Re: How to get all dependent source packages

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
sha liu sandyle...@gmail.com writes: 2009/7/20 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de sha liu sandyle...@gmail.com writes: Hi everyone,     Is there any easy method to get all the *source* packages which are the build dependency

Re: The wider implications of debhelper/dbus breakage

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Philipp Kern tr...@philkern.de writes: On 2009-07-20, Stéphane Glondu st...@glondu.net wrote: For example, each OCaml transition involve rebuilding a lot of packages (about 139), with 6 levels of dependencies. So if some build takes 2 days or more (for the current transition, on some builds,

Re: How to get all dependent source packages

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Harald Braumann ha...@unheit.net writes: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:42:44 +0800 sha liu sandyle...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/20 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de sha liu sandyle...@gmail.com writes: Hi everyone, Is there any easy method to get all the *source* packages which

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: And why should there be. The package it totally usable and functional as designed. Does it properly support aptitude / synaptic / etc yet? [The whole print a message on stdout telling the user he'd better do

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Micha Lenk mi...@lenk.info writes: Hi, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: The conversion system is an ugly hack. Sure. [...] [...] The package it totally usable and functional as designed. Don't you feel like contradicting yourself

Re: Running a 32bits on debian amd64 system

2009-07-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org writes: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 04:29:34PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: 'lo I am reading: http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id292205 But everytime I chroot into my 32bits system, part of my system still sees

Re: Running a 32bits on debian amd64 system

2009-07-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Goswin von Brederlowgoswin-...@web.de wrote: apt-get install schroot RTFM Did you *actually* read it yourself ? *hust, hust* I actually wrote it. At least a small part of it. I'd suggest you reread

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Micha Lenk mi...@lenk.info writes: Hi, Hans-J. Ullrich schrieb: Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: The conversion system is an ugly hack. Sure. [...] Despite whatever the people say, I like the new package. And I like the idea behind it. And if it does not work

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: and it has numerous RC bugs. Lets see: http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/ia32-libs-tools.html RC bugs: 1 There were 6 bugs when I looked at the page before

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pierre Habouzit madco...@madism.org writes: On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 11:30:12PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Yannick yannick.roeh...@free.fr writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And hey, the good reason was diverting the package management tools is unacceptable. But, no, we have

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 03:07:58PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 01:26:23PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Yannick | For instance, I wanted to test Firefox 3.5 in 32bits on my amd64 | Debian (64bit Firefox 3.5 does

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: ]] Stefano Zacchiroli | On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 01:26:23PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | ]] Yannick | | | For instance, I wanted to test Firefox 3.5 in 32bits on my amd64 | | Debian (64bit Firefox 3.5 does not have the new tracemonkey

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:20:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The upgrade path to multiarch is for the multiarch i386 deb to Conflicts/Replaces: package that contains the same files. Which means ia32-libs or ia32-libs-gtk for the old system

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:36:31PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: As I see it, there are two major hurdles: 1) Initial creation of the chroot. As above, I think a simple script to integrate

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: and it has numerous RC bugs. Lets see: http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/ia32-libs-tools.html RC bugs: 1 There were 6 bugs when I looked at the page before writing my mail, guess you've merged/downgraded/... the others.I

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le vendredi 03 juillet 2009 à 14:59 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : Do you *really* want to have more reasons? I would settle for one good one. :) OK, let’s try one that you can understand. Try picturing a bridge. ia32-libs-tools

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Yannick yannick.roeh...@free.fr writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And hey, the good reason was diverting the package management tools is unacceptable. But, no, we have to do insults instead of arguing. Alas, despite the diversion of the package management tools, I find ia32- apt-get

Accepted ia32-libs-tools 22 (source all amd64)

2009-07-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Description: ia32-apt-get - Apt-get, aptitude and dpkg wrapper for on-the-fly conversion ia32-archive - Create a local archive of converted i386 debs for amd64 and ia64 ia32-libs-tools - Tools for converting

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:18:14AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: There is only one thing that DAK might want to adapt to. For most multiarch architectures there is a definite main architecture that most things should be in and then some corner

Re: CDPATH and shell scripts

2009-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org writes: On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:26:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Jonathan Yu jonathan.i...@gmail.com writes: How to fix them? Write Perl scripts, and turn on taint checking -- that fixes the four issues above, because it makes the script exit if any of

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org writes: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:28:24AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Last I heart s390 planed to drop 31bit support and go fully 64bit. This was the plan. However I don't know if it is the best solution. The fact is: only Debian and SuSE still supports

