Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-)

2002-02-19 Thread Mike Noyes
At 2002-02-18 23:31 -0600, David Douthitt wrote: Well, that's not quite what I had in mind. For me, I was thinking more along the lines of: A distribution developer perhaps runs a script, writes some shell code, etc. - and creates a package (or shell script, really) which tests for various

[Leaf-devel] ppp demand dial on Dachstein

2002-02-19 Thread Mike Noyes
Larry, I moved this to the devel list. At 2002-02-19 09:10 -0800, Larry Platzek wrote: Mike just thought would tell you that Kenneth's PPPd pages are AWOL. They are still available. Kenneth disabled the ppp link from his /devel/khadley/index.html page during the beta test period.

[Leaf-devel] Re: ppp demand dial on Dachstein

2002-02-19 Thread Larry Platzek
Mike I never could get his PPPd image to dial even if I editted the files directly. Will try again if someone can tell me what to try. I do have Kenneth's earlier version (EigersteinBETA2) working, but idle would never timeout my isp multicast every 30 seconds. Glad his images/pages are still

[Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-)

2002-02-19 Thread Serge Caron
Hello all, I apolologize for leaving in the middle of an important conversation. Unfortunately, this will happen from time to time. Life gets in the way :-) Message: 4 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 18:26:00 -0800 From: Matt Schalit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due

Re: [Leaf-devel] ppp demand dial on Dachstein

2002-02-19 Thread Kenneth Hadley
I will attempt to get this fixed tonight(the ppp menu) one thing to remember is the ppp.lrp package on the dachstein cd's are not mine.therefore this error should in ppp.lrp exists on ALL dachstein v.1.02 cd's I will confirm this and if so probably replace the floppy ppp.lrp package (that

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-)

2002-02-19 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
I apolologize for leaving in the middle of an important conversation. Unfortunately, this will happen from time to time. Life gets in the way :-) Leaving in the middle? I never even got involved : Hopefully it's not too late to start jumping in... My personal experience is that you ride

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-)

2002-02-19 Thread Serge Caron
-Original Message- From: Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Serge Caron [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: February 19, 2002 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-) It's the falling off and turning into Christopher Reeve

Re: [Leaf-devel] Replacement mail command

2002-02-19 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
BTW, do you have a replacement script for the POSIXness.mail mail command? And which smtp _output_only_ is preferred out there? IIRC, David D. has some tiny SMTP mailers as part of Oxygen. I think there are maybe some messages from him about this in the list archives, or maybe he'll chip in

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-)

2002-02-19 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Serge Caron wrote: I apolologize for leaving in the middle of an important conversation. Unfortunately, this will happen from time to time. Life gets in the way :-) I, too, have been erstwhile distracted and now is not the best time to take on all detractors. It is disconcerting when one's

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-)

2002-02-19 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Serge Caron wrote: [ snip ] In the long term, I want to be able to run from secure media. In the short term, I use CD for write protected storage and floppy for write-enabled storage (wich I write-protect between sessions :). Suppose a package designer stores something in /etc/mypackage

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-)

2002-02-19 Thread David Douthitt
On 2/19/02 at 6:25 AM, Mike Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2002-02-18 23:31 -0600, David Douthitt wrote: David, This would be great. We definitely need a way to test packages against current releases/branches. Will redirection to file of output created by the package test run be

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-)

2002-02-19 Thread David Douthitt
I was thinking... If you make root.list contain specific files, and move the specification of ./ to another package, that raises some interesting things What if instead of gloming onto home.lrp, you create overflow.lrp or default.lrp? One nice benefit would be that if that package grows,

[Leaf-devel] Default Stores, ash, etc.

2002-02-19 Thread David Douthitt
On 2/19/02 at 2:01 PM, Serge Caron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This does not require any adherence to any foreign code, programs or the like. In fact I can implement the entire concept in Oxygen 1.9 by editing two DATA files. The first one is root.list which contains the single entry ../ and

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-)

2002-02-19 Thread David Douthitt
On 2/19/02 at 2:25 PM, Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, while I haven't been real involved in the disucssions here lately, I have been doing a bit of LEAF oriented work. I've been investigating the Gentoo ebuild process, and checking out some potential scripting