Re: Bug#497236: ITP: libcpuset -- assigns a set of CPUs and Memory Nodes to a set of tasks

2008-08-31 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:37:01PM -0500, Paul Jackson wrote: >Bastian wrote: >>Does it work with the cgroup subsystem? > >I'm uncertain of the context here, as I don't usually read this list, >and don't have the prior messages on this particular thread, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/0

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-31 Thread Alexander Wirt
Frank Küster schrieb am Saturday, den 30. August 2008: Hi, *snip* > Is there any live system available which can handle lvm volumes? I think > I even have some free disk space for an additional partition to install > the live system on harddisk. But I cannot access it from Knoppix, and > didn

Re: Bug#497236: ITP: libcpuset -- assigns a set of CPUs and Memory Nodes to a set of tasks

2008-08-31 Thread Paul Jackson
Bastian wrote: > Does it work with the cgroup subsystem? I'm uncertain of the context here, as I don't usually read this list, and don't have the prior messages on this particular thread, but if you're asking if libcpuset works with cgroups, yes it does. The cgroup subsystem does not change cpuse

Re: Source field in binary Packages list

2008-08-31 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 02:20:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Why do you need #497205? Is it too slow to just use SourcePkg() in > the package records object? > > Daniel Sorry! I was lazy/stupid/whatever enough to not read more about apt and learn how to do it without adding a field to t

Re: Unsafe storage device unmounting

2008-08-31 Thread Cesare Leonardi
Neil Williams wrote: Have you disabled dbus notifications? The point at which the icon disappears is not the point at which the drive is safe to remove. DBus normally raises a notification window "Data is being written to the device" followed by "Device is now safe to remove". Mmh, i feel you a

Bug#497316: general: Building entire system from source

2008-08-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 21:24 +0100, Mark Hobley wrote: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > > > It would be nice to have the option of using a binary or source based > distribution built from Debian sources. Bearing in mind your previous bug report, I really think you should be looking at E

Re: Source field in binary Packages list

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 07:13:50PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 03:21:36PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am working on a grouping feature for aptitude,

Bug#497316: marked as done (general: Building entire system from source)

2008-08-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:12:42 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Re: Bug#497316: general: Building entire system from source has caused the Debian Bug report #497316, regarding general: Building entire system from source to be marked as done. This means that

Re: Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:21:16PM +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Is there any live system available which can handle lvm volumes? I think > I even have some free disk space for an additional partition to install > the live system on harddisk. But I cannot access it

Bug#497316: general: Building entire system from source

2008-08-31 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: general Severity: wishlist It would be nice to have the option of using a binary or source based distribution built from Debian sources. Ideally, a live CD, could be used to build the entire base system from source by simply specifying the source repository to be used. The system coul

Re: 1 of 400 dpkg databases corrupt?

2008-08-31 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:32:46AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Looking at > http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=popularity-contest >, I > see that only 99.75% of the machines reporting to popcon.debian.org > have the package popularity-contest installed. As this is impossible, > I sus

Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Aug-08, 13:08 (CDT), Mark Hobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Packages should not install cruft on the system. This means that a > package should not install a foreign language file, unless the system > has been explicitly configured to support that foreign language. Others have commented

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, Daniel Baumann wrote: Daniel Baumann wrote: Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the live systems, so please try them out. particulary interesting would be to get reports from people with Intel-based Apple hardware (both notebooks and desktops). I hav

Processed: reassign 497304 to dpkg, forcibly merging 68788 497304

2008-08-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.29~bpo40+1 > reassign 497304 dpkg Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed Bug reassigned from package `general' to `dpkg'. > forcemerge 68788 497304 Bug#68788: --with

Bug#497308: ITP: libhttp-server-simple-static-perl -- Serve static files with HTTP::Server::Simple

2008-08-31 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libhttp-server-simple-static-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Stephen Quinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Server-Simple-Static/ * License

Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:08 +0100, Mark Hobley wrote: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > > > There is an annoying flaw in the design of the Debian package management > system, which means that packages cannot be partially installed. Umm, yes they can actually. Emdebian uses this functio

Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Mark Hobley wrote: > For any particular package, the full set of binary components, optional > documentation, and unused foreign language support files will be installed > by the package management system. You are not right, general. Packages are often splitted. > A fix would be to make it possibl

Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:08 +0100, Mark Hobley wrote: > There is an annoying flaw in the design of the Debian package management > system, which means that packages cannot be partially installed. This > limits the flexibility of Debian based systems when it comes to mixed > installations or inst

Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: general Severity: wishlist There is an annoying flaw in the design of the Debian package management system, which means that packages cannot be partially installed. This limits the flexibility of Debian based systems when it comes to mixed installations or installation on embedded or

Re: Unsafe storage device unmounting

2008-08-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Many times i've observed that the cache sync to the usb pen drive > happens *after* the disk icon has disappeared from Gnome desktop, in > particular with FAT32 filesystem (seems that cache flush are much more > fast on FAT16). This is especially bad