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Please do files bugs about issues you consider blockers for ia32-libs-tools and squeeze and please include if that applies even if there is the old ia32-libs in parallel to it (i.e. when it doesn't get pulled in on upgrades

ia32-apt-get: Striking my colors

2009-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I'm striking my colors. By popular demand I'm orphaning the ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk transitional packages. As said before the prerequisite for that was that someone else steps up as new maintainer for the old ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk monsters and Mark Hymers has agreed to do so. I

CDPATH and shell scripts

2009-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, it seems to me that the current CDPATH behaviour is verry strange and extremly dangerous for shell scripts. For those that have never heart of CDPATH it does 2 things: 1) a relative cd command with search the CDPATH for the given directory. If unset then '.' is used. 2) it outputs the

multiarch and maintainer scripts

2009-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, what can be done if the maintainer scripts of a package must behave differently when unpacking the i386 deb on i386 or the i386 deb on amd64? For example 32bit fglrx-glx needs to divert /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 on i386 but /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2 on amd64. Other examples would be packages that

Re: multiarch and maintainer scripts

2009-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: what can be done if the maintainer scripts of a package must behave differently when unpacking the i386 deb on i386 or the i386 deb on amd64? For example 32bit fglrx-glx needs to divert /usr/lib/libGL.so

Re: CDPATH and shell scripts

2009-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Jonathan Yu jonathan.i...@gmail.com writes: How to fix them? Write Perl scripts, and turn on taint checking -- that fixes the four issues above, because it makes the script exit if any of them look dangerous. Env::Sanctify::Auto is a Perl module that

Re: CDPATH and shell scripts

2009-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jonathan Yu jonathan.i...@gmail.com writes: Another option might be to break from POSIX/etc policy (I'm not sure where these variables are defined) and patch our command like 'cd' to simply ignore 'CDPATH' etc. But I suppose this would then require patches in all the various shells available

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org writes: Hello world, (Please remember that we can only speak for ourselves and not the security/release/any other teams, individuals or other sentient beings.) During the recent discussion about about ia32-libs{,-gtk,-tools} there were various requests for

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Faidon Liambotis parav...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: ia32-wine is only available when ia32-apt-get is installed. WTF? Are you listening to yourself? Do you actually believe that it's okay to mess in such horrendous ways with the packaging system? If you don't want

Re: multiarch and maintainer scripts

2009-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: Hi! On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 13:58:48 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: what can be done if the maintainer scripts of a package must behave differently when unpacking the i386 deb on i386 or the i386 deb

Accepted ia32-libs-tools 21 (source all amd64)

2009-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
-libs Team pkg-ia32-libs-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Description: ia32-apt-get - Apt-get, aptitude and dpkg wrapper for on-the-fly conversion ia32-archive - Create a local archive of converted i386 debs for amd64 and ia64 ia32-libs

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-07-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aneurin Price aneurin.pr...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 05:11, Goswin von Brederlowgoswin-...@web.de wrote: Aneurin Price aneurin.pr...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I've just spent over an hour writing and rewriting this mail, and determined that I can't think of a single

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-07-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 06:52:34PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Look at perl for example: Package: perl-base Provides: perlapi-5.10.0 I suggest to also provide perlabi-$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) or perlabi-5.10.0-$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE). Perl

Re: A standard patch rule for our rules

2009-07-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Rafael Almeida almeida...@gmail.com writes: A ``patch'' rule for debian/rules there should always be for I'd like to easily apply patches created by me Don't worry I don't think of anything too hard a simple standarization will ease my heart Today ``debian/rules build'' is always a good

Accepted ia32-libs-tools 20 (source all amd64)

2009-07-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
-libs Team pkg-ia32-libs-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Description: ia32-apt-get - Apt-get and dpkg wrapper for on-the-fly ia32-libs conversion ia32-archive - Create a local archive of converted i386 debs for amd64 and ia64 ia32-libs

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:50:01PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: There is work going on recently. Steve Langasek drafted a plan that he wants to bring forward in Ubuntu Karmic Koala and it has been

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mark Brown broo...@sirena.org.uk writes: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:31:24PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Mark Brown broo...@sirena.org.uk writes: There seems to be at least some crossover between the people who were looking at multiarch and the people doing this stuff

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud did...@raboud.com writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Aneurin Price aneurin.pr...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I've just spent over an hour writing and rewriting this mail, and determined that I can't think of a single constructive thing to say. So I'll just ask a couple

