Re: unwanted loading of libnss_nis.so in etch

2007-02-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ault it is set to nis, but you can use ldap if you want. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian in Sanger (Re: update on binary upload restrictions)

2007-02-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
s currently. And the rate of increase have not slowed down yet. I guess people are installing a lot of etch machines. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preseeding and debconf

2007-01-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ebconf settings, but you need to be careful to get it right. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Popularity-contest passes 20000 submitters

2006-11-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
If you want your machine to participate as well, all you need to do is 'aptitude install popularity-contest', and accept when asked if you want to participate. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Automatically collect hardware information from users?

2006-11-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
hardware reporting system be a standalone package reporting when the machine is installed or something like that, instead of weekly. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#400070: RFP: gaia -- Google Earth client

2006-11-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
etting a real answer to it by asking the developers at Google, and not this list. :) I have not seen any arguments from Google myself, but I have not looked for it either. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#400070: RFP: gaia -- Google Earth client

2006-11-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
le map data isn't GPL, and can not be claimed to be GPL. And a google earth clone is rather useless without permission to fetch data from google. I recommend earth3d and the NASA worldwind spinoffs if you want free map data. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
be nice if bash didn't use nss functions when it starts, and instead waited until one of the variables containing user information was requested, so you could try to submit such patch to upstream and see if they accept it. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
s, and thus loads the shared ldap library from /usr/ on invocation. This make it unusable in a system with LDAP users. Switching to dash as /bin/sh gave us a nice surprise with reduced memory consumption and faster boots as well, but that was not the reason why we switched. Friendly, -- Petter R

Automatically collect hardware information from users?

2006-11-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
opularity-contest HTTP collector. The interesting parts of the server on the other hand would be the parts making reports based on the reported hardware information. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: default ext3 options

2006-11-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ext3-options which are enabled > now by default? Frans already answered this one, look in /etc/mke2fs.conf. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mount _netdev

2006-11-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Patrick Donker] > Is this a bug or is there a Grand Plan^© behind the way Deb did it? > Will it ever work? It is ment to be fixed in initscripts version 2.86.ds1-16. Is it not working for you, or are you using an older version? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

2006-11-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
> > Comments? I would say the bug is in the user expectations, not in the use of symlinks. Blindly overwriting a "file" without checking if it is a symlink seem like the bug to me. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Question: mount /var/run as tmpfs

2006-10-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
. That was added in version 2.86.ds1-23 too. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen One of the initscripts maintainers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: arches and etch

2006-10-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ber of submitters have increased from 4000 to 18000. I take this as an indication that the amount of people not using popcon is almost the same across all archs. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 6

2006-10-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
y do need each other to be configured before they are configured. I'm not sure if missed this argument, choose to ignore it, or do not consider it an argument, so I thought it best to repeat it in case you missed it. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: arches and etch

2006-10-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ecture distribution. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NEW processing slowdown (Was: FAQ, Re: new mplayer)

2006-10-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
a complete redesign to avoid the current bottleneck. I'm not sure, as I only see it from the outside through http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html>. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
s there a web page documenting this new feature? I would like to point the debian-edu developers to it. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ver have been able to moderate it if it wasn't for the listadmin package. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe] > Doesn't policy violation warrant Critical severity? Well, policy isn't a stick to beat other maintainers with, it is a tool to make sure our packages are well integrated and work properly. Thus, policy issues are not problems by themselves, they are policy issues because

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
triggered by the packages with this lintian message? Is the autobuilders able to build these packages? If the autobuilders fail, I recommend you report that as a important or serious problem, and it it isn't, I recommend you report it as a normal bug. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To

Re: gdm/Gnome/KDE and device permissions

2006-10-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ill exist in the KDE version we use. > Unless d-bus started to support this during the last month, setting > plugdev via PAM will not always work (only when using pmount). Same > probably goes for network-manager and its netdev group. :( Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNS

Re: [Help] Please compile clustalw on architectures ia64, mips, mipsel, s390 and m68k

2006-10-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ters to remove the binaries for these archs, but that normally take longer time. I only have i386 machines myself, so I can not help you. What about convincing the upstream developers to change the license to one of the free software licenses? It would solve the problem for good. Friendly, -- P

Re: gdm/Gnome/KDE and device permissions

2006-10-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Gernot Salzer] > what is the standard/canonical way of handling device permissions > in Debian ("etch" in my case) on desktop PCs running a GUI? As you probably found out from the replies so far, there is no standard way. :( Here are some notes I wrote for Debian Edu. You might find it useful.

