On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:59:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Besides that?
It is essentially a toy, or a demonstration tool... depends on your
point of view. BrainFuck, from what I can tell, has been around for
years and is a Turing-complete programming language consisting of
only eight
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jeremy Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name: weather-util
Version : 1.1-1
Upstream Author : Jeremy Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://fungi.yuggoth.org/weather/
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: Python
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:03:32AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:32:38PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
[...]
I want to take a Debian source package and make a few changes to do
it and then recompres it and test it. If it works I want to generate
a patch which
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:20:03PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Due to a bug with w, or the kernel, or whatever, which nobody seems to
want to fix, the system uptime wraps around to 0 days after 400-and-someodd
days. That's why I circled the login/idle time on the screenshot. :-)
The jiffies
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 05:57:22PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
This is the most sensible answer I've heard about this (and I've
bitched about the limitation a lot). Maybe it's time for me to delve into
the kernel source for the first time in 10 years.
I gather this was fixed in Linux 2.5.72
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 05:39:48PM -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
[...]
The next time there's an upgrade for courier-authdaemon, won't it
overwrite my version of /etc/courier/authdaemonrc with it's own? I
thought that was the whole reason for diversions in the first place, but
if diversions
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:06:41PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
[...]
I suggest one of two things, or if there's time both! 1. Port partman
from debian-installer to make it a full fledged utility. 2. Port
whatever tool Red Hat uses [2] for this same task and package it for
Debian. I haven't
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:06:10PM -0400, jdgamble wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the right group to post to, but I am trying to
learn how to make deb packages and I seem to go around in circles
confusing myself.
[...]
It is not. The debian-mentors list is devoted to this particular
topic, so
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:18:01PM -0400, Angelina Carlton wrote:
[...]
I was told on #debian-devel that, yes it is in-precise, so I am just
wondering why would it *not* list all the files? What defines if a file
is included or excluded from this list.
[...]
A quick look through the dpkg
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:44:41PM +0100, David Pashley wrote:
[...]
Even still, it's worth trying to get
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01444.html bumped
up to the top of the google search all the same.
[...]
Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems to me that it would be
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:34:30PM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote:
[...]
Pathan is a library that implements XPath functionality in c++. It
is available both as a separate tarball as well as bundled with the
Berkeley DB XML sources provided by Sleepycat Software. The pathan
build script require a
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:19:34PM +0530, shampavman.cg wrote:
Is there a way to convert .pkg -- .deb ?
[...]
This question is more appropriate to the Debian User mailing list
(MFT set accordingly).
You probably want to install the alien utility. The description
from its manpage:
alien is a
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:23:16PM +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote:
[...]
Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running
Edgy ;)
[...]
If you're developing packages for Debian, not Ubuntu, I would
suggest at a minimum that you do your builds in a Sid chroot
(pbuilder and/or
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:10:20PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 17-Apr-07, 13:25 (CDT), Glenn Moeller-Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*If I want or need command xxzz, which packages can give me that?
You'll need to explore the packages website.
Or try out 'apt-file search xxzz' if
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:32:40AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
[...]
aptitude [...] does everything apt-get does...
[...]
Well, analogies to 'apt-get source' and 'apt-get build-dep' were
still missing the last time I tried, but these days I have little
trouble remembering to type apt-get instead
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:23:27PM +0530, arnuld wrote:
[...]
Debian repositories do not have any Yahoo Voice-Chat client. Can we
have Gyach Enhanced in Debian ?
See the WNPP bugs filed for...
220981: ITP gyach-improved (opened 2003, updated 2006)
335174: ITP gyach-improved (opened 2005,
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:46:30PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote:
[...]
On RHEL and derived distros, there's usually a file /etc/redhat-release
(sometimes renamed, but usually trivially enough that it can be found
with little trouble) containing both the distro code name and the
version number.
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:04:08PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The
second one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies
and is removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable,
but still remains in oldstable.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:10:37AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
I saw the name and initially thought it was related to blender.
[...]
It struck me as a coffee reference, since the term often gets used
to describe blends of coffee beans from the same region. Then again,
perhaps I drink too much
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:29:26AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
I think installing tcpdump is sufficient; adding ethtool on top of
it seems like overkill to me.
[...]
It seems mii-tool from the net-tools started falling by the wayside
for a while, as gigabit Ethernet had become standard in
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:18:14AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
It's worth bearing in mind that that's a bad assumption, too. We
use a local security mirror in full knowledge that it's not
recommended, but we watch it closely and will manually sync if
need be. We do this because we have systems
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:05:47AM +0100, Kjeldgaard Morten wrote:
Hundreds of machines accessing proxies, and thousands having
private IPs. Are these numbers something you know or are you just
throwing them around? Otherwise they can of course be accounted
for in the total estimate ;-)
I
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 07:56:01PM -0600, Andrew Deason wrote:
[...]
