On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 04:07:11PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
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> 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 alm
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:41:35AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
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> 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 o
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:05:42PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
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> 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.
--
{ IRL
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
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Also worth notin
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:26:02AM +0430, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote:
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> 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 prob
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:43:03AM -0700, Luke Cycon wrote:
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> 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 disp
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:20:09PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
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> 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 ove
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:49:51PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
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> 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 ha
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 guidance/
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 /etc/ssh
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:22:39PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
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> 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 packag
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 09:41:12AM +0200, Rolf Kutz wrote:
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> 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
ne
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:14:39PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
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> 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
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