Re: safe halt/reboot/shutdown

2006-10-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[martin f kraft] > This script, along with symlinks from halt and reboot, lives in > /usr/local/sbin on all my systems Replacing halt might be a bit risky, as the story in http://bugs.debian.org/354163> document. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Mass-filing RC bugs about IETF RFC license based on file name (Was: Bug#393411: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's)

2006-10-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
A quick look in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> indicate 67 bugs. > The false positives so far So far. How many of these cases did you manually inspect? Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Starting services in runlevels 0 and 6

2006-10-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
the sysv-rc system behave the way it does because Solaris did it when the Debian boot system was written, and it was used as the example. I guess that is as good explanation as any on the historical reasons for the strange setup in the Debian boot system. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UN

Re: Starting services in runlevels 0 and 6

2006-10-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
s that it only add a comment to the script, so the change is very low-risk. Lintian already give a warning for init.d scripts without these headers, and this help a lot of maintainers to notice the problem. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Starting services in runlevels 0 and 6

2006-10-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
convert. The nice thing about documenting dependencies is that we can automatically detect bugs in the current boot sequence. We already found and fixed a few of those with the info currently in the packages. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#392643: 'IFUP cannot open the file /etc/network/interfaces'

2006-10-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
attach the output: ls -ld /etc/network ls -l /etc/network/interfaces I have no idea what can be the problem, but having more information might provide some clue. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: delay of the full etch freeze

2006-10-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
e deadline to allow packages in NEW to enter. Besides, there is like 18000 binary packages in Etch already. It is not like we are short on packages in the next release. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: gids assigned non-deterministically

2006-10-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
he nfs > mount is nosuid, but still, I find this a bit scary. You are right. The groups in use on an NFS mounted directory should be the same across all machines. So you should avoid making any files with those gids on NFS-exported file system. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-10-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
the file system. debian-installer beta3 use libparted + tune2fs -j, and this fail to enable both these features. I really happy to know that d-i in sid now creates online re-sizable file systems. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Debian arch and package survey update

2006-10-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
age. The Etch release scheduled for early December will be the first release with popularity-contest participation being requested by the default installer. I look forward to see how that will affect the number of submitters when Etch become stable. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen --

Compiz in Debian (Was: Bits from the DPL: Looking forward)

2006-10-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ilable in unstable and being worked on to get it ready for release. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Developper's reference as a wiki

2006-09-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
? Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
e the report, if you are not doing so already. I suspect there are some packages that can be dropped from the first CD, like obsolete libraries etc, to make room for more useful packages. At least that is my experience with Debian Edu. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Free flash player for your browser

2006-09-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
crash the X server, there is definitely a bug in the X server too. Because of this I do not understand why the bug is filed against gnash. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Free flash player for your browser

2006-09-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
looking for, and send me off to some "upgrade your flash" page. :( Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Free flash player for your browser

2006-09-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
listed in http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/FlashInDebianEdu>, and would welcome more test pages. :) I have not seen this problem myself, but I guess that might be because I have powerful machines. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Free flash player for your browser (Was: Running x86-64 debian inside i386 pbuilder on AMD64)

2006-09-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ash pages, and upstream is improving it every day. :) And it even work with amd64 CPUs. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
r, I agree that such choice must be made for the default installation system, to avoid confusing new users unnecessarily. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New essential package sysvinit-utils split out from sysvinit

2006-09-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
2006-September/001095.html>. The programs killall5, last, lastb, mesg, pidof and sulogin are moved. they are used independently from init, and I believe it make sense to make them available in a separate package. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New essential package sysvinit-utils split out from sysvinit

2006-09-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
table. JFYI. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Media players in Debian (was: new mplayer)

2006-09-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
e. > Yes, I know there won't be w32codecs package in Debian, but even > mplayer would be great addition. I agree, but understand and accept that the license issues need to be checked before it is accepted into debian. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Media players in Debian

2006-09-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
re are 84 packages with mplayer in the name reported, and some of the are alternative pcakages (like mplayer-586), so the installation base for mplayer might be higher than 22%. I used the numbers in http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst.gz>. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Media players in Debian (was: new mplayer)

2006-09-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
rt still. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Why are all packages getting so much bigger?

