Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:49:44 +1100, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered it in the first place). How is that an advantage of use? Well,

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 01:24:32AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:49:44 +1100, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered it

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Henning Makholm | Scripsit Charles Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Is there any benefit to using glastree over dirvish or pdumpfs? | | The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented | in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered | it in the

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-04 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:27:26PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: There were quite many backup programs without the admin::backup tag. Now admin::backup counts 61 packages: good! If someone wants to take care of keeping the admin::backup tag up to date, please send me a note. hdup? --

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-04 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 10:48:45AM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: If someone wants to take care of keeping the admin::backup tag up to date, please send me a note. hdup? It was already tagged, it seems. However, its only tag is admin::backup at the moment. If you want to improve

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004, Charles Fry wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package operates? glastree provides a subset of

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:31:32AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:04:15PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: The poor man's daily snapshot, glastree builds live backup trees, with branches for each day. Users directly browse the past to recover older documents or retrieve

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 01:49:44PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered it in the first place). How is that an advantage of use? One may want to use tools

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:04:15PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: utility effects a constant, sliding window. Similar to pdumpfs; inspired On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:31:32AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use in a On Fri, Dec 03, 2004

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Charles Fry
Well, if one had a small system and desired not to install ruby, it would still be possible to obtain pdumpfs' functionality. Of course that could be called an installation issue rather than a usability issue. 3314kB, including pdumpfs itself. I'll donate a 32MB USB key to store it

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Charles Fry
In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package operates? Or storebackup? (Actually, storebackup's one-line description doesn't really hint at this functionality. But I'm using it to create daily

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:00:22 +1100, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3314kB, including pdumpfs itself. I'll donate a 32MB USB key to store it all on for anyone that is *truly* that starved of space. Low-Memory systems are unlikely to have USB. Greetings Marc --

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:02:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:00:22 +1100, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3314kB, including pdumpfs itself. I'll donate a 32MB USB key to store it all on for anyone that is *truly* that starved of space. Low-Memory systems are

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Matthew Palmer wrote: The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered it in the first place). How is that an advantage of use? We're talking about free software. Modifying it to fit your needs is a

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:17:45PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered it in the first place). How is that an advantage of

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Matthew Palmer wrote: Sounds like you need to expand your repertoire a bit. Possibly so, but unfortunately my time is a finite. There are far too many languages (even in debian main) for me to learn them all. Can you imagine a world in which your argument was taken at face value? There would

Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: glastree Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : Jeremy Wohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://igmus.org/code/ * License : public domain Description : builds live backup trees, with branches for each day The poor

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:04:15PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: The poor man's daily snapshot, glastree builds live backup trees, with branches for each day. Users directly browse the past to recover older documents or retrieve lost files. Hard links serve to compress out unchanged files, while

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Charles Fry
In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package operates? glastree provides a subset of the functionality of dirvish. It is actually most closely related pdumpfs. Like pdumpfs, glastree works locally and not

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package operates? glastree provides a subset of the functionality of dirvish. It is actually most

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Charles Fry
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package operates? glastree provides a subset of the functionality of dirvish. It is actually

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:58:17PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package operates? glastree

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Charles Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any benefit to using glastree over dirvish or pdumpfs? The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered it in the first place). How would this be

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Charles Fry
Is there any benefit to using glastree over dirvish or pdumpfs? The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered it in the first place). How is that an advantage of use? Well, if one had

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:30:05PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: Is there any benefit to using glastree over dirvish or pdumpfs? The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered it in the

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meanwhile, what's the total installed space for glastree if you're not a Perl lover? Perl-base is 'Proirity: required' and 'Essential: yes'. It doesn't even have to be depended on. -- Henning Makholm It will be useful

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:10:01AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meanwhile, what's the total installed space for glastree if you're not a Perl lover? Perl-base is 'Proirity: required' and 'Essential: yes'. It doesn't even have to be depended on.