Re: Bug#994750: RFS: mazeofgalious/0.63-1 [ITA] -- The Maze of Galious

2021-09-20 Thread Richard Hector
On 21/09/21 1:24 am, Parodper wrote:  * URL : http://www.braingames.getput.com/mog/ No such site? Cheers, Richard

Re: Question about writing systemd unit for old package

2021-05-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 20/05/21 1:59 pm, Alec Leamas wrote: Hi, On 20/05/2021 03:35, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 8:51 AM Richard Hector wrote: Does that not depend on whether it does anything before dropping privileges? For example, a webserver can bind to low ports before dropping privilege. I

Re: Question about writing systemd unit for old package

2021-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 18/05/21 11:58 am, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 12:51 PM Khoa Tran Minh wrote: A related question: The binary itself can drop privilege and run as non-root, then should I use that native feature or use systemd User= when writing a default config/unit ? I would suggest to use

Re: Bug#979661: RFS: fonts-agave/37-1 -- monospaces programming font

2021-01-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 10/01/21 9:03 am, Gürkan Myczko wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fonts-agave":   fonts-agave - monospaces programming font That should probably be 'monospaced'. Richard

Re: Bug#922197: RFS: worklog/2.0-1 -- Keep Track of Time worked on Projects

2019-02-12 Thread Richard Hector
On 13/02/19 6:57 PM, Adam Bilbrough wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "worklog" > > Package name: worklog > Version: 2.0-1 > Upstream Author: Adam Bilbrough > URL: https://github.com/atsb/worklog That site says the author is Truxton Fulton? Richard

Re: debconf with locally derived options

2010-11-20 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 17:30 +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:36:35PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: One example would be configuring a daemon, and asking which of the configured IP addresses of the machine it should listen on. Obviously the packager has no idea what

debconf with locally derived options

2010-11-19 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, Is it possible for debconf, in the config file, to ask questions to which the answer is one of several that make sense on the local system, but couldn't be put in the templates file? One example would be configuring a daemon, and asking which of the configured IP addresses of the machine

deploying package with NFS

2010-10-18 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, We've run into an issue here, when we deploy a package (created in-house) on a system that uses NFS for some filesystems. Due to root-squashing, the postinst can't create or chmod/chown the files it needs to. We can probably avoid it by having the postinst su to the user that will own

Re: deploying package with NFS

2010-10-18 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 15:50 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz writes: We've run into an issue here, when we deploy a package (created in-house) on a system that uses NFS for some filesystems. Due to root-squashing, the postinst can't create or chmod/chown