2006-09-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
. :/ Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > Here is the list of packages in sarge with directories in /var/run/, > according to the file on merkel: I got the commands used by Andreas Metzler to extract packages in sarge with files or directories in /var/run/, and ran the it on etch. These are the 159 pa

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
mount a tmpfs as /var/run/ and /var/lock/. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
g subdirectories there to create it before they use it instead of when the package is installed. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
, and will include it there. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ftpd wackamole whereami Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The debian boot dependency graph image

2006-09-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
mountroot K06klogd K20makedevK30urandom K36ifupdownK90reboot K07sysklogd K20sendsigs K31umountnfs.sh K40umountfsREADME Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 -> 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ysv-rc version 2.86.ds1-19. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 -> 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
sy solution to check and fix all involved packages at once? You can look in /var/log/dpkg.log for the packages that was removed, and reinstall them. Again, sorry for the mess. :( Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 -> 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
-18/p" /var/log/dpkg.log | awk '/ upgrade / { print $4 } / installed / { print $5 }' | sort -u These packages, if they contain an init.d script, are the ones needing a reinstall. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 -> 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > A quick way out is to reinstall all the packages with scripts in > /etc/init.d/. This way proved to be too quick, trying to reinstall removed but not purged packages with init.d scripts left behind in /etc/init.d/. I recommend using something like this instead, t

Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 -> 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
t-get --reinstall install package' on the affected packages. A quick way out is to reinstall all the packages with scripts in /etc/init.d/. for p in `dpkg -S /etc/init.d/*|cut -d: -f1|sort -u`; do apt-get --reinstall install -y $p done I'm sorry for the problems I have caused. Frien

Re: The debian boot dependency graph image

2006-09-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
figuration. I don't think it's possible to express > that with LSB-style initscripts, unfortunately. Actually, I've implemented the concept of override files in inssert, a program reading these headers, and the local admin can add a file in /etc/ to modify the configuration.

Re: The debian boot dependency graph image

2006-09-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
r, /etc/rc2.d/S20inetd. The script can't handle those. I'll modify it to make sure that isn't a fatal problem in the next release of insserv. > i get the same error even without -o option... > > i've tested it on PPC, the insserv version is 1.08.0-1 Thanks for te

The debian boot dependency graph image

2006-09-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
fo, remove the -o flag. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install packages automatically based on the detected hardware

2006-09-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
an be installed >> automatically on request. > > I look forward to that! Volunteers welcome. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Install packages automatically based on the detected hardware

2006-09-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ful hardware related packages can be installed automatically on request. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
make it possible to install a minimal installation like the diskless LTSP clients without such package. We want these clients booting on 32 MiB of ram, including the ramdisk, so every KiB of memory saved counts. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Mike Hommey] > I don't know about the installer, but all filesystems I created with > mke2fs recently also have resize_inode, which isn't even in the > tune2fs manpage. The default was recently changed in /etc/mke2fs.conf. It make life with LVM a lot easier. :) F

Re: udev vs ldap at startup

2006-08-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
nly look up users and groups present in /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and libnss-ldap should be configured to not try so long before it give up. I'm not sure what changed, but libnss-ldap with openldap on the same machine work just fine both in woody and sarge. Friendly, -- Petter Reinhol

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
g popularity-contest. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
down when people are upgrading to a new version of the package. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest

2006-07-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ce that the packages important to you are available on the first CD as well. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
mail, and hopefully get them to realize why they should fix it in time for etch. :) I suspect you might wait in wane if you expect someone else to do it. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate

2006-07-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ling in Debian packages more consistent. In Debian-Edu, we install and automatically configure several services with SSL certiciates, like imap, ldap and webmin, and it is a pain to handle all the ways SSL-certificates are generated. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Why is procps procps.sh in init.d?

2006-06-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
d work when executed in a separate process as well. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ing while the other fetches the source from disk. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass bug filing: lesstif1->lesstif2 transition

2006-06-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Kai Hendry] > Affected packages are: [...] > Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >plan How did you conclude that it depend on lesstif1? Its build depend is 'lesstif2-dev | lesstif-dev', to make sure it build with any version of debian, but I believe i

Re: rcpar, parallel boot written in C

2006-06-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
n comments, the initscripts-ng project is a better place for this topic. CC to it, and lets continue the discussion there. A similar system to yours was proposed by Olivier Sessink. Check out The thread starting at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/initscripts-ng-devel/2005-November/000225

Re: New LTSP uploaded!