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le mardi 30 juin 2009 à 01:55 +0100, Aneurin Price a écrit : Is there any way of preventing this kind of major breakage in the future? I don't think many people expect that upgrading one package will FUBAR the packaging system. Report a critical

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jonas Meurer jo...@freesources.org writes: On 30/06/2009 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Did anyone who isn't on crack get to see 'ia32-apt-get.preinst' and 'ia32-apt-get.postinst' before they were perpetrated upon an unsuspecting populace? Reading them in the process of trying to unfuck my

Re: Multiarch

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:02:05PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: I've also CC'd Hector and Steve who are listed as owners on that document because whatever we do to get multiarch working (and I have no strong views on the right way to do it) we should

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud did...@raboud.com writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Aneurin Price aneurin.pr...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I've just spent over an hour writing and rewriting this mail, and determined that I can't think of a single constructive thing to say. So I'll just ask a couple

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le mardi 30 juin 2009 à 18:52 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : Please stop confusing ia32-apt-get with multiarch. It clearly is a kludge to keep 32bit binaries working till there is multiarch. It is not ment as a replacement

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Yannick yannick.roeh...@free.fr writes: Maybe all of this should go to experimental (is there a problem with wine depending on experimental packages for amd64?) but thank you Goswin for your work. Yannick The problem was that libc6-i386 broke all 32bit support in unstable making all 32bit

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud did...@raboud.com writes: Hi, Norbert Preining wrote: On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: This package was already enough of a hack, but at least it worked without fiddling in horrible ways with the packaging system. How can we have a working wine or

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud did...@raboud.com writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud did...@raboud.com writes: Norbert Preining wrote: - calling /usr/share/ia32-apt-get/convert-all-sources.list Which horribly breaks with anything a little custom (proxies, custom repositories

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Didier Raboud did...@raboud.com writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud did...@raboud.com writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud did...@raboud.com writes: Norbert Preining wrote: - calling /usr/share/ia32-apt-get/convert-all-sources.list Which horribly

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lionel Elie Mamane lio...@mamane.lu writes: While we are on the subject of ia32-apt-get, I'm not sure _what_ happened, but after the upgrade of ia32-apt-get 14 to 18, suddenly aptitude had about 200 package in upgradable state that were not upgradable before. ia32-apt-get encodes its own

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mehdi Dogguy mehdi.dog...@pps.jussieu.fr writes: Josselin Mouette wrote: Hi, as the topic says, I noticed the new ia32-libs package depends on ia32-apt-get. I searched the list archive and found only one thread[1] related to ia32-apt-get. Correct me if I'm wrong but it was clear for

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lionel Elie Mamane lio...@mamane.lu writes: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:57:28PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Lionel Elie Mamane lio...@mamane.lu writes: While we are on the subject of ia32-apt-get, I'm not sure _what_ happened, but after the upgrade of ia32-apt-get 14 to 18, suddenly

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le lundi 29 juin 2009 à 17:30 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : consider it as a “releasable” solution? Going to be. No, it is not going to be. The whole design needs work before it can be. There is a better design. It is called

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mark Brown broo...@sirena.org.uk writes: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:12:20PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote: Multiarch was mentioned in the original thread. Not that I was happy with the original situation (filing myself a bug), but all that multiarch

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: On Mo, 29 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote: Figure out an acceptable option 4. Multiarch was mentioned in the original thread. Not that I was happy with the original situation (filing myself a bug),

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le lundi 29 juin 2009 à 21:30 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: No, it is not going to be. The whole design needs work before it can be. There is a better design. It is called multiarch. But some people

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Too bad they did that without involving the people already working on multiarch via the alioth project. They messed up some finer details, broke the existing patches, made the whole thing need

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Yannick yannick.roeh...@free.fr writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: There where 3 options: 1) ia32-libs + ia32-libs-gtk (+ ia32-libs-kde + ia32-libs-qt) ftp-master asked us to clean that up basically and it would not pass NEW if it where uploaded now 2) ia32-lib* packages in the same

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aneurin Price aneurin.pr...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I've just spent over an hour writing and rewriting this mail, and determined that I can't think of a single constructive thing to say. So I'll just ask a couple of questions instead: Is there any way of preventing this kind of major

Accepted ia32-libs-tools 17 (source all amd64)

