Building Debian Packages: By Example
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Building Debian Packages: By Example When: Wednesday 15 May 2002, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: 133 North 4th Street (at 4th and Cherry) Philadelphia, PA Abstract We will continue our introduction of the process of building Debian packages. We will build some Debian packages as examples. Make your favorite suggestions on the mailing list http://http://www.cjfearnley.com/pads/. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Darbar Grill (Indian Cuisine), 319 Market ST, Philadelphia PA 19106. -- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature ... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -- Helen Keller Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet/Web Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.CJFearnley.com| Explorer in Universe Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Understanding debconf: The Debian configuration management system
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Understanding debconf: The Debian configuration management system When: Wednesday 17 October 2001, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: 636 Pine St Apartment #3 Philadelphia, PA Abstract We will introduce debconf and explain its role in Debian configuration management. Social Dinner TBD. Please see the web site http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/ or the PADS mailing list (http://lists.LinuxForce.net/mailman/listinfo/pads/) for discussion of a location of the social dinner that will probably precede the meeting. At this time the location has not been determined. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | AdminForce Remote, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] | President and CTO http://www.AdminForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
Using The Debian Package Manager With Mac OS X
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Using The Debian Package Manager With Mac OS X When: Wednesday 15 August 2001, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Leonard Rosenthol Where: 636 Pine St Apartment #3 Philadelphia, PA Abstract A discussion and demonstartion of fink, a port of the Debian package management system to work on Mac OS X. Other Mac OS X and UNIX issues will be discussed. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Rotten Ralph's, 2nd Chestnut ST (2nd Floor dining room). ST (2nd Floor dining room). -- Christopher J. Fearnley | AdminForce Remote, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] | President and CTO http://www.AdminForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
Building Official Debian 2.2r2 CDs
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents When: Wednesday 21 March 2001, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: LeRoy Cressy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where: 636 Pine St Apartment #3 Philadelphia, PA Abstract LeRoy will describe his techniques for creating Official Debian 2.2.r2 CDs. Of special note are his use of non-US non-free. If you send him a note, he will burn a set for you for $20. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 7:00 PM at 636 Pine ST, Apartment #3. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | AdminForce Remote, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] | President and CTO http://www.AdminForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
Inside Alien: How the Debian Alien Package Works
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Inside Alien: How the Debian Alien Package Works When: Wednesday 18 October 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Alien is a tool developed for the Debian project to convert binary Debian packages to and from Red Hat, Stampede or Slackware binary packages. We will investigate how Alien works so that we can better assess when and how it can help bridge the gaps between the Linux distributions. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Nick's Roast Beef of Old Philly, 16 South 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA. Keysigning Notes PADS and our sister organization, PLUG, keep our signed keys at the Philadelphia Linux Web of Trust, http://www.PhillyLinux.org/keys/ . Please post a notice to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want to bring your key to have it signed. We are always interested but not always prepared to do a proper keysigning at every meeting. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chief Technology Officer http://www.LinuxForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Exploring the Debian boot-floppies package
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Exploring the Debian boot-floppies package When: Wednesday 21 February 2001, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: User Friendly Consulting 1420 Walnut Street (suite #816) Philadelphia, PA Abstract The boot-floppies package provides the infrastructure for building Debian's boot/rescue disks. We will explore how the package works to discover how to make our own custom disks. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Passage to India on Walnut, between 12th 13th (1320 Walnut Street). -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chief Technology Officer http://www.LinuxForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
Installing Samba on a Debian GNU/Linux system with ReiserFS
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Installing Samba on a Debian GNU/Linux system with ReiserFS When: Wednesday 17 January 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: User Friendly Consulting 1420 Walnut Street (suite #816) Philadelphia, PA Abstract We will install Samba and Debian GNU/linux on a system with ReiserFS for User Friendly Consulting to express our gratitude for their gracious donation of space for our meeting this month. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Bertucci's on Locust, between 15th 16th (1515 Locust Street). Keysigning A key signing is being planned for this meeting. See the web page for information on what to bring! -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chief Technology Officer http://www.LinuxForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
Installing Debian Potato with ReiserFS on a laptop (take 1)
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Installing Debian GNU/Linux on a laptop with ReiserFS When: Wednesday 20 December 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: User Friendly Consulting 1420 Walnut Street (suite #816) Philadelphia, PA Abstract We will attempt to install Debian with ReiserFS on a new (used) laptop donated to our sister organization PLUG. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Mr. J's (a Kosher middle-eastern/deli) at 16th and Sansom. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chief Technology Officer http://www.LinuxForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
Inside Alien: How the Debian Alien Package Works
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Inside Alien: How the Debian Alien Package Works When: Wednesday 18 October 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Alien is a tool developed for the Debian project to convert binary Debian packages to and from Red Hat, Stampede or Slackware binary packages. We will investigate how Alien works so that we can better assess when and how it can help bridge the gaps between the Linux distributions. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Nick's Roast Beef of Old Philly, 16 South 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA. Keysigning Notes PADS and our sister organization, PLUG, keep our signed keys at the Philadelphia Linux Web of Trust, http://www.PhillyLinux.org/keys/ . Please post a notice to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want to bring your key to have it signed. We are always interested but not always prepared to do a proper keysigning at every meeting. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chief Technology Officer http://www.LinuxForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
Debian Policy
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Debian Policy When: Wednesday 20 September 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Debian's careful consideration of its distribution policy is one of the hallmarks of its approach and a key to its success. In this presentation we will review the scope and content of Debian Policy 3.1.1.1 that forms the backplane of Debian 2.2 (aka Potato). Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Shivnanda Fine Indian Cuisine, 114 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA. Please RSVP so we can get an appropriate sized table. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chief Technology Officer http://www.LinuxForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging libgnupg.pm
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging libgnupg-perl When: Wednesday 16 August 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Facilitator: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract We will demonstrate the building of a Debian package by preparing a .deb file and source packages for libgnupg-perl, a Perl Interface for Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG.pm). Since this is a perl library module a few extra considerations are applicable. However, GnuPG.pm is still very simple so this session will be appropriate for those new to Debian development. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at The Nile Restaurant, 120 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Please RSVP so we can get an appropriate sized table. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chief Technology Officer http://www.LinuxForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging dlkern
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging dlkern When: Wednesday 19 July 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Facilitator: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract We will demonstrate the building of a Debian package by preparing a .deb file for dlkern, a package to download the Linux kernel and verify its signature. Dlkern is a very simple one file script. Therefore this session will cover only the very basics of Debian Package building. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Dock Street Brew Pub at the Terminal (215-922-4292), 1150 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA. Please RSVP so we can get an appropriate sized table. Keysigning Notes If you want your key signed by other members and/or Debian developers, please follow these instructions carefully. To facilitate the keysigning, please send an e-mail to Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following details about your public key: * Your real name * Your email address * Your User ID, as it appears on their public key. In most (all?) * cases, this should be a mixture of your real name, plus your email address. * Your Key ID * Your Key Size (bits) * Your Key Fingerprint * The contents of your public key * The type of key (RSA in most cases) GPG users should use gpg --export --armor NAME to retrieve their key and gpg --fingerprint NAME to retrieve their fingerprint and KeyID. For PGP users, most of this information can be obtained by typing pgp -kvc username. Finally, please bring positive picture ID to the meeting as well as a copy of all of the information that you send to Chris by e-mail. Note: The Keysigning Parties Page has an overview of keysigning get-togethers. Many Thanks to David Coe for providing this link. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chief Technology Officer http://www.LinuxForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
[PADS] Installing Debian, Corel, and Storm Linux
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents Installing Debian, Corel, and Storm Linux When: Wednesday 21 June 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenters: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Bill Jonas, Assistant Systems and Network Administrator, LinuxForce Inc. Michael Toren, Network Administrator, Earthstation Netaxs Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 6th floor, Suite 620 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract There are at least two third party Linux distributions based on Debian: Corel, and Storm. We will demo and discuss the installation of these distributions as well as Debian GNU/Linux from the Debian Project itself to show attendees the strengths and weaknesses of each. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Xando, 325 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Please RSVP so we can get an appropriate sized table. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chief Technology Officer http://www.LinuxForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
Using Debian's make-kpkg to build kernels
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents Using Debian's make-kpkg to build kernels When: Wednesday 15 March 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Speaker: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (its the room with a big Q on the door) 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Debian's kernel-package package provides make-kpkg to help build kernels. We will discuss the advantages and some guidelines for using this convenient tool. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Xando, 325 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Please RSVP so we can get an appropriate sized table. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chief Technology Officer http://www.LinuxForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
[PADS] The Corel LINUX Install Process: Under the Hood
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents The Corel LINUX Install Process: Under the Hood When: Wednesday 16 February 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Speaker: LeRoy Cressy, Senior Installation Technician, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (its the room with a big Q on the door) 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Corel LINUX is the easiest Linux distribution to install ... except when it doesn't. Corel's install depends on an XFree86 3.3.5 supported video card and a CD-ROM drive. We will examine techniques to install Corel LINUX on systems without such amenities. Finally, we will discuss procedures for converting an existing Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 system into a Corel LINUX system. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at Xando, 325 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Please RSVP so we can get an appropriate sized table. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chief Technology Officer http://www.LinuxForce.net | Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
[Philadelphia] Debian's Menu Package: A Catalog of Debian Software
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents Debian's Menu Package: A Catalog of Debian Software When: Wednesday 15 December 1999, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Speaker: Chris Fearnley, Senior Vice President Technology, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (its the room with a big Q on the door) 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Menus are a now familiar device to index the functionality of a system. Debian's menu package provides a mechanism for each Debian package to provide a menu interface to its software. We will describe the system and explore how to use it as a user, a system administrator and a developer. Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at The Mexican Post, 104 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Please RSVP so we can get an appropriate sized table. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Senior Vice President Technology http://www.LinuxForce2000.com| Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
[PHILADELPHIA] MIME Solutions: Using Debian's mime-support Package
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents MIME Solutions: Using Debian's mime-support Package When: Wednesday 17 November 1999, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Speaker: Chris Fearnley, Senior Vice President Technology, LinuxForce Inc. Where: Towne Pizza Sub Shop 1900 Pine ST Philadelphia, PA Abstract MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is the preferred way to attach files in the Internet world. But Debian (even with Netscape and WordPerfect installed) often fails to handle attachments transparently. We will examine policy and practice looking for a solution to this often agravating problem. Keysigning Please see the web page (http://www.cjfearnley.com/pads/) to follow instructions to participate in the keysigning sessions of the meeting. Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 7:00 PM at Towne Pizza, 1900 Pine Stree, Philadelphia, PA. Web Page: http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/ -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Senior Vice President Technology http://www.LinuxForce2000.com| Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
