

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-10 Thread Alan Chandler
Chris Lale writes: Daniel Burrows wrote: [...] For instance, today I wanted to read up on git hook scripts. I checked the manual page git(1), and saw the note: Read hooks[9] for more details about each hook. ... 9. hooks hooks.html Being an experienced Debi

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Lale
Daniel Burrows wrote: [...] > For instance, today I wanted to read up on git hook scripts. I > checked the manual page git(1), and saw the note: > > Read hooks[9] for more details about each hook. > > ... > > 9. hooks > hooks.html > > Being an experienced Debian user

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:17:23AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > You can use dwww to view man pages and info in a web browser, as well > as the other documentation. That allows you to search using the > browser capabilities (using / for w3m), although it doesn't supply the > TOC, index or hyperli

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-08 Thread Carl Johnson
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:35:08PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2007-12-31 22:15:46, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > > > I also dislike huge long man pages. To me, man pages should be for a > > > bit more help than foo --help; a summary. The

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:35:08PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-12-31 22:15:46, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > > I also dislike huge long man pages. To me, man pages should be for a > > bit more help than foo --help; a summary. The main doc should be in > > plain html for viewing with ly

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-12-31 22:15:46, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > I also dislike huge long man pages. To me, man pages should be for a > bit more help than foo --help; a summary. The main doc should be in > plain html for viewing with lynx or something. So you hate the manpages to bash, fvwm, gcc, zgv, fetc

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-06 Thread Christoph Pilka
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:05:35 -0800 (PST) Rick Dooling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more > interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to > do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, installing > flash,

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-06 Thread Chris Lale
Rick Dooling wrote: [...] > > I'm more > interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to > do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, [...] You may find some of these things in the Debian NewbieDOC project [1]. If you feel like adding more the wiki is very sim

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-01 Thread Rick Dooling
Thanks for the thoughts and advice. I agree about learning to use man pages, and I use them whenever possible, and also look for any installed docs, but I still think a list of common post-installation tasks would be handy. I'm going to do a couple of installs next week and will try to compile a l

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-01 Thread Lesley Binks
On 01/01/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:49:25PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:15:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Perhaps it should be policy that if the documentation isn't in th

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:49:25PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:15:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Even when Policy is followed, it isn't necessarily that simple. > > For instance, today I wanted to read up on git hook scri

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread dave N
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 08:13:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: "Douglas A. Tutty" Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 7:08 AM > - Original Message - From: "Rick Dooling" Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 9:05 PM > Hello all, >

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:15:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:13:31 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Not all the docs are under /usr/share/doc/[package name], some are > > under usr/share/[package name] with no apparent rhyme no

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:27:30 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more > interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to > do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, installing ... > > Thanks, T

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:04:53 -0800, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:58:01 -0500 From: Paul Cartwright > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I downloaded powertop using svn. All that does is put the new source > in a folder right where you are. That does me n

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:13:31 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Not all the docs are under /usr/share/doc/[package name], some are > under usr/share/[package name] with no apparent rhyme nor > reason. Then, everything is gzipped, should the user extract these to > their home folder or is there

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 08:13:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: "Douglas A. Tutty" Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 7:08 AM > > >The docs are always under /usr/share/doc/[package name] > >apropos > >which > >locate > >find > > > As a n00b to Debian (though I've used several distributions

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Dec 31, 2007 at 08:13:31 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not all the docs are under /usr/share/doc/[package name], some are under > usr/share/[package name] with no apparent rhyme nor reason. Then, everything > is > gzipped, should the user extract these to their home folder or is ther

Fw: Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Raquel
Please respond to the list and not to me. -- Raquel Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:58:01 -0500 From: Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: debian how-to On Mon December 31 2007, Raquel wrote: > locate - list files in

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread drn_temp2
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 7:08 AM On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:08:13PM +0900, David wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: > >>I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more >>interested in a

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:08:13PM +0900, David wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: > > > >>I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more > >>interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to > >>d

