Building Debian Packages: By Example

2002-05-13 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Building Debian Packages: By Example When: Wednesday 15 May 2002, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chris

Understanding debconf: The Debian configuration management system

2001-10-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
PM Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: 636 Pine St Apartment #3 Philadelphia, PA Abstract We will introduce debconf and explain its role in Debian configuration management. Social Dinner TBD

Using The Debian Package Manager With Mac OS X

2001-08-14 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Using The Debian Package Manager With Mac OS X When: Wednesday 15 August 2001, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter:

Building Official Debian 2.2r2 CDs

2001-03-20 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents When: Wednesday 21 March 2001, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: LeRoy Cressy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Inside Alien: How the Debian Alien Package Works

2001-03-13 Thread Chris Fearnley
, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Alien is a tool

Exploring the Debian boot-floppies package

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Fearnley
: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: User Friendly Consulting 1420 Walnut Street (suite #816) Philadelphia, PA Abstract The boot-floppies package provides the infrastructure for building Debian's boot/rescue disks

Installing Samba on a Debian GNU/Linux system with ReiserFS

2001-01-16 Thread Chris Fearnley
Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: User Friendly Consulting 1420 Walnut Street (suite #816) Philadelphia, PA Abstract We will install Samba and Debian GNU/linux on a system

Installing Debian Potato with ReiserFS on a laptop (take 1)

2000-12-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: User Friendly Consulting 1420 Walnut Street (suite #816) Philadelphia, PA Abstract We will attempt to install Debian with ReiserFS on a new

Inside Alien: How the Debian Alien Package Works

2000-10-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Alien is a tool

Debian Policy

2000-09-19 Thread Chris Fearnley
: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Debian's careful consideration of its distribution policy

Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging libgnupg.pm

2000-08-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
August 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Facilitator: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract We

Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging dlkern

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Fearnley
Facilitator: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract We will demonstrate the building

[PADS] Installing Debian, Corel, and Storm Linux

2000-06-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Bill Jonas, Assistant Systems and Network Administrator, LinuxForce Inc. Michael Toren, Network Administrator, Earthstation Netaxs Where: IQ Group's Technology Lab The Constitution Building, 6th floor, Suite 620

Using Debian's make-kpkg to build kernels

2000-03-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
PM Speaker: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (its the room with a big Q on the door) 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Debian's kernel-package package provides make-kpkg to help build kernels. We

[PADS] The Corel LINUX Install Process: Under the Hood

2000-02-11 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents The Corel LINUX Install Process: Under the Hood When: Wednesday 16 February 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

[Philadelphia] Debian's Menu Package: A Catalog of Debian Software

1999-12-10 Thread Chris Fearnley
1999, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Speaker: Chris Fearnley, Senior Vice President Technology, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (its the room with a big Q on the door) 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Menus are a now familiar device

[PHILADELPHIA] MIME Solutions: Using Debian's mime-support Package

1999-11-08 Thread Chris Fearnley
: Chris Fearnley, Senior Vice President Technology, LinuxForce Inc. Where: Towne Pizza Sub Shop 1900 Pine ST Philadelphia, PA Abstract MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is the preferred way to attach files in the Internet world. But Debian (even with Netscape

[PHILADELPHIA] PADS: Upgrading to Debian's ``unstable'' release

1999-10-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents Upgrading to Debian's ``unstable'' release When: Wednesday 20 October 1999, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Speaker: Chris Fearnley

[Philadelphia] PADS meeting will include a ``keysigning party''

1999-09-14 Thread Chris Fearnley
for facilitating the keysigning portion of our meeting. Summary: PADS Main Meeting: Topic: Overcoming Debian's New Maintainer Procedures Speaker: Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] When: Wednesday, September 15th from 8:00PM - 9:30PM Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (its the room with a big Q on the door

