Re: Debian bugs #800000 and #1000000 contest

2013-02-09 Thread Tyler MacDonald
An obscure french DD. Wow, what a way to describe a person. Did that person kill your pet squirrel or something? :-) On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.orgwrote: As the bug #70 mark was turned on February 7th 2013, Debian developers and contributors need yet

Re: Debian bugs #800000 and #1000000 contest

2013-02-09 Thread Tyler MacDonald
LOL. No, I did not. And I also didn't realize I did a reply-all :-D Sorry guys and gals. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Albin Tonnerre lu...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Tyler MacDonald ty...@macdonald.name wrote: An obscure french DD. Wow, what a way to describe

Re: Standardizing use of kernel hook scripts

2009-04-01 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk wrote: On Wed, Apr 01 2009, Frans Pop wrote: [make-kpkg] But is anyone still using it? Is there any current reason to support it Well, there's still some kernel options that are immutable and multiple choice. And there's always people

Re: Bug#517790: ITP: mydns -- DNS server using MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage

2009-03-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
First, I'm a perl programmer so TMTOWTDI is pretty ingrained into my culture. I use mydns -- yi.org is based off of it, and I also use it as an easy way to set up dynamic virtual hosts for automated builds on another project, in conjunction with libapache2-mod-macro and mod_proxy on the frontend,

Re: Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system

2007-10-09 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Sam Clegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perforce is an absolutely *excellent* VCS with the unfortunate distinction of being proprietary. SubVersion can do most (but not all) of what it does, albeit 10 times slower. Still, I've migrated all of my stuff over to subversion, because, well,

Re: Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system

2007-10-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to me that this depends on Perforce. D'oh. (I don't know anything about Perforce. Perhaps it's really dangerous software. But perhaps it's just non-free.) Perforce is an absolutely *excellent* VCS with the unfortunate distinction of

Re: How to detect if inside a buildd chroot

2007-09-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chroot without any admin intervention. If it's not appropriate to run inside a chroot, then the init script should IMHO detect that and not start/restart/stop the service. The fact is, not all chroot are buildd chroots, and many chroots actually do

Re: Building packages twice in a row

2007-05-16 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: granted there are things like this, but reproducible builds would be fantastic and well worth the effort. If you're talking about byte-for-byte identical builds, then no, that would be a tremendous amount of effort for no practical gain. There's no

Re: Building packages twice in a row

2007-05-16 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: printf(This program was compiled on __DATE__ \n); An example like the above has already been given. Build dates and other variable information gets put into a lot of output files from compilations. Sorry, I was speaking from an overly selfish point

I *love* goodbye-microsoft.com

2007-02-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
... so I thought I'd take the liberty of registering goodbye-apple.com and goodbye-osx.com in order to protect the namespace. I'll gladly transfer them over to the first DD to code up something similar for that platform(s). :-) Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#408315: ITP: mysql-workbench -- Official MySQL database schema designer / editor

2007-01-24 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: mysql-workbench Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : MySQL AB * URL : http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Downgrading the priority of nfs-utils

2006-11-06 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The majority of the Debian (and GNU/Linux systems in general) I see tend to not use NFS at all. Do we have any usage statistics for the NFS client? There is this: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?popcon=nfs-utils But I don't know how accurate the old

Re: How do I rebuild alternative symlinks?

2006-10-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
/bin and elsewhere if the ones in /etc/alternatives already exist? Thanks, Tyler Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just moved a debian installation from one system to another by mirroring /opt, etc, /home, /var, and /usr/local -- and then using dpkg --set-selections to get all

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the debian website would deserve a section in which Debian communicates on those issues. After all, I think that they are similar in concept (but not in gravity) to recalls seen in the industry: a broken material was released, so special

tpkg-debarch should support arm-linux-gnu target (was Re: small quirks setting up a cross-compile toolchain)

2006-07-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Package: toolchain-source Severity: grave Tags: patch toolchain-source as it stands is currently unusable for building ARM cross-compiler targets. It appears that you must specify arm-linux-gnu to several of the builds in order to get the install to work correctly. However, this target is not