2009-06-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
-libs Team pkg-ia32-libs-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Description: ia32-apt-get - Apt-get and dpkg wrapper for on-the-fly ia32-libs conversion ia32-archive - Create a local archive of converted i386 debs for amd64 and ia64 ia32-libs

Accepted ia32-libs-tools 18 (source all amd64)

2009-06-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
-libs Team pkg-ia32-libs-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Description: ia32-apt-get - Apt-get and dpkg wrapper for on-the-fly ia32-libs conversion ia32-archive - Create a local archive of converted i386 debs for amd64 and ia64 ia32-libs

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: On Sunday 21 June 2009 03:33:33 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: snip The Release could be signed using an rsign method with the machine(s) that manage the repository, or it could be done locally on the server using gpg-agent, or an unencrypted private

Re: /emul/ia32-linux to lib32 transition

2009-06-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Artur R. Czechowski artu...@hell.pl writes: Hello, I made a quick glance at /emul/ia32-linux to lib32 transition in BTS. There was some bugreports submitted. All I spotted can be seen using following link: http://42.pl/u/1GEo Shouldn't all of them be set to RC severity as they are

Re: cc vs gcc

2009-06-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx writes: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:29:37PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: There is a bit of discussion in bug #487546 about whether using cc or gcc as the compiler is appropriate. Particular questions: * Are Debian packages supposed to be

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: On Saturday 20 June 2009 03:16:33 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: But now you made me think about this too. So here is what I think: - My bandwidth at home is fast enough to fetch packages directly. No need to mirror at all. - I don't want

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: On Friday 19 June 2009 12:57:25 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Or have a proxy that adds packages that are requested. When I woke up this morning, I was thinking that it might be interesting to have an apt method that talks directly to reprepro. It's

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: On Friday 19 June 2009 00:27:06 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: If so then you can configure a post invoke hook in apt that will copy the dpkg status file of the host to the server [as status.$(hostname

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: There is another application that will help with the dependencies. It's called germinate, and it will take a short list of packages and a list of repositories and build a bunch of different lists of packages and their dependencies. Germinate will

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:16 -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:14:53 sanket agarwal wrote: This can be stated as: if a person wants to keep a customised set of packages for usage with the distribution, the tool should be able to

Re: apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joseph Rawson umebos...@gmail.com writes: BTW, the subject of this thread is apt-get wrapper for maintaining Partial Mirrors. The solution I'm proposing is a simple tool for maintaining Partial Mirrors (which could possibly be wrapped by apt-get later). I think that just pursuing an

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ken Bloom kbl...@gmail.com writes: Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le lundi 01 juin 2009 à 16:26 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : What has the initramfs got to do with this? For / to be on LVM you need an initramfs. / on raid (with custom kernel) or plain partition

Accepted ia32-libs-tools 14 (source all amd64)

2009-06-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Description: ia32-apt-get - Apt-get and dpkg wrapper for on-the-fly ia32-libs conversion ia32-archive - Create a local archive of converted i386 debs for amd64 and ia64 ia32-libs-tools - Tools for converting

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le mardi 02 juin 2009 à 11:22 +0200, Martin Wuertele a écrit : Still that doesn't mean that the project should depricate support for a separate /usr for the sake of udev. If some want to use an initramfs less kernel let them have a functional system,

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le dimanche 31 mai 2009 à 19:43 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit : All things considered, I have no immediate plan to push for deprecating a standalone /usr. Thanks for going back. However, if you think this debate is going to come back later, maybe we

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le lundi 01 juin 2009 à 13:11 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : As long as debian does not provide support for kernel independent non breaking initramfs support (i.e. not regenerated on every whim and break) having / outside lvm and no initramfs

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pierre Habouzit madco...@madism.org writes: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 01:11:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: - LVM and/or RAID: no real reason nowadays to not use these for the root As long as debian does not provide support for kernel

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pierre Habouzit madco...@madism.org writes: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:08:02PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 01 Jun 2009, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Think again, if I do such a package, I would obviously check with some kind of trivial perl programm if the device containing

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pierre Habouzit madco...@madism.org writes: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 05:13:16PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Pierre Habouzit madco...@madism.org writes: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 01:11:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: - LVM

Re: Debian source code search engine

2009-05-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michael Banck mba...@debian.org writes: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:01:55AM +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: Is there a way to tell 'make' to execute all the dependencies for a target but not go through the target itself? It is not forbidden to unpack and patch the upstream source in

