woody release party?

2002-05-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:08:09PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Rich Puhek writes: > >> Sam Adams has some good stuff. Leinenkeugel (sp?) from Wisconsin is > >> pretty good too. > > > > Leinenkugel's. > > Leinenkugel's, schmeinenkugels!! When woody emerges, what's the best > champagne? Whe

Re: Woody Release questions...

2002-05-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Vineet Kumar quotation: > In my tests (and Osamu backed this up with a transcript of his testing > session) the apt pins can only refer to 'stable' 'testing' 'unstable', > not 'potato' 'woody' 'sid'. Part of the problem was that people who want > to stick with woody after the release is th

Re: Woody Release questions...

2002-05-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020514 14:10]: > To the point, however, I would think the simplest way to stick with > Woody as it moves from testing to stable would be for your apt.sources > to reference it as "woody" rather than as "testing". This way, you > always run the latest woody packa

Re: Woody Release questions...

2002-05-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Vineet Kumar quotation: > Many people have been asking how to just stick > with woody: they want to run a stable release but have been running > woody because potato grew so many cobwebs. The Mixed Metaphor Police would like to inform you that cobwebs do not grow. Potato may have grown mo

Re: Woody Release questions...

2002-05-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ken Irving ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020502 18:04]: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:59:49AM +0200, Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: > > Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > When woody is officially "released", does that mean it will eventually > > > be called "stable"?? > > > > Yes > > >

Re: Woody Release questions...

2002-05-02 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:59:49AM +0200, Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: > Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When woody is officially "released", does that mean it will eventually > > be called "stable"?? > > Yes > > > If so, does that mean that having "testing" in my sources.list

Re: Woody Release questions...

2002-05-02 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When woody is officially "released", does that mean it will eventually > be called "stable"?? Yes > If so, does that mean that having "testing" in my sources.list will > actually try to grab packages from the next release? Yes. If you don't want

Woody Release questions...

2002-05-01 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
When woody is officially "released", does that mean it will eventually be called "stable"?? If so, does that mean that having "testing" in my sources.list will actually try to grab packages from the next release? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: woody release

2002-04-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 15:38, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Don't want to stress just want to ask (i really don't want to use > SuSE only because woody don't comes out) Blackmailer !!! ::)) Just a joke... -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding e

Re: pg 7.2 in woody (was Re: woody release)

2002-04-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:09:31AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:15:33PM -0500, dman wrote: | > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:43:43PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: | > | You don't have to be an "insider" to know these things, just subscribe | > | to debian-devel-announce. :) Act

Re: pg 7.2 in woody (was Re: woody release)

2002-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:15:33PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:43:43PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > | You don't have to be an "insider" to know these things, just subscribe > | to debian-devel-announce. :) Actually, it looks fairly good for early > | next month; the worst proble

pg 7.2 in woody (was Re: woody release)

2002-04-09 Thread dman
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:43:43PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: | On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:38:22PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: | > I know i know... The release date of woody isn't specified. But i ask the | > Debian insigders here if they can say anything closer... Don't say a date... | > say

Re: woody release

2002-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:38:22PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I know i know... The release date of woody isn't specified. But i ask the > Debian insigders here if they can say anything closer... Don't say a date... > say a month or a season... I don't know anymore when the testing state of

Re: woody release

2002-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I know i know... The release date of woody isn't specified. But i ask the > Debian insigders here if they can say anything closer... Don't say a date... > say a month or a season... I don't know anymore when the testing state of > woody began :-) http://lists.debian.o

woody release

2002-04-09 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I know i know... The release date of woody isn't specified. But i ask the Debian insigders here if they can say anything closer... Don't say a date... say a month or a season... I don't know anymore when the testing state of woody began :-) I want to setup a test Network wich is Debian based

problem installing the "woody" release

2002-03-28 Thread Oliver Bender
hi, i want to install the "woody" (testing) release on my alpha-PC; but the installation of the base system fails due to conflicts when trying to install ppp !! does anybody know or even solved this problem ? many thanks ! oliver bender -- --