Label names could be generated to minimize collisions. Something like
${hostname}-/ instead of /, or maybe something even more specific.
[...]
The namespace here is, unfortunately, pretty limited. The manpages
for mkreiserfs
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 01:59:34PM +0100, Rondal wrote:
[...]
there are currently no other IRC Services packages in the
repositories
[...]
Unless I misunderstand your assertion or am taking it out of
context, I would hold up at least the dancer-services package as a
counterexample (though I
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 03:24:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I was also being polite. The developer community is not
exactly friendly to newcomers in general either. some persons are,
but those people tend to have less to say then the ones who are
not.
Not to defend some of the
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 05:26:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
This thread has concentrated on fixing packages, but I would appreciate
a little insight into why someone might set TAPE in their environment by
default. Surely if you set it by default, you must realse that you're
asking any such
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:29:31PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
How about modern brain availability? You'll just get a lot of annoyed
people changing it back; for example, makepasswd still uses a minimum
length of six.
And pwgen defaults to eight... the length recommended by IETF RFC
4086
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2007-09-17 19:46:20, schrieb David Given:
[...]
Now you have both a compiler and a kernel, you can use your
compiler to generate a userland --- as set of basic binaries to
get your system up and running --- and then boot
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:59:13PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
[...]
I'd suggest to file wishlist bugreports against any package
management frontend (not including apt) that does not in some way
mark packages that are no longer available in the archive (or
rather, in the sources defined in the
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:07:48AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote:
I'm going to contact upstream and ask if they would consider
releasing a new version so that this can get cleaned up.
Wouldn't prepending an epoch be less drastic? Doesn't sound like the
mistake was upstream's...
--
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:20:10PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
[...]
I strongly recommend not to use lzma on embedded architectures.
I suppose that depends on how it's used, but Wikipedia's article on
the algorithm even goes so far as to state:
Small code size and relatively low memory
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:41:54AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
[...]
Where can I obtain the FQDN of the system instead?
[...]
You can't, necessarily. Especially if the MTA is running on RFC 1918
addresses behind a NAT and relying on external DNS (which I expect
is becoming quite common these days).
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 08:09:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
Could you explain the rationale for this? My impression was that DSA
was recommended over RSA.
DSA was recommended over RSA in years gone by for reasons of
freedom, until late 2000 when MIT's 17-year US patent (4405829)
expired on the
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:20:07PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
bootp/dhcp.
Some old hardware needs rarp to netboot from firmware. Same argument
can be made for mop as well... I own (and use) examples of both.
--
{ IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); PGP(9E8DFF2E4F5995F8FEADDC5829ABF7441FB84657);
SMTP([EMAIL
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:43:26AM -0500, Drake Wilson wrote:
[...]
Possibly an automated check for bad permissions on files that
exist in Debian packages would be another improvement (I searched
the Web for an existing program that does that, but didn't find
anything).
This might make a good
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 04:56:03PM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
[...]
I was thinking of the reusability problem, and came up with the following:
When an user/group is removed, it's placed in quarantine. That ID
isn't used unless the same user/group is recreated, or that all other
possible
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:14:48AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
Apart from what everyone else has said, I can't help put being slightly
puzzled that it calls fork two times. This just seems weird...
Or did I miss something?
See chapter 13 from Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
(ISBN
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:26:09PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
This main purpose of specifying this is so that _users_ may
find the location of the data files for particular service, ...
Note how it only talks about users, not the operating
system/distribution.
Also note that it says find.
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 06:07:46AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used to use aptitude, and even dselect, but I found one needed to
use their full screen modes to use them to their full extent, which
was too exciting for me, so retreated to the simpler apt-get
dselect-upgrade to stay on
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:19:07AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
[...]
I assume that a spell checker can be configured that way that it
can distinguish between writing an English text with some /
several mistakes and a text with say 50% error rate which is
probably not understandable anyway.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:29:38AM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
[...]
It's like having to install a package with pear because horde
upgrade scripts once again requires a module that is not packaged
in Debian (which was the case for Lenny and is also the case for
Squeeze :-( ). Can those tools
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:57:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
It doesn't seem to work for me.
[...]
$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u\u00a3'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File string, line 1, in module
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in
position
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:05:02PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
What indications are there that SHA-512 is weak?
