Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, I know, but then I compile plenty of stuff from scratch rather than rely on RPMs. The real reason I haven't switched is because it's really The drawback with 'make install' from source is that it doesn't write a database of files owned by that source package which is the great advantage of binary packages. So you can't use do 'make uninstall' to cleanly remove the program if you don't like or use it. This is basically what the *BSD ports system does. It should be possible to write some wrapper for GNU configure to add a 'make uninstall' to the Makefile. In the absence of this I usually type 'script' to log whats installed at the 'make install' stage.. *nasty* trying to switch from one distro to another without a) losing valuable config data and b) ending up with a ton of unused junk on the disk The way to handle UNIX configuration files is like software and use RCS. On every system you can then type one command 'locate ,v' to see all your local changes. You can then systematically port config changes to the new distribution. which is nigh-on impossible to tell apart from stuff that's in use. It's a one liner to display files that haven't been used in the last three months using 'find -atime'. Other advantage of binary package managers is you can then go ahead and delete large chunks of your OS that you never use and it should warn you if it breaks other stuff. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] if we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? - albert einstein
Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:01:55AM +, Shevek wrote: I had always committed to the nature of Unix being that one does end up with a pile of stuff on disk which one doesn't use. for i in etc usr; do find /$i -mount -type f -atime +60 | perl -lne unlink; done :-) The point is that this doesn't matter. There are some downsides: if you have have old binaries that have slipped out of the upgrade/patch cycle you are looking at a potential security risk. I have thought in the past "1GB is *bound* to be a big enough /usr!" and when I hit 85% utilisation have to look at upgrading my disk, faffing with extra mounts or a suffering performance hit. Or clearing it all up. I bet you have libc5 and libc6 installed... # dpkg -l | grep libc[56] ii libc6 2.2-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone [snip other shit] # Paul
Re: PIMB T-shirts
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:39:07AM +, David Hodgkinson wrote: Are there any of these left? And how can we get them to the states? Now that I think of it, do the vienna/belfast contingents still have the ones that didn't make it here last month? I know at least a couple of ny.pm people want them... dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ It's amazing what giant mutant ants that are the result of Man's dabbling with the power of atomic energy can accomplish when they set themselves to the task.- Mark Rogaski
Re: PIMB T-shirts
"David H. Adler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:39:07AM +, David Hodgkinson wrote: Are there any of these left? And how can we get them to the states? Now that I think of it, do the vienna/belfast contingents still have the ones that didn't make it here last month? I know at least a couple of ny.pm people want them... This is where my two are going. I'm going to the states "soon" but there's nothing certain. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -
Re: PIMB T-shirts
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:29:31PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote: I'm going to the states "soon" but there's nothing certain. Keep me informed. I'll call a meeting. dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "Well, sure, being a ruthless godless dictator is fun, but it's all about the fans!" - Public Broadcast of His Imperial Majesty, Dimension 431-q-fhd
Re: Kung Foo and PIMB
Aaron said:
[Where is the kung foo night?]
anyone?
David Hodgkinson wrote:
[PIMB T-Shirts]
Are there any of these left?
New t-shirt idea :
"I know Perl!"
"Show me!"
On the back
use Wutan::Style;
Later.
Mark.
P.S. PINE may be silly, but the multiple reply option rocks.
--
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer' ,
Firm = 'Profero Ltd',Web = 'http://www.profero.com/' ,
Email = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone = '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960' )
Re: Kung Foo and PIMB
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: On the back use Wutan::Style; This reminds me of the conversation Case, norm I had after crouching tiger.. we came to the conclusion that "no, neo, you **don't** know kung fu.". A. -- A HREF = "http://termisoc.org/~betty" Betty @ termisoc.org /A "As a youngster Fred fought sea battles on the village pond using a complex system of signals he devised that was later adopted by the Royal Navy. " (this email has nothing to do with any organisation except me)
[OT] WTD: P2/400 CPU
Does anyone have a P2/400MHz CPU available (near Farringdon) at start of
play this morning? A server's just freaked one and is going to need one
pretty damn soon. This is if CEX don't have any in stock.
Ta.
S.
--
Shevek
I am the Borg.
sub AUTOLOAD { ($s=$AUTOLOAD)=~s/.*:://; eval qq{ *$AUTOLOAD=$s
?sub {$s*{$s-1}} :sub {1}; }; goto $AUTOLOAD; } print {'4'};
Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:26:28PM -0500, Mark Rogaski wrote: An entity claiming to be David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : It's more than cute. It's *BRILLIANT*. The user doesn't even have to : know what computer they have. Whilst they only support a couple of : combinations of architecture and OS in that script, it would be pretty : damned trivial to have it support a few Linux distros, Solaris, *BSD : and MacOS X. : It's also sheer idiocy to pipe arbitrary code from an untrusted, unverified source directly to the shell. But it's so much fun! Well, on someone else's shift, anyway... :-) dave, just kidding, in case there was some question... -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "You can't give a 4 to truth." - Saul Williams
