Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Owens
Hi Markus, Do they need to install -0ubuntu2 and THEN -0ubuntu3? I don't know how Fedora does, but you always have the fallback option to download the full package. The server always has to provide full packages to allow new installations. It would be logical for a from-version

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-02 Thread Sam Tygier
Mackenzie Morgan wrote: I would like to know how they handle situations where the person hasn't updated in 3 weeks and the package has been updated in the meantime. Say, for example: -0ubuntu1 is currently installed -0ubuntu3 is available to install Do they need to install -0ubuntu2 and

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Sayers
If you just want to disable certain large packages, could you do some sort of pinning arrangement on them? You should be able to configure apt so that it (for example) prefers an older version of OOo to an updated one, but likes a security fix better still. See

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-02 Thread Markus Hitter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 01.02.2009 um 21:43 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: I would like to know how they handle situations where the person hasn't updated in 3 weeks and the package has been updated in the meantime. Say, for example: -0ubuntu1 is currently installed

Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-02 Thread Surfaz Gemon Meme
Hi! I have some doubts * Why Ubuntu install English support by default, although I chose Spanish support? I don't want waste 130~ mb space of my hard disk. It strikes me that during the installation of Ubuntu is uninstalled many languages (first, why install many languages? I only want one!!),

GlassFish v3 packages file layout - propsed

2009-02-02 Thread Nitya Doraisamy
Hi all I have updated the page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlassFishV3FileLayout to reflect the proposed packages and associated file layout for the GlassFish v3 package. It is also linked of the GlassFish https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlassFishspec for Jaunty. Please take a look and provide us

Re: ubuntu install failed to install on t1000

2009-02-02 Thread Asif Iqbal
Here is the dmesg from shell and as you can see it does not detect any disk. Do I need to install any scsi driver to detect them? ~ # dmesg [0.00] PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 4.30.0 2008/12/11 12:13' [0.00] PROMLIB: Root node compatible: sun4v [0.00] Linux version