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I have no problem with this. But if Debian is unwilling to fill these (not terribly niche) requirements itself, it's not reasonable to complain when people build on Debian in order to provide a more complete solution for a more narrow use

small quirks setting up a cross-compile toolchain

2006-07-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hello, I've been following the directions here: http://www.mobilab.unina.it/Resources/crosscompilerHOWTO.html attempting to set up a cross-compiler toolchain for my ipod. So far, I've run into a small quirk; half of the files get installed to /usr/arm-linux, the other

Re: small quirks setting up a cross-compile toolchain

2006-07-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Aaron M. Ucko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anybody else run into this? Is there something I can do that's cleaner and closer to The Debian Way than manually making symlinks? Install the Debian toolchain-source package and go from

header sanity check?

2006-07-06 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I just created a /usr/local/include/hi_there.h , #include'd it from a header file, and built a -dev debian package containing that header file without any sort of warnings or errors. So it's really easy to package a -dev package with a header file, that #include's a header file in a package that

Re: #195752: Can somebody mark this bug as grave or critical?

2006-07-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you looked at the package description that this bug is about? This is quite a bit more than DHCP client. While I would be unhappy about having machines I need access to have their addresses assigned by DHCP, it is trivial to configure the server

These new diffs are great, but...

2006-06-29 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Is it at all useful/better for apt-get to use the .pdiff files when dealing with a local (file://) debian repo? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

#195752: Can somebody mark this bug as grave or critical?

2006-06-29 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I just did an upgrade, and laptop-net caused my network interface to disappear. This is documented here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=195752 laptop-net restarts network interfaces when it is upgraded. This is *nasty*. If you are upgrading over a network, this causes your

Re: These new diffs are great, but...

2006-06-29 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:35:41PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Not really. pdiff's mainly reduce download size for low bandwidth connections. file:// is pretty high bandwidth, you won't notice the difference. I usually notice the difference

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, in fact also design a mechanism to share knowledge about which source packages may break if given a -j due to insufficiently specified dependencies. So perhaps using $(DEB_MAKE_J_OPTION) on the $(MAKE) all line in debian/rules is a better choice

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has come to my attention that the gem package is currently built using 'make -j 4', to have four compiler processes running at the same time. This is a bit troublesome for the poor m68k buildd, which is now suffering under High Load And Constant

Bug#375014: ITP: libtap -- Unit test building library for the Test Anything Protocol

2006-06-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libtap Version : 0.0.0 Upstream Author : Nik Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://jc.ngo.org.uk/svnweb/jc/browse/nik/libtap/trunk/ * License : MIT-like Programming

message/rfc822

2006-06-16 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Is there any (console|gui) package in debian that can easily be used to open a message/rfc822 attachment and browse it like a regular email? You may think this is a poor question to ask debian-devel, but the reason I am asking is because debian BTS doesn't expand rfc822 inlines (so when you click

unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
http://www.crackerjack.net/adserton3.png That production server has been running debian/unstable since it's inception in january of 2004, with dselect updates happening every couple of days. It was running apache, postfix, mysql, mydns. Despite being unstable, there was never a problem that

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Sebastian Harl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.crackerjack.net/adserton3.png On that picture it says the box is up for 378 days. How does that go with 875 days idle time? Due to a bug with w, or the kernel, or whatever, which nobody seems to want to fix, the system uptime wraps around

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That production server has been running debian/unstable since it's inception in january of 2004, with dselect updates happening every couple of days. It was running apache, postfix, mysql, mydns. Despite being unstable, there was never a problem that

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was finally retired today, after 875 days of uptime, not because there was a problem with it, just because there was a price problem with the hosting provider it's colocated at. For an unstable distribution, it gave me the most stable server

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: No it wouldn't; it'd just require you to have two extra ints, and something that ran every so often (and as part of any syscall that tells userspace the uptime), that does: static unsigned last_uptime = 0; static unsigned wraps =

