Re: auditd as logrotate replacement?

2001-04-25 Thread Arthur Korn
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry schrieb: as long as lograte can be installed first, then I can later install auditd and everything will just work, sure. I can't use logrotate with msyslog, it won't work, logrotate is just too limited. This would mean I have to move msyslog to non-US, since I will make it

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi Richard Braakman schrieb: In that case the right repository could be a bugreport to the package involved. That way the diff submission is guaranteed. I agree with you that _something_ has to be done about catastrophal NMUs, but just stopping to NMU and only submitting diffs, even on

Re: local facilities and official packages

2001-01-09 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi Andres Seco Hernandez schrieb: Are local? facilities reserved in Debian for some purpose? I'm not aware of any reserved local facilities, however system log daemons provide the syslog-facility(8) script which may be used by packages to dynamically retrieve and set up a local facility (eg

Upstream orphans wmfsm, anybody interested? [Re: wmfsm: homepage and source 404]

2001-01-05 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi I don't know C, thus couldn't do more than keep it available. (quick and dirty translation in []) - Forwarded message from Stefan Eilemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:15:23 +0100 To: Arthur Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Stefan Eilemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: our broken man package

2001-01-05 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi Joey Hess schrieb: And, anyway, caching might be done in a cronjob: look at the pagesa in This seems to be cr^Hontrary to the idea of caching. That's a good idea. Another route to take is to split man into the rendering/caching bit and the command line man page lookup/processing/pager

Re: ITP: ttf-xtt, xfonts-xtt

2001-01-02 Thread Arthur Korn
ISHIKAWA Mutsumi schrieb: So, I want to separate TrueType fonts and meta datas such that fonts.scale and fonts.alias included in xfonts-xtt-*. C'mon, it wont do any harm to ppl who are using LaTeX but not X11 if they have fonts.scale and fonts.alias installed but unused. They are not larger

Re: ITP: ttf-xtt, xfonts-xtt

2001-01-02 Thread Arthur Korn
ISHIKAWA Mutsumi schrieb: For example, if ttf-xtt-* includes meta datas(fonts.alias, fonts.scale, tfm and so on) and when only fonts.alias update and upload. A user would download ttf-xtt-* package (include other files, they are not updated), if the user use the package only for TeX (not

Re: test -d /usr/man mail submit@bugs

2000-12-28 Thread Arthur Korn
hi Peter Makholm schrieb: for package in dpkg apt libc gpg bplay etc ; do sed [...] bug.template | mail ; done You'd better use [EMAIL PROTECTED], else you need a very good asbestos suit ... ciao, 2ri

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

2000-12-28 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi Hamish Moffatt schrieb: Package X and package Y are not truely unrelated if they share any dynamic libraries, though, eg libc. So do you have any suggestion as to how this could actually be implemented? Even if it's actually desirable (which I dispute), implementation seems far from

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-26 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi Brian May schrieb: Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:13:13AM +1100, Brian May wrote: However, the idea of one UID per daemon is (IMHO) a really horrible solution, too, as you end up having more UIDs for daemons then

Re: Location of -doc documentation?

2000-12-25 Thread Arthur Korn
Joey Hess schrieb: Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I just noticed that `apache-doc' puts the documentation under http://.../doc/apache;, while `debconf-doc' puts it under http://.../debconf-doc/;. Eh? (Debconf-doc is a package, that contains some documentation files. It doesn't touch the

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

2000-12-25 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi Mark Seaborn schrieb: I want a system where I can install multiple versions of a library (or any package really) and say which version I want each program on the system to use, possibly on a per-user basis. The present system is a disaster waiting to happen: If I install a package from

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-07 Thread Arthur Korn
Peter S Galbraith schrieb: My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every single deb file I have For my archive it was to late: 19M /home/pub/debian That was ~250M before ... oops. Time to use http and squid instead ... ciao, 2ri -- Note that there are two possible

Re: build question

2000-09-05 Thread Arthur Korn
David Starner schrieb: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:29:02AM +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:19:11PM +, michael d. ivey wrote: my main server is potato. is it bad for me to be building packages there if they are destined for woody? should i start building on

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-04 Thread Arthur Korn
Paul Slootman schrieb: On Mon 04 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: Debhelper (and one of the other helper things) does this, if you don't call dh_installinit with the --no-restart-on-upgrade (or such) option. I guess the reasoning is that (a) you're upgrading in multiuser mode because debian

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-04 Thread Arthur Korn
Hello. Adrian Bunk schrieb: My suggestion for the Packages file is: There's a Packages.bz2 additionally to the Packages.gz . apt downloads by default the Packages.bz2, but you can tell apt to fetch the Packages.gz instead if you do have a slow machine. This solution has the advantage that

Re: Machine-specific optimizations

2000-09-01 Thread Arthur Korn
Hello. Alisdair McDiarmid schrieb: On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:49:13PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: you always have the option of using 'apt-get source' to recompile a package, then place it on hold and we wont touch it. I've tried doing this occasionally -- more often to change a

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-30 Thread Arthur Korn
Hello. Anand Kumria schrieb: Not having the helper packages included in the autobuild system appears to benefit, at most, around ~470 packages. May I ask how they benefit? It's only a (little) burden on the packages that use debhelper, but I can't see any benefits for packages not using it.

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