[PHILADELPHIA] PADS: Upgrading to Debian's ``unstable'' release
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents Upgrading to Debian's ``unstable'' release When: Wednesday 20 October 1999, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Speaker: Chris Fearnley, Senior Vice President Technology, LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (through the door with a big Q on it) 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract We will examine the rewards and dangers of using ``Potato'', the current ``unstable'' Debian release. Debian developers must use the unstable release to prepare the next stable release for distribution. The discussion will aim to help users and developers who want to test and use this pre-release version of Debian. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at The Mexican Post, 104 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Please RSVP so we can get an appropriate sized table. Keysigning: PADS meetings include a GPG keysiging (see the web page for details). Web Page: http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/ -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet/Web Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.CJFearnley.com| Explorer in Universe Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
[Philadelphia] PADS meeting will include a ``keysigning party''
Greetings, This followup note to the PADS (Philadelphia Area Debian Society) meeting announcement clarifies important details about the ``keysigning party'' which will be held during the main meeting. The PADS web page, http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads, now includes detailed instructions for facilitating the keysigning portion of our meeting. Summary: PADS Main Meeting: Topic: Overcoming Debian's New Maintainer Procedures Speaker: Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] When: Wednesday, September 15th from 8:00PM - 9:30PM Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (its the room with a big Q on the door) 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Attendees who want to participate in the keysigning should - Bring positive photo ID - Bring a printout of all relevant details of your public key to the meeting - Send e-mail with all relevant details of your public key to Michael Toren [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Check the web page http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads for more details -- Christopher J. Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Senior Vice President Technology http://www.LinuxForce2000.com| Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
[Philadelphia] PADS Meeting: Overcoming Debian's New Maintainer Procedures
PADS (Philadelphia Area Debian Society) will meet this coming Wednesday to discuss ``Overcoming Debian's New Maintainer Procedures''. PADS Web Page: http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/ Please note the new location!!! PADS Main Meeting: Topic: Overcoming Debian's New Maintainer Procedures Speaker: Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] When: Wednesday, September 15th from 8:00PM - 9:30PM Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (its the room with a big Q on the door) 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract: Debian has instituted stringent new maintainer procedures primarily to protect the project from Trojan horses and the like. As a consequence there is some confusion and frustration involved in becoming a volunteer for the project. In this talk we will try to overcome these difficulties and aid attendees in their efforts to become Debian contributors. It is recommended that interested participants bring ID, their PGP footprint, and a laptop. PADS Social Hour: Note the new time and location!!! When: Wednesday, September 15th from 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Where: The Mexican Post, 104 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. RSVP: Please RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that we can reserve a large enough table. I hope to see you next Wednesday. Do Enjoy! -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet/Web Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.CJFearnley.com| Explorer in Universe Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
[Philadelphia] PADS Meeting: Building Debian Packages
Hi, PADS (Philadelphia Area Debian Society) will meet this coming Wednesday to discuss the building of Debian packages. Please note the new location!!! PADS Web Page: http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads PADS Main Meeting: Note the new location!!! Topic: Building Debian Packages Speaker: Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] When: Wednesday, August 18th from 8:00PM - 9:30PM Where: Towne Pizza, 1900 Pine Street, 2nd floor, Philadelphia PADS Social Hour: Note the new time and location!!! When: Wednesday, August 18th from 7:00 PM - 7:55 PM Where: Towne Pizza, 1900 Pine Street, 2nd floor, Philadelphia I hope to see you next Wednesday. Do Enjoy! PS. I'm hopelessly behind in reading Debian's mailing lists. Please copy me on any replies. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet/Web Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.CJFearnley.com| Explorer in Universe Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