Re: Hidden files

2006-06-06 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMO dotfiles are a historical artifact which we are stuck with. If we were just starting today, I'm sure we would be using ~/etc/bashrc rather than ~/.bashrc so the user's files match the standard locations. It's logical, simple, and would make many

spam on debian-* lists

2006-06-05 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Question: Is SpamAssassin or greylisting used on lists.debian.org? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Red team attacks vs. cracking

2006-05-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this really a bad thing? He proved that KSP are bad for the web of trust. A legitimate attacker could abuse the KSP just as easilly as Martin, but would result in actual damage, and would most likely not have been caught. Ask

Re: Bug#368985: ITP: mod-bt -- BitTorrent tracker for the Apache2 web server

2006-05-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - When the API becomes incompatible (which would implicitly make the ABI incompatible), both the -dev and library package should increment their numbers. - When the ABI becomes incompatible without affecting the API, only the library

Re: proposal for a more efficient download process

2006-05-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is quite unacceptable. We have debs in debian up to 160Mb (packed) and 580Mb unpacked. That would require 2.7 Gb and nearly 10Gb ram respectively. Seems to be quite useless for patching full debs. One would have to limit it to a

Re: Bug#368985: ITP: mod-bt -- BitTorrent tracker for the Apache2 web server

2006-05-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ondrej, The source package is named mod-bt. It produces the following .deb's: libbttracker0-dev_0.0.16-1_i386.deb libbtutil0-dev_0.0.16-1_i386.deb There's no reason to have the so version in the -dev package name. Odd,

Re: Bug#368985: ITP: mod-bt -- BitTorrent tracker for the Apache2 web server

2006-05-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd, because my package depends on libapr0-dev (probably going to be libapr0-dev | libapr1-dev soon), and an apt-cache search for 0-dev on my The versionings is when stuff change to incompatible APIs, so probably depending on (libfoo0-dev |

Re: Bug#368985: ITP: mod-bt -- BitTorrent tracker for the Apache2 web server

2006-05-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're missing the point that sonames track *ABI* changes, and -dev package names should track *API* changes. Typically, upstreams make API changes on new major releases; ABI changes can happen much more often than this. Tracking sonames in your -dev

Bug#368985: ITP: mod-bt -- BitTorrent tracker for the Apache2 web server

2006-05-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: mod-bt Version : 0.0.16 Upstream Author : Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.crackerjack.net/mod_bt/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: C

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 25 May 2006 08:30, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Given time, one can pay more attention to each document (I require at least two photo ID's issued by the government). WTF? In Oregon, if you have a driver's license, you cannot get an ID card.

Re: Bug#368985: ITP: mod-bt -- BitTorrent tracker for the Apache2 web server

2006-05-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ondrej Sury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 08:07 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: * Package name: mod-bt I suggest to name your package (you can name just binary package, but it since you are building just one binary package, it's easier to rename source package as well

Re: proposal for a more efficient download process

2006-05-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I. the reason why i suggest a patch-oriented download process +1. We've been using bsdiff (http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/) at work for some internal stuff and it's great. Furthermore, since unstable has gone to using diffs for the Packages files, my dselect updates have been *way*

Re: no libldap-dev from openldap2.2 package?

2006-05-02 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can't right now because GnuTLS support is only available for 2.1. 2.2 and later will need substantial reworking of that support, and without it, the OpenSSL licensing issues cause too many licensing conflicts in Debian for it to be safe to provide a

Re: python-minimal

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, that's not what I said. The python-minimal package is designed to be used *as* an Essential package, not *by* Essential packages. Nothing, essential or not, should depend on it in Debian, whether or not python-minimal itself gets marked as

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Brian Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/rsync-and-debian.html Has anyone ever done some log file analysis to figure out how much bandwidth would be saved by transferring package deltas instead of entire new packages? Slightly off-topic, but I

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bittorrent has a per chunk hash so it can validate each chunk when it recieves it instead of waiting for the full file. It won't see if a chunk is present at some other position in the file, not even if that position is also on chunk boundaries.