/usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-09-23 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
partition, correct? Maybe I have it all wrong. Enlighten me please ;) -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-21 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
questions are (all) asked before or after installation is a secondary point -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org There are three kinds of people

To grok grep output....

1999-09-20 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
pair of numbers specific to the new version of the file in some way? Please help me out by explaining, you will be my new hero ;) -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
the largeness of this project. I MEANT to say that it would be a matter of time, while the latter issue would take more than just that... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http

time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
to see an end to this fledgling flamefest ;P -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org ...Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Java, etc. The answer is - you can't... All the languages you mentioned have clean C interacing methods, but no C++ ones. The reason is that C++ is not interoperable. No, no, no! one word for everyone. CORBA! -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)

1999-05-20 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:54:45PM +1000, Daniel James Patterson wrote: On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:44:39PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Speaking of baser instincts, Rationale Rose isn't free software, is it? Are there any nice (or even not-nice) OO design tools that are? No

Re: [PRE-ANNOUNCE] DPKGv2 Project

1999-05-20 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:47:22AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: [snip] Do not worry, everyone will have a chance to view the code in an anonymous CVS server (which is already setup). There will be ample documentation and views on the current spec will be heard. Please consider this a semi formal

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
a product VA is incapable of marketing. Of course, there are ways around this, like imaging drives and whatnot. But, as someone else mentioned, it costs them money, and they have the right to expend those resources, or not, as they choose. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
to mass install debian, if debian would put some work twords it. dpkg needs some work before this will become feasible. Many people have proposed ideas, but only one has done any work. Anyone know where doogie's dconfig scripts are? -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
. Whether or not the community approves of this, I will pursue it, and let the chips fall where they may. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
the chips fall where they may. Good luck, FWIW. I've no doubt you'll need it. As far as writing it, no. As far as getting something like this accepted, it's going to take time, no question about it. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
feelings won't be hurt if he decides against it. In the meantime, Johnie Ingram has been making glibc 2.0 versions of my potato XFree86 packages available at http://www.netgod.net/x/. Which work quite well, by the way ;P. I was forced to get them for my laptop. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
? The kernel can load its root FS (compressed or not) from a separate floppy. this would bring us up to a measly three floppies for floppy install. Besides, most ppl will be doing CD boots anway -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
works smoothly) within a week or so. But first, I don't quite understand the 'proposed-updates' process. someone will need to explain this to me... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
anout the sequence you have to use. Ok, um, then I will write some scripts today for a slink-gnome-stage-area. ;) Stay tuned. Ciao, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ..Aaron Van

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-10 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
not depend on them at all However I agree they are useful. But, getting them into potato should carry the same importance as some popular python module... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-10 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
that no other package can... except for necessity, such as libc and kernel versions for boot-floppies, et al. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org ...Nothing

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
the 'latest' version of anything... Just my two cents -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org ...Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain

Re: Freeze date for potato?

1999-05-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
or unofficial .debs. Another two cents ;P I've got a big stack of pennies here... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org ...Nothing astonishes men so much

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 09:28:33PM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 03:35:01PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 05:57:15PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: I disagree. One of the major complaints I get about Debian by colleagues is that its

Re: Bug#37345: PROPOSAL] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND

1999-05-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
burden by this ;P. Oh well, everyone who doesn't comply just gets a 'normal' bug... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org ...Nothing astonishes men so

Re: Bug#37345: PROPOSAL] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND

1999-05-09 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 09:40:01AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 11:27:49PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 02:10:27AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: PROPOSAL (1) That section 3.1 of the policy be rewritten replacing every

Re: Intent-to-package: XGGI

1999-01-31 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 09:22:28PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: XGGI is an X server based on XF86 code that will run under any supported libGGI target. Currently, other than a few XF 3.3.3.1 compliance points, XGGI works fine; it's been tested with the X

Intent-to-package: XGGI

1999-01-27 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
. G'day ;) -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. -- Seneca

Re: What happened to hwclock?

1999-01-21 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
+++-===-==- ii util-linux 2.9g-3 Miscellaneous system utilities. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..~$ Sorry about some of the characters being messed up, joe doesn't take backticks nicely for some reason. Anyway, it's showing up for me. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe

Re: Developers in Cali...

1999-01-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
would be interested. If a convenient day were picked and the meeting were held somewhere near the Bay Area (Sn Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland...) I just might be able to come. cheers -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin