RE: [Leaf-devel] New User Interface Tool: Breakthrough!

2001-07-12 Thread Hilton Travis
Are those the 8" floppy disks? :-) - Hilton > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dale Long > Sent: Friday, 13 July 2001 10:24 > To: LEAF Devel > Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] New User Interface Tool: Breakthrough! > > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2

Re: [Leaf-devel] New User Interface Tool: Breakthrough!

2001-07-12 Thread Dale Long
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote: > The drawback is the size of it all: 600M. However, this could > potentially be trimmed by using libraries (not static), by stripping > libraries, and removing some functions like gauge and tailbox > functions... However, since I had 800M free on the d

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-12 Thread Dale Long
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote: > However, what you said makes me think dialog is theoretically > directly replacable by Xdialog; what would it take to put Xdialog on the > box and have the dialogs show up on a remote X session? Time to go find > out > > > I am thinking of the

Re: [Leaf-devel] Site update 2001-07-12

2001-07-12 Thread Mike Noyes
Mike Noyes, 2001-07-12 10:00 -0700 > * Clean up DocManager Documents with tidy Everyone, I modified the FAQ below. I think the new format looks better, and offers us revision control. However, its added complexity may deter people from editing the FAQs. You can compare the new format to the o

[Leaf-devel] New User Interface Tool: Breakthrough!

2001-07-12 Thread David Douthitt
Well! I do believe I really have done something new... I compiled Xdialog, put most libraries in statically (except basic system libraries), and tried it, sending output to a remote X server (and, I might add, viewing the result on a VNC viewer session in the other virtual terminal on the same O

Re: [Leaf-devel] Site update 2001-07-12

2001-07-12 Thread Mike Noyes
David Douthitt, 2001-07-12 13:59 -0400 >Mike Noyes wrote: > > > >Busybox has a dpkg application, and a new version of the busybox dpkg > > >app is about to be checked into CVS which is more powerful than its > > >predecessor. > > > Does the udpkg+udeb combination provide us with a possible package

Re: [Leaf-devel] Site update 2001-07-12

2001-07-12 Thread Mike Noyes
Charles Steinkuehler, 2001-07-12 13:57 -0500 > > Everyone, > > I just finished updating our web site Guides, HOWTOs, and Man Pages > > pages. Any feedback is appreciated. Also, please look at the new > > Download page, and my update of the Packages page. Thanks. > >I took a look at your site updat

Re: [Leaf-devel] Site update 2001-07-12

2001-07-12 Thread Mike Noyes
David Douthitt, 2001-07-12 13:59 -0400 >Mike Noyes wrote: > > > >Busybox has a dpkg application, and a new version of the busybox dpkg > > >app is about to be checked into CVS which is more powerful than its > > >predecessor. > > > Does the udpkg+udeb combination provide us with a possible package

Re: [Leaf-devel] Site update 2001-07-12

2001-07-12 Thread David Douthitt
Mike Noyes wrote: > >Busybox has a dpkg application, and a new version of the busybox dpkg > >app is about to be checked into CVS which is more powerful than its > >predecessor. > Does the udpkg+udeb combination provide us with a possible package format? I don't know. The busybox unrpm (or is

Re: [Leaf-devel] Site update 2001-07-12

2001-07-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> Everyone, > I just finished updating our web site Guides, HOWTOs, and Man Pages pages. > Any feedback is appreciated. Also, please look at the new Download page, > and my update of the Packages page. Thanks. I took a look at your site updates earlier but forgot to reply. Once again, it looks l

Re: [Leaf-devel] Site update 2001-07-12

2001-07-12 Thread Mike Noyes
David Douthitt, 2001-07-12 12:37 -0400 >Mike Noyes wrote: > > > A couple of intersecting projects were brought to my attention on irc. > > > * udeb and udpkg - http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/tools/udpkg/ > >Busybox has a dpkg application, and a new version of the busybox dpkg >app is abo

Re: [Leaf-devel] Site update 2001-07-12

2001-07-12 Thread David Douthitt
Mike Noyes wrote: > A couple of intersecting projects were brought to my attention on irc. > * udeb and udpkg - http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/tools/udpkg/ Busybox has a dpkg application, and a new version of the busybox dpkg app is about to be checked into CVS which is more powerful

[Leaf-devel] Site update 2001-07-12

2001-07-12 Thread Mike Noyes
Everyone, I just finished updating our web site Guides, HOWTOs, and Man Pages pages. Any feedback is appreciated. Also, please look at the new Download page, and my update of the Packages page. Thanks. To-do: * Import my shell scripts to cvs directory sf-admin. * Clean up DocManager Documen

Re: [Leaf-devel] 2.4 Kernel?

2001-07-12 Thread Arne Bernin
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:25:02AM -0400, David Douthitt wrote: > Dale Long wrote: > > > Stateful firewalling seems to be more in demand than I would have ever > thought. Well i have set up a few firewalls with kernel 2.4, and i wouldn´t like to do it with 2.2 any more. stateful packet inspect

Re: [Leaf-devel] 2.4 Kernel?

2001-07-12 Thread David Douthitt
Dale Long wrote: > I agree. Especially from Oxygen's point of view. > Is 2.4 more bloated than 2.2? Slightly. However, just as with 2.2, with judicious use of eliminating features and using UPX to compress, things get down within the under-500k range or even better. > What are the advantages o

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-12 Thread David Douthitt
Dale Long wrote: > The extra package elements you are describing here might make a flexible > way to implement a configuration template for text based and web based > configuration. > > Eg: .web or .setup-template Took me a minute to realize what you were saying but that is (almost) doable

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> A couple of requests. > > 1. It would be useful to integrate one the extended scripts unto > DachStein. (You probably already thought of this :-) > So it would be nice for DachStein to be EigerStein2beta workalike > (e.g. with the network defaults as I mentioned above) with the > added functi

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-12 Thread David Douthitt
Tim Wegner wrote: > 2. One irritation it would be nice to fix (though it may go beyond the > "quick upgrade to EigerStein2Beta philosophy) would be to > somehow extend the 256 character limit of the syslinux.cfg > APPEND= line. When I add a second drive to PKGPATH and add > serial support, I'm ov