It might be worth approaching from a pragmatic perspective... why
generate SHA-512 checksums when you're only going to be signing a
SHA-256 digest of that list (that is unless you
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 09:13:51PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
Care to make a point for the gpg stuff around it within bug
#612657?
Gladly! Restating and Cc'ing...
While I agree that moving away from SHA-1 is necessary, SHA-512 is
not part of the compatibility set according to the gpg(1)
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:06:03PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
If one has or downloads a list of mirrors, what's a good way to
choose the best one? Ping time?
Package: netselect-apt
Description: speed tester for choosing a fast Debian mirror
This package provides a utility that can choose the
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:57:29PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote:
[...]
How should new people know that they don't get a copy of replies
to their messages unless they explicitly request one?
Maybe it's a generational difference... as I expect did authors of
the code of conduct, I came up on bulletin
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:18:34PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
[...]
The above is just an idea, little more than a brain-dump, for
finding a compromise among the real needs of people with bandwidth
problem and the social issues revolving around developer
sloppiness.
[...]
I expect part
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 04:07:11PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
[...]
Then, you use UTC date+time, that's two digits for the
best-practice leading of 0., plus 13 digits for MMDDTHHMM,
which is quite precise enough most of the time. Add two more for
seconds, and it is almost
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:41:35AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
[...]
I've always found it strange that, as a volunteer project, we are
creating a product that is mainly used in professional
environments.
[...]
I see that as a side effect. The same qualities of stable which lead
me to rely on
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:05:42PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
[...]
Should something added to or removed from the dependency list?
Not so much a vote for or against the main idea of the meta package
itself, but a glaring omission in my mind is piuparts, which is
great for package QA.
--
{
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 12:01:13AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
[...]
But it has been pointed out a few times (including a couple of
private messages) that experimental has what I desire (thanks for
the advice everyone).
[...]
Now if only it had CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS and CONFIG_HID_WACOM enabled
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 04:40:09PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521596#10
I don't remember how to enable it, though.
I do see this this in the changelog for 2.6.29-1:
* [x86] unset DRM_I915_KMS due to upgrade path from Lenny override
with modeset
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:10:27PM +, The Fungi wrote:
[...]
...so I guess just adding i915.modeset=1 to the kernel command line
should make it go.
[...]
Just to follow up, Sven Arvidsson confirmed over on intel-...@lfdo
that video=i915:modeset=1 on the kernel command line coupled
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:56:27PM +0200, Luca Niccoli wrote:
Pass modeset=1 as a parameter to the module.
Yes, this has been working for me with 2.6.31 (putting
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=video=i915:modeset=1 in
/etc/default/grub, to be specific). Still waiting to be able to add
custom
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:41:22PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
Have you reported this as a bug upstream so proper quirks can be
added?
Not yet, as I was only just this week able to easily test KMS (now
that it works with PAE in an official Linux kernel release packaged
for Debian). Support for
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 06:31:43AM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
FWIW, my 24 LCD has 1920x1080 (16:9 HD).
In fact, more and more computers these days are being connected to
digital inputs on HDTVs which only grok a limited number of ATSC
video modes. For example, my Sony HDTV's HDMI inputs
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 07:13:25PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
[...]
And as others in #debian pointed out the overlooked obvious, `chown -R'
follows symlinks. So it's sufficient to put a symlink to /etc/passwd into
/var/lib/nsd3 to get the system 0wned.
[...]
Not to downplay the original
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:21:14PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
A good one. It appears that I quite something changed since I last looked
at this. No, I didn't test it because I remember it's how things worked
before. But that was long before ;)
As of coreutils-6.0, coreutils supports
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:12:07AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
[...]
Iceweasel breaks many, many web apps by virtue of not using the
Firefox user-agent string.
[...]
I've been relying on the User-Agent-Switcher extension to solve this
issue for at least a couple years (also lets me work around
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:28:59PM +, David Claughton wrote:
[...]
You might want to, but AFAICT you would not be able to distribute
the result if the user cannot be told how to get the source to the
AGPL parts you included. That doesn't mean the original software
isn't DFSG free, at least
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:07:12PM +, David Claughton wrote:
[...]
It is always possible to modify free software in ways that effectively
make it non-free - for example if you remove all the copyright
statements from a BSD covered program.
[...]
This is untrue, at least for modern 3-clause
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 06:32:43PM -0300, Juan Cruz wrote:
Hi everybody, I'm new developing for linux. I'm developing a new
application written on python, and i don't know how to make a
.deb from it and how to upload my application to your
repositories.
