CVS via SSH

2000-03-24 Thread Craig Small
G'day, I tried for the first time today to CVS using ssh instead of pserver, but it didn't work. scooter$ CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/webwml checkout webwml/english Enter passphrase for RSA key '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': Sorry, you don't have read/write access to the history file

Re: CVS via SSH

2000-03-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 02:47:44AM +1100, Craig Small wrote: G'day, I tried for the first time today to CVS using ssh instead of pserver, but it didn't work. scooter$ CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/webwml checkout webwml/english Enter passphrase for RSA key '[EMAIL

Re: `boot-floppies' documentation naming conventions?

2000-03-24 Thread James A. Treacy
Where is the install doc source for slink? I'd like to get rid of as many of the broken links in it as possible. If the install docs aren't going to be updated ever again, I could simply make the changes in the current .html. In looking through the doc source for potato, I notice that

Re: `boot-floppies' documentation naming conventions?

2000-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Where is the install doc source for slink? I'd like to get rid of as many of the broken links in it as possible. If the install docs aren't going to be updated ever again, I could simply make the changes in the current .html. Don't do that. Oh, Ick. Use the included CVS instructions. Use the

Re: `boot-floppies' documentation naming conventions?

2000-03-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 02:53:05PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Uh... As for listing the official mirrors, I'd rather not. It would be nice if there was a CGI where I could point to a special URL and it would list all possible mirrors and give the user a cookie or something so they use that

Re: `boot-floppies' documentation naming conventions?

2000-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
The current state is that translations are relying on the existance of www.es.debian.org and www.br.debian.org, both of which are not very reliable. In fact, neither is currently accessable. This isn't very robust. Well, lets just have it all point, for web pages, to www.debian.org. Go ahead and

Needs to be changed?

2000-03-24 Thread peter karlsson
From intro/why_debian * Dselect (the front end to Debian's packaging system) is confusing to learn. This is an active area of work. It is hoped that the new package manager, apt, will be ready before the release of Debian 2.1.