Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have received a suggestion for debstd, namely, to not compress any
*.db files found in /usr/doc/package by default.
Please remember that all mandantory compression results from the file
system interface not being able to represent compressed directories.
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I disagree with this point of view. Yes, Debian wishes to support
newcomers to Linux. That is why we have debian-user. We have a
responsibility to those new users to train them to be free users.
They can only do that if they become familiar with
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
I still don't understand the reason for the 0660.
Indeed, if someone doesn't come up with a good reason for this in a week or so,
I'll file a bug report against debian-policy and procmail.
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Hello everyone,
I would like to add my comments to this discussion. I am new to Linux.
I have been using the Debian, (Hamm), distribution for about two months
now, and Slink for the last couple of days. I am a Windoz drop-out with
UNIX sys-adin experience. Being so new to Linux and Debian,
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
-- M.C. Escher
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I disagree with this point of view. Yes, Debian wishes to support
newcomers to Linux. That is why we have
Pat Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just from the point of view of a typical user, eg, me just doing
a quick scan of the debian-user archives doesn't take all that long.
They're very up-to-date, usually just a day or so behind. Browsing
the archives with navigator presents a nice threaded
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Marco Budde:
SV I have received a suggestion for debstd, namely, to not compress
SV any *.db files found in /usr/doc/package by default.
No, I've suggested to compress only know file types instead of
compressing everything.
Yes, and I think that the
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 02:05:04PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
I'll file a bug report against debian-policy and procmail.
I don't think this is ok. Please, *first* change policy, *then* submit
bugs against whatever MDAs you want.
Normally I'd
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, remember that since debstd generates the md5sums, it has to be the
last command that does something in the debian/tmp tree (save
chmod or chown, of course).
debstd has the option -c, which leaves compression to be done by the user
before the
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