I'll appreciate if somebody can help
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 08:21:02PM +0100, Andreas Marschke wrote:
Lets say this package is maintained on Launchpad that also
maintainance for debian or would this have to be on
mentors.debian.org to be a valid maintainance? (Just curios as
there use to be some discussion between the bloggers
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:22:00PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
I made some tests, and it seems that we could allow,but not require, GPG
signed checksum-file. sha256sum will ignore invalid lines by default
(unless you specify --warn option).
Similarly, the policy could state that GPG
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:35:07AM +0100, Xavier Vello wrote:
[...]
The proper way would be to use a live-CD, but I can't think of an
official one based on squeeze.
[...]
Daniel Baumann mentioned on debian-live a little over a month ago
that it's in the works:
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:57:21PM +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
I am trying to use pbuilder to test a package I am about to prepare for
upload but no matter which way - pbuild as root or pdebuild inside
source tree, I try the result is always the same. When pbuilder is
trying to
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:47:56PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
[...]
There is some cli software (links, mutt and mp3blaster come to mind)
that have nice text-based UIs
[...]
To get pedantic, the applications you mention do have text-based
interfaces, but are not good examples
Probably more suited to debian-user, so I have Cc'd and set MFT
accordingly.
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:43:09PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
[...]
Everything works linux (woody, sarge and dapper) to linux, but from
windows (SecureCRT) to linux, I don't even get the option to enter
a
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:09:48AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
one of the most famous desktop boards for pentium 3 slot cpus was the
asus p3b-f. it can handle 4 dimms with a total capacity of 1gb (lucky me
had such a machine in 2000/2001. :).
Just for another data point, I *presently* use one
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:20:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
The most common convention adopted was to permit including a directory
full of configuration files, where anything dropped into that directory
would become active and part of that configuration. As that convention
became more
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 02:34:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
That's a good idea. I'm not sure if all UNIX group systems allow
one to ask how many users are a member of a particular group, but
if there's a way to ask that question at least in those group
systems that support it, the
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 02:43:04PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
[...]
And Debian still don't have a live distribution to be used for
rescue,
Well, there's this, which I've had great experiences with so far
(though the automatic reassembly of md devices and activation of
volume groups was
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:47:04PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
Yes, because the initr makes only the root-fs available,... and
perhaps resume devices. But not things like encrpyted /usr, etc.
pp.
This argument is somewhat circular, in that the machine from which
I'm typing this
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:45:04PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
Of course,.. but only because your /usr is on the root-fs.
And there are many good reasons to put it on its own fs, as already
outlayed here...
[...]
No disagreement there... I'm much in favor of continuing to support
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 09:48:58AM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
[...]
On the other hand, is it really necessary a new group? Can't adm
or operator be overloaded with this new functionality? (think
Ockham's razor).
Maybe similarly overloaded, but I've used the built-in staff group
for this
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:28:49PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
Quoting from base-passwd again:
[...]
... so in practice, staff is root-equivalent, but in principle it's not meant
to be. (Yay.)
Right, which was why I also chose to use it for staff who I
trusted with root access, but wanted
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:21:38PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
[...]
To some extend the problem also exists for several command line
applications.
[...]
To implement this idea we should probably define a reasonable
default xterm to get some consistency and put this information in
the usage
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:53:06PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:02:34PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
shuffle will randomize the order of lines in a file. In other
words, if you have a sorted file, shuffle will undo the sort.
sort -R
[...]
Also worth noting is
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:26:02AM +0430, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote:
[...]
This program should periodically check the bug tracking system for
bugs in installed packages and report to the system administrator.
[...]
While not necessarily a perfect match for the criteria you mention,
you'll
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:43:03AM -0700, Luke Cycon wrote:
[...]
It is effectively an LGPL rewrite of the closed source Minecraft
server.
[...]
I gather that it's a partial reverse-engineer-and-patch layer for
Minecraft (so arguably a derivative work), and its legality is
currently under
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:20:09PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
[...]
Any thoughts, or have I found a non-existent problem?
A very-existent problem (the scientific package maintainers deal
with this at least as much as the games package maintainers from
what I gather). It's come up a lot
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:49:51PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
[...]
The fact that we have not heard from them should be a big enough
clue...
I'll throw my hat in the ring on that one--I do in fact run
kFreeBSD, and further, I do it within DomU on Debian/squeeze i386
Xen Dom0 hosts (though I had
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:04:03AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
Producing a Linux d-i image which worked in a domU was reasonably
easy (assuming a suitable kernel flavour exists in the archive),
if you are interested in doing the same for kFreeBSD I'd be more
than happy to give some
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:19:52AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
I meant I would help you to add kFreeBSD/xen support to d-i
directly.