Re: Woody release date

2001-05-27 Thread David Nusinow
On Sunday 27 May 2001 12:05 pm, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > Ok folks, I already know Debian is only ready with it's ready, but, > beign involved with the community, can anyone risk a probable time > range for woody to become stable? As far as I can tell, the main thing that's holding up woody from b

Re: Woody release date

2001-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
"Jordi S. Bunster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok folks, I already know Debian is only ready with it's ready, but, >beign involved with the community, can anyone risk a probable time >range for woody to become stable? > >Just wanted to know to see if I download 2.2r3 CDs or wait for >official woody

Re: Woody release date

2001-05-27 Thread Forrest English
sometime this century, maybe. ;) -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi On Sun, 27 May 2001, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > > Ok folks, I

Re: Woody release date

2001-05-27 Thread ktb
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 04:05:18PM -0300, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > > Ok folks, I already know Debian is only ready with it's ready, but, > beign involved with the community, can anyone risk a probable time > range for woody to become stable? > > Just wanted to know to see if I download 2.2r3 CDs

Woody release date

2001-05-27 Thread Jordi S. Bunster
Ok folks, I already know Debian is only ready with it's ready, but, beign involved with the community, can anyone risk a probable time range for woody to become stable? Just wanted to know to see if I download 2.2r3 CDs or wait for official woody iso images. Thanks in advance -- Jsb

Re: woody release date

2001-05-15 Thread will trillich
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:57:47PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:57:41PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > "JH" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JH> Stuart Krivis writes: > > >> But FreeBSD also does a better job at ne

Re: woody release date

2001-05-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:06:59PM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Carl Fink wrote: [big cut] > > it will be at least *two years* before I can install using dpkg/apt.) > > I seriously doubt that Woody is two years away . . . So do I, but unstable is Sid. -- Carl

Re: woody release date

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:25:35PM -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote: > I've always wondered why Debian has such trouble with releases. The > RedHat clones put stuff out regularly. Yeah, I know, Debian actually > wants things to _work_. :-) But FreeBSD also does a better job at new > releases, and Free

Re: woody release date

2001-05-13 Thread Forrest English
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2001, Stuart Krivis wrote: > > > > > On Saturday, May 12, 2001, at 11:25 PM, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > my personal guess is that anything before late november is not going > > > to happen. but who knows, if more people h

Re: woody release date

2001-05-13 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Stuart Krivis wrote: > > On Saturday, May 12, 2001, at 11:25 PM, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > my personal guess is that anything before late november is not going > > to happen. but who knows, if more people help with boot floppies that > > would probably help. the main thing

Re: woody release date

2001-05-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:57:41PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "JH" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JH> Stuart Krivis writes: > >> But FreeBSD also does a better job at new releases, and FreeBSD > >> is high quality like Debian IMO. > JH>

Re: woody release date

2001-05-13 Thread John Hasler
Stuart Krivis writes: > But FreeBSD also does a better job at new releases, and FreeBSD is high > quality like Debian IMO. Compare the size of a FreeBSD release to the size of a Debian release. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: woody release date

2001-05-13 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Saturday, May 12, 2001, at 11:25 PM, Ethan Benson wrote: my personal guess is that anything before late november is not going to happen. but who knows, if more people help with boot floppies that would probably help. the main thing is going to be seeing how many times freezes have to be res

Re: woody release date

2001-05-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:34:58AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > i know that it is not announced ahead of time, but any way, sometime ago > i remember some comment about woody expected for august or so. is that > right, A.F.A.Y.C.T.? > thanks, > t. no the current `we smoked lots of crack and a

woody release date

2001-05-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
i know that it is not announced ahead of time, but any way, sometime ago i remember some comment about woody expected for august or so. is that right, A.F.A.Y.C.T.? thanks, t.