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-30 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:08:13 +0900 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: > > > >> I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more > >> interested in a list of common how-tos that most people w

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-30 Thread David
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, installing flash,

Re: debian how-to

2007-12-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: > I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more > interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to > do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, installing > flash, mounting usb drive

debian how-to

2007-12-30 Thread Rick Dooling
Hello all, I started out on Debian. Moved to Ubuntu for a few months, and then moved back to Debian a couple of years ago. I still find this Ubuntu How-To by David Martin very helpful, and I'm wondering if there is such an animal for Debian. http://www.funnestra.org/ubuntu/gutsy/ I know about D

Re: help with Debian [How to upload a website to a debian web server]

2006-02-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: Thank you, I have tried contacting my host, but have not had much luck which was why I went to Debian/Apache. I will keep trying, thanks for your information. Cuthbert Smith Consulting Partnership Inc. 400, 14727 - 87 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5R 4E5 Tel: (780)

Re: help with Debian [How to upload a website to a debian web server]

2006-02-10 Thread Kent West
Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: Thank you, I have tried contacting my host, but have not had much luck which was why I went to Debian/Apache. I will keep trying, thanks for your information. Basically your host is using Debian/Apache on the host server, and since you have yet to upload any

Re: help with Debian [How to upload a website to a debian web server]

2006-02-10 Thread ke6isf
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: > Thank you, I have tried contacting my host, but have not had much luck > which was why I went to Debian/Apache. I will keep trying, thanks for > your information. Glad to help, but could you please not send your emails as XML? When you do

Re: help with Debian [How to upload a website to a debian web server]

2006-02-10 Thread Cuthbert Smith Consulting
Thank you, I have tried contacting my host, but have not had much luck which was why I went to Debian/Apache.  I will keep trying, thanks for your information. Cuthbert Smith Consulting Partnership Inc. 400, 14727 - 87 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5R 4E5 Tel:   (780) 484-3232 Fax: (780) 489-8925 e-ma

Re: help with Debian [How to upload a website to a debian web server]

2006-02-10 Thread Todd Weaver
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:10:52AM -0700, Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: > So, when I type in the domain name, it opens up to this Debian/Apache page > "Welcome to your new home in cyberspace". > > I am not a computer programmer, but feel fairly confident in my computer > skills, I have created

Re: Drupal on Debian: how to make http:/site/drupal/ == http://site/ ?

2005-06-19 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 20 June 2005 07:41, Alan Chandler wrote: > > To change what you want you just adjust the settings for your web server. > If its apache2, then its in /etc/apache2/sites-available directory (I > believe apache (1) does not split the files up by separate virual host - > but there is a sec

Re: Drupal on Debian: how to make http:/site/drupal/ == http://site/ ?

2005-06-19 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 20 June 2005 05:06, Raymond Wood wrote: > Hello all, > > Subject line says it all. Debian's Drupal install makes the default URL > http://site/drupal/ > > How is the average Debian user supposed to make Drupal a default web > site found at > http://site/ > ? > > If anyone else has cr

Drupal on Debian: how to make http:/site/drupal/ == http://site/ ?

2005-06-19 Thread Raymond Wood
Hello all, Subject line says it all. Debian's Drupal install makes the default URL http://site/drupal/ How is the average Debian user supposed to make Drupal a default web site found at http://site/ ? If anyone else has crossed this bridge, I would really appreciate a pointer or solution, a

Re: Mutt & procmail in debian - how to configure locking of folders?

2000-02-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Wojciech Zabolotny ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I just wanted to configure procmail in my system, and I'm a little afraid > of locking problems. How should I configure the locking in procmail and > in mutt, to avoid the destruction of mail folders when procmail delivers > a message to the fold

Mutt & procmail in debian - how to configure locking of folders?

2000-02-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I just wanted to configure procmail in my system, and I'm a little afraid of locking problems. How should I configure the locking in procmail and in mutt, to avoid the destruction of mail folders when procmail delivers a message to the folder which is currently beeing modified by mutt. Is