Philadelphia Area Debian Society meeting: Debian Policy
Hi, PADS (Philadelphia Area Debian Society) will meet this coming Wednesday to continue a discussion of Debian's Policy. PADS Main Meeting: Topic: An Overview of Debian Policy Speaker: Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] When: Wednesday, July 21st from 8:00PM - 9:30PM Where: Cyberloft, 1525 Walnut Street, 2nd floor, Philadelphia PADS Social Hour: When: Wednesday, July 21st from 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Where: Pietro's Coal Oven Pizzeria, 1714 Walnut ST, Philadelphia RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I can reserve an appropriately sized table I hope to see you next Wednesday. Do Enjoy! PS. I'm hopelessly behind in reading Debian's mailing lists. Please copy me on any replies. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet/Web Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.CJFearnley.com| Explorer in Universe Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
[Philadelphia] Debian user's group meeting: Debian Policy
Greetings, The PDG-LUG (The Philadelphia Debian GNU/Linux User's Group) will meet this coming Wednesday (third wed. of the month) to discuss ``Debian Policy''. PDG-LUG Main Meeting: Topic: An Overview of Debian Policy Speaker: Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] When: Wednesday, June 16th from 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Where: Cyberloft, 1525 Walnut Street, 2nd floor, Philadelphia Topic: Organizational Meeting; QA PDG-LUG Social Hour: When: Wednesday, June 16th from 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Where: Pietro's Coal Oven Pizzeria, 1714 Walnut ST, Philadelphia RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I can reserve an appropriately sized table I hope to see you next Wednesday. Do Enjoy! PS. I'm hopelessly behind in reading Debian's mailing lists. Please copy me on any replies. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet/Web Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.CJFearnley.com| Explorer in Universe Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
[Philadelphia] Organizational meeting for Debian user's group
Greetings, There seems to be enough interest to form PDG-LUG (The Philadelphia Debian GNU/Linux User's Group). In order to try to accommodate people with families and suburban Debian GNU/Linux users, we will have an optional ``social hour'' at a Center City eatery BEFORE the 8:00 PM meeting. PDG-LUG Social Hour: When: Wednesday, May 19th from 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Where: Pietro's Coal Oven Pizzeria, 1714 Walnut ST, Philadelphia RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I can reserve an appropriately sized table PDG-LUG Main Meeting: When: Wednesday, May 19th from 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Where: Cyberloft, 1525 Walnut Street, 2nd floor, Philadelphia Topic: Organizational Meeting; QA I hope to see you next Wednesday. Do Enjoy! PS. I'm hopelessly behind in reading Debian's mailing lists. Please copy me on any repies. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.CJFearnley.com| Explorer in Universe Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *
'dc wrote:' Enough is enough. Where is your announcement of candidacy for project leader? Elections will be held soon ... I want to see your reasoned proposals for a better direction for the project. Too much of what you write is anti-Bruce and it's hard for me to tell exactly what solution you feel will set things straight. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Explorer in Universe ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | Dare to be Naive -- Bucky Fuller -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS
'Peter Iannarelli wrote:' Hello all: As I'm sure everyone is aware a new project has been initiated to replace the currenct dselect package maintainence facility with the goals of enhancing its functionality and resolving some of the existing package maintenance problems. Look at http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf/debian/selectmenu.tgz for some of my ideas. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Explorer in Universe ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | Dare to be Naive -- Bucky Fuller -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bug#8111: less package doesn't include LESSOPEN support (was Re: Warning!! PAGER=zless)
'Craig Sanders wrote:' Package: less Version: 321-2 1. set the environment variable LESSOPEN in your ~/.bashrc or in /etc/profile (modify as required if you use csh or zsh or something else). export LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s 2. create a shell script called lesspipe.sh in /usr/local/bin. #!