Re: Debian source code search engine

2009-05-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter De Wachter pdewa...@gmail.com writes: Op Mon, 25 May 2009 03:36:28 +0100 schreef Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: Cool - that looks really useful. However, it looks like you're just running dpkg-source -x to unpack packages. This misses any Debian changes made using a patch

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
J.A. Bezemer cos...@wormhole.robuust.nl writes: On Sun, 24 May 2009, Bastian Blank wrote: Hi folks I would like to raise the minimum CPU requirement for the shipped Linux kernels in the i386 port to i686 (with cmov). [..] Popcon gives us some rough numbers to think about:

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes: You call it superfluous. It's particularly helpful for source-only uploads. Well, yes, it's superfluous for Debian, which doesn't

Re: Bug#529525: ITP: vsag -- Very Simple Archive Generator

2009-05-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Robert Millan rmh.debian@aybabtu.com writes: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:44:38AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: Hi! On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 22:18:51 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan rmh.debian@aybabtu.com * Package name: vsag

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org writes: Gabor Gombas wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 03:53:23PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: No, /root cannot be a separate filesystem. /root is part of very basic system, and it is required for super user when he/she is restoring the systems or

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes: Sure. I can hack things so that I have a writable home directory for root while having a read only /. But then it is incorrect to state that it works out of the box. manoj If you have a read-only / you need to have /var and

Re: should -dev libraries depending on other -dev packages?

2009-05-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net writes: On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 08:06 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 13 mai 2009 à 11:23 +1000, Brian May a écrit : Is this still considered to be a libtool issue? Yes, but instead of dropping the .la entirely, I’d recommend to simply

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes: On Tue, May 12 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I don't know if there are more blocker. Oh, and /root is a home directory; unless we move that, a read only / would affect root negatively. How so? Only thing I can think of is the bash

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes: On Mon, May 11 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: A separate /usr *is* the way to go if you don't want any writes in that filesystem 99.9

Re: FYI: permission with rsync on people.debian.org

2009-05-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: Hi, When my usual web page updates failed, I was checking my ethernet connection ... I wondered why ... Here is the reason: I might have missed some announcment, ... but it seems rsync on people.debian.org creates directories and files with 700

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: A separate /usr *is* the way to go if you don't want any writes in that filesystem 99.9% of the time (i.e. when you're not doing an upgrade). A read-only / does the trick just as well

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:59:36AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: A read-only / should work out of the box just like a read-only /usr. I haven't installed a fresh one in a long while though

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:37:46PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On Sunday 10 May 2009 13:56:04 Steve Langasek wrote: I thought it was generally recognized that it's a Bad Idea to implement config files using your interpreter's 'include'

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 09:54:11PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: I'm really surprised to see this approach getting traction. To me, this seems like a significant, unprecedented departure

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org writes: Hi, On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: With the include approach, we lack this feature and bad/broken local overrides can't be detected if we only have the build log at hand. which reminds me that we dont have build logs for

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 08 May 2009, David Weinehall wrote: No. But we do leave /usr read-only the rest of the time, which is often 99.999% of the time. A separate /usr is required for this. Uhm, no? mount --bind /usr /usr First, you'd

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

2009-05-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Lynn ro...@rilynn.demon.co.uk writes: On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 07:00:25PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:47:56PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: As a practical matter, downgrading these dependencies will cause aptitude and other package managers to believe

Re: Breaking /emul/ia32-linux for squeeze

2009-05-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
:21AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. It is high time to change to the multiarch dir. For that gcc needs to be fixed first so compiling 32bit code does not break. Transitioning to /usr/lib32 will just needlessly break systems. The rest of this thread gives me

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: I have been told by upstream maintainers of one of my packages and by prominent developers of other distributions that supporting a standalone /usr is too much work and no other distribution worth mentioning does it (not Ubuntu, not Fedora, not SuSE). I

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 06:49:47PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 05 mai 2009 à 17:24 +0100, Roger Leigh a écrit : That might have been a traditional reason for a shared /usr. However, the package manager can't cope with this setup since

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Giacomo Catenazzi c...@debian.org writes: Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:41:06PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: Marco d'Itri a écrit : I know that Debian supports this, but I also know that maintaning forever large changes to packages for no real gain sucks. A partial list of

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem? [386 support]

2009-05-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le mardi 05 mai 2009 à 23:38 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT a écrit : Interesting. I thought 386 wasn't supported anymore (?) AFAIK the kernel is able to emulate a 486 when running on a 386. Afaik only when properly patched to do so and including glibc

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