[...]
So I gathered--it's much appreciated! I'll give it a try and let
you/d-b know if I run into any issues. Once I get it working, I can
submit the appropriate
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:41:07AM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
AIUI, the .postinst scripts may be re-executed with
dpkg-reconfigure(8).
[...]
In fact, for years I've relied on precisely this behavior to
regenerate SSH host keys when cloning machines (virtual or
physical)...
sudo rm
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:22:39PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
[...]
It might be better to extend it further, like all network daemons
using dpkg-buildflags properly and enabling PIE
[...]
And since many network daemons are implemented in interpreted
languages, it might be nice to include packaged
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 09:41:12AM +0200, Rolf Kutz wrote:
[...]
An encrypted /home can still be backuped easily by administrators
without being able to see inside.
An administrator (assuming by administrator you mean root or an
account with access to root-level privs) can easily trojan the
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:14:39PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
[...]
Can we make full-disk encryption more convenient?
[...]
I'm not sure it could be any more convenient than it already is to
configure, at least as far as D-I is concerned. It has a
partitioning option or two which are guided with
On 2011-12-18 18:48:53 +0100 (+0100), Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
[...]
lvresize, resize2fs, done
[...]
2) LVM with partitions kept small and free space to grow them as
needed
[...]
Since the advent of logical volume management I personally find this
the easiest solution and use it whenever
On 2011-12-21 10:42:56 -0800 (-0800), Josh Triplett wrote:
People expect that they can use all the capacity of their disk
without having to take unusual steps like resizing partitions and
filesystems. After installing Debian on a 1TB drive, df -h
should say that you have just under 1TB of free
On 2012-01-26 13:06:31 +0100 (+0100), Martin Bagge / brother wrote:
[...]
There are several articles about the problem with CC NC licenses,
exactly what that means is not clear. Make sure to study the field
before picking anything based on NC.
Pick license and pick it wise.
The historic
On 2012-02-22 23:52:09 + (+), Ian Jackson wrote:
On my netbook I'm running a pretty vanilla install of squeeze,
although my personal desktop session is very different to usual.
I wanted to add a command-line option to my X server. I spent 15
mins trawling through docs and grepping
On 2012-02-23 05:54:49 -0800 (-0800), Russ Allbery wrote:
I probably missed some key thing that makes this work, but the
last time I tried, using startx when you want to launch a desktop
environment like GNOME or Xfce was quite painful and confusing.
[...]
Ahh, yes... I don't try. I'm just
On 2012-03-21 15:57:23 +0100 (+0100), Josselin Mouette wrote:
This is a reasonable position to take, but if it is the general
position of kFreeBSD developers, it completely dismisses the
shrieks of all those asking to not choose a solution that
currently doesn’t work for kFreeBSD.
I've been
On 2012-03-29 11:15:30 +0100 (+0100), Philip Hands wrote:
[...]
I'd only use either to make flipping between wireless networks something
where I don't need to keep the comandline incantations in my head
[...]
And indeed, I just keep the commandline incantations in my head
for ifupdown,
On 2012-05-02 14:49:09 +0200 (+0200), Bernhard R. Link wrote:
On the other hand, if renaming both of them is the only possible
outcome if both parties cannot agree, it makes it more likely both
sides will actually be willing to discuss the matter, instead of
just issuing demands, hoping the
On 2012-05-04 09:03:19 +0100 (+0100), Jon Dowland wrote:
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So some form of access to the machine would be required to create
the problem, be it physical or remote. The same access should be
used to fix the problem.
[...]
I think this is part of the misunderstanding. If these systems are
On 2012-05-29 21:01:24 +0200 (+0200), Martin Bagge / brother wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Brian May wrote:
I don't see the problem, github is just a hosting provider. Unlike,
say Bitkeeper, you are free to make git clones anywhere, entirely with
open source software, and are in no way locked
On 2012-05-30 13:20:24 +0100 (+0100), Philip Ashmore wrote:
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By the way, this extends to man/info pages too, but as they're
versioned, you can refer to a specific version through the package
version.
[...]
I've always liked the way OpenBSD provides Web-indexed manpages
versioned by OS
On 2012-05-30 17:35:14 +0100 (+0100), Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
Isn't it possible to extract those from snapshot.debian.org
per-release/per-time ?
Sure, or archive.d.o, but at my day job a lot of the admins I work
with would be hard-pressed to be able to retrieve and extract the
docs from an
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