Re: Accounts on debian.org machines

2003-12-08 Thread Niall Young
that yet. Cryptographic smart cards on a USB token seem like the only secure way to store keys: http://www.datakey.com/products/smartCards/ikey.shtml Niall YoungChime Communications Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Level 6, 263 Adelaide

Re: [custom] Debian Enterprise - a Custom Debian Distribution

2003-12-01 Thread Niall Young
live CDs and non-interactive installs are relatively straightforward, but will remain a hack and a maintainer nightmare until the infrastructure enables and supports them imho. Niall YoungChime Communications Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-07 Thread Niall Young
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:18:36PM +0800, Niall Young wrote: I'm using a custom package pool for deploying software, but we need to cleanly rollback if an upgrade doesn't go as expected. In easy cases it is possible to first test a package with some testing machine and only put

postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-02 Thread Niall Young
and reinstalling isn't an option, it needs to be done seamlessly - i.e. reverse all changes made in the upgrade. Is there another way? Niall YoungChime Communications Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Level 6, 263 Adelaide Terrace Ph: (+61) 08 9213 1330

Automated network installs?

2000-09-07 Thread Niall Young
I'm about to start work on a tool to automate network Debian installs, possibly using a library of images (and eventually tools to create and maintain those images), or by using a profile of packages to install. I've been looking at mondo and replicator, but they're not quite what I need. Is

qmail

2000-08-21 Thread Niall Young
What's the official stance on qmail? Is the licence (or lack thereof?) too restrictive (any modified versions can't be distributed without approval)? I notice that qmail-src_1.03-14.deb and qmail_1.03-14.dsc are in non-free - any reason that binary packages haven't been made (yes I know that