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

2002-02-14 Thread Serge Caron
Hello Michael, Glad to be of service! I am confused ; [1] Shouldn't your sed process: sed -e /^etc/d -e /^[/]etc/d -e /^[.][/]etc/d \ ${pkg} ${pkg}.light actually be this? sed -n /^[./]*etc/p ${pkg} ${pkg}.light I am only concerned with deleting lines that start with etc...,

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

2002-02-14 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Serge Caron wrote: Glad to be of service! I am confused ; [1] Shouldn't your sed process: sed -e /^etc/d -e /^[/]etc/d -e /^[.][/]etc/d \ ${pkg} ${pkg}.light actually be this? sed -n /^[./]*etc/p ${pkg} ${pkg}.light I am only concerned with deleting lines that start

Re: [Leaf-devel] SF changes TOS

2002-02-14 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
Um...aprox SQRT(2)/2 No, no, I didn't mean rms mirrors :) Not RMS mirrors, just a shoot from the hip estimate of how much of our SF content is actually archived off-site. I figure it's some irrational number between 1/2 and 1, hence the above. :) 5) How long does it take to backup

[Leaf-devel] SF Mirror

2002-02-14 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
I have the first workings of a SF mirror online at: http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/ I still need to: - Experiment with database permissions to prevent site updates from the mirror (which will just get lost anyway...might as well have them error out immediately so folks don't expect their changes

Re: [Leaf-devel] SF Mirror

2002-02-14 Thread Mike Noyes
At 2002-02-14 10:28 -0600, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I have the first workings of a SF mirror online at: http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/ Charles, EXCELLENT! I still need to: - Experiment with database permissions to prevent site updates from the mirror (which will just get lost anyway...might

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

2002-02-14 Thread Serge Caron
Hello again, This is where I get lost. When you said: ``When I want to backup, I simply remove the write protect tab on the floppy. I can assure you that it takes a lot of config data to fill 1.6Mb of compressed space.'' I thought that you were backing up *only* config data. How does your

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

2002-02-14 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Serge Caron wrote: This is where I get lost. When you said: ``When I want to backup, I simply remove the write protect tab on the floppy. I can assure you that it takes a lot of config data to fill 1.6Mb of compressed space.'' I thought that you were backing up *only* config data.

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

2002-02-14 Thread Serge Caron
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:54:34 -0800 From: Matt Schalit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Serge, Hello Matt, First, the important stuff: or any of us lacked passion. That's kind of insulting. And what

[Leaf-devel] Re: SF changes TOS

2002-02-14 Thread Serge Caron
Message: 2 From: guitarlynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] SF changes TOS Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:48:07 -0600 Canadian would be great, but legally you can't contribute from the US to their projects as I understand it. As a Canadian citizen, I do not

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: SF changes TOS

2002-02-14 Thread guitarlynn
On Thursday 14 February 2002 15:45, Serge Caron wrote: As a Canadian citizen, I do not know what you are taking about. We have NO restrictions on cryptography and our copyright laws are pretty much in sync with the international community. snip Here is some dope on the Canadian Export

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

2002-02-14 Thread Serge Caron
Hello Michael, [ snip ] Let me reduce my confusion to its firstmost problem: How does your sed process facilitate ``*I don't backup program binaries*''? AFAIK, ${pkg}.list files -- _minus_ ${pkg}.exclude.list files -- define which files comprise the ${pkg} package -- correct? Once you

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

2002-02-14 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Serge Caron wrote: [ snip ] mds said: By-the-by, this is considerably faster: sed -e /^[./]*etc/d ${pkg} ${pkg}.light Linux people are usually more intelligent than I am. Your sed mask allows for stuff like ...etc and ../../../etc and all kinds of ganes that I prefer not to play

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

2002-02-14 Thread Michael D. Schleif
VoilĂ ! Serge Caron wrote: Let me reduce my confusion to its firstmost problem: How does your sed process facilitate ``*I don't backup program binaries*''? AFAIK, ${pkg}.list files -- _minus_ ${pkg}.exclude.list files -- define which files comprise the ${pkg} package -- correct? Once

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Booting Flash on PCMCIA follow-up

2002-02-14 Thread Matt Schalit
Johan Ugander wrote: I'm not using 2.4.x for other reasons. I'd really like to get this to work under 2.2... Matt, THANK YOU! This cleared up a lot. I feel reeeally close to a solution. So close, yet so far. Any ideas? /johan Well, apparently, he tried a few things that didn't

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

2002-02-14 Thread Serge Caron
Hello again, -Original Message- From: Michael D. Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Serge Caron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: February 14, 2002 5:34 PM Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-) Nevertheless, since all backup operations are

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

2002-02-14 Thread Serge Caron
-Original Message- From: Michael D. Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Serge Caron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: February 14, 2002 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-) VoilĂ ! [snip] Only concentrate on those two etc

[Leaf-devel] Re: SF changes TOS

2002-02-14 Thread Serge Caron
Message: 5 From: guitarlynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: SF changes TOS Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:41:38 -0600 [snip] OK, thanks for that info. Around six months ago I was looking into helping a couple of Canadian-based projects and they implictely stated

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

2002-02-14 Thread David Douthitt
On 2/14/02 at 8:05 AM, Michael D. Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that it is available; but, it is *not* included in DCD -- is it included in Oxygen? I do not argue against its usage; rather, I am often frustrated by lack of real awk, sed and sort -- not to mention cmp and diff ;

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

2002-02-14 Thread David Douthitt
On 2/14/02 at 4:28 PM, Serge Caron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:34:18 -0600 From: David Douthitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-) To: LEAF Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/13/02 at 8:16 PM,

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

2002-02-14 Thread David Douthitt
On 2/14/02 at 3:34 PM, Serge Caron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux people are usually more intelligent than I am. Your sed mask allows for stuff like ...etc and ../../../etc and all kinds of ganes that I prefer not to play :). Following your intervention, the original sed command now reads

Re: [Leaf-devel] U.S. Export Laws and Crypto

2002-02-14 Thread David Douthitt
On 2/14/02 at 3:41 PM, guitarlynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2002 15:45, Serge Caron wrote: As a Canadian citizen, I do not know what you are taking about. We have NO restrictions on cryptography and our copyright laws are pretty much in sync with the international

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

2002-02-14 Thread David Douthitt
On 2/14/02 at 4:36 PM, Michael D. Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, /var/log is the standard residence of logfiles. Is it? Only in Linux apparently; my Unixware and HP-UX systems use /var/adm/syslog. For example, the root directory (/) should be residence to directories *only*