Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-15 Thread Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:01:15AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Hi, Some time ago, I adopted switchconf, a very simple bash script used to simply switch between configurations, planned for use on mobile systems, but perfectly usable on the desktop as well. Now, switchconf is too simple. It

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-14 Thread Florian Mllers
Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz schrieb: I have 6 labs in the University with about 60 computers, dual booting Windows XP and linux. This computers will be used by the students to do work for the classes and as desktop for general work and leisure. I have no great experience with Windows,

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-13 Thread Henning Sprang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shaul Karl wrote: I am forwarding this to linux-fai at uni-koeln dot de. I believe many people interested in this discussion hang out there. On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:35:45PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-13 Thread Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:34:19PM +0100, Florian Möllers wrote: Hi, can you just give us (at the fai mailing list) a brief description of what you are discussing?! Let me guess, and I migth be totally wrong, but you are discussing ways to install 60 PCs with Debian and you have 4

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-12 Thread Shaul Karl
I am forwarding this to linux-fai at uni-koeln dot de. I believe many people interested in this discussion hang out there. On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:35:45PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:44:25AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: 60 PCs with Debian and there exist 4

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-12 Thread Florian Möllers
Hi, can you just give us (at the fai mailing list) a brief description of what you are discussing?! Let me guess, and I migth be totally wrong, but you are discussing ways to install 60 PCs with Debian and you have 4 different configurations to install. Well, than fai is what you are looking

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] laptop-net also contains a configuration file switching mechanism. For that matter, so does ifupdown. I have a bunch of post-up 'ln -fs' commands in the appropiate /etc/network/interfaces on my laptop. Does switchconf do more than can be simulated easily

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.10.1309 +0100]: laptop-net also contains a configuration file switching mechanism. For that matter, so does ifupdown. I have a bunch of post-up 'ln -fs' commands in the appropiate /etc/network/interfaces on my laptop. Does switchconf

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-10 Thread Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:09:05PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] laptop-net also contains a configuration file switching mechanism. For that matter, so does ifupdown. I have a bunch of post-up 'ln -fs' commands in the appropiate

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.08.0232 +0100]: Well... It could get back into Debian for sure, but there must be somebody responsable for it. You can take the package, even not being a DD, uploading it through a sponsor. You are, besides, the second person who asked me

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.09.0124 +0100]: If Martin Krafft don't try to put it back, I may try to find a sponsor. I am searchinf for a good excuse to be a DD. I'll sponsor you. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list!

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-09 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:44:25AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: 60 PCs with Debian and there exist 4 different configurations? In case each PC has a nic, it sounds like the fai package suits your situation. Or cfengine2 (optionally coupled with pkgsync). /* Steinar */ -- Homepage:

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:40:15 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: I think switchconf is nice because it ties in well with guessnet, and because it's lean and mean and does exactly what it should, no more and no less. I agree that switchconf should be kept around so long as there is nothing else in

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Sorry... I got your mail the first time, I am sorry I could not reply to it sooner. Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz dijo [Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:15:39PM +]: Yes, I care about it. I use it on my laptop to have personalized configurations for the places I connect to the Internet. For

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-08 Thread Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:32:30PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Sorry... I got your mail the first time, I am sorry I could not reply to it sooner. There exist any alternative? Most of the use I had seen for switchconf was regarding network detection - that can be perfectly handled through

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-07 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:25:46PM +, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: Yes, I care about it. I use it on my laptop to have personalized configurations for the places I connect to the Internet. For example besides interfaces, I have a sources.list optimized. Now I have to

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-06 Thread Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:01:15AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Hi, Some time ago, I adopted switchconf, a very simple bash script used to simply switch between configurations, planned for use on mobile systems, but perfectly usable on the desktop as well. Now, switchconf is too simple. It

Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-01-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi, Some time ago, I adopted switchconf, a very simple bash script used to simply switch between configurations, planned for use on mobile systems, but perfectly usable on the desktop as well. Now, switchconf is too simple. It does very little, but does not do it very well. I originally intended

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-01-06 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 06 January 2005 08.01, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Now, switchconf is too simple. It does very little, but does not do it very well. I originally intended to work with it to make it much more robust... But in the end, I didn't get around to do it. IMHO removing it is the right solution.