/bin/sh case $1 in *.tar) tar tvf $1 2/dev/null ;; *.tar.Z) tar tvfz $1 2/dev/null ;; *.tar.gz) tar tvfz $1 2/dev/null ;; *.Z) zcat $1 2/dev/null ;; *.gz) zcat -c $1 2/dev/null ;; *.deb) dpkg -I $1 ; dpkg -c $1 2/dev/null ;; esac this can be extended to cover many more file types. Note that the order of the case statements is important...e.g. if you don't have 'tar' before 'gz' then the gz line will catch .tar.gz files and you wont get a listing. I'm not sure about this design. There could exist gzip files that don't have .gz endings and so on. I think a better approach is to use file(1) (and gzip?) to do this. And I sometimes like to pipe .gz files into less. Another bug in your script is that it doesn't support uncompressing multiple files and saving marks in each of them and hoping back and forth easily. Maybe someone can merge your approach with mine :) Maybe the less maintainer is getting into trouble accepting the job of adding this enhancement. Might I suggest putting some examples in /usr/doc/less? BTW, you don't need the | in your ENV variables. $ grep LESS ~/.bash_profile export LESSCLOSE=lessclose.sh %s %s LESSOPEN=lessopen.sh %s $ cat `which lessopen.sh` #!/bin/sh -eC # When the environment variable LESSOPEN is set to refer to this file # (e.g., LESSOPEN=lessopen.sh %s), one can do several interesting # things with pipes (see less(1) for details). Namely, # 1. view any gzipped or compressed file(s) anywhere in the filesystem with #the simple command less filename(s). And you can use less' multiple #file searching and bookmark facilities on the gzipped files! # 2. view a list of compressed and uncompressed files from the same #command prompt (using all of less' multiple file features). # 3. zcat file.gz | less still works. if [ $1 != - ]; then # $1 = - when we are reading standard input gzip -t $1 /dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then # Is it compressed? zcat $1 /tmp/$$.`basename $1` # Use basename for files in echo /tmp/$$.`basename $1` # other directories fi fi exit 0 $ cat `which lessclose.sh` #!/bin/sh rm $2 -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Explorer in Universe ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | Dare to be Naive -- Bucky Fuller
Re: Bug#8111: less package doesn't include LESSOPEN support (was Re: Warning!! PAGER=zless)
'Jason Gunthorpe wrote:' On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote: 'Craig Sanders wrote:' into less. Another bug in your script is that it doesn't support uncompressing multiple files and saving marks in each of them and hoping back and forth easily. Maybe someone can merge your approach Just tried less *.gz and :n :p, not a problem, less properly handled this. I guess I shouldn't rely on two year old memories of how things work ;) BTW, you don't need the | in your ENV variables. Yes you do ; Read the man page. Your method uses temp files, with the pipe symbol less runs the script and reads it's stdin for the actual data, if it shows nothing then the file is opened normaly. This is better because uncompressing/whatever is done in parallel with less's browsing. Uses more ram though. It's been several years since I wrote my script. Maybe less has changed? I do think that script that was posted earlier should be included in doc/less/examples, I wrote one exactly like it, it's really really handy to be able to do 'less blah.deb'! Yes, I thought those additions were cool. And I hope to add them to my script. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Explorer in Universe ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | Dare to be Naive -- Bucky Fuller
Re: modules 2.0.0-14
'Bruce Perens wrote:' Use dpkg --force-downgrade package-name.deb, I think. I haven't tried it. Use -i instead of --force-downgrade. I wouldn't recommend --force anything in general. One of the big wins IMO of dpkg over rpm is that dpkg -i supports downgrading. -- Christopher J. Fearnley|Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] |UNIX SIG Leader at PACS http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf |(Philadelphia Area Computer Society) ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf|Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naive -- Bucky Fuller |Explorer in Universe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: please use V
'Tom Julien wrote:' IMHO, a license like Qt's is long overdue. It makes a fine commercial product available to both X11 and Win32, yet it provides a great mechanism to promote freeware/open standards like Unix/X11 *over* propriety ones. Troll's reasoning for not allowing modified versions may not include this rationale, but I am certainly tickled pink to see it for this very reason. Have you looked at the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License? Peter Deutsch has thought a lot about these issues. Why did the Qt people not use his approach? [Removed debian-devel from the Cc: list as this is beyond Debian policy.] -- Christopher J. Fearnley|Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] |UNIX SIG Leader at PACS http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf |(Philadelphia Area Computer Society) ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf|Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naive -- Bucky Fuller |Explorer in Universe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Opinions on Linux Journal article
'Buddha Buck wrote:' [Note: I'm moving this from debian-changes to debian-user] Good idea. I didn't check header :( '[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' Hello, i was wondering what were the reactions of list members to this article. I thought it was well done. It showed our strengths and weaknesses. Which article? Which issue? November 1996, Issue 31. -- Christopher J. Fearnley|Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] |UNIX SIG Leader at PACS http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf |(Philadelphia Area Computer Society) ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf|Design Science Revolutionary Dare to be Naive -- Bucky Fuller |Explorer in Universe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