Re: Unsafe storage device unmounting

2008-08-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 11:57 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Have you disabled dbus notifications? The point at which the icon > > disappears is not the point at which the drive is safe to remove. DBus > > normally raises a notification window "Data is being written to the > > device" followed by

Re: Unsafe storage device unmounting

2008-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/31/08 08:47, Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 13:51 +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote: Cesare Leonardi wrote: In May i've sent the following mail to debian-gtk-gnome to signal this problem but since nothing happened so far, i file a bug: -

Re: 25+2 packages with (Glade) generated C source files without the source

2008-08-31 Thread Changwoo Ryu
2008-08-31 (일), 14:56 +0100, Neil Williams: > On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 15:27 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le dimanche 31 août 2008 à 14:13 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > > > Sorry, that is just tosh. If you want to load the glade file via Glade, > > > you keep the XML, depend on libglade and c

Re: 25+2 packages with (Glade) generated C source files without the source

2008-08-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 31 août 2008 à 14:13 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > Sorry, that is just tosh. If you want to load the glade file via Glade, > you keep the XML, depend on libglade and call libglade at runtime. You don’t need libglade anymore, GTK+ has integrated the functionality since 2.12. -- .'

Re: 25+2 packages with (Glade) generated C source files without the source

2008-08-31 Thread Sami Liedes
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 02:13:21PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Of course it does! Once the functionality is dropped, there is no way to > continue working on the project without editing the C files. Developers > cannot continue using the old version of glade (it doesn't support some > of the stuf

Re: 25+2 packages with (Glade) generated C source files without the source

2008-08-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 15:27 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 31 août 2008 à 14:13 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > > Sorry, that is just tosh. If you want to load the glade file via Glade, > > you keep the XML, depend on libglade and call libglade at runtime. > > You don’t need libglad

Re: Unsafe storage device unmounting

2008-08-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 13:51 +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote: > Cesare Leonardi wrote: > > In May i've sent the following mail to debian-gtk-gnome to signal this > > problem but since nothing happened so far, i file a bug: > > > > - > > Since

Re: Unsafe storage device unmounting

2008-08-31 Thread Cesare Leonardi
Cesare Leonardi wrote: In May i've sent the following mail to debian-gtk-gnome to signal this problem but since nothing happened so far, i file a bug: - Since some days i've noted (updated Debian Sid) that when i right-click on a usb st

Re: 25+2 packages with (Glade) generated C source files without the source

2008-08-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 15:08 +0300, Sami Liedes wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 09:12:34AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I’m pretty sure many of the list are in similar cases. Now loading the > > UI directly into the application is the standard, but not so long ago > > people generated templat

Re: 25+2 packages with (Glade) generated C source files without the source

2008-08-31 Thread Sami Liedes
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 09:12:34AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > I’m pretty sure many of the list are in similar cases. Now loading the > UI directly into the application is the standard, but not so long ago > people generated template code with glade and then edited it by hand. > The .glade fil

Re: Bug#497236: ITP: libcpuset -- assigns a set of CPUs and Memory Nodes to a set of tasks

2008-08-31 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 05:31:32PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > Description : assigns a set of CPUs and Memory Nodes to a set of tasks Does it work with the cgroup subsystem? As the documentation is 2 years old, I doubt that. Bastian -- Wait! You have not been prepared!

Re: Bug#496938: ITP: libcrypt-generatepassword-perl -- perl module to generate secure random passwords

2008-08-31 Thread Alexander GQ Gerasiov
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:09:20 -0300, David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:27:44 +0400, > Alexander Gerasiov wrote: >> >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Alexander Gerasiov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> * Package name: libcrypt-generatepassword-perl >>

Re: 25+2 packages with (Glade) generated C source files without the source

2008-08-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 23:19 -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Sami Liedes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only questionable case I found > > by this sampling is dia, where the file is "generated by Glade and > > then hand-coded to make GNOME optional and add t

Re: Glade no longer generates C source code

2008-08-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 04:17 +0300, Sami Liedes wrote: > I grepped the source tarballs in Lenny (testing) main section for the > note "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - it is generated by Glade." which > indicates the file is generated using the Glade UI editor. Then I > checked if these packages have any *.g

Bug#497235: ITP:

2008-08-31 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libbitmask Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://oss.sgi.com/projects/cpusets/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C

Bug#497236: ITP: libcpuset -- assigns a set of CPUs and Memory Nodes to a set of tasks

2008-08-31 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcpuset Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://oss.sgi.com/projects/cpusets/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C D

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-31 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sat Aug 30, 2008 at 18:17:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > A bigger problem at the kernel level is that the kernel APIs change > constantly and have not infrequently had various GPL-only tags added that > force OpenAFS into annoying workarounds (it is released under the IBM > Public License

Re: 25+2 packages with (Glade) generated C source files without the source

2008-08-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 31 août 2008 à 04:17 +0300, Sami Liedes a écrit : > I went through some of these and checked them by hand, and generally > couldn't find the glade project anywhere in the source tarball (it > might be in the diff, I didn't check for that - would that BTW be OK, > to have source code in