[Philadelphia] PADS Meeting: Overcoming Debian's New Maintainer Procedures

1999-09-10 Thread Chris Fearnley
Speaker: Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] When: Wednesday, September 15th from 8:00PM - 9:30PM Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (its the room with a big Q on the door) 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract: Debian has instituted stringent new maintainer procedures

[Philadelphia] PADS Meeting: Building Debian Packages

1999-08-14 Thread Chris Fearnley
Hi, PADS (Philadelphia Area Debian Society) will meet this coming Wednesday to discuss the building of Debian packages. Please note the new location!!! PADS Web Page: http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads PADS Main Meeting: Note the new location!!! Topic: Building Debian Packages Speaker: Chris

Philadelphia Area Debian Society meeting: Debian Policy

1999-07-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
Hi, PADS (Philadelphia Area Debian Society) will meet this coming Wednesday to continue a discussion of Debian's Policy. PADS Main Meeting: Topic: An Overview of Debian Policy Speaker: Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] When: Wednesday, July 21st from 8:00PM - 9:30PM Where: Cyberloft

[Philadelphia] Debian user's group meeting: Debian Policy

1999-06-12 Thread Chris Fearnley
Greetings, The PDG-LUG (The Philadelphia Debian GNU/Linux User's Group) will meet this coming Wednesday (third wed. of the month) to discuss ``Debian Policy''. PDG-LUG Main Meeting: Topic: An Overview of Debian Policy Speaker: Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] When: Wednesday, June 16th

[Philadelphia] Organizational meeting for Debian user's group

1999-05-14 Thread Chris Fearnley
Greetings, There seems to be enough interest to form PDG-LUG (The Philadelphia Debian GNU/Linux User's Group). In order to try to accommodate people with families and suburban Debian GNU/Linux users, we will have an optional ``social hour'' at a Center City eatery BEFORE the 8:00 PM meeting.

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-31 Thread Chris Fearnley
'dc wrote:' Enough is enough. Where is your announcement of candidacy for project leader? Elections will be held soon ... I want to see your reasoned proposals for a better direction for the project. Too much of what you write is anti-Bruce and it's hard for me to tell exactly what solution

Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

1997-04-19 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Peter Iannarelli wrote:' Hello all: As I'm sure everyone is aware a new project has been initiated to replace the currenct dselect package maintainence facility with the goals of enhancing its functionality and resolving some of the existing package maintenance problems. Look at

Re: Bug#8111: less package doesn't include LESSOPEN support (was Re: Warning!! PAGER=zless)

1997-03-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Craig Sanders wrote:' Package: less Version: 321-2 1. set the environment variable LESSOPEN in your ~/.bashrc or in /etc/profile (modify as required if you use csh or zsh or something else). export LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s 2. create a shell script called lesspipe.sh in

Re: Bug#8111: less package doesn't include LESSOPEN support (was Re: Warning!! PAGER=zless)

1997-03-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Jason Gunthorpe wrote:' On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote: 'Craig Sanders wrote:' into less. Another bug in your script is that it doesn't support uncompressing multiple files and saving marks in each of them and hoping back and forth easily. Maybe someone can merge your approach

Re: modules 2.0.0-14

1996-12-05 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Bruce Perens wrote:' Use dpkg --force-downgrade package-name.deb, I think. I haven't tried it. Use -i instead of --force-downgrade. I wouldn't recommend --force anything in general. One of the big wins IMO of dpkg over rpm is that dpkg -i supports downgrading. -- Christopher J. Fearnley

Re: please use V

1996-11-26 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Tom Julien wrote:' IMHO, a license like Qt's is long overdue. It makes a fine commercial product available to both X11 and Win32, yet it provides a great mechanism to promote freeware/open standards like Unix/X11 *over* propriety ones. Troll's reasoning for not allowing modified versions may

Re: Opinions on Linux Journal article

1996-10-22 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Buddha Buck wrote:' [Note: I'm moving this from debian-changes to debian-user] Good idea. I didn't check header :( '[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' Hello, i was wondering what were the reactions of list members to this article. I thought it was well done. It showed our strengths and