2006-06-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
or all the existing installations using the official LTSP packages from the LTSP project (as opposed to the muekow approach we are working on in Debian. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-06-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
one and desktop-kde tasks are the most relevant for your live CD, thought I know we have discussed having live CDs for thin client servers to allow them to be completely without local state. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-05-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ish the dates of individual uploads was shown and the sorting order was different. This are though minor issues, compared to the situation earlier, when almost no-one knew the current NEW status. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
de SUN Java to the schools until the point where a free alternative exist that will fulfill the needs of the schools. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[George Danchev] > or some hosts have popularity-contest installed from pure upstream sources > instead from a popularity-contest debian package, thus don't have it > registered with the dpkg db. That would seriously surprise me, as popularity-contest only is distributed as a Debian package, an

Re: Changing the default syslogd (again...)

2006-05-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ssible to enable. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wouter Verhelst] > Which, I'm sure, is important for popcon maintainers; however, I > don't think it is very relevant in this discussion (unless you can > point me towards an editor that is implemented as a library ;-) The problem do not only affect libraries. There are other packages (with user

Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

2006-05-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
evelopers believe platform independence and standard compliance is a good thing, so patches are almost always accepted when submitted. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Note, the popcon vote is not always accurate. It only use files in some directories (like */bin/, but not */lib/*), so most library packages will never get a vote, and most user packages will get votes. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
llel to know which of these approaches actually improve the boot time. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
etc), and I suggest we focus on them this summer, and switch to dash next spring. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Buffer Image

2006-05-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
ce the content of the video memory with the new content. > Anybody there who is working on it. I have no idea. I'm not sure if anyone in the X consider it a problem. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

APT key maintainence (Was: bits from the release team)

2006-05-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martijn van Oosterhout] > Generate the key for 2007 on 1st of December 2006. This gives everyone > a month to get the new key before it's used. One month is not enough. CD distributions, offline and stable machines do not get updated every month. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdts

Re: Bug#364422: libopenobex1-dev: pkg-config should provide correct include-path

2006-04-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Hendrik Sattler] > Should kdebluetooth fix the include statements or should the > openobex.pc file say that "includedir=${prefix}/include/openobex"? If the API documentation say , then kdebluetooth should use that when including the header. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Emphasize teams, not packages

2006-03-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
discuss your case. There is no need to wait until your official Debian Developer membership card is available for you to become involved in sysadmin work in Debian. And already being involved will make it a lot easier for you to become a official Debian Developer. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtse

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation to provide them fall

2006-03-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Olaf van der Spek] > So what do you think about long-term ignored bug reports? Do you > think that should not be considered any issue/problem? It is definitely something we should try to address. When I run into those myself for issues that are important to me, I try to contact the maintainer,

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation to provide them fall

2006-03-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
end enough time working with the developer and maintainer to get him to give the task enough priority. It does no good to try to blame anyone else but myself for this, and I recommend the rest of you to place the blame there as well. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martin F Krafft] > The mirror split is a complicated endeavour. From what I understood, > the NEW queue was put on hold on purpose until the split is > complete. Ouch. If that is true, I hope ftpmasters will announce it to the developers, as a blocked NEW hinders development of Debian and shoul

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Steinar H. Gunderson] > Perhaps the ftpmasters are busy with the mirror split? Could be, but I believe I heard that most NEW processing is done by one of the assistants while the mirror split is done by someone else. I guess that one person got busy or demotivated. I suspect NEW processing in D

Re: Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
as several base packages already use it on linux. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#122188: SSH rc?.d/S19 instead of S20, will this bug ever get closed? First submission is 5 years ago!

2006-02-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
xt, you can use insserv to reorder all the scripts to make sure the scripts are started in dependency order. This is a bit higher risk at the moment, as the runlevels 1 and 6 are not entirely correctly documented yet, but work fine for the other runlevels. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen --

Re: Bug#349064: ITP: flash-plugin -- installer for Macromedia Flash Plugin

2006-01-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Alexander Sack] > You mean take over the package? If that is required, yes. But I suspect a friendly reenforcement of the maintainer team is a better solution if one is able to get in touch with the maintainer. > Have you ever succeeded to get any communication started with Takuo > during the l

Re: Bug#349064: ITP: flash-plugin -- installer for Macromedia Flash Plugin

2006-01-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bart Martens] > The Debian package flash-plugin is meant as an alternative or as a > replacement for flashplugin-nonfree. Why not just join forces with Takuo KITAME to maintain flashplugin-nonfree, and update it to behave the way you want it? I do not see the point of two installer packages for

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